(AllHipHop News) Cardi B has revealed recent cosmetic surgery stopped her from truly “shining” in her new movie, “Hustlers.”
The 26-year-old plays an exotic dancer in the upcoming flick, which tells the story of strippers who turn the tables on their wealthy clients after the financial crisis of the late 2000s.
And speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the film’s Los Angeles press day on Sunday, the “I Like It” rapper shared that her recent surgeries proved problematic when it got to working the stripper pole.
“You know what? I was really mad because let me tell you something – when I did the movie, I just got my t##ties done and I got lipo, right? So I was like, ‘This is my moment to shine, and I can’t shine because I can’t climb!’” she shared. “So I was mad. I was like, ‘G####### it!’”
Back in June, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper vowed never to go under the knife again, after sharing that her extensive procedures caused her ankles to swell every time she flies on a plane.
“I been working out for the past two weeks cause b##ch I ain’t getting (plastic) surgery again,” the star tweeted.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper French Montana has hired reality TV star Scott Disick to transform the home theater in his mansion into a jungle room.
The renovation deal is revealed on a new episode “Flip It Like Disick” – the new show fronted by Kourtney Kardashian’s ex, in which he completely revamps high-end homes in need of remodeling.
In a new teaser, the rap star, who briefly dated Kardashian’s sister Khloe, and Scott discuss the “No Stylist” hitmaker’s drab beige media room.
Disick unveils his plans to “do the whole place over” by transforming the area into a “full-blown jungle” in honor of the rapper’s 2017 album “Jungle Rules.”
“Bears, tigers, oh my!” the hip hop star laughed at the suggestion. “Let’s do it. I’m down. I love it.”
Sometimes French Montana’s house resembles a real jungle.
It’s not every day you catch the attention of Australian pop star Iggy Azalea.
Luckily for Stini, the model turned singer swooned Iggy within their first meeting. Not only was Stini featured on her highly-anticipated album In My Defense, but she’s also the first artist to sign to her Bad Dreams imprint (with EMPIRE).
In regards to her own artistry, the Denmark-born, Indiana-raised singer-songwriter has plenty of records in the vault. While the waiting game ain’t no joke, she’s excited as hell to release her debut single “Live Forever.”
AllHipHop: Did you always want to be a singer?
Stini: I always had a feeling for some reason I was gonna be an artist. My sister and I would always joke about it before I ever really did music, because I was in choir and played a lot of instruments growing up. I never thought it would be an option for me to be an artist, then I just did it one day and it made sense.
AllHipHop: Talk about linking with Iggy Azalea on “Big Bag.”
Stini: I signed with EMPIRE and Iggy in December, and she’s just been a big help to me. She’s really cool to talk to, she gives me good advice. I actually recorded that song and sent it to her. She’s like “oh yeah this is fire, I want this on my album.”
Then she sent me back a version with her verse on it, her on the hook then me on the second verse. I’m like “this is fire, let’s just do it.” And she did it. It was such a good move for me, I was so excited for that.
AllHipHop: How did you guys link initially?
Stini: I met her in the studio with the producer I used to work with. I played her some songs and she really liked them. I was so intimidated at first because she was staring straight ahead, I’m like “what the f##k, she doesn’t f##k with me.” [chuckles] I just kept playing the music and she told the producer later on she wanted to jump on one of the songs.
She did but the song never came out because I don’t work with that producer anymore. That’s how I met her, then we kept in contact. Ended up linking later on.
Stini: Makes me feel like I’m actually making moves because I’ve been doing it for 3 years now. Now I’m like “alright, it’s for real.” It makes me feel I’m getting recognized for what I want to be recognized for.
She’s such a good role model in the industry because she’s a woman who just hasn’t given up. She’s still out there making her money. That’s fire she supports me and wants to help me out, she’s super dope to talk to for real.
AllHipHop: Talk about Kamaiyah & Swae Lee being your favorite artists.
Stini: I’ve f##ked with Kamaiyah since 2016. I’ve never really liked female rappers, I’ve just always listened to guys.
Swae Lee, his melodies are just fire. At this point on every time I go into the studio, I’m like “is this something Swae Lee would do? Would he think of this s##t?” Because I just love his melodies. Definitely inspired by them both.
AllHipHop: What’s a normal day in the life? Walk us through.
Stini: Wake up, do some push-ups.
AllHipHop: I tried doing that, it’s hard!
Stini: It’s so hard. I literally couldn’t do any in the beginning but I kept doing it, and now I can do it. I mean, try to go to the gym. I usually work on some lyrics. I’ve been going through my mixes a lot lately trying to fix little things, take care of emails, this that. I’ve been chilling a lot lately really, playing video games, going to castings. I usually always cook dinner, always cook food at home.
