Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty After 18 months of being behind bars, he is coming home. Rapper Mystikal is free on a Three million dollar bond. The cash reportedly came from an advance after the Louisiana rapper signed a new record contract and family funds. Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler has been in jail since August 2017 due to charges including first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping. Mystikal’s lawyers believe that he will eventually be cleared of all charges. His lawyer, Joel Pearce told TMZ “Based on all of the evidence we have, we strongly believe that an amicable resolution is not only possible but probable as an outcome in this case and that Michael Tyler will never be made to return to jail for a crime he didn’t commit.” Mystikal was sentenced to six years in state prison in 2004 after pleading guilty to forcing his hairstylist to perform sex acts.
The way Gucci Mane turned his life around is an inspiration to us all , so for his 39th birthday today we’re here to celebrate the young king—and his undying love for diamonds. Everybody who knows anything about Radric knows he loves to shine , so his wife Keyshia Ka’oir got it right when she gifted him a 35-carat pinky ring for his b-day. An impressed Gucci posted the gift all over his social media today, writing “Well Damn my wife just froze my pinky 35kt Brrrrrrr.” Looking directly into its light could blind you, so avert your eyes as you check out Guwop’s new bling… Page Six spoke with diamond expert Mace Blickman, who says the rock is one of a kind. “I’ve never seen anything like it, a wedding band and a diamond combined like this. There’s certainly a lot of workmanship involved here,” Blickman told the publication. “The center stone is a pear-shaped diamond mounted on top of an emerald-cut eternity band. Each individual diamond in the eternity band appears to be approximately one carat each. There is a micro-diamond pavé setting on both the wedding band and the gallery supporting the pear-shaped diamond. This piece is absolutely one of a kind,” he said. Seeing as Gucci Mane previously showcased a $500K 15-carat diamond in a video for GQ, and his new one is over two times that size, Page Six estimates the pinky ring cost Keyshia Ka’oir upwards of one million dollars. Hit the flip to see the most recent photos of Gucci Mane going glacial.
Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. ( Terms and conditions ). Lala Anthony separated from her husband, Carmelo Anthony nearly two years ago after he allegedly got a woman he slept with pregnant. Since then the two are trying to work on their marriage, but now the alleged mistress is speaking out. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit Gary With Da Tea mentioned that the woman that has Anthony’s alleged baby is saying he doesn’t take care of his child. There has been no word if Carmelo even slept with this women or got a DNA test as well. SEE ALSO: La La And Carmelo Anthony Back Together? [EXCLUSIVE] In other entertainment news, A.J. Calloway has recently been suspended from his job at “Extra.” He recently was accused of sexual misconduct by several different women and now the company is doing an internal review. We will keep you posted on any updates of the allegations. Check out photos of Carmelo & Lala Anthony below! ALSO TRENDING ON RICKEYSMILEYMORNINGSHOW.COM : Angela Simmons’ Ex-Fiance Autopsy Revealed Dame Dash Apologizes To Jay-Z: “I Wasn’t Myself For A Second” [VIDEO] Everyone Is Clowning Jennifer Lopez’s Motown Tribute At The 2019 Grammys [VIDEO] [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1694247″ overlay=”true”] Follow @TheRSMS
Source: Judy Eddy/WENN.com / WENN Floyd Mayweather has never been one to strike a social justice stance, but few would have expected him to defy a growing notion that Gucci isn’t down with Black people . After the fashion brand’s blackface snafu, Money Mayweather gleefully stunted on the boycott by going on a Gucci shopping spree. TMZ Sports reports : The boxer — along with his entire TMT crew — rolled into Gucci in Bev Hills … and when we told him about all of the stars calling for a Gucci ban over a sweatshirt that resembled blackface, Floyd scoffed. “I’m not no follower, I do what the f*ck I wanna do,” Floyd told us. When we told Floyd that stars like T.I. and Spike Lee would be upset with him, Floyd laughed. “You said they’re gonna be upset with me? I love it, I love it, I love it. See, the thing is this, I live for myself. I do what I want to do.” Outside the store, Floyd and his crew showed off a BUNCH of bags filled with Gucci — dropping a fortune on clothing and accessories. “I’m not a follower,” Floyd added … “You know when everybody else they say, ‘Everybody gonna boycott?’ I say guess what, this boy gonna get on a yacht and live life.” Mayweather defiantly said that he doesn’t see a need to stop shopping at high-end retailers even if they’ve posted offensive material, doing so while evoking the “Black Lives Matter” slogan. Check out the video below. — Photo: WENN
