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Jay-Z’s MarcyPen Capital Partners unveiled a sweeping cross-continental play at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, rolling out plans for a $500 million fund aimed squarely at the soaring global demand for Korean culture.

The new vehicle, MarcyPen Asia, is designed to zero in on South Korean lifestyle and consumer brands that are ready to scale far beyond their home base, marking a striking fusion of Hip-Hop hustle and K-Pop culture momentum.

A majority-owned MarcyPen team based in Seoul will steer the effort as the fund targets growth-stage companies in entertainment, beauty, food and lifestyle. These are the sectors riding the wave of Korean influence that has swept across music, film and fashion in the past decade and shows no signs of slowing.

MarcyPen and Hanwha Asset Management will pinpoint opportunities on the ground in South Korea and create new pathways for Korean companies seeking to break into international markets.

MarcyPen Asia also reflects the broader philosophy of the firm co-founded by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Jay Brown, Larry Marcus, Robbie Robinson and D’Rita Robinson. From its headquarters in Beverly Hills, the investment group has consistently sought out companies positioned at the crossroads of culture, creativity and commerce.

This latest move extends that strategy into one of the most influential cultural engines in the world.

If the partnership succeeds, it could become a bridge between East and West that doesn’t just push brands into new markets but reshapes how cultural capital is invested.

By aligning Korean innovation with MarcyPen’s entertainment pedigree, the fund signals a new era of cooperation fueled by audiences who now consume art, beauty and lifestyle without borders.

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The 20-year-old Bronx man who allegedly gunned down New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd outside a Manhattan nightclub now faces attempted murder charges that could send him to prison for decades.

Frederick Green surrendered to Buffalo police on Monday after the Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked him to his girlfriend’s apartment. He had been hiding there for nearly a month since the November 16 shooting that left Boyd fighting for his life.

The shooting happened around 4:30 A.M. outside Sei Less restaurant on West 38th Street. Boyd and teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood had just left the upscale establishment when they got into a verbal dispute with another group.

“There’s a group outside who begin to, their words, begin to ‘chirp them’ about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them: ‘Do you think you’re better than us?’” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

Boyd didn’t like the “vibe” inside the restaurant and only stayed about 10 minutes. But when the Jets players walked back outside, the same group confronted them again with verbal insults.

That’s when Green allegedly fired two shots. One bullet struck Boyd in the abdomen, traveled into his lung and lodged in his pulmonary artery. The 29-year-old cornerback was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.

Doctors successfully removed the bullet from Boyd’s lung. He later posted on Instagram, thanking fans for their support: “I’m coming along, starting to breathe on my own now. Sincerely appreciate everyone!”

The suspect refused to answer questions about why he shot Boyd or whether he knew the victim played for the Jets.

Green has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Boyd remains on injured reserve for the Jets. The shooting occurred just as the team was fighting for a playoff spot in what many considered a make-or-break season.

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Gene Deal’s just dropped explosive information that Diddy threatened to “drug” Danity Kane on the heels of Aubrey O’Day’s emotional scene in 50 Cent’s documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

The former bodyguard’s disturbing revelations connect directly to O’Day’s emotional breakdown in the documentary, where she learned for the first time about witness testimony alleging she was assaulted by Diddy and another man at Bad Boy studios in 2005.

“This s### is so crazy…because I heard him say it. But to know that he was doing it, it’s a whole nother f###### thing,” Gene Deal told The Art of Dialogue. “He said it. ‘I’ma drug them out and pimp them out to my n#####, they keep f###### with me.’ And he was talking about Danity Kane as a group. He didn’t single out any one of them. But to hear that he did it, that s### is crazy to me.”

Gene Deal’s interview becomes even more chilling when viewed alongside Aubrey O’Day describing how she appeared “sprawled out on a leather couch, looking very inebriated” during the alleged assault.

“Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means?” O’Day asked through tears in the documentary. “I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know.”

Deal’s allegations suggest O’Day’s condition that night wasn’t from voluntary drinking. The former bodyguard revealed he was disturbed after watching O’Day in the documentary.

To then hear O’Day’s text message confirming she was drugged and that Diddy was having sex with her was upsetting for him, as he realized the verbal threats he had heard were actually carried out.

