2Chainz aka ‘your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper’ was spotted partying it up in Miami over the weekend.
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In honor of his receiving EIGHT 2013 BET Awards nominations, the platinum selling artist hit up the Hennessy V.S event at Dream nightclub, joined by actress Teyana Taylor, Lou Williams (Atlanta Hawks) and “Q”, founder of World Star Hip Hop.
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Clifford “T.I.” Harris sent along a message above to let everyone know that it’s GOING DOWN this Saturday, December 22, 2012.
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The Atlanta Hawks take on the Chicago Bulls this weekend and Tip will be performing during halftime!
This isn’t just another game! This isn’t a friendly competition. This is two eastern conference heavyweights going toe to toe!
This is Josh Smith vs. Carlos Boozer. This is… no love lost.
This is Hawks vs. Bulls. This is A-Town vs. Chi-Town.
This is different… cause this is T.I.!
It all goes down Saturday, December 22nd at 7pm, but for those of you “Troubleman” fans, there’s a special treat!
Tip will be performing at halftime and in addition to that… the first 7000 who enter the arena will get a free download of his newly released album, Troubleman: Heavy is The Head.
He’s also been gracious enough to host a VIP suite during the game and TWO lucky StraightFromTheA readers will win a pair of tickets be there “parlayin” in the suite courtesy of Tip and his Grand Hustle clique.
Wanna go to the game? If you entered in a timely manner and followed the directions you just might possible be in T.I’s VIP Suite Saturday!
And the winners are…
Fresh off the court from last night’s win against the Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawk’s power forward Josh Smith hit up Atlanta’s STK to celebrate his 27th birthday (December 5, 2012).
Smith, who arrived fashionably late with his wife by his side, took over the entire high-priced eatery as he popped bottles and partied the night away.
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In addition to several of Smith’s Atlanta Hawks team mates, the usual cast of characters were spotted at the event.
Comedian Kevin Hart, Jermaine Dupri, Jazze Pha all came out to party, as well as Tameka Foster Raymond.
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Dikembe Mutombo once made a living playing professional basketball and much of his career was spent in Atlanta playing for the Atlanta Hawks. He’s also known for his humanitarian work in his homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In a recessed economy, many people come up with unconventional ways to increase their cash flow and allegedly Mutombo hatched a scam that involved selling gold from his war torn homeland, that netted SOMEONE at least $10,000,000 dollars!
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NBA Legend Dominique Wilkins’ court side brawl and his opponent’s mugshot has him labeled everything from ‘the next heavyweight champ’ to deadbeat.
Click here for the full story, but long story short, Nique landed a hard punch to the face of Rashan S. Michel, who was arrested and charged with simple battery after a brawl between the two occurred after Wednesday night’s Atlanta Hawks game.
Michel is adamant that their dispute was over a bad debt and it’s far from over!
Check out what Michel has to say about his next steps PLUS video of the fight below: Continue Reading…
Last night twitter was abuzz with activity after NBA Hall of Famer an former Atlanta Hawk Dominque Wilkins was allegedly attacked after last night’s Hawks game.
[Sidebar: The photo above was taken at last week's game against the Bulls but I thought I'd use it since it's oh so relevant to the story. 
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But I digress…
NBA.com’s Sekou Smith sent the following series of tweets last night alerting all to the altercation, stating Wilkins got in three “solid” punches during the brief fight, while his assailant landed none.
Well I dunno what Nique’ looks like this morning but his “attacker” looks like he got a severe beat down!!
Additional details plus mugshot below: Continue Reading…
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