Source: skynesher / Getty An Ohio woman is making weird news headlines all over the nation after she lived with an IUD in her abdomen for over a decade. Back in 2007, Melinda Nichols decided she was done having babies and had the intrauterine device inserted…but weeks later, it was nowhere to be found. The New York Post reports: “In late 2007, Melinda Nichols of Chillicothe, Ohio, decided she had delivered her last child. She’d already tried the pill and a form of the Depo-Provera shot without success. So, a few weeks after her youngest son’s birth, she opted for the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD), a semi-permanent form of hormonal birth control. Nichols returned to the doctor who performed the insertion for a follow-up just a couple weeks later. She was told a routine X-ray would be taken to make sure her IUD was in the same place her doctor had left it. The X-ray showed no IUD.” According to the report, the doctor told her the IUD “fell out,” at which point she asked “Wouldn’t that be something I would have seen?” The suspect doc “assured her it can happen without notice, and suggested she get another one. Frustrated, she made the final call to have a tubal ligation instead,” NY Post states. Over a decade later, Nichols had another abdominal x-ray done after straining her back at work. “You need to call your OB,” the doctor told her, according to the site, adding “Your IUD is in a weird spot.” “Her X-ray showed that the implant had apparently punctured through the cervix and migrated up the abdominal cavity. Nichols was understandably baffled,” NY Post goes on. Apparently, this may have occurred due to an insertion by an inexperienced practitioner: “Dr. Stephen Chasen, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine & NewYork-Presbyterian, says IUD ‘migration’ happens due to ‘perforation’ of the uterine wall. This may occur during the insertion process thanks to an inexperienced practitioner. Or, the IUD may “erode” through the uterus and end up floating somewhere in the abdomen. This happens to about one out of every 1,000 IUD patients.” Last month, Nichols went in to have the IUD removed via laparoscopy. “Using snaking cameras and robotic arms, surgeons explored her lower organs in search of the rogue implant,” according to the NY Post. Click here to see a photo of the IUD in question and let us know, after reading this, what your preferred method of birth control will be…because whew, chile. [ione_media_gallery src=”https://globalgrind.cassiuslife.com” id=”4238584″ overlay=”true”]
M organ State University won a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant from the nonprofit Base 11, the university announced on Monday. The award will fund a state-of-the-art rocketry lab and launch a student rocketry team. See Also: Disrupt Harlem Code Squad Empowers Youth Through Tech Education It will also enable the historically Black university to help fill the job pipeline in what is predicted to become a nearly $3 trillion commercial space industry that lacks diversity. According to the National Science Foundation, African Americans make up just 5 percent of the science and engineering workforce. Morgan State University President Dr. David Wilson issued this statement: “We are honored that Morgan State University was selected for this competitive grant, and confident that it will further advance our efforts to increase diversity in the STEM talent pipeline, while also turning out workforce-ready talent in high-demand industries like aerospace. Today, the nonprofit Base 11 announced that Morgan State U is the winner of a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant, which will fund a state-of-the-art rocketry lab & launch a student rocketry team. #MorganOnSocial https://t.co/RgvLLd9h8B pic.twitter.com/MyTUYdz5Zk — Morgan State University (@MorganStateU) February 11, 2019 Several years have passed since the tech industry came under fire for its lack of diversity. Little has changed despite its efforts. Facebook Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams admitted in 2017 that the pace of change for her company had been slow. Women represented 35 percent of Facebook’s workforce—a 2 percent increase from the previous year. And the company added just 1 percent of Hispanic and African-American employees year-over-year. As poor as that sounds, the tech industry overall had a decline in the number of Black and Hispanic employees. Apple’s diversity report stated that the company worldwide was 68 percent male. Here in the United States, the tech giant was 56 percent White, 19 percent Asian, 12 percent Hispanic and 9 percent Black. “We want to ensure that the next generation of space innovators is just as diverse as America,” said African-American former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin who was on hand to present the check. “I am excited to see this generation of students getting critical hands-on experience in rocket technology, and I encourage Morgan State’s students to seize this incredible opportunity to reach for the stars.” The grant will fund the build-out of a liquid-fuel rocketry lab at Morgan State, as well as the recruitment and hiring of an aerospace faculty leader to create a world-class liquid fuel rocketry program. Morgan State aims to bring together these elements to successfully build and launch a liquid fuel rocket