The Bronx
Jewman Gone: South Bronx Shop That Helped Shape Hip-Hop Style Closes After 60-Year Run
Another piece of Hip-Hop’s foundation is fading into history, this time from the retail side of the culture.
Kathy Hochul Apologizes For Remarks on Black Bronx Kids
New York Governor Kathy Hochul came under fire for her comments about Black children from the Bronx during a panel discussion on Monday. She would apologize for her comments later that evening.
A Bronx Judge Dismisses 67 Convictions
Franco himself stood trial for perjury and misconduct earlier this year as prosecutors accused him of lying about about drug sales he claimed to have witnessed on both police paperwork and in court.
Diddy Pays Surprise Visit To Bronx Charter School He Co-Counded
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Coppola / Getty While Diddy has been on a serious promotional run he made sure also to lend his celebrity for good. He paid a surprise visit to his old charter school in the Bronx. As per The Bronx Times, the Bad Boy Entertainment mogul is back in New York City. On Wednesday, Oct. 19 Diddy stopped by Capital Preparatory Bronx Charter School in the Co-Op City section of the borough. He stopped in unannounced and took the entire student body by surprise while they attended a mandatory meeting in their auditorium. As expected, the kids were excited to see Diddy at their school and greeted him with screams and much applause. “I know that that’s a cure for what’s going on in our community — is education,” Combs said during the impromptu presentation....
Demon Time: Robbery Couple Puts Dollar Store Employee In Chokehold During The Jux
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty New York has survived the heat wave but it is still hot outside. A couple put a dollar store employee in a chokehold during a robbery in The Bronx. As per The New York Post a worker was roughed up after a failed heist last week. On Sunday, August 21 two unidentified would be shoppers entered the Family Dollar store on Webster Avenue near East 168th Street in the Morrisania section. They racked up about $400 dollars worth of merchandise. A 23-year-old employee was watching the caper the entire time through the shop’s security camera. “They had cleaning stuff, tissues, everything. They had everything from inside the store,” she said. When she confronted the thieves things got physical and the female culprit struck the worker and eve...
Food: Off-Duty Cop Robbed In The Bronx, Liberated Of His Police ID & Firearm
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News / Getty Crime in New York City is getting so out of control these days that even police are looking like food out here to the wolves. The New York Post is reporting that yesterday (July 27) an off-duty police officer was held up at gunpoint and robbed of his police ID and his gun in the Bronx (of course). The jux went down around 12:30 a.m. at Garrison Avenue and Barretto Street in Hunts Point after the 23-year-old police officer parked his car and as he was taking a few items out of his trunk, a masked gunman approached him and told him to grab some sky. The crook was holding a black firearm and said “hands up,” police sources said. The robber then asked, “Are you a cop?” The thief took his wallet from his left front pants pocket and ...
Drill Rapper Dougie B Arrested After Shots Fired By Bronx Courthouse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: DON EMMERT / Getty Drill rapper Dougie B is now in custody due to being arrested after an altercation that led to gunshots being fired across from the Bronx courthouse he was scheduled to appear at. On Thursday afternoon (March 31st), the arrest of the drill rapper took place on East 161st Street, only steps away from the Bronx County Hall of Justice. According to reports, court officers had rushed over after hearing gunshots. Four people were detained and led away in handcuffs, including the “Kill Em With Kindness” rapper. “Y’all keep doing this to me, bro,” Dougie B exclaimed as he sat down in the street in handcuffs, surrounded by a dozen officers next to a gray automobile parked in the street with its doors open. Onlookers told reporters that the alte...
Bronx Judge Roasts NYPD Cops In Court For “Illegally” Searching & Arresting Drill Rapper C Blu
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @cblu_180 / Instagram This past January, New York Drill rapper C Blu got into a scuffle with police that ended up with a cop being shot and Blu getting fitted for iron bracelets. While on the surface it seems like an open and shut case of assaulting an officer, a Bronx judge has a problem with how things unfolded and slammed a New York City police officer for offering a half-assed explanation of why Camrin “C Blu” Williams was even singled out to be searched. According to the New York Daily News, Bronx Judge Naita Semaj acknowledged that while the 16-year-old was in possession of a gun, Bronx Officer Taulant Gjonbalaj and his colleagues had no reason to have approached Williams and offered “incredible and unreliable” testimony that “had no value” pertaini...
