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Buffie The Body’s Talks More Butt Exercises… But Is She Gonna Get Up And Show Hers?? [Video]

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Buffie is NOT the most articulate. We’d rather see her cakes working out and talking.

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What Constitutes Being “Plus Size”?

F*** A Chief Keef: Migos Catch Flight To Chiraq And Walk All Through Chicago (Still Got Chains On) [Video]

15 Celebs Known for Hitting the Bottle Hard

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“I’ve been drankin’, I’ve been drankin…’”

Long Hair, Don’t Care: Guess Which Reality Star Showed Off This Super Long Natural Hair?

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Guess Which Reality Star Showed Off This Naturally Long Hair?

This redbone reality star has been on the scene for a few years now since the show she stars in burst onto the T.V. scene with a vengeance. While the natural nature of most reality star tresses are questionable at best, it’s not really a secret that hers are pretty long, eventhough she does admit to wearing weave from time to time.

Any guesses? Peep page 2 to see if you’re right..

Boy Meets App: New Movie “Her” Examines Romance Between A Man And His Computer [VIDEO]

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How lonely do you have to be to fall in love with your computer?? In the new Warner Brothers Film “Her,” Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) does just that. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johannson) which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right.

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From the singular perspective of Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze, “Her” is an original love story that explores the evolving nature — and the risks — of intimacy in the modern world. The way technology and online love are going, people often fall for partners they never even meet in person…so is it really that farfetched to imagine a man falling in love with Siri? Peep the trailer:

“Her” is currently playing in select theaters and opens nationwide on January 10. Will you be watching?

Numbers Don’t Lie: Crime Has Decreased As Hip-Hop Has Grown More Popular

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Would you believe hip-Hop is great for fighting crime? At least that’s what one website discovered while looking into the claims of Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel that, “rising gun violence was a function of “hip-hop culture.”

The Wire.com Ran an excellent story about how research into McDaniel’s claim (which you can hear below courtesy of Mother Jones via Dark Horse Mississippi) several years ago that hip-hop culture is to blame for a rise in crime actually shows the opposite.

In the clip McDaniel says his claims have nothing to do with race.

If the data offers us any indication at all — the opposite is true. As the popularity of rap music increased, crime in the United States fell, particularly at the point in which violent, gangsta rap took hold. And if we use McDaniel’s criterion, we’ve proven him wrong.

To demonstrate this, we pulled crime data compiled by the FBI as a function of population to track how crime has evolved in this country. We focused on the total number of crimes and the amount of violent crime. Then, to gauge the popularity of hip-hop, we turned to the Whitburn Project, an ongoing, underground tabulation of the popularity of singles dating back to 1890. (You can read about it here.) The Whitburn Project indicates the top charting tracks for each year and, for an extensive period, categorizes them by genre. So we took the period of 1980 to 2005 — from just after rap’s birth to the point at which Whitburn’s genre data is less complete — and assessed how much of popular music was dominated by rap.

chart showing crime and violent crime declined as hiphop grew more popular

The site notes that McDaniel’s erroneous claim was pointed at rap from the 90′s and later.

It’s worth noting that the “hip-hop culture” McDaniel decries wasn’t based on the Fresh Prince / Run DMC rap of the 1980s. He means the heavy stuff, which appeared at the end of that decade. In fact, violent crime peaked in 1991 — the same year as NWA’s seminal Efil4Zaggin was released. So, can we thank Ice Cube, Dre, Eazy, and Ren for saving America? Well, no. Crime and music, nearly anyone will tell you, are not linked. “Hip-hop culture,” such as it is, had nothing to do with the amount of crime in U.S., or Canada, at least if actual hip-hop music is any indicator.

Ironically enough the stats for rock music do correlate with an increase of crime in America but… We’re not blaming anything on music. This is more about McDaniel’s stupidity.


End Of Days: Thousands Of Dead Bats Fall From The Sky In Australia Due To Heatwave

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Thousands Of Dead Bats Fall From The Sky During Australia Heatwave

While the U.S. is still recovering from the unprecented “polar vortex” that turned the country into a freezer earlier this week, folks in Australia are dealing with the fallout from just the opposite…….and it’s not pretty.

via Gawker

Sure, it was freezing and awful during the polar vortex but it could be worse: You could live in a place where it’s so hot out that tens of thousands of dead bats are falling from the sky and then rotting on the ground.

That’s what happened this week in Australia, where an intense heatwave—temperatures have reached 122 F – caused at least 100,000 bats to die in southern Queensland.

“It’s a horrible, cruel way to die,” a conservation worker, Louise Saunders, told The Courier Mail. “Anything over 43 degrees [Celsius, 109F] and they just fall. We’re just picking up those that are just not coping and are humanely euthanising what we can.”

Trash collectors have been tasked with cleaning up streets lined with the carcasses, the smell from which has reached larger cities like Brisbane, while hundreds of dead bats remain in trees and bushes, being consumed by maggots.

“As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,” Saunders said. “You can have 250 or more — it’s like dripping chocolate — all dying at the base of trees.”

Suddenly, the cold doesn’t seem so bad.

Yuck daddy!

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Hidden Gems: 10 Songs You NEED In Your Life, Vol. 8

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New year, new hidden gems to add to your music collection.

Here are ten more songs you NEED in your life. Take a look.