“It makes you feel sick. I guess I wasn’t looking for it. But to see her pain, and to see that she had to experience some s### like that. The n#### was doing a lot of that s### right under your nose on the days that you wasn’t working or the days that you left early or you wasn’t around,” Deal said.

Aubrey O’Day has long maintained she was fired from Danity Kane for refusing Diddy’s sexual advances.

“I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually,” she stated in the Netflix documentary. The singer also revealed sexually explicit emails Diddy sent her while she was in the group, saying, “This is your boss at your work sending you that email. What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired. Six months later, I was fired.”

The former bodyguard also revealed Diddy’s pattern of inappropriate behavior extended beyond Danity Kane.

Deal mentioned that Diddy “tries everybody,” recounting how Diddy “tried me before” by having two women in bed and inviting him to join. Deal declined the offer.

The revelations add another disturbing layer to the mounting allegations against Diddy, who was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison in October after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

He was acquitted of more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

The Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, executive-produced by 50 Cent, premiered on December 2 and features never-before-seen footage of Diddy discussing his legal troubles just days before his September 2024 arrest.

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Diddy is moving toward a massive courtroom fight as he and his family prepare a $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Netflix in a clash that goes back to the most watched documentary on the platform right now. The rumored development arrives as attorneys for the Combs family push back at explosive claims featured in the 4-part series executive produced by 50 Cent.

The Netflix special has dominated viewing charts with more than 25 million streams and ignited a storm of allegations about the Hip-Hop mogul’s personal life. The project includes accusations that Diddy abused women, assaulted male employees, forced the Notorious B.I.G.’s family to cover funeral costs and even slapped fired out of his mother Janice Combs. Those claims traveled fast across social media as the series gained traction.

Representatives for Biggie’s estate contacted Media Take Out directly and disputed the suggestions about funeral expenses. According to the estate, the idea that Combs made the family pay for the legendary rapper’s funeral is completely false. The allegation is being described as inaccurate and unsubstantiated.

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Janice Combs’ team followed with their own response after the documentary included claims that Diddy mistreated his mother. Her representatives rejected the narrative entirely and called it “deeply hurtful” and “fabricated,” adding fuel to the Combs family’s argument that Netflix allowed harmful material to flourish.

Inside Diddy’s camp, people familiar with the situation insist the project was built on unreliable interviews and misleading statements that mischaracterize his life at a critical moment.

One insider told MTO, “This documentary was made to assassinate his character. It isn’t journalism — it’s entertainment.” Their position is that the series goes beyond sensationalism and crosses into defamation as it presents what they view as fiction dressed up as fact. Interesting.

Behind the scenes, the family has hired one of the country’s most powerful firms with plans to seek at least $1 billion in damages, the source says. Sources say the number could rise if Netflix refuses to retract certain claims. If the case moves forward, it would eclipse the high profile $750 million defamation settlement reached in the fallout over the 2020 election. That comparison alone underscores how far the Combs family is willing to go.

Presently, Netflix stands behind the program while 50 Cent continues to comment online, creating a volatile mix of views, memes and more making this a complete spectacle. What began as a docuseries could become a legal showdown that could reshape celebrity defamation battles for years. Le Sigh.

I guess the fans will wait and see.

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Jeremy O. Harris walked free Monday after spending three weeks in Japanese custody following his arrest at Okinawa’s Naha Airport for allegedly attempting to bring MDMA into the country.

The Tony-nominated playwright and actor was detained on November 16 when customs agents reportedly found 780 milligrams of MDMA in his tote bag, according to a spokesperson for Okinawa Regional Customs.

Harris, 36, was not formally charged and has since been released, his representative said. The writer of “Slave Play” plans to remain in Japan to continue research for a future project.

Before his arrest, Harris had been preparing to attend the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia to promote his indie road movie “Erupcja,” which features Charli XCX. His scheduled appearance was canceled after his detainment.

Japan is known for its rigid drug laws, with even minor drug offenses often leading to prolonged detention and legal consequences.

In a high-profile example, Paul McCartney was arrested in 1980 for marijuana possession and subsequently banned from the country for years.

Harris rose to prominence with the provocative Broadway hit “Slave Play” and has since expanded his reach into television, portraying fashion designer Grégory Elliot Duprée on Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.”

