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Single again. What's wrong with these celebrities? We're only 8 days into the new year and these celebrities are behaving more wilder than ever. It all makes for some very entertaining stories but also some very annoying moments. Sorry for the lack of updates. Sometimes I'm so busy doing nothing that I forget to provide you all with an update. Thanks for the support and continuing to visit and read my blog! While Mariah Carey is still blaming everyone for her fiasco of a performance 9 days ago, Nicki Minaj is now a single woman. The rapper announced the news a few days ago on Twitter. Ex-boyfriend, Meek Mill wasted no time throwing shade at Nicki poking fun at a pair of shoes she wore back in Ciara's video a few years back. The shade was very stale!  Chris Brown's crazy ass was thrown out of a gym after getting into a heated argument with the gym manager. While I thought he was in there training for his fake fight with Soulja Boy, he was actually with frien...

Beyoncé leads Grammy nods The Grammy award nominations were revealed yesterday and Beyoncé, Adele, Drake, and Rihanna scores multiple nominations. Congrats to all the nominees. I could really care less about the Grammys this year or for the last few year to be honest. It's always the same artists getting nominated. I was however glad to see Remy Ma get her first nomination in 11 years and I was also glad to see R&B trio King get a nomination. If you don't know who King is you should look them up. They're a trio based out of L.A. and their debut album is titled, "We Are King". Speaking of Rihanna and Beyoncé, Rihanna had to clear up a post she liked on Instagram of a fan blasting Beyoncé's multiple Grammy wins and how Rihanna should of been nominated for Album of the Year. Rihanna responded after a backlash and said that she simply liked the post without really reading it and added that people shouldn't pit women against each other. People are p...

The tea is hot! Days after his rant and meltdown during his St. Pablo Tour, Kanye West has abruptly cancelled his tour and is now hospitalized. Reports are describing the hospitalization as a "health and safety concern". Many are saying that Kanye is dealing with a lot personally and professionally. He called out friends; Beyoncé and Jay Z for being disloyal and claiming that Beyoncé informed MTV that she would not perform if they didn't award her Video of the Year. He has also been dealing with the fallout from his wife; Kim K. who suffered from her robbery overseas. Many shunned Kanye after abruptly ending his concert mid set and after he made claims that he would've voted for Donald Trump. Hopefully Kanye gets the rest and help he needs. He is certainly going through a lot and I can imagine its not easy especially being someone in the spotlight.  Speaking of Kanye West, Ray J still has some things to get off his chest as he's released a new song dissing...

An old banner. Good evening everyone! Kanye West is mad at Jay-Z for not visiting his home after Kim Kardashian was robbed. Kanye blasted Jay during a recent concert and of course the video footage made the rounds on social media. If Jay couldn't visit Kanye and Kim, he could of called at least, right? Well we know Jay isn't going to respond to this and if he does maybe he will via a song or a guest appearance on a song.  RZA has FINALLY spoken out after the whole Azealia Banks and Russell Crow debacle. RZA says Azealia was "choked" but not called the "N word". He also states that Azealia was "drunk" and "violent" and threatened to cut a woman with a glass. RZA also details how he came to Azealia's defense when he went to bat for her for his feature film, "Coco". He also talked about how he got Azealia a record deal, flew her out to L.A. and yadda yadda. In typical Azealia Banks fashion, she has since responded and ...

An old pic.  As I type this, I was sitting here watching the BET Hip Hop Awards and I'm wondering if I really wanna watch the whole telecast. I think I would rather much be watching the ID channel which I've become obsessed with lately. And just that quick, I just turned the channel. Maybe I'll check back in later. Have you all listened to Solange's album yet? You should if you haven't and read my semi-review on it and check out what else I have to say! :) People are still talking about Kim K. getting robbed and forced at gunpoint. Twitter is on fire and have been pretty insensitive to the incident and rightfully so people lack compassion as they did back in the day. Karl Lagerfield, world renown designer spoke out and said something along the lines of if you flash all your riches on social media, you can't be surprised that you get robbed. Do you agree? I agree because Kim K. is very flashy and stuff unfortunately like this does happen. That's not to...

