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Ice Cube Launches BIG3 Basketball League For Recently Retired NBA Players
Comedian Ricky Harris Has Fatal Heart Attack
Drake Ties With Lil Wayne For Most Hot 100 Songs By Solo Artist
Ice Cube is launching the new league. Gary Payton has signed on as the first coach.
Drake ties with his mentor, Lil Wayne.
Ricky Harris was a regular on ‘Everybody Hates Chris’.
Comedian Ricky Harris died on Monday at the age of 54. The announcement of Har- ris’s death first came via social media from many west coast hip hop artists who called him friend including Daz Dillinger, DJ Pooh, B.G.
Knocc Out, and King T. OkayPlayer reports that the comedian and actor died of a
heart attack.
Harris was the voice of both
DJ Eaz-E-Dick and TaaDow on Snoop Dogg’s debut album, “Doggystyle.” He made numerous appearances on Def Comedy Jam, and appeared in “Poetic Justice,” “The District,” “The Tracy Morgan Show,” “The Game,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” and “The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
Drake is ending his amaz- ing 2016 with another honor. The Toronto native has pulled into a tie with his men- tor Lil Wayne for the most Hot 100 appearances for a
solo artist.
Drake’s guest feature on
Gucci Mane’s “Both” is his 132nd hit on the Billboard chart.
Only the Glee cast has more hits to reach the Hot 100 (207).
Drake was the lead artist on82ofhis132Hot100en- tries, while Wayne was the lead artist on 47 of his 132 en- tries.
The Views album creator paid homage to his Young Money boss by writing on Instagram, “Learned from broski.”
Jay Z (86), Kanye West (80), and Nicki Minaj (70) are among the acts with the most all-time Hot 100 songs as well.
Ice Cube has announced the launch of a new 3-on-3 basketball league where re- tired NBAers will get to show they still got game.
The league will be called BIG3 and will feature recently- retired NBA players who still want to play the game at a competitive level.
Peep, we said recently re- tired. So this won’t be like the Legends game that used to happen during NBA All-Star Weekend back in the day. There will be no Karl Ma- lone or Patrick Ewing sightings on the court.
Instead, this league will have guys like Stephen Jackson, Kenyon Martin, Jermaine O’Neal and Jason Williams who all have signed on to play according to league officials.
This isn’t just going to be pick-up basketball either. Cube is partnering with for- mer NBA Players Association Deputy executive director
Roger Mason, Jr. who is leaving his post to help build the league along with in- vestors.
The league will be made up of eight teams with five play- ers, meaning each team will have two bench players. They will be playing half-court. Each team will also have an ex-player as head coach. The first coach to sign on is former NBA All-Star Gary Payton.
BIG3 also has plans of adding a festival element to the league with the games being played in different cities as a tour that will include mu- sical guests and other enter- tainment.
The games will be played during the summer after the NBA season has ended. The league is currently working to secure a television deal.
If you like what you hear, you won’t have to wait too long. The league is scheduled to start play on June 24, 2017.
Denzel Washington’s Send Tough Love Message To Black Men During Premiere Of ‘Fences’
Tiny Files To Divorce T. I.
T.I. and Tiny have been ru- mored to be having marital problems for some time.
Denzel Washington talks to Allhiphop.com.
Denzel Washington is a master at his craft, and the vet- eran actor always finds time to offer a clinic to his peers.
That clinic is “Fences,” the in- credible new film he stars in and has directed. The movie tells the humorous, tragic and sobering tale of a family of a Pittsburgh, PA family and all the accompanying peaks and valleys. Based on the August Wilson play of the same name, “Fences” delivers a Christmas gift with a gut punch of reality.
Washington, Viola Davis, Russell Hornsby, Mikelti Williamson, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo and even little Saniyya Sidney deliver a master class in “Fences,” wrought with multi-layered messages on the family condi- tion.
However, much of the story
homes in on the relationship of fathers and sons.
Mr. Washinton offered a helping of tough love to Black men and what the general mes- sage “Fences” is for us.
“Pain is passed down from father to son, from son to son. A lot of pain in Troy’s life (the lead character in “Fences”) is a result of the pain and damage from his father that he then visits on his son. We as Black men have to be mindful of that sometimes. Sometimes its un- fair and sometimes we take it out on those that we love.
And I’m guilty of that frus- tration that we all have. But we have a responsibility and a duty to be fathers – not to just make babies. But to be real fa- thers. And you can’t expect any good to come to you if you don’t visit any good to your son or your daughter. So, be a man.”
Tiny and T. I. are headed for divorce court.
After six years, Tiny filed for divorce from rap star T. I., in a move that shocks the entertain- ment world.
The pair have three children together, King Harris, Major Harris and Heiress Harris. They also have some step-chil- dren between them Zonnique Pullins, who is Tiny’s first child from a previous relation- ship, and T. I.’s Messiah, Do- mani and Deyjah Harris.
Sources say the pair have been at odds for a significant period of time, some of which have played out over social media.
Their married life played out on “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle,” which debuted in De- cember 2011.
They are still expected to co- parent as friends.
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