New music and a newborn could be on the horizon for rap’s current “it” couple Ashanti and Nelly. Rumors are swirling that the pair may have a baby on the way following a recent public appearance. Over the weekend, both Ashanti and Nelly were distinguished guests at a Black & White Ball, where they took the stage and shared a tender moment with the attendees.
As onlookers in the crowd chanted “seal the deal,” both Ashanti and Nelly appeared to place their hands on the “What’s Love” singer’s belly—seemingly indicating they were expecting. Aside from the bashful embrace the couple shared, in addition to the ear-to-ear smiles they were sporting, there were no other clear indications to confirm it was a pregnancy announcement.
Considering the pair are gearing up to roll out their collaborative single with Jermaine Dupri and Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia soon, folks could jumping the gun. But then again, maybe they are on to something.
Slim Thug—also known as Big Slim—is out here making some serious statements, and he runs the risk of being called antisemitic. Here’s the statement and the video to go with it:
“Jewish people should own Drake.. Jewish people should own Jewish music.. I don’t like that Jewish people own Black music… we need to take the culture back”
Slim Thug has been stirring up some real talk about who’s running the show in the Black music scene. Big dog hit up Instagram Live over the weekend and risked it all. The Houston rapper didn’t hold back and said, quite simply, he’s all about having Black culture in Black hands, plain and simple. What could be wrong with that?
He also said, “Jewish folks should vibe with Drake—he’s Jewish, right? They should be all about Jewish music. But Black music? That should be ours. If you’re not living and breathing our culture, why own it? We need Black voices owning our beats and bars. It’s all about fixing this imbalance for me. You ain’t Jewish, why you owning a Jewish artist’s tunes? If it ain’t your jam, why you claiming it? Nah, we’re not about that. Time to reclaim what’s ours. Especially when our people are struggling, we gotta own our sound.”
I think the Jewish highlight is going to raise some eyebrows. But Slim Thug continued on with his rant to say that each and every race should be the owners of their own particular brand of music. His statement arrived after he was challenged by somebody.
“Every culture should own their sound,” he continued. “Jewish, white, Spanish—everyone should rock their own beat. It’s not about racism; it’s fairness.”
He didn’t name too many names, but he did mention former Roc-A-Fella head honcho Dame Dash, who was ousted decades ago. I think there’s more to that, but he did toss out the phrase culture vultures.
“We’re done with culture vultures,” he said. “They tried to sideline Dame Dash, but he was on point—standing up for what’s ours.”
He also went at DJ Vlad. But Royce Da 5′ 9 recently put the onus on us. I’m thinking that he’s more in line with a forward thinking, not a reactionary way of thinking.
Check out that interview here.
What do you guys think about this? Honestly, this is nothing new, butI think that there is a different mindstate and people are seeing things in a different way.
Nevertheless, I think bro should take a class on how capitalism works and them come back to the table.
Jeannie Mai discussed how she’s coping with her divorce during an appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show on Monday (December 4). The TV personality revealed she learned Jeezy was divorcing her when reports of the filing went public in September.
“At the time when I found out at the same time as the rest of the world that my marriage was ending in divorce, I was gutted,” she said. “So, yeah, today it’s about picking up the pieces. It’s about discovering me and being a mom to the best blessing in my life, my little girl.”
She added, “Even though this year I met the most broken version of me, I also met the strongest version of me.”
Jeezy, who shares a daughter with Mai, filed for divorce after less than three years of marriage. He publicly addressed the couple’s split by releasing a statement in October.
“The decision to end this chapter in my life was not made impulsively and comes with a heavy heart,” he said. “Despite this, my love and respect for Jeannie remains and the time we spent together holds a cherished place in my heart.”
Last month, Jeezy said therapy could not save his marriage in a conversation with Nia Long.
“This has not been an easy journey,” he told Long. “I can tell you that I’m sad. I can tell you that I’m disappointed. I can tell you that I’m uneasy. But God has put me on a different path and that path is going to entail for me to take care of myself and to love myself and to be in the best situation that I can thrive as someone who’s been through all of the things that I’ve been through.”
