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Matthew Perry of “Friends” Dead at Age 54

The cast of Friends. L-R David Schwimmer,
Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

This is such terrible news.

Matthew Perry died Saturday in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Authorities responded around 4 p.m. to his home, where he was discovered unresponsive.

Perry was known as the beloved character Chandler Bing on the wildly successful 90’s television show “Friends” which chronicled the life of six twenty something year olds living in New York and banding together for support.

Striking a chord with twentysomethings everywhere, Friends was a ratings powerhouse. It drew an average of 25 million viewers for each new episode, finishing among the top 10 primetime programs during each year of its 10-season run.

As the popularity of Friends grew, Perry found himself on an emotional roller coaster ride. Perry had admitted that for he had been battling drug addiction for decades and has experienced a couple of brushes with death due to his excessive alcohol and drug abuse.

Rapper Meek Mill No Longer Has a Felony Record

Philly’s own, rapper Meek Mill is officially a free man.

Meek announced alongside an interview with the biggest boss Rick Ross that his felony convictions have officially been wiped clean from his record, thus allowing him the freedom to move about like us regular people.

Congrats to Meek Mill because during my time working on criminal and prison reform I know this is actually a huge deal.

A game changer.

The prison pipeline for black men has been catastrophic and ruined many lives even after redemption. The sad part is once the criminal background is marred with felonies, it limits the quality of life.

It’s like you almost belong to the government and most jobs and housing check perform criminal background checks. It can affect so many other important aspects of life including basic human rights such as voting. (I have always thought taking away a person’s rights to vote was ridiculous)

Having a felonious record is a very difficult conviction to overcome, but thankfully there are programs that can assist with record expungement.

WATCH: Foxy Brown Says She Was Supposed to Be In Junior Mafia Instead Of Lil Kim

Check out this throwback interview of Foxy Brown talking about her previous friendship with the “Queen Bee” Lil Kim.

At some point when both their careers were taking off the two fell out and the fight for the rap crown became extremely competitive. The two traded shots both literally and on wax.

Eventually the tension got so high that violence erupted between the two camps in the form of a gunfight outside New York’s Hot 97 headquarters. Kim ended up going to prison for perjury. She claimed to hear or see nothing – mafia style.

In the interview Foxy says that Biggie initially wanted her to be the female voice in Junior Mafia. According to her Jay Z wasn’t willing to let her go and wanted to keep her on the roster. She later ended up in the group The Firm alongside rap legends AZ & Nas.

Check out the interview. Skip to 16:30 mark where she discusses her old friendship with Kim.