New Music: Young Jeezy ft. Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown & YG – R.I.P. (Remix)

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Young Jeezy recruits Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown and YG for the official remix to his single “R.I.P.” Breezy fires back at Drake on the remix with this slick line “Dearly departed, I bought a plane I departed/ And if you started from the bottom, go on and come out the closet”

Diddy Tops Forbes List at $580 Million

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Today Forbes reported who the world’s five wealthiest hip-hop artists are, and Combs topped the list with an estimated net worth of $580 million. The rapper-actor-producer-entrepreneur also was number one on the list last year, when his net worth was a reported $550 million.
Forbes reports that a good chuck of his wealth comes from non-musical ventures, like his deal with Diageo’s Ciroc vodka brand, which supplies the rapper with eight-figure annual payouts.

Diddy ($580 million)
Jay-Z ($475 million)
Dr. Dre ($350 million)
Birdman ($150 million)
50 Cent ($125 million)

NYC Cops Spend 11 Million Hours On Pot Arrest amongst Black & Latino Teens

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A new report released today documents the astonishing number of hours the New York Police Department has spent arresting and processing hundreds of thousands of people for low-level misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests during Mayor Bloomberg’s tenure. The report finds that NYPD used approximately 1,000,000 hours of police officer time to make 440,000 marijuana possession arrests over 11 years.

New York City has made more marijuana possession arrests under Mayor Michael Bloomberg than under mayors Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani combined.
Nearly 70% of those arrested for marijuana are younger than 30 years old, and over 50% are under 21 years old. These young people receive a permanent criminal arrest record which can be easily found on the internet by employers, banks, schools, landlords, and others.
Even though young whites use marijuana at higher rates, over 85% of the people arrested and jailed for marijuana possession are black and Latino.
These arrests are costing New Yorkers more than $75 million per year.
“This report shows that people arrested for marijuana possession spend an average of 12-18 hours, just in police custody, and the vast majority of those arrested are young Black and Latino men from seven to ten neighborhoods in NYC,” said Chino Hardin, Field Coordinator and Trainer with the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions. “This is not just a crisis, but a frontline civil rights issue facing urban communities of color in the 21st century.

Air Jordan 8 Retro White/True Red

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The original Air Jordan VIII ‘Bugs’, with a colorway from 1993 worn by Bugs Bunny in the nostalgic childhood film Space Jam is set to be re-released on April 20th. Die hard Jordans fans, hold tight, seen here are the photographs of next month’s drop from Nike, as it makes it’s return to retail for the first time 2008′s VIII/XV Collezione package. The white-based shoe features Bulls inspired true red, black and flint grey accents, as well as a Hyper Blue jumpman on the fuzzy tongue patch. Set to drop on April 20th to be precise and with a price point of 160 USD. hs