According to Fakeshore Drive, Lil Durk will be released from jail on June 19th. Lil Durk had to serve out the rest of his prior sentence due to his latest arrest. The Cook County Sheriff’s site says Durk has “no bond,” although family members are assuring that’s not the case.
According to USA Today:
U.S. and European officials have determined that the Syrian government has deployed chemical weapons against rebels, the White House has confirmed.
The White House notified lawmakers on Thursday that they have determined chemical weapons have been used.
The White House previously acknowledged that chemical weapons had been likely deployed, but they needed further confirmation. Obama had called thepotential use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad a “red line” that would spur further action by the U.S.
The president “has said the use of chemical weapons would change his calculus and it has,” said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.
The intelligence community estimates that 100 to 150 people have died from detected chemical weapons attacks in Syria to date, a small fraction of the more than 90,000 that have been killed in the two-year-old civil war. The U.S. assessment is based on laboratory analysis of physiological samples obtained from a number of individuals, which revealed exposure to sarin.
According to CNN, four people were murdered in St. Louis today at a local business Cherokee Place Business Incubator.
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In lieu of the upcoming America’s Most Wanted tour, XXL has blessed individual and group covers for Lil’ Wayne, T.I. & 2 Chainz on their recent issue, which you can check out above.
June 26th is the date for the release of the collaborative Run The Jewels, which you can preorder here. Tracklist below.
1. Run The Jewels
2. Banana Clipper (feat. Big Boi)
3. 36″ Chain
4. DDFH
5. Sea Legs
6. Job Well Done (feat. Until The Ribbon Breaks)
7. No Come Down
8. Get It
9. Twin Hype Back (feat. Prince Paul as Chest Rockwell)
10. A Christmas Fucking Miracle
I thought that Jay-Z didn’t even own Rocawear anymore? From the New York Post:
Jay-Z is a rap mogul worth around $500 million — but his clothing brand Rocawear is in the red, a lawsuit claims.
The apparel group allegedly owes $450,000 to wholesale company iSource NYC for urban-style duds made in Pakistan and shipped to New York last April through June, the Manhattan Supreme Court filing states.
The clothing items “were specially ordered goods . . . [with] the ‘Rocawear’ brand name imprinted on [them],” the Garment District company claims in the suit.
“Defendant never returned the ROC goods to iSource.”
Rocawear paid for about half of the $1 million order, but has yet to cough up the balance, the suit alleges, and iSource wants the rest of the money plus 9 percent interest — because the bill was due last summer.
Reps for Rocawear did not immediately return messages for comment.
Three albums at one time, playboy. E-40 lets the folks see the artwork for The Block Brochure 4, 5 & 6. He also spoke on why he’s dropping so much music at one time.
I’m a score and a nickel deep in the game! That’s 25 years with real studio albums on the shelf. If an artist can release two and three mixtapes a year for free, I can release two or three official studio albums a year for money. As an independent artist I do what I want, not what I can. I’m putting out three albums because I’ve got 3 decades of fans that I gotta satisfy. I’ve been through hella different eras of music and I survived successfully! It took William Shakespeare 20 years of experience to write Hamlet! I make Slaps and paint pictures with my raps and I’m in my prime with 25 years of experience. You ain’t gotta like me but you gotta respect me!
Catch me on the Simpsons next month when Bart has a dream that he is "The Game" in class ha ha ha....… instagram.com/p/acGzJYGor7/
— Handsome Ass Nigga (@thegame) June 12, 2013
The premise for the upcoming episode (which will premiere in July) shows Bart dreaming that he’s rapper The Game (hence the above image). Can’t wait to see that one.
Still no release date as of yet, but there is an official website to keep us all posted….you can check out the tracklist below.
01. WestCoast Gangsta Sh*t
02. Stay out the Way Feat. Snoop Dogg
03. Don’t Call it a Comeback
04. When The Sh•t Goes Down
05. Late Night
06. Blam Blam
07. Don’t Get Wet
08. Roll & Smoke
09. What Cha Gone Do?
10. Time Will Prevail
11. Dubs In The Air
12. Alcohol & Drugs
13. Moves I Make Feat.Butch Cassidy
Hip Hop bores me... #ButMySingleDroppinThursdayTho #WhoIAm #MNIMN #SureYouDontCare… instagram.com/p/ab5U6ZEgar/
— PUSHA T (@PUSHA_T) June 11, 2013
Pusha T. Who I Am. feat. Big Sean & 2 Chainz. Thursday.
