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DIDDY HAVE 2PAC KILLED? A FORMER COP CLAIMS YES….

Published February 5, 2016 by sheezacoldpiece

  
It’s like the ghost of 2Pac has come back to haunt Diddy.  Diddy really do it?  I personally don’t trust Diddy.  He comes off as a cold calculated do whatever it takes type to get what he wants.  Just my vibe though.  You know how the saying goes….what’s done in the dark, will eventually come to light.
A retired Los Angeles cop is convinced he’s cracked the case of Tupac Shakur’s decades-old murder — and the mastermind was none other than Sean (Diddy) Combs.
The music mogul formerly known as Puff Daddy offered Crips member Duane Keith (Keffe D) Davis $1 million to whack Shakur and his manager Suge Knight, former LAPD detective Greg Kading alleges in a new documentary based on his 2011 book “Murder Rap.”

  

SUGE KNIGHT HAS A VERY LONG LIST OF BITTER FEUDS
When the gang member’s nephew, Orlando (Baby Lane) Anderson, eventually pulled the trigger, he fatally wounded Shakur but only injured Knight, Kading claims in the upcoming Netflix doc.

  

The shooting took place on a Las Vegas street in September 1996 and remains officially unsolved.

One ex-cop thinks he knows who killed Tupac Shakur.

Combs scoffed at the theory when it first surfaced with the book.
“The story is pure fiction and completely ridiculous,” he said.
But Kading, who led an LAPD task force investigating the shooting deaths of Shakur and Brooklyn rapper Biggie Smalls, wrangled a confession out of Keffe D after the Crips member feared facing charges for a different crime.
His personal copy is heard in the Netflix documentary.
“You get a very strong sense that he’s speaking very genuinely and transparently. He comes across as telling the story as someone who was there. The fluidity is very natural,” Kading told the Daily News on Thursday.
Diddy (seen in April 2014) had Shakur killed, a retired LAPD cop has alleged.

Hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur died in 1996.

“But what really convinced us it was true was all the corroboration,” he said. “He told us things that he couldn’t known unless he was actually a participant in the murder.”

For example, Keffe D knew there was a secondary shooting that night that investigators kept a secret, he said.
“There was engagement with one of the members of Tupac’s entourage. That was very critical and placed him at the scene of the crime with investigative information not previously made public,” Kading said.
He said it’s important to consider Combs’ “perspective” when weighing the allegations against the Bad Boy Entertainment mogul.

“He was in precarious situation where Suge Knight was actively hunting him down. Suge held him responsible for the (1995) death of a friend in Atlanta. So there was this sense of desperation that Combs was working from,” Kading claimed.
“There was a very clear and present danger. He’s not a calculating, sinister assassin, but a person trying to protect himself from something he knew was coming,” Kading said.
He said after Shakur’s death, a vengeful Knight shelled out $13,000 to his own hitman, Bloods member Wardell (Poochie) Fouse, to kill Smalls — a close friend of Diddy’s — as retaliation.
Smalls was gunned down in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, six months after Shakur died.

Public fascination over the still-unsolved murders has endured nearly 20 years, fueling competing rumors and speculation.

Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls (l.) leaves a Los Angeles party with producer Diddy on March 8, 1997, shortly before Smalls was shot to death.

Knight, 50, is currently behind bars in Los Angeles on charges of murder and attempted murder in an unrelated case.
He has pleaded not guilty to allegations he ran over two men with his truck, killing one, outside a Compton burger restaurant in January 2015.
The documentary in which Kading makes his case — also called “Murder Rap” — is due to stream on Netflix in June, he said.

Via – http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/lapd-claims-diddy-tupac-shakur-killed-article-1.2519915

MAURICE WHITE OF ICONIC GROUP “EARTH, WIND & FIRE” HAS DIED

Published February 4, 2016 by sheezacoldpiece

  
My heart broke upon reading this news.  Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, whose horn-driven band sold more than 90 million albums and made hits like “September,” ”Shining Star” and “Boogie Wonderland,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his brother Verdine said.

  
White, who was 74, suffered from Parkinson’s Disease and had retreated from the public even as the band he founded kept performing.
“My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep,” Verdine White, also a member of the band, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “While the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes.”

  
Rest in Paradise Maurice.  Your soul will forever live on through your music.  Thank you for blessing us with your gift and talent.

ICONIC FRONT MAN “SLY SYLVESTER STONE” OF SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE CAN’T COLLECT HIS ROYALTIES…

Published January 28, 2016 by sheezacoldpiece

  
It’s sad when iconic musicians are forced into poverty and can’t collect off their talent.  This is what happens when bad business deals are made while the gravy train is still chugging along, but when it stops, it allllllll stops.

judge has handed a legal setback to Sylvester “Sly” Stone, ruling that he won’t be able to collect $5 million in royalties because he previously had assigned those royalties to a production company.
A year ago, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found that the iconic soul and funk musician had not been fully paid for songwriting royalties. The civil jury said that manager Jerry Goldstein, attorney Glenn Stone and Even St. Productions owed Stone $5 million in royalties and damages.

  
Yet in a Dec. 7 ruling, Superior Court Judge Mark V. Mooney said that Stone had assigned his royalties to Even St. Productions in 1989 in return for 50% ownership in the company. 

“Mr. Stewart entered into the agreement with the assistance of advisors … and received a substantial benefit from entering into the agreement,” the judge wrote.

Greg Bodell, an attorney for Goldstein and Glenn Stone, said that his clients were happy with the outcome.
“It’s been a long time coming, and it is the right outcome,” Bodell said. He said his clients had been wrongly accused of defrauding the musician Stone — whose given name is Sylvester Stewart — into signing contracts, as well as misrepresenting the duration of the contracts. “The judge has now put both of those to rest.”
Stone could not be reached for comment.
His attorney, Robert Allan, said the decision upset his client, 72, who considered the suit his best hope for escaping poverty. The artist has battled drug addiction for decades and, despite his music’s continued popularity, was for a time living out of a recreational vehicle.
“Obviously, I’m kind of devastated,” said Sylvester Stewart Jr., the musician’s son, adding that he had faith that his father’s legal team would continue fighting for his cause. He said that his father is trying to keep upbeat.
“He’s really sick of this, of not having his money that he’s deserved. But at the same time, he’s not being a downer or an unpleasant person. He’s still being as creative as he can be, given the circumstances. But he’s not happy. He’s not living the way he should be living right now.”
Stone wrote such classics as “Everyday People,” “Stand!” and “Dance to the Music.”
“My dad hasn’t seen a dime of that money when he’s needed it most,” Stewart Jr. said. “I feel like I’m going to wake up and this part of this case is going to be a dream, like, ‘Wow, I was dreaming that Dad won this money,’ only he never got the money.” 

–Terrible. 

RITA ORA GOES TOPLESS FOR LUI MAGAZINES FEBRUARY COVER

Published January 28, 2016 by sheezacoldpiece

  
RocNation Artist Rita Ora has had very little buzz lately.  No new album to speak of, so what better way to get some shine and headlines by going topless for LUI Magazine.  She will cover the February issue which was shot by Bad Boy photographer Terry Richardson.  She’s seen wearing a black leather mini skirt, and wide open denim button down shirt.

  
 Maybe we’ll get a album soon too.