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Ta-Nehishi Coates Pens Beautiful Tribute To Chadwick Boseman In This Week’s Marvel Comics
Source: Shahar Azran / Getty This past summer the entertainment world was leveled when Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman passed away from cancer at the young age of 43-year-old. With all kinds of sentiments and heartfelt tributes poured out across the board following the heartbreaking news, Black Panther comic book writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates penned a moving eulogy to Boseman that’ll be featured in this week’s Marvel comics in which he begins the piece with a quote from the King of Wakanda taken from Secret Wars #7. “Death is just a different kind of journey…to the land that I am king of.” Reminiscing about the time he spent with Boseman personally before the Marvel fame and the growth he witnessed in Chad as the years progressed, Coates realizes that Chadwick Boseman wasn’t just an angel o...
Nicki Minaj & Kenneth Petty Welcome Their First Child
Source: Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Barbz rejoice, Nicki Minaj is officially a mom! TMZ is exclusively reporting that Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, have welcomed the birth of their first child. The celebrity gossip site says that the Queen’s rapper gave birth to a healthy bundle of joy on Wednesday in Los Angeles. No details as far as the baby’s sex or name have been revealed. Minaj finally confirmed everyone’s suspicions back in July when she dropped a series of maternity photos taken by world-renown photographer David LaChappelle showing off her belly, indicating at the time she was at least 6 months pregnant. Nicki has been telling the world for a minute that she was ready to be a mom and even took time away from the rap game to “start a family” before she made her triump...
California Governor Signs “Kobe Bryant Law” Forbidding First Responders From Taking Pictures
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN With the way that 2020 fell off a cliff in just a matter of months it feels like the tragic death of Kobe Bryant happened years ago. But we’re now reminded of the early days of this horrible year as California’s governor has just signed in a new law which was inspired by Kobe’s death. According to TMZ, Governor Gavin Newsom has just introduced the “Kobe Bryant Law” which forbids first responders from taking unauthorized pictures of a dead person at the scene of an accident. A situation that first became a problem when an officer at the scene used a picture of Kobe’s dead body to try to pick up a woman at a bar a few weeks after the accident. In total 8 of the local deputies have been accused of taking and sharing pictures of the tragic incident as there are no ru...
Kid Cudi Says He Doesn’t Agree With Kanye West When It Comes To Donald Trump
Source: Timothy Norris / Getty Kid Cudi is one of Kanye West’s biggest collaborators and a long time friend, but when it comes to that MAGA nonsense, the Cuddster isn’t on board with that. Cudi is working his ass off despite the COVID-19 pandemic still wreaking havoc across the country. The rapper/actor sat down with Esquire for an intimate conversation that touched on a range of topics. One, in particular, is Cudi’s starring role in the new HBO series We Are Who We Are, in which he plays Richard Poythress, a member of the United States military who we learn is a Donald Trump supporter in the second episode. In the interview, Cudi spoke on the concerns he had with the role before deciding to take it while pointing he doesn’t rock with the current “president” going into the 2020 presid...
Atlanta-Based Activist Sir Maejor Page Arrested For Wire Fraud & Money Laundering
Source: Chris McKay / Getty All skinfolk, ain’t kinfolk. An Atlanta-based activist is making that quite clear after he got caught being funny with BLM donation money. AJC is reporting is that Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, who founded the Black Lives Matter Greater Atlanta Facebook page, is in some serious trouble. The FBI claims that Page spent more than $200,000 in donations that were sent to a GoFundMe account linked to the page that was intended to go to the Black Lives Matter movement. According to investigators, Page used the money on numerous personal purchases, including high-end clothing, a home, furniture, accessories, and more. Page was arrested on Friday (Sept.25) in Toledo, Ohio. The purchases were broken down in the federal complaint with Page spending $1,...
Jumpman Jig: Kanye West Threatens To Only Wear Air Jordans Until adidas Gives Him A Board Seat
Source: Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production / Kanye West Purchases Second City In Wyoming To Bring Yeezy Production To The US Kanye West might be off his rocker these days but the man sure knows how to make a few power moves when it comes to his business partnerships. After years of helping adidas close the gap with Nike for title of “Hottest Brand In These Streets” thanks to his massively popular Yeezy line, Kanye has decided he no longer wants to just be a featured artist/designer on the three stripped brand, he wants to be on the board of directors. In a now deleted Tweet, Yeezus threatened to exclusively wear Air Jordan sneakers until adidas offered him a seat at the table and just to drive that point home even tweeted (and deleted) himself rocking a p...
