Celebs Who Started Out In The Strip Club Don’t let the glitz and glam fool you. Before the limelight, celebs were earning one dollar at a time, sometimes more literally than you’d imagine. Here we’ve compiled a list of men and women celebs who were shaking it for stacks before they made it big.
Sisters Expose Cheating Wife Caught Texting Another Man During Braves Game Snitches or saviors? These sisters exposed a woman they caught texting another man while sitting in front of them next to her HUSBAND! Via Daily Mail reports : Two sisters attending an Atlanta Braves game claim they helped expose that a man’s wife, who was seated in front of them, was cheating on him. Delana and Brynn Hinson said they were at the Braves game on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers when they caught the man’s spouse allegedly sexting a man saved as ‘Nancy’ in her phone. They took pictures and posted photos to Twitter of the seemingly adulterous text messages they claim she sent to ‘Mark Allen’, as well as the note, which have since gone viral, Uproxx reported. Delana wrote the note to the man during the game at Turner Field that read: ‘Your wife is cheating on you. Look at the messages under Nancy! Its really a man named Mark Allen. There is pictures on my phone.’ She then continued saying if his wife deleted the messages he could contact her and she left her phone number. She ended the message saying: ‘Sorry, just thought you should know!’ Brynn then posted the pictures on Twitter with a message that read: ‘When there’s a married couple in front of you but….hoes ain’t loyal so me & @lanabaybee8 expose em! #Nancy #ormark.’ Crazy right? Hit the flip for photos of the cheater in action and the social media posts used to expose her. Twitter
Bernard Berrian Catches Friend And Ex-Teammate Burglarizing His Home What part of the game is THIS??? Via Yahoo! Former Vikings and Bears wide receiver Bernard Berrian has gone from catching passes to criminals, and his post-playing career as a sleuth won’t get any easier than it did when he caught his friend red-handed. The strange but true story, as told by Berrian to KFSN-TV Action News reporter Sontaya Rose, began with a pair of unsolved burglaries in Berrian’s Fresno area home during early April. As a result, the one-time NFL leader in yards per reception installed a security system to help solve the targeted crime spree. Meanwhile, Berrian’s former Fresno State teammate and longtime friend Therrian Fontenot had taken a creepy interest in his whereabouts. Their conversations went something like, “Hey, man, are you around this weekend? Oh, you’re out of town? Any chance you could send over the itinerary? Just curious is all.” A couple weeks later, Fontenot, who appeared in two career NFL games as a defensive back for the Packers and Browns, left a barbecue the two friends attended together, and Berrian received an alert on his phone. He fired up the security footage, and there was Fontenot rifling through his belongings. “I actually watched him doing it while he was doing it,” said Berrian. “I could have actually spoke to him, I got a microphone on there. I could have told him, I got you, while he was doing it.” “I was like, wow, he is a real professional, he takes a spray bottle with him to wipe off fingerprints and a towel.” The game is filthy. SMH. Image via AP
Mali Hunter On “Flex And Shanice” OWN Reality Show We couldn’t be more excited about tonight’s episode of “Flex and Shanice” on OWN, which features our good friend Mali Hunter ! Mali does a lot of great work in Atlanta and we’re so glad the whole world will get to know her the way we have. Mali Hunter came to Tree Sound in 2005 to work her record with Grammy nominated, multi-platinum producer, James “Groove” Chambers. She decided to put her record on hold and become business partners with Groove. Over the past 10 years, Mali has focused her time and energy on running and being partners in the World Famous Tree Sound Studios. She also started her branding/online exposure driven agency helping many of her celebrity friends, including BoB, T.I, Two Chainz, Drake, Ne-Yo, David Banner, Janelle Monae, and dozens of others, to elevate their careers. Mali is now stepping out to finish and release her own record, in addition to numerous other projects including live TV. This Saturday, July 25th, she is making her national television debut on Oprah’s OWN network, on the Flex and Shanice show. She is featured in 5 out of the 8 episodes for the show and viewers will see why she is such a force in the industry. Mali is inspiring, empowering, fierce and funny, and it’s all captured on the show. Make sure to tune into OWN tonight at 10/9c for Mali’s big debut on “Flex And Shanice”!
As U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Nairobi this week, he’ll be expected to speak a few words of the local language. Here are 12 Kenyan slang terms he should know.
