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NO BOOTLEGGER ZONE: Prince filed to sue internet users believed to be his fans, accusing them of sharing bootlegs of his concerts. The musician demanded $1m each from the owners of websites and Facebook pages that he claims enabled the free distribution of recordings of his concerts.

The mostly anonymous defendants were accused of engaging in "massive infringement and bootlegging of Prince's material", with each web page contributing to "up to thousands of separate acts of infringement and bootlegging". The targets were't bootleg factories in Asia or eastern Europe, but websites with links to download decades-old live recordings.

Together, Prince's lawyers allege, these websites "constitute an interconnected network of bootleg distribution which is able to broadly disseminate unauthorised copies of Prince's musical compositions and live performances". The plaintiffs cited shared bootlegs such as Prince's 24 March 2011 performance in Charlotte, North Carolina, his 24 April 2002 show in Oakland, California, and a 10 April 1983 concert in Chicago.

Donald Wayne Kelly, 59, was arrested on three counts of aggravated assault and is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail, according to the Corsicana Daily Sun. Sex offender kelly beat 2 women in 60s with bat, drank a beer, beat them again, Corsicana police say. Two women in their 60s are hospitalized in Dallas after Corsicana police say they were nearly beaten to death by a bat-wielding sex offender.

Family members told Fox 4 that Kelly attacked the two women, ages 64 and 69, last week because one of them was breaking up with him. “He started beating her,” Doris Cates told Fox 4. “When they were unconscious on the ground, he sat down, drank a beer and started beating them again.” Both women were flown to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas in critical condition.

Brazil President Rousseff mounts final plea against impeachment. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff fights to cling to office Monday when government lawyers present final arguments before an impeachment committee, kicking off two weeks that could determine her political fate. Rousseff face trial for allegedly illegal accounting practices. Two thirds of the lower chamber, or 342 votes, are needed to send the case for trial in the Senate. The lower house vote is expected to take place on April 17, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported.

The schedule gives Rousseff just days to lobby for support and save her presidency. She is meanwhile maneuvering to reshuffle her power base after her main coalition partner, the PMDB party, went over to the opposition last week. The embattled president is expected to announce a series of ministerial posts and other government jobs given in reward for congressional support. Sources said on Monday she had sacked the head of the state the tourism authority Vinicius Rene Lummertz Silva.

Chicago boy shot in back after appearing in anti-violence video. The “Black is Human” social media campaign released an Advocacy Media Award-winning video last year speaking out against violence targeting Black boys. One of the children featured in the video was Zarriel Trotter, who was 12 years old at the time. On March 25, Trotter was shot in his neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago and remains in critical condition.

“I don’t want to live around my community where I’ve got to keep on hearing and hearing people keep on getting shot, people keep on getting killed,” Trotter said in the video.

The young teen himself was a victim of the gun violence he spoke of when he was walking home from playing basketball on Friday at about 8:30 p.m., the Chicago Tribune reported. Two men were arguing nearby, and when one pulled out a gun and fired, a stray bullet struck Trotter in his back, near his spine. He was later taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he is currently fighting for his life.

SWAGGGirlicious sends prayers to Zarriel and his family.... No one has been arrested for the crime.

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N.O.R.E. Hung Up On Jay Z Last Year, Thought He Sounded “Super White. During an interview with the Tax Season podcast last year, N.O.R.E. discussed a supposed altercation that took place in the late 1990s between Fat Joe’s Terror Squad and Jay Z’s Roc-A-Fella crew. Even though he wasn’t at the incident, N.O.R.E. spoke about the rumor that the Terror Squad’s Big Pun hit Jigga in the head with a bottle.

The day after Thanksgiving last year, N.O.R.E. got a call from an unknown number. "I picked it up and he said, ‘Yo,’” N.O.R.E. says during an interview with Genius. "And I said, ‘Yo.’ He said, ‘Yo, this is Jay.’ ‘Jay who?’ for arguments purposes, ‘Jay who?’ He said, ‘Jay Z.’ And I said, ‘Whoever this is need to work on their Jay Z accent, because you sound super White. There’s no way you could be Jay Z.’ So I hung up.”

N.O.R.E.’s phone rang again, this time from an unblocked number. He picked it up. "He said, ‘So I hit [Memphis] Bleek for your number,’” N.O.R.E. says. "I knew it was him. I was like, ‘You can’t care about this shit. Like, this is really you. You can’t be taking your time out the day after Thanksgiving and calling me about something I did on a podcast.’ He was like, ‘Nah. I don’t care. I don’t care about the world knowing, N.O.R.E. You’re my nigga. I care about you knowing.’ So I said, ‘How do we fix this?’ He said, ‘Nah. You don’t need to fix it. But if the interview ever comes up again…’”