Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star Erica Dixon wants the world to know that actor/singer Rotimi is not her baby daddy.
Dixon is pregnant with twin girls, and a rumor has been running wild on the internet that Rotimi, who stars the hit Starz show “Power,” was the father of her babies.
The rumors were likely sparked by this old photo of Erica sitting in Rotimi’s lap going viral on social media:
This photo was originally posted online by Erica herself last summer, around the time she would have conceived her twins.
Erica announced her pregnancy back in October, but has so far kept the identity of her new baby daddy a secret. She already has one child, 13-year-old daughter Emani, with Atlanta rapper and fellow LHHATL star Lil Scrappy.
And while she hasn’t revealed who her new baby daddy is, Erica is clearing up rumors that it’s Rotimi.
A fan inquired about the rumor in the comments of a recent post on the reality star’s Instagram page. “Are you really pregnant by Rotimi?” the fan asked, to which Erica replied: “False info.”
Under a previous post, a fan commented: “Omg I just read that the father of your twins is @rotimifanz.” Erica replied that one: “Negative!”
Love & Hip Hop Atlanta season 8 premieres this Monday (Mar. 25), and since Erica has re-joined the cast, she will likely be documenting her pregnancy (and possibly showing off her new man) on the show … which is perfect timing considering her ex, Scrappy, and his new woman, Bambi, are having a baby too.
Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion should be celebrating the release of her new single, but right now, she’s mourning the loss of her mother.
The rising rap sensation announced the death of her mom and manager on Instagram Friday (Mar. 22).
She wrote alongside a throwback photo of herself as a child with her mother: “The best mom in the whole world. The strongest woman on the planet. I can’t even put complete sentences together rn RIP mama.”
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She wrote in another post on Saturday (Mar. 23): “We were together EVERYDAY, holly was my biggest cheerleader and toughest critic. she taught me enough for 2 lifetimes and if you were blessed to meet her she taught you something too. My mama is still my rock, my world and my inspiration. ima go 100x harder because I kno that’s what she would want me to do.”
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Megan Thee Stallion’s mother, Holly Thomas, was also a rapper in their hometown of Houston who sent by the stage name Holly-wood.
In a recent interview with Essence, Megan talked about how her mother influenced her interest in rap.
“I knew I wanted to be a rapper when I was, like, 5,” Megan told the magazine. “My mom was a rapper. I would go to the studio with her, and that definitely showed me I can do this. I wanna do this. I remember my first time ever listening to rappers like Pimp C and Biggie, and being like, ‘All this would sound super cool if a girl was saying it,’ so I gotta go do this.”
An August 2018 Fader feature on Megan called the rapper and her momager “the epitome of #BestFriendGoals,” adding that Holly is usually the person recording the viral clips of Megan freestyling and twerking that commonly show up on her Instagram page.
Megan also said in an interview last year that her mother had given her the best advice for navigating through her career.
“My mama tells me everyday ‘kill these hoes, go hard on these hoes,'” she said. “I don’t know why my mother talks to me like that, but every time I’m doing something, she’s like ‘Megan, go out there and wreck these hoes.’
“So I’m like, ‘OK.’ That’s just my daily motto when I wake up I’m like, ‘Damn, I gotta wreck these hoes.’ Or if I’m writing I’m like, ‘Damn, I gotta wreck these hoes.’ Pouring my drink, ‘Oh, damn, I gotta wreck these hoes.’ So yeah, the best advice that my mom has ever given to me is to wreck these hoes.”
I kept seeing this being quoted & I remembered Megan saying it in an interview she did last year. R.I.P. to Mama Holly. A true OG! ????? pic.twitter.com/dEvkQVBrau
— formerly known as southernjawn. (@thejusmekamil) March 23, 2019
Megan had just dropped her new single “Sex Talk” the same day she announced her mother’s passing.
The sad news comes at an especially difficult time for Megan because her grandmother just passed away two weeks ago.
She wrote in an Instagram post on March 8th: “My grandma use to tell me ‘these niggas can’t buy you nothing you ain’t already got and if you don’t have ima buy it for you’ … I just lost Bigmamma yesterday but she lived such a full beautiful life and taught so many lessons and touched so many people that we are going to celebrate her home going instead of dwelling in the pain of [losing] her.”
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Losing a parent is already bad enough, but we can’t even begin to imagine how Megan feels losing two strong maternal figures in her life just weeks apart.
Sending prayers up to Megan as she goes through this obviously painful time.
It be ya own people. This simple, yet profound, phrase belies much wisdom.
And if there’s one thing people who achieve fame and success learn in their journey, it’s that those in their close circle are usually among the first to betray them.
If you’ve watched the Facebook Watch series Ball in the Family at all, then you should be familiar with Alan Foster. He is the face that you usually see next to LaVar Ball on the show when anything goes down, whether it’s business or personal. He was most tightly aligned with LaVar on the Big Baller Brand and with helping each of the Ball boys with their respective shoes for the brand and helping LaVar to launch the Junior Basketball Association (JBA).
But the close ties Foster had with the Ball family have come to an abrupt and complete halt now that Lonzo Ball is accusing Foster of defrauding him of $1.5 million, according to a report from ESPN.
Ball told ESPN that he believes that Alan Foster, a friend of Lonzo’s father for almost a decade who owns 16.3 percent of Big Baller Brand, had “used his access to my business and personal finances to enrich himself. As a result, I have decided to sever all ties with Alan, effective immediately.”
Foster has served as the business manager of all of the Ball family’s companies, including Big Baller Brand — which was formed as a limited liability company in 2014. Foster developed a close friendship with the Ball family beginning around 2010, when Lonzo and Foster’s son became friends as seventh-graders. It was Foster, Lonzo’s father, LaVar Ball, has said, who helped convince him to create a shoe and apparel company featuring his three basketball playing sons rather than allow Lonzo to sign one of the guaranteed multimillion-dollar endorsement deals that had been offered by more-established shoe companies such as Nike and Adidas.
