Lil Wayne is back in a big way with a new 24-track album titled "Funeral." Features include Big Sean, Lil Baby, XXXTantacion, Jay Rock, Adam Levine, 2 Chainz, Takeoff, The-Dream and O.T. Genasis.
In a new interview with The Guardian, singer Kelis says she was “blatantly lied to and tricked” into signing a bogus contract at the beginning of her career by “the Neptunes and their management and their lawyers and all that stuff.”
She blames the mistake on being young, naive and trusting people she considered friends.
As a result, the “Milkshake” hit maker claims to not have made a dime from her first two albums, which were produced by the Neptunes.
BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was declaring the China coronavirus outbreak that has killed 170 people in China a global emergency, as cases spread to 18 countries.
The United States reported its first case of person-to-person transmission. Experts say cases of person-to-person transmission - which have also been detected outside China in Germany, Vietnam, and Japan - are especially concerning because they suggest greater potential for the virus to spread further.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told a news conference in Geneva that recent weeks have witnessed an unprecedented outbreak which has been met by an unprecedented response.
“Let me be clear, this declaration is not a vote of no confidence in China,” he said. “Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems.”
The declaration of a global emergency triggers recommendations to all countries. It is aimed at preventing or reducing cross-border spread of disease.
Tedros said the WHO was not recommending limiting trade or travel to China due to the outbreak, however.
The vast majority of the more than 7,800 cases detected globally, according to the latest WHO data, have been in China, where the virus originated in an illegal wildlife market in the city of Wuhan.
But nearly 100 cases have emerged in other countries, spurring cuts to travel, outbreaks of anti-China sentiment in some places and a surge in demand for protective face masks.
Officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the flu-like virus was confirmed in a man in Illinois, bringing the total number of U.S. cases to six. The man’s wife, who was also infected, had previously traveled to China, but he had not.
It's certainly possible ... we're told L.A. City officials are having discussions on how to honor the late Lakers superstar and naming a street after Kobe is definitely up for consideration.
Look, no official decisions have been made -- it's still early in the process -- but we're told L.A. City Council members have already started the conversation.
One source tells us something that keeps getting brought up is some sort of tribute in the L.A. Live area -- right across from Staples Center, where Kobe balled out for nearly 20 years.
We're told there should be more clarity about the plans early next week -- but it's definitely top of mind.
The Lakers will return to Staples Center on Friday to take on the Portland Trail Blazers ... the first game at Kobe's home court since his death on Sunday.
We're told the turn out is expected to be massive ... and that the Lakers are planning several tributes to the Mamba, his daughter, Gianna, and the other 7 people who died in Sunday's helicopter crash.
In the meantime, tributes are popping up all over the L.A. area ... even at Santa Anita Race Track where the statue of legendary racehorse Seabiscuit was draped in a Kobe banner.
On Thursday's (Jan. 30) episode of#EverydayStruggle, Nadeska, Wayno and DJ Akademiks start off the show discussing Pastor Troy’s homophobic comments towards Lil Nas X and his outfit of choice at this year’s Grammy Awards. Soon after, the EDS trio gives their future predictions in a game of ‘Over Under.’ During the segment, they forecast how long Roddy Ricch’s ‘The Box’ will remain at No.1 on the Hot 100, how many projects the Quality Control roster, including Migos, Lil Baby and Lil Yachty will release in 2020, how many months till J. Cole drops ‘The Fall Off’ album and more. Later in the show, the EDS crew reacts to a recent tweet from Pete Rock, where he expressed that real hip-hop is missing from the internet in their ‘Big Facts or B.S.’ segment. To close out the show, the trio shares their favorite songs of January in their ‘Struggle Tunes’ segment, which includes music from Lil Baby, Smoove L, Drake, Mac Miller, Griselda and many more.
Congratulations to Curtis Jackson a.k.a. 50 Cent, who will be honored Thursday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From his humble beginnings on the mean streets of Southside, Jamaica Queens, New York, 50 has overcome a lot of adversity to become a successful rapper, actor and businessman.
Vanessa Bryant thanks fans for their outpouring of support in an emotional online post as the NBA legend is honored at the Staples Center; Jeff Paul reports from Los Angeles.
Stephen A. Smith, Max Kellerman and Ryan Clark discuss the keys to the San Francisco 49ers defense taking down QB Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV.
Slim Thug takes his first family trip, followed by celebrating his longtime friend/business partner Rico, Birthday celebration in Miami. Then they fly to Turks & Caicos for a vacation of luxury!
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — A mother and her 15-year-old son are both facing charges after he robbed a convenience store at gunpoint while she acted as the lookout and getaway driver, according to a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
Amanda Meador is being charged with robbery with a firearm and neglect of a child in connection to the robbery, which happened Halloween night at a Circle K at the intersection of Red Bug Lake Road and Tuskawilla Road.
Meador drove her son and two others to the store, the arrest report states. It goes on to say that her teenage son allegedly entered the store wearing a mask and holding a firearm, and demanded money from a fearful cashier.
While the robbery was happening, Meador backed up her minivan to the store.
“(She) was a willing participant in that she knew that this armed robbery was going to happen, she served as a lookout and she was also there as this minor (escaped) from the store,” Seminole County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bob Kealing said.
Surveillance cameras from the Circle K captured the entire robbery, but forensic evidence from a note containing Meador’s son’s fingerprints that was left behind led authorities to the arrest.
