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What The Hell??? Ex-NFL Player Brian Holloway’s House Trashed By Partying Slizzard Teens

These kids had a “Project X” kind of night. Teenagers Trash Brian Holloway’s House In Wild Party According to The NY Daily News Former NFL offensive lineman Brian Holloway initially thought the Twitter photos showing young people partying at his family’s second home in upstate New York were a hoax. Then he saw pictures of teens standing on the dining room table he bought with his Super Bowl winnings. Holloway’s rural vacation home was trashed during a Labor Day weekend party attended by an estimated 200 to 400 teenagers. Holloway said the partiers caused at least $20,000 in damage, breaking windows and doors, punching holes in walls and spraying graffiti. He saw the whole thing unfold live on Twitter — and now he’s using the teens’ own posts to reveal their identities. Holloway, who played offensive tackle for the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders in the 1980s, said his 19-year-old son, a University of Southern Florida sophomore, alerted him to the party after receiving tweets about it the night of Aug. 31. No one is safe from a slizzard teenager. Holloway was at his home in Lutz, Fla., at the time and watched as more tweets about the party were posted, many of them accompanied by photos of young people drinking throughout his home in Stephentown, on the Massachusetts border 25 miles southeast of Albany. “We were getting eyewitness reports of what was happening while it was happening. We couldn’t believe what was going down,” Holloway told The Associated Press. Yvonne Keefe, spokeswoman for the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed Wednesday that a “very large investigation” into the party was underway. Police believe 200 to 400 young people were at the party, but investigators aren’t commenting on the role social media is playing in the probe, she said. No arrests have been reported. Holloway, a father of eight, said he used Twitter postings to compile 200 names of teens he said were at the party. He has been posting them on a website he created, http://www.helpmesave300.com , in an effort to get them to come forward, take responsibility for their actions and change their behavior. “Any kids where this makes sense to go to a party like this and be a part of that, this kid’s in trouble,” he said. Hit the flip for more wild party photos.

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Ice Cube’s ‘Straight Outta L.A.’ Documentary Premieres On ESPN

Rapper directed film about the 1980s Oakland Raiders and their influence on hip-hop culture in South-Central L.A. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Rahman Dukes Ice Cube Photo: Columbia When it comes to Ice Cube’s place in hip-hop history, he’ll be remembered for three distinct things: his scowl, his jerry curl and his black Los Angeles Raiders cap. Specifically, the legendary N.W.A. lyricist made the brooding football team’s logo — an eye-patched pirate adorned in silver and black with crossed swords in the background — a symbol in rap lore, long before Jay-Z did the same years later with the Yankees fitted hat. And in Cube’s documentary, “Straight Outta L.A.,” the veteran MC combines his two loves, rap and the Raiders, and delivers an insightful examination the tangled rise of two multimillion-dollar franchises, the Raiders and gangsta rap. “Nothing impacted my life more than the Raiders moving to L.A.,” Ice Cube told MTV News of the controversial relocation of the Oakland team in 1982. “Being in N.W.A. [at the time], we were trying to figure out what we were going to do to let people know we were a group. So we decided to wear [all] black. Then I started wearing the Raiders hats. Then, next thing you know, Eazy would show up in Raiders gear. It just became a thing.” In the production, premiering Tuesday night (May 11) on ESPN as part of their “30 for 30” film series, Cube weaves the story of the outlaw Raiders team, which won a championship with their tough style, and the poverty-stricken Southern California that spawned acts like N.W.A. The attitude players like Howie Long and Marcus Allen brought every Sunday helped power the swagger of a young Cube, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre. “That team represented the L.A. I knew,” Cube explained. “It wasn’t the ‘Showtime’ Lakers, where people saw the glitz and the glamour. It wasn’t the ’84 Olympics. It was a little more grimy, and the Raiders represented that, in South Central [where they played]. They had the whole city on lock. To me, [this project] is the true representation of music and sports.” Are you excited to watch the Ice Cube-directed “Straight Outta L.A.” documentary? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Ice Cube

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