Parental Checklist, Student Bill Of Rights Among New Resources To Support Parents And Students As millions of children prepare to head back to school, the feds announced new tools to help African-American students excel in the classroom. A new parental checklist is a framework that moms and dads, mentors and teachers can use to improve African-American student performance and help close the so-called “achievement gap” between black students and their white peers. “Our hope is that these tools support black families,” said David Johns, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, “and all caring and concerned individuals who should be engaged in the work of supporting our children, our communities and our country, to ensure that excellence for all is not a goal, but something that is required and a prerequisite for how we do business.” Using input from advocacy groups like the National Urban League, America Achieves and the United Negro College Fund, the U.S. Department of Education’s checklist includes questions parents can ask, like how educators will keep them informed on their child’s performance, how parents and teachers will make sure their child’s school is a safe, inclusive and supportive place and how educators and parents can work together if the child falls behind. Also released was a student bill of rights, a guide to what parents and students should expect in education: access to high quality pre-school, elementary and secondary schools, as well as universities and community colleges. African-Americans have historically lagged behind their white peers when it comes to overall student achievement. Black students are less likely to go to pre-school, and more likely to attend high poverty schools and drop out of high school, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.
Lafayette Theater Shooter Once Hung Nazi Swasitka Outside His Bar In Protest So, the shooter was a Hitler Stan… Via NYDailyNews Long before becoming a mass shooter madman, John Russell Houser was just a small-town pub owner — with a blatant Nazi fetish. Archival photos from the LaGrange Daily News in Georgia show Houser trying to present himself as a respectable businessman back in 2001, shortly before hanging a swastika banner in his law-breaking business. It was one of many early signs of trouble for the mentally disturbed man who fatally shot two people and wounded nine before turning the gun on himself at a screening of the comedy “Trainwreck” in Lafayette, La. Thursday night. There goes that term again. “Mentally disturbed”. Smh. Back in 2001, John Houser begged the LaGrange City Council to allow him to keep the liquor license for his local bar after he was caught slangin’ booze to the youngins. When his license was ultimately denied, this is how he expressed his displeasure: Houser’s bizarre protest against the decision put him back in local headlines. He hung a six-foot banner outside his pub with a swastika and the phrase “Welcome to LaGrange.” The sick stunt meant to liken his local government to the Nazi party, he explained. “The people who used (swastikas) — the Nazis — they did what they damn well pleased,” he told the LaGrange paper. The article showed him grinning as he stood under the inflammatory banner. B-b-b-but wait, it gets worse! In the years after this small-town spat, Houser’s behavior only grew more erratic and hateful. He praised Adolf Hitler’s “pragmatism” in online message boards and made violent threats against his family, leading to an involuntary hospital stay, a restraining order from family members and a failed attempt to get a pistol permit in 2006. Houser’s criminal history dates back to a 2005 domestic violence complaint, and courts records described him as having “a history of mental health issues,” including manic depression and bipolar disorder. Crazed, bigot, gunman. Got it. Eff this guy. Image via Twitter
The Internet Vs. OBJ New York Giants superstar Odell Beckham, Jr. woke up to the first groupie scandal of his burgeoning career after a scandalous photo of a box-hungry savage believed to be him hit the net and sparked hilarious hysteria across social media. Hit the flip for an investigation into OBJ’s alleged dive into spoiled milkdom.
Young Jeezy Defends Trap Music’s Negative Connotation Against Critics As Atlanta prepares to “Go Crazy” at Young Jeezy’s TM101 10th anniversary concert, the Snowman took to Instagram to speak to his fans, reflecting on his career, and also play a lil’ defense against his detractors who label his now-ubiquitous “trap music” a glorification of drug dealing and violence. They say you have your whole life to make your first album, and they might be right. Some call it poetry, others call it the ghetto gospel, but the industry calls it “trap music.” Go figure. Either way it’s the voice of the streets, and we all know that when the streets talk, we listen. I find it odd when people use a negative connotation like “trap music,” when the message (lyrics) clearly states: make it out of your surroundings and be the best man and provider you can be. We call that being a boss where I’m from — a self made individual that refuses to let his environment dictate his or her outcome in life. This body of work you see before you is just that. Every experience, every up, down and close call. All the nights that you prayed you could make it to see another day. All the sacrifices you made for friends and loved ones you lost to the street life. I can’t help but to think of all the obstacles I had to dodge and the times I was unsure. But I continued to keep my faith and hustle strong. I kept pushing! When I said that the roaches were in the kitchen, I meant that! So now when I tell you the floors look like bowling balls, I mean that too. You can call it rags to riches, but I like to call it a boy becoming a man and believing in his dreams, goals and expectations. I never thought of “fame” or being accepted in this industry; my only thoughts were to represent and speak for every man, woman and child that was in the struggle and just wanted to make a better way of life, without taking no for an answer. With every song, verse and adlib on this body of work, you can hear that determination, that ambition and that drive in every word. If the album touched you in any way, just know that it was all for you. I’d like to thank my fans and anybody that was a part of my journey. Here I am, 10 years later, doing what I love –motivating the people. Are you motivated by Jeezy’s soliloquy? Do you find the positive and redeeming qualities in his music? If the answer is “no”, you should come to Atlanta for his TM101 show on Saturday night and see the result of his motivational speech in person. Image via Def Jam/Instagram