juvenile
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Juvenile’s 400 Degreez Is Turning 20. You Thought It Wasn’t Gon’ Change the Game, Ha? You Were Wrong, Ha
There are a few songs that I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them. Juvenile’s “Ha” is one of them. I remember sitting on the futon in my house in what must have been early October 1998 (because of when the single was released) watching Rap City, while on a…
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Prosecutors Say Story of White Man Peeing on 5-Year-Old Black Girl Was Fabricated
Many of us were horrified (and beyond furious) when we heard news of a white man urinating on a black girl child and calling her a racial slur in an alley in Western Michigan. Yet prosecutors in the case are now saying the children involved in the incident made the story up. The AP reports…
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White Man Accused of Urinating on 5-Year-Old Black Girl, Calling Her N-Word, Innocent of Allegations: Prosecutors [Updated]
Police took a Michigan man into custody on Wednesday evening after the parents of a five-year-old a girl accused the man of urinating on their daughter. According to the Associated Press, two 7-year-old children and a 5-year-old were in an alley near their home in Grand Rapids, Mich., when a man allegedly urinated on the…
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Not All Cops: Unarmed Black Teen Not Shot and Killed by Police
Police unions, objective observers and whatever they call white people (I’m using “‘MAGA’ Yeezys” this week) often accuse the media of casting law enforcement officers in a negative light simply because some news outlets believe the public should know about police brutality and the disproportionate killing of black people. But The Root would like to…
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Sweet Baby Beysus! Beyoncé Went and Bought Another Church
There are far too many to count, those who worship at the altar of Ms. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. But given that, it’s only fitting that this generation’s, er, Michael Jackson would just go ahead and get herself a church. So, yeah, that’s what she did. TMZ reports that Beyoncé recently purchased a 7,500-square-foot, 100-year-old…
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Rapper Juvenile Jailed for $150,000 in Back Child Support
One of the original Hot Boyz is in hot water over back child support. New Orleans rapper Juvenile (government name: Terius Gray) has been jailed after a judge found that he owes $150,000 in child support payments, according to the New Orleans Advocate. The 40-year-old rapper was taken to jail moments after he ended a…
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Judge Declines to Try 16-Year-Old in Fatal High School Bathroom Fight as an Adult
A Delaware judge has declined to try a 16-year-old girl as an adult in a high school bathroom fight that left another 16-year-old dead, CBS News reports. In the announcement Friday, the judge said the defendant will be tried in Delaware Family Court on the charges of criminally negligent homicide and conspiracy. The juvenile defendant…
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10 Rap Songs That Would Be As Big (Or Bigger) Today As When They Came Out
Last weekend, I found myself in an actual (and serious) conversation about the merits of No Limit Records. I’m a southerner so I have a vast appreciation for the house that Master P built in terms of what it did for budding entreprenuers on a national scale (and by national I mean east coasters, southern and…