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Rising rapper Calboy is sharing the official video for “Caroline” featuring his fellow Chi-Town MC Polo G. The J.R. Saint-directed visual, premiering today on Complex, arrives just days before Calboy takes the stage at Rolling Loud Miami and weeks before he’s expected to drop the follow-up to 2018’s CalBoy the Wildboy. “I can only speak on the daily […]
In 2017, Austin Jones, a popular singer on YouTube, was arrested on child pornography charges. He was accused of convincing underage girls as young as 14 to send sexually explicit videos of themselves, under the false pretense that he would help them get famous. As he faced a maximum of 20 years in prison, Jones pled guilty in […]
Top Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx has been hit with a subpoena over her handling of the Jussie Smollett case. According to The Chicago Sun-Times, that subpoena was issued by a retired appellate judge, Sheila O’Brien, who is looking to get a special prosecutor appointed to investigate Foxx’s handling of the matter. In addition to Foxx, […]
Jussie Smollett‘s older brother is sticking by the Empire actor’s story, saying that his treatment by the media and police has been unjust. In a new op-ed for BET, JoJo Smollett questioned the sudden belief in the official line of a police department that has been guilty of misconduct in the past. “It has not […]
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx expressed frustration over what she believed were excessive charges against Jussie Smollett. But it seems she was also convinced that 36-year-old actor was guilty of lying to police. On Monday, Foxx’s office released internal text messages and emails pertaining to the Smollett case, in which he was accused of orchestrated his […]
One of the two brothers who allegedly helped Empire actor Jussie Smollett stage an assault, won Chicago’s foremost amateur boxing competition on Friday. Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo—who police claim took a payment from Smollett along with his brother for a falsified assault that was made to look like a hate crime—won his Chicago Golden Gloves championship […]
Famous Dex is done with lean and recreational Xanax use. In an Instagram clip shared Thursday, Dex revealed he had decided to step away from the two substances, crediting his belief in a higher power and his family as inspiration. “I just wanna thank God,” Dex told fans in the clip. “I don’t do xans, the […]
Chance The Rapper has been pretty busy lately. In addition to his continual community activism, he has also gotten married and is expecting a new addition to his growing family. Yet, despite wearing many hats, it appears the Chicago native has jumped back into the studio putting all his focus into finishing his debut album. On […]
UPDATED 7:12 p.m. ET: The City of Chicago is planning on suing Jussie Smollett after the actor refused to pay for the investigation of the Jan. 29 hate crime he reported, TMZ reports. “Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, […]
Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who dropped the disorderly conduct charges against Jussie Smollett, explained the circumstances that allowed for the case’s dismissal in an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune. The Cook County state’s attorney defended her office’s decision to drop the 16 felony counts, noting that she welcomes an outside investigation into the matter, should it lack political motivation. Smollett […]
