Momma Dee better start making some more room in the palace because Lil Scrappy and The Bambi are now engaged to be married.
Someone, apparently The Bambi’s cousin/stylist, posted a photo on Instagram showing Scrappy on bended knee making his proposal following a romantic dinner at a creole restaurant. The photo has since been deleted, but not before screenshots were taken.
“I WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THERE @reallilscrappy you gotta do it over for me!!!!! @adizthebam I Looooove you guys so much Betta keep my cousin Happy foEvvvvvvvvaaa,” the caption read.
Another photo shared on IG by Tammy Rivera, Bambi’s friend and Love & Hip Hop Atlanta co-star, showed The Bambi flashing her huge engagement ring along with the caption, “When you’re super happy for your friends.” That image has since been deleted as well, but, once again, screenshots.
Bambi was also spotted with Scrappy on the red carpet of an event in Atlanta over the weekend showing off her rock.
Avid viewers of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta may be scratching their heads at this point considering that as of the latest episode, Scrappy and The Bambi are clearly not together.
In fact, The Bambi and Jessica Dime ended up getting into an altercation because Bambi was out with another dude and Dime was throwing it all in Bambi’s face that Scrappy had been calling and Facetiming her.
But Scrappy and Bambi are obviously back together now, and it looks like they’re ready to make things official just in time for the reunion, which will be recorded sometime within the next month or so.
When it comes to slinging shade, Mariah Carey has been offering a master class in the subject for years.
Her shade powers are on high-alert especially when she sits down with Bravo’s Andy Cohen, and her latest visit, in promotion of her upcoming E! docuseriesMariah’s World, did not disappoint.
Because Andy Cohen knows how to fish for dirt, he purposely asked Mariah a question he knew would set her off during his infamous “Plead the Fifth” segment.
His question? Can you say three nice things about Nicki Minaj?
Mariah’s response:
“Can you?”
Lord. The side eye and 4-5 seconds of dead silence that Mimi served to Andy right after asking that question is going to be the GIFt that keeps on giving.
Watch how it all went down below.
And if that wasn’t enough Mariah shade for you, Mimi did throw a little at her old rival Jennifer Lopez, though she was far more charitable toward Jenny from the Block than she was with Nicki.
You can sort of believe her that her initial response to the interviewer wasn’t shady (I don’t but I’m cynical like that), but there was definitely some shade in sarcastically claiming J.Lo’s slight toward her about her being “forgetful.”
Never change, Mariah. We love sitting up under your shady palm tree. It gives us life.
Future won’t have to tweet or make anymore songs about not being able to see his son Baby Future because the “Dirty Sprite” rapper won big time in court yesterday against his baby mama Ciara.
Against Ciara’s wishes, a judge granted Future joint custody of their 1-year-old son Future Zahir Wilburn.
Sources connected to the former couple say Ciara showed up in court asking for sole custody of their 1-year-old son, baby Future. She claimed Future was a bad parent who was not present in the child’s life. We’re told she and her lawyer also trash talked Future to the judge, saying he was a bad person.
For his part, Future showed up and asked for joint custody, and the judge was squarely on his side, rejecting her arguments.
California courts favor joint custody, so the decision was in line with the law.
Earlier this year, Future aired out his frustrations over their custody battle on Twitter and accused Ciara of being a bitch with control problems.
You’ve gotta give Karlie Redd credit: The girl knows how to snag these rappers with her old lady fish hook.
After bouncing around with Yung Joc, Benzino and Lyfe Jennings, Karlie appears to have found her newest victim: Tyga.
The rumor mill was buzzing when Karlie and Tyga were spotted leaving Beyoncé’s Formation Tour concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California together Saturday night (May 14).
The two certainly looked familiar and friendly, but Tyga was quick to clarify that he and Karlie were NOT together, according to his tweets.
Of course, Tyga’s track record with fessing up to relationships is shit. He dodged and denied he was dating Kylie Jenner long before he openly claimed Caitlyn’s daughter.
Also, The Shade Room was quick to spot that Karlie followed Tyga on Instagram shortly after they were spotted together at the Beyonce show.
That Tyga is a slick one. First, he’s robbing the cradles with the young girls, now he’s raiding the nursing home with the old lady-cougars. Clearly, Tyga has NO type, cause he switches it up every single time.
