Source: MARK RALSTON / Getty Via | HotNewHipHop Watch people stop in their tracks as Drake roams Lenox Mall in Atlanta on Tuesday. Imagine you’re shopping at the mall when all of a sudden you see a herd of security guards walking towards you and Drake happens to be in the middle of them. Well that was the case for some people on Tuesday when Drizzy was spotted walking around Lenox Mall in Atlanta. Rockin’ an Adidas jumpsuit, Drake was seen roaming the mall Tuesday with some OVO members & some big security guards by his side. He visited the Apple Store for a little while, presumably taking care of something, but who knows what. READ MORE
Jay Z Speaks On His Relationship With Kanye West Netflix has been teasing Jay Z’s impending appearance on David Letterman’s My Guest Needs No Introduction series all week. The episode with Hov is finally available on the streaming service as of today, and at the same time, Netflix released a clip of the rapper talking about his relationship with Kanye. When asked about their friendship Jay responds, “That’s my brother, we’re beyond friends. Really, like literally, my little brother is Kanye. And like your little brother, things happen sometimes.” He continued his conversation about Ye saying, “I’ve watched Kanye from without an album…The thing that I respect about him is that he’s the same person. Like, he interrupted our studio session, stood on a table and started rapping. And we were like, ‘Could you PLEASE get down,’ and he was like ‘No, I’m the savior of Chicago!’ He didn’t have a record.” Continue reading →
Jay Z Speaks On His Relationship With Kanye West Netflix has been teasing Jay Z’s impending appearance on David Letterman’s My Guest Needs No Introduction series all week. The episode with Hov is finally available on the streaming service as of today, and at the same time, Netflix released a clip of the rapper talking about his relationship with Kanye. When asked about their friendship Jay responds, “That’s my brother, we’re beyond friends. Really, like literally, my little brother is Kanye. And like your little brother, things happen sometimes.” He continued his conversation about Ye saying, “I’ve watched Kanye from without an album…The thing that I respect about him is that he’s the same person. Like, he interrupted our studio session, stood on a table and started rapping. And we were like, ‘Could you PLEASE get down,’ and he was like ‘No, I’m the savior of Chicago!’ He didn’t have a record.” Continue reading →
Source: FOX Image Collection / Getty It’s back to business as usual at Empire Records, and there’s always the proverbial snake in the grass lurking too. We start with Lucious popping awake from a bad dream about the night his car blew up, and now his Lyon senses are tingling. In other words, he suspects that Andre might have something to do with trying to kill him so he tells Thirsty to get to investigating. In other news, Eddie (Lucious’ Uncle) and Giselle (Eddie’s ex-wife) are part of Empire’s staff now. They’re exes, but they’re in deep financial trouble so of course, they’re going to try to use Empire for a come up. This is actually a good time for scheming because Empire is making money moves with their streaming service. Eddie and Giselle brought a new investor to the table and Cookie and Lucious are down with the partnership. Unfortunately, said business partner is down to steal Empire right along with Eddie and Giselle and later on in the episode, he mentions that he’s actually going to buy Empire based on the moves they made, but Eddie said he’ll deal with telling Lucious what’s up. The other part to this sneaky takeover is that Eddie has been going around planting divisive bugs in people’s ears. He lowkey convinced Jamal to drop out of the upcoming 20 for 20 Celebration, and while working with Tiana on her music, he tells her that she can’t let Hakeem distract her from her music. Later on, Hakeem proposes to her and she says she needs to think about it because she can’t have any distractions. It was that easy. via GIPHY Speaking of 20 for 20, there’s an old Empire act that they didn’t invite back. It’s one of Empire’s first acts, a girl group called “TBD” (with Tisha Campbell guest starring as the lead), and they are so salty that they’re on TV telling everyone who will listen that they got beef. They plan to release their own anniversary album, which will include a dis track that spills all the tea on Empire. But you know the Lyons ain’t having that. Cookie shows up to a TBD performance at a mall to handle her business. The group is a bunch of has-beens so they need all the money and attention they can get. Cookie offers them a