Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Blueface Arrested For Felony Gun Possession Rapper Blueface of “Bust Down Thotiana” fame was arrested last night in Los Angeles according to TMZ . Word is that the cops got a tip that cash-carrying rappers with lots jewelry had congregated downtown. Cops allegedly feared that with all the robberies taking place in the city that the men would be a target. The idea that the LAPD wanted to protect rappers from being robbery victims is beyond laughable, but we digress. When the fuzz arrived Blueface and his cohort ran off tossing their guns on the ground. ‘Face and two other mean were arrested carrying loaded pistols Blueface was charged with felony gun possession and was released on $35,000 bail.
Source: Dann Tardif / Getty I make my living talking to women. Black Women particularly. And in our colorful conversations filled with numerous topics ranging from eyebrows to periods to the latest Game of Thrones episode, we talk about sex. And no I’m not talking about “oh and then we made love on a bed of roses” romanticised lady-like sex, we talk about how you lifted it up and pounded it out and left me on a bed of my juices dead. Sorry, it’s the truth. And head is never something I’ve heard omitted from the sexual conversation. I can’t ignore the history of Black women’s relationship with fellatio. I can tell you in middle school and up until college people would talk about it with a scrunched up “oooo that’s nasty” stank face. But then we grew up. Foreplay is an essential part of sex and any sexually active adult should know that by now. While I can’t deny that I’ve heard women talk about feeling insecure about their skills or maybe not porn star Angel grapefruit confident about it, I haven’t heard a grown Black woman say “oh I would never do that.” Sunday night’s episode of I nsecure and it’s subsequent head discussion came off rather, immature. It reminds me of those 90 rap lyrics when men were really talking about going down on women like it was a thing for the simps and “nice guys” But every grown ass man knows successfully going down on a woman is a grown ass man’s sport. And I feel that modern day Black woman takes the same pride in her head game. Now, the final load shot in Issa’s eye could teeter the line of disrespect depending on who you ask. My camp, I say sex is messy and shit happens and he gave her a warning. Other women could say “well that ain’t her man and he should’ve known better.” I can’t judge either perspective. But I will say among my cohort of bad ass, brilliant sexually liberated friends, head is not taboo. It is celebrated and when done well, a bragging right. The Insecure narrative around head was just a little too 1989 in my opinion. Head is not reserved for White girls and hoes and freaks and ‘get on your knees man pleasers.’ It’s an important part of sex. Let’s grow up. Take the poll: Take Our Poll Editors note (since y’all be trippin) my opinions are isolated to my experiences with the Black girl friends I’ve acquired from LA to NY. This is NOT ALL BLACK WOMEN. RELATED LINKS Why Black Men Can’t Forgive Issa But They Can Forgive Themselves For Cheating Safe Sex: Issa Rae Promises To Show More Condoms On ‘Insecure’ Season 3 Why Every Woman Should Be Repurposing Her Nudes
Source: Dann Tardif / Getty I make my living talking to women. Black Women particularly. And in our colorful conversations filled with numerous topics ranging from eyebrows to periods to the latest Game of Thrones episode, we talk about sex. And no I’m not talking about “oh and then we made love on a bed of roses” romanticised lady-like sex, we talk about how you lifted it up and pounded it out and left me on a bed of my juices dead. Sorry, it’s the truth. And head is never something I’ve heard omitted from the sexual conversation. I can’t ignore the history of Black women’s relationship with fellatio. I can tell you in middle school and up until college people would talk about it with a scrunched up “oooo that’s nasty” stank face. But then we grew up. Foreplay is an essential part of sex and any sexually active adult should know that by now. While I can’t deny that I’ve heard women talk about feeling insecure about their skills or maybe not porn star Angel grapefruit confident about it, I haven’t heard a grown Black woman say “oh I would never do that.” Sunday night’s episode of I nsecure and it’s subsequent head discussion came off rather, immature. It reminds me of those 90 rap lyrics when men were really talking about going down on women like it was a thing for the simps and “nice guys” But every grown ass man knows successfully going down on a woman is a grown ass man’s sport. And I feel that modern day Black woman takes the same pride in her head game. Now, the final load shot in Issa’s eye could teeter the line of disrespect depending on who you ask. My camp, I say sex is messy and shit happens and he gave her a warning. Other women could say “well that ain’t her man and he should’ve known better.” I can’t judge either perspective. But I will say among my cohort of bad ass, brilliant sexually liberated friends, head is not taboo. It is celebrated and when done well, a bragging right. The Insecure narrative around head was just a little too 1989 in my opinion. Head is not reserved for White girls and hoes and freaks and ‘get on your knees man pleasers.’ It’s an important part of sex. Let’s grow up. Take the poll: Take Our Poll Editors note (since y’all be trippin) my opinions are isolated to my experiences with the Black girl friends I’ve acquired from LA to NY. This is NOT ALL BLACK WOMEN. RELATED LINKS Why Black Men Can’t Forgive Issa But They Can Forgive Themselves For Cheating Safe Sex: Issa Rae Promises To Show More Condoms On ‘Insecure’ Season 3 Why Every Woman Should Be Repurposing Her Nudes
Yung Berg has been fired from VH1’s Love & Hip Hop Hollywood following his alleged attack on his co-star and girlfriend Masika Tucker, the network confirms. Due to the “severity of the allegations” stemming from Yung Berg’s arrest for domestic assault after a confrontation with Tucker, VH1 wants no more of him. The reality star (a.k.a. Christian Ward, a.k.a. Hitmaka) was arrested early Wednesday, and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, a misdemeanor. If convicted, he would face a maximum punishment of one year in jail. Police responded to a 911 call from the Gershwin Hotel in Manhattan saying that the rapper’s girlfriend, who also goes by Masika Kalysha, got attacked. Witnesses say the 29-year-old Yung Berg grabbed Masika by her neck, threw her to the ground, dragged her by the hair and punched her in the face. The cable network said in a statement releasing the star: “Based on the severity of the allegations against Yung Berg, VH1 is terminating its relationship with him in connection with Love & Hip Hop Hollywood.” “Yung Berg was arrested on November 5th and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing in connection with an assault on fellow cast member Masika Tucker.” “The arrest took place in a New York hotel several hours after the taping of the reunion special for Love & Hip Hop Hollywood had wrapped.” Berg’s termination takes place “effective immediately.” Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood Cast Photos 1. Yung Berg Yung Berg is a recurring player on Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood. Emphasis on player? Masika has reportedly come to her man’s defense, blaming it on alcohol and an incident in which his credit card was turned down after the reunion show. Whether she stays with him or not remains to be seen. Yung Berg, who hails from Chicago, is also a producer and has worked with artists like TLC, Fifth Harmony, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Nicki Minaj. You can watch Love & Hip Hop Hollywood online to more of Berg, Masika, Teairra, Ray J, Princess, Morgan, Soulja Boy, Omarion, Hazel E and Mally Mall. There’s a pretty good chance there will be fights when you catch up on past episodes, as stuff certainly gets heated … but nothing like this altercation.
Justin Bieber’s BFF Lil Twist is in hot water again, this time for an alleged beating (and pantsing) of actor Chris Massey following an argument on Friday. Sources report that Chris Massey, his brother Kyle Massey, Lil Twist and others were kicking it at Kyle’s apartment across from The Grove in L.A. at the time. After a heated dispute erupted (it’s unclear why), Twist and some of his friends came at Chris , pounding him and then pulling his pants down for good measure. Chris, an actor who once starred alongside Jamie Lynn Spears on Zoey 101, went to the hospital to seek treatment and has filed a report with the cops. The police are investigating the allegations against Twist. Massey’s family later released a statement saying Chris is doing well after the incident, but he plans to “legally pursue this to the full extent of the law.” Twist knows a thing or two about trouble with the law. He and his cohort Lil Za have been involved in a number of vehicular incidents and controversial parties at Bieber’s house, mostly in 2013 and early 2014. Chris Massey, for his part, was also part of a failed reality show idea starring Bristol Palin, who may or may not have been dating his brother Kyle at the time. That was hilarious. Getting pantsed? Not as much. Celebrities Who Have Been Arrested in 2014 1. Waka Flocka Flame Waka Flocka Flame was arrested at the Atlanta airport for packing heat. That’ll do it every time.
