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Former Detroit Mayor Sentenced to 28 Years in Fed

By: TeamDeSymber Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHopNews) In what is the end of a decade-long tale of scandal, sex, and extortion, former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison.

The 43-year-old was elected Mayor of the city of Detroit at the age of 31, and his flashy attire, earring, and ever-present two-way pager garnered him the title, “The Hip-Hop Mayor.”

He brought new attractions to the city’s riverfront and much-needed business investment downtown, with a mayorship that to many was to be a symbol of youth and hope, but turned into one of corruption and scandal. Kilpatrick was sentenced today in federal court to the amount of time that prosecutors asked for, 28 years.

“He’s become the poster child of what went wrong with the city and why it went bankrupt,” said Adolph Mongo, a political consultant who worked for Mr. Kilpatrick’s re-election campaign, to the New York Times. Yet he said it was unfair to pin the city’s problems on any single elected leader. “It was a house of cards,” Mr. Mongo said of Detroit’s fiscal health. “Kilpatrick was the last card. He fell and it knocked everything down.”

 

AllHipHop.com Stage at A3C With Too Short & Problem

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: Features
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AllHipHop presented the Too Short concert at A3C last week. and The Bay area legend did not disappoint the crowd. He performed classic hits to a packed house at Quad in ATL and also to the stage was Los Angeles rapper Problem.

Video by Herman Shockley

WTF News: Pastor Who Knowingly Spread HIV Found on Dating Site, Still Not Disclosing Status

By: Friday Foster Updated Category: Rumors
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Last year Rodney Carr, a minister from Memphis, was arrested for knowingly infecting a woman with HIV but that hasn’t stopped him from still playing the field. He has surfaced on BlackPeopleMeet.com not once, but twice, as in two profiles, according to WREG.

One profile name is listed as “MinterWonderful” and the other one is his full name but his status isn’t listed on either page. It’s believed that the anonymous woman who was infected got the virus between 2010 and 2011. The minister found out about his status on 2005. He first admitted that he spread it but changed his story in court saying that he didn’t knowingly spread the virus.

The infected woman isn’t innocent either. Apparently, she was sleeping with Carr and her husband around the time she got infected. Her husband does not have the virus. Side eye.

There are no other victims that authorities know of right now but the point is, you can’t trust anybody these days. Be careful.

Trayvon Martin Day Cancelled At High School Due To Parents’ Outrage

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Parents of students at Pittsburgh’s Carrick High School were outraged when a day was planned to honor the memory of Trayvon Martin yesterday (October 9th).

As apart of the school’s Homecoming week, the school and homecoming committee voted and approved of the day which would encourage students to wear hoodies. Some parents, such as Jennifer Kagle who is afraid of the backlash of wearing the hoodie from students who feel adverse to celebrating Trayvon Martin’s life. “I am a little worried about that with the different people, how they’re going to react,” she told CBS Pittsburgh.

Due to the complaints from parents and even school advisors at Carrick High School, the school changed the day’s theme from hoodies and celebrating Trayvon Martin to Bucco Hat Day. “So we just used Bucco Day to put everybody together, put everybody as a whole,” said Homecoming Committee member Javon Jordan

Danny Brown’s Wild “OLD” Album Release Party at NYC’s WiP (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News)  Danny Brown is known for energetic debauchery and his release party for his debut album Old at the infamous New York City club WiP was no different.

With strippers dancing on guests, huge bottles of Hennessey floating around and RapRadar’s Elliott Wilson jumping up and down, the packed party enjoyed the new songs off of Old. 

Check out EMETakeover’s recap of the night’s events below:

Hip-Hop Rumors: Benzino’s Got A New Reality Show?

By: Chuck Creekmur (@ChuckCreekmur) Updated Category: Rumors
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Just GREAT.

It looks like the reality show bug has bitten Benzino so badly that he’s going to be called Zion soon. I don’t know what that means, but that just is what it is. The latest is that Benzino is going to be STARRING in his own reality show called “Sucker For Love.” Now, the details on this show are next to none, but apparently it will be some kind of new version of “Flavor of Love.”

YEAHHHHHH BOYEEEEEEEEE!

Soon he’s going to be looking for women to co-star with him. Zino crunshin’ these chick like whaaaaaaaaaaaa! LOL!

And to think, at one point the Feds were looking for Zino for all sorts of crimes. I’m personally glad he’s cleaned up!

“They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!” -illseed.

Illseed, Out.

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Timbaland Previews New Track With Jay Z & Drake In UK (VIDEO)

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) While performing in Birmingham, United Kingdom earlier this week, Timbaland previewed a new track that features appearances from Drake and Jay Z. The three superstars previously worked together on Jay’s “Off That” from The Blueprint 3.

Tim played a major role in Jay’s latest album Magna Carta Holy Grail producing 11 tracks. Tim and Drake worked together on the number one rap single “Say Something” off of 2009’s Shock Value II. Jigga and Drizzy recently collaborated for Nothing Was The Same‘s “Pound Cake.”

There’s no official word on which project this new record will end up on. Timbaland is currently participating in Jay Z’s European tour.

[ALSO READ: Timbaland Says He’s Producing New Michael Jackson Single “Chicago” (VIDEO)]

Watch a clip of the Tim/Jay/Drake collaboration in the video below.

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Another Rapper Gunned Down In Chicago

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: MOBILE
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(AllHipHop News) Tavache “Trife” Kizer becomes the latest rapper to be killed in Chicago. The 38-year-old father and husband was murdered in South Dorchester on Monday afternoon. Kizer was shot in the head while getting his car repaired by an alley mechanic.

Police suspect that Kizer was not the intended target of the shooting. His killing comes just weeks after teenage rapper Leonard “L’A Capone” Anderson was killed near a recording studio in the city.

[ALSO READ: Lil Durk Friend L’A Capone Killed In Chicago]

Trife had recently shot a video for the song “Respect The Youth”. He had been working on the final edits to the visuals with his brother Larry “Shaciaren” Kizer before he was killed.

“He wanted to show the true pain of the violence. He wanted it to be a tribute to Hadiya Pendleton, Trayvon Martin and the kids at Sandy Hook,” said Shaciaren about his brother’s vision for the video. “It was ironic that the last thing he wanted in that video were scenes of emptiness — empty playgrounds, basketball courts, swings and school hallways. Now, he has become a victim of the violence.”

No arrests have been made in the case.

[ALSO READ: Common Wants Hip Hop Artists To Help Stop Chicago Violence]