There are two potential scenarios for Mariah Carey‘s upcoming reality show eight-part event on E!: We’ll either be served reality TV gold with GIFs for days and quotables for life or we’ll be bored out of our skulls with a super sanitized presentation of the pop star a la Caitlyn Jenner’s boring ass show.
I’m hoping against hope that Mariah let the cameras do what they need to do and that we end up with the former and not the latter, but it’s hard to say where things will net you based on the trailer alone.
Mimi hints at some juicy drama in the clip when she talks about how her life hasn’t been a fairytale and when she says in a confessional scene, “You guys are living for this footage.”
Yes, give us Anna Nicole but with talent and a relationship with a man who isn’t a doormat.
Watch the trailer for “Mariah’s World” (premiere date TBA) below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IItke7NGRxE
From E!:
Mariah’s World takes viewers beyond the flashbulbs and fame and into the private life of singer, songwriter and mega-producer Mariah Carey. It will give viewers VIP access to the songstress like never before as she begins her “Sweet Sweet Fantasy” tour of the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa, all while planning her wedding to Australian business mogul, James Packer.
When Mimi Faust broke up with Nikko, she decided to seek out a lover who was his complete opposite. She got a shy, loyal, confident butch lesbian to lick her up and down and keep her off of the shower rods.
But the lesbian love circle is coming to an abrupt end. Chris Gould, Mimi’s personal butch lesbian Black Justin Bieber clone, is NOT here to play man-in-the-middle with Stevie J and Mimi, and Chris makes her distaste for the drama that is Mimi’s personal life explicitly clear on Season 5, Episode 7 of “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta.”
After Stevie J comes by to Mimi’s place to beg for a place to stay as things between him and Joseline continue to spiral downward, Mimi calls Chris over to break the news to her about her baby daddy moving in.
Chris, who is by no means rude or ratchet, gives Mimi the politest read possible about the tragedy that is her personal life and then proceeds to dump the messy bitch too.
“I’m just not interested in other people’s mess,” says Chris. “You bring stuff to the table and sometimes the table collapses cause there’s too much on it.”
Realizing that family comes before the labia below, Chris tells Mimi to put her family first.
“If us dating affects your family, then I have no problem backing out of this because you should do what’s right for you,” says Chris.
“Are you breaking up with me?” Mimi asks tearfully.
“I’m letting you figure out what you need to do. It’s not much more you can do about it. It was a hell of a ride,” says Chris with a boyish grin.
“I’ve just gotta figure some stuff out and I just think…I’ve just gotta figure some stuff out,” Mimi says in between sobs and sniffles.
But more than just the family aspect of things, Chris is also threatened by Stevie J’s beefcake.
“I believe Mimi wants to help Stevie because she has a heart of gold. Stevie on the other hand, I don’t trust for a second. Stevie has a track record and I know he’ll make a move on Mimi the first chance he gets, and I don’t play those games,” says Chris.
I guess Chris knew her plastic D game was no competition for the real thang, baby!
The internet has no chill and apparently neither does Maury Povich.
After Keyshia Cole broke the news via social media that she finally met her biological father, after 34 years of being stuck with Frankie and Neffe, someone in the Maury social media department decided to post the shadiest message of the year to the show’s official Facebook page.
“Keyshia Cole…you should have called MAURY years ago and we would have helped you find your father! Don’t wait 34 years like Keyshia, call 1-888-45MAURY for your free DNA Test!”
Funny joke, yes, but very petty.
We all know that Keyshia would have at least taken her story of family drama and forgiveness over to Iyanla at the OWN Network, or made her own reality show about it, funded by BET.
And even though we’re happy for Keyshia and her family, the idea of a Maury Povich DNA test in the same thought as Keyshia Cole’s real-life daddy issues is almost ironically on-brand for her.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BFZm2kCocEG/
What’s really important here is that Keyshia is happy and now knows who her real father is. They’re currently spending time getting to know each other, regardless of what a hater has to say. So maybe she’ll write a good song about it.
Everyone wants to know what the hell happened to Alicia Keys‘ “Put It In A Love Song” video, featuring Beyoncé.
