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Nick Gordon’s Ex-Attorney Responds To Claim He Supplied Deadly ‘Party Drugs’ To Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina
NICK GORDON AND BOBBI KRISTINA
Philly Rapper AR-Ab Sentenced To 45 Years For Drug Trafficking
Nick Gordon’s former attorney is speaking out in de- fense of his one-time client after Bobby Brown fired off the latest attack against the deceased star.
According to Radar Online, Randy Kessler, who repre- sented Gordon during his civil case, says Gordon had nothing but love for ex-girl- friend Bobbi Kristina Brown, despite claims that he is responsible for supply- ing her and her mother Whitney Houston with deadly “party drugs” that killed them just three years apart.
"It was very clear to me that Nick cared deeply for Bobbi," he told the enter- tainment news outlet. "She was his world."
The statement comes shortly after Bobby’s Red Table Talk interview during which he discussed his belief that Gordon played a role in the sudden deaths of the two women. He told co-hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Wil- low Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris he believes “foul play” was involved in the deaths and blames the 30- year-old for the deaths nearly a year after his passing.
Philadelphia rapper AR-Ab has been sentenced to 45 years behind bars for running a drug trafficking ring that led to at least one murder.
The rapper, real name Abdul West, has been be- hind bars at the Federal De- tention Center in Philly since his 2018 arrest on drug charges. He was sentenced today (April 15) for turning his Original Block Hustlaz (OBH) record label into a large-scale drug-trafficking organization that flooded his community with narcotics.
Prosecutors had alleged
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AR-Ab had ordered the 2017 murder of a drug world rival but U. S. District Judge Michael M. Baylson
stressed repeatedly during a hearing in federal court that the punishment he imposed was not based on that crime, reports Inquirer. Prosecutors had been demanding a life sentence for the rapper based on that incident.
“The court, the FBI agents, the prosecutors don’t under- stand my culture,” AR-Ab said during the hearing. “We don’t rap about flowers and rainbows. We’re gangsta rap- pers. We rap about what we grew up in. So we rap about drug dealing and we rap about violence.”
Pandora Celebrates HBCUs With Playlist Featuring Famous Alumni
GLADYS KNIGHT, KILLER MIKE AND MEGAN THEE STALLION
Pandora is celebrating some of the biggest stars in enter- tainment who studied at His- torically Black Colleges and University.
Gladys Knight (Shaw Uni-
versity), Megan The Stallion (Prairie View A&M Univer- sity), Killer Mike (More- house) and more are featured on the streaming platform’s Voices of HBCU playlist.
The collection of songs was in honor of the historic Bayou Classic college football game on April 17, which pits rivals Southern University vs. Gram- bling State University.
Black Rob, Rapper Best Known For Hit Single ‘Whoa!,’ Dies At 51
Former Bad Boy Records rap artist Black Rob, whose given name was Robert Ross, died Saturday in an Atlanta hospi- tal, Sean Combs’ Revolt an- nounced. Ross was 51.
Although the cause of death has not been released, the “Whoa!” rapper has suffered a series of strokes since 2015.
Just last week, following the death of fellow hip-hop icon DMX, Power 105.1’s DJ Self posted a video of Ross looking frail as he lay in a hospital bed. “I don’t know, the pain is crazy,
BLACK ROB
man,” he said in the short clip. “It’s helping me out, though, it’s making me realize I got a lot to go.”
The video was captioned: “Let keep our prayers up Black Rob!!! Get well man Please people out there take care of yourself BR was one of the greats Had NY on his back like Whoooa.”
According to Revolt, after the video surfaced, Ross revealed that he was homeless and bat- tling multiple health problems, including kidney failure.
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