It was reported that Virginia Beach rapper and producer Magoo has passed away at the age of 50.
Perhaps best known as a member of the Swing Mob and later partnered with DJ and rap producer Timbaland, Magoo was one of the best rappers from the area.
I am expecting reaction from Timbaland, Ginuwine, Missy Elliott, Teddy Riley and Pharrell.
Melvin "Magoo" Barcliff began rapping while living in Norfolk. He met Timbaland and formed a working bond. Originally formed in 1989, Timbaland & Magoo initially met when they were teenagers, and decided to form a rap group. Though best known for their single, “Up Jumps Da Boogie,” the pair released three albums and were perhaps best known for their work with Missy Elliott.
In 2021, Blackground Records and Empire Distribution teamed up to re-release the whole Timbaland & Magoo catalogue, which also included Timb’s Tim’s Bio: Life from the Basement LP that initially dropped in 1998.
This distribution deal made it possible for the catalogue to be released to streaming platforms, making it available to larger audiences for the first time since the group’s inception.
There is no word on how he passed away but I am expecting hip-hop to honor his memory.
Kenosha Police arrest a man and woman for disorderly conduct after they mistaken them for alleged hit-and-run suspects. The video was posted on social media. A restaurant fires workers for filming it.
Kenosha, Wisconsin was the place where Jacob Blake was shot and paralyzed by a cop. It was also the place where white terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two men also severely injuring one other got away with murder.
The reactions to the arrest were swift and many believe that Kenosha Police need reforms now.
Especially allowing a white terrorist to go home after murdering two people. He didn't even live in the fucking state and yet managed to crocodile his tears out of the iron college.
The police were tipped that a group of people who crashed a vehicle left the scene. The reports were that the group were spotted inside a local Applebee's. They pursue the suspects into the restaurant.
Jermelle English Jr. and Shanya Boyd — and began questioning the couple after being the only diners left in the restaurant, Harris said.
Harris said surveillance video later showed the suspects from the hit-and-run entering through a side door while no employees were present, then entering the bathroom.
Harris said police asked the couple to show which car they arrived in, to which English responded that he had nothing to do with the crash. He then picked up his baby and proceeded to walk away from the officers, she said.
This man was attacked at Applebees by Kenosha Police while he was holding his baby while he was having dinner with his family. The cops were looking for a black man involved in a hit-and-run, so they went for the first man they saw. pic.twitter.com/b7pcVPKLa4
Turns out the people they were looking for were in the restroom of the same restaurant. Maybe if the Kenosha police would use their words instead of going for the first black man they saw? is that asking too much from a cop?https://t.co/RgiEDkfu2y
The hit-and-run crash happened on July 20, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported this week. Police said that witnesses told them they saw two Black men and a Black woman flee toward an Applebee’s restaurant. One witness said the woman was carrying a child, according to police.
An Applebee’s employee told cops that some “suspicious people” who may have been involved in the crash were in the restaurant and directed officers to two people, including a Black man holding a baby.
The suspects managed to slip into the restrooms. The cops who were inside confront a father holding his son. They have an exchange and the cops would end up placing in on the ground with his baby in his arms. That's when the workers at the restaurant start filming and also telling the police they have the wrong people.
The cops tried to take the baby from the man and arrest him. The man yelled that he hadn’t done anything wrong and officers should let him go. The video shows that after the cops removed the baby from his arms, they threw him to the ground and an officer began punching him as he ordered the man to put his hands behind his back.
Cops then discovered the people responsible for the crash in the restaurant’s bathroom.
Police said the man who was punched wasn’t responsible for the crash but tried to leave in defiance of orders and resisted them.
Lt. Joseph Nosalik, a spokesperson for the Kenosha Police Department, didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press inquiring about the race of the cops who appeared to punch the man.
Kenosha found itself embroiled in a days-long protest in August 2020 after Officer Rusten Sheskey, who is white, shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, during a domestic disturbance. Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, fatally shot two men and wounded another, saying he had been attacked and fired in self-defense. A jury acquitted him of homicide and endangerment charges in November 2021.
Leaders of Kenosha, a nonprofit that describes itself online as advocating for transformative and restorative justice, held a news conference Wednesday to call for charging the cops involved in the Applebee’s incident.
“It just doesn’t seem that anyone was a voice of reason that had a uniform on,” said Tanya McLean, executive director of Leaders of Kenosha.
