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Swirl Gone Sour: Yeezy Tells Kimmy Cakes He Will Never Marry Her Just Because She’s His Baby Mama

Kanye doesn’t want to put a ring on it… Kanye West Says He Will Never Marry Kim Kardashian Via RadarOnline reports: Kim Kardashian has been officially divorced from Kris Humphries for more than four months, but don’t look for her to walk down the aisle again any time soon. RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that her baby daddy Kanye West has made it clear in recent weeks that he has no interest in marrying her! “Kanye is telling friends that he’ll never marry Kim,” a source close to the singer reveals to Radar. “He has no need or desire to make their relationship official in the eyes of the law.” Instead, “Kanye prefers the idea of them as ‘partners,’” the source explains. “He sees marriage as outdated and he’s all about embracing the modern and the new. He doesn’t feel like he has to marry Kim just because they have a [daughter, Nori] together.” And despite recent reports, Kardashian is totally content to keep their relationship as it is — for now at least. “Kim feels like she’s been there, done that when it comes to a big, splashy wedding,” the source explains. “She used to be so much more into the fame game, but now that she’s drifting away from the family and trying to do her own thing, she’s becoming more adamant about doing things on her own terms and keeping it low-key. It took her a while to learn the value of privacy, and to abandon the idea of another over-the-top wedding, but she’s getting there thanks to Kanye’s influence.” Plus, she can’t help but remember the humiliation she suffered after her “fairy tale wedding” to Humphries ended in divorce, says the source. Other people in her life, however, might not be so happy about giving up the magazine covers, TV specials, and publicity that would accompany a Kimye wedding. “Some of Kim’s family still want her to get married to Kanye,” the source hints. “But even they are coming around.” With Kris and Bruce Jenner separated and Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom going through their own relationship issues, “the Kardashians don’t exactly have a good track record with healthy marriages these days,” the source explains, “so they’re leaving Kim and Kanye alone to do whatever they want, as long as they’re happy.” Maybe someone told Kanye that if he marries Kim that his future as an A-Lister would vanish. Kim may never get to have any higher rank than baby mama, and is pretending to be fine with that because she is afraid of making ‘Ye speak in his “real voice.” In reality, she is stuck with a baby that she most likely doesn’t want and a controlling lunatic and it’s her own fault. Welp! Continue reading

Swirl Gone Sour: Yeezy Tells Kimmy Cakes He Will Never Marry Her Just Because She’s His Baby Mama

Kanye doesn’t want to put a ring on it… Kanye West Says He Will Never Marry Kim Kardashian Via RadarOnline reports: Kim Kardashian has been officially divorced from Kris Humphries for more than four months, but don’t look for her to walk down the aisle again any time soon. RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that her baby daddy Kanye West has made it clear in recent weeks that he has no interest in marrying her! “Kanye is telling friends that he’ll never marry Kim,” a source close to the singer reveals to Radar. “He has no need or desire to make their relationship official in the eyes of the law.” Instead, “Kanye prefers the idea of them as ‘partners,’” the source explains. “He sees marriage as outdated and he’s all about embracing the modern and the new. He doesn’t feel like he has to marry Kim just because they have a [daughter, Nori] together.” And despite recent reports, Kardashian is totally content to keep their relationship as it is — for now at least. “Kim feels like she’s been there, done that when it comes to a big, splashy wedding,” the source explains. “She used to be so much more into the fame game, but now that she’s drifting away from the family and trying to do her own thing, she’s becoming more adamant about doing things on her own terms and keeping it low-key. It took her a while to learn the value of privacy, and to abandon the idea of another over-the-top wedding, but she’s getting there thanks to Kanye’s influence.” Plus, she can’t help but remember the humiliation she suffered after her “fairy tale wedding” to Humphries ended in divorce, says the source. Other people in her life, however, might not be so happy about giving up the magazine covers, TV specials, and publicity that would accompany a Kimye wedding. “Some of Kim’s family still want her to get married to Kanye,” the source hints. “But even they are coming around.” With Kris and Bruce Jenner separated and Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom going through their own relationship issues, “the Kardashians don’t exactly have a good track record with healthy marriages these days,” the source explains, “so they’re leaving Kim and Kanye alone to do whatever they want, as long as they’re happy.” Maybe someone told Kanye that if he marries Kim that his future as an A-Lister would vanish. Kim may never get to have any higher rank than baby mama, and is pretending to be fine with that because she is afraid of making ‘Ye speak in his “real voice.” In reality, she is stuck with a baby that she most likely doesn’t want and a controlling lunatic and it’s her own fault. Welp! Continue reading