AllHipHop: What are you cooking?
Stini: Everything. I make everything for real: tacos, lasagna, everything.
Moriah (A&R): “Stini surprise“ because even she doesn’t know what it’s going to taste like, she just knows it’s gonna be bomb.
Stini: Everything is fire. I don’t even follow recipes, I just know. [laughs]
AllHipHop: Talk about the interim between waiting to drop new music.
Stini: Sheesh. [chuckles] It’s been hard. It’s been a lot of tests for me mentally because I just sit with my music for so long. I don’t like playing it for a lot of people, I play for people I trust and people who are close to me. I play it for more people now, but I sit with it mostly myself and my close friends. Then I might start to doubt myself, all that s##t. But you just gotta be like “I f##k with it, so other people gotta f##k with it.
(AllHipHop News) Hip hop star Lizzo has asked Hilary Duff for a role in the “Lizzie McGuire” TV revamp, and the “So Yesterday” singer is game.
The stars exchanged tweets over the weekend after it was announced Duff’s#### TV show would be returning as part of Disney’s new Disney+ streaming site.
Lizzo tweeted a link to the announcement and wrote: “Lemme get a cameo.”
Lizzo, who will appear in Jennifer Lopez’s new heist movie “Hustlers,” has also been campaigning for the role of villain Ursula in Disney’s upcoming live-action “The Little Mermaid” but it’s beginning to look as if Melissa McCarthy has snagged that part.
Duff starred in the original “Lizzie McGuire” series from 2001 to 2004. The new series was announced at Disney’s D23 Expo in California on Friday.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Future is a father of six – at least according to a woman in Florida, who claims he’s the dad of her four-month-old daughter.
The 35-year-old, real name Nayvadius Wilburn, already has five children with five different women – including five-year-old son Future Zahir Wilburn with his ex-fiancee Ciara.
But now Eliza Seraphin has alleged he has fathered another child in her daughter, who was born in April.
(AllHipHop News) The Instagram account for jewelry store Avianne & Co. Jewelers is known for showcasing the splashy drip they create for their customers.
Police have some surveillance cameras of the three suspects. One covered his face with a red bandana, another man wore a cowboy hat and the third sported a Kangol hat.
In fact, the company just made Young Thug’s latest chain which is a custom diamond encrusted, two-pound snake worth over $250,000.
As millions throughout the nation celebrate Women’s Equality Day today, Wale shares a new song entitled “BGM” in honor of women everywhere. Get it HERE via Warner Records.
Upheld since 1973 in recognition of the 19th amendment’s passage, the day posits a moment of reflection, celebration and commitment to equality regardless of gender.
In this soulful and spirited track, Wale not only praises inspiring females at the forefront of the culture (“Issa Whole queen” and “Every Empire needs a Taraji”), but its message also urges for equal pay: “Sometime it be really so hard for ya. White boy paid more same job as you. The least I can do is write a song THEN I’ll ‘Mawwwh’ that part of you.”
“BGM” arrives on the heels of Wale’s most recent hit “On Chill” [feat. Jeremih]. The single earned a spot in the Top 20 at Radio and vaulted onto the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to racking up 20 million-plus streams. Check out the steamy visual HERE.
Everything paves the way for Wale’s anxiously-awaited new album and first for Warner Records due this fall.
(AllHipHop News)Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones is now available on Netflix. The stand-up film recorded in Atlanta is the comedy legend’s fifth special for the streamer.
The Grammy-winning The Age of Spin and Deep in the Heart of Texas came out in 2017. Later that year, Netflix released the Emmy-winning Dave Chappelle: Equanimity and The Bird Revelation.
Chappelle also made news this week for hosting the “Gem City Shine, A Benefit Concert” in Dayton on August 25. The Ohio city is recovering from a deadly mass shooting where 9 victims were killed and 27 others were injured.
(AllHipHop News) Young Thug has the top-selling album in the country. So Much Fun collected 131,000 first-week equivalent units.
This gives Thugger his first #1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. Previously, the Atlanta-raised rapper made it into the Top 10 with Super Slimey (#2), Beautiful Thugger Girls (#8), Jeffery (#8) and Slime Season 3(#7).
So Much Fun earned the second-largest streaming week for a Hip Hop release in 2019 (167.9 million). The project features J. Cole, Travis Scott, Future, Gunna, Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, Quavo, Juice WRLD, and other artists.
Quality Control: Control the Streets, Volume 2 compilation debutsat #3 with 63,000 units. Control the Streets, Volume 1 peaked at #5 in 2017.
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West took his weekly Sunday Service gospel event to Dayton, Ohio over the weekend to honor the victims of the city’s recent mass shooting.