Mai accused Jeezy of cheating in court documents filed on November 30. Jeezy’s rep denied any infidelity.
Judge Ural Glanville dismissed a juror in Young Thug’s Georgia RICO trial on Monday (December 4). The court proceedings moved forward without the juror due to her hospitalization.
“Over the weekend, Juror 269 was admitted to the hospital,” Judge Glanville said. “And I’m in receipt of the admission form, and as of current, she is still in the hospital. Her anticipated release date, potentially, is this coming Wednesday. So, as much as I’d like to wait till Wednesday, I’m gonna probably have to go ahead and excuse her due to illness.”
Judge Glanville decided to excuse the juror since he was not sure when she would be to return to court. The judge did not want to delay the trial, which began on November 27.
“I don’t want to excuse her, but I don’t think we have much choice,” Judge Glanville said. “‘Cause I don’t know whether or not she’s even gonna be available Wednesday … Since we have other alternate jurors, we’ll just go ahead and continue at this point in time, wish her the best.”
Defense attorneys raised no objections to dismissing the juror, but Young Thug’s lawyers informed Judge Glanville of their concerns with the prosecution’s handling of its witness list. The judge was frustrated with prosecutors as he previously spoke to them about the way they released their witness list.
Witness testimony resumed in Young Thug’s trial on Monday morning. Jurors heard from two investigators and a crime scene technician.
Young Thug, whose real name is Jeffery Williams, is one of the six defendants on trial in the YSL RICO case. He has remained in jail since his May 2022 arrest.
The YSL rapper pleaded not guilty to racketeering and gang charges. His trial, which had a lengthy juror selection process, is expected to take months.
Blueface and Chrisean Rock’s personal drama has once again spilled over to social media due to a recent incident involving their newborn son.
Over the weekend, Blueface shared a pair of videos to his Instagram Stories, accusing Rock of abandoning their son with one of her associates. In the short clips, Blueface appears to be distraught and angry as he attempts to find out where Rock went without the baby in the middle of the night.
“It’s crazy, my son ain’t got no parent at four in the morning,” Blueface said in part. “Nobody wanna watch him. She got Marsh watching him at four in the morning. So what? So she can get some d##k? Do a verse, f### a n###a? All this so you can do a verse and suck some di###, you a booth b###h!”
Blueface said he had to rescue his son because chrisean is out with a man & she told her best friend to babysit pic.twitter.com/m0fmrg2hcC
— Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) December 4, 2023
Blueface appeared to threaten the woman he identified as Marsh, Rock’s friend, with a beatdown from his baby mama/new artist, Jaidlyn Alexis.
As the “Thotianna” rapper’s videos spilled over to Twitter (X), many users went back and forth both in support and opposition of Blueface’s outrage.
“Nah that baby too little to be left with a babysitter, and who knows if her friend is even one. Justice for that little baby,” one user wrote in a reply to the video on X while another added, “Didn’t he said, ‘He’s not the father,’ so he kidnapping a baby?”
Rock gave birth to her son on September 3, which means the youngster is just barely two months old at this point. Is that too young to leave a child with a babysitter?
The allure of New York City during the holidays is something quite special, but my recent family trip there exposed us to a bewildering scene. Grand Central Station was abuzz with groups of teens, known as the “Z-gang,” disturbing the peace with chants of “f%k school” and “Zmoneeey for President.”
With hundreds of gang members out promoting the movement, selling merchandise and urging each passerby to join the Z-list, their presence was impossible to ignore. Outraged by what I witnessed that day, I made a video about the Z-gang and posted it to my social media that same evening.
As a community leader based in Philadelphia, a city plagued with poverty and crime like many urban cities across America, the last thing we need is a ‘drop out of school trend’ becoming popular. Alarmed and intrigued, I decided to probe into the origins of Zmoneeey and the Z-gang.
