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Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Kidnapper Is Sentenced to 24 Years
Engelmayer called Ellison “cruel and vicious” for “slicing open a man’s face” even though the man was not involved in a shooting Ellison was trying to avenge. Prosecutors said in a written court submission that the attack left the man with a scar from his ear to his chin, an injury so gruesome that Ellison’s lawyers succeeded in getting some of the images kept from jurors. Prosecutors said Ellison was a leader of a violent faction of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. “I’m not an angel but I’m not a monster,” Ellison told the judge. “I do have faults. I am human.” After his own arrest, Tekashi 6ix9ine — whose legal name is Daniel Hernandez — pleaded guilty and became a cooperator. At Ellison’s trial last year, the rapper testified about his involvement with the gang. He described the kidnapping...
LeVar Burton Rips Keith Olbermann’s Weird Kunta Kinte Trump Tweet
Source: The Washington Post / Getty As far as political commentators go, Keith Olbermann may no longer be a go-to pundit for some but that hasn’t kept him from becoming a vocal critic of President Donald Trump. In one of his Twitter missives, the former ESPN and MSNBC host made a weird tweet referencing LeVar Burton‘s iconic Kunta Kinte character from the Roots miniseries, and the actor made sure to school Olbermann on his mishap. In a now-deleted tweet that got some burn before its disappearance, Olbermann wrote the following in connection to a Fox News segment focused on President Trump. “Yes, @realDonaldTrump has always been, will always be, and on the day of his bid for re-election, still is: a whiny little Kunta Kinte,” Olbermann wrote on Election Day. The tweet got a measurable amoun...
Real Cosplay Sh*t: Megan Thee Stallion Teams Up ‘Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate’ To Celebrate Mileena’s Return
Source: Megan Thee Stallion / Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate If you didn’t know, Mileena is back, and WB Games and NetherRealm Studios teamed up with Megan Thee Stallion to celebrate the occasion. Megan Thee Stallion’s love for all things nerdy is no secret, so it should come as no surprise that she was down for this idea. The leader of the Hot Girls and anime fan dropped a video on her Instagram account, and in it, she is getting her cosplay on, dressed up as the deadly half Tarkatan blood and Edenian clone of Princess Kitana. While cheeked out, Megan is rocking Mileena’s drip and while holding her signature deadly twin sais. Megan even has the Mileena’s frightening Tarkatan grill. Mileena was announced alongside other Kombat Pack 2 DLC characters Rain and Rambo back in October. They...
Denise Bidot Denies Dumping Lil Wayne Because He Caped For Donald Trump
Source: Gonzalo Marroquin / Getty Lil Wayne’s alleged ex-girlfriend, Denise Bidot, has broken her silence regarding her relationship status. The internet slowly sipped their drinks after it was reported that curvacious baddie, Denise Bidot, dumped Lil Wayne after he showed support for Donald Trump and his bootleg “platinum plan.” Now Bidot has broken her silence on the matter and is claiming that was not the case. Initially, a “source” reportedly close to the situation claimed, “She broke up with Wayne. It wasn’t just his Trump support, but that was a big part,” and “was shocked when she saw Wayne come out with Trump. She’s so disappointed in him.” Bidot responded to a tweet on Twitter and flat out denied Weezy’s caping for Trump ended their months-long relationship stating, “I did not. Th...
Whew Chile The Shade: John Legend Calls Out Sunken Rappers Who Openly Supported Trump
Source: Jeff Kravitz/MTV1415 / Getty John Legend has never been shy about his disapproval of current sitting President, Donald Trump, but recently he had some choice words for rappers who were trying to help Trump sway the vote. On Monday (Nov 2), while appearing at a campaign event for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, John Legend let all the Trump-supporting rappers know exactly how he felt about their endorsement. After performing “Glory” with Common at the event, the soul singer delivered a powerful speech denouncing Donald Trump’s “Platinum Plan” for Black Americans and its celebrity backers, including Ice Cube, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, and Lil Pump. “Now, some people see the meanness, the bullying, the selfishness of Donald Trump and they mistake it for strength, a kind of twis...
Lady Gaga Sends A Hug, Cardi B Is Stressed, And More Celeb Reactions To The 2020 Election
LDR spent Election Night at Denny’s, enjoying a nice, socially distanced spread in a tent, tracking live updates via smartphone. Oh, and she slipped in some pertinent information for fans, namely that her forthcoming “folky” album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, is delayed due to vinyl processing backups. But in the meantime, Lana’s got you covered. “In the meantime, I’m gonna give you a digital record of American standards and classics for Christmas,” she said, holding a Denny’s coffee mug, “because I can’t get the record plants to open ’til March 5.” (She also clapped back at a fan who claimed she voted for Trump with a simple message: “Go. Fuxk. Yourself.“) You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are ...
