While there’s no way to change what happened March 10, police say the disturbing details surrounding the man who shot at Middlefield police have led them to a new investigation.

James Gilkerson was, by all appearances, a nice man who devoted his time to caring for his elderly mother in Mentor-on-the-Lake. But police, now calling him a terrorist, say even she didn’t know things about her 42-year-old son. ”There’s no really criminal history to this guy. He didn’t work. He was a loner,” said Middlefield Police Chief Arnold Stanko. But it seems doting son was just a mask for a man planning another identity. Gilkerson was shot and killed after he opened fire on police officers and he might have been planning an attack much bigger.

“Now phase two of the investigation is going to be: who was this guy? What was he doing?” said Jim Flaiz, the Geauga County prosecutor. Middlefield police officers found an arsenal in a duffle bag on the passenger seat of his mother’s green Saturn sedan — knives, guns, nearly 400 bullets and the gunpowder to make more, or build explosives.

“He also had a black ski mask, black leather gloves. He had a number of books and pamphlets in his trunk, instructional videos on gun fighting and some other things,” said Flaiz. The makeshift library of books and videos read like a sickening instruction manual: advanced rifle techniques, the big book of homemade weapons, “Be your own undertaker” and “Acquiring new ID.” While James Gilkerson can’t tell us what he was planning, police are determined to find answers.

“When you see what he had, how much ammunition he had, and how he reacted to being pulled over by the police,” said Flaiz. “Certainly I think you can speculate that these officers might have prevented a tragedy down the road.”

Did anyone else know what Gilkerson was up to?

That’s still part of the investigation. Prosecutors have interviewed his mother, Dorothy Gilkerson, who’s since been forced to move in with another relative for care. They say she’s tried to be helpful but she’s distraught and has no answers for his behavior.

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In a short span, many notable or fringe Hip Hop contributors took their own lives. Somehow, nobody wants to talk about it.

Hip Hop suffered a disheartening loss on Christmas Eve last year, as fans awoke to the news that Capital Steez, a 19-year-old rising underground star had committed suicide. Just before midnight on December 23rd, Steez, born Jamal Dewar, ominously tweeted, “The end.”

Less than two weeks later, On January 5, 2013, much like Steez, fellow rapper Freddy E took his own life after the following series of cryptic tweets:

“It’s…all… bad…y’all. *puts finger around trigger*…I love you Mom…I love you Dad…I love you Katherine…God… please forgive me…I’m sorry.”

In a relatively short span, enough either notable or fringe Hip Hop contributors took their own lives to make suicide in Hip Hop a full on problem. The prior year, on August 30, 2012, 44-year-old Hip Hop mogul, Chris Lighty, allegedly killed himself with a gunshot to the head. Earlier, in February of 2012, famed “Soul Train” host and producer Don Cornelius took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot. Lighty and Cornelius’ deaths inevitably brought to mind the 2008 suicide of Shakir Stewart, the executive VP of Def Jam, who had succeeded Jay-Z shortly before killing himself. Also in 2008,Johnny “J” Jackson, the producer responsible for a classic chunk of Tupac’s catalog, leaped to his death from an upper tier in the Los Angeles County jail while serving a sentence for DWI. With so many suicides happening, why wasn’t anyone talking?

Suicide often disappears from the public discourse once an isolated incident fades from the news cycle. Lighty’s legacy earned his death a little more attention than others had received. While Lighty’s situation was different in that 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip and a number of Lighty’s friends and former clients launched an investigation to probe the circumstances surrounding his death, a New York Times obituary wasn’t enough to spark a discussion about the dark, uncomfortable, enigmatic subject of suicide.

No Comment: The Reluctance To Address Suicide

“I’ve been trying my best,” Joey Bada$$ told “Sway” Calloway, in his first public comments about his friend and fellow Pro-Era member Capitol Steez. “I’ve been trying not to get too lost in my thoughts and everything. It truly hurts losing a brother or a best friend. It hurts a lot, man.”

Joey said he’d already put pen to paper about the subject, and he added that the only reason he addressed it was due to his respect for Sway. And perhaps that’s the problem. For both the people contemplating suicide and those coping with a loved one that has taken their own life, there’s an alarming lack of a sounding board or a point of reference in Hip Hop.

“Being his friend, and thinking that I know him, it was like, ‘This guy…he wouldn’t do that,’” Honey Cocaine told MTV’s Rob Markman shortly after Freddy E’s death. “He was a strong guy, he was always happy, so it seemed.”