When deputies searched Meadors’ home in unincorporated Winter Park, they found a mask and clothing that matched what the robber wore during the robbery, according to the arrest report.
“Had the store clerk decided to use some force to defend themselves, this minor could have been injured or even killed,” Kealing said. “It was a terrible decision on (his mother’s) part.”
On the latest episode of#TheSmokeboxhip hop MC Jadakiss joins BReal to discuss his career, what it was like working with The Notorious B.I.G, NBA players that could rap + more.
As millions around the world continue to mourn the deaths of Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others, NBC’s Tom Costello reports that the helicopter they were in lacked critical safety equipment that could have made all the difference.
From trailblazing, Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe (Netflix’s Master of None) and Melina Matsoukas, the visionary director of some of this generation’s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including Beyonce’s “Formation” and the Nike “Equality” campaign, comes Makeready’s unflinching new drama, Queen & Slim. While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya) and a black woman (Jodie Turner-Smith, in her first starring feature-film role), are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly become a symbol of trauma, terror, grief and pain for people across the country. As they drive, these two unlikely fugitives will discover themselves and each other in the most dire and desperate of circumstances, and will forge a deep and powerful love that will reveal their shared humanity and shape the rest of their lives. Joining a legacy of films such as Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise, Queen & Slim is a powerful, consciousness-raising love story that confronts the staggering human toll of racism and the life-shattering price of violence. Waithe wrote the script based on an original idea by bestselling author James Frey (A Million Little Pieces, Katerina). The feature-film directorial debut from Melina Matsoukas (executive producer of HBO’s Insecure) stars Academy Award® nominee Daniel Kaluuya as “Slim” and rising star Jodie Turner-Smith (Syfy’s Nightflyers), as “Queen.” Waithe produces the film via her company, Hillman Grad Productions, along with Matsoukas via her production company, De La Revolución Films. Frey produces via his production company, 3BlackDot, alongside Andrew Coles and Michelle Knudsen.
Rising Twin Cities rapper Lexii Alijai died of an accidental overdose of the powerful painkiller fentanyl and alcohol, according to autopsy findings released Monday by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office.
Authorities said that the 21-year-old, whose given name is Alexis Alijai Lynch, was found unconscious and possibly suffering cardiac arrest in a seventh-story room at the Loews Minneapolis Hotel on New Year’s Day. According to emergency dispatch transmissions posted online, responding firefighters were told that Lexii had overdosed the night before from ingesting Percocet, a brand-name painkiller.
Medical examiners determined that she died “due to mixed fentanyl and ethanol toxicity,” according to a news release released Monday evening.
Her death brought an outpouring of grief and shock from the local hip-hop community.
Regarded as a rising star on her hometown music, Lexii had amassed 20,000 Instagram followers, 100,000-plus SoundCloud streams and an appearance on a Grammy-nominated album — all by the time she turned 18. In addition to performances at both the Soundset festival and First Avenue’s Best New Bands showcase in 2016, she also appeared on several all-female lineups around the Twin Cities and was part of the Super Bowl Live festival leading up to the game. She had new releases pending at the time of her death, relatives said, including one with Grammy-nominated rapper Wale. A new album is tentatively scheduled to come out in the coming weeks.
Lexii came from a musical family that included grandfather Roger Troutman, who fronted the Ohio funk and R&B band Zapp and was also a Parliament-Funkadelic alum; and her father Roger Troutman Jr. (aka Roger Troutman II and Roger Lynch Troutman Jr.), who recorded for Capitol Records in the late 1980s.
The news comes as Minneapolis continues to grapple with an ongoing opioid epidemic.
While drug deaths have apparently plateaued in recent years, the number of nonfatal overdoses has skyrocketed. And while the crisis was originally largely confined to neighborhoods just south of downtown, it has spread to others, notably the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and parts of the North Side.
The increased availability of the opioid antidote naloxone, known popularly as Narcan, has helped slow the death rate.
TEMPLE HILLS, Md. (AP/WJZ) — A Prince George’s County police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a handcuffed man in Temple Hills Monday night.
At a news conference Tuesday evening, Police Chief Hank Stawinski announced Cpl. Michael Owen, Jr. has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and weapons charges in the death of William Howard Green, 43, of Washington, D.C.
“I have concluded that what happened last night is a crime,” Stawinski told reporters.
The deadly shooting occurred Monday night during an apparent struggle inside the cruiser after Prince George’s County police officers responded to reports that a driver had struck multiple vehicles near the Temple Hills community, department spokeswoman Christina Cotterman told news outlets.
When officers located the driver, they smelled PCP and believed the man was under the influence, Cotterman said.
The officer got into the driver’s seat after the suspect was taken into custody and placed in the front passenger seat, according to Cotterman, who said that conforms with department policy, which states, “One officer may transport one arrestee, who will occupy the right front seat. For vehicles equipped with transport partitions, arrestees will occupy the right rear seat.”
Police said Owen’s vehicle did not have a partition.
Two independent witnesses told police they either saw or heard a struggle, and heard loud bangs coming from the cruiser, according to Cotterman.
Police said Tuesday Owen shot Green seven times.
Owen and another officer performed life-saving measures and took the man to a hospital. He died a short time later.
The shooting wasn’t caught on body-camera video because the officer didn’t have one, Cotterman said. Investigators were looking for surveillance cameras in the area that may have recorded the shooting.
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