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Rashidah Ali Boots Tahiry Jose From Her Wedding! – Love & Hip Hop Preview [Video]

Dwight Howard’s Baby Mama Sorry For Wearing “Laker Hater” Hoodie [Photos]

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It is not a secret that Dwight Howard’s stint with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn’t the most enjoyable for either party. Now that the All-Star center is comfortably posting up with the Houston Rockets with a 23-13 record, it was only a matter of time before the bad blood started to simmer in the pressure cooker…. Continue

Drake, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, & More Make Forbes 30 Under 30

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At the top of each year, it’s customary for Forbes to release their annual “30 Under 30″ selection, which commemorates outstanding achievements by young gunners in a range of industries. On the musical front, 2013 rap darlings Drake (27) and Kendrick Lamar (26) made the 2014 list along with J. Cole (28) and Wiz Khalifa (26)… Continue

Hoy En Mi Gente News: Sofia “Fun Bags” Vergara Slaps Fire Out Of Jimmy Kimmel And Claims Her Peen Is Bigger Than His! [Video]

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Latina banger Sofia Vergara made a special appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night program to read some mean comments that people posted on the internet, and it looks like she bit off a lil’ more than she can chew…

She was just joking, right? RIGHT???

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It’s Not Only In America: White London Police Officer Goes Free After Fatally Gunning Down Unarmed Black Father Of 5

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White London Police Officer Goes Free After Gunning Down Unarmed Black Man

A 29-year-old black London man who was fatally shot by a police officer while unarmed won’t have justice anytime soon, as a jury recently decided that the officer’s shooting was justified and lawful.

via The Independent

The family of Mark Duggan reacted with fury and anguished disbelief yesterday after an inquest jury found that he was lawfully killed but did not have a gun in his hand as a police marksman shot him fatally in the chest.

After three months of heated and sometimes contradictory evidence, the panel of seven women and three men decided by a majority of eight to two that the killing which sparked the worst riots in post-war Britain had been within the bounds of the law.

The Duggan family’s lawyer described the finding as “perverse” and announced an application for a judicial review of the inquest proceedings was being considered. As police last night stepped up patrols in Tottenham, north London, Mr Duggan’s aunt, Carole, said her nephew had been “executed”.

Amid anguished outbursts in the stifling court room from family members, jurors found by a majority of nine to one that the 29-year-old, who was believed by police to have been an active member of a criminal gang, had thrown clear the gun he had collected from an underworld quartermaster as the minicab in which he was travelling was stopped by armed Scotland Yard officers in Tottenham in August 2011.

The jury had heard evidence from the police marksman who fired the shots, known only by his call sign of V53, that he had seen the father-of-five levelling a gun, hidden in a sock, towards him as he pulled the trigger on his weapon.

Relatives and supporters of Mark Duggan address the waiting media outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London

Other witnesses gave conflicting accounts, ranging from testimony that Mr Duggan had been carrying a mobile phone when the shots rang out to the allegation of one woman that the weapon had been planted by police.

Do you think suspecting someone who isn’t posing an immediate threat of being a gang member is legit justification for an officer to shoot?


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And Another One: Zoe Saldana Snags Lead Role In New NBC Miniseries “Rosemary’s Baby!”

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Minority women are taking over primetime television one role at a time….and we aint mad one bit!

Zoe Saldana Lands Lead Role In NBC Miniseries “Rosemary’s Baby”

Actress Zoe Saldana is joining the likes of Kerry Washington and Gabrielle Union in the land of minority leading ladies after landing the starring female role in an upcoming NBC miniseries titled “Rosemary’s Baby,” which is slated to be an adaptation of the popular 60s novel of the same name.

via Deadline

Avatar and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana has been tapped as the lead in NBC’s four-hour miniseries Rosemary’s Baby, an adaptation of the 1967 best-selling suspense novel by Ira Levin. The mini centers on Rosemary (Saldana), a young wife and would-be mother who, with her husband, moves into a Paris apartment that has a dark past. After finally getting pregnant, she becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their mysterious neighbors have ulterior motives about the future of her child. Mia Farrow played the role in Roman Polanski’s 1968 feature adaptation. “Zoe has proven that she is one of our most gifted actresses, and we think she has the perfect combination of spirit and gravitas to take on the title role from Ira Levin’s infamous novel,” said NBC’s head of longform Quinn Taylor.

Sounds like Ms. Pope has all of these big networks suddenly itching to meet their diversity quota! Whatever the case, we’ll take it….’bout time talented women of color got some shine on primetime, riiiiiight? Congrats to Zoe!

Ballin’! King Bey And Hubby Hov Shut Down Jungle Island For Blue Ivy’s Birthday

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Must be nice to be the most powerful 2-year-old on the planet!

According to TMZ reports:

Beyonce and Jay Z celebrated Blue Ivy’s 2nd birthday in spectacular fashion … closing down an entire theme park — for a celebration that the kid will never remember.

Blue Ivy spent the day Tuesday with lemurs, orangutans, kangaroos and penguins at Jungle Island — a wildlife park and botanical garden in Miami.

Park officials are keeping the cost under wraps … but it’s gotta be pricey to close the entire park. Put it this way … a VIP safari tour for just one person costs $240.

This story brings to mind one thing and one thing only:

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Gotta love the baby ballers. We’ll have some photos from this in the morning but in the meantime enjoy the latest Miami photos from Bey’s Tumblr.

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Stanklove: The Internets React To Outkast Coachella Confirmation

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Even with sound confirmations of an Outkast reunion brewing, nothing felt quite like the official news. This week, the world discovered that the ATLiens are headlining Coachella 2014… Continue

Where Were All The Rats This Week?: Deelishis Birthday Party In The D With Tahiry, Old Karlie Redd, Maliah Michel, And Bria Myles [Video]

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A lot of T & A floating around that night… for the right price, of course.

Deelishis celebrates her birthday w/ Maliah Michel, Bria Myles, Miracle Watts, Tahiry, & Karlie Redd

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