Along with Honey Cocaine, 50 Cent was also one of the few artists that offered some commentary on a fallen friend.

Perhaps sensitivity for the deceased partially deters discussion. Candid talk can easily be misinterpreted as judgmental, especially to those still grieving. Nobody—or at least very few people—would want to insinuate weakness or question the character of those rendered defenseless in death, especially individuals who displayed great strength in life.

“You can’t be mean about people who end up killing themselves,” Tyrese said while speaking on the suicide of his friend who was featured in the forward of his book, How To Get Out Of Your Own Way. “He inspired me to embark on the journey to write my book.”

Avoiding insensitivity, however, tends to sanitize the discussion. Scrubbed of uncomfortable elements, conversations get reduced to narrow glorifications of individual attributes, and the act of suicide is selectively acknowledged, if acknowledged at all.

In addition to sensitivity, confusion cripples the conversation. The lack of an ideal-driven, activist stance to take against suicide renders obsolete the kind of knee-jerk righteousness often inspired by violence. We can loudly denounce guns and drugs any time a rapper gets killed or overdoses. But rather than inspire enthused discussion, suicide seems to breed societal speechlessness.

This minimization of suicide in our communal discourse makes each incident seem like an anomalous tragedy, thus obscuring the reality of suicide’s recurrence, which leaves voids in Hip Hop just like murder. All the while, suicide thematically pervades the art’s content.

Set For Life: Validating The Feelings Of Suicide Victims

Four months prior to committing suicide, Johnny J reportedly told King Tech of “The Wake Up Show,” that he had sold over 100 million records to date, still had 30 unreleased Tupac songs, and partially owned much of Pac’s music.

“Unbelievable,” Tech said to MTV News shortly after Jackson’s death. “The dude was set for life… Everybody is confused out here. Everybody I talk to [is] like, ‘What?’ He wasn’t broke, publishing was coming in, he had a wife, he had two kids and a big house. He had everything. He didn’t need to go.”

King Tech echoed a common sentiment often felt when struggling to identify a logical motive behind suicide. But I think this bafflement often expressed after a suicide naively—or perhaps unwittingly—dismisses conditions that undermine commonly held values and grant suicide its appeal. Not to say suicide should ever be advocated or celebrated—not in this context at least—but true insensitivity lies in denying the validity of one’s feelings and mislabeling suicidal contemplation an abnormality.

“Most of us have huge validation issues,” Tyrese told HipHopDX, generalizing public figures from rappers to politicians. “We find ourselves basing our self-value on people seeing the value in us. So the day that you’re not as hot as you used to be, you’re also not hot as you used to be to yourself. Ain’t nobody checking for me, so I’m not checking for myself. Ain’t nobody showing me love, so I don’t love myself.”

Tyrese stressed that allowing superficial criteria to determine one’s self-worth can easily lead to suicidal thoughts, especially in a business with such extreme uncertainty of lasting success.

“The thought of suicide never creeped in when you were number one on Billboard,” he said. “Now that you can’t get past 130 every time you drop a single, you don’t want to live no more.”

But maintaining dominance or consistently progressing up the charts doesn’t necessarily safeguard one from suicidal thoughts and behavior. Despite the success of two arguably classic albums, Lupe Fiasco questioned the value of his own existence for a brief period prior to the release of his third album, Lasers.

“I wrestled with suicide,” Lupe told New York magazine in 2011, explaining that the subject matter onLasers was more personal than on his previous albums. “There’s this wrestling with fame and success: How much is enough? How much of this money can I blow on Ferraris?”

His suicidal thoughts followed an incident in which Atlantic Records scratched Lupe’s appearance on a Bruno Mars single and replaced him with B.O.B. Lupe then documented his emotions on the song “Beautiful Lasers (2 Ways),” when he rhymed the following bars:

“This world is such a fucked up place / My mind’s such a fucked up shape / Everything down here sucks / Maybe what’s up there is great / All you see is all my feats / All I see is all my flaws / All I hear is all my demons / Even through your applause…”

Atlantic, however, stymied Lupe’s catharsis and rebuffed his wish to make “Beautiful Lasers” the first single. The label insisted on “The Show Goes On,” which became Lupe’s most commercially successful single to date.