Curiosity led me to interact with the most unusual member of the crew, a wheelchair bound, self-proclaimed ‘masked Z-ganger’ selling Z-Gang hoodies. He identified himself as Sparky Flinstone, spokesperson and co-founder of the Z-gang. Communicating through sign language and special interpreters, Sparky shared visions of a revolution funded by secret parties and driven by the ‘power of Z.’
Sparky’s words were quite unsettling as he detailed plans for a massive event in the making known as the Million Student March. The march will converge on the nation’s capital, drawing a parallel between the Z-Gang movement and the political stature of the current president. This revelation was extremely shocking and at the same time thought provoking.
Further investigation led me to a song by Zmoneeey titled “Saturday,” which has become a bit of a viral sensation for criticizing the public school system. From my perspective as an educator and a concerned parent, this entire scenario is deeply troubling. While the Z-Gang’s critique of the outdated educational system has some validity, promoting dropout culture and revolution seems dangerously anarchistic.
I hope my concerns are exaggerated, but video content from Zmoneeey’s social media accounts suggest otherwise. As 2023 comes to a close, my holiday shopping experience in the big apple has left me questioning the direction in which our youth and educational systems are headed. Written by: Brandon Chastang, Community Leader, Educator & Social Activist instagram.com/b.mcfly_
Don’t ask me how I get these things, but I get them. The word on the street is that Jay-Z may be dropping a surprise project for this birthday. It has been a very long time since we, the people, got an album from the god MC. Personally, I am really ready for such a thing to happen. But could it?
I am not so sure I believe this is true but let us ponder how such a rumor could have come to pass. There is a new movie coming up called The Book of Clarence and Jay-Z is supposedly slated to release new music for this. Jeymes Samuel‘s Biblical comedy stars Lakeith Stanfield and is slated to hit January 12, 2024.
How many tracks will Jay-Z drop? Any collaboration surprises? We’re all waiting on that. Remember, Jay and Jeymes have real history. They teamed up before for The Harder They Fall in 2021 and also Jay-Z: Legacy in 2017.
4:44 was the thirteenth and most recent solo studio album by Jigga way back in 2017. It was a hit and it definitely set Jay up to be one of the purveyor of so-called Adult Contemporary Hip-Hop. Then he came back crazy with Jay Electronica. I do not know what in the hell is going on, but 2024 would mark seven years since he left. To me, it sounds like the god has his numerology game together. You know Jay knows was seven means!
Jabari Banks has dropped his debut single via Epic Records. “Something Else” arrived with a Joshua Medina-directed official music video.
“With the creation of ‘Something Else,’ I wanted to give life to the grey areas of infatuation,” Jabari Banks states. “I wanted to share where I was in that time, and I feel like along with my team we executed that well.”
The singer/actor continues, “Also very excited to be taking this first step with Epic Records, shout to Sylvia Rhone and Ezekiel Lewis for being headlights for the vision. I have a lot more to give, thanks for being here on this journey.”
Jabari Banks stars as Will Smith in Peacock’s Bel-Air drama series. He joined castmate Coco Jones as a major-label recording artist. Jones signed with Def Jam Recordings in 2022. She released the What I Didn’t Tell You EP later that year.
“Here at Epic, we could not be more excited that he chose to explore the musical facet of his journey with us,” says Epic Records President Ezekiel Lewis about working with Jabari Banks.
Lewis also adds, “Jabari is a multi-hyphenate young superstar in the making. Artists like him represent the future of entertainment and we could not resist the opportunity to join and assist with his upward movement.”
Nicki Minaj is preparing to let loose her fifth studio album in the coming days. However, the Young Money rapper had some bad news for her fans in the Windy City.
“I won’t be able to perform [tomorrow] in #Chicago for Jingle Ball,” she tweeted on Sunday (December 3). “I was so excited to see you guys. [Please] accept my sincerest apologies. I’ll make it up to you on the Chicago stops of my tour early next year,” Nicki Minaj tweeted on December 3. “My beloved brother/boss stepped up for me so that I wouldn’t have to push my album back. His name is Lil Wayne AKA the GOAT. He will perform [tomorrow at] the Chicago show.”
