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Several pieces of evidence used by the prosecution in the Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez trial have been shared online as it becomes public record and available for the public to review.

So far, there have been four pieces of evidence released- the audio of Tory Lanez’s jail call where he apologizes to the rapper and says he understands if she never speaks to him again and explains that what he did that night was caused by his severe state of drunkenness.

On Friday morning, there was also released the body cam footage from a police officer’s vest showing Megan being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The rapper is seen wearing a mask and sitting in a chair, with her feet appearing to be propped up while she is covered with a white sheet.

Megan Thee Stallion could be heard crying, weeping loudly for almost half a minute, and eventually, she cries softly before the footage on the camera cuts.

The video elicited many sympathetic reactions to Megan, who testified more than a week ago that Tory Lanez shot her after an argument while they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s house in July 2020. The rapper has had a tough two years with many fans of Lanez bashing her and accusing her of lying and making up lies that she was not shot but rather stepped on glass. The rapper later revealed that she had lied to protect Lanez, with whom she later revealed on the witness stand that she had a sexual relationship.

In the meantime, more of the damning evidence that led to Lanez being convicted by a unanimous jury was shared online. One is audio taken from a home surveillance video that contradicts Tory’s legal team’s claim that there was a fight over the gun, causing it to go off.

The audio taken from a Ring doorbell clearly sounds off five gunshots with pauses between each. The gun expert who testified for the prosecution says that the gun couldn’t have gone off accidentally as it required some amount of pressure or force. That is, the type of gun it was, required at least eight pounds of pressure to go off. In any case, if there was a fight over the gun, why would it be fired five times instead of once or twice?

Meanwhile, Kelsey’s 80-minute statement given to prosecutors in September was shared online. The statement by Kelsey came more than a year and a half since the shooting and was given at the last moment after Tory’s lawyers hinted his defense was that he didn’t shoot the gun, but Kelsey did.

In that statement, some blogs have skewed the audio to show that Kelsey is lying about what took place. In one part, she claims that Tory fired the gun then she said he fired the gun in the air in another.

Kelsey Harris

In the statement, Kelsey says she began working as Megan’s assistant in 2018 until the incident in 2020. She said she met Tory in 2020 when she and Meg attended a Roc Nation brunch. Kelsey says she flirted with Tory Lanez, but they were not in a sexual relationship, as claimed by Tory’s legal team.

“This is one of those situations you know you flirt and Megan wanted me to I guess have an involvement with. I ended up catching the virus and I went back to Houston and stayed there (at Megan’s apartment) and I guess between that time Megan and Tory became close, I don’t know what the relationship was but they were with each other often,” Kelsey said.

As the night goes on, Kelsey says she lost consciousness due to her alcohol consumption, and later as all of them were intoxicated, Kelsey wanted to leave, but Megan did not want to go yet. Kelsey said she went to wait in Tory’s car with Jaquan Smith while EJ Johnson, who accompanied them, waited in his car. Megan and Tory are inside the house after Megan tells him to join.

Megan Thee Stallion and Kelsey Harris are in Tory’s car, ready to leave after Megan’s wig comes apart, but at some point, Tory tells his driver to take the girls home while he remains with Kylie.

Kelsey said that Megan forgot her LV slippers, and they turned around and went back to Kylie’s house. Megan goes in and grabs the slippers, and gets back in the car. Tory Lanez, this time, also goes in the car and sits behind the driver.

“They were in there arguing. Tory and Megan. What they were arguing about I don’t know,” Kelsey says.

“We’re leaving, we’re driving. Megan is laughing. Out of curiosity, I want to know what’s funny, and I ask what is going on. And that’s when Tory butts in and he’s like ‘yeah Megan, why don’t you tell your best friend what’s so funny? Why don’t you tell her how fake you are?’. I’m confused cause this is so random and Megan is like ‘Kelsey don’t listen to him he’s just trying to make you mad’” Kelsey said.

Kelsey says there was an argument between Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez, and they began to take jabs at each other’s careers.