Nine people were killed and dozens more injured when a gunman opened fire in the Oregon shopping district on August 4.
Three weeks after the tragedy, the rapper decided to bring a little spiritual aid to the community affected, as part of Dave Chappelle’s Gem City Shine benefit.
“We’ve come to love you and we’ve come to share the love of Jesus Christ with you all today,” Kanye West told the crowd at RiverScape Metropark during the 90-minute service, where he was joined by guests like Chappelle, Chris Rock, his wife Kim Kardashian and their kids.
Dave Chappelle took to the stage at one point and told the crowd, “There’s been tornadoes. There’s been shootings. There’s been Klan rallies. But we’re still here. We’re still strong.
“The best way that we can honor our fallen is by getting up better than we were before. We cannot let those people die in vain. They are heroes, they are martyrs.”
Fans who attended the event watched and listened as the Sunday Service choir performed Kanye tracks “Ultralight Beam” and “Jesus Walks,” as well as renditions of Elton John’s “I’m Still Standing.”
The Sunday Service also featured a birthday tribute to Chappelle, who turned 46 on Saturday.
(AllHipHop News) Dr. Dre has been making some big moves in the real estate business lately.
The producer is responsible for the careers of blockbuster artists like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar to name a few.
And now Dr. Dre’s long-term bet on a piece of property in Los Angeles has finally paid off. According to reports, Dr. Dre has finally sold his lavish Woodland Hills mansion for $4.5 million.
The closing was almost $1 million less than the asking price the Death Row Records founder was seeking in July when the house came on the market.
But it’s still another come up for Dr. Dre, who scooped up the home a little over $2 million over 20 years ago.
The lucky buyer snagged a piece of property that includes eight bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, as well as amenities like a recording studio, a movie theater, an Olympic-sized pool, a huge 150-gallon fish tank.
According to Architectural Digest, the closing price of $4.5 million also set a record for home sales in the Woodland Hills area.
Dre, who has a net worth of over $800 million also bought up some waterfront property in Pacific Palisades for almost $3 million. He copped another mansion in Calabasas for $4.9 million in April.
Now, the “GUMMO” rapper is preparing to go to court and testify against his former crew, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
In regards to the upcoming trial, prosecutors against the New York rapper and his co-defendants from the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods are looking to ask potential jurors if they care that 6ix9ine is a snitch.
The Blast obtained documents from federal prosecutors with a list of questions they’re planning to ask during jury selection.
The loaded questions are intended to gauge if people on the jury can be fair. A section of the questioning will involve federal investigators and cops who are handling “confidential informants” similar to Tekashi.
One of the questions asks: “Do you have any strong feelings about confidential informants that would affect your ability to be fair and impartial in this case?”
Another question reads: “You may hear testimony in this case from cooperating witnesses, that is, witnesses who at one time were involved in illegal activity, but who have now pled guilty to crimes and are testifying on behalf of the Government in the hope of receiving a lower sentence.”
(AllHipHop News) Detroit rappers Tee Grizzley and Sada Baby are publicly mourning the loss of their manager, who was killed during a shooting in Detroit earlier this week.
Tee Grizzley’s manager Jobina “JB” Brown also handled the career of Sada Baby and the pair had just dropped their new single “Next Up.”
The loss is having a major impact on Tee Grizzley. “Since I was 12 We been going everywhere together how you gone go to heaven without me???? Idek what to say JB I just wanted to show the world yo smile I love you so much
Sada Baby, who is an artist on Tee Grizzley’s Grizzly Gang record label, also eulogized Jobina Brown.
He credited his late 41-year-old manager for helping him turn his life around.
“Nobody ever in life has done as much for my career and well being as you aunty. You know how hurt I am n I wouldn’t and couldn’t post anything new until I showed you some love, you gone be wit me forever. I love you until I can tell you i love you again and then I’ll love you some more TT. I miss you JB,” Sada Baby said.
Cardi B has maintained the suit isn’t worth her time, but now she has to face it head-on after U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney rejected her motion to dismiss.
The judge has ruled Brophy has a plausible claim for the use of his likeness without consent.
“Defendants argue that Plaintiff’s claim fails because he fails to allege that his face was visible or his name was used,” Carney writes. “Defendants, however, cite no authority for the proposition that a commercial misappropriation claim requires the use of the plaintiff’s face or name. Plaintiff here alleges that his tattoo is part of his likeness because it is unique and distinctive. People, in fact, purportedly instantly recognize Plaintiff by his tiger snake tattoo.”
He adds, “Whether the Gangsta B##ch cover is sufficiently transformative to obtain First Amendment protection is a question of fact.”
