Houston Rapper Yung Corleon Hit With 27 Yrs In Prison For Sex Trafficking Charge

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Reports have confirmed that Houston rapper Yung Corleon has been sentenced to 27 years behind bats for his role in a sex trafficking ring that involved twelve women, including minors.

Corleon, whose real name is Aryion Jackson, plead guilty in a federal court to sex trafficking minors, forced fraud and coercion. Prosecutors allege that Corleon beat and drugged his “captives”, including a 15-year-old that is currently still missing. He ran his business from a Houston home, forcing the women to earn him $1K a day.

The cause behind the 24-year-old’s 27-year sentence has been a topic of controversy in Houston, as many locals pushed for the defendant to get life behind bars rather than the bare minimum for the alleged crimes.

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SOURCE SPORTS: Former NFL Player Stanley Wilson Jr. Dead After Collapsing at Mental Health Facility

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Several news reports have confirmed that former Detroit Lions cornerback and son of former Bengals running back Stanley Wilson, Stanley Wilson Jr., passed away after collapsing at a mental health facility in Los Angeles County. He was 60 years old.

Wilson collapsed at the facility after being declared incompetent to stand trial for a vandalism charge and was transferred to Metropolitan State Hospital on February 1. During Wilson’s intake, he collapsed and died a short time later.

His cause of death has not been determined, but foul play is not suspected in Wilson’s death.

Wilson was selected by Detroit in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft, where he played for three seasons until suffering a Achilles injury that ended his career. After his NFL career, Wilson was arrested several times, including being charged with attempted burglary in 2016, in which Wilson was shot in the abdomen while attempting to break into a house in Portland while completely nude. 

His latest arrest came in August when he allegedly broke in and ransacked a Los Angeles residence and took a bath in an outside fountain. 

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#BHM: Philadelphia’s Work To Ride Program Highlighted On HBO’s Real Sports

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Twenty years ago, “Real Sports” first featured Work to Ride, an extraordinary program that teaches the upper-crust sport of polo to at-risk inner-city youth in Philadelphia.

This past fall, Work to Ride held its inaugural Philadelphia Polo Classic that drew in thousands of spectators around the city to support the program. The program has now graduated over one hundred kids and equipped them with skills  to live better lives.

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[WATCH] Grandmaster Flash Vignette Series Part 3: Hip Hop is Big Business

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In Part 3: Hip Hop is Big Business, Grandmaster Flash recalls the days that mainstream media pinned Hip Hop as “a sailing ship in the night” and references the moments he recognized Hip Hop proving them wrong. #HipHop50 #GMFVignetteSeries #GrandmasterFlash

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Today In Hip Hop History: Big L Was Shot And Killed In Harlem 24 Years Ago

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On February 15, 1999 the Hip Hop legend was murdered at 45 West 139th Street in Harlem after being shot nine times in the face and chest in a drive-by shooting. Gerard Woodley, one of Big L’s friends shot in the head near the same street in 2016, was arrested three months later but was shortly released. The shooting was said to have been retaliation for something Big L’s brother did. Unfortunately his murder case remains unsolved.

Big L began his career with the Hip Hop trio, Three the Hard Way. His first notable appearance came on Lord Finesse’s “Yes You May (Remix)”. He released his debut album, Lifestylez of da Poor & Dangerous, in 1995 and in 98′, he founded Flamboyant Entertainment, his own indie label, through which he released one of his most popular singles, “Ebonics”. His second studio album, The Big Picture, was put together by  his manager, Rich King, and released the year after his death. It went certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

A documentary is in the works titled Street Struck: The Big L Story. Big L is buried at George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus, New Jersey.

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Rihanna Talks Motherhood And Hints At New Album This Year

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Fresh off her legendary performance at Apple Music’s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show, Rihanna sat down for a cover story with British Vogue, where she shared her life since motherhood, ASAP Rocky, and hinted at her comeback. British Vogue features new photos of Roro’s new family and more. The magazine posted on Twitter. A new era begins – and for @Rihanna nothing will ever be the same. Fresh from the Super Bowl and that very special announcement, Rihanna is British Vogue’s phenomenal March 2023 cover star – but this is no ordinary cover. This is a family portrait.

In her wide-ranging discussion with Giles Hattersley, Rihanna shed light on her forthcoming ninth studio album, revealing she wants it to drop this year. When it arrives, the project will be Riri’s first full-length offering since 2016’s Anti.

“Like, honestly, it’d be ridiculous if it’s not this year,” she shared. “But I just want to have fun. I just want to make music and make videos.”

Rihanna added, “And I need the right background music with the visuals. I can’t just go shoot a video to me talking.”

