DMX returned to The Breakfast Club this morning to premiere his new record “Blood Red”. He lead the team in prayer and talked about a wide range of subjects including his relationships and beefs with other rappers including Drake, Jay Z and Ja Rule. He also discussed his brush with death earlier this year when his heart stopped beating for four minutes after an asthma attack.
Ever dream of traveling around the world? It was a longtime dream of Libryia Jones. In fact, since she was 19 she dreamed of such a trip and now the single mother and IT professional is making that dream come true not only for herself but others as well. Jones has launched a travel program called My Wander Year (MWY) where Jones, along with a group of other professionals, will treat themselves to a year of discovery around the world. A group of 30-plus individuals plus Jones will take the first My Wander Year trip in August 2016. They will be living, working in, and exploring Prague, Czech Republic; Chiang Mai, Thailand; Cape Town, South Africa; and Panama City, Panama.
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Unlike the average millennial, I never had the opportunity to go to summer camp as a child. My mother was fiercely overprotective and immersed herself in 20/20 Specials that centered on child endangerment. And while I don’t necessarily feel like I needed the opportunity to become a well-rounded adult, it would have been cool to see what the experience would have been like. Fortunately for me (and other adults) who weren’t able to attend summer camp — or who want to relive that adolescent milestone — there are options available to those 18-plus, like these three adult summer camps below spotted on Eventbrite. 1. Soul Camp: If you believe you need to join forces with Oprah or you’re the next T.D. Jakes, then Soul Camp is for you…
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Gucci Mane is about to be in homes across America. The “First Day Out The Feds” rapper is reportedly getting his own reality show on the Oxygen network. The unconfirmed and yet-to-be-titled show is expected to revolved around Gucci Mane‘s post-prison life as he gets back in the studio and makes moves with his girlfriend Keyshia Ka’Oir. BET is reporting that Gucci Mane is currently in negotiations with the network about how much he will be paid for his talents and how to film around his probation restrictions. Rumors of the show began to swirl when Judi Jackson from Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club posted a lengthy and since deleted caption congratulating Guwop on his latest venture…
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T.I. recently curved a thirsty azz groupie for trying to slob down the ATL rapper. TIP made his way through a crowd at a nightclub recently and was grabbed up by a slore trying to get a little too close to his face:
T.I. hit the groupie with the elite level curve. Don’t let Tiny find this attention slorin’ ho!
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When’s the last time Sean Kingston was in the news for his actual music.
Anyway, the “Beautiful Girls” singer recently had his allegedly $300,000 chained pilfered right off his neck. Continue
Drake’s latest appearance on SNL was met with mixed reviews. We have a feeling that if Lorne Michaels had substituted one of the not-so-funny sketches with this vignette, those reviews might have been a bit more glowing…
Muy loco, Pinocchioooooo! LMFAOOOOO!
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50 Cent and Sean “Diddy” Combs clearly ain’t friends.
The former recently took to Instagram to slander his branded vodka selling rival, likening him to the devil when it comes to his business practices at Bad Boy Records. Continue
Like many of us, DMX is a man who’s in constant battle with his demons.
While he was able to hide his troubles during the beginning and middle of his successful rap and acting career, the tail end of his multi-platinum run revealed a man carrying a cross that would’ve flattened lesser men. Continue
Looking to take some time away from the hustle and bustle of life in Nairobi? Why not take a day trip? Here are 10 great escapes.
What the hell is going on in the state of Florida?! According to ABC News:
An alligator attacked a man in Florida Tuesday evening — about an hour away from where a boy was killed by a gator outside a Disney resort, according to the local sheriff’s office.
The attack in Bushnell, Florida, happened around 6:30 p.m. and left the 58-year-old man with injuries to his right leg, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
The man’s condition was not immediately known, but he was airlifted to Ocala Regional Hospital.
On June 14, a 2-year-old boy was killed when he was attacked by a gator outside a Disney World resort. Disney, the parent company of ABC News, has added signage warning of gators and snakes and the company’s chairman and CEO, Robert Iger, said his “thoughts and prayers” were with the boy’s family.
Each year, there have several gator attacks in Florida, according to statistics from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. In 2015, there were 9 major attacks, including one that was fatal, according to the statistic.
Bye Florida!!!
Turns out Lil Nick’s mom got more than just flowers… The latest talk about Nick’s split with Iggy is that it was caused by him getting his son’s mom pregnant AGAIN. And he didn’t even tell his Australian fiancée until ex-girlfriend Kenna Green’s pregnancy was several months along.
According to Life & Style reports:
“Nick waited until Keonna was four months pregnant to tell Iggy the news,” an insider reveals, adding that he told her “he was drunk and had a lapse in judgment.”
“He said it was a one-night stand and will never happen again,” the insider explains. “But it’s too late. He is having another son!”
When Life & Style approached a clearly expectant Keonna on June 21 and asked if the pregnancy was an accident for her and Nick, she replied “yes,” then immediately said, “No comment.”
