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Amid the ongoing RICO case against Young Thug and his YSL affiliates, signee (and nephew) BSlime took to social media on Thursday to share a video in which he spoke with the Atlanta rapper over the phone. The clip includes a jail freestyle from Thugger, who rapped about seeking forgiveness from God as he sits behind bars on RICO […]
Drake took a moment on his upbeat new album Honestly, Nevermind to seemingly reference a serious and pressing matter: the ongoing incarceration of Young Thug. “Hey yo Eric, bring them girls to the stage, ’cause/Somebody’s getting paid and/Free Big Slime out the cage,” the 35-year-old opens his second verse on track six, “Sticky.” Assuming Drake’s […]
It seems more and more likely R. Kelly will spend his remaining years behind bars. According to a sentencing memorandum obtained by Law & Crime, federal prosecutors have recommended a 25-plus-year sentence for the disgraced R&B singer. The request was filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn on Wednesday, nearly eight months after Kelly, 55, was found guilty on all […]
Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The disgraced attorney received the sentencing in a Manhattan federal court Thursday, about three months after he was found guilty of one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Avenatti, who […]
Boosie Badazz hopped on social media this week to vent about the mass shooting that took place Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The Baton Rouge rapper took to Twitter on Thursday to share his solution to these all too frequent tragedies, which he believes could be prevented if SWAT teams were on location at every school. […]
Back in February, former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested and charged with attempted premeditated murder after he allegedly shot a man charged with molesting one of his relatives. Over the weekend, Khabib Nurmagomedov became the latest fighter to join the “Free Cain” movement, as he revealed to TMZ that he plans on visiting Velasquez in […]
Billy McFarland, the disgraced fraudster behind the disastrous Fyre Festival, is no longer behind bars. In 2018, the New York-born entrepreneur was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud. According to the Bureau of Prisons website, McFarland was released March 30 from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Michigan, and is now […]
Lil Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes Foundation is helping supply inmates in his home state with hand sanitizer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Durk’s organization teamed up with the Illinois Department of Corrections and the non-profit Chicago Votes to help supply the prisons with 29,000 bottles of hand sanitizer. “The pandemic has amplified issues that impact our incarcerated community members […]
R Kelly has befriended Frank James, the accused Brooklyn subway shooter, in jail, according to a new report from the New York Daily News. The disgraced R&B singer, who is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty in September of sex trafficking and federal racketeering, has reportedly hit it off with James at Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset […]
Authorities have upped their efforts to apprehend Gonzalo Lopez—a 46-year-old convicted killer who escaped from a prison bus earlier. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced there is now a $22,500 reward for a tip the leads Lopez’s arrest: “U.S. Marshals are offering a $10,000 reward and the TDCJ is offering a $5,000 reward and the […]