She said the cops acted out of fear, just as Sheskey did.
“We don’t want to stand here and have these conversations about people being harmed when they’re simply having a meal with their family,” she said.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The manager Jennifer Harris was fired because workers allowed the arrest video go viral.
She is suing the company for wrongful termination.
Kenosha Police have a history of misconduct and it time to hold these cops accountable.
With all the money in the world, these two billionaires could use their money for better uses. Like paying the laid off workers they fired because of their greedy ways.
It appears the much hyped MMA-style fight between Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X Corp CEO Elon Musk is not happening.
Musk was the one who originally uttered the idea of a cage match into the world in June. Zuckerberg, who has taken up martial arts training and competed in Jiu Jitsu, has seemed game for the fight from the beginning. But since then, the fight hasn’t quite come together, even though Zuckerberg says he suggested an August 26th date for the bout. Given that Musk said Friday that he’ll need “a few months” to recover from minor surgery on his right shoulder blade, we might be waiting awhile for the match to happen, if it does at all.
Musk continues to push the goal post. Zuckerberg confirms that he is not serious and it is a waste of his time to even deal with him. The Meta CEO said he will be waiting but the time is to move on and focus on building Threads.
Musk is riled up over Zuckerberg bringing Threads into the world. While X (formerly known as Twitter) continues to see decline due to its controversial decisions, Threads is developing a new way to make posts viral and is looking to trend topics.
Launched in 2023, Threads became the fastest growing app. It has attracted over 350 million users since it launch.
X continues to reign with 550 million followers.
Like X, Musk isn't serious.
However, X is now a fever swamp of racism, misinformation, propaganda, pornography, spam accounts and Elon Musk. His constant presence on the platform has made it insufferable.
Musk claimed Friday morning that the fight would be livestreamed on X and “Meta,” and that everything you’d see on camera “will be ancient Rome.” Italy’s culture minister promptly indicated in a statement that the planning isn’t as far along as Musk suggests, nor will any event actually be held in Rome. Now Zuckerberg is indicating that the rest of the details are a surprise to him, too.
“I love this sport and I’ve been ready to fight since the day Elon challenged me,” Zuckerberg said. “If he ever agrees on an actual date, you’ll hear it from me. Until then, please assume anything he says has not been agreed on.”
The X platform was also in the news for failure to comply to a court order. The U.S. government slapped a $350,000 fine on X Corp after it failed to deliver on a subpoena issued by a judge. Special prosecutor Jack Smith demanded that Twitter release its findings on Washed Up 45's now reactivated account and the company ignored it.
With political rhetoric raised to new levels, many extremists are willing to carry out attacks against people they never met in their lives.
Here we go again.
The far right is trying to martyr this terrorist.
It appears that Washed Up 45's social media company tipped the feds. Mind you, the former president has nothing to do with it. It was Devin Nunes and his team.
In September 2022, Craig Robertson allegedly posted online, "The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!" He also allegedly posted a picture of an assault rifle captioned, "My democrat eradicator!!!" Robertson also allegedly threatened New York Attorney General Letitia James and had "patriotic dreams" of shooting Governor of California Gavin Newsom with "my S&W M&P 9mm" and shooting US Attorney General Merrick Garland "dead center in his forehead".
In March 2023, Robertson allegedly posted a photo of a nickel that he shot in the year 1982 from 100 yards with a caption reading, "Well, I did it to Jefferson right on the temple. Bet I can do it to old Joey and save the world!!!" On March 18, Robertson made a threat on Truth Social directed at the Manhattan district attorney:
Heading to New York to fulfill my dream of iradicating [sic] another of George Soros two-but [sic] political hach [sic] DAs. I'll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected. I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!!
BYE, BYE, TO ANOTHER CORRUPT BASTARD!!!
—Craig Robertson
When the FBI was tipped off, he shrugged it off and even threatened them.
TO MY FRIENDS IN THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF IDIOTS: I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW CLOSE YOUR AGENTS CAME TO "VIOLENT ERADICATION"
—Craig Robertson
It frustrates me that whenever a Black person is killed by law enforcement, the far right will say it was justified because of the Black person's decision or criminal behavior.
When it is a white person killed by law enforcement, they give you a history of his (or her) life, talk about their days as a civilian or military official and say that the behavior before this was never noticed.
The FBI Office in Salt Lake City had seen images that showed this terrorist was at a point to carry out his attack.