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been seven years since the BeyHive and Alicia Keys’ fans got their hopes up for this colorful visual.
We saw photos of the two decked out in matching outfits, riding floats and running through the streets of Brazil in a Carnival situation. The extras were hired, the video was shot and edited, the teaser came out, and we waited … but it was never released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lITbVaZXh8
It’s a question that will haunt Alicia Keys for the rest of her life: When is that video coming out? And now that she’s out promoting her new single “In Common” during the first three weeks of Beyonce’s Lemonade era, the question is coming up again and receiving new answers.
In a recent interview, Keys said the video may pop up as a Tidal exclusive.
“We had a ball in the studio, we had a ball doing the video, which was crazy in Brazil, it was outrageous, you saw pictures,” said Alicia. “But you know it just didn’t quite, the video didn’t quite capture the energy that I think that we really intended it to and we just felt like it was better to just hold it, so we did that…Maybe one day it will be like some old secret…I’ll put it on Tidal.”
No, DJ Khaled is not a rapper, and no, he doesn’t write music. In fact, he doesn’t even make beats. But what he does do, as a “producer,” is put a bunch of hitmakers in a room and let them go to work on beats that his beatmaker friends create. He then screams “We the Best!” and “DJ Khaled!” over and over on the track to let you know his stamp is on it.
In his words (from a recent interview with the New York Times), “I put the right people in the room together to make magic. Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.”
You may have been surprised to hear that Khaled, prolific Snapchatter and holder of all major keys, is the opening act for Beyoncé‘s “Formation” World Tour.
“How can someone who doesn’t rap or sing open up for Beyoncé?” you may have asked yourself. Well, DJ Khaled is doing it, and he’s been doing it pretty well too.
On the opening night of the tour in Miami, Khaled brought out some of the biggest names in Hip Hop, including Lil Wayne, Future, 2 Chainz and Rick Ross. In Atlanta, he brought out T.I., Ludacris, August Alsina, Yo Gotti and The Dream.
But if you ask DJ Khaled what it’s like touring with Beyoncé, you’re most likely not going to get an answer you expect. As a matter of fact, it sounds like he’s never even had a full conversation with Queen Bey.
From his interview with the New York Times:
NYT: Right now, you’re on tour with Beyoncé. Do you ever talk to her?
DJ Khaled: I’m very quiet. Every time I’ve ever seen her is when I’m with my brother Jay Z, and I just say, “Hi,” and I look the other way so fast, and I kind of run. I just don’t want to say nothing too much. I’m not messing that up.
Considering how close he is with Jay Z — Khaled is now signed to Roc Nation and he also has a song with Hov and Future on his upcoming album Major Key — it’s surprising to hear that he’s just as nervous around Beyoncé as anyone else.
We all love that Michael Jordan crying face meme and think it’s one of the funniest images to hit the Internet.
But do you know who doesn’t love that Michael Jordan crying face meme, and who doesn’t think it’s one of the funniest images to hit the Internet? The man in the meme himself: Michael Jordan.
As one of the most recognizable Internet memes, the MJ crying face has many different uses, but its biggest use is to signal disappointment.
Whenever a popular sports team loses a major game (e.g. a national championship), the Internet pulls out the MJ crying face. Or, when someone famous says or does something stupid, the MJ crying face is the perfect image to illustrate #FAIL.
The hilarious image is so popular that rapper Ja Rule was tricked into believing that Jordan, who is already a billionaire, gets paid $1 each and every time it’s used, and Rule ended up becoming a victim of the meme himself.
While social media enjoys using the photo, Michael Jordan himself is not a big fan of it, says former basketball player Charles Oakley, who is good friends with His Airness.
The photo used for the infamous MJ crying meme was taken in 2009 when Jordan was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
According to TMZ, MJ is “cool” with the meme, and while he enjoys the fact that “everyone seems to be having fun with the meme,” he is closely monitoring its use so that no one uses it to make money.
“We haven’t seen anyone using it to promote their commercial interests, which is something that we’re monitoring,” Jordan’s rep said.
Drake has been such a dominant force in music as both a rapper and a singer, that it’s easy to forget that he also actually has a notable talent in acting as well.