White Supremacist Shot Dead By California Cops After Failed Ambush
Source: kali9 / Getty A shooting in a California town left a white supremacist gang member dead after a shootout with deputies ensued after an initial ambush. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson said that the shooting took place in Templetown, Calif. after the suspect opened fire after being identified as a known felon by a deputy. The Tribune has more: According to Parkinson, a sheriff’s deputy was driving in the Theatre Drive area around 10:20 a.m. when the deputy recognized the car of a wanted felon parked on the side of the road. The deputy made a U-turn and pulled up next to the vehicle, which was unoccupied. The deputy then proceeded north and found the man walking on Cemetery Road off Theatre Drive near the Templeton Cemetery, Parkinson said. He said the deputy tried to mak...
Travis Scott Visits Michael Jordan’s Crib In His Latest Visuals To “FRANCHISE”
Source: Vevo / Youtube While heads are out here trying to win one of those five limited edition Travis Scott McDonalds figures (why all his stuff gotta be limited though?), La Flame continues to do what he does best: music. Premiering at IMAX theaters ahead of showings for Christopher Nolan’s TENET, Travis Scott’s visuals for “FRANCHISE” was shot on location at Michael Jordan’s glorious Chicago estate and features Cactus Jack, Young Thug and M.I.A playing golf, flaunting cars, and enjoying some pool action at the G.O.A.T.’s private property. Well, Travis and Thug were living it up anyway. M.I.A. was somewhere where the sheep roam free and the flowers are made into garments. We’re lowkey disappointed we didn’t get a look at MJ’s sneaker closet. Y’all know Mike must have all kinds of heat we...
Charlamagne Tha God Apologized To Angela Yee For Gucci Mane Slander
Source: Rich Fury / Getty It’s been almost a year since Angela Yee unfollowed her Breakfast Club co-host Charlamagne Tha God for failing to defend her honor during an interview with Gucci Mane in which Guwop disparaged Yee (and DJ Envy) for denying the two ever had a fling (not Envy though). Since then fans of the morning show have felt the relationship between the two has been strained to say the least. But now Charlamange has not only acknowledged the rift the interview caused, but also publicly apologized to Yee for not standing up for her when he should have. During an interview with DJ Vlad for Vlad TV, Charlamagne was asked about Gucci calling Angela a “Punk a** b*tch” and how it affected his friendship with Angela Yee when he didn’t push back on the slander. “It wasn’t a good affect...
Kodak Black Sues The Federal Bureau of Prisons
Source: JLN Photography/WENN.com / WENN For months Kodak Black has been accusing prison guards of mentally and physically abusing him while he’s been serving his sentence at a Kentucky prison, and now he’s decided to file a lawsuit against the bureau for the non-stop “torture” they’ve been subjecting him to for quite some time now. TMZ is reporting that after Kodak was transferred to the Kentucky prison from Miami after an altercation with another inmate that left a guard injured, the “No Love” rapper was subjected to a “gang beating” by Big Sandy security guards as retaliation for their Miami brethren and even “flicked” his family jewels during the beating. According to the docs … this has forced Kodak to urinate and defecate on himself while the guards make jokes. He claims medical recor...
Tanqueray Returns With #TattletalesFromTanqueray Series With Help From Humans of New York
Source: @humansofnewyork / Instagram The last we heard of Humans of New York’s breakout star Tanqueray, her published life stories as a 70s era stripper had social media at the edge of their seats. With her health in fast decline these days, the blog is in dire need to tell her story and raise money to help pay for her medical bills. After going viral last year, the tales of Tanqueray, born Stephanie, were initially intended to become a podcast series, but plans were halted once her health took a turn for the worse. Luckily she sat and shared her life story over a series of twenty interviews with Brandon Stanton, the founder of Humans of New York, giving him the idea to transcribe and publish them over Twitter instead. The hopeful storyteller wanted to raise awareness of her co...
Kanye West Responds To Ma$e After He Was Called Out For Being A Hypocrite
Source: Brian Stukes / Getty Kanye West has had music Twitter in shambles after he decided to make it his mission to revolutionize how artists are signed to labels and the deals and contracts they were given while pissing on his Grammy, literally. His music biz rant caught the attention of one rapper who West sort of clowned on wax. While Kanye West was on his electronic soapbox, aka Twitter, there were some music artists calling bull you know what on West’s claims and felt he was very hypocritical. One artist, in particular, Ma$e, came with the receipts in an Instagram post calling out Yeezy for his hypocrisy. If you remember, on the track “Devil in a New Dress,” West spoke on Ma$e’s sudden exit from the rap game, “don’t leave while your hot, that’s how Ma$e screwed up.” Now the “Feel So ...