He’s also appeared in HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”

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Cardi B blew the doors off Miami this weekend, turning a simple girls’ night out into a full-blown leather-clad, cleavage-loaded takeover that had everyone in the city doing double takes.

The rapper stepped out in a plunging black leather top zipped so dangerously low it looked like it was holding on through sheer willpower. Paired with lace-up leather pants and a neon-green bob sharp enough to slice through the humidity, Cardi walked in looking like she owned the night before it even started.

Inside the club? Chaos — the fun kind.

Cardi B threw her hands up and instantly got hit with a shower of dollar bills, like Miami collectively decided she deserved a tip just for showing up.

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She laughed, danced, and let the cash stick wherever gravity felt like sending it, including right across the neckline she knew everyone was staring at anyway.

Then she took things outside and gave Miami the kind of marina photo op that shuts down timelines.

Cardi posed, turned, and displayed the full power of those leather pants, cinched, laced, and hugging every curve as if they were custom-made for her. The back shots alone could’ve sparked a heat advisory.

Fans online called the look “insane,” “peak Cardi,” and “Miami nightlife’s final boss.”

Cardi didn’t just have a girls’ night out — she turned Miami into a runway, a money storm, and a cleavage event all at once.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pushed his public safety agenda into bolder territory this week by naming rapper-turned-activist Mysonne Linen to his transition team’s criminal legal system committee. The move places a onetime Bronx defendant who rebuilt his life through advocacy at the center of a sweeping effort to reshape how New York handles public safety.

Mamdani’s transition website listened the New York City-based MC among the members of the Committee on the Criminal Legal System. This is one of 17 advisory groups formed to offer policy and personnel recommendations ahead of Mamdani taking office next month.

Mysonne, along with comrade Tamika Mallory, publicly embraced the role on Instagram, writing: “GODS WORK!!”

Their organization, Until Freedom, issued a broader statement celebrating the appointment as both symbolic and earned.

“We are proud that Until Freedom leaders have been chosen to serve on Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team on committees for public safety and criminal justice respectively. This is a testament to our decades of work advocating on behalf of Black and Brown communities and our expertise in gun violence prevention, legislative advocacy and criminal justice reform. We are building something different.”

Mamdani has pushed forward a $1.1 billion proposal for a Department of Community Safety, which would route non-violent and mental-health-related 911 calls away from NYPD response and toward trained civilian teams. The plan maintains overall NYPD staffing.

Mamdani has also vowed to halt NYPD-led sweeps of homeless encampments, arguing the practice only displaces unhoused residents without addressing the need for stable shelter.

“It pushes New Yorkers who are living in the cold to another place where they will live in the cold,” he told CBS News.

On the jail front, Mamdani maintains that closing Rikers Island remains essential, though he has said the current administration has made the city’s original 2027 deadline “functionally impossible.”

The addition of Mysonne, Mallory and others with a unique grassroots New York City experience will help Mamdani steer the city’s next era of criminal justice policy.

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Chauncey Billups just sold his $4.3 million Lake Oswego mansion while his co-defendant, Terry Rozier, walked into a Brooklyn courthouse today (December 8).

The embattled Trail Blazers coach unloaded his 7,366-square-foot Oregon estate for $4.275 million after listing it on November 21. He bought the house for $3.9 million back in July 2021 when Portland hired him.

Meanwhile, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier pleaded not guilty Monday afternoon to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges. He walked out of Brooklyn federal court on $3 million bond. Both NBA stars got caught up in the same massive federal investigation. Prosecutors say they helped run illegal gambling operations tied to organized crime families.

Billups got arrested at that same Lake Oswego house back in October. Federal agents showed up at his door after a multi-year investigation into rigged poker games.

The property sits on 1.74 private acres in Forest Highlands. Built in 2002, it features four bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and a lagoon-style pool with a waterfall.

The feds say Billups served as a celebrity “face” for illegal poker games in Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami and the Hamptons. They claim the operation scammed victims out of $7 million starting in 2019.

Rozier’s case is different but connected. Prosecutors say he gave inside information to gamblers betting on his NBA performance. The scheme allegedly involved $200,000 in bets on his “under” totals.

Former NBA player Damon Jones also got charged in both cases. He pleaded not guilty in November and remains free on bond. The investigation swept up 34 people in total across two separate federal cases. Three defendants – Jones, Eric Earnest and Shane Hennon – face charges in both cases.