“He was calling her bitches and hoes and I stepped in and said you’re not gonna talk to my friend like that and he got offended and now me and him are arguing,” Kelsey said.

Tory Lanez then told her that he was a gangster from Canada and threatened to shoot her.

“He said my n***ga il shoot you. He reached like he was gonna grab something, he reached towards the middle console but he never pulled anything out,” Kelsey said.

Kelsey Harris said while on Sunset Boulevard, Megan asked the driver to pull over, and she came out of the car. Tory then follows her while Quan and her remain in the car. Tory and Megan sat at the bus stop and spoke, and after a few minutes, when they came in the car, they were calm.

She says that Tory Lanez then apologizes to her and says, “im sorry Kelsey you’re a real a$$ n***ga and I just had to tell you,” and then Megan and Tory began to argue again with both taking jabs at each other’s career.

By this time, the car stopped on Nichols Canyon Road where the shooting occurred.

“This time, Tory demands Quan to let us out – let these hoes out, let these bitches out, Megan jumps out of the front seat and I open up my door which I’m behind Megan… we didn’t expect anything to happen next, we’re just getting out the vehicle. I get out of my side and no sooner do you know you start hearing gunshots. It was five gunshots. I look up at the second or third gunshots and you see Tory, he’s now in the front seat, I guess he must have jumped over…he’s leaning over, the door’s open and he’s leaning over the window- the front right where Megan was sitting,” Kelsey said.

“He was leaning over the front passenger door and he was shooting the gun,” Kelsey said as she said she was still behind the rear passenger door while Megan was walking.

“By the third or fourth shots, she’s facing us, what I would describe it like a ‘deer in headlights,’” she said, adding, “the way Tory was angling the gun, it was down, definitely in her direction- in the air- at the ground.”

Kelsey also said that she ran to Megan to defend Megan. She said she saw blood on Megan, and she assumed she got shot. Tory then comes around the vehicle, and she thinks he was going to attack them.

“He physically assaulted me. And Quan then comes and pick me up like a little doll and Quan said- Kelsey they do this all the time,” she said.

Kelsey said that Tory either hit her with a closed fist or was slapping her- “it was a physical altercation,” Kelsey said. Around the 26-28 mark, Kelsey expresses fear Tory would kill her.

Kelsey said that she wanted to cause a distraction, and she jumped into the car and caused it to jerk to stop Tory from further harming Megan. “he either got to me really quick and that’s when he pulled me by my hair, he pulled me really hard… I became afraid for my life when he pulled on my hair and my neck really hard, that’s when the necklace (found my police popped)”.

Quan tried to part Kelsey from Tory, but he held onto her.

There is a text message Kelsey sent to Megan the night at the hospital where she asked Megan whether she should get an x-ray since Tory punched her in the chest and dragged her hair, causing her pain. Kelsey’s testimony on the stand left much to be desired as she contradicted most of what she said in September, even saying prosecutors had pressured her, although her statement volunteered information throughout the 80-minute conversation.

In the meantime, there have been many calls online for Kelsey to be charged with perjury by many fans of Megan Thee Stallion fans who feel that Kelsey lied on the stand when she claimed she forgot what happened or pleaded the fifth at questions by prosecutors.

At the 31-33-minute mark, Kelsey breaks down when asked about Megan’s condition after she was shot. The statement takes a break, and Kelsey audibly cries while prosecutors comfort her.

Kelsey also said she tried to call Megan’s manager, Farris, but after not reaching him, she texted Megan’s bodyguard- “help, Tory shot Meg, 911.” And she sent a message to her mom to say help.

In her statement, Kelsey Harris also cried, stating that she was hurt emotionally, and she appeared to become emotional that her friendship with Megan fell apart after the shooting.

In the meantime, at the 38-minute mark, Kelsey says that Tory begs them not to say anything, and he also said he would give them $1 million each as he was getting ready to sign a major record deal.

A photo showing Kelsey Harris’ injuries on the night of the shooting also surfaced online.

