Thursday, March 19, 2009
Detroit Blind Item
Which former Detroit Piston pushed for a trade after pressure from his wife after she heard one to many whispers about him hanging around the gay bars with an openly gay Detroit newscaster?
Queen Latifah
tells Shaun Robinson in a new book about female empowerment, "I [used to] ingratiate myself to him [men] and then sleep with him [them]. Afterward, I felt disgusting- really gross and nasty ... and I hated myself. That feeling was so horrible, I decided I would never do that again."
Lil Wayne
gotta turn over the sales numbers for Da Carter III to musician Karma-Ann Swanepoel who accuses Weezy of copyright infringement for sampling her song 'Once' for his track 'I Feel Like Dying' without permission.
In other Weezy news, VH1 is bringing back the Behind The Music series with a feature staring Wayne.
Dexter King
has signed a licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing to bring Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches to a wider audience by encouraging their use in songs.
In a statement, Martin Luther King III said he and his sister Bernice, who recently were in court fighting Dexter over releasing their mother's personal letters, didn't have any information about the deal.
This Is Not Amber's Sister
According to Necole Bitchie via Egypt, the chick who popped up in the latest set of Amber Rose lez pics is not her sister, but a fellow ex-stripper named Desiree, better know as Dez. Miss Desiree has her own storied past as it seems she was once engaged to Dr. Jay's son.
Frankie Puts Soullow On Blast
Keyshia Cole's mother Frankie went on the Ryan Cameron's V103 radio yesterday to talk about Neffe's new baby and basically said her baby's daddy ain't got a pot to piss in nor a window to through it out of. She even said Neffe is more of man than Soullow, all the while promoting her and Neffe's up coming reality show.
Spotted at Straight From The A
73 Year Old Man Killed By Cops
73 year old Bernard Monroe was shot and killed by white police officers on his front porch in front of his family and friends. Mr. Monroe, a retired utility worker, was hosting a bar-b-que in the front yard of his Homer, Louisiana home for his children, dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren and friends when two white police officers pulled up in front of his house. The sight of of the cop car brought a hush to the yard and moments later Mr. Monroe was dead.
After the cop car rolled to a stop one of the officers called out to one of Mr. Monroe's sons. The son, who has been arrested in the past but did not have any pending warrants, got up and ran into the house. One of the officers, a two week rookie, jumped out of the cop car and chased the young man into the house. Mr. Monroe, who could not speak because of a bout with throat cancer, got up from a chair in the yard and advanced to his porch. At that point, the unarmed man was shot through the screen of his front door.
"He just shot him through the screen door," said Denise Nicholson, a family friend who said she was standing a few feet away. "After [Monroe] was on the ground, we kept asking the officer to call an ambulance, but all he did was get on his radio and say, 'Officer in distress.' "
What happened next is chilling. Witnesses say the second officer picked up a handgun that Mr. Monroe, an avid hunter, always kept in plain sight on the porch for protection. Using a latex glove, the officer grasped the gun by its handle, the witnesses said, and ordered everyone to back away. The next thing they said they saw was the gun next to Monroe's body."I saw him pick up the gun off the porch," Marcus Frazier said. "I said, 'What are you doing?' The cop told me, 'Shut the hell up, you don't know what you're talking about.' "
"People here are afraid of the police," said Terry Willis, vice president of the Homer branch of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. "They harass black people, they stop people for no reason and rough them up without charging them with anything."
"That is how it should be, responded Homer Police Chief Russell Mills, who noted the high rates of gun and drug arrests in the neighborhood. "If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested."
Source
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Kanye West
has been charged with three misdemeanors stemming from the run-in he had with paparazzi in LAX last September. 'Ye been charged with misdemeanor vandalism, battery and grand theft, Yeezy's road manager, Don Crawley, 33, has been charged with the same counts, but two of each. If convicted of all charges, 'Ye could face up to two years and six months in jail and Crawley could face up to five.
King Tut Commits Suicide
From All Hip Hop.com
rapper associated with Harlem, New York rap group The Diplomats shot and killed himself during a dramatic stand-off with police in upstate New York yesterday (March 17).
Hackensack, New Jersey police had been searching for 23-year-old Darnell “King Tut” Brittingham, for allegedly stabbing and assaulting a female companion, just 48 hours after he was released from jail on drug charges.
According to Hackensack‘s Courier Post, detectives from the Hackensack police department traced Brittingham to a La Quinta Inn in White Plains.
When a S.W.A.T. Team witnessed Brittingham emerge from the hotel with a female friend and enter a cab, police surrounded the vehicle and ordered the occupants out.
As police approached the car, they saw Brittingham duck behind the driver’s seat and shoot himself.
Brittingham was first arrested on February 11, when he was stopped during a routine traffic stop.
He was arrested after police found 14 grams of cocaine stuffed inside of a teddy bear.
Shortly after he made bail on the drug charges, police accused Brittingham of stabbing a female companion seven times before fleeing.
“I guess he just decided he wasn't going to go to jail," Police Chief John Kapica told the Courier Post. "We had him, so he couldn't get away, which is probably why he did what he did."
King Tut was a member of the 730 Dipset.
