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Justin Timberlake stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday (February 21). After joining Jimmy for the the "History of Rap 5," the singer took the stage to perform his single "Not a Bad Thing."
The song is off of Justin's latest album, The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2.
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MEXICO CITY (Associated Press) — The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, the Associated Press has learned.
A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was taken alive overnight in the beach resort town. The official was not authorized to discuss the arrest and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The moment of "El Chapo" Guzman's arrest
Guzman, 56, was found with an unidentified woman. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service were "heavily involved" in the capture, the official said. No shots were fired.
Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the U.S. and is on the DEA's most-wanted list. His drug empire stretches throughout North America and reaches as far away as Europe and Australia. His cartel has been heavily involved in the bloody drug war that has torn through parts of Mexico for the last several years.
Known as a legendary outlaw and the world's most powerful and elusive drug lord, Guzman had been pursued for several weeks. His arrest comes on the heels of the takedown of several top Sinaloa operatives in the last few months and at least 10 mid-level cartel members in the last week.
The son of Sinaloa's co-leader and Guzman's partner, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, was arrested in November after entering Arizona, where he had an appointment with U.S. immigration authorities to arrange legal status for his wife.
The following month, Zambada's main lieutenant was killed as Mexican helicopter gunships sprayed bullets at his mansion in the Gulf of California resort of Puerto Penasco in a four-hour gunbattle. Days later, police in the Netherlands arrested Zambada's flamboyant top enforcer as he arrived in Amsterdam.
Guzman's capture ended a long and storied manhunt. He was rumored to live everywhere from Argentina to Guatemala since he slipped out in 2001 from prison in a laundry truck — a storied feat that fed his larger-than-life persona. Because insiders aided his escape, rumors circulated for years that he was helped and protected by former Mexican President Felipe Calderon's government, which vanquished some of his top rivals.
In more than a decade on the run, Guzman transformed himself from a middling Mexican capo into arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world. His fortune has grown to more than $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which listed him among the "World's Most Powerful People" and ranked him above the presidents of France and Venezuela.
His Sinaloa Cartel grew bloodier and more powerful, taking over much of the lucrative trafficking routes along the U.S. border, including such prized cities as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. Guzman's play for power against local cartels caused a bloodbath in Tijuana and made Juarez one of the deadliest cities in the world. In little more than a year, Mexico's biggest marijuana bust, 134 tons, and its biggest cultivation were tied to Sinaloa, as were a giant underground methamphetamine lab in western Mexico and hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals seized in Mexico and Guatemala.
His cartel's tentacles now extend as far as Australia thanks to a sophisticated, international distribution system for cocaine and methamphetamines.
Guzman did all that with a $7 million bounty on his head and while evading thousands of law enforcement agents from the U.S. and other countries devoted to his capture. A U.S. federal indictment unsealed in San Diego in 1995 charges Guzman and 22 members of his organization with conspiracy to import over eight tons of cocaine and money laundering. A provisional arrest warrant was issued as a result of the indictment, according to the state department.
Guzman is still celebrated in folk songs and is said to have enjoyed deep protection from humble villagers in the rugged hills of Sinaloa and Durango where he has hidden from authorities. He is also thought to have contacts inside law enforcement that helped him evade capture, including a near-miss in February 2012 in the southern Baja California resort of Cabo San Lucas just after an international meeting of foreign ministers. He was vacationing in Cabo during a visit by then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"There's no drug-trafficking organization in Mexico with the scope, the savvy, the operational ability, expertise and knowledge as the Sinaloa cartel," said one former U.S. law enforcement official, who couldn't be quoted by name for security reasons. "You've kind of lined yourself up the New York Yankees of the drug trafficking world."
More than 70,000 people have been killed in drug violence since former President Calderon deployed thousands of soldiers to drug hotspots upon taking office on Dec. 1, 2006. Many say his government's assault on drug cartels and arrest of kingpins actually fueled the growth of Sinaloa and its major rival, the Zetas, which are now going head-to-heard for lucrative territory.
The two are battling for Nuevo Laredo, a play Guzman lost to the Zetas in 2005, and hitting each other deep inside their respective territories. Sinaloa took over a key Zeta port in Veracruz, while bands of Zetas have attacked their rival deep inside the cartel's home, western Sinaloa and Jalisco states.
The conflict has led to the gruesome dumping of dozens of bodies by both organizations in their battlegrounds.
Authorities said the battle also weakened the Sinaloa cartel and that key hits on the top leadership in Guzman's organization had shaken up his inner circle. In the first months of 2012, the Mexican army and federal police arrested a half dozen key Sinaloa people, including two major cocaine suppliers and a man described as the head of Guzman's security detail.