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Meek Mill has recovered his cell phone, and a pickpocket thief has been apprehended for snatching his phone while the rapper bored through a thick crowd of people in Ghana.

The rapper shared a series of Instagram posts on Friday showing him fighting off fans grabbing and mobbing him while in the African nation. The rapper is in Ghana to perform for the Afro Nation concert in Ghana on Thursday night.

It seems that the rapper was leaving the show when a large throng of fans tried to grab onto him. He later shared videos of himself leaving the event on dirt bikes.

“They roughed me [the f**k] up but the love overpowered it,” Meek Mill captioned the video footage below. “Almost went from dreams to nightmares quick. Lol.”

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He also shared he lost his phone in the crowd. “They pickpocketed me for my phone,” he said in another Instagram Story. “[Shaking my head]. Bring that jawn back if you got it.”

In another post, he hilariously shared, “first time I had to tuck my chains, I couldn’t breatheee.” Shortly after Meek shared news about his phone, Ghanaian artist Shatta Wale asked that the artist’s phone be returned.

In a tweet, he wrote, “Streetz, if you know you have Meek Mill’s phone, please return if that’s true. You can’t do that to a real hustler. By [tomorrow] morning, return a.m. Meek inspires all of us on the street a lot,” Shatta said.

In the meantime, the rapper updated fans that he had retrieved his phone. “I want to say thank you guys for getting this phone back to my life, man, y’all didn’t let them hack me, right commander?” Meek asked a police officer in a video he shared.

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Diddy is enjoying some personal time with his youngest daughter, whom he welcomed back in October 2022, with cyber specialist Dana Tran. On Tuesday, he shared several photos of the baby for the first time as fans saw him up close in daddy mode and got an eyeful of the little one.

“Baby Love,” Diddy captioned the two photos shared on his Twitter account.

In one photo, he can be seen holding the little girl who sleeps on his shoulder. The baby is wearing a pink jumpsuit with a matching bow on her head, while Diddy, who is wearing a white t-shirt, is seen from behind.

In another photo, the baby is wide-eyed and awake as she lies in a car seat. The photo captures several minute details about the little girl, such as her ear piercing and her head full of dark hair.

The baby Love Sean Combs was first announced earlier this month by Diddy in a shock announcement as the mother was unknown and not seen before with Diddy, who appears to be in a public relationship with City Girls rapper Yung Miami.

It’s unclear the circumstances of the child’s birth and the woman’s actual relationship with Diddy. However, the rapper has shared that his family, including his children and mother, were very happy to welcome the baby to the Combs clan.

In the meantime, fans also reacted to the photo shared by Diddy.

“Very Beautiful Baby s/n aren’t you supposed to wait until the baby has at least 6mth shots to get ear piercing or have things changed since my oldest is 19,” one person asked.

Diddy, whose real name is Sean John Combs, has had six children with three different women. His first child, Justin Combs, was born in 1993. Justin is a model and actor and has appeared in campaigns for brands like Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana.

Diddy’s second child, Christian, was born in 1998 and is also a model and a rapper. The hip hop mogul’s twin daughters, D’Lila and Jessie, were born in 2006. The music exec also has a 16-year-old daughter with Sarah Chapman name Chance.

Diddy has also helped raise and support his stepson, Quincy Brown, who is an actor and model. Quincy Brown’s mother is Diddy’s late ex Kim Porter, and his father is Al B. Sure.

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Drake denies that he flew a woman out for sex and asked her if she wanted a baby before things ended on a bad note.

On Wednesday, a video surfaced on Instagram with the woman making the bizarre claims. According to her, she had made a post on Instagram Stories while wearing purple lingerie in November and had tagged the rapper, who later responded and flew her out, presumably out of the country and to his home, where she signed an NDA before spending time with the rapper and sleeping with him after which he kicked her out of his home.

“I did not know that he was gonna even see it. I’m not even gonna lie. He had texted me eventually like ‘what’s your number’ with the heart eyes emoji. I sent my number quick,” she said.

