View this post on Instagram Moms…be proud of the work you put in to yourself. It’s not easy! We can still get our sexy back, hell and look better than we ever did before. Kids don’t stop us, YOU stop yourself! Stay motivated and stay encouraged! A post shared by Apryl (@aprylsjones) on Jun 8, 2019 at 4:52pm PDT Apryl Jones is trying to level up her Hot Girl Summer and, Instagram outbursts aside, she is certainly out here trying to live her best life. She found herself all up in Lil Fizz’s bed, turning the internet on its head. Of course, she is Omarion’s ex. She’s basically living your high school dreams in real time. It’s quite amazing to watch. So what is it about this woman that has these dudes compromising friendships and stabbing one another in the back? Well, we scoured a few of her most banging IG pics to show you what the deal is. Take a look and see if you finally understand. View this post on Instagram Peace and love @fashionnova A post shared by Apryl (@aprylsjones) on Jun 12, 2019 at 5:14pm PDT
Source: VH1 / VH1 Joe Budden loves drama almost as much as he loves (at the very least) cursing at and about any woman who he disagrees with. A couple of nights ago, Crissles of the popular podcast The Read, posted this quote from A$AP Rocky a few years ago in which he basically disregarded the Black Lives Matter movement. I thought of this when I heard about ASAP Rocky's situation in Sweden. pic.twitter.com/Ji8dIdUZKh — jeremy bearimy (@crissles) July 9, 2019 Of course all of that is quite the irony because he is now being detained unjustly in Sweden. While the world is trying to fight for his freedom that old quote only comes off as more toxic and ignorant than ever. That’s where Joe Budden comes in. The failed rapper turned reality star turned podcast host took Crissles tweet to heart and had this to say. so this why Crissle dragging Joe Budden btw. pic.twitter.com/N5g4lYnicR — Denzel. (@fauxdenzel) July 10, 2019 Twitter was NOT playing with that man and saw this as yet another opportunity to drag his a$$ all the way across the internet. It got ugly for Joe very quickly. Take a look… Joe Budden beat up his ex-girlfriend until she miscarried. Is this a good day to bring that up again or nah? — Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) July 10, 2019
Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty Basketball Wives picks up right from the fall out of OG blowing up Kristen’s spot about Kristen and her husband not being real Scotts. Kristen calls her man to tell him how she’s going to beat up CeCe and OG (as if anyone is actually afraid of her). CeCe tells OG that she didn’t have to weaponize sensitive information that was revealed in private. Then CeCe starts crying and talking about how she didn’t mean for things to go this way. Trying to play innocent when this is probably what her inner thoughts look like: Shaunie, Malaysia, Evelyn, and Feby are just looking at OG like… They really don’t like her anyway, so they’re making it a point to tell her how dead wrong she is, yatta yatta. But they’re also giving CeCe the side eye because she’s the one who put the battery in OG’s back by talking trash about Kristen and their family to her. Obviously, the family drama is deep. Malaysia probably didn’t really know what she was getting into bringing them on the show. You know how you have relatives that you’re cool with but you might not see or talk to that often, so you don’t always know what’s going on with them? That’s what this kind of seems like. So, bringing them on Basketball Wives might not have been such a good idea after all. No one wins when the family feuds. Sorry, couldn’t resist. Tami meets up with OG and Jackie another day and is on OG’s side. So, when Jackie is trying to explain what happened and how OG is wrong, Tami pushes back. This causes them to go back and forth, and Jackie gets really pissed when Tami calls her fake. Tami’s thing is that Jackie has been involved in lots of they petty mean girl stuff so why is she trying to chastise OG now? Later on, Tami kicks it with Jackie, Shaunie, and OG and once again, they talk about the drama. Now it’s Shaunie’s turn to tell OG how wrong she was and that she comes off as too aggressive sometimes. But wait, has Shaunie ever called any of the other wild cassowaries on this show aggressive? Tami used to bully newbies all the time and Shaunie would stand off to the side with that smirk on her face. Or how about Evelyn, running across tables to fight people? Did Shaunie ever chastise any of them? Anyway, OG owns up to being wrong about revealing that information, which she is, but she said she’s backing off and plans to work on herself. The good news is that Jackie and Tami work things out but Tami still doesn’t like how everyone has been treating OG so she’s going to have a brunch where everyone can come and discuss. Because that’s going to go well. Part of why Tami seems to have such a soft spot for OG is that she feels like OG is a target and that she can relate. In Tami’s mind, she has also been ganged up on and have had these women say mean things about her. Kind of true, but also kind of not. There have been mean things said about Tami by women she was beefing with at the moment, but no one ganged up on her (because they’re scared), and it’s not like Tami was ever innocent. Anyway, Tami starts the talk. We get to a point where Kristen and OG are going back and forth, as expected. Kristen says that OG felt the need to say what she said to be hurtful. That is true, but OG denies this. OG says she got the info from CeCe and Byron while at dinner with them and that Byron told her that people know this information (uh, yeah, close family) and