Nicki Minaj went on to let her followers know that she still plans to perform at the Atlanta Jingle Ball on December 14 and the Miami Jingle Ball on December 16.
Hi guys,
I have to tell you something. One last thing. Hope it doesn’t make you sad.
I won’t be able to perform tmrw in #Chicago for Jingle Ball. I was so excited to see you guys. Pls accept my sincerest apologies. I’ll make it up to you on the Chicago stops of my tour early…
Pink Friday 2 is scheduled to arrive on Friday (December 8). The sequel to 2010’s Pink Friday will be the rap superstar’s first full-length album since 2018’s Queen.
The original Pink Friday hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album at the 54th annual ceremony in 2012. Queen peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Beyoncé now has the No. 1 movie in America following the release of RENAISSANCE: A Film by Beyoncé. According to reports, the concert film led the domestic box office in its opening weekend with $21 million. RENAISSANCE edged out The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ($14.5 million) and scored one of the best opening weekends for a concert film in history.
“This is an excellent domestic opening for a concert film,” David A. Gross told Variety. Gross heads up the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research.
Beyoncé is credited as a writer, director and producer of the RENAISSANCE documentary. The movie follows the global superstar during her 2023 RENAISSANCE World Tour.
The RENAISSANCE album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in 2022 with more than 332,000 first-week units. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Bey’s seventh studio LP as platinum.
RENAISSANCE hosts the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single “Break My Soul” as well as “Cuff It” and “Energy” featuring Beam. The project won Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards.
Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders and Tracey Edmonds have decided to part ways after 12 years as a couple. Edmonds announced the amicable split via Instagram on Sunday (December 3). She released a personal statement from herself and Deion Sanders.
“We have mutually decided that it is best for us to move forward in life AS FRIENDS and have made this decision with love in our hearts, respect for each other, and appreciation for the time we’ve shared together,” Edmonds wrote. “Please keep us in your prayers as we go through this transition. Thank you for being there for us ALL THESE YEARS! We love you and appreciate you SO MUCH!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0aYCq7rnMo/?hl=en
Around an hour after Edmonds posted her message to her followers, Deion Sanders jumped into the Instagram comment section to address his now-ex-fiancée.
“Love [you] Tracey and you’ve been a true blessing to me,” he said. “I appreciate the times we’ve shared and [the] laughs we’ve had. You are an amazing woman and a tremendous mother. God bless [you] with every endeavor and every step u take. You are HER. Tracey-Mack!!!”
Deion Sanders Comments Under Tracey Edmonds’s IG Post
Edmonds is best known for producing films/television shows such as Soul Food, College Hill, Lil’ Kim: Countdown to Lockdown and DMX: Soul of a Man. She also produced the Deion’s Family Playbook reality show.
Sanders currently serves as the head coach of the Colorado football program after leaving Jackson State in 2022. The Pro Football Hall of Famer also played on several NFL teams. Sanders was a standout professional baseball player as well.
The Georgia-bred rapper caused a lot of condemnation at the time. Two years later, Lil Nas X still generates a lot of backlash from certain groups of people.
“Y’all mind if I enter my Christian era?” Lil Nas tweeted on November 29, along with a teaser clip for a new song. A follow-up tweet read, in part, “Making Christian music does not mean I can’t suck dick no more.”
making christian music does not mean i can’t suck dick no more. the two are not mutually exclusive. i am allowed to get on my knees for multiple reasons.
In response, John “Holy Gabbana” Hill blasted Lil Nas X on social media. The internet personality formerly known as Boonk Gang suggested that homosexual men cannot be followers of Jesus Christ.
“If Nas X wanna be gay, cool, do [you] lil bra,” Holy Gabbana wrote. “[Just] don’t title [yourself] a Christian and make others believe it’s okay for us to live in habitual/intentional sin. [People] deserve TRUTH and I stand on [the] word of God.”