An old banner  Kim Kardashian's life was nearly taken when she was held at gunpoint while in Paris! Fortunately the reality TV star turned mogul was not injured in anyway. Her husband, Kanye West was in the middle of a concert when he got the news and immediately ended the show citing "family emergency". Many of concert goers thought Kanye was simply joking but he was not. I read that Kim's security apparently let the man in or something to that effect but I don't know the full story yet as this news is still breaking everywhere. I would expect the security guard(s) to be fired after this mishap because why would you let some random man in her hotel room? Remember Iggy Azalea was supposed to release her second album, "Digital Distortion" over the Summer? Well she didn't and I figured it was because her single, "Team" didn't do all that well. Now she is speaking out and saying that the reason behind the album's delay was beca...

Amid rumors of infidelity in her marriage, its being reported that Monica is pregnant. The reports haven't been confirmed as of yet but we will have to wait and see just how true this is. If so, congrats to Monica and her family. Drake performed in Chicago last night and brought out Chicago's own Kanye West who took a dig at Taylor Swift. The outspoken rapper thanked his wife, Kim Kardashian for having Snapchat. If you recall Snapchat was where the phone call between Kanye and Taylor Swift was shown. And shocking news today involving Mary J. Blige! She is reportedly filing for divorce from her husband after 13 years of marriage. There had been reports of trouble in paradise in the past but this story is everywhere. Mary J.'s husband is also her manager. VH1 continues to make BET look like crap with yet another Black-themed show titled, "Hip Hop Squares". The show is take on the classic game show, "Hollywood Squares". The show is being executive produc...

Monica's husband, Shannon Brown is said to be caught in yet another cheating scandal. A woman claims that her and Brown share a 2 year old child. The woman has released pictures, text messages, etc. The proof is all there. You know what they say about athletes though, their known to cheat! More as this story unfolds. In the continuing saga that is The West's vs. Taylor Swift, The West's are exempt from a lawsuit. According to California law, it is not against the law the record a phone conversation unless it was said to be private. Taylor knew she was on speakerphone with Kanye cause producer Rick Rubin chimed in the conversation between Kanye and Taylor. I think its ridiculous that Taylor even considered filing a lawsuit. I personally think that is a bitch move in this type of situation. I think it only intensified her wishes to file a lawsuit because she got such a backlash on Twitter. Taylor Swift should be lucky John Mayer, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, or the other 1...

The big news story today is the he said, she said story between Kanye West and Taylor Swift. If you recall, Kanye West shouted out Taylor Swift on his song, "Famous" which also features a controversial video. Taylor went on to say that she wasn't made aware that Kanye was name dropping her in the song but he denied her claims. Well low and behold Kim Kardashian West leaked out the video of Kanye on the phone with Taylor discussing the song's lyrics. So egg on Taylor's face! Twitter was literally on fire last night with multiple memes and overall reaction. Everyone including celebrities have chimed in including Selena Gomez(bitch!), Khloe Kardashian, and Zendaya Coleman! So whose side are you on The West's or Taylor? Taylor Swift's ex Calvin Harris has is now said to be dating Tinashe who just released her new song, "Superlove". Calvin checked Taylor a few days ago saying he wants no involvement with her any further and basically he doesn...

Beyoncé opened up the 2016 BET Awards last night with a performance of the song, "Freedom" and she was joined by Kendrick Lamar and abruptly left the show. Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson accepted Beyoncé's awards in her honor. Someone told me at work that Bey had to leave to go to London. Is that true? While I didn't personally watch the BET Awards telecast, I was informed through social media at many of the aha moments and performances. The "other" highlight of the show was the many Prince tributes in the form of Erykah Badu, Bilal, Janelle Monae, and Jennifer Hudson who brought the house down with "Purple Rain". I was fortunate to see a :30 second clip of the performance and I need to see the rest. Elsewhere Toni Braxton was in tow with her new man, Birdman. Speaking of Toni, her sister threw some shade on IG over Toni's decision to use Tamar's ex makeup artist. Tamar is too damn dramatic for my taste. I like dramatic but no...