Craig Robertson is the new Ashli Babbitt.
Robertson was an American retiree from Provo, Utah who allegedly threatened online to assassinate President of the United States Joe Biden and other government officials and was subsequently shot and killed by agents of the FBI on August 9, 2023 when they attempted to execute search and arrest warrants. Robertson had made graphic, explicit death threats against multiple government officials, FBI agents, and others. He was armed when agents attempted to lawfully serve the warrants, and had made repeated claims on social media warning the FBI he would be armed.
Meta managed to tipped the feds when he clearly made a threat aimed at Biden.
I HEAR BIDEN IS COMING TO UTAH.
DIGGING OUT MY OLD GHILLIE SUIT AND CLEANING THE DUST OFF THE M24 SNIPER RIFLE.
WELCOME, BUFFOON-IN-CHIEF!
—Craig Robertson
On August 9, hours before the president landed in Utah, FBI special agents attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Robertson at his home in Provo. Neighbors heard the agents identify themselves as FBI and say, "Craig Robertson, please come out with your hands up" several times on a vehicle loud speaker, with Roberts responding, "I'm not coming out (expletive). [sic]" The neighbors heard a few rounds of gunfire and heard agents yell, "Shots fired! Shots fired! He has a gun!" before more sounds of gunfire. Witnesses then saw agents drag Roberts to the sidewalk where emergency medical personnel assessed him. His body remained for several hours for forensic investigation.
Robertson's family made a public statement saying that he was "understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and ongoing erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens".
This is the face of anti-Black propaganda on social media.
Anti-Black agitators fester in the swamp called X. Besides Candace Owens, Andy Ngo, Kevin Jackson, Christian Walker and Jesse Lee Peterson, you have Zherka, Ian Miles Cheong and Dom Lucre.
Today, I will address Ian Miles Cheong, an Asian gay far right extremist.
Wonder how Fox, Newsmax and Republican lawmakers gets riled up over racial issues?
Well you can thank this jackass.
Uh, where's that....
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Cheong is best known for posting on X (formerly known as Twitter) videos showing Black criminality. He does it from the comfort of his home in Malaysia. He is a staunch supporter of Washed Up 45 and has generated thousands of followers thanks to his "research."
According to witnesses who spoke to local Houston news, the transportation employee was yelling at all the kids on the bus and berating them. The boy, who suffers from anxiety, tried to leave.
Cheong has made a name for himself in right-wing circles by frequently weighing in on U.S. politics.
Long before his foray into U.S. domestic issues, Cheong was best known for his work as a gaming journalist and for his role as an influential moderator on Reddit.
He was best known for falsely accusing a man of ambushing to California sheriff's deputies.
“So @Stillgray almost got a guy killed. Darnell Hicks was not involved. @TwitterSupport really needs to take this misinformation seriously,” another user @MikeStuchbery_ said yesterday.
Cheong yesterday acknowledged the false allegation but not his culpability.
“Compton resident Darnell Hicks was wrongfully accused of the shooting of two police deputies. The information that was previously provided was erroneous,” Cheong wrote yesterday, including in his tweet Hicks’ statement to the press.
Cheong’s baseless allegation was posted two days after LA police on Saturday placed a bounty on the unidentified suspect with a reward worth US$175,000. The suspect was described as “Black male, 28 to 30 years old, wearing dark clothing.”
Cheong’s now-deleted offending tweet had read: “Heard on the grapevine that 33-year-old, Compton resident DARNELL HICKS is the LASD number one suspect in the shooting of two deputies on Saturday. Will post further information once I get it.”
Hours later, the police called out the misinformation, saying: “Currently, there is a social media post that is being circulated which identifies a male out of the Los Angeles area as the suspect responsible for the ambush of our 2 deputies yesterday. This is ERRONEOUS information and there are no named or wanted suspects at this time.”
33-year old Darnell Hicks was the authority’s “number one suspect” in the shooting of two police officers. The Los Angeles County Sheriffs later refuted Cheong’s statement as “erroneous” and that they had no named suspects yet. But basketball coach Hicks, who is also a father of two, was already fearing for his life, telling reporters on Tuesday that he was being harassed and had received death threats.
Folks like Ian Miles Cheong make a profit off spreading anti-Black propaganda. Someone needs to get him a folding chair. Cause he needs one.