She continued, “So, he called my phone, we chopping it up whatever and that’s when he said he trying to see me and I’m like I’m trying to see you too. So he had booked my flight for November 16th, mind y’all we texting, talking all a that November 13th. So fast forward, I get off the plane, he sent a private [unintelligible] to get me but before I went inside his house, they made me sign an NDA. So I can’t say much but I had looked up the NDA rules so I know what I can and can’t say…so so when I get in the house we just sitting, chilling, talking, he kept on rubbing on my stomach, kept on asking questions like ‘do you want kids’ and I’m like what you tryna say? If you wana baby momma me just say that.”

The woman added that the rapper allegedly slept with her without protection but got angry when she took out her phone and allegedly threw her out after she recorded him.

“He just kept on rubbing on my stomach like do you do you want kids and I said yes I want one, I want a lil boy. So we watch a movie, we drinking Casamigos, then y’all know Casamigos bring out the freakout,” she said as she relayed the story. “We did what we did I dnt have to go into details about that, It’s self-explanatory but he did not use protection which was a little weird but y’all know I’m just going with the flow. So, after we did what he did, we just cuddling and watching another movie. Everything went left when I pulled my phone out. As soon as he sees me recording, he slapped my phone out of my hand… I got a little scared, that slap was a little aggressive but after he slapped the phone out of my hand he was like ‘you got to go.”

In the meantime, there have been many bizarre claims on the internet about Drake’s sex life, but this one is the first female with a face making a claim.

Drake, however, denies that he knows the woman or flew her out and even has some advice for her to mend her idle ways.

“Never met. Never spoke. Never flew,” Drake said in a post on Instagram that has since been deleted.

“I hope people start doing more with the one life we are given sh*t is sad out here,” he added.

Earlier this year, another woman claimed that Drake had put pepper sauce in his used condoms and that her private parts got burned after she attempted to insert the contents of the used condom into herself. That claim was never verified, and Drake did not respond to it.

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Jo Mersa Marley’s cause of death has been revealed as tributes poured in for the late reggae star.

Urban Islandz broke the story on Tuesday that the son of Stephen Marley and grandson of the late reggae legend Bob Marley passed away after being found unresponsive on Boxing Day in his car in Florida. While the reggae community struggles to deal with his untimely death at the age of 31, sources are telling Urban Islandz that the young Marley might’ve had an asthma attack before passing.

At the time of this publication, no official cause of death has been revealed, but sources say the Marley family plans to do an autopsy. In the meantime, tributes have been pouring in from Jo Mersa Marley’s friends and fans in the reggae community with names like Bounty Killer, Baby Cham, Freddie McGregor, Ce’Cile, Beres Hammond, Shaggy, Maxi Priest, Collie Buddz, I-Octane, Sean Paul, Gramps Morgan, Jesse Royal, Capleton, and many more all shared tributes on social media.

Jesse Royal, who was a close friend of Jo Mersa, wrote, “My heart is truly aching… Jo was such a solid loyal and direct individual. An incredible and dedicated father, A friend u could always count on and a Lion who a govern him Jungle. Jo Always ago tell you how him feel despite feelings. The memories are too numerous to mention, the laughs were too real to forget but at the moment the pain is inconsolable. I’ve seen you grow thru so many changes and stages and only kept getting better and better Broo! I pray that the world gets a chance to hear every piece of art u have ever created!! Even the demos because they are that good! Broooo mi still can’t even believe this is real. Sincerest condolences to the family Jah Know Mers #HurtingInside.”

Jo Mersa died leaving behind father, Stephen Marley, his wife Qiara Marley, and a daughter. Mersa also has several siblings as his father Stephen has fathered a reported close to a dozen children.

Sean Paul wrote, “Cyah belive young soldier. R.I.P G @jomersamarley condolences 2 #stephenmarley an the entire marley fam. All his freinds an fanz.”

Bounty Killer added on IG, “Jah know star let’s all just cherish each moment from here on since non of us never know the time. My deepest sincere condolences goes out to #StephenRagga and the whole Marley family.”

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