Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty If you miss the glory days of hip hop (depending on who you ask, lol) then you may be happy to know that Dipset is out here with a brand new album on the way! Check out these details! Via | HipHopDX ATLANTA, GA – The Diplomats shared the title for their upcoming reunion album during the A3C Festival in Atlanta over the weekend. In an Instagram clip, Jim Jones revealed the title of the project is Diplomatic Ties and announced a release date of November 22. “Before we go, we wanna say something,” Jones said to the crowd. “On Thanksgiving, there will be a Diplomats album dropping. It’s called Diplomatic Ties. ” READ MORE
Source: Candace Hight / Radio One Canton Jones was back at Praise in the Park 2018 and once again didn’t disappoint. His amazing energy got the crowd off their feet as they worshipped to an Hip-Hop sound born right here in Atlanta. Check out photos and video of his performance below. RELATED: Koryn Hawthorne Live Will Make You Wanna Go To Church [Exclusive Video] ____ RELATED: Jonathan McReynolds Is Proof Gospel Music Is In Good Hands [Exclusive Video] ___ [ione_media_gallery src=”https://mypraiseatl.com” id=”1670725″ overlay=”true”]
Marcus Kowal is living every parents’ worst nightmare. The MMA fighter and his partner have confirmed that their 15-month old son was killed on Saturday when the child and his young aunt were struck by a car while crossing the street. According to The Mercury News, Liam Mikeal Kowal and his 15-year old relative were hit by a vehicle while in a crosswalk. The tragic incident took place around 4:15 p.m. The driver, a woman named Donna Marie Higgins, fled the scene… but witnesses actually followed her SUV and surrounded it until authorities arrived, the newspaper reports. Per a press release issued by the Hawthorne Police Department, Liam’s teenage aunt suffered “from what appeared to be leg injuries,” while the infant was found “pulseless and not breathing.” Higgins, a 72-year old shoe mugshot is featured below, was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run and drunken driving. She booked into Hawthorne jail with a $100,000 bail. “I saw [Liam’s] stroller in two pieces,” Kowal told a local ABC affiliate. “And he had a little green frog that he’s had with him since day one … and he carries around wherever he is. He won’t sleep without his green frog, and it was lying in the middle of the street.” Later Saturday evening, Kowal and his partner, Mishel Eder, took to the former’s Facebook page with a heartbreaking update from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. “I want to thank everyone who has been there for us, in all forms and shapes,” it begins. “Thoughts, prayers, in person – whatever. We’ve received 100s and 100s of txt messages, emails, fb messages, etc – we are blown away. Your support means the world to us.” He then continued with the most horrific message any mother or father could ever write. About an hour ago, our baby was declared brain dead. He tried to fight so hard. He even died at one point but they brought him back. He’s a little fighter. His heart is still beating but his brain is no longer working. Our hearts are broken and there’s a void in my soul but we will get through this. Again, your support means the world and I wish we could respond to each and every one of you but right now, we are going work through this. Funeral arrangements will be posted here. RIP Liam Mikael Kowal. 5/25/2015-9/4/2016. Liam was taken off life support later that night. “I’m a fighter, I can take pain, I’ve taken pain my whole life and nothing hurts as much as this,” Kowal told ABC7. “I was proud to be a dad and I wanted to raise a good child.” We truly cannot imagine. Our heart goes out to Marcus Kowal and his family. Kowal told the station that he and Eder are donating Liam’s organs. “So his heart can live through another child,” the athlete said. “He loved to share, so I know he would have wanted to share his heart.” What beautiful words and what a beautiful gesture.
Will And Jada Pinkett-Smith Rumors To Have Hammered Out Divorce Deal Well, this feels like deja vu! Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are rumored to be divorcing — for real this stime. According to RadarOnline reports : It’s over! After 17 years, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are ending their rocky marriage – with a blockbuster secret divorce deal. “For Will and Jada, holding it together these past few years has been tough because their marriage has been on life support for a long time,” an insider told Radar. “They’re exhausted from trying to maintain the façade of a happy union,” the source continued. “They’ve decided to pull the plug in a carefully choreographed manner, [and] agree announcing their split at the end of the summer is the right move.” The A-listers have already “worked out a confidential settlement to protect their $240 million fortune, and prepare their kids [son Jaden, 17, and daughter Willow, 14] for the fallout,” said the insider. Hinting at their split earlier this year, the Bad Boys stud, 46, admitted that their marriage had “died” during an interview. Meanwhile, Pinkett Smith, 43, seemed to acknowledge Will’s notorious wandering eye, telling Howard Stern: “I’m not his watcher. He’s a grown man.” She later added that she’s fine with Will’s ways, “as long as Will can look himself in the mirror and be okay.” Rumors have persisted since 2013 that Smith romanced his Suicide Squad co-star Margot Robbie. He’s also been pictured without his wedding ring. Pinkett Smith also allegedly cheated in 2011 with HawthoRNe co-star Marc Anthony. “They tried to fix things with therapy, [but] it’s not happening,” explained the source. Said another source: “They’re already moving on with their lives. All that’s left is the inking of the divorce papers.” Well damn. That’s sad as fawk. If it’s true that is… Hit the flip for Jada’s take on the rumors. WENN
Jay Z and Budweiser close out Summer Festival Season with a (literal) splash… Budweiser’s Made In America Fest Closes Out Summer Festival Season Jay Z and Budweiser’s Made In America music festival has begun to serve as the unofficial end of summer, closing out festival season by bringing music fans from all over the nation to together for hip hop, rock, and electronic acts (paired with food trucks and carnival rides) on Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Parkway. The east coast iteration of the iconic music fest featured appearances from little-known, up-and-coming acts such as The OBGMs, culminating in appearances from industry heavy-hitters like Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, And Steve Aoki. Day One found festival goers grooving to the smooth sounds of Mayer Hawthorne and the classic Hip Hop of Big Daddy Kane: Then moving on to hits and social commentary from J. Cole : Before finally closing out with yet another iconic (and only lightly rant-laden) performance from Kanye West : *Drops Mic* Hit the flip for day 2’s wet & wild recap.
