Chris Rock: Jussie Smollett, You Don't Get No Respect From Me #ImageAwards50 pic.twitter.com/97vpDkLltQ — TV One (@tvonetv) March 31, 2019 Chris Rock went there at the 2019 NAACP Image Awards. The legendary comedian, who’s recently been under fire for some abysmal sh*t himself , took several jabs at Jussie Smollett even after he was reportedly told not to mention the Empire actor’s recent controversy. “They said no Jussie Smollett jokes. I know, I know! What a waste of light skin, you know?” Rock said as the audience laughed. “You know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair? My career would be outta here. F*cking running Hollywood. What the hell was he thinking?” If you know Chris Rock you know he didn’t stop there … “From now on, I ain’t never gonna… You ‘Jessie’ from now on. You don’t even get the ‘u’ no more,” he joked, as celebs like Deon Cole , Issa Rae , and Trevor Noah laughed in the crowd. “That ‘u’ was respect — you ain’t getting no respect from me.” Watch the clip up top. — Photo: Getty
Justin Bieber tried to celebrate April Fools Day on Monday. But the singer just ended up looking like an offensive fool himself. The artist messed up in a pretty major way. In honor of the annual joke-based holiday that falls on April 1, the global superstar shared a sonogram photo on his Instagram page several hours ago. He didn’t include a caption with the snapshot, but the implication was clear: He and Hailey Baldwin are expecting their first child! How exciting, right? Especially in light of Bieber recently saying he was struggling and in need of prayers and looking for ways to turn his life around. What better way to derive purpose than from being a father, you know? Except it turns out this was all a misguided prank by Bieber, one he wasn’t content to let go even after many on the Internet questioned the validity of the pregnancy claim. Yes, even after Baldwin remarked “very funny” underneath the picture, Justin continued to hammer the pregnancy rumor home. “If U thought it was April fools,” he wrote as a caption to an image of Baldwin at the doctor (below), seemingly having her womb and impending baby checked. The pop star did later confess the original sonogram was fake, adding another sonogram of a puppy and writing: “Wait omg is that a,,, APRIL FOOLS.” But the damage had already been done. It’s fine to joke about Donald Trump sleeping with Kim Kardashian . Or Jenelle Evans losing her home because it sank into the ground. Those are victimless references that are pretty clearly not serious from the moment you read the headline. But one in four women have suffered the painful tragedy of a miscarriage. Countless others have difficulty getting pregnant, spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on fertility treatments and still, very often, not having success. In other words: This is an extremely sensitive and personal issue for so many families. It’s really not a joking matter. At all. And many social media users jumped all over Bieber for turning it into one. “Can’t only be me who thinks it’s bloody disgusting that Justin and Hailey Bieber lied about being pregnant????” one Twitter user wrote, while another added: “Every single year, someone does this prank [and] we call them out for being s–t, yet because it’s a huge celeb we’re just gonna let it slide [and] laugh????” No. We’re not. We’re gonna call Justin out for it, too Not only is it insensitive and inappropriate, it’s simply unoriginal. Just days before he made this terrible quip, Bieber actually opened up about his mental health struggles, earning sympathy from his legion of fans around the world. “I am now very focused on repairing some of the deep-rooted issues that I have as most of us have, so that I don’t fall apart, so that I can sustain my marriage and be the father I want to be,” he wrote on March 25, referencing a future child and adding of why he won’t be touring any time soon: “Music is very important to me but nothing comes before my family and my health.” We still wish you a lot of luck, JB. But be better in the future.