For Discussion: Senate Passes Bill To End Government Shutdown, Will America’s Economy Get Back On Track? [Video]

Finally, a resolution . Senate Passes Bill To End Government Shutdown Our government has to do better. According to The Chicago Tribune Budget By an overwhelming vote, the Senate passed a budget compromise Wednesday night that would reopen federal agencies and allow the Treasury to continue borrowing to pay the nation’s bills, averting the possibility of a default. Federal agencies could begin reopening in the morning, although full operation in some cases could take longer. The vote, 81-19, approved an agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). It ends a political standoff that shut down federal programs for 16 days and led to the furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The deal makes no significant changes in President Obama’s healthcare law, which Republicans had previously demanded. President Obama said after the vote that he will sign the bill immediately once it reaches his desk. “We can begin to lift this cloud of uncertainty and unease from our businesses and from the American people,” he said. Obama said he hoped lawmakers would take the opportunity to craft a “sensible budget.” “Hopefully next time it won’t be in the 11th hour,” he said. “We’ve got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis.” Took them long enough! With the government’s borrowing authority set to run out on Thursday, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said he would allow the deeply divided House to vote on the Senate plan for a short-term increase in the debt limit and a government reopening. It is expected to pass with mostly Democratic votes. The agreement would extend U.S. borrowing authority until Feb. 7, although the Treasury Department would have tools to temporarily extend its borrowing capacity beyond that date if Congress failed to act early next year. The agreement also would fund government agencies until Jan. 15, ending a partial government shutdown that began with the new fiscal year on Oct. 1. The deal represents a bruising political defeat for Republican conservatives who had demanded changes to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law before they would agree to fund the government. Several House Republicans said Boehner’s leadership position would not be at risk in the fallout. The speaker earned a standing ovation at an afternoon meeting of House Republicans, and Republican Representative John Fleming of Louisiana, a Tea Party activist, said Boehner’s stock had risen because he “hung in there with us.” “Our drive to stop the train wreck that is the president’s healthcare law will continue,” Boehner said in a statement, adding the House had fought Obama “with everything it has” and he would not block the bipartisan Senate agreement. But opinion polls show Republicans have taken a heavy political beating in the showdown as they head into next year’s congressional elections. Governing in the 11th hour is right. Ninjas are ripping food off of Walmart shelves and knocking people up the head for EBT cards. Continue reading

For Discussion: LGBT Community Slams Eminem’s “Rap god” Single For Usage Of Anti-Gay Slurs…Are They Beating A Dead Horse?

Em has the LGBT community in an uproar….again LGBT Community Criticizes Anti-Gay Slurs In New Eminem Song “Rap god” Veteran hip hop lyricist Eminem recently dropped the latest single from his upcoming “The Marshall Mathers LP 2″ album titled “Rap God” and while hip hop fans had much praise for the song , the LGBT community is yet again none too happy with Slim Shady’s frequent use of anti-gay language. via The Independent Eminem’s new single “Rap God” has been praised as a sign that the rapper is still relevant in today’s music industry, but its lyrics appear to be a bizarre throwback to the homophobic lyrics sung by an alter ego in one of his earlier releases. Gay rights charity Stonewall said the song’s content was “outdated and deeply offensive”, and claimed the rapper was “stuck in the last century”. “Rap god” is currently top of the UK and US iTunes charts, and has earned positive write-ups from esteemed publications such as Time and Rolling Stone. MTV lauded its “expertly laid verses”. It is not as though the h*m*phobic phrases in question are particularly subtle. The first verse contains lyrics about breaking “a mother******* table over the back of a couple f*ggots and crack it in half,” and, “You f*gs think it’s all a game.” The second verse continues: “Little gay-looking boy / So gay I can barely say it with a straight face-looking boy / You witnessing massacre like you watching a church gathering taking place-looking boy / ‘Oy vey, that boy’s gay,’ that’s all they say looking-boy.” The rapper is aware that the lyrics would be controversial, saying in one part of the song that he wouldn’t have gotten away with saying, “I’d take seven kids from Columbine, put ‘em all in a line, get an AK-47 a revolver and a nine,” when his fame was at its height. Richard Lane, media manager at Stonewall, said: “Compared to inspirational modern artists like Frank Ocean and Macklemore, who have vocally supported tackling homophobia, Eminem seems stuck in the last century with these outdated and deeply offensive lyrics.” So let’s discuss, Bossip fam. Should the LGBT community & anyone offended by Eminem’s choice of words continue to press the issue, or should they simply tune it out and move on? Continue reading

Dinner Dates: 10 Questions From Last Night’s Scandal

10 Burning Questions From Last Night’s Scandal We’re in week two of Scandal and everyone is still going crazy over it. So many questions, so little time. So let’s get to it: here are 10 burning questions from last night’s episode.

