Author: Gesi Lloyd

For years, Hot Boy Turk carried the weight of addiction, incarceration and a complicated place in Hip-Hop history. Now, with his new single ‘Joseph,’ he is done carrying it quietly. The New Orleans rapper, a foundational member of the Hot Boys collective, sat down with Hip-Hop Wired to talk about the record and what led him to make it. The conversation moved quickly from music into something deeper. He described an internal war between who he was and who he knew he could be. Getting older, he said, forced a reckoning. He decided it was time for people to see…

US special forces rescued one of the two crew members of a downed F-15 fighter jet from Iranian territory Today, according to an Israeli official and a second source with direct knowledge of the situation. The rescued airman was found alive. The search for the second crew member remains active, with both American forces and Iranian authorities now racing to reach them first. The two crew members ejected safely after their aircraft was struck by Iranian fire, the sources said. The F-15E Strike Eagle, which carries a pilot and a weapons systems officer, went down over Iran in what US…

Tristan Thompson found himself at the center of a social media firestorm this week after publicly praising Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Thompson  who was born and raised in Canada and does not vote in the United States, drew immediate criticism for wading into a domestic policy debate that carries serious consequences for millions of people living in America. For many observers, the disconnect was hard to ignore. Thompson is not subject to US immigration law, does not participate in American elections, and does not live under the policies he chose to endorse. Critics pointed out that the communities most directly…

The Department of Homeland Security(DHS) has been shut down for more than a month, and the path to reopening it narrowed further this week after the House of Representatives adjourned without holding a vote on a deal that both chambers had already agreed to in principle. On Wednesday, House and Senate Republicans announced an agreement to reopen DHS. By Thursday, the House had convened briefly and left without bringing the proposal to the floor. With the House not scheduled to return until mid-April, the shutdown is now expected to extend well into the month with no guaranteed end date. How…

A 36-year-old man named Leland Adams was arrested on a misdemeanor trespassing charge early Wednesday after entering the property of rapper Nicki Minaj at her Calabasas, California residence. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed the arrest to USA Today Today. According to the sheriff’s department, Adams was found on the property and refused to leave when confronted by security personnel. He was detained by security until deputies arrived and took him into custody without further incident. Adams was booked into the sheriff’s Lost Hills station. No bail amount was listed in available records at the time of reporting. Surveillance…

On January 10, Gucci Mane traveled to Dallas for what he understood to be a business meeting at a recording studio. It had been arranged by one of his own signed artists and Shiesty. What happened instead, according to federal prosecutors, was a coordinated armed robbery and kidnapping involving nine people who had traveled from Memphis specifically to carry it out. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrests on April 1. Pooh Shiesty, born Lontrell Denell Williams Jr., was taken into custody by the FBI in Dallas. Eight of the nine defendants named in the case were arrested the…

2 Chainz was not expecting his commute to go the way it did. The Atlanta rapper, born Tauheed Epps, found himself in a tense roadside confrontation this week that he documented on Instagram for his followers to witness firsthand. The video, posted on March 31, shows an unidentified woman pulling up alongside his vehicle and launching into a loud, expletive-heavy tirade from behind the wheel of her own car. She can be seen repeatedly gesturing at him, at one point extending her bare foot out the window in what appeared to be a continuation of the same energy. 2 Chainz…

Michigan gas prices have climbed to an average of $3.89 per gallon, up from $2.99 just one month ago. That is a roughly 30% increase in 30 days, leaving drivers paying 97 cents more per gallon than last month and 82 cents more than this time last year. The spike is part of a broader national trend. According to AAA, the national average gas price reached $4.08 per gallon on April 2, up from $3.98 one week earlier and $3.00 on March 5. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer responded Today by declaring an energy emergency in Michigan, issuing Executive Order 2026-4 with…

Tiger Woods had no public comment the night of March 27. The bodycam footage released this week by the Martin County Sheriff’s office in Florida did the talking for him. The video, obtained through the Associated Press, captures the 15-time major champion standing at the side of a Florida road, handcuffed, after failing portions of a field sobriety test. The footage offers the most detailed public account yet of what unfolded after Woods’ Land Rover clipped a pressure washer trailer attached to a truck on South Beach Road near Hobe Sound Beach, causing his SUV to flip over. What the…

When Ziwe asked Leslie Jones whether she could ever see herself as a tradwife, the answer came fast. Jones, appearing on Ziwe’s podcast on March 31 to promote her standup special Leslie Jones: Life Part 2, did not pause to consider the question. Her father, she explained, raised her with an explicit message: she was not put on this earth to define herself through a relationship or a domestic role. That lesson stuck. The interview, which covered her rise in comedy, her dating life, and her views on relationships, took its sharpest turn when the conversation reached marriage. Jones did…