The real kicker, though, is that Alan Foster has a documented criminal record in defrauding black families:
In 2002, Foster was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of mail fraud and two counts of money laundering as part of a scheme that defrauded 70 investors of $4 million, according to federal court records obtained by ESPN. Foster was also ordered to pay $3.7 million in restitution to victims.
Now how in the hell did the Ball family let a convicted criminal run their finances, businesses and livelihoods?
While LaVar was the main person who backed and gave Alan Foster the leeway that he did, with the receipts not adding up and Lonzo fuming over the betrayal, LaVar is finally taking a hard, close look at the man he used to call a friend.
“I’ve always believed in the best in people. Regretfully, I put my complete trust in Alan Foster to manage my son’s business affairs,” LaVar told ESPN. “At the end of the day, family comes first, and I support Zo wholeheartedly. Together, we will make this right.”
The Twitter streets couldn’t believe that the Ball family, who prides themselves on outsmarting everyone else, let themselves get scammed like this.
I kind of knew Alan foster was a scammer when people would buy the first BBB shoe and never get their pair of get a completely different pair. Plus their were the lawsuits about them copying other bigger brands. I wonder if Foster was behind all of that
Unpopular edition: Lavar Ball is on his Kris Jenner ish & orchestrated this whole Alan Foster story for the next season of Ball in the Fam.. pic.twitter.com/tvwUA8okkL
Someone please make a movie about Alan Foster scamming the BBB. This is the year of scamming documentaries. We already got fyre festival, Elizabeth Holmes, and Anna Delvey. Keep em coming! #bbb#bigballerbrand#scam#scammers
All I know is that the next season of Ball in the Family is gonna be LIT!
I hope they drag Alan through the mud for stealing from them too. Because we’re tired of scammers, liars and snakes in the grass getting away with shit.
While the appeal of Cardi B lies in her simple, relatable nature, don’t mistake her for a fool. She’s a woman who’s serious about her business in more ways than just topping the charts or scoring Fashion Nova deals.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Cardi B has filed a trademark request for the phrase “Okurrr,” for use on “paper goods, namely paper cups and posters.”
Honestly, I’m not sure if she’ll get this or not, but if she does, good for her. Even though Tyler Perry’s Madea character probably has a legit counterclaim to the phrase…but hey, the one who files first gets the trademark.
Let’s face it, if Cardi didn’t file this trademark, all of these internet side hustles would’ve made a guap off of Cardi’s signature phrase without her getting a dime. In fact, there are probably several CafePress shops that are gonna get shut down if this trademark application goes through.
For those who were questioning Cardi’s logic in filing a trademark application for “Okurrr,” she has a few words of wisdom to share about her hustle mindset.
“So you hoes is mad cause I trademarked ‘Okurr’?” said Cardi. “Bitch, white folks do it all the motherf**king time so you gonna be mad at me cause I wanna get some motherf**king money? Let me tell you something, while I’m still here, I’m gonna secure all the f**king bags.”
Corinne Terrone, the white woman who was caught on camera cursing, screaming the n-word and spitting at black people in an East Haven, Connecticut supermarket made even more racist comments while reporting the incident to police.
The East Haven Police Department released the unedited version of her multiple 911 calls, and she can be heard using the n-word multiple times, referring to the man she got into the altercation with.
According to Lt. Joseph Murgo, Terrone made a number of calls.
“The first call placed was made in error to the Easton, CT police department,” said the East Haven PD. “On the recordings, she continues her hate-filled speech to a police dispatcher who finally advises her that she has called the wrong police department.”
In this brief call, as she starts to tell the dispatcher what just happened, she’s told she needs to hold on, and she shouts: “Don’t you dare put me on hold. Don’t you care… Oh, Jesus Christ.”
The woman can also be heard using the n-word just as the call starts. After being told she called the wrong police department, she hangs up, but not before telling the 911 dispatcher to “go fuck yourself then.”
Subsequent recordings are calls Terrone, who refers to herself by her maiden name Magoveny, placed to the East Haven Police Department.
In a call that lasted more than six minutes (above), Corinne Magoveny-Terrone tells that dispatcher that she was walking down the center aisle at a grocery store, and when she got the registers, she said, “Oh, Jesus Christ” to her kids. She said a black man in a “scooter” asked if she was talking to him and called her a bitch.
“He called me a bitch so I called him a ni***r.” She said the man got up and threatened her and that there was “spitting back and forth.” She repeated that she called the man a “ni***r because he called me a bitch.”
She then proceeded to demand the 911 dispatcher to send an East Haven police officer to her house so that she could press charges.
The woman also said that the man was with two “fat black bitches which I won’t call ni***rs because they weren’t behaving like n***rs.” She continued: “That place is full of cockroaches and now I have to deal with being called a bitch by a ni***r in front of my kids? I don’t think so.”
Terrone said she left her coat in the ShopRite parking lot because it had the man’s “dirty disgusting AIDS-infected ni***r spit on it.”
When the dispatcher tells her a police officer cannot be sent to her house because she doesn’t live in the police department’s jurisdiction, she snaps back: “Of course, you can’t … Then tell me what’s going to be done to arrest the ni***r who assaulted me verbally?”
“I want a fucking cop doing something now. I don’t want any excuses,” she shouts at the dispatcher, who tells her that she’s free to come to the police station to file a report since the store in East Haven’s jurisdiction. But apparently, that’s not good enough for her.
“Are you fucking kidding me? You think I know that ni***r’s name?” she says. “You think I know that ni***r’s name? That’s all he is to me. A fucking ni***r because he called me a bitch.”
After Terrone mocks, insults and demeans the 911 dispatcher, she finally agrees to meet with an East Haven police officer in the ShopRite parking lot, but demands that the officer be white.