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YUCK! A Gallery Of Awkward Celebrity PDA Moments

Celebrity PDA is usually creepy, poorly-timed and, well, gross without ever making sense when it happens. At times, it’s fascinating to peek into your favorite celebs’ personal lives but sometimes the less you know (and see in public), the better. Here’s a photo gallery of the most awkward celebrity PDA moments. Take a look.

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YUCK! A Gallery Of Awkward Celebrity PDA Moments

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For Discussion: Is Lorde’s Top Billboard 100 Song “Royals” Denouncing Hip Hop’s Gold Teeth And Maybachs Racist?

These black rappers (Trinidad James) do wear those gold teeth and drive Maybachs though. .. Singer Lorde’s “Royals” Considered Racist Lorde’s song “Royals,” which discusses consumerism in Hip Hop has become a big hit, but one writer took to her blog to declare the track racist. According to CNN An international war of words has broken out over a New Zealand pop star’s chart-topping single, after an American blogger labeled the track racist. “Royals,” the debut single by Lorde, the stage name of Ella Yelich-O’Connor, currently sits above hits from Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making the 16-year-old the youngest artist to top the U.S. chart in 26 years. The singer — who sings about rejecting the trappings of consumerism in “Royals” and has admonished fellow pop star Selena Gomez for being insufficiently feminist — has won plaudits from critics as a refreshing presence in the charts. But not everyone is a fan. In a post on the prominent feminist blog feministing.com, writer Veronica Bayetti Flores took issue with the song’s lyrics, in which Yelich-O’Connor sings that “every song” is about gold teeth and Maybach luxury cars — both fixtures of hip-hop music videos — before concluding “we don’t care, we’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams.” “While I love a good critique of wealth accumulation and inequity, this song is not one; in fact, it is deeply racist,” wrote Bayetti Flores. “Because we all know who she’s thinking when we’re talking gold teeth, Cristal (champagne) and Maybachs. So why s— on black folks? Why s— on rappers?” A spokesman for Universal Music New Zealand, Lorde’s label, said the singer had no comment in response to the criticism. In an interview with NPR, Lorde described how the song was inspired by the messages conveyed by the pop music she had grown up with. “I was just sort of reeling off some of the things which are commonly mentioned in hip-hop and the Top 40,” she said. “I’ve always loved hip-hop, but as a fan of hip-hop, I’ve always had to kind of suspend disbelief because, obviously, I don’t have a Bentley. There’s a distance between that and the life I have with my friends going to parties and getting public transport and doing the things that every other teenager does.” The lyrics in question are: But every song’s like gold teeth, Grey Goose, tripping in the bathroom, Blood stains, ball gowns, trashing the hotel room, We don’t care, we’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams. But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your time piece, Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash. We don’t care, we aren’t caught up in your love affair. Do you think the blogger is reaching or is the song racist? WENN Continue reading

Racist Or Nah? Halloween Event Display With Man In Blackface Hanging From Noose Causes Outrage In Tennessee

Halloween Display With “Black-Faced” Man Hanging From Noose Causes Outrage A long-running Halloween tradition in Tennessee is drawing national attention after an Instagram used shared a photo from the event showing a display with a man in black-face hanging from a noose. via WMCTV A photo, posted on Instagram late Friday night, is causing a stir on social media. The Mid-South Maze has been in the Memphis area for 13 years, but a photo taken at the maze is causing many residents to speak out. They are classifying the image as offensive and controversial. “The issue is you have a Caucasian man with a young boy, not even an African American boy, but a young boy with black face. [It’s] almost like minstrel times just hanging from a noose. It’s something that shouldn’t be tolerated,” stated concerned visitor Timothy Moore. Mid-South Maze owner, Chris Taylor, said this is the first he has ever heard of the possible controversy. “It’s a medieval scene out in a corn maze. There’s a little bit of black makeup on his face. He sometimes wears a mask, but it’s more camouflage,” said Taylor. Taylor continued to explain how the young man at the noose has been working at the maze for over eight years. He said the image was never intended to offend, it was only supposed to be for fun. Unfortunately, displays of dead people hanging aren’t exactly scarce around Halloween season. But these people should have known better than to have this young man in blackface…..next to a white man….hanging from a noose and then try to justify it by saying “he’s not even really black.” C’mon son. Really?? Photo Credit: Instagram/ WMCTV

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