Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Almost 18 years after the beloved Aaliyah tragically passed away she will be getting her own wax figure at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in Las Vegas later this month! via Billboard Starting on Aug. 22, fans can jam and reminisce with the late icon at the museum. Additionally, MTLV is hosting a contest for some lucky fans to attend the VIP launch party. To enter, contestants must share their best Aaliyah-inspired look with the hashtag #ShowUsYourAaliyah on both Instagram and the Aaliyah app.
Source: Steven Ferdman / Getty Desus & Mero Pull Up On Big Boy’s Neighborhood Desus and Mero are really making the most of their trip to Los Angeles. Following their hosting gig at the TCA Awards and a sold out show at the Ace Hotel, the Bodega Boys stopped by Big Boy’s Neighborhood for an hour long conversation. Throughout the interview, the pair talks about their move to Showtime, why they choose to get political on their show, how often they get recognized in public, and more. Peep the conversation down below to see it all go down:
Deb Antney On Headline Heat It doesn’t get much more real than Miss Deb Antney . Miss Deb is an OG in this music industry, and at one point in time, anybody we deemed a superstar had to go through Miss Deb to get there. The artist developer, manager and reality star never holds back when it comes to sharing her truth, so it was only right that she stopped by to clear up some of the wildest headlines BOSSIP has written about her. Miss Deb opened up about everything from taking French Montana to court, to son Waka and her former artist Gucci Mane not being on speaking terms. She also addressed all the drama going on with her faux son Brandon that we got see unravel on We TV’s Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta. Chillleee. Check out the video above to see what Miss Deb had to say.
Deb Antney On Headline Heat It doesn’t get much more real than Miss Deb Antney . Miss Deb is an OG in this music industry, and at one point in time, anybody we deemed a superstar had to go through Miss Deb to get there. The artist developer, manager and reality star never holds back when it comes to sharing her truth, so it was only right that she stopped by to clear up some of the wildest headlines BOSSIP has written about her. Miss Deb opened up about everything from taking French Montana to court, to son Waka and her former artist Gucci Mane not being on speaking terms. She also addressed all the drama going on with her faux son Brandon that we got see unravel on We TV’s Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta. Chillleee. Check out the video above to see what Miss Deb had to say.
Ari Lennox Drops Video For ‘BMO’ Hot girl Summer is still in full effect, and with Ari Lennox ‘s new video for “BMO” finally released, ish just got much hotter. The Dreamville songstress released the smoking hot visuals to her third single on Tuesday, and it certainly gives off some refreshing early 2009’s, Coffee Brown, classic R&B video feels. Ari’s sultry voice is enough to have folks swooning, but the looks she’s serving in the video is just next level Black Girl Magic ish. Can we talk about how tf good @AriLennox looks in the #BMO video? pic.twitter.com/kgXe4r9XvE — deezpussasshocudneeva (@jesslawd) August 6, 2019 Ever since dropping her debut album Shea Butter Baby in May of this year, the DC native hasn’t showed any signs of slowed down since. Not only did she recently wrap a mini U.S. tour run promoting SBB , she’s also set to join Lizzo ’s Cuz I Love you Too Tour, giving her another opportunity to tour around the states. We stan a working Queen. Check Ari Lennox’s new video “BMO” above.
Ari Lennox Drops Video For ‘BMO’ Hot girl Summer is still in full effect, and with Ari Lennox ‘s new video for “BMO” finally released, ish just got much hotter. The Dreamville songstress released the smoking hot visuals to her third single on Tuesday, and it certainly gives off some refreshing early 2009’s, Coffee Brown, classic R&B video feels. Ari’s sultry voice is enough to have folks swooning, but the looks she’s serving in the video is just next level Black Girl Magic ish. Can we talk about how tf good @AriLennox looks in the #BMO video? pic.twitter.com/kgXe4r9XvE — deezpussasshocudneeva (@jesslawd) August 6, 2019 Ever since dropping her debut album Shea Butter Baby in May of this year, the DC native hasn’t showed any signs of slowed down since. Not only did she recently wrap a mini U.S. tour run promoting SBB , she’s also set to join Lizzo ’s Cuz I Love you Too Tour, giving her another opportunity to tour around the states. We stan a working Queen. Check Ari Lennox’s new video “BMO” above.
