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Breaking: Sean Diddy Combs Arrested!
FanAttick
2024-09-17 08:13:51
Diddy R-Kellyied by the Feds
Media mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday after he was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.
Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, confirmed Combs had been arrested by federal agents based on a sealed indictment. It’s unclear what the charges are in the filing.
velo
2024-09-17 10:44:03
not unexpected he can join r kelly a lot of famous people must be shaking at the thought of what might come out in these trials if it is true of what goes on at his "freakoff" parties
Jumpstart
2024-09-17 13:19:55
In reply to FanAttick
great. now we can commence the rehabilitation of black music......although the virus these men unleashed seems to have gone beyond the point of no return: rap, dancehall to an extent(anthing after 2000)....trash artforms that yuh doh need much musical skill, savy or sense to make, assisted by amoral corporate record execs
dayne
2024-09-17 14:53:54
Combs has been threading the line for a while, he has a repetition of not paying artists under his promotion, a few years ago there was a story of " Elephant Man " a dancehall artist, went to Combs's office with some brothers to recover money that Combs owed him, it is rumored that some violence went down.
Halliwell
2024-09-17 16:05:31
In reply to Jumpstart
Is Rap more cerebral or artistic than soca and chutney ??? I say YES!
camos
2024-09-17 16:11:08
In reply to Halliwell
agree! but some of the messages fly over the unexposed head.
Jumpstart
2024-09-17 16:55:55
In reply to Halliwell
is bunji still looking forchina
sgtdjones
2024-09-17 17:01:09
In reply to Halliwell
Is Rap more cerebral or artistic than soca and chutney ??? I say YES!
Your introduction of music is sadly missing by mentioning the above ...continue your cerebral journey?
Casper
2024-09-17 17:23:41
In reply to FanAttick
Diddy thought he was Donald Trump. Thinking Billionaires can get away with any and everything.
Chrissy
2024-09-18 00:47:28
Drapsey
2024-09-18 02:50:20
In reply to Chrissy
Hope he doesn't go the Epstein route.
Jumpstart
2024-09-18 05:19:31
In reply to Halliwell
I agree. not so much chutney....classical indian music yes. the petry is some of those compositions is unmatched. You must read the translation of the lyrics for Rajin Jeet Jeet Joom. Its beautiful. That being said, i go back to a quote from Tim Hector from Antigua, when writing about Brian Lara following his career defining 99 australia series. He was talking about the future of west indies cricket and the west indian societies.
"Cricket in the West Indies faces a challenge that goes far beyond its immediate task of trouncing all-comers in an entertaining way whilst uniting a group of nations inclined to sniff each other with the suspicion a crafty cat shows when it spots a lump of cheese." Few that I know have been more apt and more succinct in stating the interests, contents and purposes of West Indies cricket: Trouncing all-comers, in an entertaining way while uniting islands deranged by foaming channels and the vast expanse of bitter faction and fricton.
But even more cogently, Roebuck continued: "Cricket and the way of life that surrounds it, in the West Indies, is under threat ... But the threat goes far beyond, mere hospitality, reaching into the tradition of calypso and courtesy, of friendship and faith which have, apparently been part of West Indian life for 100 years. It can be heard for instance in the stinging, the bitter lyrics of rap music (or Dance-hall) now everywhere to be heard ... Calypso and reggae are West Indian, rap is an import from the back streets of America, streets full of crime and cocaine. It is part of an invasion. So too is Cable Television. Grenada already has 2,000 television subscribers (Antigua has 10,000) and it is growing apace and so it will be in sport, as basketball, whose dreadful tentacles already hold so much of the world in its grip, spreads its empire ever wider. Can West Indian culture survive the current onslaught? ... Today West Indian cricketers live in more confusing times, torn between the ways of their raising and the influence of music, cable TV and the abject politics of vengeance. If care is not taken, cricket will be part of a dying culture and faith, calypso and courtesy will die with it. All those who have travelled will confirm that the replacement is definitely inferior."
