HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty New details are currently emerging surrounding the tragic shooting death of “We Ready” rapper, Archie Eversole. According to a new report, Eversole was shot in the face while sleeping, with policing pinning the murder on his brother. TMZ obtained exclusive details about the shooting, writing that Eversole alerted police that he was shot was asleep but wasn’t aware that the shooter was his brother, later revealed to be Alexander Krause. From TMZ: Related Stories According to the police report … Archie told cops someone had kicked open his bedroom door and he was awakened by a gunshot to his face on March 25, but he couldn’t see who shot him. The docs say police then asked if the shooter was still in the home and he nodded his head yes...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Pooh Sheisty is taking an extended, involuntary vacation. After pleading to guilty to gun charge in lieu of going to trial, the Memphis rapper received a 63-month prison sentence. The kicker is that Pooh was looking at more than the 5 years he agreed to. Reports TMZ: Pooh, whose real name is Lontrell Williams, was facing more than 8 years in prison, if prosecutors got their way — but his attorney, Bradford Cohen, tells TMZ … the government’s calculations were off. Cohen says they asked for no more than 63 months, which is exactly what the judge gave him. Pooh was busted for an October 2020 shootout involving himself and several other men. The incident went down in a Miami-area condo parking lot … and it left 2 men injured. Repor...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lake Havasu Police Department / Lake Havasu PD It has been almost four years since the world lost the talents of Mac Miller way too soon. One of the reported drug dealers of the beloved Pittsburgh rapper has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to TMZ, the plug who provided the fentanyl-laced Oxycodone that eventually made it into Mac Miller’s possession got hit with a 10 years and 11 months sentence. Related Stories Ryan Reavis will be behind bars for 10 years and 11 months after pleading guilty in November to one count of distributing fentanyl. The sentence is longer than what Reavis himself had asked for — 5 years — but shorter than the 12.5 years prosecutors were gunning for. Remember … the feds say Reavis supplied the deadly oxycodone pill...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Atlanta rapper Cash Out, who emerged on the Hip-Hop scene over a decade ago and notched a pair of charting hits, was recently indicted on charges of sex trafficking and rape. According to a new report, Cash Out was arrested with four others who allegedly promised financial favor and standing within a company that was formed to promote the rapper’s brand. Local outlet CBS46 reports that Cash Out, real name John Michael Hakeem Gibson, is currently on the hook for multiple charges of rape, sex trafficking, and coercing women into prostitution per the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. Cash Out and his co-defendants established the Pyrez Music Group LLC under the guise that it would be a company used to promote the rapper’s brand and busi...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael Reaves / Getty Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. made the move to plead guilty in the court case where he was charged with forcibly touching a woman, avoiding jail time as a result, and leaving the victims disappointed with the judge’s ruling. According to reports, the Jerry McGuire actor pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 13th) to one count of forcible touching. Gooding Jr. had been accused of groping a woman’s breast at a nightclub in midtown Manhattan on June 9th, 2019. The victim was one of three women who would accuse the actor of forcible sexual touching, but the actor’s plea was for a different case where he kissed a woman against her consent in a nightclub in September 2018. Gooding Jr. would admit to committing that ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency and post-presidency stacking scandals on top of each other and self-absolving by shouting “fake news” at everything that breathes with hopes that repetition can change a lie into truth. He’s like the Kid Rock of Richard Nixons. He’s a whole clown and, according to a New York district attorney, he’s still the suspect of an ongoing criminal investigation. According to Raw Story, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a statement on Thursday to reassure people that his office hasn’t ended its investigation of the president who demonstrably tried to steal an election that was never stolen from him by claiming ad nauseam, and without a shred of evidence, that it was. (That’s not w...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency and post-presidency stacking scandals on top of each other and self-absolving by shouting “fake news” at everything that breathes with hopes that repetition can change a lie into truth. He’s like the Kid Rock of Richard Nixons. He’s a whole clown and, according to a New York district attorney, he’s still the suspect of an ongoing criminal investigation. According to Raw Story, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued a statement on Thursday to reassure people that his office hasn’t ended its investigation of the president who demonstrably tried to steal an election that was never stolen from him by claiming ad nauseam, and without a shred of evidence, that it was. (That’s not w...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NYPD / NYPD For a while now the crime rate for New York City subway stations have been steadily climbing with no end in sight and the violence that erupted earlier this week on a subway train is the latest example of how bad things have gotten. The New York Post is reporting that on Wednesday (April 6) a 48-year-old man was riding a northbound B train around 4:20 p.m. when he crossed paths with a group of rowdy teenagers believed to be between the ages of 16 and 17. As the train moved abruptly as trains are known to do, one of the teens accidentally stepped on the man’s shoes and sparked an argument between the two on the spot. Unfortunately for the 48-year-old, these kids were about that life. Related Stories “The group of suspects then punched the rider...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office / Atlanta PD On March 17, LaKevia Jackson, who happened to be the mother of one of rapper Young Thug’s sons, was killed after a dispute in a bowling alley. A man with a lengthy rap sheet, Joshua Fleetwood, has been arrested in connection with the murder. On Thursday (March 31), the Atlanta PD announced that Fleetwood has been arrested and charged felony murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to TMZ. The circumstances about the shooting and her subsequent death are disturbing. Reportedly, Jackson and the killer got into a dispute in a bowling alley over a bowling ball at the Metro Fun Center on a Thursday night. She was there celebrati...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Facebook / facebook If y’all don’t already know by now them internet streets is a wild place to get caught with your pants down and a hopeless romantic in New York City found that out the hard way thanks to a “love connection” he made via Instagram. According to The New York Post, a 24-year-old man was jumped and tortured after making his way to a Marble Hill Ave apartment in the Bronx at 1 a.m. where he thought he was going to meet a woman he’d been chatting up online. Turns out that 22-year-old Valerie Rosario was a part of a group of sadists and after the man arrived at the apartment, three other men barged in and began pistol whipping him, and that was only the beginning. “Rosario and the accomplices then allegedly stripped the victim, “placed him in ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pool / Getty Actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to five months in jail for the crime of faking a hate crime. Last year, the former Empire star was convicted of filing a false police report. Smollet infamously claimed that he was a victim of a racist and homophobic attack in 2019. However, soon after his claims, and with digging from investigators, his story started getting shaky. Ultimately, a pair of brothers claimed Smollett orchestrated the whole thing, and although he still maintains his innocence, a jury agreed with prosecutors that it was all a hoax. On Thursday (March 10), a Chicago judge sentence Smollett to 150 months in jail. Judge James B. Linn read Smollett the riot act. “There are people that are actual, genuine victims of hate crimes that y...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty R&B singer Trey Songz has just been hit with a $20 million lawsuit alleging that he committed sexual assault, filed against him by a woman who claims that he became a “savage rapist”. According to reports, the allegation against the “Slow Motion” artist was made by a woman referred to as Jane Doe, who claimed that he anally raped her at a house party in Los Angeles, California. The incident allegedly took place at the party which was held on March 24, 2016. The victim states in the filing that she and Trey Songz did have a consensual sexual relationship prior to the incident and that he had invited her upstairs for what she believed would be consensual relations. It was on the way upstairs that she claimed that he repeatedly asked...