Source: VALERIE MACON / Getty If you never thought Beyoncé could be your direct pathway to God, think again. The Queen Bey is inspiring fans at concerts and in the pulpit. San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral is definitely moved. On Wednesday, they are hosting a Beyoncé mass which will celebrate and unpack the legacy of Bey. The event will be hosted by the weekly progressive worship service The Vine , and it’s set to include Beyoncé’s music and Bible readings by women of color that relate to her music. Reverend Yolanda Norton , who will preside over the mass, assured folks that this isn’t some Bey Hiv cult situation. “This is not a service deifying Beyoncé,” she told Essence . “This is a service that uses Beyoncé’s music as a tool to engender positive, empowering conversation about Black women. The premise of [the class] is that if we look at the personal life, career trajectory, music and public persona of Beyoncé, so much of her life reflects aspects of black women’s stories.” She continues, “We use ‘Flaws and All,’ a song maybe she wrote for her fans or for Jay-Z . But if you listen to the words in an ecclesiastical context, it’s a very faithful, honest, raw acknowledgment of the imperfect relationship we have with God.” Preach! Are you down for the Beyoncé-filled, fire-baptized session? If you’re in the San Francisco area, you can hit up Grace Cathedral at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday (April 25)!
Source: Catherine McGann / Getty LL Cool J has been in the game for many generations, so it’s understandable why he would be offended when fake news gets put into the hip hop-sphere. Fans have been running with this “ J. Cole is the first rapper to go platinum without features” accolade since 2014 — but Uncle L hopped on Twitter to set the record straight. My first album went platinum with no features in 1985… enough !!! — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 My album went platinum in 1985 with no features. It’s the truth. Not hate. Who would have thought in 2018 it would be offensive to say that. — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 You know the social media trolls wasted no time calling LL a hater — but why can’t an OG share his resume with uninformed youngins’? You know you’re a hater when someone talking about their track record/resume and accomplishments makes you say some dumb Sh!t. especially when they ain’t talking to you !!!! — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 Lames out here always lookin for hate. Always assuming The OGs hating on young cats. That ain’t my style. I get to the bag. — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 We Launched the DefJam label in 84!! The label ended up doing pretty good. Anyone offended by that?!?! — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 Oh, he also let us know that he invented the term G.O.A.T. I “literally” introduced the term GOAT to hiphop with this album!!!!!! Yes LLCOOLJ started this term in Hiphop !!! In the year 2000!!! It’s the truth don’t be offended!!! I like the other GOATS!!!! pic.twitter.com/gbcVC6dbXj — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 But LL stayed true to his ‘never let them see you sweat’ form and made it clear that he supports the young folks — just respect the history of the game. I’m happy to see the new G’s out winning and building their careers. I started #RocktheBellsSXM so the fans that prefer that classic OG sh!t. Can hear what they want. When I tweet about music I’m talking to them “ONLY” this is between LLCOOLJ and classic hiphop fans. — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 For all you New G’s that aren’t haters. Just know LL has love for you and I wish you nothing but the best. I mean that from the heart. I’m not in your lane and I’m not interested in getting in your lane.. We’re doing strictly Classic over here. It’s all love — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 Unlike most celebs, he didn’t take the trolls to seriously. Uncle L managed to find the humor in the shadiness: I wore the very first pair of Jordan’s on my very first album. Im talkin when Jordan was a rookie. I’m not hating on sneaker heads. Don’t get offended I like sneakers!!!! pic.twitter.com/zKsGgnkwD5 — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 I Rocked Heavy ice in the early 80’s and 90s !!! I like people who wear diamonds !! Don’t be offended!! pic.twitter.com/BeiaDFB6eJ — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 All in all, there’s no beef between LL Cool J and J. Cole: Ps. I love the youngin J cole. So you haters need to cut out that dumb Sh!t.. — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 24, 2018 So cut it! And let us vibe out to KOD, drama free. Also, catch LL’s “Rock The Bells” Radio. #ForTheCulture . pic.twitter.com/ndVMbNqZdQ — LLCOOLJ. (@llcoolj) April 13, 2018 For the culture. via GIPHY
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are completely dominating the late night game right now, and they’ve been on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon five times just in the last year. This week, the pair made their way to Late Night With Seth Meyers for an interview, where they talked about how dope it felt to sell out a show at The Apollo–along with how different it is to do a show live versus recording their podcast, Bodega Boys. Along with the success of their own late night show and their recent 5 borough tour, the Bronx natives also discuss what it’s like having different “family members” come out of the woodwork every time they become more successful. And as always, the boys give their extremely spicy hot takes about politics.
Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital Kanye West fans have been both devastated and confused the past couple days as the rapper continues to voice some equally troublesome and vague political opinions. The Chicago native has said recently that he likes the way conservative Candace Owens thinks, and according to E Bro, Mr. West also flat out told him he loves Donald Trump . Kanye has voiced before that he would have voted for Trump if he had voted in the most recent election, but him doubling down on those ideas is turning fans completely off. Because the rapper’s tweets and comments are pretty vague, many fans are holding out for an explanation and possibly Ye admitting that he’s trolling for some album sales. But now, his longtime collaborator CyHi the Prynce has come to social media to double down on some interesting Trump opinions. One of CyHi’s first tweets is what prompted much of the backlash, and caused further back-and-forth between some of his followers. Why is everybody so scared of Trump I bet you right now I can look up a thousand songs, TV shows etc where his name is mentioned before he ran for office y'all scared of a man that tells y'all how he feel about you smh y'all to sensitive most of y'all talk behind people back lol https://t.co/S6lbabT3wg — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 He continued on for a while arguing with disappointed fans: Naw we just don't give white people that much credit y'all sound scared of trump lol like he's a Gangsta or something — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 I am but I don't get nervous when my enemy approaches — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Well do something see the problem is we not ready to die for what we believe in we just want to talk and march — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Half of y'all niggas is anti black we don't stay with our women we don't take care of our kids we run off with the pack we hate on each other etc https://t.co/9hCDY8nW5K — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Y'all do know Martin Luther King was republican — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Create a new environment I bet if white people was oppressed they would go hit a gun store rob a bank go 2 another country go 2 war enslave them rebuild another country and the slaves that live n their country will live better than any other human n the world and name it America — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 So….yeah. People were confused by this talk from someone whose lyrics always seem to come from the opposite direction. It’s hard for people to see public figures they look up to coming out of left field and talking like this, and CyHi’s comments seem to only further drive home the idea that Kanye really might be pro-Trump. It’s a conflicting time for Ye fans indeed.
Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital Kanye West fans have been both devastated and confused the past couple days as the rapper continues to voice some equally troublesome and vague political opinions. The Chicago native has said recently that he likes the way conservative Candace Owens thinks, and according to E Bro, Mr. West also flat out told him he loves Donald Trump . Kanye has voiced before that he would have voted for Trump if he had voted in the most recent election, but him doubling down on those ideas is turning fans completely off. Because the rapper’s tweets and comments are pretty vague, many fans are holding out for an explanation and possibly Ye admitting that he’s trolling for some album sales. But now, his longtime collaborator CyHi the Prynce has come to social media to double down on some interesting Trump opinions. One of CyHi’s first tweets is what prompted much of the backlash, and caused further back-and-forth between some of his followers. Why is everybody so scared of Trump I bet you right now I can look up a thousand songs, TV shows etc where his name is mentioned before he ran for office y'all scared of a man that tells y'all how he feel about you smh y'all to sensitive most of y'all talk behind people back lol https://t.co/S6lbabT3wg — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 He continued on for a while arguing with disappointed fans: Naw we just don't give white people that much credit y'all sound scared of trump lol like he's a Gangsta or something — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 I am but I don't get nervous when my enemy approaches — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Well do something see the problem is we not ready to die for what we believe in we just want to talk and march — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Half of y'all niggas is anti black we don't stay with our women we don't take care of our kids we run off with the pack we hate on each other etc https://t.co/9hCDY8nW5K — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Y'all do know Martin Luther King was republican — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 Create a new environment I bet if white people was oppressed they would go hit a gun store rob a bank go 2 another country go 2 war enslave them rebuild another country and the slaves that live n their country will live better than any other human n the world and name it America — CYHI THE PRYNCE (@CyhiThePrynce) April 24, 2018 So….yeah. People were confused by this talk from someone whose lyrics always seem to come from the opposite direction. It’s hard for people to see public figures they look up to coming out of left field and talking like this, and CyHi’s comments seem to only further drive home the idea that Kanye really might be pro-Trump. It’s a conflicting time for Ye fans indeed.
Source: Pool / Getty Melania Trump detests her husband Donald Trump and it shows. She’s given up on keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage and at this point, she just wants him to stay as far away from her as possible. The most recent evidence that Melania is fed up with Donald Trump is this video of the president trying to hold her hand. That moment when your wife resists holding your hand… PRICELESS. @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/hDpPddTv5C — BetsyBits (@BetsyBits) April 24, 2018 This wouldn’t be the first time Melania curved her husband. Hit the flip for more times she proved she wasn’t here for him.