Black America is getting tired of the noise. I am sick and tired of racism, misinformation and folks like Ice Cube trying to keep Blacks from voting.
We need to get our asses out to vote. Save democracy and stop racism.
Elon Musk is allowing this trash to continue in his push to get Washed Up 45 back in the White House. With that idiot back in power, he will deregulate policies so Musk can get more hair transplants and luxury yachts.
Cheong is some worthless dweeb from Malaysia. He wish he could be here. Bet you money, he would be denied.
A 14 year old celebrity agitator named Lil Tay emerges from the dead.
The rapper and social media personality who was widely reported to have died on Wednesday, is still very much alive and was the victim of a hoax, she says.
“My Instagram account was compromised by a 3rd party and used to spread jarring misinformation and rumors regarding me, to the point that even my name was wrong,” the social media star’s family said in a statement to TMZ.
The initial post on Lil Tay’s Instagram account, which has since been removed, also said her brother had passed away.
“I want to make it clear that my brother and I are safe and alive, but I’m completely heartbroken, and struggling to even find the right words to say. It’s been a very traumatizing 24 hours. All day yesterday, I was bombarded with endless heartbreaking and tearful phone calls from loved ones all while trying to sort out this mess,” the statement read.
She also said her legal name is Tay Tian, not “Claire Hope,” as was widely reported.
Since her revival, the agitator boosted over 4,000,000 followers on her social media.
Eminem said it best about people like this.
I'd rather be 80 year old me than 20 year old you
'Til I'm hitting old age, still can fill a whole page with a 10 year old's rage
Got more fans than you in your own city, lil' kiddy
Go play, feel like I'm babysitting Lil Tay
Got the Diddy okay so you spent your whole day
Shootin' a video just to fuckin' dig your own grave
Got you at your own wake, I'm the billy goat
You ain't never made a list next to no Biggie, no Jay
Next to Taylor Swift, and that Iggy ho, you about to really blow
The music genre that started in an apartment in New York City and spreaded across the world.
Hip-Hop turns 50 today.
1520 Sedgwick Avenue is a 102-unit apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood in the Bronx, New York City. Recognized as a long-time "haven for working class families," it has been historically accepted as the birthplace of hip-hop.
So I want to say my top rappers in Hip-Hop. I know that my list could be better and I really don't have a top favorite but I will give my props to the top 100 rappers in Hip-Hop.
1. Tupac Shakur
2. Jay-Z
3. Eminem
4. Notorious B.I.G.
5. Nas
6. Snoop Dogg
7. LL Cool J
8. Wu-Tang Clan
9. Busta Rhymes
10. Bone Thugs-N-Haromony
11. 50 Cent
12. J. Cole
13. Drake
14. Outkast
15. Rick Ross
16. Twista
17. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott
18. Gucci Mane
19. Fabolous
20. Ice Cube
21. Dr. Dre
22. Ludacris
23. Kardinal Offishall
24. Machine Gun Kelly
25. Kendrick Lamar
26. Three Six Mafia
27. Wiz Khalifa
28. Future
29. Nicki Minaj
30. Lil Wayne
31. N.W.A.
32. Fat Joe
33. Nipsey Hussle
34. Wale
35. Lil Kim
36. The Lox
37. Master P
38. E-40
39. Scarface
40. Nelly
41. DMX
42. U.G.K.
43. Puff Daddy
44. Big Sean
45. The Migos
46. Cardi B
47. Chance The Rapper
48. Meek Mill
49. Big Punisher
50. Eazy E
51. Method Man
52. Tone Loc
53. Travis Scott
54. Eve
55. Queen Latifah
56. Ye
57. Pusha T
58. Slim Thug
59. Y.G.
60. Mobb Deep
61. De La Soul
62. Too Short
63. Redman
64. Juvenile
65. Run DMC
66. Cypress Hill
67. Kool Mo Dee
68. Public Enemy
69. Slick Rick
70. DaBaby
71. Megan Thee Stallion
72. Lil Nas X
73. Cam'Ron
74. Jermaine Dupri
75. Ghostface Killah
76. Mac Miller
77. Tory Lanez
78. Young Thug
79. Chamillionaire & Paul Wall
80. Sugar Hill Gang
81. Big Daddy Kane
82. Choclair
83. Eric B & Rakim
84. EPMD
85. Trick Daddy
86. Yo Yo
87. Ty Dolla Sign
88. Biz Markie
89. Tela
90. Devin Tha Dude
91. Ja Rule
92. Doug E. Fresh
93. Foxy Brown
94. Big L
95. The Lost Boyz
96. Juice WRLD
97. The Beastie Boys
98. Onyx
99. Lil Uzi Vert
100. MC Hammer
Now I am not excluding anyone in particular. I am just running off the rappers I picked as my Top 100. Don't hate me for being honest. Every rapper is talented.