Savvier and less cartoonish than those posters of Mark Wahlberg with stacks of cash taped to his famous torso might have you believe, Contraband is a remake of the 2008 Icelandic smuggling thriller Reykjavík-Rotterdam, directed by the original’s star, Baltasar Kormákur. The action’s been transported to New Orleans-Panama City, the goods upgraded from bootlegged liquor to counterfeit cash, and the whole enterprise daubed with some Hollywood gloss, but it’s still an obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre. Even for the now-retired “Lennon and McCartney of smuggling,” as a character declares Wahlberg’s Chris Farraday and his friend and former partner Sebastian Abney (Ben Foster), the gig is still about finding places to stash contraband while working on freighters, which no matter how it’s spun is going to be far down the ladder of bad-boy glamour. And despite betrayals, domestic dramas and escalating plot twists that land Chris in the middle of a Panamanian firefight with only a few minutes to get back to the vessel on which he came, Contraband doesn’t short-change the analog ingenuity and group effort required to be a competent smuggler, making the film as much an interesting peek at shipping in the underbelly of the shipping world as one in which Wahlberg shoves a gun up Giovanni Ribisi’s nose. Chris is a second-generation smuggler whose father, Bud (William Lucking), is serving time for a job gone wrong. He’s married to Kate (Kate Beckinsale), they have two sons, and he’s gone straight by starting an apparently successful home security business while Sebastian attends AA meetings and is overseeing a construction job. (Aside from a few music choices and an opening wedding scene, Contraband goes light on local color — probably for the better, given how very un-New Orleans the cast is.) Trouble re-enters the Farradays’ lives by way of Kate’s younger brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones), who’s forced to dump the ten pounds of cocaine he’d brought with him when the ship he’s on is raided by customs. The drugs were meant for Tim Briggs (Ribisi, who seems to believe himself to be in a different, goofier movie than everyone else on screen), a thug who, in Chris and Sebastian’s absence, has moved up in the scene. Chris assumes Andy’s debts and takes the kid with him on one last run to Panama, where he’ll have to snake in large stacks of fake cash in order to pay off what’s owed and avoid getting into a war with Tim. Sebastian, meanwhile, keeps an eye on Kate and the kids, and begins to give off hints that he’s not as trustworthy as Chris believes. Wahlberg may not seem the tiniest bit Southern, but he’s always played a solid blue-collar action hero, and his Chris comes across as bluff and competent without seeming superheroic, at least in terms of his work — how he and his cohort stay alive through an insane robbery attempt with a Panama City tough guy (Diego Luna) is movie ludicrousness. The need for stability at home, to be around and stick up for one’s family, is the film’s guiding force — there’s never a question that Andy’s problem will become Chris’, but also that Chris will forgive him later for doing something reckless in order to protect Kate. The ship, with its array of old friends and allies on board (among them Lukas Haas, Lucky Johnson and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) is its own kind of disreputable family, into which Chris easily slips while tweaking his nose at the captain (J.K. Simmons), who oversees things like a surly camp counselor who knows trouble is going on behind his back but can’t quite pin down who’s responsible. Contraband layers on the tension as Chris tries to navigate complication on top of complication during the small window he has at port to secure his illicit cargo, get it on board and stow it away unnoticed, and making the situation worse is the addition of a new delivery of coke. (Chris’ aversion to importing drugs, on which he doesn’t elaborate, is one of a few spots in which the film feels like it’s unnecessarily soft-pedaling itself.) The digressions do allow for a cute conclusion which suggests the most valuable cargo is not always self-evident. While the action setpieces, including the aforementioned over-the-top heist shoot-out and a later race to save a character from an unpleasant end, are competently done; it’s actually the process and the pleasure with which Chris returns to it that remain in memory after the guns and ill-advised face tattoos fade. “I love it, but don’t tell your sister,” he scolds Andy after the boy catches him grinning when he, yes, untapes the cash from under his shirt, a man content with the life he’s made for himself, but finally, temporarily, back where he truly belongs. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
The tabloids love the sexy nude people parading in front of the windows of the Standard Hotel overlooking the High Line (an 8.5 on the Post Shamelessness Scale , btw). Now, the guests are trying to r ape the housekeepers
Due to an unfortunate incident involving talking shit about Ingrid Casares, we were unable to watch last night’s episode of The City . Thankfully we were able to piece together the action with some dispatches from our favorite roving social reporter.