The Social & Familial Factors Behind Suicides

Even moderate commercial success—such as Food & Liquor and The Cool had achieved—can significantly improve one’s financial condition. But one’s financial condition still has to exist within a society of institutions that often demand the compromise of priceless convictions. Industry standards greatly conflicted with Lupe’s values and created an oppressive atmosphere in which death became considerably preferable to acquiescence. It was a Shakespearean portrayal of wealth’s limited capabilities, reminiscent of Hamlet’s suicidal soliloquy: “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep…”

Although the specific details of Hamlet’s situation seem non-pertinent to our everyday struggles, the concept remains relevant. A multitude of social and familial factors can sometimes undermine the widely accepted logic that deems suicide completely irrational. Tangible goods rarely equate to intangible inner peace. Furthermore, in our times, economic success can intensify, rather than quell, financial anxiety. Simply put, mo’ money, mo’ problems.

But Biggie embraced those problems that came with the money. His two album titles, Ready To Dieand the subsequent Life After Death, indicated a resurrection of spirit. The final track on B.I.G.’s Ready To Die album, “Suicidal Thoughts,” expressed a sentiment similar to that of Shakespeare’s demoralized prince of Denmark. But unlike Hamlet, Biggie voiced the hopelessness of have-nots. Hamlet hurt, in part, from the “pangs of despised love,” but it was the pangs of poverty that brought Biggie to his brink. B.I.G.’s hopelessness stemmed from socioeconomic oppression compounded by the self-loathing that followed regrettable decisions necessitated by his living conditions.

“When I die, fuck it, I wanna go to hell / I’m a piece of shit it ain’t hard to fuckin’ tell… Crime after crime, from drugs to extortion / I know my mother wish she had a fuckin abortion.”

We saw this same kind of guilt-laced existential doubt on Onyx’s All We Got Iz Us album. On the track, “Last Dayz,” Sticky Fingaz rapped, “I’m thinkin’ bout takin’ my own life / I might as well / Except they might not sell weed in hell / And that’s where I’m goin cuz the devil is inside of me / He make me rob from my own nationality / It’s kinda ignorant, but yo, I gotta pay the rent.”

For Sticky, the uncertainty of weed availability in the hereafter seemed more unbearable than the earthly ills that drove him to contemplate suicide. Although undeterred by the certainty of hell, the weed anxieties that gave Sticky Fingaz pause were analogous to Hamlet’s fears of “The undiscovered country from whose bourn, No traveler returns.” Some of Sticky’s later material contained suicidal undertones as well. But while he persevered, it was his younger brother X1, who committed suicide in 2007.

Biggie resisted the temptation of suicide because he managed to surmount the conditions that molded his mentality. When his conditions changed, his desire for death waned.

“The way I was feelin when I did Ready To Die was, I was feelin like I was already dead,” Big said in an interview shortly before he was murdered. “Life After Death is the flip side. I can’t rhyme about being broke no more because I aint broke.”

Hope For Increased Dialouge About Suicide

The thematic universality of suicide stretches from the work of Shakespeare to Sticky Fingaz. From 16th century Denmark to “South Suicide Queens.” But the art merely reflects reality.

The Center For Disease Control reported that suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2010, the most recent year for which data is available. Broken down by age group, it was the third leading cause of death for persons aged 15-24 years, the second leading cause among those aged 25-34 years, and the fourth leading cause among those aged 35-54 years.

This contextual prevalence seems largely unacknowledged whenever a prominent individual’s suicide captures public attention. The admirable distinctions of artists and entertainers make them the few noteworthy deaths in a country that averaged 105 suicides per day, according to the CDC’s most recent annual data. And while this article acknowledged a few rappers who publicized their respective suicidal thoughts, we can’t overlook the most recent annual data that indicates an estimated 8.3 million adults in the U.S. reported having suicidal thoughts. In 2010,  firearms were responsible for 56% of all suicides, making them the most commonly used method of suicide. This data anecdotally matches up with Freddy E, Cornelius and Lighty. Even with the lingering national debate over gun control legislation, that’s a rarely acknowledged fact, which just seems indicative of society’s conventional aversion to the discomfort and complexities that accompany the truth.

Hip Hop has force fed society uncomfortable truths since “The Message.” Rappers compensated for the shortcomings of domestic journalism by reporting from “where the hammers rung, news cameras never come.” But the topic of suicide can cause a more contagiously disturbing sense of discomfort than the societal injustices typically addressed in Hip Hop. And aversion to discomfort keeps genuine discussion relegated to academics and mental health professionals, whose own understanding of the issue is limited by that common discomfort.

