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Prince Was Eating Differently And
Tupac’s Hummer To Be Auctioned
TUPAC SHAKUR
A Hummer that was once owned by legendary rap star Tupac Shakur has hit the auction block again.
Pac acquired the all black American Motors Hummer H1 just a month before he was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip in September of 1996.
The Hummer sat in storage for several years after Tupac’s death until 2003, when BET raffled it off in the “Picture Me Rolling” sweepstakes.
The Hummer eventually re- turned to Tupac’s extended family when Yaasmyn Fula, the mother of Outlawz group member, Kadafi acquired the vehicle.
The Hummer was special to Mrs. Fula and her husband, Sardar ‘Candyman 187’ Khan, owners of Havenotz Entertainment.
Tupac and Kadafi were god brothers.
Kadafi, who was also mur- dered in 1996 shortly after Pac’s death, spent many hours in the Hummer during the short time they were able to enjoy it.
Bobby Shmurda Sues The New York Police Dept.
Filling Pain Med Prescriptions
Leading Up To Death
Rapper Bobby Shmurda wants to get paid by the city for an alleged false arrest on gun and drug charges by the NYPD, according to a federal lawsuit.
The "Shmoney Dance" singer, whose real name is Ackquille Pollard, claims he was hanging out at a friend's crib on Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn on June 3, 2014 when cops knocked on the door.
"When one of the occupants opened the door a slight bit to see who was there, Officer Douglas Corso and other police officers kicked in the door and illegally entered the residence without a search warrant," according to the suit filed Friday in Brooklyn Fed- eral Court.
The cops claimed Pollard tried to hide a handgun inside a couch.
Pollard, 21, claims that while the cops were allegedly ransacking the apartment, they taunted him by "chanting the lyrics to his chart-topping songs," the suit states.
On stage, Prince was still captivating audiences at recent performances in Australia and California. He hosted a pop-up party at his Paisley Park stu- dio, and there were few out- ward signs in his final months that anything was wrong.
But off stage, something was different. Prince began want- ing meals that were easier to digest and was fighting off waves of sore throats and fre- quent upset stomachs, the mu- sician’s personal chef told The Associated Press.
Ray Roberts, who cooked for Prince nearly every day for almost three years, said in an interview that wasn’t the man he saw nearly every night, “not even a hint. Not at all.” But Roberts did start notic- ing changes in Prince’s diet — he was eating less and drinking less water, and looked like he was losing weight.
Prince may have used mul- tiple aliases to stock up on pain pills to feed his opioid ad- diction, according to reports.
Also, the night before his death on April 21, the artist traveled six miles from his Paisley Park home to pick up prescription meds in Min- netonka — passing eight other pharmacies along the way, TMZ said.
Prince’s family members told TMZ they were worried he was frequenting several phar-
Prince traveled to 4 differ- ent pharmacies to pick up pre- scriptions the week leading up to his death.
macies under different names and seeing separate doctors, including a “personal friend,” to cover his prescription paper trail.
His Royal Badness re- portedly visited various Wal- greens pharmacies in Minneapolis four times in the week leading up to his death at 57. Police raided one of the stores Friday.
Prince knew he was hooked on Percocet — prescribed for his severe hip pain — and at- tended an unnamed rehab, Minneapolis station KSTP 5 reported.
Officials have yet to release a cause of death.
BOBBY SHMURDA
Neither the gun, nor drug paraphernalia seized from the apartment belong to Pollard, he claims.
The gun charge in Brooklyn was eventually dismissed, but Pollard is currently facing weapons possession charges in separate cases in Manhattan and the Bronx. He is free on $2 million bail.
Corso, the only named cop in the suit, was a defendant in five other federal civil rights lawsuits going back to 2011.
Lamar Odom’s Father Forced To Move
Khloe Kardashian, Joe Odom and Lamar Odom
Drake Surprises Raptor Fans With Halftime Concert
Drake was in Toronto on Saturday watching the Raptors play Indiana in Indiana.
Lamar Odom’s dad was booted from his LA home and forced to move back to Brook- lyn after Khloé Kardashian refused to keep paying his rent, he tells The Post.
“Khloé didn’t even have the guts to tell me herself that my rent wasn’t going to be paid anymore,” Joe Odom, 62, said. “She got the guys who handle Lamar’s money to call me and they said the rent wouldn’t be paid, I gotta move and my phone was going to get cut off.”
The former NBA star had paid his disabled father’s $4,000 rent for 10 years when Kardashian kicked the Army vet and his wife, Cecelia, 59, to the curb last November.
The reality-television star had taken over Lamar Odom’s finances after a drug- and-sex binge in a Nevada brothel left him nearly dead in October. Last week, Joe was finally able to get through to Lamar, who said he would “sort it out,” but nothing has changed, he says.
Drake finally dropped his highly-anticipated album Views on Friday (April 29).
And, Drake-mania contin- ues as the Toronto-loving rap- per surprised fans with a concert during halftime of the Toronto Raptors vs. Indiana Pacers NBA Playoffs game.
Even though the Raptors were in Indianapolis trying to close out their series against the Pacers, that didn’t keep
fans from congregating out- side of Toronto’s Air Canada Center in an area referred to as “Jurassic Park” to watch Game 6 of the series on large jum- botron screen.
The Raptors’ most popular fan and their Global Ambassa- dor, Drake, was also in atten- dance to watch the game. The concert was the biggest high- light of the night though. The Raptors lost the game.
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