“Is it someone who’s not going to be racially biased?” she says. “Is it going to be a white person because I am not dealing with a sp*c or a ni***r because I am way beyond that point.”
The dispatcher then asks Terrone what kind of car she drives, and she says it’s none of his business. He says they need that information so that the officer can locate her.
She says she’s going into the ShopRite, but the 911 dispatcher tells her not do that. “Oh, but I am,” she says. He replies, “Oh, but you’re not.”
In another call to East Haven police (above), Terrone tells a dispatcher that the person who answered the phone previously was “completely unhelpful and useless.”
The woman calls back a third time, her fourth 911 call in all (listen above), asks who she’s speaking with, and then says “I was just verbally assaulted at ShopRite in East Haven.” She then goes on to explain what happened in the store and says “I’m not gonna sugar coat what I said.”
Thousands of people shared videos on Facebook that showed the incident, which happened the night of Friday, March 15th.
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In one video (above), posted by Facebook user Tatiana Winn (which has since been deleted or set to private), Terrone can be heard yelling the n-word four times in less than one minute.
It isn’t clear how the encounter began, but the short clip starts out with Terrone shouting “Don’t you dare talk to me like that in front of my children motherf**ker!” She then utters a few inaudible words, but you clearly hear her saying the n-word not just once, but TWICE in the same sentence.
The man Terrone is yelling at is seen rushing towards her in anger, and the people he’s with try to calm him down, saying “Don’t do it.” But Terrone yells “Put your hands on me, come on!” before pulling out her phone and pointing it in his face like she’s recording him. The man then quickly knocks the phone from Terrone’s hand and another man gets in between them.
As the first man walks away, Terrone runs after him screaming “Oh you motherf**ker!” as the man yells back to her “I’m a ni***r right?” She responds, “That’s right, you’re a ni***r in East Haven!”
When a person who appears to be a store employee comes forward, Terrone yells “F”**k you ni***r!” and then spits at the man she’s been calling the n-word. When he spits back at her, she turns around yelling “You motherf***er!” and then spits AGAIN in the direction of him and another woman holding him back.
Here’s another video showing the incident from a closer view:
After the videos went viral, Terrone was forced to resign from her job as a clerical worker at the Hamden School District’s central offices.
“While it appears as though this happened after work hours on Friday evening, the Human Resource Director contacted the employee and arranged an investigatory meeting with her,” the district said in a statement released Saturday (Mar. 16). “Shortly after final arrangements were made for the investigatory meeting, the employee rendered her resignation effective immediately.”
The statement continued: “The language the employee used in the video is in conflict with the values of the Hamden Public School System. Someone who will use that sort of language in any setting, whether public or private, is not someone we want anywhere near our children. The employee is separated from service, and we hope that her children will receive the support they need after witnessing such a traumatic event.”
The district’s statement also noted that a DCF report was filed because the woman’s children were present.
It was also reported the following Monday night (Mar. 18) that Terrone had been “taken by New Haven police for an involuntary mental evaluation.”
Police said they contacted the people involved in the incident but “received no response.” They said a reporter indicated the victims of Corrine’s racist rant refused to “come forward for whatever personal reasons they may have.”
East Haven Police Lieutenant Joseph Murgo called the incident “senseless and hate-filled” and said the police have reached out to “everyone involved (to get to) the bottom of this senseless hate filled incident that needs to be investigated further. At the current time, we have still not received any communication from the victim or anyone involved.”
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star and her fiancé Dennis McKinley welcomed their daughter today, according to a social media post from Porsha’s sister Lauren, who wrote on her IG stories “she’s here!!!!!!”
According to People, Baby PJ was born at 1:36 p.m., weighing six pounds, 15 ounces and measuring 20 inches long.
“What a time to be alive! Porsha and I are so happy and blessed to announce the arrival of our daughter, Baby PJ,” Dennis told People in a statement “We couldn’t have imagined a more magical moment! Can’t thank everyone enough for joining us on this journey—it’s been a fantastic journey.”
Earlier in the day, Porsha’s husband-to-be shared on his Instagram story that they hadn’t settled on a name just yet and the couple was stuck among a number of P names, including Penelope, Po, Paige, Pia, Pilar and Paris.
Dennis also shared a photo of him and Porsha shortly after arriving at the hospital. “It’s going down! BASEMENT #MEETtheMcKinleys #BabyPJ #MILFSeason #Grateful,” he wrote in the caption.
Another photo Dennis shared via Instagram shows Porsha prepping for the arrival of their little bundle of joy as she’s surrounded by her elders.
In sharing the good news, Dennis shouted out the fact that Porsha has remained fly throughout her pregnancy. “This lady right here was fine all nine months you hear me?” he said.
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Porsha first revealed her pregnancy last September, but admitted she was scared because she’s had a miscarriage before and also suffers from fibroids.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I was excited [but] I had mixed feelings. The other feeling that I had beside excitement was fear,” she told People. “I’ve had a miscarriage before in my past, which I’ve also been open about because I suffer with fibroids and had to have a myomectomy. So just the fear of, ‘Is the baby going to be okay? Will I make it full term?’ All those questions that you ask if you’ve had a miscarriage before.”
Before finding out their baby’s gender, the couple had trouble agreeing on names.
“One of the names that we got rid of that he liked was Napoleon. [I was like], ‘I don’t know about that one for a boy!'” Williams said. “One of the names that he has absolutely settled on — I’m not settled on it yet — is PJ. PJ stands for Porsha Jr. He wants to name our daughter Porsha Jr.”
She added: “I’m not really sure because I think she’s going to be mad, like, ‘Really, Mom?’ And then I’m going to have to try to explain it and he’s probably going to deny that it was all his idea.”
Baby PJ is both Porsha and Dennis’ first child, and we’ll be able to witness their journey into parenthood firsthand in Porsha’s Real Housewives of Atlanta “Baby Special” spinoff, which will air on Bravo.
