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A New Jersey-based rapper named Wais P the Pimp was charged with promoting prostitution on Thursday, according to the Daily News. Not since C-Murder went to prison for murder has a rapper been arrested for something so on-the-nose. Wais P the Pimp appeared on a 1998 Jay-Z song called “If I Should Die.” He doesn’t […]
Barack, Bushwick. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
A mural memorializing the 43 Ayotzinapa college students who were kidnapped in Mexico was recently painted in Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Although the DEA classifies shrooms as a Schedule 1 drug — a classification that’s supposed to be reserved for the most dangerous of substances — according to scientists, it’s not nearly as dangerous as the the government claims. Researchers Teri Krebs and husband Pål-Ørjan Johansen argue in a letter to Lancet Psychiatry journal, that the […]
Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, is not allowed to speak to reporters on the phone or in person, and is forbidden from using the internet as part of her 35-year sentence. But she’s managed a way around all of the restrictions, having given her first […]
This story has been overshadowed by the shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, but is no less horrible: police in Vineland, New Jersey sicced a police dog on a non-resisting, already-down man named Phillip White, who later died as a result of his injuries. The incident happened on March 31, but […]
Belgian street artist ROA is known for creating massive murals of woodland creatures (and their anatomies) in cities all around the world. The gargantuan animals he inserts into gritty urban landscapes make for some very interesting juxtapositions. When it comes to his galleries shows though, ROA doesn’t just mimic the stuff he does on the […]
Starting Friday April 10, select New York bodegas will begin shelving Killa Crunch cereal by Cam’ron, the rapper who brought you Ebola masks with his face and custom capes. Lest you get too excited about a new Cam’ron cereal, though, beware that it’s a stunt by some weird #brand called Virgin Mega. The boxes of […]
Some people have such a visceral reaction to graffiti that they will go through great lengths to cover it, even if it means making the whole wall, door or gate look way worse than the newly scrawled tag or fill-in. In an effort to document and evaluate these eccentric acts of post-vandalism, ANIMAL is launching […]
The two East Village women suing the city for $40 million despite emerging from the blast unscathed may be opportunists, but the person who has launched a campaign against them is not much better. EV Grieve shared a GoFundMe campaign that aims to “Evict Fire Victim Bilkers from NYC” and it has already raised $120 […]
