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Travis Scott Sued by Woman Who Says Astroworld Led to Her Miscarriage

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A woman who was at the Astroworld Festival is suing Travis Scott and Live Nation for her injuries, which she stated led to her miscarriage.

Astroworld attendee Shanazia Williamson stated she was trampled during the crowd surge. According to TMZ, the woman received injuries to her shoulder, back, chest, leg, stomach, and more.

The lawsuit states Scott and the defendants exercised “failure to plan, design, manage, operate, staff, and supervise the event was a direct and proximate cause of Shanazia’s injuries and death of her and Jarawd’s (her partner) unborn child.”

Williamson also stated the injuries included “trouble breathing, chest pain, and left leg pain, as well as injuries to other parts of her body.”

A month and a half after the tragedy, Williamson filed a wrongful death suit, which coincides with Texas law allowing the fetus that dies by negligence can be the grounds for the lawsuit.

Outside of Williamson, ten people died, and many more injury cases.

Earlier this week, Travis Scott was added to the Billboard Music Award performers list that already included Megan Thee Stallion and Latto. Diddy, the show’s host and executive producer, made the announcement.

“This will be unlike any awards show – I’m bringing the love and setting the frequency at an all-time high,” said DIDDY after being announced as host and EP. “The Billboard Music Awards truly represent the artists and where music is today, so I’m excited to curate the biggest live performances and surprises. The world has to tune in to see.”

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Moving Trucks Spotted Outside A$AP Rocky’s Mansion That Was Raided by LAPD

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A$AP Rocky is calling it quits on his Los Angeles mansion. The home that was raided by LAPD following his airport arrest had moving fans outside with Rocky’s belongings being loaded.

According to TMZ, Rocky’s belongings were uploaded to a U-Haul to be taken away from the home. Boxes can be seen in the hands of movers, along with a shoe track carrying some of his sneakers.

When A$AP Rocky returned from his baecation with Rihanna last month, his private jet was met with officers who came to arrest the rapper for shooting a man in November 2021. After the arrest, one of Rocky’s neighbors caught police using a ram to push through Rocky’s gate and execute a search warrant.

The neighbor described Rocky as one of the best in the area and thought the show of force was unnecessary. Today, a report emerged about what was found inside A$AP’s home. According to TMZ, police recovered multiple guns from the rapper’s home, but none of the weapons can be associated with the alleged crime.

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Kim Kardashian Says Kanye Told Her Career Was Over Because She Dresses Like Marge Simpson

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There is no doubting Kanye West’s place in the fashion world. That could also be associated with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian unless you ask YE, who stated she dresses like Marge Simpson.

In the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kim spoke about beginning to pick out her clothes again after he split from YE. Kardashian would tell her sister Kourtney Kardashian that she would always ask for YE’s input on clothes and now has panic attacks about what she should wear. After opting for one of her faux leather pieces from the SKIMS x Fendi collection for the WSJ. Innovator Awards, Kim received a call from Ye.

“He told me my career’s over, and then he showed me a picture of Marge Simpson wearing something similar,” Kardashian said. She added later that YE expressed love through fashion. “That’s his love language is clothes,” she explained. “I always just trusted in him, but it’s not just about clothes. That was, like, the last thing we had really in common.”

You can see what Kim wore to the Innovator Awards below.

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Meek Mill on Young Thug & Gunna: “I Pray That DA Be Fair to Them”

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If you haven’t heard by now, Young Thug, Gunna and the rest of Young Stoner Life Records are facing a RICO. The crop of Hip-Hop superstars has received support from across social media. One of the people speaking on their behalf is Meek Mill who provided his own statement on Instagram.

“Thug put on many families I seen with my own eyes… stand up for them in these times not the lit ones! Labels, women, n****s… I pray that DA be fair to them knowing what we out here tryna survive. Thug and Gunna ain’t no crime bosses, they successful rappers with influence that didn’t leave their environment behind… If you bring your environment with you it’s basically RICO. Watch yourself out here.

