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BLACK MUSIC MONTH (Hip-Hop/Jazz): Digable Planets "Rebirth Of Slick"

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Henry Hill, The Man Whose Life Story Inspired "Goodfellas," Dies at 69

(AllHipHop News) Legendary mobster Henry Hill, whose life story was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s six-time Academy Award-nominated film Goodfellas, died last night (June 12) at the age of 69 after a lengthy battle with an undisclosed illness.

TMZ spoke to Hill’s girlfriend who told the media outlet that “he had been sick for a long time…his heart gave out.”

The site reports that they were told that Hill had begun focusing “on mending relationships with estranged family members in recent years,” an act that his girlfriend said Hill made “tremendous progress with before he died.”

The film Goodfellas was adapted from crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi’s book Wiseguy, which documented Hill’s life story as an American mobster turned FBI informant.

Hill, who was most famously portrayed by Ray Liotta in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, passed away two days after his 69th birthday.

Rapper J. Money (J. Futuristic) Shot Six Times in Atlanta

(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper J. Money aka J. Futuristic is lucky to be alive today, after having been shot six times last week, while getting ready for a video shoot for his upcoming single, “Hold Up.”

According to MTV News, J. Money is currently in stable condition and remains hospitalized after having bullets go through his arm, back and calf.

“[They] just started coming from everywhere,” he told MTV RapFix. “Like a hundred shots. It just came from everywhere, man. It was crazy. It was a nightmare.”

J Futuristic will continue to release music and anticipates that “Hold Up,” will be the turning point for his career going forward.

“I’m here for music, so that’s what I’m going to do till I die. And God ain’t ready for me to die,” he said. “I just want to touch people through my music and put out a positive message.”