— THE CREW (@THEAlleyeceeing) June 12, 2013
…and it features Big Sean & 2 Chainz. While all of his previous music has been pretty concrete as far as Hip-Hop music is concerned, I certainly hope dude has a real hit on his hands.
If I’m not mistaken, the visual for the single will be released the same day The Gifted drops (June 25th). Then again, Wale might bless the folks early….who knows.
Machine Gun Kelly is really quite underrated, although I hope that maybe his Black Flag project might change some things up (sadly, it probably won’t). One things for sure, it’ll be dope, as you can see from the tracklist below.
UPDATE: Cops also found Promethazine (an ingredient in ‘lean’ or ‘syrup’) in 2 Chainz luggage during his arrest.
According to TMZ, 2 Chainz was arrested at LAX after police allegedly found marijuana on him. This just isn’t the rapper’s week right now. Looks like the Feds are really watching him.
UPDATE: Joel Madden has responded to the matter rather understandable on his Tumblr:
“Sunday while I was at work, a hotel employee found a small amount of marijuana in my hotel room. The police were called and responded. Sydney is is [sic] my adopted home and i appreciate the way the NSW police handled the situation. They have informed me there will be no charges. I hope this didn’t cause too much drama for anyone.”
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Taken from Huffington Post:
Joel Madden, the Good Charlotte frontman and “The Voice Australia” coach who has been staying down under while filming the show, has reportedly been booted out of his hotel room in the Sydney area after New South Wales police seized a “small amount of plant matter believed to be cannabis” Sunday night, according to the Daily Mail.
The weed was originally found by a woman who was cleaning his room Sunday afternoon and continued to alert the authorities upon finding the substance. The officials, who executed a search warrant at 10:30 that evening, have not brought up charges against the 34-year-old just yet, but he was reportedly asked to vacate his serviced apartment at The Darling Hotel inside The Star casino complex, where he has been staying for the past two months.
A few days ago, P-Wild announced his next mixtape, #Wildout, and today, he announces one of the features on the project, which is set to come out the same day as Project Wild did last year (July 13th).
Extremely late pass, but for news sake, Lil’ Kim was in a car accident. Our bad, Queen B.
Recent reports have locked in on the fact that these are kin to DJ Quik (Marlena Blake is Quik’s biological daughter), but check out the original story courtesy of KPHO:
Davieanna Marlena Blake, 21, and Darnell Moses Alvarez, 24, were arrested by Phoenix police the couple were found standing next to the body of their child outside the apartment.
Court documents show a witness told investigators he heard Alvarez disciplining the child for wetting himself or the bed, and that he could hear the child being spanked. The witness described the discipline as “excessive.”
The child was found with multiple bruises on his legs, arms, buttocks, back and face, the document shows.
Blake told police she and Alvarez argued earlier in the day and after the child woke they saw he had wet the bed overnight, according to the document. Alvarez allegedly struck the child with a leather belt, and Blake didn’t intervene for fear of upsetting Alvarez more, according to the documents.
She said she went to work and when she returned, her son was lethargic and had multiple bruises and stopped breathing while she and Alvarez argued over taking their son to the hospital, according to the documents.
Alvarez later told police he disciplined the child with a woven belt during the day after he soiled himself and the bathroom.
An autopsy showed the child suffered a lacerated liver, severe internal bleeding and multiple bruising throughout his body, inconsistent with being struck with a belt only, according to the documents.
Both parents were arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of child abuse and first-degree murder.
Their next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday with a preliminary hearing on May 13.
This is definitely something that I’ve always wanted to do: blog about good food. Bun B and Premium Pete have done just that, launching a food porn blog called You Gotta Eat This, which has more than enough good eats to check out as we speak.
Click here to give your eyes something to enjoy. Hope you gotta a late night grub spot after checking this out.
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Bobby V was recently spotted shooting a music video for ‘Back To Love’, which will appear on his upcoming EP Peach Moon, which is due sometime next month. Check out the pics of what went down above.
Spotted on In Touch Weekly:
Amidst birthday celebrations and a performance at the Governors Ball this weekend, In Touch can reveal that Kanye was hard at work shooting what he hopes will become a viral video to promote his new album, Yeezus, due out on June 18.
The theme of the video is none other than the family friendly motif of American Psycho.
“Kanye spent the weekend shooting an American Psycho-inspired video in Brooklyn with Scott Disick and Jonathan Cheban,” an insider tells In Touch. “Jonathan (pictured below) actually gets killed in the end.” The video, which was shot at Brooklyn Fireproof soundstages, is supposed to be released later this week in anticipation of his new album. “Kanye wants the video to go viral and drum up more publicity for his album,” the insider reveals.