deal with Empire for their anniversary album. They says they’ll be in the studio as long as they get an apology from Lucious for…whatever it is that he knows he did. You know pre-accident Lucious was trash. Later on, Lucious apologizes, but they don’t accept it because they think it’s disingenuous. They start talking about how Lucious sabotaged their last album, they feel some type of way about Cookie running things, etc—basically, they’re returning the petty and just like that, they leave because they say that have another deal on the table anyway. However, Lucious points out that it’s a smaller label with less money. Cookie is obviously annoyed when she learns it didn’t work out, but Lucious says he’s going to show her how to get it done the “Old fashion Empire way.” Uh oh. via GIPHY Surprisingly, the Empire way isn’t violent, but there are chess moves involved. Empire acquires the label TBD decided to sign too so now they’re stuck. The conditions are that they take back their dis track, apologize to Empire now, and perform at the showcase. If all goes well then they get to keep their reunion album. Finally, the episode winds down with a Lyon family dinner. It starts off innocently enough, with Cookie and Lucious telling Dre that he’s still going to be able to take the reigns of the business, not now, but down the line when he’s better. However, what is a Lyon family function without the dysfunction? via GIPHY Fast forward a bit. Dre and Lucious are alone in another room and Dre finally admits to Lucious he called the bomb. He said he tried to call it off if that’s any consolation, then hands Lucious a gun and tells him to do what he has to do. Lucious snaps and pistol whips Jamal. Think about this, Dre almost killed Cookie too. He didn’t anticipate Cookie getting in that car but that’s what happened, and we know how Lucious feels about her so that’s what that rage was really about. Luckily for Jamal, the rest of the Lyons rushed in and break it up. Hakeem and Jamal express how disappointed they are in Dre. They point out all the messed up things Lucious did to them, as well as the fact that they never tried to kill him. Cookie and Lucious are chatting at the same time in another room. Lucious says she doesn’t know what to do but he’s obviously shaken. Cookie tries to get Lucious to be positive by pointing out that Dre wasn’t in his right mind and that he’s getting back to his old self,, but then she collapses and says she can’t feel her right arm. Issa heart attack. Hopefully, we’ll find out Cookie’s fate next week. RELATED POSTS ‘Empire’ Recap: It’s Up To Cookie To Save Lucious From His Stalker Therapist ‘Empire’ Recap: The Lyons Get Sweet Revenge But Face New Trouble
Source: FOX Image Collection / Getty It’s back to business as usual at Empire Records, and there’s always the proverbial snake in the grass lurking too. We start with Lucious popping awake from a bad dream about the night his car blew up, and now his Lyon senses are tingling. In other words, he suspects that Andre might have something to do with trying to kill him so he tells Thirsty to get to investigating. In other news, Eddie (Lucious’ Uncle) and Giselle (Eddie’s ex-wife) are part of Empire’s staff now. They’re exes, but they’re in deep financial trouble so of course, they’re going to try to use Empire for a come up. This is actually a good time for scheming because Empire is making money moves with their streaming service. Eddie and Giselle brought a new investor to the table and Cookie and Lucious are down with the partnership. Unfortunately, said business partner is down to steal Empire right along with Eddie and Giselle and later on in the episode, he mentions that he’s actually going to buy Empire based on the moves they made, but Eddie said he’ll deal with telling Lucious what’s up. The other part to this sneaky takeover is that Eddie has been going around planting divisive bugs in people’s ears. He lowkey convinced Jamal to drop out of the upcoming 20 for 20 Celebration, and while working with Tiana on her music, he tells her that she can’t let Hakeem distract her from her music. Later on, Hakeem proposes to her and she says she needs to think about it because she can’t have any distractions. It was that easy. via GIPHY Speaking of 20 for 20, there’s an old Empire act that they didn’t invite back. It’s one of Empire’s first acts, a girl group called “TBD” (with Tisha Campbell guest starring as the lead), and they are so salty that they’re on TV telling everyone who will listen that they got beef. They plan to release their own anniversary album, which will include a dis track that spills all the tea on Empire. But