While the mere existence of Hip Hop has, in great part, deterred me from suicide, fear of detainment has always discouraged me from disclosing my suicidal thoughts to mental health professionals. Could a white-coated doctor properly conduct the psychiatric evaluation of a disingenuously suicidal writer, draped in an orange gown, trying to explain that hopes for a Jay Electronica album nullify the intolerability of my emotional torment?

Wider public discussion might not miraculously unearth a solution that has long evaded humanity, but the courage for conversation seems essential in progressively evolving. More talk can at least weaken social stigmas, which—alongside the looming possibility of a straightjacket—muzzle millions of people who might otherwise provide valuable insight.

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Chris Kelly, one half of the ’90s rap duo Kris Kross, has died of a possible drug overdose, Georgia authorities said.

Kelly, 34, was pronounced dead Wednesday night at the Atlanta Medical Center, Clint Harbin, an investigator with the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, told ABC News Radio.

Authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death and an autopsy is expected to be performed later today.

“It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose,” said Cpl. Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police, according to The Associated Press.

Kelly (known as “Mac Daddy“), along with Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith, the backward-pants-wearing mini-rappers, rose to fame with their song “Jump” from their 1992 album, “Totally Krossed Out.”

“Jump” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and remained there for eight weeks.

Kelly and Smith were discovered by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri in an Atlanta mall. Kelly was 13 when “Totally Krossed Out” was released. The album went on to multiplatinum status thanks to “Jump,” which remained a popular song throughout 1992.

They toured with Michael Jackson later that year during his “Dangerous World Tour.”

Their gimmick of wearing clothes backward won over legions of fans and allowed the duo to cross over into mainstream success. They even went on to release their own video game titled “Kris Kross: Make My Video” for the Sega CD console.

They released “Da Bomb” in 1993, which failed to match the success of their prior album. One of the singles off the album, also titled “Da Bomb,” featured female rapper Da Brat.

The group’s last album, “Young, Rich & Dangerous,” was released in 1996 and reached gold status.

Earlier this year, the group performed together in Atlanta to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dupri’s label, So So Def.

“He actually was still working on music and recording,” said Yahoo music writer Billy Johnson Jr., who interviewed Kelly in February.

“He said he had several hundred songs that he had recorded and he had mentioned that during his time away from releasing music that he had actually gone back to school to learn how to be a studio engineer,” Johnson said, according to ABC News Radio.

Johnson also discussed questions about Kelly’s health after pictures surfaced online with patches of his hair missing.

“I asked him about that and he said he had skin disease called alopecia and he said that those rumors had been very hurtful because people thought he had cancer and it wasn’t true,” Johnson said.

Rapper LL Cool J tweeted a link to his new song, “Jump on It,” and dedicated it to Kelly.

“R.I.P Chris Kelly. This song is now officially dedicated to you. May GOD embrace your soul & lift up your family,” he tweeted.”

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Da Brat also both tweeted condolences overnight.

ABC News’ Jason Nathanson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Just as promised earlier in the night on Twitter, J. Cole delivers with new content in form of a track titled ’Cole Summer’. The tune, which was dropped via his SoundCloud blog, comes tagged along with the message of “Few Days to finish the album then off to Mixing. Here’s some thoughts. Cole Summer.” Glad to hear he’s finishing up the album and there won’t be anymore delays.

Nothing to crazy about this record, just a real smooth joint to keep us fans happy until the release of ‘Born Sinner‘. Cole says it himself in the beginning of the song: “Now this right here is not a preview of what the album gon’ bring you”. We still have two months to go till the release of ‘Born Sinner’ so do expect a follow up single to ’Power Trip’ in the coming weeks.

Cole’s sophomore effort ‘Born Sinner’ is set to hit stores on June 25th. Seems like the Roc Nation signee has just been on a winning streak with these recent releases and this record, ‘Cole Summer’, fits that same script. Take a listen below.

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Apparently all the hype surrounding elite level, freshman baller Seventh Woods is for real as the still only 14 year old hoop sensation from South Carolina has followed up his insane freshman season mixtape with more unbelievable footage from his recent domination of the competition at the 2013 Ice Breaker Invitational.

