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50 Cent Wins Big at Wine Event Based in Texas

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50 Cent has been making his moves all around Houston, Texas. Since being a city resident since 2021, it’s clear the “In Da Club” rapper wants to make a positive impact in Houston. The Queens businessman has his hands in the community, from being the Grand Marshall in last year’s Thanksgiving Day parade and hosting parties to sitting courtside at Houston Rockets’ games. He recently attended the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo International Wine competition, where he made a massive purchase.

The International Wine competition is an annual event in which over 3,000 entrants from over 18 countries compete. The three-week livestock and radio show is the world’s largest rodeo and cattle auction. The 2023 Reserve Grand Champion’s best of the show was the Bernhardt Winery Antiquity Chardonnay Reserve, with a price of $165,000. 50 Cent and his company, Sire Spirits, won the wine at the auction. Not only did his company win big at the event, but 50 also won.

His French wine brand, Le Chemin du Roi Brut Champagne AOC, won the Grand Champion Best of Show Award for International Wine. A real estate company based outside of Houston, J, Alan Kent Development, won the bottle at the auction for a record price of $325,000! The Get Rich Or Die Tryin rapper is no stranger to winning at this event, as he received an award in his third year in a row.

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DJ Hawk Taps Trae Tha Truth & OMB Bloodbath for New Song “Sunny Daze” With NFT

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It ain’t nothin’ but a Houston thang. 

Houston superstars Trae Tha Truth and OMB Bloodbath link up with buzzing radio personality DJ Hawk for a new frontiered release, titled “Sunny Daze.” Produced by Apexx and Hawk-himself, the track blends Trae’s deep-toned street raps with Bloodbath’s catchy signature vocals about cruising in the sunshine.

MORE: Trae Tha Truth to Receive Honor at 2021 Billboard Music Awards

A game-changer, different from normal releases, Hawk smarten up his campaign with the addition of NFT, several redeemable editions of the song out now. 

“NFTs are a new way for independent artists to take control and make money off of their art,” Hawk said on accompanying the NFT with the new song. “It’s harder, especially during times like these, to make money as an artist since tours/shows are getting canceled and we’re only getting fractions of pennies per stream.  So I decided to partner with Moxie Labs, a tech company based out of Philly, and create this way for my fans to connect directly with me by owning a piece of my art with the end goal of us ALL making money.” 

MORE: Trae Tha Truth Accepts Change Maker Award at Billboard Music Awards

In Texas, DJ Hawk, born Alexander Haq, rose through the status quo as a radio-club DJ, connecting and networking with the region’s up-and-coming-turned-superstars artists and breaking new sounds to an organically driven trendsetting market. Hawk is the current show producer for The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Da God and Angela Yee at Houston’s 93.7 The Beat. 

“I’ve learned everything from the old school to new school gear,” says Hawk. “I prefer to use Pro Tools. But, in the end, all I want is to make great music that makes people feel good.  So, if I can turn it on and my fiancé or sister, the ladies, like it and catch a vibe, then that’s a good thing.”

“Sunny Daze” is the latest drop ahead of the upcoming album following the previous Pzee Fire and Stoppa-featured track “Escape” released last year. 

Trae Tha Truth appears on the track courtesy of ABN/EMPIRE and OMB Bloodbath appears courtesy of Interscope Records. 

Stream “Sunny Daze” below and purchase the NFT here.

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‘Jag Booty’ Woman Arrested for Butt-Injection Murder in Texas

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According to a report from The New York Post, a woman known as “Jag Booty” was arrested in Texas last week for illegally administering a butt-injection procedure that led to a woman’s death.

Pamela Burnley, 55, was arrested for giving Latora King a series of black-market injections, which later led to her death.

King met Burnley in a Dallas parking lot to pay and have the procedure done. Within days, King sent Burnley pictures of her “grotesquely misshapen buttocks,” which eventually led her to go to the emergency room. King died not long after being admitted.

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Inmate has $30K Iced Out Grill Delivered To Prison

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As social media has become the advent of breaking news everywhere, even from the insides of the prisons in the United States’ criminal justice system, a Texas-based jeweler took to Twitter about a client that ordered a diamond-encrusted grill and had his order delivered to prison.

Sam The Jeweler said, “About a month ago, I get a FaceTime from a client saying he needs a flawless set but he was in prison. Pulled a couple strings and here is the first 30k flawless grill delivered to prison.”

Social media has become a hotbed for prison contraband videos, but this one is definitely the coldest ever.

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[WATCH] Man Punched In The Face For Playing YG’s “F**k Donald Trump” Outside Texas Store

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A TMZ report confirmed that a man who musically expressed his dislike for President Trump was punched in the face outside of a Texas convenience store over the weekend for playing YG’s “FDT(Fuck Donald Trump)” in the presence of a few Trump supporters.

Trump’s supporters are showing staunch loyalty to the President despite his testing positive for Covid-19, which has set off a firestorm on the internet and in politics.

In regards to the incident, Jason Lata was arrested for assault causing bodily injury and his bail was set at $15,000.

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Vanilla Ice to Perform in Texas Despite COVID-19 Concerns

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Would you risk contract COVID-19 in order to see a rapper live in concert? What if the said rapper was Vanilla Ice? That’s exactly what some in Austin, Texas may be doing.

