Bobby Shmurda, the rapper, hasn’t died, but there’s a rumor going around on Twitter saying “RIP.”
“RIP Bobby Shmurda (1994-2014),” a number of people were tweeting on Wednesday.
A likely fake photo of what appears to be Bobby’s Instagram appeared to insult rappers affiliated with Chief Keef, including Fredo Santana, Lil Reese, and others.
A number of users said the Instagram screenshots that purportedly are from Shmurda insulting Keef and the other rappers are fake. The pictures and messages that were being shared weren’t on his Instagram page, meaning that someone probably faked them.
A few months ago, there were rumors that Chief Keef went after Bobby on his “Beetlejuice” track. This came after rapper 50 Cent compared the two, saying: “It’s the same energy,” he said of “Hot N---a” against Keef’s “I Don’t Like” track. “It’s a New York version of it,” he added.
Later, Keef denied dissing the New York-based rapper: “Its not to him it’s to everybody who he got thinking that!” he wrote on Twitter.
AP entertainment update: Cosby testimony describes accuser’s spiked story
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby testified under oath in 2005 that he gave the National Enquirer an exclusive interview about looming sexual-assault accusations by a Canadian woman against him in exchange for the tabloid spiking a second accuser’s story.
Excerpts released Wednesday of Cosby’s deposition from a civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand quote Cosby as saying he feared the public would believe her sexual-assault accusations if the Enquirer published similar claims by Beth Ferrier. Both women accused Cosby of drugging and molesting them.
“Did you ever think that if Beth Ferrier’s story was printed in the National Enquirer, that that would make the public believe that maybe Andrea was also telling the truth?” Cosby was asked.
“Exactly,” Cosby replied, according to court motions initially filed under seal and made available from archived federal court records.
Cosby, in the deposition, said he had a contract with the Enquirer.
“I would give them an exclusive story, my words,” Cosby said in the Sept. 29, 2005, deposition. In return, “they would not print the story of — print Beth’s story.”
The release of the documents comes after Cosby this month was shown on an Associated Press video trying to persuade the news cooperative not to use his response when asked this month about sexual-abuse allegations.
“I would appreciate if it was scuttled,” Cosby said in a videotaped exchange with the AP on Nov. 6.