Philly and LA are about to turn up… Made In America Festival Line Up Announced Jay Z’s third annual installment of his Labor Day Weekend music festival is jam-packed with your faves (and some you may not have heard of) in not one, but TWO cities this year. Peep the lineup: Philadelphia Lineup: Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Tiesto, The National, Steve Aoki, Pharrell Williams, J. Cole, Girl Talk, Spoon, Chromeo, City and Colour, Grimes, AWOLNATION, R3HAB, Gareth Emery, De La Soul, Baauer, Tommy Trash, Mayer Hawthorne, Kongos, 3LAU, The Neighborhood, Danny Brown, YG, Holy Ghost, Penguin Prison, Destructo, Bleachers, DJ Cassidy, Cherub, Will Sparks, Young & Sick, Vacationer, Cut Snake, Kaneholler Los Angeles Lineup: Imagine Dragons, John Mayer, Steve Aoki, Juanes, Afrojack, Kendrick Lamar, Rise Against, Weezer, Sublime w/ Rome, Metric, Capital Cities, Chance the Rapper, Cypress Hill, Gareth Emery, R3HAB, Schoolboy Q, Wolfgang Gartner, Borgore, DVBBS, 12th Planet, YG, Mute Math, Rita Ora, Nipsey Hussle, Dr. Dog, Terraplane Sun, ZZ Ward, Classixx, Hit-Boy, DJ Mustard, Ab-Soul, Isaiah Rashad, Jay Rock, SZA, Yellowclaw, Grits & Biscuits, Will Sparks, Cut Snake, Scavenger Hunt, A Tribe Called Red Wait…no Outkast? Shockingly this is about the ONLY festival we haven’t heard of them performing at this year! Will you be grabbing tickets?
Tired of hearing DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince “Summer Time” and the same 27 “summer anthems” every year, at every at every cookout and ALL the day parties? Well, we compiled a list of slept-on warm weather gems for you to blast at ignorant levels with the windows down while swerving through beach-bound traffic. Here are the ten most slept-on summer jams. Take a look.
The United States of America turns 237 years old this July 4. That’s quite the milestone, and one for which we should all be grateful as we celebrate today. A few other notables also share birthdays with the US of A, including … Malia Obama, now 15. The eldest daughter of President Barack Obama, the first African-American to lead our country, she represents the American dream. So, too, does The Situation, a man solely famous for … who knows anymore. Jersey Shore is a thing of the past, which is probably for the best. You have to hand it to anyone who can turn big muscles, even bigger tolerance for alcohol and a uniquely absurd vocabulary into a career, though. Only in America. And celebrating a birthday July 4. Along with … Geraldo Rivera (1943-) Bill Withers (1938-) Al Davis (1929-2011) George Steinbrenner (1930-2010) Ann Landers (1918-2002) Abigail Van Buren (1919-2013) Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Quite an eclectic group, which is just how it should be. So put down that firework, raise your Budweiser and toast all of them – and the great country we all live, work and read celebrity gossip in – today. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
A trio of young Taco Bell patrons from Kentwood, Michigan – Kennidi Rue, Luke Postma and Grant Kruse – just earned some major karma points. And hopefully free Doritos Locos tacos for a month. Somehow finding approximately $3,600 in one of the fast food joint’s drive-thru to-go bags, they decided to return the cash to the restaurant. “I opened my bag to get my food and it ended up being three bags of money – a lot of money – and then another wad of like a ton of twenties,” Rue said. “We added it up. We were like, ‘What do we do with this now?'” “Of course, initially, you want to keep it , of course. But then you’re like, ‘What’s the right thing to do?’ We were saying we’d never feel guilty about bringing it back.” “It obviously wasn’t ours. So it’s not like we were losing anything in giving it back. So, we just thought we’d bring it back and just do it the right way.” According to the manager, this bizarre fast food find wasn’t the result of any shady money laundering or drug deal gone awry a la Breaking Bad . It was the result of an accidental act by a lone Michigan employee – who apparently wept when the cash was returned – and who followed protocol. Mostly. It is store policy for takeout bags to be where the franchise’s cash deposits are placed before they go to the bank, according to the restaurant. In this case, $3,600 went out the wrong door. Luckily, it ended up in the hands of these three.
WARNING : The following footage is graphic in nature. In a video posted June 30, we see cops in Hawthorne, California surround a home on a local street. We also see a man named Leon Rosby taking a cell phone video of the situation, eventually yelling something about a “civil rights violation” that catches the attention of the officers. Rosby puts his leashed dog in his car… walks up to the officers and places his hands behind his back, in anticipation of an arrest… only for the dog to escape through an open window, barking and showing aggression toward the officers. When it jumps in their face, the officers open fire, leaving the dog twitching on the ground. It’s very disturbing stuff: Police Kill Dog, Arrest Owner “It looks like the officer tried to reach down and grab the leash, and then the dog lunges in the direction of him and the other officers there,” Hawthorne police Lt. Scott Swain told The Daily Breeze of the incident. “And I know it’s the dog’s master, and more than likely not going to attack him, (but) we’ve got a guy handcuffed that’s kind of defenseless. We have a duty to defend him, too.” The canine, a Rottweiler named Max, was two years old.