SNL offers Drake an opportunity to show off both his thespian and musical sides and while the skits on SNL were far more lackluster this go-round than when he hosted and performed last time, he fared slightly better on the music side of things.
His chart-topper “One Dance” is a crowd pleaser and it should’ve been a high-energy knockout, but for some reason, it felt more like a dress rehearsal. Drake’s shaky vocals didn’t command a presence and dancers should’ve been on stage throughout the set. When they came on, they injected some much needed movement, but they left as quickly as they came.
The second performance, “Hype,” was hardly hype. It’s not clear why Drake chose to perform this song over “Hotline Bling,” “Summer Sixteen” or any number of more recognizable and palatable material.
Overall, this was definitely more of a miss. Better luck next time, Aubrey.
It seems like it was just yesterday that Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian started their whirlwind romance, but here we are, with an engagement and a pregnancy not long after.
While Blac Chyna is currently expecting, her unborn child apparently isn’t going to keep her out of the club as she and Rob are slated to host a party on May 28 at the Tropicana in Las Vegas:
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#RelationshipGoals or nah?
These two are like an off-brand version of Stevie J and Joseline. All ashy, no classy. Let’s hope the baby can hang with Blac Chyna’s club schedule through the second trimester. Sheesh.
Y’all, can we call an emergency intervention to save Justin Bieber before he goes Britney-2009 crazy and shaves his head in a gas station and lunges at paparazzi with a broken umbrella?
It’s no secret that Justin Bieber has been through some emotional struggles. First, there was all of the acting out that he did, like when he went around pissing in public. But that just seemed like bad boy behavior, you know giving us a little white Bobby Brown.
But lately, it seems like Justin has become SERIOUSLY disenchanted with this whole fame thing. He’s snapped on his fans more than once. Remember that time when he rudely told his fans that if they were gonna clap, they needed to at least be on beat?
That was just the beginning though.
More recently, Justin Bieber announced he would no longer do meet and greets before his concerts as he found them draining. And after that, Justin announced he would no longer take selfies with fans because he is sick of feeling like a “zoo animal.”
Now here’s the thing: I’m not one to say that being a celebrity is easy. But there are many who handle it with far more grace than Bieber currently is.
If Justin feels like he’s reaching the breaking point for him mentally, he might want to tap out of the game for a minute if that will help him get his mind right. Or, he might need to step away from the spotlight for good if he can’t hang with the fame game.
The last thing we need is for Justin Bieber to turn into the white, pop version of Lauryn Hill who shows up 2 and half hours late to shows and goes on crazy rants when he finally does show up.
Frankly, he was already on track to become the Lauryn Hill with those frightening white boy dreads he had in his head. So let’s just cut this off before it all gets way too out of hand, shall we?
While the first season of Fox’s hit drama Empire set the world on fire, the second season has been met with mixed results.
There were rumors swirling before that Trai Byers (Andre Lyon) wanted to leave the show, but Byers later confirmed he had no intention of bolting from the cast.
But could it be that the rumor mill had the wrong Lyon pegged all along?
The end of the most recent episode of Empire saw Jussie Smollett (Jamal Lyon) shot by Freda Gatz at the ASA awards. He was rolled into the hospital with a severe gun wound clinging for his life.
Though the show left it as a cliffhanger, Jussie Smollett took to Twitter and left a message that left people feeling this might be the end of the road for the tortured soul that is Jamal Lyon.
So is that it? Is it lights out for Jussie’s run on Empire?
EW says not so fast. The magazine emphatically states in its headline that “Jussie Smollett” is “not leaving Empire after cliffhanger episode.” The publication confirmed that Smollett remains under contract with Fox, which makes an immediate exit unlikely.
So does that mean Smollett’s tweet is nothing more than a PR stunt? Perhaps. But I’d say that it wouldn’t surprise me if Jussie really did get the boot, and frankly, the show might be better for it.
It’s no secret that the writers have wreaked havoc on the Jamal character, yo-yoing him on all fronts. He’s gay, then he has a secret baby girl (that turns out to not be his), then he has a fling with a female pop star and he’s sexually fluid, then he’s back to being gay again. Jamal’s motivations and desires seem to bend and twist in the wind, leaving him as nothing more than a prop for whatever LGBT rights stance the writers want him to play.