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly known as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that was originated in the Bronx borough of New York City in the early 1970s by African Americans, having existed for several years prior to mainstream discovery. Hip hop originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre, while consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around drum beats) that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. According to the professor Asante of African American studies at Temple University, "hip hop is something that blacks can unequivocally claim as their own". It was developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching with turntables, break dancing, and graffiti art. Other elements include sampling beats or bass lines from records (or synthesized beats and sounds), and rhythmic beatboxing. While often used to refer solely to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music, though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.
DJ Kool Herc, LL Cool J. Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.IG., Eminem and Kendrick Lamar.
Hip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx. At block parties, DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables and a DJ mixer to be able to play breaks from two copies of the same record, alternating from one to the other and extending the "break". Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum machines became widely available and affordable. Turntablist techniques such as scratching and beatmatching developed along with the breaks. Rapping developed as a vocal style in which the artist speaks or chants along rhythmically with an instrumental or synthesized beat.
Hip hop music was not officially recorded for play on radio or television until 1979, largely due to poverty during the genre's birth and lack of acceptance outside ghetto neighborhoods. Old-school hip hop was the first mainstream wave of the genre, marked by its disco influence and party-oriented lyrics. The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop as the genre developed more complex styles and spread around the world. New-school hip hop was the genre's second wave, marked by its electro sound, and led into golden age hip hop, an innovative period between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s that also developed hip hop's own album era. The gangsta rap subgenre, focused on the violent lifestyles and impoverished conditions of inner-city African American youth, gained popularity at this time. West Coast hip hop was dominated by G-funk in the early-mid 1990s, while East Coast hip hop was dominated by jazz rap, alternative hip hop, and hardcore hip hop. Hip hop continued to diversify at this time with other regional styles emerging, such as Southern rap and Atlanta hip hop. Hip hop became a best-selling genre in the mid-1990s and the top-selling music genre by 1999.
Big Sean, Future and Chance The Rapper.
The popularity of hip hop music continued through the late 1990s to early-2000s "bling era" with hip hop influences increasingly finding their way into other genres of popular music, such as neo soul, nu metal, and R&B. The United States also saw the success of regional styles such as crunk, a Southern genre that emphasized the beats and music more than the lyrics, and alternative hip hop began to secure a place in the mainstream, due in part to the crossover success of its artists. During the late 2000s and early 2010s "blog era", rappers were able to build up a following through online methods of music distribution, such as social media and blogs, and mainstream hip hop took on a more melodic, sensitive direction following the commercial decline of gangsta rap. The trap and mumble rap subgenres have become the most popular form of hip hop during the mid-late 2010s and early 2020s. In 2017, rock music was usurped by hip hop as the most popular genre in the United States.
The King of the Hill actor Johnny Hardwick died in Austin.
If you're a fan of the Fox animated sitcom, The King of the Hill, you're in luck.
There is a reboot and it is tentatively scheduled for 2025.
However, one voice actor will not be involved. He had passed away. He was the memorable voice of Dale Gribble, the conspiracy loving, gun toting, animal stuffing pest exterminator who hung out in the alley with Hank Hill, Bill Dauterive and [J.D.] Boomhauer.
Johnny Hardwick, the longtime voice of Dale Gribble was found dead in his Austin, Texas home. Sources in law enforcement confirmed to TMZ they were called to Hardwick’s Texas home on August 8 for a welfare check when they discovered his body. Reports state Hardwick was pronounced dead at the scene and no foul play is suspected, although the cause of his death remains a mystery. Hardwick began his career by performing stand-up comedy in Texas in 1990, subsequently getting him his first stand-up appearance on The Jon Stewart Show a few years later.
Hardwick was an American voice actor, comedian, writer, producer and YouTuber. He was best known as the voice of Dale Gribble in the animated American television show King of the Hill. He served as staff writer, story editor, and producer for the show as well. He had four Prime Time Emmy nominations and in 1999 he won an Emmy Award for his work as a producer on King of the Hill.
