Mister Cee, legendary hip-hop DJ, dies at 57. Why the hip-hop community is in deep mourning© Provided by NBC News

From the early days of Notorious B.I.G. to the rise of 50 Cent, legendary hip-hop DJ Mister Cee was a pivotal figure in the New York City rap scene and the careers of some of its greatest performers.

The revelation was reported Thursday with Morning Show radio host George Lindsey being told about the Nov. 10 find during repair work at the Lakewood Church, according to KPRC 2.

There was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile," a caller said. "We went to go remove the toilet ... I moved some insulation away, and about 500 envelop...

PHOENIX – If there was any concern that Nate Diaz‘s star power has waned in the 19 months since he’s stepped into a UFC cage, it likely vanished in a puff of marijuana smoke at Thursday’s UFC 263 pre-fight press conference.

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With a raucous crowd at Arizona Federal Theater, Diaz was every bit as in-demand as headliners Israel Adesanya and Marvin Vettori, or co-headliners Deiveson Figueiredo and Brandon Moreno – if not more.

Diaz (20-12 MMA, 15-10 UFC) meets top w...

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Kennedy Collins and Jocelyn Spencer

Four teenagers in Georgia have been arrested in connection with a murder investigation dating back to February.

According to jail records, Kennedy Collins, 17, and Jocelyn Spencer, 17, were both charged with felony murder and aggravated assault over the death of Faith Burns, 20, who was shot and killed near a home in Dacula, Ga. on Valentine’s Day.

Archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of nine Neanderthals in a cave near Rome, the Italian Cultural Ministry announced.

© Emanuele Antonio Minerva, AP An image released by the Italian Culture Ministry shows a cave near Rome where Neanderthal fossil findings were discovered. The ministry confirmed that the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo is “one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals.”
The oldest remains date from 90,000 to 100,000 ye...

Six dead in Texas murder-suicide after brothers make pact, leave chilling note, ‘Hey everyone. I killed myself and my family’

Two brothers made a suicide pact. But first, they fatally shot their sister, who was headed to college in the fall, their parents and their grandmother, according to police.

Six people were found dead inside an Allen, Texas, home Monday morning in what police have described as a mass murder-suicide.

Officers with the Allen Police Department performed a welfare check a...

Authorities are searching for five people who are accused of killing a mother of two who worked part time as a rideshare driver.

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Rossana Delgado, 37, was last seen at an Atlanta-area mall on April 16. She told her husband that she was dropping off a passenger and would be home soon. When Delgado did not return home that night, she was reported missing.

According to 11Alive.com, Delgado's husband traced his wife's last moves through...

It comes on the heels of Oregon’s blockbuster drug decriminalization bill, which just went into effect earlier this month and aims to replace incarceration with a $100 fine and addiction counseling. 

Multiples cities have also decri...

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Police in Georgia are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect who they say shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in front of his family.

© via Clayton County Police Brayan Zavala is seen in this undated photo released by the Clayton County Police in Georgia, Oct. 15, 2020.

Clayton County Police said Brayan Zavala was fixing a lawnmower with his father and brother in the family's front yard in Riverdale, Georgia, Thursday night when a masked person approached him.

The suspect was allegedly...

R&B lost three legends this weekend in Little Richard, Andre Harrell and Betty Wright

(L-R) Betty Wright, Little Richard and Andre Harrell

  It was a tough weekend for rhythm and blues with the deaths of three musical icons.

Singers Betty Wright and Little Richard along with music executive Andre Harrell died this weekend. All had major impacts on R&B and the music industry as a whole. If one wasn't moving the genre forward, another was introducing the world to new acts.

Betty Wright influenced a...

    

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‘Major’ drug supplier nabbed with 50 pounds of heroin and cocaine sentenced to 8 years behind bars

A Middlesex County man caught with heaping quantities of heroin and cocaine was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday, the state Attorney General’s office announced.

Jeffrey Groth, 38, of Dunellen, was pulled over by police in 2014 as par...