And let’s be honest, we can all do without Jussie’s goat warbling in the future.
Well, so much for being brothers-in-law with Kanye West. Although Tyga invited scandal and scathing critiques for his romantic pursuit of then-17-year-old Kylie Jenner, the two seemed to be in it for the long run.
But the latest word on the street is that Kylie and Tyga are done. And according to sources that TMZ spoke with, this split is for good.
Kylie Jenner’s just too successful, too young and too hot to be tied down to one man, and that’s the main reason she and Tyga are done for good this time.
Sources connected with the former couple tell us KJ recently realized she wants to live the single life and soak up the spoils of being an 18-year-old multi-millionaire. That frequently means flying all over the world for appearances, and we’re told that didn’t sit well with Tyga … who’s focusing on his music.
As one source put it … she wants to jet set, he wants to chill in a studio — and they both knew it wouldn’t work.
If Kylie and Tyga are indeed done, then that really takes another huge chunk out of the fun of watching Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna cozy up. At least Thanksgiving is guaranteed to be a little less awkward now with Tyga out of the way.
But who are we kidding? This break is just as likely to be undone as the starting time for a Lauryn Hill concert. These two are notorious for making up and breaking up.
But then again, The Shade Room did spot Kylie cuddling with PartyNextDoor recently…so maybe?
Ja Rule became a student to the web this week when he found out how the Internet works and how it doesn’t.
On Monday (May 9), the 40-year-old rapper came across a fake news article from one of those websites that try to pass their work off as “satire.” The headline from the site in question, TMZComedy.com, read, “Michael Jordan Earns $1 Dollar Everytime Crying Meme Shared on Facebook/IG.”
The faux article sparked a series of tweets from Ja Rule, who seriously believed that Michael Jordan actually received one dollar anytime his infamous “crying face” meme is posted on social media. Rule seemed happy to share the news with his followers, who he referred to as “#Sheep.”
Bruh. That’s just not how the Internet works. And social media was quick to let the rapper know that too. So quick that he deleted his original tweets, probably not realizing that they will live on forever in the form of screenshots (see above).
RT @Ruleyork while we all laughing at the Jordan crying face he gets a 1$ every time it gets post. Jokes on us!!! pic.twitter.com/AsGDIdZMn1
— Ebingneezer Scrooge (@imBINGnotGOOGLE) May 9, 2016
At this point, I’m sure someone sat Ja Rule down and explained to him the ins and outs of this thing here we call the Internet.
I imagine it kinda sorta went like this, “Yo, Rule, OK, this is how the Internet works… This, however, is NOT how the Internet works? Get it? Got it? Good.”
After his “Internet Awakening,” Rule returned to Twitter to inform everyone that he had achieved enlightenment:
Oh so this is how the Internet works… Say dumb shit get a bunch of new followers!!! ? this won't be easy for me y'all but I'll try… ???
Sources close to the couple tell TMZ that Chyna is “several months along” in the pregnancy and that she and Rob are both super excited.
This will be Rob’s first child and Chyna’s second. Chyna already has a 3-year-old son named King Cairo with her ex-boyfriend Tyga, who is currently dating Rob’s little sister Kylie Jenner. If Kylie and Tyga decide to get married, King Cairo and his new brother or sister will also be first cousins.
Rob and Chyna started dating back in January and just last month announced that they are engaged.
A few of the couple’s family and friends have responded to the news on social media and so far they all seem to kinda approve.
Blac Chyna’s mom Toyko Toni expressed her excitement in a video she posted to IG.
“I just got off the phone with my daughter and soon to be son-in-law and they told me I’m about to be a grandma. I’m super excited for them and I can’t wait for this new addition to the family,” she said. “As well, I’d like to congratulate the other side of the family, which are the Kardashians and the Jenners. Congratulations, guys. We’re having a baby!”
Her ex/baby daddy Tyga showed his support, leaving a comment under Chyna’s pregnant emoji pic on IG saying, “Congratulations.”
There’s also a couple of screenshots captured by The ShadeRoom showing Kim Kardashian liking both Rob and Blac Chyna’s announcement on IG.