The Montero album creator returned to Twitter (X) on Sunday (December 3) to react to Holy Gabbana. The 2x-Grammy Award winner expanded his response to also include other pious critics of his statements and his work.
“It’s really insane how y’all pretend some of our pastors aren’t getting piped down before the Sunday service,” Lil Nas X wrote. “Y’all do not know Jesus personally, stop trying to gatekeep him.”
it’s really insane how yall pretend some of our pastors aren’t getting piped down before the sunday service. yall do not know jesus personally stop trying to gatekeep him https://t.co/qKFFUzA5bp
Fat Joe is speaking out after catching heat for saying he lied in “95 percent of my songs” as he discussed Young Thug and YSL’s ongoing RICO trial. He made the remarks during a recent interview with Gayle King while defending Young Thug’s free speech as an artist.
“I’ve been rapping professionally for 30 years, and I’ve lied in almost 95 percent of my songs,” Fat Joe said. “I write what I feel that day. I’m just being creative.”
While his comments caused some controversy, Fat Joe defended himself, claiming he had to make it clear that rappers embellish their lyrics because prosecutors are using them as evidence.
During an Instagram Live Sunday (December 3), he claimed that as an “elder statesman of Hip-Hop,” he put himself “in the hot seat” for the benefit of up-and-coming artists.
“I had to say 95% of what I say is a lie so that they could understand that it’s unfair to try some kids for the rest of their life with s### they might have not done,” Fat Joe explained. “None of this s### is true. It’s creativity. It’s imagination. Those who know, know.”
Despite admitting he exaggerates in his raps, Fat Joe said his street cred remains intact.
“If I say I use my creativity, my imagination in my music, don’t mean I ain’t lived a real f###ing life in the streets,” he added.
Usher was barely able to contain his emotion during the dramatic finale of his Las Vegas residency over the weekend. The iconic singer’s “My Show” appearances came to an end on Saturday (December 2), after a whopping 100 shows since July 2022. He was visibly emotional as he performed the final song of his set. Before the track ended, he dropped to his knees in front of the applauding crowd.
He turned away from the audience momentarily as his backup dancers cheered loudly in support. Tears streamed down his face as Usher turned to face his fans again, gathering himself before finishing the song.
Aww, Usher got emotional at the 100th and final sold out show of his Las Vegas Residency 🥹 pic.twitter.com/2PMdZWMXKS
Following his last performance, Usher took to social media to share a throwback clip from a 2004 interview. British journalist Trevor Nelson jokingly asked Usher to promise he wouldn’t be doing a Las Vegas residency in 20 years.
“I am such a theatrical artist,” he said in the video. “If I did decide to go to Las Vegas, it would be the most phenomenal thing you’ve ever seen in your life. It wouldn’t be like, ‘Oh God, he’s washed up, and this is just his opportunity to just, you know, collect as many checks as he wants to.’ No. It will be a phenomenal show.”
Usher followed up in the caption, saying, “I saw it then…look at me now.”
Although Usher’s Las Vegas Residency has ended, he returns to Sin City next year for one of the biggest gigs of his career. The “Confessions” hitmaker is gearing up to perform at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show on February 11.
DaBaby revealed he’s quit drinking after embarrassing himself in front of his daughter following a wild night out. The “Shake Sumn” hitmaker took to Instagram Sunday (December 3) to announce he’s on “bed rest,” but he’s sober now. He also promised to fight anybody who offers him a drink.
“I don’t drink no more,” he told his followers. “Don’t try to give me no bottles, don’t try to offer me no shot, don’t do none of that. You offer me a drink from this point forward, I’m stealing the f### out. It’s a simple as that. We gone get to hitting immediately, so you better not be drunk ‘cause I’m going to be sober. I’m stealing off sober.”
DaBaby went explain that he decided to quit drinking after an embarrassing situation with his daughter.