Source: Pool / Getty Melania Trump detests her husband Donald Trump and it shows. She’s given up on keeping up the appearance of a happy marriage and at this point, she just wants him to stay as far away from her as possible. The most recent evidence that Melania is fed up with Donald Trump is this video of the president trying to hold her hand. That moment when your wife resists holding your hand… PRICELESS. @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/hDpPddTv5C — BetsyBits (@BetsyBits) April 24, 2018 This wouldn’t be the first time Melania curved her husband. Hit the flip for more times she proved she wasn’t here for him.
Source: Prince Williams / Getty We pick up tonight’s episode of Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta from Erica’s meltdown. Erica is outside berating the security guards and talking about unleashing the old Erica Mena while Mimi is trying to keep Estelita and Just Brittany from melting down. Erica isn’t officially one of Stevie’s artists, but Stevie wanted her to be part of the Danger Zone dysfunctional family and she’s considering it, especially since there’s a showcase coming up. Later on, Erica apologizes to Mimi and Brittany’s manager, Keely, for her behavior and Keely pulls a snake move by revealing that Just Brittany was extra emotional because it turns out that she’s sleeping with Stevie too. Any good manager would know better than to let some information like this slip, but we know what show this is so whatever. via GIPHY Brittany is not going to be happy when she finds out her cover was blown. Yes, Keely basically delivered us a memo from Captain Obvious with this information, but it was still messed up. Speaking of Keely, she is quite messy boots. Let’s fast forward to Yung Joc’s roast. Keely and Shooter are friends so Keely backs Shooter in feeling some type of way about Sierra because she “didn’t support him” when he was grieving his son. Sierra did show up to the funeral. What else was she supposed to do and why does this trifling man expect anything more after what he has done to her? Anyway, Shooter and Keely run into Tokyo Vanity and Karlie Redd outside the roast and express their displeasure with Sierra. Their discussion gets heated because Tokyo and Karlie are sticking up for their girl, but they disperse before it gets to the point where people fake fight, (because you know Love and Hip-Hop security would never let hands connect). You also know that Karlie Redd and Tokyo go right to Sierra to tell her about this encounter. Next, Kirk’s daughter is on a mission to try to help Kirk get Rasheeda back. She informs him that there was a sexy buff man in Pressed doing some maintenance work and that Rasheeda has been working out with this man too. This makes Kirk think that Rasheeda is open to moving on and that’s all it takes to make him jealous as if he wasn’t capable of this basic logic before cheating on Rasheeda multiple times and fathering a child outside of their marriage. via GIPHY So now he’s on a mission to continue ruining Rasheeda’s life by moving back in the house. Hold that thought. Now let’s get back to Stevie. He invites Estelita to a photo shoot to discuss serious business because this is the perfect place to do so. Estelita is pretending that she’s still pissed off at him for not telling her about his legal issues and not doing enough for her career. However, she quickly forgets once Stevie starts gaming her by telling her she’s his favorite. Estelita tells him he needs to make that clear to Just Brittany and he says he will. That’s all it takes to get her puppet strings back in line. via GIPHY Back to Kirk. This dirty dog rolls up to he and Rasheeda’s home with a moving truck and boxes thinking he’s just going to strong-arm his way back into the house. Rasheeda plays tough at first, and you almost root for her when she tells the movers to keep the boxes in the truck. She also tells Kirk that him moving back in is a decision that they will make together. Kirk starts telling her about how he heard about the sexy man she has been working with and how he misses her. Obviously, they wouldn’t be in this situation if it weren’t for him. But let’s cut to the chase, Rasheeda’s tough act is weak because in the end, she lets him move back in. She talks about missing him and him being the father of her kids, yatta yatta. Whatever. He comes back like he knew he’d be able to. Rasheeda’s stipulations are that he stays on his side of the house and “there will be rules,” despite the fact that she mentioned, earlier in this conversation, that he doesn’t respect her boundaries. via GIPHY How Rasheeda hasn’t managed to stab Kirk by now is amazing. She obviously has a high threshold for disrespect. Anyway, the episode ends with Sierra confronting Shooter about his lies and cheating and he does what you think—deflect and makes it seem like she’s crazy and that these are all just rumors. He only kinda sorta owns up to the two-year-old that he might have. He comes from the Kirk Frost School of Excuses so his answer is, “There’s a girl running around talking ‘bout she could be pregnant by me.” via GIPHY And that’s pretty much where we leave off. It’s also clear that Sierra inexplicably still has feelings for Shooter so we’ll deal with this next week. RELATED POSTS ‘LHHATLS7’ Recap: Erica Mena Tells Security They Have Jobs Because Of Her ‘LHHATLS7’ Recap: Tommie And Her Family Just Can’t Get Right