Vanilla Ice will appear at Emerald Point Bar & Grill on July 3. But, all bars are closed in the state due to an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott right? Well, yes. Vanilla Ice found a loophole in that as pointed out by The Austin Chronicle. The venue is listed as a restaurant, which will allow the show to continue at a capacity of 50 percent. Even at half of a crowd, 2,500 people can come in.

“We didn’t have coronavirus, or cell phones, or computers,” Ice said on Instagram. “We had 5.0’s, Blockbuster, Beavis and Butt-Head, Wayne’s World, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan.”

Weird flex, Ice.

You can see his post teasing the event below. And before you pull up, Texas is currently putting up record numbers in new COVID-19 cases.

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Texas Man Recovers From Coronavirus After Spending Almost a Month in Medically Induced Coma

Christopher Marshall is lucky to be alive right now. The Texas native was in intensive care for three weeks before recovering from the coronavirus.

Marshall, 37, tested positive in March but dismissed the symptoms he exhibited as allergies. The symptoms got worse and he developed pneumonia in his lungs. His wife convinced him to go to the hospital where he was intubated and placed in a medically induced coma due to lack of oxygen.

When he learned he had to be put in a coma, he was nervous just like any person would be. “On the outside, I was calm, but, on the inside, I was very fearful because I’ve never been put to sleep like that before,” Marshall recalled.

Marshall’s condition became grave after he was given which didn’t work well with his pre-existing diabetes. He was airlifted to Texas where he received aggressive treatment consisting of oxygenating his blood from outside his body with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, life support machine. He was also given fentanyl.

Christopher Marshall woke up on the day of his birthday on March 31st. Bless him.

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Texas Planning to Indict Iyanna Mayweather in Stabbing Case

According to several news reports, the state of Texas will be moving forward in prosecuting the daughter of boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. after she stabbed a woman earlier this month.

The Harris County Prosecutor’s Office subpoenaed the medical records of the victim, Lapattra Jacobs, who is also the mother of the child of Baton Rouge millennial rapper NBA Youngboy, in Mayweather’s case. Also, Harris County’s Assistant District Attorney Kenisha Day was granted an order by the Houston hospital where Jacobs got treatment at to give up medical charts, lab results, x-rays, photographs, and more information to be used as evidence against Iyanna Mayweather.

Originally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, if convicted, the 19-year-old faces up to 99 years in prison.

Iyanna has hired J. Prince’s lawyer Kurt Schaffer to represent her in the felony case. Schaffer helped the Rap-A-Lot head honcho to beat aggravated assault charges in 2007 after Prince was accused of allegedly getting a local studio owner jumped.

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Tuskegee Experiment 2020: Texas Doctor Used Hydroxychloroquine On Elderly COVID-19 Patients Without Consent

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The Tuskegee Experiment of 1932 that subjected Black patients to the disease syphilis under the guise of public health and observation was a 40-year ordeal that remains a stain on America’s past. A Texas doctor applied a similar tactic on a much smaller scale after he used his deep GOP connections to secure hydroxychloroquine, and gave the medicine to elderly COVID-19 patients, sometimes without their consent.

NPR shared in a new report the harrowing details of the actions taken by Dr. Robin Armstrong, who is the medical director and physician at The Resort at Texas City. Armstrong is proudly touting what he calls a positive response to hydroxychloroquine treatments that he gave to a handful of patients although controversy surrounds the drug used to largely treat malaria, but is also used for patients suffering from lupus and arthritis.

The drug has been praised in some respects by the likes of President Donald Trump although the medical community is shunning its application due to serious side effects that include headache, vomiting, stomach cramps, mood swings, heart failure of which can sometimes be fatal.

The drug has not been approved by the FDA and is currently under a clinical study round to determine its best use but the growing coronavirus pandemic has leaders and health officials scrambling for answers. As NPR notes, Armstrong, who ran out of the medicine, used his ties to the GOP to secure more hydroxychloroquine but amazingly admitted in the piece that he hasn’t always been forthcoming about using the drug on his patients.

NPR spoke with Dr. Katherine Seley-Radtke, a medicinal chemist at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She shared with the outlet that while the drug certainly has proven positive in treating some conditions, enough isn’t known to give to the wider public.

“I just find it amazing that everybody, including the President, thinks that this is just no big deal to go ahead and take this,” Seley-Radtke said.

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Jhene Aiko and Megan Thee Stallion Prove Women Run It With New Albums

Jhene Aiko and Meghan Thee Stallion dropped albums today setting the tone for a woman’s empowerment weekend.

Amid all the drama between the Houstonian’s label 1501 Certified Entertainment, Megan Thee Stallion was still able to drop an album.

Her debut album Suga is a nine-track project that includes her single “B.I.T.C.H.”. The single has an Eif Rivera-directed video. It also includes collaborations with Kehlani and Gunna.

Megan Thee Stallion claimed that her label was preventing her from releasing new music. After filing a lawsuit she was granted a temporary restraining order which allows her to release new music.

Thank the heavens the judge understand the turn-up!

On the R&B tip, Jhene Aiko dropped her third album Chilombo and Twitter went bananas!

She incorporated the vibrational hum of crystal alchemy singing bowls into every track.

Tracks like Pu$$y Fairy (OTW) showcase this new musical wizardry. Aiko’s third album documents the bitter end of a failed relationship. However, it does not give you the bow wrapped happiness conclusion.

Still, with the “Hot Girl Summer” inventor and R&B princess giving your weekend life, we’ve all come up.

Both albums are available for streaming below.

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