The people I did the most for tryna take me out ‘but can’t’ or tryna manipulate the world. I’m a bad person because they ain’t hold up the ‘loyalty’ part.”

Does Meek have a point? Peep his commentary below.

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[WATCH] Joony Releases New Video “Drifting in Tokyo”

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[WATCH] Joony Releases New Video "Drifting in Tokyo"

Joony from Maryland is “Drifting In Tokyo” in his video. His first official single off his upcoming album, Pretty In Black, is “Drifting In Tokyo.” The “Baby Joon” rapper swerves through the city while dripping in fancy clothing in the Fast and Furious-inspired clip. As usual, Joony may be spotted watching TV with attractive women making donuts in an empty parking lot.

Over the last few years, the burgeoning rap sensation from the District of Columbia has made huge ripples in the business. Many people have backed him because of his outstanding work ethic and constant productivity, including GRAMMY Award-nominated R&B singer Brent Faiyaz. Furthermore, his new single follows his highly anticipated performance at Washington, DC’s Broccoli City Festival. Joony will be performing with some of the biggest names in music, like Lil Durk, Summer Walker, and DMV icon Wale.

GRNDZRO Entertainment executive produced Joony’s new cinematic visual for “Drifting In Tokyo,” which you can watch now!

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Casanova Pleads Guilty To Drug And Racketeering Charges

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According to several confirmed reports, Brooklyn rapper Caswell “Casanova” Senior plead guilty to drug and racketeering charges today in a Brooklyn federal court. Senior confessed to several crimes as prosecutors claimed he was the leader of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods gang.

Senior surrendered to the FBI at t he end of 2020, with prosecutors alleging that the “Don’t Run” rapper directed a drug gang conspiracy that spanned from New York to Florida. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan says that Senior confessed to a shooting in Florida in 2020, a 2018 robbery in NYC and trafficking more than 100 kilos of marijuana.

Back in December 2020, Casanova was the centerpiece of a federal investigation, to which he surrendered to the feds on racketeering charges and was denied bail, despite his lawyers and family situating a $2.5 million bail package, but S. District Judge Phillip Halpern denied his proposal.

Shortly after co-defendant Shantay Outlaw struck a deal with prosecutors, Senior was hit with an attempted murder charge for the 2020 shooting in Miami, to which he has now admitted guilt.

Casanova is set to be sentenced in federal court in December. He faces a minimum of five years in prison and a maximum of 60 years in prison.

His guilty plea comes within days of Young Thug, Gunna and 26 other YSL members indicted on RICO and other street gang/organized crime related charges.

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Chris Brown Says His ‘Breezy’ Album Is On The Way

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Chris Brown opened the year dropping “Iffy,” just to hold us until Breezy season. Breezy season has arrived and R&B superstar has new music arriving.

Chris Brown took it to social media to let fans know that he’s dropping his 10th studio album in June.

Even though he gave fans a timetable on when to expect the album, June, there is no official release date. However, he did reveal briefly on what to expect from his album. In April when CB teased that an album was on the way, he said “a different type of LOVE mixed wit heartbreak”

“NOT GON LIE… It take a different type of LOVE mixed wit heartbreak for some of these songs on my album,” Brown wrote on his Instagram Story. “So ahead of time…. THANK YOU [praying hands emoji].” Subsequently to the post, Tory Lanez, who heard a sneak peak of the album, raved about it.

Chris Brown also said that the number of tracks on his 10th album will be the same amount of songs that was on his debut album.

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Lil Uzi Vert Says He’s Returning To His Vintage Style With His New Music

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Lil Uzi Vert said he’s doing less talking and more working and he said he’s returning to the old Uzi. He went on his Instagram story to release a message to his fans in regards of his new music.

The message read, ““This time less talkin’ more working,” Uzi wrote on IG. “Going back in classic mode. I been [through] 2 much this time around. Nothin’ can break me.”