Azealia Banks says she plans to get a butt lift after publicly criticizing Nicki Minaj and K. Michelle for their own procedures. Azealia also plans to do a "skin lighting" video. I actually think Lil' Kim should do one since she's seem to have the "skin lighting" thing packed, just saying! Azealia also took time to criticize T.I. over his role in the remake of "ROOTS" and his disdain over Donald Trump. As far as music is concerned, Azealia says she's finishing her "Fantasea 2: The Second Wave" by summer's end. Chris Brown is being sued by his former manager who says Chris assaulted him. A few days ago Keri Hilson had Twitter on fire after she posted a video on her Snapchat of her swallowing a popsicle whole. The shocking act was meant to be funny and it was taken that way but also let people know Keri is not to be messed with it when it comes to placing things deep in her throat! Ha! Kanye West just released the video to his si...

"Empire" saw its ratings decline with its second episode and 50 Cent had something to say about it. He feels the gay story line is too much for some people and its turning people off. Many agreed with these statements as well as their being numerous guests each week. Guest appearances aside, I don't think there is nothing wrong with them but I do think right now a lot of the story lines are all over the place. Now that Lucious is out jail now maybe things will fall back into place. As far as the gay story lines, one of the main characters in the show is gay so what do you expect. Second, the creator of "Empire" is gay so you don't think he would represent gay characters in some capacity? GTFOH! Amber Rose spoke out on her "slut shaming" she experienced in the hands of her famous ex-es Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa. She says Wiz has since apologized for calling her a "stripper" and she forgives them both. Kanye said in an interview he had t...

The Game appeared on "Wendy" and spoke out about several rumors. First he said he didn't date Khloe Kardashian, he remained mum on a former relationship with Kim K. and he said he has no beef with Chris Brown. Brown called Game out after he liked a few pics of Brown's ex on Instagram. The new season of "Empire" premiered last night and 16 million viewers tuned in. Kylie Jenner reportedly was called out for her use of the "N" word on social media, though I haven't seen the exact post in which the slur stems from. And in much better news, Usher has tied the knot overseas with his longtime girlfriend Grace Miguel. This is the second marriage for Usher. Hopefully this once works out for him!

Madonna is going all out for her new video to her new single, "Bitch I'm Madonna" featuring Nicki Minaj. The video is said to feature Beyonce, Katy Perry, Rita Ora(l), and Miley Cyrus. The video is set to premiere any day now and its being touted as an answer to Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" video which featured a handful of pop starlets. Are you all looking forward to new Madonna video? Kanye West and Kim K. West celebrated North West's second birthday party complete with the Kardashian clan and Tyga. Drake and The Game have been hanging out shooting the video for the single, "100". Ne-Yo, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj are just a few of the performers at this year's BET Awards airing in 2 weeks(can't remember the date off top). And Happy Birthday to the late great 2 Pac Shakur. He would of been 44 today! Many artists alike paid their respects to the entertainer today.

Well it just so happens that Beyonce wants us to become vegans and she told us how to do in so many days. That was her big announcement on "Good Morning America" this morning. Who was surprised? I was expecting something much different but I guess. They say people reacted negatively to the news and flooded Beyonce's Instagram page with pictures of food! People are ignorant and petty and I mean that, in this case, in the best way. :) In honor of Kanye Wests' birthday today, wife Kim Kardashian-West rented out Staples Center for her husband and some of his best buds to play ball. Awww ain't that sweet? Drake has teamed up with Apple for their new streaming service Apple Music. Drake was reportedly paid around $20 million dollars. Helping Drake kick things off was The Weeknd who also performed his new song, "Can't Feel My Face". The Apple Music service will cost $9.99 a month and the first three months will be free along with many other incentives. Wi...