“Cameras were rolling at the baby shower and it is going to be a part of the Porsha baby delivery special that she is filming,” an insider told Radar Online. “Porsha’s last three weeks of pregnancy are going to be in the special as well as her delivery,” the source added.
Former RHOA star Kenya Moore also showed up at the shower and even signed a release to appear on the show.
“It was a really emotional shower, everyone loves Porsha and is so happy for her,” Radar’s source shared about the event. “Porsha has shared every aspect of her life, from her boyfriend Dennis to her pregnancy and then their engagement and the producers wanted the viewers to see everything.”
Bravo hasn’t announced details about the special, including when it will air, but with the RHOA season finale coming up, it will probably be very soon.
Taquesta Graham, the mother of a young California girl whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag, has officially been charged with her daughter’s murder.
KTLA reports that 28-year-old Taquesta Graham made her first court appearance Wednesday (Mar. 20), but the arraignment was postponed until April 16th.
Graham and her boyfriend, 38-year-old Emiel Hunt, are accused of killing Graham’s 9-year-old daughter, Trinity Love Jones, earlier this month.
Graham has been in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department since March 8th, but was just booked Monday (Mar. 18) on suspicion of murder.
Both Graham and Hunt were initially detained at a border crossing in Texas, and Graham was arrested on suspicion of an unrelated warrant.
Hunt, who was also charged with murder in Trinity’s killing, was released and drove back to California. He was arrested the next day in a parking lot near the San Diego International Airport. Both of them are being held on a $2 million bond.
Trinity Love Jones was found dead on March 5th. Her body had been stuffed in a duffel bag, which was placed near an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights, a suburban area of Los Angeles.
Detectives believe Trinity’s body was placed there on the afternoon of March 1st, the day sit appears she was killed.
Trinity’s death has been ruled a homicide by the county’s coroner’s office, but authorities haven’t revealed a cause of death, though investigators did say they found no obvious signs of trauma on her body.
Graham, Hunt and Jones were believed to have been homeless and staying in their car or a motel shortly before the girl was murdered.
“Graham, Hunt and victim Trinity Jones moved from a family member’s home in Long Beach in May of 2018,” said Deputy Michelle Sanchez of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. Information Bureau. “During the past ten months, the extended family had only seen or heard from the couple and Trinity on a few occasions.”
Taquesta Graham and her boyfriend Emiel Hunt both have criminal backgrounds.
Hunt was convicted of child abuse in 2005 and pent at least 10 years in prison, and Graham is a registered sex offender who was convicted of enticing a minor female for prostitution in 2009.
If convicted of Trinity’s murder, Graham could face up to 26 years to life in prison, while Hunt could be sentenced to up to 55 years to life in prison.
“Love & Hip Hop” star Erica Dixon’s ex-boyfriend Clifford Dixon was shot and killed in Atlanta early this morning while out celebrating his birthday.
Police said Dixon, who is also a close friend and “adopted brother” of NBA superstar Kevin Durant, had just arrived at SL Lounge to celebrate his 32nd birthday when a lone gunman opened fire in the parking lot in front of the club around 1 a.m. Thursday (Mar. 21).
Dixon was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital where he died of his injuries.
An incident report (obtained by TMZ) stated that an officer witnessed the gunman flee the scene as others gave him chase, but they lost him.
The crime scene.
It isn’t clear how many times Cliff was shot or where he was hit. Cops are investigating the death as a homicide, but it’s not clear whether Dixon was targeted.
Cliff’s friends took to social media today to offer condolences.
Rapper Dave East wrote on Instagram: “We been cool since like 16-17 years old U was just in my session in Atlanta listening to my album this shit super wacc!!!! Rest in heavenly peace bro u ain’t deserve whatever happen to u”
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Rapper Fabolous wrote on IG: “You was a good dude. Never saw 1 characteristic of you not being a stand up dude… & Never heard anyone speak bad of you so it’s crazy to me how your life would be cut short like this. We gonna Miss You dog…”
Erica Mena and Cliff Dixon dated for nearly a year, but their relationship had its rocky moments, including an October 2018 incident in which they were both arrested after getting into a big fight. Erica eventually moved on and ended up getting engaged to fellow LHH star Safaree a few months later.
Cliff (L) with Kevin Durant, Fabolous and Ne-Yo at KD’s 25th birthday party in 2013.
Cliff, a former college basketball player who also played overseas, was also good friends with Kevin Durant and part of the NBA star’s inner circle. According to NewsOK.com, when Dixon was a teenager, Durant’s mother, Wanda Pratt, allowed him to move into the family’s home.
Erica shared a message about Dixon’s death on her IG stories, writing: “We all deal with so much. You dealt with a lot. I’m so sorry this happened, you didn’t deserve this. Rest in forever peace. Watch over your blood sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews and your mommy. I know they are so broken right now.”
She added: “Please love me while I’m still here. Nothing is [promised]. Appreciate life.”
Tommie Lee added the hundredth mugshot to her collection (not really, but she’s damn close!) after she was arrested for showing up to court EXTREMELY drunk.
The former Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star appeared in court last Thursday (Mar. 14) in Cobb County, GA to answer to charges related to her child abuse criminal case.
Tommie (real name: Atasha Jefferson) was reportedly so drunk that the judge ordered her to undergo drug and alcohol testing right then and there.
Her BAC was 0.16, TWICE the legal limit, and she was arrested on the spot for violating her probation. She’s currently being held in a Cobb County jail without bail.
Earlier this month, TMZ reported that Tommie tried to get a judge to approve her request to move to California to work while she was out on bond, but her request was shot down due to her lengthy criminal history.
She’s currently facing multiple charges of child abuse stemming from her October 2018 arrest when she jumped on her daughter at school.
