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Do guaranteed income programs live up to all the hype? Oakland is looking to find out. The city’s mayor, Libby Schaaf, took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce the launch of “Oakland Resilient Families”—a pilot program that will provide $500 a month in guaranteed income to 600 families. Schaaf said the experiment will span 18 months and benefit Black, Indigenous, and other people of […]
During a conversation with E-40 for HipHopDX, Too Short talked about a song he had planned with Drake, and revealed why it never happened. “I was really focused on being on that Drake vibe, and I was just about to do a song with Drake,” the Bay Area legend says in the video above. “I feel like […]
Verzuz is celebrating the holiday season on Saturday with a face-off between two Bay Area legends, E-40 and Too Short. The pair spoke with Complex as they were gearing up for their battle, explaining that regardless of what happens in the end, the event is a victory for the Bay. “No matter how it comes […]
While most of the world is focusing on the coronavirus pandemic, residents across Northern California have another big issue to worry about. The Lake County Record-Bee reports that the wildfires in the state have particuarly impacted Northern California, spreading through every county in the Bay Area except for San Francisco. As recently as Wednesday there was 250,000 […]
Bay Area rapper Young Curt was killed in a car accident Contra Costa County, California, the local Fox affiliate reports. Young Curt (born Curtis Denton Jr.) was involved in a rollover crash on early Monday morning. When officers responded, they found him laying on the dirt shoulder outside of his 2019 Dodge Charger. Denton was taken to a nearby […]
Boots Riley has a new project in the works, as relayed by himself on Monday via his own Twitter account. The director/writer/rapper said that he’s currently developing a new series entitled I’m A Virgo. The show will star Jharrel Jerome of Moonlight and When They See Us fame, and will be about a “13 ft. […]
UPDATED at 10:37 p.m. ET: The San Leandro Police Department has publicly identified the suspect as Nancy Arechiga. According to the department’s press release, the 52-year-old woman was arrested Friday night after she allegedly left handwritten notes, “which contained various insensitive messages towards minorities,” on five different houses in the Heron Bay neighborhood. Officers said when […]
A white woman in the Bay Area was reportedly arrested this weekend for allegedly leaving xenophobic letters on minorities’ front doors. As pointed out by TMZ, the incident received widespread attention Saturday, after San Leandro resident Trinny Wynn posted photos of the suspect on Facebook. The images show a woman approaching a front door while holding a white piece […]
A trip of about 200 goats somehow managed to break through the boards of an electric fence in a neighborhood in east San Jose, California on Tuesday, turning the area, which is under lockdown, into their very own stomping grounds, NBC Bay Area reports. Zach Roelands, 23, captured the hilarious footage below showing the many, many, many goats roaming the streets, and […]
An Oakland rapper has been accused of leading an fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from people in California, The Mercury News reports. 39-year-old Amir “Kafani” Rashad is the lead defendant in the federal fraud case. Per reports, Kafani worked with co-defendants, Susan Arreola-Martin, Christopher Pool, and Tyrone Jones, to orchestrate what is described as a “wide-ranging fraudulent […]