Source: Westend61 / Getty U.S. Avocado Supply Will Only Last 3 Weeks If Trump Closes Border In his continued effort to show just how much he hates certain groups of minorities , specifically Mexicans, Donald Trump has threatened to completely shut down the U.S. border in order to curb the “inflow” of Mexican migrants. This is racist at it’s core, but if you’re someone who loves guacamole and avocado toast more than you care about what happens to human beings, perhaps this will strike fear into your soulless existence. According to DailyMail , almost 50% of vegetables and 40% of fruits that are imported into America are grown in Mexico. Let Steve Barnard, president and chief executive of Mission Produce, tell it, we would only have enough avocado for three weeks worth of green cool, creamy dip. A complete shutdown would ultimately cost the U.S. $137 billion in trade imports. ‘When a border is closed or barriers to trade are put in place, I absolutely expect there would be an impact on consumers,’ said Monica Ganley, principal at Quarterra, a consultancy specializing in Latin American agricultural issues and trade. ‘We’re absolutely going to see higher prices. This is a very real and very relevant concern for American consumers.’ Mexico also is said to be a major importer of fossil fuels that are created here in America. Bottom line, a closed border will hurt the U.S., but orangey doesn’t care as long as 53% of dumba$$ white women and the uneducated Bubbas who date their cousins will continue to support him. SMH.
Source: Nia Noelle / Nia Noelle The Disgusting Video Shows Multiple Officers Opening Fire Body-cam footage proves what’s already been reported about Bay Area rapper Willie Bo’ s murder . Twenty-year-old Willie, birth name Willie McCoy, was shot an estimated 25 times by Vallejo cops when the officers found Bo sleeping in his car at a Taco Bell. At the time, McCoy had a gun resting on his lap. According to The Guardian , McCoy’s family continually stood by claims that the officers murder Willie when he wasn’t even alert or awake. Now, disturbing body-camera video has been released, and it shows the young rapper had moved his hand to scratch his shoulder right before the officers opened fire. The videos were released to the public after significant pressure and they also show that: The officers didn’t try to wake McCoy or speak to him after they found the gun in his lap. Instead, they aimed their firearms at his head directly outside the vehicle as he slept for several minutes. One officer said, “I’m going to pull him out and snatch his ass.” The officers realized Willie’s firearm didn’t have a magazine in it, explaining to each other that if it was loaded, it would have a single bullet in it. “He’s only got one shot if he shoots,” one officer said. McCoy eventually made a move by scratching his should but not yet appearing alert. And all six officers STILL fired at him several seconds later. Trash. Trash. Trash. The police department in Vallejo, which is 30 miles north-east of San Francisco, repeatedly claimed that the six cops fired out of “fear for their own safety.” Footage clearly shows, however, that some of them were talking somewhat calmly for nearly five minutes before they unloaded their weapons. Two officers started shooting almost immediately after they arrived on the scene as backup. Police continually refused to release the body-cam footage to the public. Only three relatives of Willie initially got to see the footage in a private viewing. The police department then randomly decided to publish the video on Friday without even warning the family, according to one of their attorney’s, Melissa Nodd. “It’s just a continuing of the insult to injury, the continuous disrespect,” she said. “They’re having to relive it without warning. It’s cruel.” Meanwhile, another lawyer for the family, John Burris, said he plans on filing a civil rights lawsuit against the cops and the police agency. If you want to witness the graphic video for yourself, you can watch it below.