According to prosecutors, Tommie disrupted her daughter’s class before slapping her, dragging her out of the room by her hair and slamming her into a locker. She was indicted earlier this year and faces up to 54 years in jail if convicted on all seven charges.
Daniel Caesar found himself on the wrong side of Black Twitter after he made some pretty ridiculous comments about how black folks are way too sensitive and should be more like wypipo.
Last night, the facially challenged Canadian singer hopped on Instagram Live to defend his white friend YesJulz against comments from black people that she’s a culture vulture, and berated his own kind in the process.
Quick backstory: YesJulz (real name: Julieanna Goddard) recently went on the “Easily Offended” podcast and shaded TV personality Scottie Beam and social media influencer Karen Civil for checking her about her wearing a t-shirt with the n-word on it, and was rightfully dragged on Twitter for it.
She also said in a freestyle (which was pretty terrible, tbh):
“Because my ass is fat and my skin ain’t black, I’m the vulture they’re huntin, and yet they never do nothin, they never give back, they keep killing blacks…”
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YesJulz’ recent Twitter dragging inspired Daniel Caesar to transform into captain save a hoe and he swooped in to ask black people “why you gotta be so rude?” in defense of his melanin deficient friend.
“Why are we being so mean to Julz?” Daniel said in response to YesJulz’ appearance on the “Easily Offended” podcast.
“Why are we being so mean to white people right now? That’s a serious question. Why is it that we’re allowed to be disrespectful and rude to everybody else and when anybody returns any type of energy to us… That’s not equality. I don’t wanna be treated like I can’t take a joke.”
Relating his feelings back to his recent appearance on John Mayer’s Instagram Live show “Current Mood,” where Dave Chappelle called him “very gay,” Caesar said: “I don’t wanna be treated like a can’t take a joke. I just went through that fucking Chappelle shit and I had to, in the moment, acknowledge that I was being fucking sensitive, and that I need to be able to take a joke just like everybody else. That’s what it is.”
He continued: “People are allowed to say whatever the fuck they want and I’m allowed to feel how I want but am I going to fight them or am I going to accept what they have to say and keep it fucking moving. The only people that I don’t respect and who I think can’t take a joke, I think that they’re less than me. Those are the people who I don’t say my honest opinion around and that’s disrespect.”
He added: “I see what you’re saying that white people have been mean to us in the past, what are you gonna do about that? Tell me what you’re gonna do about that. There’s no answer other than creating understanding and keeping it moving. That’s some biblical shit. You have to bridge the gap.
“Are we winning right now as a culture? Are we popular in society? We’re not. And you can’t win the game by choosing to not accept the winning team’s strategy. You have to acknowledge their strategy and build a strategy on top of that.”
The “Best Part” singer went on to say that “being a victim doesn’t get you paid” and suggested that anyone who doesn’t agree with him should cancel him.
“I’ve said what I’ve said before and y’all tried to cancel me and I apologized like a bitch,” he said. “I don’t believe in that shit ’cause I think you guys are wrong and I think I’m right … and you can cancel me. Don’t listen to my next shit if you think I’m shit … Make me broke, make me suffer for my opinion. I believe in it.”
Needless to say … Black Gollum’s comments didn’t go well with black people, which resulted in him receiving a hilarious Twitter dragging of his own:
Daniel Caesar really fixed his mouth (and I use that phrase very loosely) to say the divide (like his teeth) between blacks and whites are because we are mean to them. I'm shaken to the root (canal).
Daniel Caesar was among the first and only niggas to defend K*nye’s slavery comments and you actually thought he wouldn’t defend Yes Julz?? pic.twitter.com/IexZhZQjQU
Daniel Caesar is literal proof of how black men will let white women say anything to black women and just let it happen. But as soon as the black woman say anything to defend herself here come their raggedy ass trying to defend the white women as if shes the victim.?
Daniel Caesar not the hill to die on. Literally nobody called that nigga ugly until today. He was living a privileged life for someone who looks like a foot.
Last year a friend told me @desusnice said I reminded him of Daniel Caesar and I didn't even know who that was, but now that i do, I'm gonna have to cancel my Showtime subscription for the disrespect!
what’s wild is that black women were the 1st and main ones defending Daniel Caesar when people came for his unconventional looks and he just… pic.twitter.com/wON3uK0QvF
daniel caesar side salad is ready to risk his career for a white woman who exploits black ppl and degrade and dehumanize black women. sheesh… i wonder what black men get from saving a white woman from being a complete racist…? … pussy ? cuz pic.twitter.com/x8lYHK3ZVm
One of the cornerstones of modern ratchet reality TV, Mona Scott-Young’s ground-breaking Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, is back for an eighth season.
While the show has had moments that will live on in infamy, the last few seasons have been weak as the core cast has either moved on or been kicked off from the show.
Watch the trailer for Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 8 below:
In the super trailer for season 8, we get a glimpse of the many plotlines Mona and VH1 are threading for viewers this season. They center on the following:
1Rasheeda finally accepts Kirk’s love child, Kannon, into the fold.
When Kirk stepped out on Rasheeda and embarrassed the MESS out of her, almost everyone felt her pain.
When Rasheeda decided to stick it out with Kirk despite his creeping with Jasmine and impregnating her behind his back, most of us checked out.
For those that still care, Rasheeda and Kirk are still going strong and apparently things have gotten good enough that Rasheeda is letting Jasmine’s baby boy teeter-totter around her house.
2Spice unveils her bleaching stunt.
For those who follow Spice (or The Shade Room) on social media, you saw when the Jamaican star popped up on social media with light skin, blonde hair and blue eyes.
At first glance, most people thought she’d bleached her skin for real but apparently, Spice just wanted to make a point for her music video “Black Hypocrisy.”
I’m not sure why VH1 is holding the reveal as if we haven’t seen it but I guess they have to create suspense however they can.
3Scrapp pops up with Moniece.