Source: Drew Angerer / Getty Teens Wearing “Team Mitch” Shirt Are Photographed Groping And Choking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Cutout Once again, Republican voters are being mad trash and racist and sexist to the left-leaning women in Congress with any balls, also known as The Squad . In a recent instance, a picture surfaced online of a group of White guys wearing shirts for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ‘s re-election campaign. One of the guys in the photo is groping a cardboard cutout of Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while another is fake-choking her. The rest of the young men in the photo are posing with a thumbs down beside her. Pictured: seven young white men in “Team Mitch” T-shirts, gathered round a distressed looking cardboard @AOC , groping and kissing her. The caption, “break me off a piece of that.” Future federal judges of America. pic.twitter.com/t877J7Pcye — feminist next door (@emrazz) August 5, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez saw the picture and retweeted it tagging McConnell and witing: “ Hey @senatemajldr – these young men look like they work for you. Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch ? Thanks.” Hey @senatemajldr – these young men look like they work for you. Just wanted to clarify: are you paying for young men to practice groping & choking members of Congress w/ your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch ? Thanks. https://t.co/ysRJuwonUx — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 6, 2019 McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, told The Washington Post that the young guys were not affiliated with them: “These young men are not campaign staff, they’re high schoolers and it’s incredible that the national media has sought to once again paint a target on their backs rather than report real, and significant news in our country.” Golden also said that the campaign “in no way condones” the photo. However, in true political finger-pointing fashion, he still had to redirect blame to Democrats, referring to an instance where former President Barack Obama ‘s speechwriter was caught groping a cutout of Hillary Clinton. “Team Mitch in no way condones any aggressive, suggestive, or demeaning act toward life sized cardboard cut outs of any gender in a manner similar to what we saw from President Obama’s speechwriting staff several years ago,” Golden said. He continued: “We’ve watched for years as the far-left and the media look for every possible way to demonize, stereotype, and publicly castigate every young person who dares to get involved with Republican politics.” An apology and calling out of your constituents would’ve sufficed. But tis politics. It should also be noted that some of the same teens in the picture above were also captured in a pic posted to McConnell’s campaign Instagram. They’re holding up posters of Supreme Cout Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Bett M. Kavanaugh …the same man accused of sexual assault and misconduct and still got his Supreme Court nomination. View this post on Instagram #FancyFarm139 #FancyFarm A post shared by Team Mitch (@team_mitch) on Aug 3, 2019 at 4:40pm PDT And we’re surprised these teens are groping cardboard cutouts? Politics as usual.
View this post on Instagram Iggy Azalea is ready for her comeback. Are you? The infamous Australian rapper (and our September cover star) is here to claim her second chance. Read the interview at the link in our bio. A post shared by Cosmopolitan (@cosmopolitan) on Aug 6, 2019 at 5:00am PDT Iggy Azalea Talks Mental Health, Cultural Appropriation For Cosmopolitan Magazine Iggy Azalea is Cosmopolitan ‘s latest cover girl. Inside she opens up about her mental health, becoming an independent artist, and also chimes in on cultural appropriation… because, we so desperately need her thoughts on that, of course. According to Iggy — the same woman who has used the phrase “runaway slave master”and more in her lyrics — cultural appropriation is “subjective.” View this post on Instagram Oh hey, it's our September issue Swipe for a glimpse inside, then text “subscribe” to 77177 to get yours A post shared by Cosmopolitan (@cosmopolitan) on Aug 6, 2019 at 7:51am PDT Here’s the full excerpt written by Jen Ortiz over at Cosmopolitan : Today, it’s a fact that if you say “Iggy Azalea” three times in a mirror, a think piece will appear behind you waxing philosophical on the definition of “cultural appropriation” and authenticity. And not without reason. She is, after all, a white woman profiting off black culture. She raps with a “blaccent,” which, in her case, is an exaggerated Southern drawl that can’t be found in Australia. When asked about the issues surrounding “speaking black” in a 2013 interview with Complex , Iggy responded, “If you’re mad about it and you’re a black person, then start a rap career and give it a go too.” A few months before that, Iggy faced backlash from fans who’d uncovered some old racist tweets she claimed were jokes. And before that , she had to write an apology for using the phrase “runaway slave-master” in a lyric. If you’ve been reading this waiting to get to the part where Iggy apologizes for all the above—sorry, she’s not sorry. (The most sing-along-able lyric off one of her new songs is “I started to say sorry / But fuck that shit,” so yeah.) But listen, she does get it now. Sort of. She thinks cultural appropriation is subjective, even though she knows that sounds like a fucked-up thing to say. “You could ask one person of the same race, ‘Does this affect you?’ and they will say yes,” she explains. “But another person will say no. They could be from the same place, same everything, but have different perspectives about it.” Then again, can you really say sorry and then keep doing the same shit? (Her question.) “I’m still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger than life,” she says. “So I can’t be that fucking sorry about it.” The way she sees it, the reason some people hate her is the same reason a lot of other people love her, so what’s she supposed to do? In fact, she describes her fans as “free thinkers.” As she puts it, “They have to be because if you thought what everybody else thought, you probably wouldn’t be a fan of mine.” Iggy used to feel really defensive about this stuff. “I would hit back and say, ‘What about this that I had to go through?’ because I wanted to talk so much about my experiences of things I didn’t have, and I think it felt like I wasn’t acknowledging that there is white privilege and there is institutionalized racism,” she says. “It seemed to a lot of people like I was living in this bubble or unaware of all these things that people have to experience.” The charitable interpretation is that Iggy understands that the criticism stems from America’s relationship with race and that that history is fucked up. And hey, if that’s how you feel or what you believe, she’s not taking away the fact that it’s real for you. The less charitable one is that she doesn’t care. Either way, she’s going to stop rage-tweeting about it. Welp, what more can we really expect?
