brandycavalli

WATCH: Rapper Gucci Mane Talks About Jail Drying Him Out Of The Drugs And Helping Him Get Rid Of Toxic People

“Life in prison was… hell”

Gucci Mane says in this video interview produced by The FADER and conducted shortly after the Atlanta rapper transitioned from maximum security prison to house arrest, where he’ll be until September.

But after three years in jail, he is also three years sober.

“I was on drugs so bad, I talked different. When I was smoking damn near a pound of weed every other day, I was congested. When I was drinking lean like crazy every day, I was out of my mind.”

Despite all the clone rumors, he says he’s not so much a different man as he is “a sober, more conscious Gucci.”

Addressing the clone chatter directly, he adds:

“It’s funny. I embrace it. A clone is, like, perfection. So if I look like a machine or a robot, then I’m doing something well.”

Sewage Spill Dumps 1.5 Million Gallons Of Sewage Forcing Closure of Beaches in Long Beach

At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage have spilled into the Los Angeles River and triggered a closure of all beaches in Long Beach.

Crews worked overnight to contain the fast-growing spill, which occurred about 2 p.m. Monday near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, according to Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.

The leak was finally stopped at 10 p.m., but crews remained at the site to repair the cracked pipe, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of Los Angeles Sanitation. Hagekhalil said as much as 2 million gallons of sewage might have spilled.

“We had tankers working all night,” he said. “We diverted a spill away from Lincoln Heights. We’re continuing to do a bypass of the spill.”

Officials said the top of a sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe and clogging it. Sewage overflowed and reached the L.A. River, and headed toward Long Beach.

Public Works officials don’t know what caused the break, but said the major pipe was built in 1929.

“This happening is just a part of the maintenance system,” Hagekhalil said. “Something grows old, you have to repair it or replace it.”

Sanitation workers on Tuesday were building a permanent bypass system to divert flow around the old pipe, Hagekhalil said.

Long Beach officials planned to test samples of ocean water Tuesday morning to determine whether it posed any health risks to the public, said Nelson Kerr, manager of the city’s Bureau of Environmental Health.

via Sewage Spill in L.A. Grows to 1.5 million Gallons, Forces Closure of Beaches in Long Beach — KTLA

Tavis Smiley Calls Out Sheriff David Clarke For “Scapegoating” Black Lives Matter

During his speech at the Republican National Convention Monday night, Sheriff David Clarke said the Black Lives Matter movement was anarchy.

Talk show host Tavis Smiley was asked by reporters how he felt about Clarke’s statements, to which he said “if the Black Lives Matters movement is anarchy, as Clarke said in his speech, then the Boston Tea Party was too, reports MSNBC.

“But we wouldn’t be here without it,” he added. Also noting that, “It is always easy to find these sort of political sycophants who are willing to stand up and advance these sort of simple slogans and rosy rhetoric but can’t get to a real conversation about what’s at stake here. What’s at stake here is not just the lives of cops. And there’s no one in the country who doesn’t believe that blue lives matter, indeed they do. The question is when do we get around to appreciating, to valuing the sanctity, the humanity, and the dignity of black life? That’s what’s at the stake.”

Smiley went on to say that is the reason as to why Black Lives Matter is protesting and that ultimately Clarke is “scapegoating” because he does not want to address the issue at hand.

“Again, I repeat, it’s about the humanity, and the dignity, and the sanctity of black life,” Smiley said.

via Tavis Smiley Calls Out Sheriff David Clarke For “Scapegoating” Black Lives Matter — Atlanta Daily World