you know the Lyons ain’t having that. Cookie shows up to a TBD performance at a mall to handle her business. The group is a bunch of has-beens so they need all the money and attention they can get. Cookie offers them a deal with Empire for their anniversary album. They says they’ll be in the studio as long as they get an apology from Lucious for…whatever it is that he knows he did. You know pre-accident Lucious was trash. Later on, Lucious apologizes, but they don’t accept it because they think it’s disingenuous. They start talking about how Lucious sabotaged their last album, they feel some type of way about Cookie running things, etc—basically, they’re returning the petty and just like that, they leave because they say that have another deal on the table anyway. However, Lucious points out that it’s a smaller label with less money. Cookie is obviously annoyed when she learns it didn’t work out, but Lucious says he’s going to show her how to get it done the “Old fashion Empire way.” Uh oh. via GIPHY Surprisingly, the Empire way isn’t violent, but there are chess moves involved. Empire acquires the label TBD decided to sign too so now they’re stuck. The conditions are that they take back their dis track, apologize to Empire now, and perform at the showcase. If all goes well then they get to keep their reunion album. Finally, the episode winds down with a Lyon family dinner. It starts off innocently enough, with Cookie and Lucious telling Dre that he’s still going to be able to take the reigns of the business, not now, but down the line when he’s better. However, what is a Lyon family function without the dysfunction? via GIPHY Fast forward a bit. Dre and Lucious are alone in another room and Dre finally admits to Lucious he called the bomb. He said he tried to call it off if that’s any consolation, then hands Lucious a gun and tells him to do what he has to do. Lucious snaps and pistol whips Jamal. Think about this, Dre almost killed Cookie too. He didn’t anticipate Cookie getting in that car but that’s what happened, and we know how Lucious feels about her so that’s what that rage was really about. Luckily for Jamal, the rest of the Lyons rushed in and break it up. Hakeem and Jamal express how disappointed they are in Dre. They point out all the messed up things Lucious did to them, as well as the fact that they never tried to kill him. Cookie and Lucious are chatting at the same time in another room. Lucious says she doesn’t know what to do but he’s obviously shaken. Cookie tries to get Lucious to be positive by pointing out that Dre wasn’t in his right mind and that he’s getting back to his old self,, but then she collapses and says she can’t feel her right arm. Issa heart attack. Hopefully, we’ll find out Cookie’s fate next week. RELATED POSTS ‘Empire’ Recap: It’s Up To Cookie To Save Lucious From His Stalker Therapist ‘Empire’ Recap: The Lyons Get Sweet Revenge But Face New Trouble
Source: Anthony Geathers / Getty This past weekend Deontay Wilder defeated Luis “King Kong” Ortiz in one of the biggest fights of his career. CBS Sports reports that after fighting Ortiz, he yelled, “King Kong’ ain’t got nothing on me! A true champion always finds a way to come back and that’s what I did tonight. If you speak it and believe it, you will receive it, baby. The mind is very powerful.” Follow @TheRSMS Fans screamed during Round 7 as they saw Wilder outbox his opponent. Three rounds later Ortiz ended up on the floor and was picked up by the ref, he tried to continue to fight, but moments later was knocked to the ground again. Wilder ended up defeating Ortiz and the crowd full of fans at the Barclays Center were excited for him. Wilder’s promoter, Lou DiBella said, “The heavyweight champion is a man’s man; he has some huge cojones. He walked through the fire and he knocked the guy out. That’s what the f— it’s all about.” Ortiz believes he could of beat Wilder. The scorecard before the knockout showed Ortiz winning. Congratulations to Deontay Wilder! RELATED: Laila Ali Reveals What It Would Take To Get Her Back In The Boxing Ring [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] RELATED: Why Offset Should Take Up XXXTentacion’s Boxing Challenge [EXCLUSIVE] RELATED: Could George Foreman Still Kick Butt In A Boxing Match? [EXCLUSIVE] The Latest : Flavor Flav Reportedly Owes Over $3 Million To The IRS After Not Paying Taxes For 10 Years Tamar Braxton Shocked Sisters With Divorce In ‘Braxton Family Values’ Sneak Peek Deontay Wilder Quotes Denzel Washington After Defeating Luis Ortiz [VIDEO] Barack and Michelle Obama In Talks With Netflix HB Spotlight: Enter The African American Women In Cinema Webisode Competition #WakandaForever: ‘Black Panther’ Sequel Confirmed Is The NYPD Going To Arrest Harvey Weinstein? Mariahlynn Feat. Remy Ma “Tab Reloaded” [NEW MUSIC] WTH! Woman Runs Over Her ‘Sugar Daddy’ After He Stopped Buying Her Things! Now Streaming: 5 Obama Reality Shows That Could Kill On Netflix [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1585235″ overlay=”true”]