Reboot in 2025.
Gribble was unapologetic in his conspiracy theories. He is married to local weather woman and former model Nancy.
Unbeknownst to him, their son Joseph is the results of a longtime affair Nancy had with a healing shaman and licensed therapist John Redcorn.
Redcorn strongly disapproves of Joseph being raise to be like Dale. However, he does show some respect towards Gribble in the end after Nancy ended their affair.
Lizzo is facing a lawsuit from former backup singers alleging bullying, sexual harassment and threats of violence.
Hip-Hop turns 50 on Friday. Celebrating the culture.
Lizzo became the Ellen DeGeneres of hip-hop and pop music.
Melissa Viviane Jefferson, 35 is a singer, rapper, actress, model and media personality.
The woman who promoted body positivity, fairness and Black beauty is now labeled a hypocrite and a monster. Lizzo and SZA had their concerts pulled due to the lawsuits and the scandals.
It appears there are more coming.
In August 2023, three former backup dancers filed a lawsuit against Lizzo and her production company, accusing them of sexual, religious, and racial harassment, disability discrimination, assault, false imprisonment, creating a hostile work environment, and weight-shaming. Following the allegations, a former creative director for Lizzo and another former backup dancer showed support for the three claimants, saying they both had similar experiences working with Lizzo.
Filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison released a statement supporting the dancers. The director traveled with Lizzo in 2019 for her documentary but dropped out of the project. Allison wrote, "I witnessed how arrogant, self-centered, and unkind she is... reading these reports made me realize how dangerous of a situation it was."
Lizzo denied the allegations made against her, calling them "unbelievable".
Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez face death threats and shame after they came forth with the allegations against Lizzo.
Ron Zambrano said his firm, which focuses on employment law, is vetting new allegations from at least six people who said they toured with Lizzo, including other dancers and some who said they worked on her Amazon Studios reality show, “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.”
The allegations, he said, are of a “sexually charged environment” and failure to pay employees.
Zambrano said that in reviewing the claims, he determined that some are potentially actionable but that others aren’t.
"Some of the claims we are reviewing may be actionable, but it is too soon to say," he said Tuesday evening.
Rapper and singer Tory Lanez will face 10 years in.
Celebrating Hip-Hop turning 50.
On Friday, August 11, Brooklyn will celebrate a movement.
Life is good.
Except for Daystar Peterson. He will spend at least 10 years in a California iron college.
His domestic violence towards his former led his temper to hell.
Once out, he will have to beg the U.S. government to stay in the country. Cause he will be deported back to Canada. He will be banned from entry. He will not be able to see his children (who were born in the U.S.) indefinitely. They will have to visit him in Canada.
He would have to seek a lawmaker willing to pressure the next president to issue a pardon. He is definitely not getting a pardon from California governor Gavin Newsom.
He will likely lose his properties to pay for the legal and medical bills. Megan Thee Stallion did not want to be a victim and proved to the world that the "code of the streets" is bullshit. It was life or death.
Tory Lanez.
A jury convicted Lanez, 31, who pleaded not guilty, of three felony charges in December: assault with a semi-automatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Lanez addressed the court before the judge handed down his sentence. He apologized for his actions and said he took full responsibility for the 2020 shooting.
“If I could change it, I would, but I can’t,” he said. “Everything I did that night, I take full responsibility,” he added. “I truly am just trying to be a better person.”
Lanez looked surprised but remained quiet after the sentence was announced. The mother of his son burst into tears as she was led out of the courtroom.
Matthew Barhoma, a member of Lanez’s legal team, said appeals for both the sentence and the conviction are planned. The team will also file for bail when it appeals the sentence.
In handing down his sentence, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford said it was “difficult to reconcile” the doting father and committed philanthropist many described with the person who fired a gun five times at Megan.
“Sometimes good people do bad things,” Herriford said. “Actions have consequences, and there are no winners in this case.”
Everyone was calling her a liar. She was telling the truth. Megan Thee Stallion did not want to be a victim of domestic violence.
Deputy District Attorney Alex Bott said Lanez called Megan a liar, intimidated her and harassed her.
“Not only did the defendant do the heinous act of shooting her; he then subjected her to 2 ½ years of hell,” Bott said after the sentencing.
Lanez also faced possible deportation back to Canada.
