The founder of the restaurant chain known for delivering pizzas that taste like the cover of a Presbyterian hymnal covered in ketchup and heated in an E-Z Bake Oven, filed a lawsuit blaming his use of a racial slur on Colonel Sanders, Kanye West and—most importantly—the people who recorded him using the epitaph.
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I don’t know what is wrong with former Vice President Joe Biden, but I swear he’s becoming the living, breathing version of those Obama BFF memes. Remember those memes, in which a Crazy Joe spouts out silly shit and Obama has to tell him to calm his old ass down?
Looks like Eddie Johnson is messy.
The fired Chicago police chief and his former driver, Cynthia Donald, who was also part of his security detail, were reportedly caught on video kissing inside a Ceres Café bar the night he was found asleep in his car, according to The Daily Mail. Even though Johnson had been drinking, when officers found him asleep in his car, they did not give him a breathalyzer test and allowed him to leave the scene after he showed them his police ID.
READ MORE: Reports shed new light on Chicago police chief’s firing
Johnson was fired on Monday by Mayor Lori Lightfoot for lying to her about the incident.
Johnson and Donald reportedly spent three hours inside of the bar. Johnson promoted Donald, 44, to his security detail when he became police chief in 2012. She has since been reassigned to the evidence and recovered property division, a Chicago police spokeswoman reportedly told DailyMail.com.
Both Johnson and Donald are married, although Donald filed from divorce last year. Johnson’s wife, Nakia, is also on the police force. They married in 2017.
“I made a poor decision and had a lapse of judgment on the night of October 16,” Johnson wrote in a statement after his firing. “That was a mistake and I know that.”
Until his firing, Johnson was pretty much sticking to his original story that there was some sort of mix-up with his medication, which caused him to become drowsy. He did reportedly tell the mayor he had a few drinks but said he wasn’t drunk.
Johnson investigated the incident, along with the Office of the Inspector General, and based on that investigation, she made the decision to fire him on Monday – instead of letting him retire at the end of this month.
At a press conference, Lightfoot said had she known then what she knows now, she would have never joined Johnson and his family in November to announce his retirement – because she would have fired him right away.
READ MORE: Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson fired weeks before his retirement
“Just like with the public, Eddie Johnson intentionally lied to me several times,” Lightfoot said. “Even when I challenged him about the narrative he shared with me, he maintained that he was telling the truth. I now know definitively that he was not.”
“Had I known these facts at the time, I would have relieved him of his duties as superintendent then and there,” she added at the press conference. “I certainly would not have participated in a celebratory press conference to announce his retirement.”
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Percy “Master P” Miller continues to extend his business empire with the release of his own ramen, “Rap Noodles,” according to Complex.
The offering comes under the Rap Snacks brand, which he owns a stake in. The ever-expanding businessman alerted his more than 2 million followers on Instagram about the virtues of creating his own noodles brand.
The ICON Ramen Noodles will include flavors like Hot n’ Spicy Cajun Shrimp, Creamy Chicken Gumbo, Spicy Picante Chicken, and Sirloin Steak Beefy. Miller proclaims in the Instagram clip, “If you ain’t eating Rap Noodles, then you shouldn’t be eating noodles ’cause this is the best of the best noodles.”
Miller began his career as a rapper in the hip-hop group Tru before “Make ‘Em Say Uhh” established his legendary career as a solo rapper in 1997. He also started the No Limit Records label, which was named after a record store he opened in Richmond, California, after receiving $10,000 as part of a malpractice settlement.
“When I was [lying] on that floor in the projects, I would say, ‘This floor is going to turn into [a] marble floor,’” Miller told BLACK ENTERPRISE back in July about his rags-to-riches story. He added that his entrepreneurial journey began at age 6 when he would help the elderly carry their groceries and cut grass in exchange for a few dollars.
Miller’s business partner, James Lindsay, spoke to BE last month and says his next goal is to turn Rap Snacks into an international brand and continue to inspire people of color to become entrepreneurs. “My goal for Rap Snacks is to make it one of the biggest brands in the world. Hip-hop is one of the biggest streaming genres in the world today and our potential in that space cannot be limited. I want our community to believe that you can create momentum and brand recognition outside of just the music and expand globally.”