“I’m really upset because I really have to be with my kid,” she raged. “All because of some bulls##t trying to get money and then $5 million. Are you f##king kidding me? That mixtape didn’t even make, not even a million dollars. I got real lawsuits with real s##t, and I got to deal with this bulls##t. This is four hours long taking away from my time, my job, my motherhood.”
Chappelle, who lives in a village 20 miles from Dayton, will host the free bash called Gem City Shine, which aims to “reclaim the community’s favorite places to shop, dine and enjoy time with family and friends,” according to an event description on Facebook.
(AllHipHop News) Legendary R&B artist Mary J. Blige is about to turn her efforts into the small screen.
On top of her accolades in music, which includes nine Grammy wins, the Bronx native has received three Golden Globe Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song.
According to Variety, the 48-year-old will be executive producing a new drama series on USA Network titled “Philly Reign.”
The series is based on the real-life of Thelma Wright, who ran an international drug operation that clocked $400,000 a month in “profits.”
Wright claims she cashed in from selling lethal amounts of heroin and cocaine to communities in Philadelphia and as far away as Los Angeles.
Thelma Wright insists she left the drug game unscathed in 1991, just as an epidemic of drug violence was coming back to haunt her and her criminal associates, who were eventually gunned down in the trade.
Mary J. Blige launched a new production company called Blue Butterfly to serve as executive producer of the series, along with “Empire’s” JaNeika and JaSheika James.
(AllHipHop News) “Power” is back for its sixth season, and things are juicer than ever. Season 6 of “Power” picks up where Season 5 left off, with Ghost (Omari Hardwick” still hell-bent on revenge to get even with everyone who has crossed him.
This includes Ghost’s former drug partner Tommy Egan, portrayed by actor Joseph Sikora.
“Bodies are going to drop more than anybody will ever expect and the characters you don’t expect going, are maybe going, and ones that you think are definitely going to die that people have not been able to catch or get to, they just might make it all the way out,” Joseph Sikora told AllHipHop.com.
If this is indeed the case, viewers can expect an even bloodier season of “Power.” According to reports, during Season 5 of “Power,” 32 characters were killed off. From season 1-5, 50 Cent’s character Kanan Stark was responsible for 19 deaths, while Ghost clocked in at 18.
And now there’s no doubt more bloodshed is planned for the final season of the crime drama.
Actor Larenz Tate, who plays Councilman Rashad Tate on the Starz series, also spoke to AllHipHop.com as fans anxiously await the show’s premiere tomorrow (August 25).
Larenz Tate said the final season of 50 Cent’s#### show will provide fans with some mind-blowing plot twists.
“Understand this y’all. Y’all gonna be upset,” Larenz Tate told AllHipHop.com. ‘(But) at the end of the day, you will be pleased with the twists and turns. It’s amazing,” Larenz Tate promised. “I want to say thank you all to the ‘Power’ fans, the ‘Power’ family. This y’all always supporting us in. You won’t be disappointed.”
(AllHipHop News) Taylor Swift fans are convinced the star’s track “I Forgot You Existed” is a dig at her longtime rival Kanye West.
The pair have been locked in a bitter feud since the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when the Yeezy mogul jumped on stage to interrupt the “Shake It Of” hitmaker’s Best Music Video acceptance speech.
And now fans think the star is reigniting the feud with the new song, taken from her album Lover.
In the track, Taylor sings about being on the negative end of public perception in a feud, crooning: “Lived in the shade you were throwin’ / ‘Til all of my sunshine was gone, gone, gone.”
Taylor name-checks Drake’s “In My Feelings on the song and her fans swear it’s a reference to the “Gold Digger” musician’s feud with the star.
The caption reads, “Me and @future Had Columbia High All Da Way Charged Up Today Salute To The Students and Staff and @lilbankhead945 For Gettin Us Out There. #ITSUP #FBG #YFBG ”
The teens had no idea the Freebandz team would be popping up, as they were blessed with a performance of 4 to 5 songs.
T-shirts were designed in their school colors and thrown into the crowds. The school was also gifted with a check worth $10K on behalf of Future’s foundation
FreeWishes, a public charity that services the metro Atlanta area.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Juice Wrld was forced to scrap his appearance at England’s Reading Festival due to “flight issues.”
Fans had already gathered for his scheduled main stage performance on Friday evening and crew members were setting up his stage, when it became clear he’d be a no-show.
Huw Stephens took to the stage to tell the crowd, “Juice WRLD will not be able to perform today due to a flight issue.”
It’s not clear if Juice WRLD will make it to the U.K. to perform at Reading’s sister Leeds Festival this weekend.
King Princess also canceled her performance at both the Reading and Leeds Festivals due to illness.
