Month: June 2022

The United Kingdom has been celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, a milestone marking the monarch’s 70 years on the throne. The festivities have been tempered by the absence of its subject, the Queen herself, who has become something of a recluse recently.

Celebrations, however, continue throughout the nation, and it seems one of the celebrations took a turn for the worst on Friday. The UK rapper Hypo, whose real name is Lamar Jackson, was stabbed at a Jubilee party in east London and died from the wounds.

According to police, Hypo was surrounded by a “large number of people” when he was attacked at the party. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and no arrests have been made so far. Scotland Yard, the London police force, is considering the case a murder and have been urging any of the onlookers to contact them.

“I would urge anyone who is yet to speak with us to come forward and let us know what you saw,” detective chief inspector Laurence Smith implored. “Please take a look and call us. It is vital that we establish what happened.” According to the inspector, much of the aftermath of the stabbing was filmed on people’s phones.

Fans of Hypo have been devastated to hear of the death of the 39-year-old grime artist, many referring to him as “a pioneer” of the genre. The rapper had worked with the likes of Popcaan, Chris Budden, Goldie 1, and Rich The Kid. The Hackney native had previously dated the Scottish singer Emeli Sande.

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Late last month, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star, Benzino, turned himself in to the authorities following a warrant for his arrest. During an interview with AllHipHop, the former television personality explained that he had gotten himself into trouble due to an incident that took place two years ago.

Zino, whose real name is Raymond Scott, was arrested after getting into a heated argument with his ex-girlfriend, Althea. Following his apprehension, he was supposed to show up for a court appearance but missed it due to him having Covid-19.

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All of these unfortunate circumstances led to the ex-Made Men member surrendering himself on May 23. Now, after spending a little time behind bars, the 56-year-old is back at home and doesn’t plan on wasting any time running up his money. 

In a video posted to social media, a friend of Benzino is seen standing outside of a building saying, “It’s early in the morning. I’m looking crazy, but this is a good occasion.” He then turned the camera to his side and revealed a free Benzino. As he flexed his muscles, he said, “He just came and picked me up. You know how we do, we just got home.”

The father of two posted the 15-second clip on his Twitter, to which he captioned it, “Back to da bag [bag of money emoji].” He also shared a tweet talking about his experience while being locked up, saying, “…The jails in Georgia & Florida are the worse in America, they’re more like concentration camps.”

Check out his full tweet below. 

It was just days ago that rap duo Rae Sremmurd – made up of brothers Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee – revealed that their SremmLife 4 album isn’t far away, but now, the former has been hit with some unflattering allegations (and accompanying receipts) from his ex-girlfriend, who’s hair he reportedly pulled out back in January, resulting in his own arrest.

“I don’t even know where to start,” the mother of one captioned her photo dump, which begins with a video of the “Guatemala” hitmaker charging at her as he holds their baby. “I’m tired of being silent, dropping charges and letting things go to protect a narcissist.”

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On the third slide, Kee shared what she claims is a “recording [of] his [management] asking [her] to protect him and lie to a judge on a public statement to help his career.”

“Took me a while to get the courage to post this, because I didn’t want to look ‘dumb’ or listen to ‘She’s going to go back,’ but he’s given me no choice,” she continued. “After years of going through these kinds of things, I had one of my biggest breakdowns a few days ago to where out of anger and emotion threatened my own life and my son’s because I was so fed up from how he treats me, I didn’t mean any of the texts.”

Kee told her followers that, after the tumultuous incident, she was cleared by a psychiatrist, but that hasn’t stopped Slim from “using [the messages] against [her] to try and make [her] look like the monster instead of him.”

“I’m human and I can only take so much. Whenever I told him I’d take things to the media or police he’d threaten me with exposing suicidal texts I sent him while dealing with [postpartum depression]. I’m not afraid anymore.”

Kee also alleged that producer @g_sremm walked in on a moment about three weeks ago when Slim was stepping on her face as she held their son in his arm. “[He] still won’t tell Jimmi he’s wrong or admit what he seen.”

“He physically assaulted me while pregnant [with] my friend present, he’s [broken] my phones in front of his team, screamed at me and pushed me around in front of them, and they always point fingers like I’m making him do these things.”

The reported victim shared that there were instances where people around would film her crying, but then doctor the video to not show exactly what lead up to her emotional outburst. “This is my truth,” she declared. “Aaquil Brown for years has been emotionally, physically, and mentally abusive to me.”

Kee also described her entire pregnancy as feeling as though she “was in complete hell,” choosing to stay while Slim Jxmmi was both on drugs and withdrawing from them – read what else she had to say below, and tap back in with HNHH later for more hip-hop news updates.