Billups hasn’t coached since his October arrest. The NBA placed him on unpaid leave and the Trail Blazers named assistant Tiago Splitter as acting coach.

The home sale signals Billups is cutting ties with Oregon. He’s been living at his primary residence in Greenwood Village, Colorado, since his arrest.

Rozier’s trial could impact his NBA career. The Heat traded for him from Charlotte in January 2024 without knowing about the federal investigation.

Billups faces trial by September 2026. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 4, 2026.

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Dae Dae, the Atlanta rapper known for his 2016 hit “Wat U Mean (Aye, Aye, Aye),” was arrested after allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old cashier at a Dunkin’ location in 2021.

The incident, caught on store surveillance footage, stemmed from a confrontation over an unavailable donut order. Now, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled the victim is only eligible for standard workers’ compensation.

The victim, Mekia Bryant, was working behind the counter when the rapper became irate after learning the shop was out of the item he wanted. After initially storming off, he returned ten minutes later, demanding to speak with a manager.

When Bryant informed him that no manager was present, the argument escalated. Dae Dae then pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the arm.

Despite the violent nature of the attack, the court determined Bryant’s injuries were tied directly to her job duties.

“[Dae Dae’s] act of stabbing Bryant arose out of his displeasure with her job performance,” Judge Amanda Mercier wrote in the court’s decision.

The ruling emphasized that even though the two had never interacted before, the attack was triggered by a work-related issue and thus fell under Georgia’s workers’ compensation laws.

Bryant, who was a minor at the time, initially declined medical treatment after the stabbing. She later filed a lawsuit against Dunkin’s parent company, seeking compensation for emotional trauma and physical harm.

But the court denied her request, stating that she is only entitled to the limited benefits provided under Georgia’s workers’ compensation system.

In Georgia, injured workers can receive up to two-thirds of their average weekly wage, capped at $800 per week, for up to 400 weeks. According to data from the I_nsurance Journal__,_ this amount is lower than what many other Southern states offer for comparable injuries.

Dae Dae was arrested in June 2021 after evading law enforcement for six months. Prior to the stabbing, he had already faced legal trouble involving stolen firearms and drug possession.

When the stabbing allegations surfaced, he denied involvement on Instagram, claiming people were trying to damage his name.

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Drake has survived a lot of rap chaos over the years, and having Top5 around as his unofficial street cred has helped. But that idea might be done and it is all over the place right now.

Top5 hopped on the phone with DJ Akademiks and unloaded a whole explanation about why he’s suddenly throwing shade at The Boy. According to him, Drake crossed a major line of loyalty: he posted Pressa’s diss track! And Pressa just happens to be Top5’s former friend turned rival. Yes… this is basically a loyalty tug-of-war for Drake’s attention, and yes… it sounds exactly as messy as it feels. Damn.

Things have just spiraled from there. I wonder why Drake would do that? You guys think he is under…pressa? I mean pressure! Either way, Top5 said he’s tired of being overlooked, tired of favoritism and tired of politics in Drake’s circle.

But here’s where it gets wild:
Top5 admitted he’s been secretly bumping Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” and he finally went public with it because he’s mad at Drake. And then he doubled down on that bar—yes, THAT one:

“They tell me Chubbs the only one that get your hand-me-downs.”

Top5 says that line is FACTS, straight up. Oh man…

To me, it signals that he’s using Drake’s biggest rival to send a message: you played with the wrong one.

Now the big question:
What does Drake look like without Top5 in his corner?

Secondly: will there be more leakage?
For years, Top5 has been the gritty presence behind OVO, clapping back in the streets so Drake didn’t have to. If that protection disappears… who fills that role?

Right now it’s all strange energy, strange timing and strange things. Drake has a whole album he’s about to drop! But if Drake’s top enforcer is flipping…we have a problem.

More on this soon.

Akademiks says the “Biggest Fall Off of the Year” in HIP HOP.

Ak says Young Thug doesn’t get fall-off… he gets “Biggest Fumble of the Year” for fumbling the moment, the album, and the momentum.

Then he lists the actual fall off nominees:
Ice Spice, Lil Baby, DaBaby, Roddy… https://t.co/aPJWpIyjji pic.twitter.com/lqgFvjssuL

— CY Chels (@SeewhyChels) December 6, 2025

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