He killed teen, then posted a video singing about it, and now he’s going to prison for decades

A Franklin Township man who shot and killed an 18-year-old woman and then casually ordered a pizza and recorded a video of himself singing about his crime and posted it on social media was sentenced Thursday to 27 years in state prison.

Tamar Reaves, 20, pleaded guilty on April 2 to aggr...

He chased his wife down with an ax and killed her outside their home, and he just lost another appeal

A state appeals court denied Fernando Chireno post-conviction relief, or PCR, a type of appeal aimed at the trial court where his case was heard. Another appeals panel affirmed his murder and related co...

                          

A former Democratic National Committee chair on Thursday revealed the existence of a previously secret agreement that appeared to confirm some of Bernie Sanders supporters’ fears about the 2016 Democratic primary.

Donna Brazile, a longtime Clinton ally who stepped in as DNC chair last year in the wake of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation, published an excerpt of her upcoming book in Politico in which she disclosed the details of a fu...

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He kept looking around the room, glanced at his general manager in back of him, never saw his manager, and broke into this sly, almost mischievous grin.

The Houston Astros had won the World Series nearl...

© Segup Handout/EPA Adam Harris Harteau, Emily Faith Harteau and their two children were traveling through the Amazon river delta and went missing after they were assaulted by river pirates.

(SAO PAULO) — A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing since Sunday when pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive.

Except for insect bites and scratches, Adam and Emily Harteau and their 3- and 7-year-old daughters were in good condition a...

Common was one of the many Americans watching last night’s (Sept. 26) presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The Chicago rapper got to share his thoughts on the debate during an appearance on The View. 

“Donald Trump is just not prepared to be a president,” Common said. “He’s not that type of person that should be a president. And I thought from Hillary Clinton, I could see her experience. I was really like a virgin watching the debate cause I’d never watched...

French Montana called into Hot 97 to share some more details about Max B’s prison release. The “Lockjaw” rapper told Funkmaster Flex that Max B took a plea deal which reduced his prison sentence from 75 years to 20.

“He took a plea deal cause the numbers was crazy,” French explained. “They gave him that whole 75 years cause he blew trial. So when he took the plea deal, they knocked the years down from 75 to 20 and he already got almost 10 years in.”

French Montana also reiterated ...

After a brief break after the last episode, 50 Cent and Eminem's "Patiently Waiting,", Complex' nostalgia-inducing series continues spotlighting the third single from LL Cool J's debut album Radio. Watch as LL, Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons and everyone involved in making the song speak on its origins, creation, and impact.

Seems like Jay Z likes his new job.

The 45-year-old rapper could not stop smiling as he sat ringside 2015 Throne Boxing Fight Night in New York on Friday.

Just hours after signing super middleweight champ Andre Ward to his growing Roc Nation sports empire, the 99 Problems star was celebrating with his new recruit at his first ever boxing show as a promoter.

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A 21-year-old woman was shot and killed in East Orange Monday night, authorities said.

EAST ORANGE — A city woman was shot and killed while sitting in her car on North Maple Avenue last night, authorities said.

Tyeshia Obie, 21, was found suffering from a gun shot wound in the vehicle parked along the 200 block of North Maple Avenue at around 8:39 p.m., Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray and East Orange Police Chie...

Lauryn Hill may have kept us all waiting for a new album, but the venerated star has also been blessing stages around the world with intimate performances. This past the summer, the star performed a two-hour set at the Brooklyn Bowl, which was filmed and has since turned into a pay-per-view film, titled Live From the Brooklyn Bowl.

Now, fans can get a look at the film, which will be screened via on-demand and PPV services throughout this month. And in case you’re wondering, the setli...

.Trenton police are investigating a reported shooting Wednesday on Market Street near the Route 1 overpass.
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Randy Washington faces charges in two homicides and five armed robberies.

TRENTON — The Trenton man accused in two killings at least five armed robberies in a four-month span "was a terror and was spiraling out of control" before authorities arrested him in October, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Authorities are still trying to determine if Randy Karee...