The duo already has a four-year-old son, Nick Jr., together. “Iggy was supportive of Nick’s friendship with Keonna,” the insider says. “He took advantage of Iggy’s trust.”
“Iggy seemed to blow everything off,” the insider continues. Until Keonna’s pregnancy, that is. “This is something she can’t ignore, and it ruined their future together.”
Damn… And they got the ex to talk and everything. Swaggy out here wilding. Would you completely rule out a Nick Young/Iggy Azalea reconciliation though? After all, Luda and Dwyane Wade BOTH had babies with exes and still ended up getting hitched to their main squeezes. Sometimes those babies have a funny way of getting guys to commit.
Educator, #BlackLivesMatter activist and social media sensation Deray has recently landed a job with the Baltimore City School System that could help him buy more blue vests. According to Baltimore Brew reports:
DeRay Mckesson will be settling back in Baltimore as the interim chief of human capital at Baltimore City Schools.
The Black Lives Matter activist and failed candidate for mayor of Baltimore will be earning $165,000 a year as one of the first cabinet picks of Sonja Santelises.His appointment was affirmed by the Board of School Commissioners last night. He and Santelises will start on Friday.
Mckesson had worked for the same office, as a strategist and special assistant, before he moved to the Midwest to take a position in the Minneapolis city schools.The 30-year-old became an overnight media sensation during the protests following the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. As the face of Black Lives Matter, he popped up on CNN, talk shows and other media during the April 2015 Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore.
Congrats to Deray on the new position!
This beautiful baby girl is the offspring of a Los Angeles reality star and a New Jersey trap rapper.
This cutie at first caused some contention between the parents who are no longer in a relationship….
but now she’s the apple of the rapper’s eye.
Can you guess who the parents of this cutie are???
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Not that any one perverted pedophile is any better than another, but this particular pervert has taken his depravity to another level according to NYDN…
The sentencing of a New York man convicted of sex-related crimes involving two New Jersey teenagers was briefly halted Monday after he bit the inside of his mouth and spit blood at one of them.
Once the federal hearing resumed, Clifford Wares eventually was sentenced to life in prison.
Wares, 43, of Warwick, was convicted last month on several counts, including child pornography production and interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He didn’t attend all of his trial, saying he feared he couldn’t control himself.
On Monday, the judge also found Wares guilty of obstruction of justice after determining that he sent anonymous letters threatening his victims and their families.
This guy is sick, twisted and I need of an injection of bleach…
Prosecutors say Wares met a 14-year-old girl online in June 2011. They say he regularly engaged in sexually explicit communications with her over the next three months and sent her pornographic images, and also told her he was interested in “hanging out” with her.
Wares eventually drove from his home to Passaic County in northern New Jersey, according to the prosecution, where he picked up the teen in his vehicle and the two then engaged in sex acts in a nearby park. After a second encounter, Wares threatened to harm the girl’s reputation and property when she refused to meet him again.
Prosecutors say he also communicated online with a 13-year-old girl for three months in 2011. They say he used a fake Facebook account to pretend to be a child she knew and had her send photos and videos of herself engaging in sex acts. On some occasions when she did not comply, Wares threatened to distribute the girl’s nude images to her parents and friends, the prosecution says.
No need for this guy to draw another breath on this Earth. He gotta go.
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Black Girls Code, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing technology education for African American girls between 7-17, is reaching a milestone. The organization was founded in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant when her daughter returned from a technology camp dissatisfied with her experience and lamenting the fact that she was the only African American girl there. Since 2011, Black Girls Code has been recognized by the likes of Microsoft, Toyota, with an award presented by Oprah, and many more. Now, they’re partnering with Google and will be moving into the company’s New York office. According to Fast Company, the partnership comes as Google is attempting to diversity their pool off job candidates…
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#Summer16 is officially here!!… While the warm feeling of the sun on your face may bring happiness and comfort, it is very important to preserve your skin from sun damage… My Black is Beautiful wants to remind you to be good to your skin and incorporate SPF into your daily morning routine. Here are some quick tips to keep your #Melaninonfleek, always. Keep Skin as Smooth as Caramel: Too much sun exposure on unprotected skin can contribute to pigmentation issues, such as dark spots, which are attributed to the melanin in African-American skin. Dark spots and uneven skin tones are common occurrences among black women, and can be alleviated by wearing SPF 15 or higher on a daily basis…
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Wiz Khalifa sat down with Playboy Magazine for their 20Q feature and he didn’t hold back in any of his answers. The Pittsburgh rapper’s conversation picks up where his Breakfast Club interview left off as he spoke on the status of his relationships with his ex-wife Amber Rose and her ex-boyfriend Kanye West. On Rose and their divorce: “I feel like not being in that relationship helped me out a lot. I learned how to be present where I need to be present. I’d been present in the relationship, but at that age and with what was going on, it just wasn’t right for me. It helps to walk away sometimes, even though it was super hard…”
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India’s first female Uber driver was found dead at the age of 39 according to HuffPo India:
Bharathi Veerath, Bengaluru’s first woman cab driver, has died in an apparent case of suicide. The 39-year-old was found dead in her third floor rented house on Monday, where she had apparently hanged herself.