“Throwing up in my Maybach, getting out the car with my pants halfway down. The f### wrong with me?” he said. However, the rapper was not alone in the car. His baby daughter was with him and offered her father some words of encouragement.
“I’m throwing up she beside me in her car seat talking ’bout some ‘Good job,’” DaBaby recalled. “I’m fighting for my life in that back seat and my baby talking about ‘good job.’ Man, it’s embarrassing, in front of my baby. I don’t drink no more.”
DaBaby also doubled down on his promise to fight anybody offering him a drink now he’s quit drinking.
“I’m stealing off, I dare you,” he added. “I’m going to be outside tonight, offer me a drink. If you want to fight, offer me a drink. I don’t give a f### who it is, I don’t. I don’t give a damn who it is.”
Joe Budden is fighting back against claims that he’s talking about NBA YoungBoy for clout after he trashed the younger rapper’s skills on a recent episode of his podcast.
His comments sparked an expletive-laced rant from YoungBoy, prompting Budden to respond. He took to a Twitter Spaces Sunday night (December 3) to rebuff claims of clout chasing. Furthermore, Budden says he’s even bigger than YoungBoy, and he came with receipts. He also addressed YoungBoy’s claims that his last album charted at No. 2, and he currently has two projects in the Top. 10.
“I just want to say I’m way bigger than him. Stop this,” he began. Although some of the other speakers disagreed, Joe Budden followed up with some NBA YoungBoy stats,
“You young idiots get followed by these label metrics and these digital tricks,” he added. “Would you like me to read you the numbers on YoungBoy’s last six projects?”
The rapper-turned-podcaster then listed off multiple projects alongside their corresponding first-week sales.
“Stop this, yo,” he stated, rejecting claims he missed some albums. “The point is you doing a lot for somebody that don’t sell more than 60,000 records. Stop it, it’s not this dominant force that you n##### keep trying to make it out to be. Y’all do the same thing with Brent [Faiyaz], y’all do the same thing with all these new n##### that y’all like.” Check out the clip below.
NBA YoungBoy Snaps On Joe Budden
Although Budden conceded that he “could have found a much nicer way” to word his initial NBA YoungBoy critique, the damage was already done.
On his podcast, Joe Budden called NBA YoungBoy “trash,” said his music is “horrible,” and added, “he is really, really, really, really, really bad.”
The Motown Records rapper heard his remarks and told him to “come on down to Grave Digger mountain and talk to me.”
Boosie Badazz has a word of warning for the new man in his daughter’s life.
During a recent Instagram Live, the father of eight revealed he received a text from his 21-year-old daughter, Ty, telling him she has a new boyfriend.
“She want me to meet him,” Boosie explained before adding that his daughter told him to “be nice,” to her new boo. “All my girls think I might do too much, but I’m not,” he added.
Boosie continued stating that he was “so happy” over the news. However, he laid down one condition for the new man in his daughter’s life.
“You can cheat on her, but don’t beat on her,” Boosie declared. “Just don’t hit her n####. Love her, I don’t give a f### what you do. Just don’t hit her.”
The Baton Rouge native went on to say, “I don’t give a damn” what goes on behind closed doors so long as his daughter’s new boyfriend keeps his hands to himself. Check out the clip below.
While Boosie said he dotes on his girls, he aired out his family drama earlier this year on the song “Ungrateful,” following a disagreement with his daughter Tori and her mother.
In a subsequent livestream, Boosie revealed that he was cutting his daughter off.
“The level of disrespect she got?” he said. “It ain’t would, I did take her out my will. I did! I did! It has been done. I did whatever to raise that child right. Tried everything. The disrespect you have for your daddy? You ain’t gon’ get nothing when I leave here.”
Producers of “Fast & Furious 9” have been fined $1 million after a stuntman broke his skull during a fight sequence.
The incident took place in 2019 during the filming of “Fast & Furious 9” at Warner Bros. studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, reports the BBC.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecutors detailed in court on Friday that during a fight scene on a balcony, Joe Watts’ safety line became detached as he performed a stunt that differed from the one that had been rehearsed several times.