Those of you who have tickets for any of Beyoncé‘s upcoming “Formation” stadium tour concerts (and your venue is an outdoor stadium) should expect for the event to go on rain or shine.
If you’re lucky, you won’t have to deal with a thunderstorm like us North Carolina concertgoers did. But, I will say that all of the rain and lightning made the experience an unforgettable one, not just for us, but for Beyoncé as well. I know this because she said it herself.
Raleigh, North Carolina’s Carter-Finley Stadium holds over 50,000 people, and we all endured severe weather and traffic delays just to see Beyoncé slay. And that’s exactly what she did on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, despite a lightning storm that threatened to end the concert prematurely.
In the days leading up to the show, weather forecasts predicted a 100% chance of thunderstorms and scattered showers throughout the night of the concert, but that didn’t stop the BeyHive from coming out, it just forced us to come a bit more prepared.
“I will be here rain or shine,” Angela Young told WRAL. “We’ve got ponchos, umbrellas, towels, everything you need. We’re not going to miss this for the world.”
On our way to the show, we (myself and BaRock Odrama) stopped at Target to buy a couple of ponchos, but were told that they had completely sold out in the past hour. Looks like we were beaten to the punch. So we bought literally the last two raincoats they had on the rack and made our way to Carter-Finley stadium, which was around five or six miles away.
While en route to the stadium, we noticed how ridiculous traffic was, and heard on the radio that fans who were already at the concert weren’t being let in due to the severe weather conditions.
Carter-Finley re-opened their gates around 6:50 p.m. and D.J. Khaled came out around 30 minutes later and performed for about an hour. Unlike his shows in Miami and Atlanta, he didn’t bring anyone out, not even J. Cole as some fans expected, considering this was North Carolina — Cole’s home state.
After a brief intermission, the stadium lights went out completely, Beyoncé’s full set lit up, and the crowd went nuts as a 3-minute video montage played, with the BeyHive growing more anxious for Queen Bey’s arrival as each second passed.
Then the beat for “Formation” dropped and you couldn’t even hear your own thoughts as the crowd shrieked with excitement.
Big Freedia’s voice echoed through the speakers: “Oh Miss Bey, I know you came to slay! Give them hoes what they came to see. Baby, when I tell you, I’m back by popular demand. I did not come to play with you hoes. I came to slay, bitch! Oh yes, you best believe it, I always slay!”
Then Beyoncé herself, wearing a black wide-brimmed similar to the one in the “Formation” video spoke her first words: “Welcome to the Formation Tour! Raleigh, if you came to slay tonight, say, ‘I slay!’ Ladies and gentlemen, if you know who you are, say ‘I slay!’ If you proud of where you come from, say, ‘I slay!'”
Beyoncé then went into a 30-song setlist that consisted of several tracks from Lemonade, as well as her hits and fan favorites from previous albums, including “Sorry” (which the ENTIRE crowd knew, word-for-word, especially the “he better call Becky with the good hair” line), “Bow Down,” “Run The World (Girls),” “Mine,” “Baby Boy,” “Hold Up,” “Countdown,” and “Me Myself & I.”
She even sang a beautiful rendition of her Naughty Boy collaboration “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” before belting out what she called her favorite Lemonade track, “All Night.”
The Queen then disappeared behind the stage for a moment while we were treated to a musical interlude from her guitarist, who flawlessly played a medley of songs including “6 Inch,” “I Care” and “Ghost.”
Beyoncé came back out and performed another round of her hits, including Lemonade‘s “Don’t Hurt Yourself,” which transitioned into “Ring the Alarm,” followed by “Diva” (featuring a Hip Hop dance break to “Cut It”), the “***Flawless” remix, “Feeling Myself” (She said, “Changed the game when that Lemonade dropped, know where you was when that Lemonade dropped, I stopped the world…”) and “Yoncé.”
Then Mother Nature decided Beyoncé was doing too much slaying, and that’s when the rain picked back up. But that didn’t stop Queen Bey, who performed “Drunk In Love” and “Rocket” … IN THE POURING RAIN.
Now it’s time for yet another video interlude, but after this one, a man comes on the microphone and says that due to the lightning, the concert has been “suspended.” Not canceled, just postponed until the lightning storm passes. “Beyoncé has said that she is not leaving until she performs a full show,” the announcer said to ease our worries that the show wouldn’t be completed.