In April last year, a video made the rounds on the Internet of a man whom U.S. authorities believed was Guzman, possibly indicating a security breach in his inner circle. In 2012, Colombian police seized 116 properties worth $15 million that they say were bought for Guzman, while the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was placing financial sanctions on a wife and several of his sons.
While his capture may have symbolic importance, many, including Guzman's cartel partner, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, say it won't stop the violence or flow of drugs through Mexico to the United States.
"When it comes to the capos, jailed, dead or extradited — their replacements are ready," Zambada said in an exclusive interview published in Proceso magazine in April 2010.
Guzman's success and infamy surpassed Colombia's Pablo Escobar, who was gunned down by police in 1993 after waging a decade-long reign of terror in the South American country, killing hundreds of police, judges, journalists and politicians.
Pablo Escobar
Growing up poor, Guzman was drawn to the money being made by the flow of illegal drugs through his home state of Sinaloa.
He joined the Guadalajara cartel, run by Mexican Godfather Miguel Angel Gallardo, and rose quickly through the ranks as a ruthless businessman and skilled networker, making key contacts with politicians and police to ensure his loads made it through without problems.
After Gallardo was arrested in 1989, the gang split, and Guzman took control of Sinaloa's operations.
The Sinaloa cartel violently seized lucrative drug routes from rivals and built sophisticated tunnels under the U.S. border to move its loads.
In 1993, gunmen linked to the Tijuana-based Arrellano Felix cartel attempted to assassinate Guzman at the Guadalajara airport but instead killed Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, outraging Mexicans.
Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo assassinated
Police arrested Guzman weeks later before his escape from El Puente Grande prison in 2001. At the time of his escape, Guzman had been serving a 20-year sentence for bribery and criminal association in a maximum-security prison in Mexico.
He was rumored to have once entered a restaurant in Culiacan, capital of Sinaloa state, where his henchmen confiscated every patron's cellphone so their boss could eat without fear of an ambush. He was also rumored to have staged an elaborate public wedding in 2007 to an 18-year-old bride that was attended by officials and local police.
Federal police say they raided the town that day, but got there just a few hours too late.
Guzman had long been reported to move around frequently, using private aircraft, bulletproof SUVs and even all-terrain vehicles.
His location was part of Mexican folklore, with rumors circulating of him being everywhere from Guatemala to almost every corner of Mexico, especially its "Golden Triangle," a mountainous, marijuana-growing region straddling the northern states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua.
An archbishop in northern Durango state said in April 2009 that Guzman lived in a town nearby. Days later, investigators found the bodies of two slain army lieutenants with a note: "Neither the government nor priests can handle El Chapo."
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Ca$h Out returns with some new music. Check out the DJ Spinz-produced track entitled "Let's Get It."
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You knew it had to coming soon. After replacing Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon brought a routine from his previous show that never gets old.
Watch Jimmy and Justin Timberlake perform the "History of Rap 5."
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DJ Tay James lands an exclusive track from Justin Bieber for his latest mixtape entitled We Know the DJ Radio 4. "Broken" features rapper Blake Kelly.
You can download the free tape from LiveMixtapes http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/26517/we-know-the-dj-radio-4.html.
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Lucky fans in New York City, Los Angeles and Detroit will get the chance to see one of the best rappers in the history of the game perform live in concert with one of the biggest R&B singers on the planet.
Eminem just announced a three-city stadium tour with Rihanna, scheduled for August.
“There are some shows coming up with Rihanna,” Slim Shady told XXL. “It’s a three-city tour: New York, L.A. and Detroit coming in August. The Monster Tour."
“@Eminem: NYC/DET/LA this August with @Rihanna! #TheMonsterTour - http://t.co/7tc3C6gChC” OH IM THERE!!!!!
— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 22, 2014
Specific dates and ticket information have not yet been released. We'll update when we know more.
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Top Dawg Entertainment emcee SchoolBoy Q decides to drop an official music video for "Break the Bank." Produced by The Alchemist.
Q's Oxymoron album will be released on February 25th. You can pre-order it now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/man-of-the-year/id799676139?i=799676152.
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Kanye West brought his Yeezus tour to the Times Union Center in Albany, New York on Wednesday (February 19th). During his rant, which has become as much a part of his concerts as the performance, the G.O.O.D Music CEO staked his claim as one of the best rappers to ever pick up a mic.
"This is top 5 dead or alive rap God sh*t right now," he told the crowd. "This is rap God sh*t right now! I'm humbly a rap God. I'm humbly top 5 of all time...dead or alive!"
Where does Kanye rank in your all time list?
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Schoolboy Q stopped by The Breakfast Club to promote his forthcoming Oxymoron album.