The incident was reported in Nagashetty Halli in Bengaluru, after Bharathi’s landlord found her cab “abandoned”, but could not locate Bharathi anywhere. He reportedly rushed to her house and saw her body hanging. The local police found Bharathi’s front door shut tight but unlocked. They could not find a suicide letter.
Investigation has found that Bharathi was living alone and wanted to move back to her hometown in Ongole in Andhra Pradesh. She had even informed her landlord about moving her gas connection there and quit her job. Bharathi had reportedly moved to Bengaluru 10 years ago and worked as a tailor and then with an NGO where she learnt how to drive. Later, she joined private taxi aggregator company Uber, where she was the city’s first woman cab driver.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Bharathi Veerath,” an Uber spokesperson told HuffPost India. “Bharathi was a positive person and one of our top women driver partners. She was an inspiration to many driver partners and riders. Our thoughts are with her family.”
This is so sad!!!
Here are a few things you may not have known about Zimbabwe that may just convince you to visit — NOW.
This week the Miss Universe organization announced that it will be going swimsuit-free, replacing the competition in the Miss USA pageant with athletic wear. Over the years, pageant organizers have explained that the swimsuit portion was created with the intention of showcasing the athleticism of competitors. However, this transition to athletic wear is a lot less exploitative and more appropriate for it’s younger participants, aged 15-19. “I have been an athlete my entire life. As a member of a softball team and a competitive dance team, I spend a lot of time in athletic wear,” reigning Miss Teen USA, Katherine Haik told USA Today. Miss Universe president Paula Shugart shared in a memo that the change is meant to “celebrate women’s strength, confidence and beauty” in various, more constructive ways…
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Over the years we’ve Marc Lamont Hill strength his hustle and influence from a African American Studies Professor at Morehouse College to hosting Our World with Black Enterprise and HuffPost Live to serving as a correspondent for BET News and a CNN political commentator. Now, Hill is testing the waters with his very own show on VH1, a weekly late-night series called VH1 Live!. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series, which is produced by Embassy, known for Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live, will showcase a pop culture spin on entertainment news and gossip. Hill will also interview the network’s popular stars, highlighting the must-see moments on the network’s favorable shows and fusing in his own opinions with his approach that’s been billed as “raw street savvy.” The series is set for a Sunday, July 17, at 10 p.m. ET/PT debut. Will you be tuned in?
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Ice Cube, the man who once recorded a song called “Burn Hollywood Burn,” is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. The rapper/movie star born O’Shea Jackson will be inducted into the 2017 class and is joined by a long list of celebrities including singer John Legend, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Lee Daniels, Tyra Banks and legendary R&B group New Edition. “The Walk of Fame Selection Committee is thrilled to announce our newest honorees to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Committee looked carefully at each nominee and we feel that we have selected a great group of talent that will appeal to the tastes of many fans around the world,” says the Walk of Fame Selection Committee in a statement…
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Chris Brown can’t seem to stop swiping people’s cell phones. The troubled singer was busted back in 2012 for allegedly snatching a cell phone from a female clubgoer outside of a Miami nightclub.
Now according to TMZ, Breezy was seen on video snatching a fan’s phone:
Chris was partying in the VIP section last weekend after his show at a club called Arenile in Napoli, Italy. Check out his reaction when he spotted the woman recording on a phone … clearly, without CB’s permission.
Witnesses tell us Chris didn’t ask any questions … he simply took the phone, hurled it over his shoulder, then had security kick her out of VIP.
We’re told she didn’t call cops because security found her phone and returned it.
Check out the footage of bad azz Breezy below:
When will this guy get his life together??!
A home construction company has accused Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore of stiffing it after its workers helped remodel the fixer upper she purchased last year in Georgia.
Now, Randal Lowe Plumbing has hit the reality star with a lien demanding she pay up for the work they did.
Last year, the reality star dropped $515,000 on a fixer upper in Atlanta. The home didn’t even have doors when she purchased it, and it’s a stone’s throw from enemy & co-star Sheree Whitfield’s under construction pad.
Sources said Kenya paid cash and immediately began extensive remodeling for the property. The home was under construction by the previous owner but they ran out of money and left it unfinished before the RHOA star scooped it up. It was reported Kenya planned on spending around $400,000 on the remodel.
The home renovation was a storyline for Kenya on the last season, and it was even a topic of a verbal fight between her and Sheree during a party they attended.
But according to docs filed in Georgia on June 8th, Randal Lowe Plumbing slapped Kenya with a claim of lien accusing her of refusing to pay up on work they did.
The document explains they furnished labor and materials to Kenya’s home and the invoice was due to be paid on March 30th, but she has refused to pay up for their work, which totaled only $950.
Kenya has yet to pay off the debt to the plumbing company and the lien is still active in Georgia.