I hasten to disagree that basketball, in and of itself, has any dreadful tentacles, not even the greed that surrounds basketball is native and inherent in the game. It is a wonderful game. But otherwise, Roebuck is on the ball. West Indian society, long in one-crop or one-industry stalemate, is decaying, and that decay, that fragmentation, that degeneration into the politics of vengeance" of bribes, of inducement with money and not with policies, must have a telling effect on us all, Lara inclusive. We consume the products and ways of others, and so cannot become. Lara, like our society in general, is trapped between the ways of his raising and the value-less globalising invasion which assails us all.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/lara-in-cricket-time-and-social-place-30-april-1999-78205
Yuh see i grew up in the 90s so i was at least able to get the tail end of the real elements of caribbean culture, none of which had a violent component or told you because you were poor, you had an excuse to engage in crime and criminality
Halliwell
2024-09-18 09:53:53
In reply to Jumpstart
That article says Rap and Cable Tv are invasions
Global community and an increasingly connected world. That’s a dinosaur article isn’t it?
Ah just have to ask Sarge if he defending chutney …or soca 
JahJah
2024-09-18 10:01:26
In reply to Halliwell
Is Rap more cerebral or artistic than soca and chutney ??? I say YES!
Of course it is, but most (usually ignoramuses and W supremacists) think of the soula boy and mumble types when they think of rap/hip-hop.
Chrissy
2024-09-18 10:24:26
In reply to Drapsey
None of my business
velo
2024-09-18 12:01:18
In reply to Halliwell
rap music since the the early 2000s is hardly cerebral and it is thrash
Drapsey
2024-09-18 12:18:50
In reply to velo
Even Kirk Franklin and his Gospel rap?
Man, kerry yuh skunt!
StumpCam
2024-09-18 14:08:58
In reply to Halliwell
Cerebral and always involve gun violence???
Don’t shoot the messenger!
nick2020
2024-09-18 14:19:43
In reply to Chrissy
He is done.
This is another one of those of "getting out of the streets and taking the streets with him" cases.
Lessons we all should learn. This is why we need to applaud people like LeBron, The Williams Sisters. Money does not buy intelligence and most importantly morals.
velo
2024-09-18 19:11:01
He' not the first and not going to be the last pervert in that place some of you all favourite actorz and singers might be part of this cabal
Halliwell
2024-09-18 20:54:02
In reply to StumpCam
Not every country song is “Achy Breaky heart”
Not every pop song is “Eat It”
Jumpstart
2024-09-18 23:36:00
In reply to Halliwell
Homes, hector wasn' saying american culture was part of an invasion. he mentioned certain aspects of american culture were. the limitless commercialization....of everything, the gratuitous violence presented through its films and some of its music, especially through rap. That being, for example, we wouldn't have Fela Kuti if not for the influence of American Jazz. You have no Kassav or Zouk without funk, rock and jazz, all american artforms. American Soul music was just as important to the creation of soca as calypso and classical indian music.
i am stating that rap and heavy metal have self destructive tendencies and encourage self destructive and anti social behaviors isn't exactly news
velo
2024-09-19 00:09:24
In reply to Drapsey
Man! kirk who?
powen001
2024-09-19 00:10:48
In reply to FanAttick
was gonna ask who cares but ...I would be outta place
Chrissy
2024-09-19 00:27:56
In reply to nick2020
Correct is right. Too many folks who become wealthy think they are above the law.
NYCGURU
2024-09-19 22:08:53
In reply to nick2020
The dude obviously does not have a Moral Compass. The sad thing is that he is a parent.
VIX
2024-09-20 11:30:56
VIX
2024-09-20 11:31:25
In reply to powen001
Merica problems.
hubert
2024-09-20 13:48:01
In reply to FanAttick
I am not too informed of that part of the 'culture' that Diddy and others of his ilk belong.
But seeing his rise from lowly rank to very affluent, and the number of very 'high up' people
he has associated with, I can only guess that he may not be alive too much longer.
If he sings to survive he could dismantle the lives/reputation of many in that 'high society' class.
All I can say is that in life,people reap what they sow .
One thing seems sure, his lifestyle if not his life is over.