We’re one week away from the end of February and though Netflix has yet to announce what films will be leaving the streaming service on March 1, we do know of eight skin-filled flicks leaving Amazon Prime and Hulu! … read more
Source: Jun Sato / Getty Netflix fans either love or hate Will Smith ‘s newest movie, Bright , but the streaming service has confirmed that whether you like it or not, there will in fact be a sequel. ANNOUNCEMENT: Orc auditions for the @BrightNetflix sequel are now closed. Thank you. Have a nice day. pic.twitter.com/QnVqkgYRkE — Netflix US (@netflix) January 3, 2018 “ANNOUNCEMENT: Orc auditions for the @BrightNetflix sequel are now closed. Thank you. Have a nice day,” Netflix tweeted early this morning in a very no nonsense kind of way—and it wasn’t long before Twitter chimed in with mixed responses. It was also reported that Bright director and producer David Ayer will screenwrite, instead of Max Landis . Hit the flip for some reactions.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. And did we mention…. WOW ?!? It wasn’t very long ago that Kevin Spacey was the face of Netflix. Signing the multiple-time Oscar winner to portray Frank Underwood on House of Cards signaled to Hollywood that the streaming service was serious about becoming a player in original content. But now Netflix has severed ties with Spacey, making a stunning (albeit understandable) announcement on Friday night. “Netflix will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey,” a spokesperson for the company said, adding of production company Media Rights Capital: “We will continue to work with MRC during this hiatus time to evaluate our path forward as it relates to the show.” Less than a week ago, Spacey was accused by actor Anthony Rapp of sexual misconduct. The Star Trek: Discovery star said Spacey forced himself on Rapp back in 1986, when Rapp was only 14 years old. Rapp kept the incident a secret for decades, but says he was inspired to make them public now after an endless array of alleged Harvey Weinstein victims shared their story of sexual abuse at the hands of the famous movie producer. Tweeted Rapp shortly after his accusations went viral: “I came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out… to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me.” In response to the allegations, Spacey acknowledged and apologized for his behavior. He also finally confirmed the rumor that he’s gay, prompting a horde of celebrities to slam Spacey for trying to distract and deflect from the charges against him by shifting the topic to his sexuality: See what we mean below: View Slideshow: Kevin Spacey: Celebrities React to Molestation Accusation Seriously, what does being gay have anything to do with sexual assault? It’s not any better if you admit you’re attracted to the gender of the person you’ve reportedly assaulted. The ramifications from this scandal simply snowballed from there: Netflix announced House of Cards would end after Season 6. It then suspended filming on Season 6. Spacey then said he was checking into treatment, although he didn’t specify for what reason. Then, many more House of Cards staff members a ccused Spacey of acting inappropriately , saying he created a toxic environment on the show’s set. It was this final bombshell that prompted Media Rights Capital to release the following statement: “While we continue the ongoing investigation into the serious allegations concerning Kevin Spacey’s behavior on the set of House of Cards, he has been suspended, effective immediately. “MRC, in partnership with Netflix, will continue to evaluate a creative path forward for the program during the hiatus.” It’s unclear where House of Cards goes from here. There’s been chatter that it may kill off Spacey’s Frank Underwood and turn the drama over to Robin Wright’s Clare. This wouldn’t be SO far-fetched, considering Underwood resigned as President on the show to conclude last season and Clare was sworn in as his replacement. However, the series has already filmed two Season 6 episodes… with Spacey. We can’t say for certain what will happen with the series, but we can say we’re stunned by how quickly events have unfolded in this real-life drama. We’ll keep readers apprised as more news breaks.