The stuntman was initially supposed to be thrown over a performer’s right shoulder, however, in a last-minute change, the stunt actor was told he would be thrown over the actor’s left shoulder.
The safety line had not been checked in between takes. Watts missed the crash mats and fell 25ft headfirst onto the concrete ground. He has been left with brain damage.
HSE inspector Roxanne Barker said, “Mr Watts’ injuries were life-changing and he could have easily been killed… In stunt work, it is not about preventing a fall but minimizing the risk of an injury.”
Prosecutors argued that FF9 Pictures, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures, “did not extend the crash matting needed to mitigate the consequences of an unintended fall following changes to the set and the sequence of the stunt.”
During sentencing at Luton Magistrates’ Court, District Judge Talwinder Buttar remarked that Watts was “fortunate to be alive.”
She ordered the fine after FF9 Pictures admitted health and safety failings. Watts had worked on a number of productions including “Game of Thrones,” “Johnny English Strikes Again,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and “Kingsman: The Golden Circle.”
“Fast & Furious 9,” also known as “F9,” was released in 2021 and starred Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson and Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, among others.
NBA YoungBoy is apparently incensed over something Joe Budden said about his music. On Sunday (December 3), the Motown Records rapper snapped on Instagram Live and essentially challenged Budden step up. He tagged him multiple times, seemingly hoping to get a response to his expletive-laced rant.
In the clip, NBA YoungBoy holds a stack of money in front of the camera and shouts, “The last album I dropped sat at No. 2 Two of my albums still in the Top 10 you p### a## n####! Don’t speak on me. I don’t play that s###. Don’t rat on me either you p#### b####.
“You stupid dumb b####. Your dick don’t even get hard no more. F### wrong with that n####? Don’t rat on me. B#### you done all them interviews, come on down to Grave Digger mountain and talk to me. B#### if you can’t do that, you b####-made n####. Shut your f###ing mouth!”
— Shannonnn sharpes Burner (PARODY Account) (@shannonsharpeee) December 4, 2023
NBA YoungBoy was responding to recent comments Budden made about his artistic talent or, in his opinion, lack thereof on an episode of The Joe Budden Podcast.
“Uh, what else do I have written down here,” Budden said. “‘You ready to tell the truth about NBA YoungBoy?’ Am I ready to do this? That n###a is trash. He’s horrible. He is horrible, he is horrible, he is really, really, really, really, really bad. I don’t know him as a person, I’m only speaking about music. He is really, really, really bad. And that thing happened with him.
“When he was out, the label pushed a button and did some YouTube s###. All the little kids had to just come to the f###ing gathering and tell you about NBA YoungBoy’s views and how great he is and how awesome he is and how amazing he’s doing.”
Birdman also caught wind of Budden’s remarks and hopped in the fray. He wrote, “You fuckn with something you should leave alone. Stunna Corleone. Gotti Nbarg.” Of course, the scenario is nothing new for Budden; he’s used to ruffling feathers. Check out Birdman’s post below.
Will Smith has revealed that he and Michael B. Jordan’s “I Am Legend” sequel now has a script. Smith starred as U.S. army virologist Robert Neville in the original 2007 science-fiction blockbuster, which is currently being revisited after its screenwriter Avika Goldsman signed a first-look deal with Warner Bros. earlier this year.
Early reports indicated Jordan was also on board, with Smith confirming that he and his prospective co-star have received a script and are moving forward with the project.
According to Deadline.com, Will Smith gave the update at an In Conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Saturday.
“I have a call with Michael B. Jordan tomorrow,” he explained. “We’re really close. I am probably giving up too much information…the script just came in.”
The star also revealed how Neville’s death in the first film would be changed – instating an alternate ending as canon – so he can come back for a second installment.
“We’re going with the mythology of the DVD version where my character lives and I can’t tell you anymore,” he explained.
The original grossed an impressive $585 million at the box office.