 Rihanna opened up about motherhood and her life before having a child.

“Oh, my God, it’s legendary,” she said of being a mother. “It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever. You literally try to remember it – and there are photos of my life before – but the feeling, the desires, the things that you enjoy, everything, you just don’t identify with it because you don’t even allow yourself mentally to get that far, because it doesn’t matter.”

“Essentially, from one person I became two,” she continued, describing the experience of giving birth. “You walk into the hospital as a couple and leave as a family of three. It’s nuts. And oh, my gosh, those first days are insane. You don’t sleep. At all. Not even if you wanted to. We came home, cold turkey, had no one. It was just us as parents and our baby. Man, you’re a zombie for the most part.”

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Tyler Perry Donates $750,000 To Save Seniors Homes From Rising Property Taxes

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TV/movie mogul Tyler Perry is donating $750,000  to help low-income seniors in Atlanta not be forced out of their homes by rising property taxes.

With more people moving near Tyler Perry Studios, land values are rising and property taxes are rising. It is said to be the main reason longtime residents living on a fixed income are forced out of their homes and their lives are disrupted.
Tyler, who came in at No. 3 on the Forbes list of the Top 10 highest-paid entertainers of 2022 — raking in $175M last year — recently reached out to Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens to help keep these residents in their homes.

Sources say Tyler’s money will also effectively freeze property taxes for 100 low-income seniors for 20 years. This money will pay the difference between current property taxes and property tax increases over the next 20 years.

In addition to Tyler’s $750,000 allotted for 2023, he is said to contribute about $500,000 each year for the next four years… totaling about $2.75 million. It will reportedly be handled by the Invest Atlanta Partnership, the nonprofit arm of the development agency.

Tyler is the only black male among Forbes’ top 10 highest-paid entertainers…and his priority is said to be giving back to the community that means so much to him. .

Always helping out senior citizens, thousands of grocery shoppers were surprised during senior hours in Atlanta and New Orleans when Perry picked up their tabs at Kroger stores in Atlanta and Winn-Dixie stores. He also  gave $21,000 in tips at an Atlanta restaurant.

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Brooklyn Rapper Sleepy Hallow Released From Prison

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Footage has surfaced earlier this week of drill rapper Sleepy Hallow being released from prison after serving a little under eight months on an illegal weapons charge.

The video, which was released by Hallow’s close friend and collaborator Sheff G, who is currently serving two years on a weapons charge himself, shows Hallow popping a bottle of champagne outside of the correctional facility where he was being held.

“@_sleepyhallow_ home I’m next free me free the guys,” Sheff wrote in the caption.

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Hallow, whose real name is Tegan Chambers, was arrested on June 24, 2022 for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

The 23-year-old was on probation at the time and was subsequently sentenced and given a projected prison release date of February 13, 2023.

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Willie D Calls Scarface A “Selfish A** N***a” For Not Telling Him About Geto Boys Invite To Perform At Grammys

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Willie D created the “Geto Boys” podcast to include the group after gaining notoriety with his own, renowned “Willie D Live” podcast, which garnered hundreds of thousands of views since its launch in 2015. On the most recent episode of the Geto Boys podcast, Willie D confronted the group’s front man, Scarface, for not including him in the performance of “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” during the Grammys’ commemoration of Hi[ Hop’s 50th anniversary.

Willie D stated, “Slighted? I feel beyond slighted. Like what I’m tryna figure out is … First of all, I ask you Wednesday when we left here, I said, ‘What you got for the weekend?’ You said, ‘I’m finna go fuck with this Grammys thing.’ I said, ‘Alright man, safe travels.’ Because, you know, that’s how we do it. Saturday come, I’m online and an article comes across about the Grammys. And I see ‘Geto Boys and Scarface’ in the lineup.” 

Scarface replied Willie D, “I can stand on my own two feet with no Geto Boys,” and Willie agreed. Willie then stated, “Remember I’m the one who said, ‘Hey man, you oughta call yourself Scarface.’ So I ain’t gon’ never hate on you. Never. When I see you win, I see Geto Boys win because we are a group.” 

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[WATCH] Busta Rhymes Throws Drink On Woman Who Was Seen Smacking His Butt

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It has only been a few days since Busta Rhymes was a featured performer during the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show, but things got a little tense with fan as Busta was caught on camera throwing a drink on a woman that tried to grab the Hip Hop legends behind.

As Busta made his way through a large crowd of people at the Las Vegas Convention Center during the MAGIC Fashion Trade Show flanked by his entourage and security, an overzealous fan thought she could get away with violating the “6’7” emcee, but instead caught a drink to the face from the Brooklyn-born/Long Island-raised rapper.

See the incident below.

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