Jim Jones: Last News

died in his sleep on Friday, his wife, Sherkita Long-Platt confirmed to TMZ. He was 43.Long-Platt debunked unfounded rumors that her husband died from an overdose, telling the outlet that he didn’t do drugs.In 2009, Unk was hospitalized for a heart attack, which he told XXL was brought on by nonstop touring, poor eating habits, drinking and smoking.Long-Platt issued a statement on Facebook just hours after DJ Unk’s death.“Please respect me and my family.

Ethan Shanfeld In the first few minutes of his Apple TV+ comedy “The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s character Matt Remick is promoted to the head of a major movie studio. His first order of business in the new role is to fast-track a “Kool-Aid” movie — the studio’s next billion-dollar bet — and Matt, a starry-eyed cinephile, thinks he can get an auteur director to helm it. He has a meeting with Martin Scorsese (played by none other than Martin Scorsese), who coincidentally pitches an original movie about Jonestown, the mass murder-suicide orchestrated by cult leader Jim Jones in which 900 people died by drinking laced… Kool-Aid.

Kanye West has previewed some snippets of his new material which featured a shoutout to Diddy and having threesomes with his wife.The Chicago rapper took over the 1 Oak club in Tokyo, Japan where he and the likes of internet personality Justin LaBoy and rapper Jim Jones played a few of Ye’s tracks from the DJ booth.Ye played a song that featured vocals from his daughter North West over Dipset’s ‘I’m Ready’. “Focused on my dreams /I’m working at them everyday / I’m ready / I’m Ready,” the tween rapped.Kanye West previews a new song by his daughter North West in Tokyo that samples "I'm Ready" by DipsetJim Jones is in Tokyo also pic.twitter.com/kYTkmsXxET— SOUND | Victor Baez (@itsavibe) January 29, 2025Another track played by Ye sees him rap over Future‘s ‘Lil Demon’ from his 2024 mixtape ‘Mixtape Pluto’.

Richard Ayoade joined Dinosaur Jr. on stage at their London show last night (November 13) as a special guest.The rock veterans are currently completing a four-night residency at The Garage in Islington in honour of the 30th anniversary of their fifth studio LP, ‘Where You Been’.Last night (November 13), Ayoade joined the band on stage and played guitar during a live rendition of ‘The Lung’.The actor and director is no stranger to the music world.

Linda Lee Sylvander, known during her acting career as Linda Haynes, died July 17 in Summerville, South Carolina at 75, with he death recenty coming to pubic attention. No cause was given by her family, who said she died “peacefully”

The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya has been arrested — as the death toll of his followers continues to rise. Paul McKenzie (above,

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The Emmys have been here before. In 1980, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (back then, they were two separate unions negotiating a joint contract with the studios but are now the combined SAG-AFTRA) went on strike for three months. That year’s Emmy telecast happened to fall right in the middle of it. Actors boycotted the ceremony, but for some reason, the TV Academy went ahead with the Emmy telecast anyway. Famously, only one out of 52 nominees attended: Powers Boothe, who said when accepting his trophy for playing cult leader Jim Jones: “This is either the most courageous moment of my career or the stupidest.”

Lil Wayne has revealed that he hasn’t eaten fast food in decades, and that it’s been so long since he’s had a McDonald’s meal that he doesn’t know what it smells like.The rapper recently sat down with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe to discuss his upcoming album ‘Tha Carter VI’, at one point sharing more about his diet. “When I was 19 I moved to Miami and my mom is a chef and she was very happy for the move because New Orleans is crazy,” he said, per Complex. “One thing she really wanted me to do was get a personal chef.”“So from the age of 19 to now, I’ve always had a personal chef.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial” sounds like the tawdriest of TV-movies, with any vestige of shame left on the cutting-room floor. It definitely is that, yet it’s worth noting that this exact sort thing has been around for decades. It just didn’t used to come off the assembly line quite so quickly. In the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, the landscape was littered with made-for-TV movies that jumped on tabloid-ready stories — The Jacksons! Jim Jones! The Menendez brothers! The Beverly Hills madam! The rape of Richard Beck! — and squeezed out whatever juice was left in them. “Hot Take” isn’t much different. It feeds on our collective desire, which is apparently limitless, to see adequate-but-not-never-good-enough actors acting out the infamous scenes we’ve read or heard about, bringing those squalid episodes to life. Except that the whole problem with this form is that the dramatized version rarely ends up looking half as real as what was in our imaginations.

What’s the matter with Pearl? Plenty, as it turns out in Ti West’s terrifically enjoyable postscript to his spring release X, which saw a 1970s film crew fall brutally afoul of an elderly farmer and his wife while shooting a porno in their barn. Unusually for a horror film, X had the same actress — Mia Goth — as both the final kill (the farmer’s psychotic wife Pearl) and the final girl (sex-film starlet Maxine), and this intelligent, not to mention almost indecently hasty prequel explains the reasons.