Woods was again sensational, throwing down an estimated 15 dunks during the tournament, also showing some deft touch on his jumper, and a unique scoring mentality that should have him in high demand upon HS graduation.

The 6’2 combo guard has already been touted as the best 14 year old baller on the planet, and has been described as a perfect combination of both Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade, but much more advanced at his age.  Hopefully he can continue to grow a few more inches but he seems to finish with excellent strength at the rim and has outstanding hang time when forced to adjust on the fly, implying Woods has some insane potential.

While we shouldn’t get too excited about a player just finishing 9th grade, but considering Woods doesn’t turn 15 until August, there’s good reason for all of the excitement surrounding the phenom, as he makes you do a double take, considering he’s doing things at such a young age that some players entering college aren’t yet doing.

He’s the next in line of insanely young prospects, following Lebron James, Harrison Barnes, and most recently a then only 13 year old Andrew Wiggins, that have benefited from the modern age of exposure thanks to the internet and social media.

Imagine the hype if Michael Jordan had the benefit of youtube as a young ballplayer……..In any case, remember the name Seventh Woods, as we will be hearing a lot of him in the coming years.

Watch as the “most dope” Mac Miller gives his opinion on Macklemore, new music he’s working on and explains his beef with Rosenberg and how it came to be!

In this intimate interview, Snoop Lion gives the sexy reason he wants to travel back to 1982 and talks about trading places with Dr. Dre for a day.

Two cast members from the reality show “Welcome to Myrtle Manor,” were arrested for various charges over the weekend.

Taylor J. Burt, 28, was arrested for Criminal Sexual Conduct with a minor, under the age of 16.

Lindsay Colbert, 21, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and other traffic violations.

Burt and Colbert are both featured in the show “Welcome to Myrtle Manor“ on TLC, which highlights a mobile home park in Myrtle Beach.

A woman told police early Saturday morning that Burt had sexual relations with her daughter, according to an incident report. The mother took her daughter to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center for an evaluation, according to the incident report. Burt was arrested late Saturday night. He is being held at the Myrtle Beach Jail on No Bond.

Colbert was arrested early Sunday morning near Highway 501 and Fantasty Harbour Boulevard. Colbert was traveling 62 mph in a 45 mph zone, so police pulled her over, according to an incident report. Colbert was lethargic and had slurred speech, the incident report said. Police also stated they smelled alcohol coming from the vehicle. Police asked Colbert to step out of the vehicle, but she refused saying she wanted to call a lawyer, according to the incident report. After Colbert did not call a lawyer, police approached the vehicle again and saw a bottle of rum with little alcohol left in it, according to the report. Police then administered a field sobriety test to Colbert. During the test she said, “are you giving me (expletive) cause I am on the show?” according to the report. The officer determined that she was driving under the influence and she was arrested.

Once at the jail, Colbert did consent to a breath sample. It determined she had a blood alcohol level of .15. Colbert was charged with DUI, speeding, and a liquor law violation. Colbert and Burt’s addresses on the incident reports do not match the mobile home park they claim to live in on the show, Myrtle Manor.

Amanda Lee Adams, 26, who is also featured on the show, was also arrested for DUI on Friday.  Myrtle Beach police responded to a single vehicle accident in the area of Highway 501 and Broadway Street early Friday around 4:30 a.m.

They found a Jeep Wrangler with front end damage, as well as a downed electric pole. Adams told officers that she had “three beers and four shots,” according to the police report. Adams was arrested and taken to the Myrtle Beach jail. She is being held without bond.

UPDATE 4/28/2013 4:38pm:

Officials say a cast member of TLC’s “Welcome to Myrtle Manor” has been released on bond after his arrest on charges of having sexual relations with a minor.

Officials say 28-year-old Taylor Jonathan Burt was released from jail Sunday on a $25,000 bond. He was arrested Saturday night and charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor under age 16.

The report from the Myrtle Beach police Department says a girl and her mother went to the department Friday and told officers that the girl had sexual relations with Burt. The girl went to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center for a physical exam.

It wasn’t known Sunday whether Burt has an attorney.

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The now 39 year old Latina glamour model still has the top and bottom S-curves working at full bore and maximum lust inducement, at least for any man or woman who admires the booty-side of a sultry looking latina.  It’s been a little while since we’ve seen so much skin from Vida. We’ll never say ‘well worth the wait’ since we hate waiting, but we will say we are all salacious smiles here today. Enjoy!