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians kicked off a new season by giving viewers something they had never seen before. The fallout from Tristan Thompson cheating ? Please, we’ve sadly seen that more than once at this point. On Sunday night, however, fans were treated to their first-ever look at Kanye West in a confessional. Whoa, right?!? The Season 16 premiere marked this rapper’s most significant involved to date on his wife’s long-running reality show, as producers looked for a way to surprise viewers for a change. “This is my first time doing this,” West joked to the camera. “I’m not actually attempting to do good.” What prompted the decision on Kanye’s part? The Incredibles, he hilariously stated on air. “It starts off with the interviews! The superheroes are giving interviews,” the artist said of this Pixar classic. “The wife got a big butt and I just see our life becoming more and more and more like The Incredibles until we can finally fly.” The guy’s got (kinda mean) jokes. Who knew?!? It was only appropriate for West to play such a major role this week because he and Kim told their loved ones that they were expecting child number-four, once again via surrogate . “We have an announcement to make,” Kardashian noted to her family at dinner. “We’re having a baby. We’re having a boy.” After pushing the extended family to not say anything to anyone about this development, Kim realized that North West might end alerting the world to the news — by accident, of course. “A mom at school texts me and goes, ‘Congrats! I heard you’re having a baby brother,'” Kim told Kylie Jenner. “And she goes, ‘Yeah! North is going around saying she finally has a baby brother so Saint won’t bother her anymore.'” Later on, Kim and Kanye went to Chicago (the city) for business, partly because the couple needed some help from Rhymefest. Yes, the same Rhymefest with whom Kim beefed about a year ago after he put out a statement that distanced himself and Donda’s House (a charity he runs, named after Kanye’s late mother) from West’s pro-Donald Trump views. “While we cannot and do not speak for Kanye West and his views, we can and will speak up for the youth that we serve,” this rapper said in that controversial statement last May, adding: “We ask that as you boycott and protest Kanye West, that you not forget that we are a non-profit organization that like other non-profits needs donations, corporate support, and volunteers.” We thought it was pretty fair. But as you can see here, Kim did not: How did their sit-down go on the premiere? Very well, actually. “Kanye is from a village and the village was feeling like our dear brother, you know what I’m saying? Turned his back on the village,” the hip hop artist and philanthropist expressed to the Wests. on Sunday. “And so, I struck out.” Rhymefest also acknowledged that he “could’ve reacted better” to the situation. “I just think that everyone should communicate to each other and not on social media,” Kim concluded. “I think you just get so much more done if you have a conversation.” Elsewhere on the installment, which was filmed awhile back, Khloe, Kourtney and Kendall joined a large group of friends for a trip to Kris Jenner’s brand-new, GIGANTIC Palm Springs estate. The goal of the trip was to cheer up Kourtney, who admitted to “feeling a lot of anxiety” following her dramatic breakup with Younes Bendjima. (Like we said: it was filmed awhile back.) Khloe, for her part, felt no anxiety about things with Thompson. They FaceTimed and said they loved each other and our heart broke more and more with each word uttered. “I have come to a place in my life where I am super comfortable,” Khloe said on the premiere, adding that she’s been making “a conscious effort” to try and “drown out” negativity, criticism and self-doubt. She actually referenced the FIRST Tristan cheating scandal at one point, saying: “It’s been a few months, me and Tristan are great. And I am loving being a mommy. It’s bittersweet. I love seeing every milestone with her but I feel like she grows, like, in one week she’s like a completely different baby.” Poor Khloe, right? In just a little bit, she’s about to go from feeling that way about Thompson… to feeling this way about the immoral loser: Khloe Kardashian Breaks Down in New KUWTK Promo: My Family Was Ruined!