Spies in the Skies

In an exclusive by The Wall Street Journal, we find that the U.S. Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes. These “dirtboxes”—as they are known to law-enforcement officials—mimic cellphone towers, tricking mobile phones into reporting their unique registration information. Our story looks at the technology in use, details the sophistication of the DOJ’s secret program and raises questions abo...

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Sick as this may sound, the super-slick HD depiction of a pseudo-ninja murdering American journalist James Foley is, not least, a recruiting video. In the warped world of new-generation jihadists—especially those coming out of Western cities—hacking off heads has become a status symbol.

That’s why an Australian lunatic among the ISIS forces posted a pic...

Rapper and reality TV star Joe Budden is being hunted by police after allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend outside of an Inwood nightclub—but he’s still a free man boasting on Twitter about lap dances and joyrides around the city.

The “Pump It Up” singer is accused of forcing the 25-year-old woman into his car near the corner of Nagle Avenue and Dyckman Street at around 4:30 a.m. Monday before before smashing her head off the dashboard and driving to his New Jersey home, where t...

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Rapper 50 Cent is making boxer Floyd Mayweather feel the burn after posting an intimate photo of "Hot in Here" rapper, Nelly with his ex-fiance Shantel Jackson on his Instagram page.

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The controversial rapper posted the photo of Nelly hugged up with Floyd's smiling ex captioning the photo, "Nelly put this up @floydmayweather DAMN da ni**a really took your lady Champ. It's @missjacksonbirthday. Smh"

In another post, the rapper continued to...

According to Dizaster, the reason he initiated the fight was due to Math repeatedly interrupting his verse and d...

Early this morning I awoke to my phone ringing off the hook. It was one of my well-connected sources informing me that rap mogul T.I. Harris and soon-to-be washed up boxer Floyd Mayweather were arguing over T.I.’s wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris. I noted all the details of the argument, th...

Floyd Mayweather’s next fight isn’t until September, but the undefeated boxer got an unexpected tune-up Sunday morning in Las Vegas.

Mayweather and rapper T.I. got into it at Fatburger on the Las Vegas Strip, according to TMZ, where chairs and fists were flying in the early-morning hou...

Ronald (Ra Diggs) Herron made threat on camera from hospital where pal was recovering from drug-related shooting by rival Victor Zapata, who was slain execution-style the next year, court papers say

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 Rapper  (Ra Diggs) in a 2011 YouTube video.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS revealed they have a video of a Brooklyn rapper vowing to murder a drug dealer in retaliation for a shooting over turf - a threat he made good on, the Daily News has l...

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More illnesses have been reported in relation to Chinese-made jerky treats.

As part of its ongoing investigation into a rash of pet illnesses and deaths associated with jerky treats, the Food and Drug Administration has announced an additional 1,800 cases reported since the last update in October, 2013.  Th...

According to my trusted court source, Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member Apollo Nida pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail, wire and bank fraud. Nida is heading back to prison.

Last month, a federal judge sentenced Nida’s female accomplice, Gayla St. Julien, to 5 years and 1 month in a federal prison.

Here is the press release announcing Apollo Nida’s guilty plea from the Justice.gov website:

Apollo E. Nida has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail, wire and ba...

ACting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray, shown here in a December 2013 file photo, announced three arrests and the seizeure of guns and drugs over the course of this week.

Essex County narcotics detectives arrested three people, and seized multiple firearms and stockpiles of heroin and marijuana this week, authorities said.

Two men are in jail awaiting arraignment – and a 16-year-old is in the Essex County Youth House awaiting an appearance in Family Court, said Thomas Fennelly...

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Contrary to popular thought, athletes can't sully great legacies by staying in the game too long and not knowing when to retire or stay retired.

They can damage their bodies and brains, perhaps, by not knowing when to quit but loving your craft so much you don't know when to stop is not a character flaw. Making excuses and vainly trying to diminish the accomplishments of your opponents, however, is a sure-fire way to tarnish even the shiniest legacy.

While we were busy wis...