“We’re nowhere near that yet,” Jose Baez, one of his attorneys, said about whether Lanez will face deportation.
In seeking a shorter sentence, his lawyers argued for probation and said he should be released from jail to a residential substance abuse program. They claimed Lanez has alcohol abuse disorder, anxiety and post-traumatic stress from the unexpected death of his mother when he was 11 years old.
He now claims he was a PTSD victim. Yeah, tell that to August Alsina. He may face criminal charges for the assault in Chicago. He was unapologetic for that too. He only apologizes knowing he could lose every privilege he had living in the United States without obtaining citizenship.
Prosecutors said they were “skeptical” of the claims, which were not presented throughout the trail.
“This case has nothing to do with mental illness,” said Bott, the prosecutor. “He shot Megan because she bruised his ego.”
Lawyers for the defense countered that there is a clear thread between Lanez’s trauma and heavy alcohol use and his violent actions in 2020.
“Someone has to be severely off to shoot someone because of a bruised ego,” Baez said.
Herriford, the judge, said he was “disinclined” to allow those factors to influence his decision.
Lawyers for Lanez played a lengthy video showing his charity work and family life, which Bott said looked more like an award for “man of the year” than “a misogynist and coward” convicted of shooting an innocent woman.
“Tory Lanez is not the victim in this story,” Bott told the court.
Lanez, who dedicated an entire album to rebutting her version of events, did not testify at trial. His lawyers said Megan’s testimony that Lanez asked her not to go to police because he was on parole was false and argued that DNA evidence prosecutors used to identify him as the likely shooter fell short of industry standards.
His legal team also called the trial a "case about jealousy," telling the jurors that Megan and her former friend Kelsey Nicole Harris, who was also in the car at the time of the incident, had gotten into an argument about Lanez and other men.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Megan’s celebrity has put a spotlight on the issue of violence against women.
“There are many people in our community that endure acts of violence every day from people close to them and feel reluctant to come forward when this happens,” Gascón said. “I hope that Ms. Pete’s bravery gives hope to those that feels helpless.”
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Josh Green, Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) and Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) were notified of the latest tragedy on Maui, one of the densely populated islands of the Hawai'ian chain.
There are major wildfires in Hawai'i.
Climate change is real.
Thirty-six people have died in the Maui County wildfires, officials said Thursday, as blazes continue to rage on the Hawai'ian island.
In comparison to California’s history of destructive and deadly blazes, it would rank as #2 on their list of Top 20 deadliest fires.
The 2018 Camp Fire killed 85, the 1993 Griffith Park blaze killed 29, and the Tunnel Fire of 1991 left 25 dead, according to Cal Fire records.
The fires on Maui also outpace the death toll of recent wildfires including the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California that killed 22, the 2020 North Complex Fire that killed 16 and the LNU Complex Fire, also in 2020, that left six dead.
Lil Tay passed away says her family. Unconfirmed rumors denying it.
Hip-Hop turns 50 on Friday.
Lil Tay has passed away. A controversial 14-year old rapper and social media agitator has passed away says her family. There is no confirmation of cause of death but given the age and apparent legal problems her family faced it could be suicide.
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Lil Tay rose to fame in 2018, with a series of viral videos where she played a character of a young rich girl, often seen flexing money and expensive vehicles.
After her sharp rise to online popularity, Lil Tay stopped posting online and became a more private person.
On Wednesday, August 9, Lil Tay's family posted on her Instagram account, announcing she had passed away 'suddenly.”
“It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news of our beloved Claire's sudden and tragic passing. We have no words to express the unbearable loss and indescribable pain.”
The statement also confirms that her brother also died, although the circumstances are unclear, and an investigation is underway.
“This outcome was entirely unexpected, and has left us all in shock. Her brother’s passing adds an even more unimaginable depth to our grief. During this time of immense sorrow, we kindly ask for privacy as we grieve this overwhelming loss, as the circumstances of Claire and her brother’s passing are still under investigation.”
“Claire will forever remain in our hearts, her absence leaving an irreplaceable void that will be felt by all who knew and loved her,” the family concludes.
Lil Tay went viral across social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and YouTube in 2018. Her videos often included displays of extreme wealth, such as stacks of cash, expensive jewelry and luxury vehicles.
While calling herself the “youngest flexer of the century”, there were concerns at the time about her age and if she was allowed to be on the platforms, with 13 years old the minimum age on most.
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