Largest Gun Bust In NYC History….All Thanks To A Rapper’s Instagram (Video)

August 22, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff News No Comments  

It should be noted that I emphasized the whole rapper thing because all the news reports are…..and this really has nothing to do with the two probably weak-ass mixtapes that the guy has released. From Daily Mail (you can also check out plenty of images before):

The New York City Police Department was tipped off to the largest gun bust in city history through an aspiring Brooklyn rapper’s Instagram posts.

Matthew Best – who has released a couple mixtapes under the name Neno Best – was regularly posting photos and video of guns and wads of cash online, saying he was selling weapons out of his Ocean Hill recording studio.

That led police to a multi-state gun trafficking ring that netted 254 firearms and 19 indictments.

Initially the department was investigating drug charges on Best after he started posting the photos. By wiretapping him, investigators were led to two men in the Carolinas who were smuggling guns separately but using the same middleman in New York City.

Walter Walker and Earl Campbell sourced guns from suppliers in their hometowns of Sanford, North Carolina and Rock Hill, South Carolina and sold them on the black market in New York.

When the NYPD found out about the illegal business, they sent an undercover officer posing as a gun broker to buy the weapons off the two men.

The smugglers would take pictures of the guns they were offering and send it to the undercover officer.

They would then transport the guns into the city, using cheap Chinatown buses to avoid attracting attention or having their bags checked by security.

Apparently the city’s stop-and-frisk policy was a concern for the smugglers. Commission Ray Kelly read from one wiretap where a gun distributor alluded to the controversial search: ‘Yeah, I’m in Charlotte now, I can’t take them to my town…we got like whatchamacallit, stop-and-frisk.’

The fares on these buses are about half that charged by Greyhound, which, unlike the Chinatown buses, requires identification for boarding.

Walker met two times last year with the middleman and the undercover officer at the rapper’s Brooklyn recording studio to sell the undercover firearms, the indictment said. He also allegedly sold weapons to the undercover officer in April in Manhattan.

In January, Campbell’s girlfriend transported a disassembled gun in a zebra-striped suitcase.

When they arrived in New York she proceeded to take the weapon parts out of the bag and assemble them in the back of a car watching a YouTube tutorial for guidance.

When she couldn’t figure out how to put the weapon together, the undercover cop bought the pieces anyway for $1,100.

Walker and Campbell were arrested earlier this month by local police in their home states, authorities said. The names of their defense attorneys were not immediately available.

New York has some of the nation’s strictest gun-control measures and a mayor who has crusaded for tougher laws in other states.

‘There is no doubt that the seizure of these guns has saved lives,’ Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a news conference.

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Pissed Off Mother Attacks Skateboarder For (Accidently) Running Into Her Child

August 22, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff LMAO! No Comments  

Wow. Spotted on L.A. Times’ Bleacher Report:

Reggie Noble of BroBible recently spotted a video of a skateboarder being attacked by a seething mother, and the incident is full of all the questionable parenting and poor communication you’d expect from a runaway toddler situation at the skatepark.

Professional skateboarder Leland Goldberg was at a skatepark shooting a segment for “Warm Gravy”—a pro skateboarding mixtape—when a child running through the area ended up directly in his path.

Concentrating on his tricks, Goldberg didn’t notice the child until the last instant, and the two collided. The child began crying and was scooped up by a woman.

“I’m sorry, man,” Goldberg tells the child.

“Did you not see him?” the woman asks.

“I did not see him. I was looking down,” he says.

The situation is awkward but nonviolent—that is, until the boy’s mother finally shows up on the scene.

“Did you run into my son?” the boy’s mother yells. “On his birthday?!”

With nary a look at her son, the boy’s mother goes straight for Goldberg, shoving him in the chest.

“You didn’t see him?” she yells.

Goldberg is baffled by the shove, considering the collision was accidental. The child and skater were not aware of each other. The incident was not a deliberate attack, despite what the boy’s mother appears to believe.

Before he can explain the situation, however, the woman clocks Goldberg in the mouth. Dumbstruck from the assault, the skater beats a hasty retreat, and the video cuts off.

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Erlend Øye – La Prima Estate (Video)

August 21, 2013 JUKEBOXDC Staff Videos No Comments  

Get your copy of the single here.

This is the official music video for La Prima Estate. It was shot by Marcin Öz and Gabriele Galanti in Siracusa Sicily.

In 2012 Erlend Øye moved from Norway to Italy. It didn’t take him long to discover the goldmine of Italian music of the 60s and 70s and start taking inspiration from its arrangements and style of melodies. Neither did it take him long to take inspiration from the lives of the people around him in the Sicilian town of Siracusa, his new home, and learn enough of the language to write this song, La Prima Estate, his first song in Italian, which centers around his friend Lucia and her day of graduation.

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