Snoop Dogg To Drop A Cookbook: "From Crook To Cook"

Snoop Dogg has announced that he is releasing a cookbook, From Crook to Cook, through Chronicle Books in October 2018.

From Crook to Cook is slated to include a host of “cannabis-free, OG staples” such as baked mac and cheese, chicken and waffles, soft flour tacos, and more, organized by meals and occasions. Unsurprisingly, the 50-recipe book will also include a Gin and Juice formula.

“You know it’s blazin’ up in my kitchen. I’m takin’ the cookbook game higher with a dipped and whipped collection of my favorite recipes, ya dig?” the legendary West Coast representative says in a statement.

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Snoop obviously isn’t new to the cooking game — he previously guest-starred on Martha Stewart’s Martha show in 2008. Stewart and Snoop are also the stars of VH1’s Emmy-nominated show, Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party, currently in its second season.

Snoop Dogg and Chronicle Books intend to collaborate on a line of cannabis-themed books in 2020.

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Ice Cube Isn’t Done With His Kobe Bryant BIG3 Recruitment

New York, NY – Although a rep denied Kobe Bryant was on board to play in the BIG3 basketball league earlier this week, Ice Cube isn’t giving up quite yet.

In an interview with ESPN’s Outside The Lines, the West Coast gangsta rap icon joked that he’d take extreme measures to get the NBA legend to join the league.

“To me, he’s the biggest name out there for us to get,” he said. “He’s going to have to get a restraining order on me to leave him alone about this.”

Cube predicts nature will take its course and the BIG3 will reel Kobe in organically.

“I think we just keep doing what we doing putting on great basketball and I think we have a lot of retired players looking at our league and they want a piece of this,” he added. “And we’ve got a lot of players that are at the end of their career that are looking at our league.

“If you got the itch, we got the scratch. We just keep putting on a great product and if he wants to play, he’ll come play.”

The rumor started to circulate on Wednesday (August 21) after Basketball Society’s Brandon Robinson said Kobe was ready to join the BIG3. The news reportedly came from league co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz.

By that afternoon, Chief Marketing Officer of Kobe Inc. Molly Carter shot that rumor down and confirmed he wouldn’t be playing next year. 

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Quavo Risks It All For Saweetie In "Workin Me" Video

After dropping off the video for “Lamb Talk” earlier this month, Quavo is back with another one for “Workin Me.” Directed by the Migos super rapper himself, the visual stars burgeoning artist Saweetie as the forbidden fruit.

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It begins with Quavo playing pool inside a sprawling mansion and the owner of the home issuing a stern warning about getting involved with his niece. Naturally, the two have a magnetic attraction and betray his request.

Things take an ugly turn when their secret is discovered.

Watch the “Workin Me” video above to find out how it ends. 

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Aaron Hernandez Thanked JAY-Z, Meek Mill & Rick Ross In Suicide Note

Former NLF star and convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez committed suicide in jail last year. Hours before he ended his life, he wrote three suicide notes saying his final goodbyes. Now, the contents of those notes have been revealed.

According to CNN, Hernandez wrote one to his daughter Avielle Jenkins-Hernandez, fiancée Shayanna Jenkins and his attorney Jose Baez.

In the note to Baez, he thanks artists like JAY-Z, Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Kevin Gates and The Game for their music.

“I need a favor,” the note reads. “If you have any contacts for any artists like Gates, Meek Mill, Ross, Jay, Game … etc. I would like to send you letters so you can send to their information or whichever way you think best. I don’t want any media really getting into me, trying to just send my love to all the artists who got me through my tough times and sending my respect to a few of the real ones out there.

“So I think that’s the best idea through you. It’s something I have to do and I’d appreciate if you could do that for me, if possible! If not, I’ll figure something out. Well, get at me, love ya brother!”

? got my copy can’t wait to read it #TEAMHERNANDEZ

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The excerpts from Hernandez’s suicide notes are included in Baez’s new book, Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez. 

Hernandez was serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd and had recently been acquitted of two other murder charges related to a July 2012 drive-by shooting outside a Boston nightclub when he died.

Although he was just 27 at the time of his death, the New England Patriot had Stage 3 CTE with brain damage that is usually seen in someone 20 years older. 

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Meyhem Lauren Spits Grimy Bars In DJ Muggs’ "Niggas Is Pussy" Video

DJ Muggs continues the support for his Dia Del Asesinato album with a new video for the Meyhem Lauren-assisted “Niggas Is Pussy.”

Lauren and Muggs have become frequent collaborators in recent years, creating an album and EP together in addition to working on each other’s solo projects. Earlier this month, Muggs spoke to HipHopDX about the creative relationship he’s built with the East Coast rhymer.

“When I first met Mey, the reason we’re working now is ‘cause I left him two beats,” he told DX. “I was in the studio, I left around midnight. By the time I woke up at like seven in the morning, I had two finished songs in my inbox. And I was like, that just what it takes. ‘Cause when I work, I go hard. I work hard. Stay focused. Get my shit done.

“Some muthafuckas wanna lollygag and hold on to your beat for two weeks and sit there and fucking … I ain’t got time for that. So, when I seen that with Mey, I was like that’s the kind of muthafuckas I wanna work with right there. And we clicked. Whenever we around, we just jump in the lab. Get it in for four or five hours, get something done.”

Watch Muggs’ “Niggas Is Pussy” video with Lauren above and stream Dia Del Asesinato here.

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