Lil Kim rocked Dolce And Gabbana as she lit up the stage this Saturday at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens in New York City.The 48-year-old was part of a glittering star-studded lineup performing for LL Cool J's Rock The Bells hip-hop festival.Rock The Bells is making its grand return this year with a day-long extravaganza of performances, a decade after the last time it happened. Making it happen:Lil Kim rocked Dolce And Gabbana as she lit up the stage this Saturday at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens in New York CityShe slipped into a saucy D&G ensemble that shimmered with sequins and allowed her to flash not only her midriff but also her amply endowed cleavage.Accentuating her unmistakable features with makeup, she showed off her shapely legs in a set of intricately embroidered D&G stockings.

ESSENCE excitedly in anticipation of this year’s festival. Along with the aforementioned rappers, the full festival line-up includes Jadakiss, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, Ice Cube, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross, and much more. Ahead of this year’s festival, ESSENCE caught up with LL COOL J at The Edition Hotel to talk about his love and appreciation for his femcee peers, the growth of Rock The Bells over the years, and his top five female rappers in the game.“There is room for females to look at Lauryn Hill or Missy Elliott.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLevel, the publication for Black men launched on Medium three years ago, has migrated to its own website, Levelman.com, with Medium founder/CEO Ev Williams serving as the lead investor.The initial launch content, according to EIC John Kennedy, includes rapper Jim Jones on being an NFT early adopter and his two-decade career; comedy writer Carlos Greaves compiles the 55 biggest, Blackest dad jokes you’ve never heard; and the return of the popular Level column “The Only Black Guy in the Office,” sharing one man’s snarky accounts of being corporate while Black. There is also an essay from author/ culture critic Michael Arceneaux about the problematic legacy of the recently deceased, controversial relationship guru Kevin Samuels.

Anyone nostalgic for the mixtape era of hip-hop has been eating good this past year. First up, Tyler, The Creator recruited DJ Drama to add a layer of integrity to his stellar 2021 album Call Me If You Got Lost. Next came Dipset member Jim Jones who earlier this year released the lowkey underrated Gangsta Grillz: We Set the Trends.

It is one of the most harrowing tragedies in American history.Now, a new film is being made surrounding the tragic events of the Jonestown Massacre, the mass cult suicide-murder that claimed 909 lives in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloë Grace Moretz will topline the thriller, according to Deadline. Thriller:Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Chloë Grace Moretz to star in new movie White Night based on the horrific Jonestown MassacreThe project is being helmed by filmmaker Anne Sewitsky with a script based on survivor Deborah Layton's memoir Seductive Poison.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJoseph Gordon-Levitt will play cult leader Jim Jones and Chloë Grace Moretz will play a member of the Peoples Temple founder’s inner circle in “White Night,” a new film about one of the largest murder-suicides in history.The Jonestown Massacre, as it is more commonly known, resulted in the deaths of more than 900 people, most of them Jones’ followers. They followed the Christian Socialist preacher and faith healer to Guyana, where he worked to establish a remote jungle commune, only to find their dreams of creating a religious paradise devolve into an abusive nightmare.FilmNation Entertainment will finance the movie and produce it with Archer Gray.

Whoa. This may be the most disturbing parenting reveal we’ve ever heard.

welcoming his fourth baby in six months in June, the prolific papa might not be slowing down anytime soon: The “Drumline” actor said that he will sire even more spawn if the man upstairs allows it.

Benny The Butcher has released his new album ‘The Plugs I Met 2’ – you can listen to it below.The nine-track project, which arrives four months after Benny was shot during an attempted robbery, features guest verses from the likes of 2 Chainz, Fat Joe, French Montana, Jim Jones and late rapper Chinx.Unlike the first volume of ‘The Plugs I Met’ which had Alchemist, Daringer and a number of others handling the beats, the sequel to the Griselda rapper’s 2019 project is produced entirely by New York’s Harry Fraud.Although it was recorded at the same time as last year’s critically acclaimed, Hit-Boy-produced ‘Burden Of Proof’ album, Benny said the energy on his latest effort is very different.“I recorded ‘Burden Of Proof’ in Cali with Hit-Boy

A new challenge is smoking up the competition on Instagram. It all started with people challenging each other to a Push Up Challenge amid coronavirus quarantine -- and then things got hazy.Sparked by Gillie Da Kid, the Kush Up Challenge consists of taking in 10 pulls of weed without letting out any smoke in-between.

Suga made sure that the quarantine period would not go in vain as he treated BTS fans with the release of his second mixtape, D-2, under his alter-ego's name, AGUST D. Along with the hard-hitting mixtape, Yoongi also dropped the thrilling music video for the lead single, Daechwita, which had ARMY gasping for their breath. However, Suga also came under fire for one of the tracks, What Do You Think? as it used cult leader Jim Jones' sermon in the introduction to the song.