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Ronald Glasser is accused of fatally shooting Joe McKnight on December 1 during a road rage incident in Terrytown, Louisiana.

It's been a month since NFL star Will Smith was shot and killed following a car accident in New Orleans, but it feels like yesterday for the people he left behind.

Lil Wayne put on for his city in the hugest way possible with a music megafest on the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and he brought a few friends along with him. Wayne took it back to where it all started for him and so many of his special guests last night as he hit […]

It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since Hurricane Katrina thrust the crushing waters of the Gulf into New Orleans, swallowing whole swaths of neighborhoods and communities through portals left by the flattened levees. Photographs of the submerged homes in the Lower Ninth Ward, hardest hit by the violent and historic storm, remain […]

Young R&B trailblazer August Alsina has spent much of 2015 growing his already-massive fan base by hitting stages around the world to perform music from his 2014 debut album Testimony and now he’s ready to follow up with a brand new project. Earlier this summer to the pleasure of his fans, August confirmed that his sophomore album […]

Armina Mussa was stabbed ten times on April 8th, 2015, and for the first time, she’s speaking out. Mussa’s story is both a miracle and a…

In a crime that spilled from social media into reality, a 20-year-old New Orleans woman faces three years in prison after playing a role in…

  Rapper Dee-1 just announced that he just inked a deal with RCA Inspiration. A New Orleans native, Dee-1 burst onto the national scene with the mixtape “I Hope They Hear Me Vol 2″, which featured the wildly popular single “Jay, 50, Weezy”. The record proved to be a viral juggernaut spawning a YouTube video […]

  Popular New Orleans rapper Mystikal made a name for himself in the late 90s when he was a No Limit soldier. Many consider his verse on “Make ‘Em Say Uhhh” a classic despite those same people not knowing what the hell he’s really saying. (If you know what he’s really saying, teach me!) Mystikal […]

NBA player Daniel “Boobie” Gibson was arrested in New Orleans earlier today. According to police, Keyshia Cole‘s husband was arrested for assault and battery in the Crescent City. The 27-year-old Gibson surrendered to police earlier. Apparently, the basketball player got into an altercation at this year’s Essence Music Festival, which took place over the weekend […]

  Flow, an emerging artist out of the N.O. who had become a protege of  Lil Wayne was busted late last week according to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s office. He signed to Young Money last year after a putting out several mixtapes and after making an appearance on Weezy’s Sorry 4 The Wait mixtape. He is […]

  According to CNN 17 people are wounded after 2 or 3 gunman opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans today. The FBI said that the shootings appeared to be “street violence” and weren’t linked to terrorism. Said Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas;  “two or three people just, for a reason unknown to us, started shooting at, […]