View this post on Instagram Iggy Azalea is ready for her comeback. Are you? The infamous Australian rapper (and our September cover star) is here to claim her second chance. Read the interview at the link in our bio. A post shared by Cosmopolitan (@cosmopolitan) on Aug 6, 2019 at 5:00am PDT Iggy Azalea Talks Mental Health, Cultural Appropriation For Cosmopolitan Magazine Iggy Azalea is Cosmopolitan ‘s latest cover girl. Inside she opens up about her mental health, becoming an independent artist, and also chimes in on cultural appropriation… because, we so desperately need her thoughts on that, of course. According to Iggy — the same woman who has used the phrase “runaway slave master”and more in her lyrics — cultural appropriation is “subjective.” View this post on Instagram Oh hey, it's our September issue Swipe for a glimpse inside, then text “subscribe” to 77177 to get yours A post shared by Cosmopolitan (@cosmopolitan) on Aug 6, 2019 at 7:51am PDT Here’s the full excerpt written by Jen Ortiz over at Cosmopolitan : Today, it’s a fact that if you say “Iggy Azalea” three times in a mirror, a think piece will appear behind you waxing philosophical on the definition of “cultural appropriation” and authenticity. And not without reason. She is, after all, a white woman profiting off black culture. She raps with a “blaccent,” which, in her case, is an exaggerated Southern drawl that can’t be found in Australia. When asked about the issues surrounding “speaking black” in a 2013 interview with Complex , Iggy responded, “If you’re mad about it and you’re a black person, then start a rap career and give it a go too.” A few months before that, Iggy faced backlash from fans who’d uncovered some old racist tweets she claimed were jokes. And before that , she had to write an apology for using the phrase “runaway slave-master” in a lyric. If you’ve been reading this waiting to get to the part where Iggy apologizes for all the above—sorry, she’s not sorry. (The most sing-along-able lyric off one of her new songs is “I started to say sorry / But fuck that shit,” so yeah.) But listen, she does get it now. Sort of. She thinks cultural appropriation is subjective, even though she knows that sounds like a fucked-up thing to say. “You could ask one person of the same race, ‘Does this affect you?’ and they will say yes,” she explains. “But another person will say no. They could be from the same place, same everything, but have different perspectives about it.” Then again, can you really say sorry and then keep doing the same shit? (Her question.) “I’m still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger than life,” she says. “So I can’t be that fucking sorry about it.” The way she sees it, the reason some people hate her is the same reason a lot of other people love her, so what’s she supposed to do? In fact, she describes her fans as “free thinkers.” As she puts it, “They have to be because if you thought what everybody else thought, you probably wouldn’t be a fan of mine.” Iggy used to feel really defensive about this stuff. “I would hit back and say, ‘What about this that I had to go through?’ because I wanted to talk so much about my experiences of things I didn’t have, and I think it felt like I wasn’t acknowledging that there is white privilege and there is institutionalized racism,” she says. “It seemed to a lot of people like I was living in this bubble or unaware of all these things that people have to experience.” The charitable interpretation is that Iggy understands that the criticism stems from America’s relationship with race and that that history is fucked up. And hey, if that’s how you feel or what you believe, she’s not taking away the fact that it’s real for you. The less charitable one is that she doesn’t care. Either way, she’s going to stop rage-tweeting about it. Welp, what more can we really expect?