For those who’ve been watching LHHATL for a while now, you’ll recall Scrapp DeLeon from a few seasons back. He’s the reason why Tommie, his then-girlfriend, is (or, now was) an LHHATL cast member in the first place.
Scrapp’s been away from the show for a few seasons because he’s been in jail, but apparently, he’s been transferred to a lower-security group home, which means he gets to return to filming.
He also gets to return to fuckboy shit because he apparently found time to start humpin’ around with LHHH cast member Moniece Slaughter. I swear Mona pays some of these folks a transfer fee to crossover across the various cities in the franchise.
4Momma Dee continues to be the crazy old lady on the show.
Since day one, Momma Dee has worn the crown as the wild, out-of-control 50+ woman on the show, and after an impressive run with some other contenders, Deb Antney for starters, Momma Dee is still P.O.P. holdin’ it down.
But this season, she’s decided to pull a Lyrica Garrett and get into scraps with her son’s mother-in-law on television for ratings. It’s fake, it’s contrived, but it’s good ghetto fun.
5Mimi Faust is mad as hell about her baby meeting Faith before her.
While many stars on LHHATL have come and gone, Mimi Faust isn’t one of them.
She started out in a love triangle with Stevie J and Joseline and then she decided to go full lesbo and date butch women for a few years. For some reason though, Stevie J remains a main fixture in her storyline.
This season, Stevie brings his new wife, recording star and Notorious BIG’s ex-wife, Faith Evans, into the mix. And Mimi apparently feels some kind of way about Stevie introducing Faith to their daughter without her being present. Mimi then angrily confronts Stevie about it.
If that’s the best Mimi can do for attention, she should really look into investing more time into running her maid business, cause this ain’t it.
There’s no doubt that the fit, healthy and wealthy Gucci Mane of 2019 is on a glow-up that the bloated, drugged out former version of himself that we knew before 2016 could never have dreamed of.
And while Gucci Mane’s baby mama, Sheena Evans, is happy that he’s living his best life, she wants him to come off some coins as a result of his good fortune.
According to reports from The Blast, Ms. Evans is at her wits’ end with Gucci Mane and is demanding that he be locked up for failing to pay her legal fees in their recent child support case.
According to court documents obtained by The Blast, Sheena Evans claims Gucci was ordered to pay $2,495 to cover her attorney’s fees but he has failed to do so. She calls his failure to pay “outrageous and egregious” and “another willful disregard for this Court’s authority.”
“Not only has the Respondent demonstrated that he has no concern for the authority of this Court,” Evans’ attorney writes, “or for the deadlines set by this Court, Respondent has also exhibited an alarming disregard of the consequences of his contemptuous behavior. He could care less.”
I mean, the amount of money she’s asking for is couch change for Gucci so clearly his decision to fail to pay is more out of principle than any lack of funds.
The couple share a son named Keitheon and Gucci’s current child support rate has been set at roughly $2,000 a month since 2011, based on his then monthly income at the time of $24,000.
So far, the court hasn’t ruled on Evans’ request, but Gucci can’t ignore his way out of this situation, so I have a feeling that child support is gonna get raised whether he likes it or not.
While there’s been a decent amount of time that’s passed since the explosive season 9 reunion on Real Housewives of Atlanta where the whole drama between Kandi and Porsha Williams imploded with Phaedra Park as the instigator of it all, the bad blood between Kandi and Phaedra remains strong.
Phaedra is in good standing with a few of her former RHOA castmates at the moment. Namely, RHOA HBIC NeNe Leakes has cozied up to Phae-Phae as she extended an invite to the Georgia peach for Andy Cohen’s baby shower in January:
And then Phaedra was spotted out having lunch with several of the RHOA gals, including current castmates NeNe, Cynthia, Marlo and Eva. (Perhaps they were filming for an episode of the show?)
And heck, even Porsha and Phaedra seem friendly as Phaedra took it upon herself to lavish her co-conspirator with heart emojis underneath a pregnancy photo of Pretty Porsha.
But Kandi is NOT over Phaedra’s betrayal, and that was made abundantly clear when she sat down with Bravo’s Andy Cohen for the Watch What Happens Live after-show.
A fan called in and asked Kandi if Phaedra was invited to her series of sex dungeon shows, and Kandi’s response to the question was a shady, “To who?”
OUCH! If anyone was holding out hope for Kandi and Phaedra to just get over their beef, it looks like you’re gonna have to keep on hoping, cause Kandi’s still mad.
Wendy Williams revealed on her show Tuesday (Mar. 19) that she is currently living in a sober facility to deal with her addiction issues.
Through tears, the 54-year-old said to her studio audience Tuesday morning: “You know me for being a very open and honest person. You know Kevin and I have the Hunter Foundation for the good of the people and we recently launched our 888-HUNTER number for people who are in the struggle of addiction. Well, for some time now, and even today and beyond, I have been living in a sober house.”
She continued: “When you see me come to work glammed up, right after the show, I do Pilates … You know I’ve had a struggle with cocaine in the past. I never went to a place to get treatment. I don’t know how. God was just sitting on my shoulder and I just stopped … there are people in your family, it might be you … I want you to know more of the story.”
Williams didn’t say what she was specifically seeking treatment for, whether it be drugs or alcohol, or both, but she did offer her fans a glimpse into her routine.
“After I go to the Pilates I go to several meetings all around town in the tri-state area, and I see my brothers and sisters caught up in their addiction and looking for help,” she said. “They don’t know I’m Wendy. They don’t care I’m Wendy. There’s no autographs, there’s no nothing. It’s the brothers and sisters caught up in the struggle. It’s been really interesting, this ride.”
She added that her husband, Kevin Hunter, and son, Kevin Jr., were the only people who knew she was seeking treatment. “Only Kevin and Kevin know about this. And that is my truth,” she said.
