Panama released his newest EP, appropriately titled Let’s Talk About Panama. Hosted by Angela Yee.

1. Retro Gangsta

2. Better Than Most

3. Here I Am

4. Some People (feat. Eric Sosa)

5. Lebron James

6. All I Ever Wanted (feat. Awthentik)

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Felecia Pearson, better known as Snoop in HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire, is being held without bail after her arrest yesterday as a part of a massive heroin distribution network that police say stretched from New York to California.

Police arrested Snoop on Thursday (March 10th) in a drug sweep aimed at dismantling a major drug organization operating out of the city. 

According to the DEA, over 425 law enforcement officers from the DEA, Baltimore Police Department, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Baltimore County Police Department participated in the operation, dubbed “Operation Usual Suspects.”  Police also seized over $69,000 in cash from the 64 suspects, from 39 locations throughout the city.

“DEA and the Baltimore Police dismantled an entire Drug Trafficking Organization today. We got the top, we got the bottom and we got everybody in between,” stated Ava Cooper-Davis of the DEA Washington Field DivisionCooper-Davis. “We arrested the leaders, mid- and lower-level members, street lieutenants, runners and street corners sellers of the organization. These arrests are representative of law enforcement’s commitment to keep this city safe from the violence and crimes associated with drug trafficking. The success of this case was the product of an extensive investigation by the DEA Baltimore District Office and the Baltimore Police Department along with our partners from the Baltimore City States’ Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”

U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein was adamant about ending gang violence on the streets of Baltimore.

“Wherever criminal gangs bring violence to our streets, that is where we will direct the resources needed to send them to prison,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “We must persist in this coordinated effort, because every American deserves to live in a safe neighborhood.”

Each of the defendants are charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin; conspiracy to distribute marijuana; conspiracy to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin; with possession with intent to distribute heroin or marijuana; and with aiding and abetting in the drug distribution conspiracy.

The maximum penalty for crimes involving heroin and cocaine is 20 years in prison. The maximum penalty for marijuana charges is five years in prison.

via All Hip Hop 

Watch Snoop when she was on Lip Service with Raekwon talking about homosexuality and hiding in Hip Hop.

Last week, Gbenga Akinnagbe stopped by The Morning After.

He came up to talk about his article in the New York Times travel section about his trip to Nepal.

It turns out that the man that played Chris Partlow on The Wire isn’t all that tough after all. 4:00 AM start times for 5 hour treks at over 11,000 feet altitudes… big deal. Chris survived both the Tower & the Pit.

Just kidding… after reading this article, I’m about to scratch the Himalayas off of my list of places to visit. I ain’t built for the bitter cold. If you missed the interview check it out here. Much props Gbenga.

We interviewed Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, Taking Of The Pelham 123) today. Angela went in – asking about his celebrity smash-sessions, his cousin Wale, and why he doesn’t know if he’s in a movie with Kimbo Slice and Rowdy Roddy Piper.

He also talked about his new movies The Edge Of Darkness with Mel Gibson and Lottery Ticket with Ice Cube and Bow Wow.

Make sure you check out his article in this weekend’s New York Times Travel section. He writes about his trek to Nepal, where he encountered small villages of people who had never seen a black person before.

Raekwon co-hosted on The Morning After and helped interview Felicia “Snoop” Pearson from “The Wire.” Most recently, Snoop released her memoirs entitled “Grace After Midnight” and has been working on her music career, with a new song “It’s A Stick Up” featuring Tony Yayo.

Snoop is also openly gay and reveals some of the things she loves about working in the music and film industry. She admits that other rappers and entertainers have confided in her regarding their homosexuality, but she can’t reveal any names.

“It’s the whole f*cking industry for real…75% for real.”

What Raekwon wants to know is “How do muthaf*ckas convert into that sh!t though?” He also states that he can’t stand homos, and his mouth is too small… oh forget it! You just have to watch the video.

I had the great opportunity to sit down with Shallah Raekwon to discuss his “Only Built for Cuban Links II” album and we got into everything… and then some. The extremely entertaining interview is below, and it gets even crazier when Felicia “Snoop” Pearson from HBO’s “The Wire” joins in the conversation. So get ready for Rae’s candid opinions on RZA, the “8 Diagrams” album, some classic moments in Wu history, his feelings on homosexuality, and the Wu mansion. Oh, and best believe he still plans to release that Shaolin vs Wu-Tang album!

On RZA vs Wu-Tang Clan with the “8 Diagrams” album:
“Rza’s a cocky dude when it comes to his production, feeling like all the shit he did in the game, but we told him you can’t win every f*cking war so we had a lot of issues about that, paper issues… when we come together we take a pay cut… I sacrificed my time and my project I pushed y’all off another year to get involved with that but I felt like I was doing it out of respect for the family- plus I knew everybody wanted to see Wu-Tang come back together. I wanted to see it come back together like that but the music wasn’t where we wanted it to be and dudes wasn’t really saying nothing about it.”

On the Wu’s humble beginnings in the rap game:
“I remember getting $50, $60 a show. Overall we had many nights that we had to sleep in the little dirty van that RZA had back then, he had a dirty ol’ minivan that we would take up to Connecticut or Albany… we were just happy to be heard or seen… we weren’t thinking about money we was thinking about respect.”

On the Joe Budden/Method Man beef:
“I’m involved with it and I really don’t give a f*ck about it cuz I know it ain’t time for the getdown. My thing is I’m trying to get y’all this album. This is more important to me, my career first and foremost and whatever that is that’s between them ni**as. They gonna do whatever they gonna do.”

On RZA taking advantage (financially) of the situation:
“Us as muthaf*ckin’ black people, sometimes we get greedy man, and I think that there was a lot of shit that we were just doing for love and he was really doing for capitalism for his world. And I can’t take nothing away from a ni**a who came and got ni**as from off the street but at the same time don’t rob me because if I catch you being a robber you liable to get your hands and feet chopped off on some Hades sh*t.”