Some artwork for the next single from Justin Timberlake’s savagely successful 20/20 Experience.
UPDATE: Of course, the footage (above) surfaces (from TMZ). And it ain’t good.
Pacman insists he was merely “protecting himself” during the Wednesday night altercation outside of a Cincinnati nightclub … and judging from the video, it seems the woman made the first aggressive move.
The footage (around the 1:55 mark) shows a woman reaching over to Pacman with what appears to be a drink in her hand. It seems the woman poured her drink on Jones … and he reacted by unleashing a punch to her head.
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Just got arrestedfor protecting myself, I will not let this break me or change what I have work so hard for ....
— ADAm Pacman Jones (@REALPACMAN24) June 10, 2013
From USA Today:
Prosecutor Charlie Rubenstein confirmed Monday that Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was arrested on one count of assault for punching a female patron outside of a bar.
Earlier Monday, Jones announced on Twitter he had been arrested, probably in an attempt to provide his account before the Cincinnati Police or possible witnesses provide their versions.
Jones claimed he was acting in self-defense, an account his agent, Peter Schaffer, also provided to USA TODAY Sports by claiming Jones hit a woman in the face after she might have thrown a beer bottle at his head.
“Just got arrested for protecting myself,” Jones wrote on Twitter. “I will not let this break me or change what I have work so hard for …”
Schaffer said Jones was to turn himself in to police Monday.
Schaffer said Jones was standing outside of a bar on Wednesday night after the Cincinnati Reds’ game against the Colorado Rockies when he was approached by two women who wanted to take a picture with him. Schaffer said Jones told them no “because he’s married and the last thing he wants is a picture with two women showing up on Twitter or something.”
Schaffer said Jones told him he was then hit in the head with a bottle from only a few feet away.
“He turns around and immediately slaps the person. He has no idea what’s going on or who threw the bottle,” Schaffer said. “His teammates have enough of this and they walk out.”
Schaffer said he’s spoken to witnesses who have corroborated Jones’ story and that he’s hoping to get a copy of the bar’s security video.
Police have yet to issue a report on Jones’ arrest.
This is the third time since October 2010 that Jones has been involved in an off-field incident in Cincinnati.
The below excerpt was taken from Freddie Gibbs interview with XXL, and it wasn’t pretty when we came to the subject of CTE:
Has life after CTE been good for you?
Life after CTE…life been good. Before CTE and after CTE. I never took a dollar from cus anyway. It ain’t never been about life being good. My life been the same. I’ve been the same nigga. I’ve been doing my thing. Still been feeding my niggas. Still been feeding my family. Like I said, I never took a dollar ever from Jeezy in my life. Everything been on my grind and my hustle. I put BFK (Baby Face Killa) out myself with no support from Jeezy. I shot and did videos myself with no support from Jeezy. Like that it matters. Like I said, I got my own core, my fanbase. At the end of the day, I been my own man.This album is going to be definitive of that fact. It’s going to show people, ‘Look, I didn’t need cus, cus needed me.’ I was bringing something to the table at CTE. I don’t need CTE. I went to CTE because I fucked with CTE. Because I had love for what cus had. It was a genuine love, that’s why I went over there for nothing. ‘Man look, let’s partner up. Let’s do this.’ I fucked with you. I respect you. Now, that respect is gone.
Was Jeezy supportive of you doing your own thing?
Fuck no. Anything he tells you, it’s going to be fake. I am going to give you the real. He gonna give you the sugarcoated version. That’s the difference between me and him. He gonna give you the sugarcoated shit, I am going to give you the real. At first, when that whole split happened, I was being political about it. I was thinking, ‘Man, I don’t want to fuck up my relationship.’ But fuck that shit, my nigga. I’m feeding the whole city. That nigga don’t do shit for me. I am going to point a nigga out when he bogus and he was bogus for not owing up to his business relationship and doing what he was supposed to do business-wise. Like I said, I never needed the nigga to do nothing for me, but do what you said what you were gonna do. You don’t hold true to your word, I don’t respect you. So I don’t respect no nigga that don’t hold true to his word. All that shit you rapping; I don’t respect none of that shit.
Yup. D5. Tunechi. Dram. YM. Stay tuned. But pleaaaase.... b patient.
— DJ DRAMA (@DJDRAMA) June 10, 2013
It’s coming, and now it makes sense: we recently posted a mixtape by DJ Stevie J that featured a new freestyle over ‘Bugatti’ by Weezy (which you can check out below). Apparently, that was just a taste of what to expect.
