Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ YNW Melly denied medical, Tiffany Haddish case dismissed & woman in car was doing 130 mph (EP32) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 32

YNW Melly denied medical, Tiffany Haddish case dismissed & woman in car was doing 130 mph (EP32)

In episode 32 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso , we have guests host Spider Loc sitting in for FG. 

In this episode:

  1. Spider Loc and Alex Alonso discuss that some petty topics are not off the table. Reggie Wright Jr. spoke on FG last week, but quickly apologized for it. Tap into episode 31 to get the details of what happened, Spider and Alex argue that some of these petty issues are worth talking about. 
  2. Florida rapper YNW Melly, was denied outside medical treatment for an infection caused by his gold diamond teeth jewelry. He claims that he has been experiencing pain in his jaw and needs outside treatment, but a judge disagreed. 
  3. A Georgia man was sentenced to 10-years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after defending himself against a group of white supremacists at a Taco Bell in 2020. While Marc Wilson, who is black was seen with his white girl friend, Emma Rigdon, he was threatened by a group of white who yelled racial slurs at him. When Wilson shot at the group, his bullet his a 17-year old girl that was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. 
  4. Nicole Linton, who drove her car nearly 130 miles into a Los Angeles intersection, killing five people, has a sister that created a website to highlight her mental illness. Camille Linton believes that the Los Angeles DA’s office has over charged her sister Nicole. 
  5. As soon as the civil law suit was filed against comedians Tiffany Haddish and Arie Spears, it was dismissed after the two minors that appeared in a skit entitled, “The Mind of a Pedophile” received an undisclosed settlement. The case is closed. 

* Streets & Scholars Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/streets.and.scholars 

* Street TV channel: http://www.youtube.com/streetgangs

* Alex on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/alexalonso101 

* FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

* FG on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fgeneral1/

* StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.