It took what seemed like forever for everyone to properly evacuate the stadium (imagine 50,000+ anxious people exiting a venue at the same time) and hundreds, maybe even thousands, of fans decided to just go home. A terrible decision on their part, because within 30-45 minutes, an announcement was made that it was safe for us to return to our seats, and Beyoncé picked right back up where she left off.
“The show is not over! Thank you guys for your patience,” Beyoncé told us as she returned to the stage to perform “Daddy Lessons.” She thanked us again after a dance break: “Thank y’all so much for staying.”
Next up, Beyoncé sang “1+1,” which was followed by a beautiful “Purple Rain” Prince tribute. She didn’t sing, but her whole stage, including the massive 100 to 200-foot screen, turned purple and the crowd waved their phones in the air as the music played. The fact that it was actually raining (like how it did when Prince performed at the Super Bowl in 2007) made the tribute even more impressive.
The Queen returned to the stage yet again, this time in a red leather outfit with a matching fur coat, and she performed a medley of another set of hits and fan favorites, including “Crazy In Love,” “Bootylicious,” “Naughty Girl,” “Party” and “Blow.”
She disappeared behind the stage one last time while the show’s final video montage played — this one had home movie clips of her, Jay Z and Blue Ivy, which had everyone saying “awww!”
When Beyoncé came back out for the finale, she moved to the “Bey Stage” in the middle of the field for a moving performance of “Freedom,” which saw The Queen and her dancers splashing puddles of water (not from the rain, the stage literally turned into a shallow pool) all over fans (including ME!!!) who were surrounding the second stage.
Bey ended that part of the show with quick performances of “Survivor” and “End of Time / Grown Woman” before performing the encore song “Halo.” At this point, it was literally pouring down raining, and Beyoncé loved every minute of it.
During “End of Time,” she said to the crowd, “This rain ain’t stop this show, and can’t nothing stop my love for y’all. Thank you guys so much!”
Before transitioning into “Halo,” Beyoncé said, “The rain is actually beautiful. Thank you guys for moments like this I’ll never forget … Y’all have been such an incredible audience.”
Not even the pouring rain and an accompanying lightning storm could stop the slayage that is Beyoncé.
Look, if Beyoncé call Adele up soon for a remix or a guest feature of some sort, she needs to be charged for cruelty and child abandonment. Because Adele CLEARLY feels like Beyoncé is her mother.
Then again, isn’t it nice for once to be talking about two women in music who fall over themselves to compliment each other rather than the usual beef that goes down between female artists on the blogs and social media?
Now that Donald Trump has cleared the presidential candidate field on the Republican side, he knows it’s time to make amends and win over some of the individuals and minority groups he trampled on to secure his spot at the top of the GOP ticket.
Cinco de Mayo seemed like the perfect opportunity to show that it is “all bueno” with him and the Hispanics. But with Trump being Trump, he couldn’t help but douse his message to the community with a mouth-puckering dose of Trump egoism, sprinkled with light racist-patronizing.
Let’s have Trump’s words speak for themselves. This is the message Trump shared on his social media channels as a salute to the Latino community on Cinco de Mayo.
So…not only did Trump use the most stereotypical food to pander to the Hispanic community, he had the gall to pose with a cheap, non-Mexican variation of the taco (one conveniently produced by his own cafe). And then he said, “I love Hispanics.”
Does it get more insulting than that?
Part of me is impressed because just when I think Trump has sunk to the absolute bottom of the trolling barrel, he goes deeper.
The other part of me thinks, that Trump can’t seriously think that posing with his dusty toupee and a microwaved tortilla bowl of semi-Mexican inspired ingredients will smooth things over with a group of people he’s labeled as rapists, threatened to deport and plans to build a wall to keep out of this country. Like, does he really feel like Juan and Maria are gonna be like, “Oh, pero el senõr le gusta los tacos entonces…”
Black folks: It’s a good thing Black History Month is behind us. I shudder to think what kind of backhanded ass “compliment” he would’ve pulled out of his hat to show he loves the blacks. Then again, there’s still Kwanzaa coming up, so the worst might be ahead of us.