He talks about being homeless at one point, starting as Kendrick Lamar's hype man, 50 Cent, his daughter, working with Raekwon, the competition between Top Dawg Entertainment artists, wanting a hit record, the first time he head one of his songs on the radio, upcoming tour and more.
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New Jersey emcee Ransom and super producer Statik Selektah revisit their collaborative album, The Proposal, and release an official music video for "Jade." The clip was directed by Rik Cordero.
The Proposal is available now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-proposal/id718542861.
Check out the latest music video from O.B.H. (Original Block Hustlaz) artist Breeze Begets for his song "Hot Vs. Cold." This shit hit hard straight from the streets of Philadelphia. Video shot by @P_obh.
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Two of Philadelphia's veteran spitters, Freeway of State Property and Spade-O of Dutch and Spade/Major Figgas, link up with rising star Santos for "Still Here."
Check out the official music video directed by Ant/We Run The Streets.
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Uncle Murda drops off a new mixtape with his GMG (Gettin Money Gangstas) crew entitled Aint Nothing Sweet. The project has features from Troy Ave, Maino, Tank and Raekwon.
Cassidy is dropping songs at a very rapid pace. Just a few days after putting his own spin on Beyonce's "Drunk In Love," Da Hustla bounces right back with a new track entitled "Don't Get Me Started."
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Southside Jamaica, Queens artists Vito and Frank Po bring 'life' in their new visual The Devil is a Lie. Directed by Follow The Script, the visual opens with a pretty controversial clip of a White pastor imitating the Black preachers and mannerisms of the Black church. As we meet our gritty New Yorker's and their raw rhymes, you learn more about a preacher with not such good habits.
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Papoose is patiently waiting for his wife Remy Ma to return home in July. The Brooklyn, New York emcee showed his love for her when he recently vising Black Ink to get a tattoo dedicated to her. Check out the footage below.
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21-year old Daron Stinson has been arrested by Philadelphia police for a series of pranks that scared the hell out of local residents.
Stinson would roll up in a car on people walking down the street, pull a pellet gun and shoot. Sometimes he would make demands before firing. Before realizing the gun wasn't real citizens thought they were the victims of a real drive-by.
Stinson and an unknown driver would then pull off laughing hysterically. Cops finally caught up with Stinson because he filmed all of the pranks and posted them on Instagram. He's been charged with aggravated assault and robbery. His bond is set at $250,000.
Stinson's father told NBC 10 Philadelphia that he didn't share his son's sense of humor.
"He considers it funny," Rodney Stinson said. "He does a lot of other things. Nothing with a gun is funny. Nothing. I don't consider it funny."
Instagram users are now laughing at Stinson's expense by posting comments on his videos and photos.
Watch the news report and several of the pranks below.
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50 Cent gives fans the first taste of what to expect from his Animal Ambition album with the release of an official music video for "The Funeral."
Produced by Jake One
Directed by Eif Rivera
The full project drops June 3, 2014.
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Skylar Diggins of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock has been a standout on the basketball court for a long time. The 5'9, 145 pound guard was a McDonald's All-American at Washington High School in South Bend, Indiana.
She followed that up with a stellar 4-year career at Notre Dame and won gold medals in competitions with Team USA in 2008 (Buenos Aires), 2009 (Bangkok), 2011 (Shenzhen, China) and 2012 (Athens).
Skylar was selected No. 3 overall by Tulsa in the 2013 WNBA Draft. She is represented by Jay Z's Roc Nation Sports agency.
Her stunning looks caught Lil Wayne's attention while she was at Notre Dame. This year Sports Illustrated came calling, asking Skylar to model for their 50th Anniversary 2014 Swimsuit Issue.
"I didn't really know how I was going to approach modeling swimsuits. I had never modeled in a swimsuit before," she said. "I think I kind of just wanted to get in and get comfortable. As the shoot went along I got more and more comfortable. And I think that really helped me get some great shots."
The shoot took place in Guana Island with photographer Adam Franzino.
For more photos head over to Sports Illustrated's website and pick up a copy of this issue, which is now on newsstands.
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Nicki Minaj and her legal team have a court battle ahead of them. The Young Money star is being sued by her former stylist who says he is responsible for creating her unique look.
According to TMZ, Terrence Davidson says that in 2010 he created "fresh, hip and unique wigs" for the rapper. Davidson claims Minaj stole his designs and took the credit for them herself.
He also accuses Nicki of costing him a multi-million dollar reality show by convincing him it would damage their business partnership.
The two parted ways in January of 2013. At the time Davidson issued a statement citing "creative differences" for the split.
“It has been an amazing experience offering me a chance to express my creativity and exhibit my love for the art form of wig design,” he said at the time.
Terrence Davidson and Nicki Minaj
Davidson has obviously changed his mind regarding "the amazing experience" because he now wants Minaj to cough up at least $30 million.
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