that reaches 150,000 feet by 2022. “At Morgan we encourage our students to be bold and to aim for the stars, and with the launch of this program, we can provide them with the resources to take on that challenge literally,” Wilson added. SEE ALSO: Morgan State University Becomes The First-Ever HBCU To Collaborate With Wharton ‘A Different World’ Cast Presents HBCU With $100K Scholarship Check [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3839641″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Leon Bennett / Getty Nicki Minaj has finally come up for air after Sunday’s Grammy Awards, taking to Twitter to pull out of the BET Awards and subsequent BET Experience. The reasoning–a tweet from the channel’s verified account that includes a link to an article about Cardi B’s Grammy win with the text “Meanwhile, Nicki Minaj is being dragged by her lacefront.” The tweet has since disappeared from BET’s timeline but, it’s too little too late for Queen Barbie and her Barbie Army. Nicki Minaj tweeted Monday that Young Money will no longer be apart of the BET Experience or awards show. Since Nicki seems to be the only one repping Young Money these days, her threat may not hold much weight on the way this year’s awards weekend will play out. Young Money will no longer be apart of the BET Experience or award show. Summer Tour dates dropping soon — QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) February 11, 2019 Absolutely. Get your refund ASAP https://t.co/Fj2JU6lHxR — QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) February 11, 2019 Meanwhile, BET is being dragged by their lace front. pic.twitter.com/7rFn58hwXx — QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) February 11, 2019 Meanwhile, BET’s comment sections are in shambles. Nothing left to do here but sit back and watch. Let’s throw it back to when the TL was a place of harmony for Queens Nicki and Cardi…if only but for a brief moment. [ione_media_gallery src=”https://92q.com” id=”4070895″ overlay=”true”]
Text “RICKEY” to 71007 to join the Rickey Smiley Morning Show mobile club for exclusive news. ( Terms and conditions ). Source: Prince Williams / Getty In November of last year the devastating story of Angela Simmons , ex-fiance and the father of her 2-year-old son, Sutton Tennyson was all over the news. According to TMZ an autopsy was done and found that Tennyson was shot 13 times in the chest, stomach, legs and hit several organs. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit Reports state that Sutton was in the driveway of his Atlanta home when he got into an argument with Michael Williams, who police say shot him then left the scene. Some witness revealed that the two were arguing about money. SEE ALSO: “It’s Going To Take A Village”: See Who’s Stepping Up As A Father Figure For Angela Simmons’ Son After Sutton Tennyson’s Death Williams turned himself in and was indicted for murder last week. Although he denies pulling the trigger we will have to wait and see what happens when he goes to court. See photos of Angela Simmons below. ALSO TRENDING ON RICKEYSMILEYMORNINGSHOW.COM : Bow Wow Arrested In Atlanta After Fight With Woman 21 Savage Arrested By ICE Agents, Says He’s A UK Citizen Jussie Smollett Speaks Out For the 1st Time After Attack [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1770815″ overlay=”true”] Follow @TheRSMS
Source: Lester Cohen / Getty Drake had his own moment at the Grammys tonight. After he and producer Cardo took home the award for Best Rap Song, Drizzy decided to let the audience inside the Staples Center know that it wasn’t all about the award, especially if you’re an artist. He definitely didn’t expect to win the award for Best Rap Song considering he was up against Travis Scott , Cardi B and others for the award. “You’ve already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you’re a hero in your home town. If there are people who have regular jobs coming out in the rain and the snow coming out to see your show, you don’t need these awards here,” he told the audience before the CBS telecast cut him off. WHEW. Watch the full speech for yourself. It came out earlier this week that Drake along with the likes of Kendrick Lamar , Childish Gambino and others weren’t performing on the telecast, even if they were in the building. RELATED: ou Can Buy Drake’s Old Rhyme Book For Over $32K RELATED: Drake, Kendrick Lamar & Childish Gambino Curve Performing At 2019 Grammys RELATED: Meek Mill And Drake Drop “Going Bad” Video [NEW VIDEO]
Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Travis Scott may have gone home empty-handed at the 2019 Grammy Awards but he made damn sure to turn that stage out. Performing with Earth, Wind And Fire and James Blake , Scott began singing on the stairs for the back half of “Stop Trying To Be God” from Astroworld before setting up his own version of Thunderdome for the Swae Lee featured “No Bystanders.” The fun part about Travis’ performance? He brought his own crowd of fans to the stage to rock out, including a customary stage dive to boot. Watch the full performance below. RELATED: Travis Scott Drops “Can’t Say” Video Featuring Don Toliver [NEW VIDEO] RELATED: Travis Scott Donates $100,000 To Workshop Houston