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Lauryn Hill is reportedly working on new music after a nearly 15-year absence from the music scene.

Lauryn Hill has remained largely mum even as she made headlines for her financial woes in recent weeks, but on Thursday, Apr. 25, the former Fugees singer finally broke her silence — with some very big news for her fans.

“Yes, I have recently entered into an agreement with Sony Worldwide Entertainment, to launch a new label, on which my new music will be released,” she wrote on her Tumblr on Thursday evening, addressing rumors that she may return to the studio. “And yes, I am working on new music.”

Hill, 37, famously disappeared from the music scene shortly after the debut and success of her August 1998 solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which is still widely considered one of the best and most influential albums ever.

In her post, the hip-hop/R&B songstress admitted that she has been dealing with a lot of internal struggles in the interim, specifically the “old conflict between art and commerce,” an issue that she’s battled “behind closed doors, but now in front of the public eye.”

“I’ve remained silent, after an extensive healing process,” Hill wrote. “This is about inequity, and the resulting disenfranchisement caused by it. I’ve been fighting for existential and economic freedom, which means the freedom to create and live without someone threatening, controlling, and/or manipulating the art and the artist, by tying the purse strings.”

Earlier this month, Hill was called to court for a hearing about criminal charges she faces for failing to pay her taxes in 2005, 2006, and 2007. The “Doo Wop” singer left the Newark, N.J. court without any resolution on Monday, Apr. 22, however, as the trial was delayed to May 6.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo scolded the singer for failing to pay her restitution in time for her sentencing, as she’d agreed to in June 2012. “This is not someone who stands before the court penniless,” Arleo said to Hill’s attorney, Nathan Hochman. “Actions speak louder than words, and there has been no effort here to pay these taxes.”

So far, Hill has reportedly only paid $50,000 of the total $554,000 she owes in retribution. The total amount she owes for taxes is still up for discussion.

In Thursday’s blog post, the “Everything is Everything” singer slammed the nature of the music industry that got her into such dire straits in the first place, calling it a “complicated set of traps, manipulations, and inequitable business arrangements.”

As Hill pointed out, Miseducation sold more than 50 million units worldwide, “earning the label a tremendous amount of money (a fraction of which actually came to me).” Hill is believed to have made an estimated $1.8 million during the three-year period that she failed to pay her taxes.

Hill previously attributed her abrupt disappearance in the early 2000s to threats that she and her family (Hill is mother to six children) were facing at the time. Now, however, the singer says she’s ready to push past the obstacles and create music once more.

“I am one artist who finds value in openly discussing the dynamics within this industry that force artists to compromise or distort themselves and what they do, rather than allowing them to make the music that people need,” she said of sticking by her beliefs. “There are volumes that could (and will) be said.”

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The track produced by Mike WiLL Made It is the third official single off the 26-year-old singer’s upcoming self-titled album, scheduled for release on July 8 via Epic Records.

The house party-themed clip helmed byDirector X was shot in Atlanta and co-stars her boyfriend Future, and includes cameos from Ludacris, Trinidad James, and Jazze Pha.

Justin Bieber was embroiled in a drugs bust when his tour bus was raided by police in Sweden on Wednesday night.

Cops controlling crowds of fans in the city of Stockholm reportedly smelled marijuana smoke coming from the vehicle while it was parked outside the city’s Grand Hotel, so they deployed a specialist drugs team to raid the coach.

The bust was carried out after the vehicle had been moved to the Ericsson Globe Arena, where the singer was performing on his Believe tour.

Officers searched the bus and found a stash of unidentified drugs onboard. The substances have since been sent for analysis.

A stun gun, which requires a permit in Sweden, was also discovered during the raid, which took place while Bieber was on stage.

Lars Bystrom, a spokesman for the Stockholm police department, says, “A colleague (smelt) a strong smell of marijuana, like someone had been smoking in the bus. We carried out a search and we found a small amount of alleged narcotics. We also found an electroshock weapon that wasn’t licensed… We don’t have a specific suspect, there were several people in the bus.”

Asked about the type of drugs found on the bus, Bystrom replies, “We sent the sample to a laboratory for analysis.”

Bieber and his 10-man entourage have since left the country and flown to Finland.

After the story broke on Thursday, the teenage singer wrote in a post on his Twitter.com page, “Some of the rumours about me… where do people even get this stuff. Whatever… back to the music.”

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