Iggy Azalea and her boyfriend Nick Young have gotten engaged! Iggy showed off her new ring via Instagram! Congrats to the couple! Iggy recently cancelled her "The Great Escape Tour" citing that she would tour again next year when she releases a new album. And Kim Kardashian-West says that she's not using a surrogate to carry her child as it was indicated on "Wendy" on Monday. Kim tweeted that she can't wait to do a live video feed to sound off on the haters, not her exact words but you get the drift. But my thing is why take the time to address every story and rumor about you? I don't think people are all that pressed about whether you did use a surrogate or not. In other Kim K. West news, she says that Pharrell and his wife Helen saved her butt last night as feathers on her dress caught on fire. Speaking of Kardashians, Caitlyn Jenner formerly known as Bruce Jenner made his/her debut on the cover of Vanity Fair, I'm sure you all seen it by now. A...

Happy Monday everybody! Kim Kardashian-West has announced that she is pregnant with her second child! Congrats to her and Kanye! Speaking of announcement, the creator of Lil' Mama's new song, "Sausage" has called out the rapper saying the song belongs to him. He goes on to say that he recorded a video awhile back and it went viral. Lil' Mama and her team got wind of the video and that's how Lil' Mama's version came to friction, allegedly. He also says that he had been in contact with Lil' Mama and her team and they asked him to be in the video but he said he couldn't afford to. That was when the said her team told him to catch a Greyhound(bus). But I'm not sure what Lil' Mama's team is saying about this just yet. Check back for more updates! And Lil' Wayne got into a shouting match with a referee at a celebrity basketball game. The shouting match turned physical and things soon turned into a melee between Wayne and the opposin...

MUSIC BITS: So there's not really much news to report in my opinion, well at least nothing that interesting. I mean Iggy Azalea is not that interesting but apparently interesting enough for me to report news on her. I don't have a dislike for Iggy but I prefer Azealia over her. But anyway Iggy has deleted her Instagram page and if I'm not mistaken her Twitter page as well. I guess Iggy just got fed up with all the criticism she's been facing as of lately. So now the question is when will she return to her social media pages? I say in another or so she'll be back to tweeting and Instagramming.  BLOND AMBITION: So Fashion Week is going down in Paris and Kim Kardashian West is sporting blond hair and I'm not a fan of it. She was seen sitting at a fashion show with her husband along with her mother, Kelly Rowland, and Solange. The blond hair makes her look old and she looked like a dope fiend. Maybe if she had a different shade of blond maybe it would of worked but...

"GLORY" ROAD: Congratulations to Common and John Legend. The duo won an Oscar last night for Best Original Song for "Glory". I watched some of the Oscar awards but not much of it. I felt funny because I wasn't familiar with any of the movies nominated. I was wondering were the films nominated, films that didn't get a huge theatrical release because I was only familiar with "American Sniper". But anyway I turned back and forth between the Oscars and whatever else looked interesting on TV that night which wasn't much. Did you all bother watching the Oscars or did you pass on it altogether? PINK SKIES: In other music news, Big Sean will release his new album "Dark Sky Paradise" tomorrow. The album features the hit single "I Don't Fuck With You" featuring E-40. The album features appearances from Arianna Grande among others. Will you be copping? Meanwhile Nicki Minaj just announced that her and her boo Meek Mill(whose in th...

Let me be the first to say that there is a lot of news for a Saturday. Typically there is not much news to report on the weekends but you will see that's not the case this weekend. MUSIC BITS: Lil' Wayne is suing Baby for $8 million dollars! Wayne claims that Baby was to give me $8 million dollars as an advance for his delayed album The Carter V. Wayne through a couple of shots at his label honcho and former friend on his Sorry 4 The Wait mixtape. Kanye West appeared at The BET Honors tonight which is was being prerecorded to air later next month. While on stage, someone managed to capture video of Kanye throwing shots at some of his wife's ex-boyfriends saying his wife dated some "broke black men". The audience erupted into laughter. I'm not sure if that comment will make it onto the telecast but we will have to wait and see. While its no secret that Kim K. has dated a lot of "broke black men" I believe Kanye was solely talking about Ray J. If you ...