that it would be totally fine if she ever had to pass that information on to anyone else. Anyway, Kristen asks OG why she has a problem with her. OG says she doesn’t have a problem with Kristen but that Kristen has a problem with her , and now everyone is either like wtf or just looking at her all kinds of sideways (or both). Neither Kristen nor OG is actually wrong. They respectively have a problem with each other. Anyway, Malaysia tells Cece that she felt that CeCe was talking trash about Kristen to OG so that OG would do what she did. CeCe denies this. Then Kristen asks CeCe how she would feel if Byon’s children didn’t show up to the wedding. CeCe says she doesn’t care. She only cares about Byron and this is the last time Kristen is going to see her. Yeah, this brunch wasn’t productive. So now Malaysia feels like she has to go to Byron himself. Malaysia confronts Byon and tells him everything that happened. He said he did give that information to CeCe and OG, but it’s not like it’s a secret secret , even though only a few select people know. Malaysia asks if he told OG to run back and tell everyone, which is not quite what OG said he said, but mmmkay. Anyway, he denies this. He also says he knows CeCe isn’t innocent in this, but that she was tired of getting attacked, which is valid. Then she asks about his beef with Kristen. He repeats that he’s mad at Kristen for making him look like a bad grandfather and that’s why he said what he said. Lordt. Messy. Boots. Nothing gets resolved this episode so come back next week for more. RELATED POSTS ‘Basketball Wives’ Recap: OG Gets In The Middle Of CeCe And Kristen’s Drama ‘Basketball Wives’ Recap: Jennifer Uses Her Mother’s Death As A Crutch For Her Behavior
Source: Jen Lowery / Splash News What? It’s already been one year since Cardi B and Offset welcomed their baby girl Kulture into the world , but it feels like yesterday. View this post on Instagram Alittle quick 12 o clock turn up my baaaaaaaaaaaybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…..Ok goodbye. A post shared by MOSTHATEDCARDI (@iamcardib) on Jul 9, 2019 at 9:26pm PDT Remember, fans had been suspecting for months that the Grammy award winning rapper was with child, but it wasn’t until her classic performance on Saturday Night Live, when she revealed her baby bump, that the suspicions were confirmed. Although papa Offset already had three kids, Cardi call all the hell from family, fans and friends for getting pregnant at what seemed like the most pivotal moment of her young career. But someway, somehow, the Bronx rapper manages to pull it off, and then some. View this post on Instagram Happy Easter from mines to yours A post shared by MOSTHATEDCARDI (@iamcardib) on Apr 21, 2019 at 6:05pm PDT After giving birth, Cardi’s steam didn’t slow down one bit. She was featured on damn near every number one song that came out, and her debut album Invasion Of Privacy was still shooting it’s way up the charts. On top of all that success, she got to experience the bliss of first time motherhood. View this post on Instagram Day before summer jam. A post shared by MOSTHATEDCARDI (@iamcardib) on Jun 10, 2019 at 7:32pm PDT When Kulture was first born, Cardi didn’t share pics of her new born baby girl for months, in an attempt to protect her from Internet trolls. But all she had to was post Kulture’s adorable chunky foot for us to know that she was raising a precious bundle of joy. View this post on Instagram She was so tiny A post shared by MOSTHATEDCARDI (@iamcardib) on Jul 8, 2019 at 10:43pm PDT In honor of baby Kulture’s first trip around the sun, hit the flip to take a look at some of her most heartwarming moments.
Source: Image provided by / McDonald’s Tamar Braxton, Luke James & More Appear At McDonald’s Black & Positively Golden Experience At Essence Festival This past weekend, the McDonald’s Black & Positively Golden movement held it down at Essence Festival with an empowering panel, brilliant performances and a late-night afterparty. The weekend started off with the Black & Positively Golden Welcome Breakfast, which was hosted by McDonald’s Head of Cultural Engagement and Experiences Lizette Williams — who spearheads the brand’s largest African American-focused campaign in 16 years — and New Orleans franchisee Henry Coaxum. Source: Image provided by / McDonald’s Next, the We Shine Entrepreneurship Panel was hosted by self-made businesswoman La La Anthony . She interviewed rising moguls Nicole Walters (The Monetized Life, Founder & CEO), Jewel Burks-Solomon (Part Pic, Founder), Dana Chanel (Sprinkle of Jesus, Founder), alongside McDonald’s franchisees Tanya Hill-Holliday and Jade Colin. At 29 years old, Colin is McDonald’s youngest owner/operator, while Hill-Holiday is the brand’s first woman owner/operator in Philly. Source: Image provided by / McDonald’s The weekend was turnt with empowering music performances as well, including one from Jazmine Sullivan on Saturday and another one with gospel vocalist Kierra Sheard on Sunday. When party-time came around, the Black & Positively Golden Late Night Party brought the vibes with DJ Rashida and DJ B-Hen . Everyone from Luke James to Cynthia Bailey to Tamar Braxton made an appearance. Source: Image provided by / McDonald’s Finally, the weekend closed out with the Black & Positively Golden Scholarship Presentations where two, $10,000 scholarships were handed out to well-deserving incoming HBCU freshman, Jordyn Allen and Jaiden Boyce . The funds were in partnership with Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the organization’s national ambassador and HBCU alumni Terrence J. Source: Image provided by / McDonald’s A golden weekend indeed!