For a while Lil Uzi Vert had been promoting what seems to be his next album, The Pink Tape and has been teasing new music. Although he hasn’t dropped many new tracks, the Phily native has been on wax. Nigo featured him on a track called “Heavy.” Nigo is the founder of Bape and the song was feature on his album  I Know Nigo.

He also collaborated with Mura Masa on “Bbycakes,” and last year he dropped “Demon High.”

When Uzi does decide to drop his next project, it’s going to be the first full body of work since he released Eternal Atake in 2020.

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YSL’s Gunna Surrenders To Atlanta Authorities Surrounding RICO Charges

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YSL’s Gunna surrendered to Fulton County authorities early Wednesday morning. Gunna is facing charges of conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

The “Pushin P” rapper was one of at least 28 others, including Young Thug, caught up in a sweeping RICO indictment brought by the Fulton County District Attorney this week.

During Gunna Wunna’s virtual court appearance on Wednesday, his attorney argued for a bond to be set, but the magistrate judge said that decision would be left for the superior court judge. “I don’t have the authority to do it,” the judge told the court.

Gunna, real name Sergio Kitchens, is allegedly affiliated with a gang known as Young Slime Life that the D.A. says is linked to 80-percent of violent crime in the city.

Gunna’s attorney emailed Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne a statement, saying, in part: “Mr. Sergio Kitchens, known as Gunna, is innocent. The indictment falsely portrays his music as part of criminal conspiracy.” He went on to describe Kitchens as an entertainer and philanthropist.

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The news came two days after YSL’s label head Young Thug, real name Jeffery Williams, 30, was arrested early Monday afternoon at his home in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood.

Gunna is due back in court in June.

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Federal Authorities Add Drug Possession And Weapons Charges To RICO Case Against Young Thug

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As the details surrounding the RICO case against Young Thug, Gunna and 28 YSL members continue to grow, recent reports have confirmed that Thugger has now been hit with federal charges; two illegal firearms charges and two drug possession charges to add to his laundry list of offenses that have kept him behind bars since Tuesday.

Rap ultra-star Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, was one among 28 people who were ensnared by a 56-count indictment handed down by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office for criminal activity going back as far as 2015 and as recent as 2020. The 88-page indictment filed on Sunday details 180 acts that support just the first of the 56 separate charges for 28 members of the alleged gang.

Williams was denied bond yesterday by a Fulton County Superior judge despite the assertive plea by Williams’ lawyer Brian Steel to grant him a bond based on the nature of his alleged, non-violent charges, but that effort was unsuccessful. 

Now, Thug’s initial court hearing has been followed up with additional charges after federal investigators discover guns and drugs in the rapper’s Buckhead home, according to a report from Atlanta news affiliate WSB-TV. 

Authorities contend that they have more than enough evidence to convict Williams, who they allege rented a Q50 Infiniti used in a 2015, ordered an attempted hit on YFN Lucci by two YSL members during his incarceration in Fulton County Jail and is even named as a co-conspirator alongside Birdman in the 2015 shooting of Lil Wayne’s tour bus in Atlanta. 

Williams new charges come the same day as authorities announce that they have taken “Pushin P” rapper Gunna, whose real name is Sergio Kitchens, into custody at the Fulton County Jail.

Young Thug is now currently charged with is now charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of a schedule III, IV, or V controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, sawed-off rifle, machine gun, dangerous weapon, or silencer, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and three counts of participating in criminal gang activity through the commission of a crime.

Thug’s Attorney Brian Steel said in a statement, “Jeffery Williams, who performs as “Young Thug,” vehemently denies the allegations lodged against him in the Fulton County (Georgia) Indictment of May 9, 2022. We look forward to the opportunity to defend this case in court. We filed a Motion for Bond and anticipate a hearing in the near future. We will fight this case ethically, legally and zealously. Mr. Williams will be cleared.”

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