“Not my parents, nobody. Nobody knew because I look so glamorous out here. After I finish my appointments … I am driven by my 24-hour sober coach back to a home that I live in the tri-state with a bunch of smelly boys who have become my family,” Williams confessed. “We talk and read and talk and read and then I get bored with them. Doors locked by 10 p.m., lights out by 10 p.m., so I go to my room and stare at the ceiling and fall asleep to come here and see you. So that is my truth.”
Williams just returned to her daytime talk show two weeks ago after taking leave back in January for health reasons. She attributed the two-month hiatus to a fractured shoulder and her battle with Grave’s disease, an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid.
Wendy, who made a name for herself on radio paving the way for TV stardom when The Wendy Williams Show premiered in 2008, has always been open about her past issues with drug abuse.
“I was a functioning addict,” she told Entertainment Tonight in July 2018. “I report to work on time, and I’d walk in and all my co-workers, including my bosses, would know but since I would have my headphones on and walk in the studio and [they] wouldn’t fire me because I was making ratings.”
She added: “A functioning addict has several alarm clocks, you’re organized. It’s a miracle I was able to stop.”
The mother of Trinity Love Jones, the 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a duffel bag, has been arrested in connection with her murder.
Last week, 28-year-old Taquesta Graham was reportedly extradited from Texas to Los Angeles and was initially being held on an unrelated warrant.
Now, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has booked Graham for the murder of her daughter, Trinity Love Jones.
Graham’s boyfriend, Emiel Hunt, was arrested on March 9th after the girl’s body was found dumped on an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights near L.A.
Investigators have learned more information surrounding Jones’ murder.
“Graham, Hunt and victim Trinity Jones moved from a family member’s home in Long Beach in May of 2018,” Deputy Michelle Sanchez of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. Information Bureau said. “During the past ten months, the extended family had only seen or heard from the couple and Trinity on a few occasions.”
Graham, Hunt and Jones were believed to have been homeless and staying in their car or a Santa Fe Springs motel shortly before the girl died.
Investigators previously believed Trinity had been left at the location with 48 hours prior to her body being discovered on March 5th, but new information has revealed that the 9-year-old girl’s body was actually left at the crime scene during the afternoon hours of March 1st.
Emiel Hunt, a convicted child abuser, is accused of killing Trinity Love Jones on or around March 1st, the DA’s office said.
The girl’s mother, Taquesta Graham, is a registered sex offender. She was convicted in 2009 of enticing a female minor for prostitution. Both she and Hunt are being held on a $2 million bond.
Graham is expected to be arraigned on the murder charge on Wednesday (Mar. 20).
A West Virginia jury recently awarded a woman nearly $17 million after she was injured at Walmart while workers chased after a shoplifter.
The jury’s verdict was issued in Wood County, West Virginia on Monday, March 4th, 2019.
53-year-old Dine Ankrom was shopping with her granddaughter at a Walmart store in W.V. when all of a sudden she and the child were knocked to the ground when a shoplifter ran into her shopping cart.
Ankrom’s lawyer said when fell to the ground, the cart landed on top of her. As a result, the woman suffered internal injuries that required surgeries, her lawyer said.
While a spokesman for Walmart said they were sympathetic to Ankrom’s injuries, they believe the shoplifter should be held responsible, not them.
The company said they were evaluating post-trial options, including possibly an out-of-court settlement.
For what it’s worth, the jury found Walmart 30 percent responsible and the shoplifter 70 percent responsible, but it wasn’t clear how the money would be split.
Regardless … $17 million is a LOT of money, injured or not.
We’re sure lots of people would love to get hurt at Walmart if they knew they could get $17 million for it.
In 2019, it’s amazing to find that there are still depraved, uncouth things that today’s crop of so-called rappers can do to offend and disgust the masses.
But here we are, with Kodak Black, the hip-hop equivalent of the Muppet character “Animal,” openly insisting that he can and will sleep with the loud and proud lesbian stud rapper otherwise known as Young M.A. in his song “Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy.”
The lyrics go a little something like this: “I don’t even see the confusion / I’m f**kin’ Young M.A, long as she got a coochie / Say she got the strap and the toolie, say she put the crack in her booty.”
The song was originally released at the end of February, but I guess it took a while for the song’s trash lyrics to reach Young M.A., cause she only responded to Kodak’s crude advances on Instagram recently by calling the rap gremlin “weird.”
“Come on, bro. Obviously, the n**ga’s weird, bro. Obviously, he’s on somethin’,” Young M.A. replied on her IG Live.
Look, calling Kodak Black weird is like saying Lil’ Kim looks plastic. It’s obvious and at the same time an understatement.
Trolling, as Tekashi 6ix9ine proved to the world, is a brand strategy that many hip-hop artists appear to have adopted. I’m not saying that Kodak Black is the sharpest colored pencil in the box, but he’s also not oblivious to what he’s doing and insinuating when he claims he can successfully have sex with a lesbian woman against her will, or at the very least, against her basic instincts.
What cracks me up is that if even you believe that heterosexual men could be capable of turning out lesbian women, what the f**k makes Kodak’s misfit-lookin’ ass think he could fall into that category?
Just look at him:
After Young M.A. left her feelings about the Kodak song on the IG streets, of course Troll-Ass Black had to come back with his two cents, where he expresses amazement at women who possess vaginas but don’t wish to be penetrated.
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“Yo, how you a girl but don’t want yo pu**y penetrated?” Kodak asks while rambling about how he does more good than bad and asks his IG audience if they’re good. Repeatedly. “Don’t be mad at me cause I want you, baby. Don’t be mad at me cause I want ya.”
I want to say that someone needs to break the concept of a lesbian down to him, but he knows damn well what a lesbian is because in the song where he offensively insisted he could sex Young M.A. down, he repeatedly says, “I go Young M.A. on these dumb bitches / Like a dyke man, you n**gas can’t f**k with me.”