Source: ione / iOne Digital “Not on her watch!” Iyanla Vanzant Speaks On Her Viral Memes During OWN TV’s exclusive ESSENCE Fest press conference Iyanla Vanzant spoke with BOSSIP about the sixth season of her hit show “Iyanla Fix My Life.” In between speaking to the press about advice for millennials (“Who are off the chizzain” ) and the “Fix My Life” casting process, Iyanla spoke with BOSSIP about social media. If you’ve been living under a rock, you might not have noticed that Iyanla’s an absolute social media sensation. Her memes and GIFs dominate Twitter and Instagram and provide the perfect reactions to everyday situations. Some clear frontrunners of the Iyanla Vanzant social repertoire are that infamous “Not On My Watch” moment where she laid down the law to the ladies of “Six Brown Chicks” (5:20) and that moment where she made Hazel E read her raunchy lyrics to prominent black female figures spawning social media hysteria. Iyanla has Hazel-E read her lyrics to photos of trailblazing black women. Tune into #FixMyLife tonight at 9/8c on @OWNTV pic.twitter.com/8yKMcv3XsW — Iyanla Vanzant (@IyanlaVanzant) April 14, 2018 These moments have spurned infamous tweets and memes that we’ve personally covered over the years. According to Auntie Iyanla however, she misses a LOT of the memes because she’s barely active on social media. So inactive in fact, that she doesn’t really know the proper terms (she called tweeting “twit”) and was previously befuddled by the concept of DMs. “I don’t do social media, they taught me how to Twit–TWEET, TWEET!” Iyanla told BOSSIP. “So I tweet during the show so I do that. So if something is on my mind I know how to do it. I write my Facebook stuff but someone else posts it for me. I know how to do Instagram, I like Instagram. I like that. I used to do the word of the day and I would find a video—but I can’t find nothing, I can’t look for nothing. People say all the time they DMed me—what does that mean?! There were DMS in there that were three years old.” Iyanla who added that Chance The Rapper told her she has “street cred” also addressed that now viral video of her swinging from a sign at ESSENCE Fest while waiting for her ride. The video that was filmed over the weekend caused speculation that Auntie was having a good IMBIBING time on Bourbon, but that’s apparently not true. View this post on Instagram My Once In A Lifetime Pole Experience! @geishaboii @michelelopez_llc @iammoniquelauren @vanzant_n @iyanlas_sun @oscarjameshair @estelledarlings @charlamagnethagod A post shared by Iyanla Vanzant (@iyanlavanzant) on Jul 5, 2019 at 9:35pm PDT According to Iyanla she was NOT intoxicated during the stunt and was just having fun, so it “hurts her feelings” that folks think otherwise. “Somebody called me this morning and told me that people thought I was drunk because I said I was on the pole the other day,” Iyanla told BOSSIP. “That stuff makes me mad, it doesn’t really make me angry it just hurts my feelings that people talk about each other on the FAKEbook and other things and I don’t like it. “I said ‘I’m on the pole, I’m on the pole’ and people thought I was drunk! Y’all don’t know how to play.” Iyanla is also selling a body product called MasterPeace Body Therapy that will “turn your body cleansing into a spiritual ceremony”, beloveds. Source: OWN TV / Photo via OWN TV —dani canada/ @IamDaniCanada What do YOU think about Auntie Iyanla clearing up rumors and speaking on social media at ESSENCE???
Source: Sean Johnson / Sean Johnson The Men Wrongly Convicted Of Rape Received Hero’s Welcome At Essence Festival The Exonerated Five were honored for their work on criminal justice reform by an organization that advocates for black children and families. Yusuf Salaam, Korey Wise and Raymond Santana were the guests of honor at the Moms of Black Boys United “Champions of Change” breakfast at Essence Fest last weekend. Also honored was Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome, former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks and criminal justice reform campaigner Monteria Robinson, whose son, Jamarion, was killed by the U.S. Marshals. Source: Sean Johnson / Sean Johnson The men later shared their stories of redemption and their work as criminal justice advocates on a panel moderated by Vanessa McCullers, the Moms of Black Boys United executive director. Hit the flip for more pics from the event:
Source: Jennifer Cunningham/Senior Editor for Bossip.com / Bossip Kevin Hunter And Kevin Hunter Jr. Court Video Surfaces Footage from when Wendy Williams’ ex-husband and her son Little Kev appeared in court has surfaced, courtesy of TMZ. As we reported yesterday, the assault case from their parking lot scuffle was dismissed. But before that, the judge grilled Kevin Sr. to ensure there wouldn’t be a repeat of the incident. Hit play to see it.