Youth Voters Made Their Voices Heard Amidst Record Turnout
Despite an especially polarized, bitter election season — with reports of voter suppression and misplaced ballots; the ongoing circulation of misinformation, including a misleading, preemptive declaration of victory by President Donald Trump; all cast in the long shadow of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — one shining success shines cuts through the muck. An astounding number of people turned out to cast their ballots and make their voices heard, including a significant number of millennial and Gen Z voters. Though ballots are still being counted in key battleground states, like Pennsylvania and Michigan, to determine the outcome of a close race, voter turnout in 2020 has already exceeded that of the 2016 election. A projection by NBC News on Wednesday morning (November 4) showed that at ...
A View From The Inside – REB BEACH
RATING: 7.5/10 Nearly 20 years on from his last solo record, Reb Beach is going to delight fans of his more extravagant, shred-friendly work with this long-awaited instrumental splurge. Best known as a member of WINGER and WHITESNAKE, the Pennsylvanian clearly enjoys throwing off the shackles of straightforward hard rock and letting his imagination run riot. And while “A View From The Inside” is not radical in any meaningful way, it does demonstrate the astonishing breadth of the guitarist’s abilities, not to mention his eclectic taste. Opener “Black Magic” is a no-nonsense prog metal instrumental, with our hero ripping his way through several unfathomably technical solos. But as with obvious contemporaries like Marty Friedman and Joe Satriani, Beach can’...
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE: ‘I’m Always Striving To Be The Truest Version, Most Honest Version Of Myself That I Can Be’
EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee spoke to Holland’s FaceCulture about the inspiration for the title of the band’s upcoming album, “The Bitter Truth”. “It’s about a lot of things, not just political,” she said (see video below). “That title, ‘The Bitter Truth’, what it really means is that who you are — bruises, scars, everything included — the real truth of who you are is better, is more important… We have to face who we are and the world that we live in as it is. It doesn’t help anything to pretend about who you are or about the world around you. Nothing is, first of all, ever gonna improve if we deny the truth. We’re never gonna save our planet by ignoring its needs; we’re never gonna be able to improve as people if ...
JEFF SCOTT SOTO On EDDIE VAN HALEN’s Death: ‘We All Felt That Loss Like We Lost A Little Bit Of Ourselves’
Jeff Scott Soto has reflected on the passing of Eddie Van Halen, saying that we all “lost a little bit of ourselves” when the VAN HALEN axeman died. The former JOURNEY and Yngwie Malmsteen singer discussed his appreciation for the groundbreaking musician in a brand new interview with MisplacedStraws.com. He said: “I can’t even put into words what Eddie meant to me as much as what he meant to the world — my peers, my colleagues, fans of mine. In general, he left more than just a game-changing legacy to all of us. “It’s weird, because when someone like that, when somebody that important to us personally, whether it’s somebody that everybody knows or agrees with or feels for, when somebody like that that’s so personal to you passes, there are a ...
L.A. GUNS Feat. PHIL LEWIS And TRACII GUNS To Perform Entire ‘Cocked & Loaded’ Album At Las Vegas Concert
L.A. GUNS, featuring singer Phil Lewis and guitarist Tracii Guns, will perform its second album, 1989’s “Cocked & Loaded”, in its entirety on November 28 at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets for the pay-per-view livestream go on sale on Friday, November 6 at 10:00 a.m. PST from laguns.veeps.com. This past May, L.A. GUNS released a new single, “Let You Down”. The song was written and recorded while the band was in the midst of working on its next studio album. L.A. GUNS‘ next LP is tentatively due in early 2021 via Frontiers Music Srl. This will be the third studio album since the much welcome reunion of the band’s core foundation of Lewis and Guns. It will follow the well received studio albums “The Missing Peace̶...
The 5 Best Covers of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”
Very few were originally sold on The Man Who Sold the World, whether talking about David Bowie’s now-admired third album or the title track nestled near the back of that same recording. After a debut album of boyish, quirky pop juvenilia and a follow-up known mostly for the novelty of the future Starman’s first foray into outer space (“Space Oddity”), The Man Who Sold the World saw the English songwriter shift towards a harder brand of rock alongside producer Tony Visconti and future Spiders from Mars guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey. Still, the departure gained Bowie little notice, and the title song itself did little to stand out at the time on the single-less album. It wouldn’t be until Bowie’s success two records later as Ziggy Stardust that critics and fans alike bega...