So he knows very well what time it is. He just likes being messy for likes and clicks. Which is all fine and good, but if you’re gonna do that, at least get yourself cast on a Mona Scott-Young, VH1 reality show so you can collect some coins for the raggedy bullshit you post on the internet.
Young M.A., despite better advice, responded again to Kodak’s post claiming he couldn’t grasp how a lesbian wouldn’t want to be penetrated by a man, while struggling to eat pancakes and drinking D’usse.
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It’s obvious Kodak’s not the only one who’s “weird.”
Instead of goofily performing toxic masculinity and indifference, Young M.A. would’ve been better off putting Kodak in his place. Instead, she’s badgering everyone else for making a big deal about the situation.
Who wants to bet that at the end of the day, with all of the LGBT community caping for her, that Young M.A. will excuse Kodak’s behavior as not being a big deal?
Another noteworthy footnote in all of this is the fact that Kodak Black is currently out on bail for sexual assault charges, so you know, aggressively propositioning women on record makes total sense.
I know they say the Lord looks out for babies and fools, but I’ve got to think that in this instance, Jesus is looking the other way.
If you bought the boo-hoo routine that Joycelyn Savage and her co-conspirator Azriel Clary tried to pull in front of Gayle King, then you need your eyes and your ears checked.
In case, for some ungodly reason, you legitimately believe that Joycelyn Savage is NOT lying about her relationship with R. Kelly and the fact that he forces his girlfriends to lie for him, a leaked recording of a conversation between Joycelyn and her vocal coach back when she was at the beginning of her relationship with R. Kelly, paints a clear picture of who he is and the nature of their relationship.
Originally obtained by The Blast, in the recording, Joycelyn admits that R. Kelly may have passed herpes onto her and that he asked her to send him a text message claiming that they never had sex. This demand for the text message was in response to Kelly’s outrage at the news that Joycelyn revealed the true nature of their relationship with her father.
Listen to the tape yourself below:
“I told him what was going on,” said Savage on the call. “He can’t trust me … I have to gain his trust back because he really likes me a lot.”
In explaining to her vocal coach, Joycelyn explained that Robert wanted her to text him saying “I lied about me and you having sex and I lied to my parents about me and you having something going on.”
“In other words, he wanna have proof. In other words, he’s trying to cover up his ass,” her vocal coach replied. “At the end of the day, he knows he’s doing something wrong.”
If the mountain of evidence hasn’t convinced you already that R. Kelly is a predator who bullies, intimidates and lies pathologically, does this bit of evidence sway you at all? Will anything?
Soulja Boy threw a little shade Tekashi 6ix9ine’s way after he was released from jail over the weekend.
The “Crank That” rapper was arrested early Friday (Mar. 15) for a probation violation, and when he bailed himself out that same day, he quickly hopped on Instagram Live to celebrate his freedom.
“Yeah, ni**a, I’m out, ni**a!” Soulja said. “Big Drako, ni**a, I’m out of jail! This sh*t ain’t gon’ stop, bruh! Y’all got me f**ked up! I had the biggest comeback of 2018, bruh!”
Soulja Boy went to jail earlier because he violated his probation – they found ammunition in his home. Big Soulja wasted no time getting out. pic.twitter.com/KBYACbIroU
While celebrating his own freedom, he also cracked a joke at the expense of Tekashi 69, who remains behind bars after accepting a plea deal in his federal racketeering case.
“Ni**as tryna hate on me and sh*t, bruh. I’m not going out like 6ix9ine, bruh! Y’all got me f**ked up,” he said while showing off his inmate wristband.
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Soulja also made sure to let his fans know he would be able to fulfill his obligation to perform at the Clippers game that night, which he did.
The rapper took center court at halftime during the Clippers vs. Bulls game at the Staples Center and performed his 2007 hit “Crank That (Soulja Boy).”
Soulja’s arrest earlier in the day stemmed from a violation of a probation agreement he signed in 2014 after he was convicted of a weapons violation.
In 2016, while he was on probation, police went to the rapper’s house after he made threatening comments online. After a search, they found at least one weapon and Soulja was arrested.
Soulja’s probation was extended by a judge, who made it clear to him that he was not to possess any weapons.
But in February 2018, when police executed another search warrant at the rapper’s Agoura Hills, California home after a woman accused him of holding her hostage in his garage (something he denies), they found ammunition, which violated his probation again.
On Friday, he was handcuffed and hauled off to a Van Nuys jail when he showed up for a meeting with his probation officer.
Soulja Boy’s lawyer, Fred Minassian, told TMZ that the judge released him pending a hearing on March 29th. “There was no finding in regards to his probation violation,” says Minassian said.
Beyoncé is reportedly hard at work on her next solo album, known amongst the BeyHive as “B7.”
According to the UK’s Sun, Beyoncé has already started recording for her seventh solo project, the follow-up to 2016’s groundbreaking visual album Lemonade.
After exploring themes such as infidelity and redemption in Lemonade, and then following that up with Everything is Love, her collaboration album with rapper husband Jay-Z, Queen B is reportedly returning back to her female empowerment roots.
While her last album gave an insight to the state of her marriage, this offering will be about sisterhood and empowering women in light of the #MeToo movement.
A source revealed: “Beyonce is on a break right now, but she has secretly been working on an album and has completed three songs which are all about women supporting women and lifting each other up. They are fierce dancefloor fillers, which her fans will love.”
The newspaper also reports that the album could arrive as early as this summer, which would be around the time “The Lion King” hits theaters. Beyoncé is set to play Nala in the live-action remake of the classic Disney film, which will be released on July 19th.
The Sun also mentioned that Beyoncé is gearing up for another solo tour, but she likely won’t be able to do that until Summer 2020.
Of course, these reports shouldn’t be taken as fact because no one really knows when Beyoncé is going to release new music until Beyoncé tells us she’s releasing new music.
Still, it’s good to know the queen could possibly be working on her next solo project as we speak.