Nene Leakes has had a rough season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. From her random meltdowns to her fights with cancer-stricken husband, Gregg Leakes, we think it’s fair to say she was looking forward to filming for the season ending. Sunday’s season finale found Leakes upset once again, and it made for some good TV. Nene’s BFF Cynthia Bailey threw a party to celebrate her cocktail collaboration with Seagram’s Gin. She also invited former housewife, Kenya Moore to the lavish event. Kenya and Nene have been at war for several years now, and Cynthia didn’t give Nene a heads up, presumably because she knew Nene would flip her $hit. Nene admitted that she and Kenya did manage to find a way to put the past behind them, and they maintained a friendship throughout the latter’s pregnancy. Nene was subsequently blindsided when she was left out of Kenya’s baby shower. In true Nene fashion, she did not take the diss well and hit up social media to rant and rave. Kandi Burruss showed up at the event of the season with Kenya, who was very pregnant. Nene was blindsided and felt betrayed. Nene was so mad that she refused to let Gregg go up on the stage to speak about his cancer battle, resulting in an awkward scene that really should have been left on the cutting room floor. Nene and Marlo proved to be the Queens of shade when they made fun of Kenya for the entire night. Childish? Yes, but it was just par for the course with these two. The party caused a clear divide between the ladies, but Nene wanted to hash things out in the aftermath. As such, Cynthia wanted to make sure she was on the “same page” as her friends before meeting Nene. Kandi said that Kenya wanted her entrance to be a surprise, presumably so that Nene could not pull out at the last second. Cynthia tried to imply that she did not know Kenya was making a surprise appearance, but she was exposed when some footage from the party confirmed the truth. “I’m supposed to act like I didn’t know Kenya was coming,” she whispered during the party. Cynthia then called Kandi, and when the latter answered, she yelled “I’m mic’d.” repeatedly, but that wasn’t enough to shut Cynthia up. “I just want to make sure we was on the same page setting up how Kenya got there,” she yelled. Cynthia later maintained her stance that she was in the dark about Kenya to Nene. Nene did not care about Kenya’s surprise appearance, and it was more that Cynthia didn’t tell her she invited her. “Honestly, after I went to Kenya’s baby shower, I hadn’t really heard from you that much. I’d call you, but you wouldn’t respond. You were being a little distant,” Cynthia told NeNe, adding: “This was my event, NeNe. This was my event. I can invite anybody to my event. The only thing I wanted was for my friends to come on my night, but I didn’t think for one second that you couldn’t be in a room with Kenya.” “Wasn’t I in there?” NeNe shot back, and the back and forth continued until Nene realized that she was incredibly sad about everything. Cynthia tried to apologize, but Nene seemed done. “I hope that Cynthia and I are in a good place and that our friendship is as tight as I think it is, but she’s just made me see her in a different light,” NeNe later said in a confessional. “And that light is dim.” As we already know, Nene made her feelings heard by unfollowing most of her cast members, so the reunion should be fun, especially with the footage of Cynthia lying. RHOA airs Sundays on Bravo. View Slideshow: The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 11: All the Secrets… EXPOSED!
Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim Accessories Company Honors Its Female Staff In New Photo Shoot “Spraygound” is celebrating its female staff in a new photoshoot for Women’s History Month. The nearly ten-year-old accessories line photographed its employees in its NYC showroom, showing off new designs for backpacks, carryalls and fanny packs. Founder David Ben David said he wanted to honor Sprayground’s female staffers, calling these women were the backbone of his company who helped turn his surreal dreams into reality. David said women from diverse backgrounds making up a large portion of its senior management, from marketing and PR to merchandising and designing. Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim “The idea of the shoot was for the women of Sprayground to showcase their personality,” David said in a statement. “We had a stylist on hand that day, but the women of Sprayground picked their look and shot with a bag that represents their alter ego.” Known for its signature backpacks adorned with wide, snaggletoothed grins, Sprayground has collaborated with artists and pro athletes over the years. Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim Hit the flip for more pics from the shoot:
Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim Accessories Company Honors Its Female Staff In New Photo Shoot “Spraygound” is celebrating its female staff in a new photoshoot for Women’s History Month. The nearly ten-year-old accessories line photographed its employees in its NYC showroom, showing off new designs for backpacks, carryalls and fanny packs. Founder David Ben David said he wanted to honor Sprayground’s female staffers, calling these women were the backbone of his company who helped turn his surreal dreams into reality. David said women from diverse backgrounds making up a large portion of its senior management, from marketing and PR to merchandising and designing. Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim “The idea of the shoot was for the women of Sprayground to showcase their personality,” David said in a statement. “We had a stylist on hand that day, but the women of Sprayground picked their look and shot with a bag that represents their alter ego.” Known for its signature backpacks adorned with wide, snaggletoothed grins, Sprayground has collaborated with artists and pro athletes over the years. Source: Kate Kim / Kate Kim Hit the flip for more pics from the shoot:
The 50th NAACP Image Awards were the Blackest of all time. From Black Panther winning big to Jay Z and Beyonce accepting the night’s most prestigious awards to Chris Rock making light skin jokes, it doesn’t get much Blacker. Keep scrolling for highlights from the show… Chris Rock Jokes On Jussie Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty Apparently Chris Rock was told not to make any jokes about Jussie Smollett, but it’s Chris Rock, you can’t tell him what to do. It wasn’t a few seconds before Rock stepped up to the mic and delivered his first shot at the embattled Empire actor. In Rock’s defense, it was quite hilarious and a great way to kick off the show. “They said no Jussie Smollett jokes. Yeah, I know. I know. What a waste of light skin. You know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair? My career would be out of here. F—ing running Hollywood,” Rock said. “What the hell was he thinking?” the comedian added. “You’re Jessie from now on. You don’t even get the ‘u’ no more. That ‘u’ was respect. You ain’t getting no respect from me.” View this post on Instagram #PressPlay: Last night they told #ChrisRock no #JussieSmollett jokes…so ya’ll know he came through with the Jussie Smollett jokes!! ( : @tvonetv/ @naacpimageawards) A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Mar 31, 2019 at 9:24am PDT Jay Z Accepts The President’s Award Source: Earl Gibson III / Getty Jay Z and Beyonce have been on an award world tour. After accepting the GLAAD Media Vanguard award, they hit the NAACP Image Awards to collect their next honors. Jay looked dapper in a classic blue suit as he stared at his Image Award, delivering his acceptance speech. Keeping everyone on edge, Jay used a quote from our “very humble and kind-hearted president.” But it’s not the president you’re thinking of. He took it back to Abe Lincoln. “It’s not the amount of years in your life, it’s about the life in your years that count in the end.” “Thank you to the NAACP for allowing me to forward this so she can put this on her mantle next to her favorite grandson. And when she’s, like, sneaking pork, and, like, her legs swell up, she can remember how much of a G she is.” Beyonce Thanks Regina King In Her Acceptance Speech Beyonce May have won the Image Award for “Entertainer Of The Year,” but she used her acceptance speech to thank her fellow nominees. “Regina King, I love you so much. You taught us patience, persistence, and how to be masterful in your craft,” she said dressed in a stunning white Balmain gown straight off the runway. “Chadwick Boseman is teaching children to dream and to see themselves as kings. LeBron James has taught us strength of all forms in leading by example and providing education for our kids. Ryan Coogler tells our story in a way that celebrates our history and proved that we do have power at the box office, and I’m honored to be included among all of you and to a part of a vital, thriving, beautiful community. Thank you so much, NAACP, God bless you. I hope ya’ll had a great night.” Drops mic. View this post on Instagram Congrats Bey! Entertainer of the year #ImageAwards50 ••• #bgkc #baddiebey #beyhive #beyonce #Beyoncé #giselle #knowles #carter #queen #queenofpop #iheartbeyonce #wesupportbey #iStandwithbeyonce #TheBeyWorldCom #Lemonade #Formation #GoLiveBeyoncé #EverythingIsLove A post shared by The Beyonce World (@thebeyworld) on Mar 30, 2019 at 9:18pm PDT Black Panther Wins Big Source: LISA O’CONNOR / Getty As if there was any doubt, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther took home eight awards, including “Outstanding Motion Picture.” Chadwick Boseman won “Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture” and Letitia Wright took home the “Breakthrough Performance” award. Auntie Maxine Waters Flexes Congresswoman Maxine Waters accepted the NAACP Chairman’s Award and, per usual, left us feeling empowered and captivated but unrelenting fight and spirit. “After a long career journey, tonight I stand before you as the first woman and the first African-American to chair the powerful U.S. House Financial Services Committee,” she said. “Yes, I got the gavel and I’m not afraid to use it.” Okurrrr!
