*having a potluck at work* Manager: you should bring that sweet potato pie you made last time. Me: No problem pic.twitter.com/3LU6uhNVwG — Lo (@laurynjaneee_) November 21, 2018 Hilarious Tweets/Memes From Thanksgiving 2018 Big mama, we made it through another magical Thanksgiving day bursting with deliciously hilarious Black Twitter shenanigans that shattered the internet YET AGAIN and set the table for very very merry (and petty) LITmas. Me: “Aye, where’s that plate that was on the counter?” Cousin: “Oh somebody took that cuz.” Me: #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies pic.twitter.com/zYWm8axTmZ — LD (@penspiffy) November 22, 2018 Peep all the best (and funniest) tweets from Thanksgiving 2018 on the flip.
*having a potluck at work* Manager: you should bring that sweet potato pie you made last time. Me: No problem pic.twitter.com/3LU6uhNVwG — Lo (@laurynjaneee_) November 21, 2018 Hilarious Tweets/Memes From Thanksgiving 2018 Big mama, we made it through another magical Thanksgiving day bursting with deliciously hilarious Black Twitter shenanigans that shattered the internet YET AGAIN and set the table for very very merry (and petty) LITmas. Me: “Aye, where’s that plate that was on the counter?” Cousin: “Oh somebody took that cuz.” Me: #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies pic.twitter.com/zYWm8axTmZ — LD (@penspiffy) November 22, 2018 Peep all the best (and funniest) tweets from Thanksgiving 2018 on the flip.
Source: Freeform / Guy D’Alema grown-ish” fans from Atlanta, Georgia were treated to a special Sunday brunch with series stars Chloe Bailey and Halle Bailey and executive producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry. With a DIY Denim Bar, endless chicken and waffles, and unique photo opps across the venue, “issa ‘grown-ish’ brunch” celebrated the upcoming season two premiere of “grown-ish” in the ultimate CalU fashion. Source: Freeform / Guy D’Alema Monday the fun continued with a special event at Morehouse College, which gave students a special sneak peek at the season two premiere episode. Over 350 students from Morehouse and its neighboring HBCUs also got to attend a panel with Chloe, Halle and Jenifer, moderated by Angela Yee, co-host, The Breakfast Club, as they dove into what fans should expect throughout the next season. “grown-ish” returns with back-to-back all-new episodes on Wednesday, January 2 (8:00pm EST), on Freeform. Keep flipping for some exclusive info Chloe X Halle and Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry gave BOSSIP about Jazz and Skylar’s love lives next season and if Beyoncé watches the show!
Source: Michael McLenighan/Getty / Michael McLenighan J.I.D Treats Devoted Fans Through Verizon UP Customer Loyalty Program Verizon Up is breaking the mold and giving customers rewards they really, really want all for paying their bill. From once-in-a-lifetime experiences and VIP tickets to music and sporting events, to everyday rewards on dining, attractions and entertainment, this is Verizon’s way of saying thank you to customers. This opportunity is part of the new music offering from the Verizon Up rewards program, which gives members a chance at one-of-a-kind experiences with 9 amazing artists. Previous and future events include some of your favorites such as Justin Timberlake, Luke Bryan, Maroon 5, Rae Sremmurd, Daya, Skylar Grey, Kali Uchis, JID and X Ambassadors. When asked about the opportunity to team up with Verizon to give his fans a unique reward JT gushed: “My favorite part of being on tour is getting to see my fans up close and give them a night they won’t forget. When Verizon approached me with the opportunity to thank them by providing special access to my tour, I couldn’t pass it up.” Source: Michael McLenighan/Getty / Michael McLenighan Another artist who couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work the wireless giant is Atlanta upstart J.I.D. who tells us exclusively that his mother is coincidentally a long-time Verizon employee. The southern lyricist is set to release his new album DiCaprio 2 on November 26 and his fans’ anticipation couldn’t possible reach a more fevered pitch. BOSSIP Associate Editor Jason “Jah” Lee was fortunate enough to get some one-on-one time with J.I.D during the Atlanta customer loyalty event last night. Source: MoNae Mayweather/@photosbynae / MoNae Mayweather J.I.D is signed to Dreamville Records, a label headed by J. Cole who many would argue will soon be eclipsed by the East Atlanta native if his work ethic remains consistent and his pen remains syringe sharp. J.I.D’s introductory Dreamville release, The Never Story , captivated many an ear in 2017 and 2018 looks to be another year of grabbing listeners by the earlobe and holding them hostage to the arresting frequency of his music. J.I.D’s first two releases from DiCaprio 2, “151 Rum” and “Off Deez” featuring the aforementioned J. Cole are “attention-grabbers”, but as he explains to BOSSIP, there is much more in store. Jah : On The Never Story ‘s “Somebody” you rapped that your sound was “nothin’ particular”, however, the first two singles from DiCaprio 2 seem to have a very intentional sound. Is that what we can expect from DiCaprio 2? J.I.D : Those two songs are just attention-grabbers. I kinda did the same thing with The Never Story . I dropped the song “Never” and I dropped the song “Underwear” which came out about a week before and I dropped a song called “Bruh” with the same energy, but there’s super variations on [this] project, there’s nothing that sounds like those two songs. They’re back to back on the project, they have a section off where they belong. The project is sectioned off. There’s not one complete sound. It’s called DiCaprio 2 because it’s like a movie so each song is an individual film. Jah : Talk about your development as an artist. We know you and Earthgang (another Atlanta-based group signed to Dreamville) lived together and you weren’t always making music. J.I.D: : We were putting in hours every day. It was a competition between each other. And then we was trying to pay rent so n****s was working at Chipotle, Domino’s, cleaning up rat traps, whatever to get some money so we could pay at the end of the month to have lights and record. That’s where the development came from, just doing odd shows in Atlanta, just keeping our blinders on just like a horse in downtown New York. Jah : Speaking of competitive, Cole names you as the closest MC to his skill set on “Off Deez”. Did you know you were going to put him on the song when you first made it? If so, did you write your verse competitively to make sure you outdid him? J.I.D : I record everything by myself at the crib. I record in a secluded environment with just one other person, my composer. So I did it and I sent it to him. No, I didn’t send it to him first. I sent it to–I sent it to Kendrick [Lamar] first (laughs). Facts! That’s 100% what happened. I sent it Kendrick first. Long shot, Kendrick was going on the Championship Tour so it was just a long shot. I knew it wasn’t gonna happen and it’s understandable because he’s a superstar and has obligations. I sent it through the proper channels it just didn’t work out, but he f***ed with it. I made it the around the time of the XXL freestyle back in maybe April. I played if for Ski Mask The Slump God but he got busy and I know the situation with X (the shooting death of XXXTentacion) affected him a lot. Then I sent it to Cole like, “You f**k with this record? It’s hard, right? I’m bout to kill it and do the second verse” and he’s like “Hey, save me a lil’ piece on there” and like, “What? You wanna get on this one?” And we got s**t, but he was just moved when he heard it. I’m trying some different s**t and trying new patterns and he’s just competitive and he’s f***in’ elite at what he does so when he got on there it just made sense. @kendricklamar let’s do a song — (J.I.D) (@JIDsv) September 17, 2018 Where many artists would be intimidated by appearing on songs with peers who are at the top of their craft, J.I.D. has no fear. None. He talks with the confidence of a man who is undefeated in bar fights at his local pub. With all the humility that emotes from his serrated-yet-subdued voice he lets us know that he’s not one to be trifled with on the microphone. “If you look at my songs and the stuff I put out, I don’t think I ever went last. I do that s**t and I let n****s have it. Beat it, if you can. If I ever go last. If I ever hear a n***a verse first, its over. You gonna go back and change that. I’m not changing s**t. I do my work and I keep it moving. I respect all artists. I’m not saying there’s no one better. There’s somebody out there right now that like, n***a…I was the guy and I’m still that guy. But I’m a rap fan. I’m a hip-hop fan. I’m a music fan first before anything. I’ll walk up to anybody like “N***a, you are FIRE!” J.I.D recently credited Beyoncé with inspiring him to create the hook for “Off Deez” and we asked him about the other ways that Black women have inspired him in his life. “I got three sisters and my mom,” J.I.D says thoughtfully, “My sisters are three different type of strong, smart women. All different types of strong, all different types of smart. They showed me strength and I never noticed that. My dad taught me, you know, ‘You’re a boy. You have to do…’, but my sisters and my mom are definitely tougher than me and all my brothers.” You can tell by the manner in which he speaks about the women in his life that J.I.D has been a very grounded and empathetic person long before he became a rap star. “S**t that they been through, s**t that I’ve seen them do, they all had babies and they all figured out life. Women have a different power that’s hard to tap into as a man because we got it lil’ bit easier. The whole giving birth aspect, the whole God creating life aspect goes hand-in-hand to me. They create life and God creates life.” Source: Michael McLenighan/Getty / Michael McLenighan We highly suggest you check out J.I.D’s music and get to know him better as an artist. Hopefully, this interview will serve testament to what type of person he is. Clearly, he is as loyal to his fans as his fans are to him and Verizon Wireless. We heard that.
when ur mom says u can stay at your cousin house pic.twitter.com/4bBIyeZor9 — Trashvis (@Trashvis) November 14, 2018 Hilarious James Corden & Migos Memes We live in a crazy world that gets crazier by the day but, hey, at least we have the HILARIOUS episode of Carpool Karaoke starring James Corden & the Migos in quite possibly the best video you’ll watch this year. “Y’all boys hungry?” Offset & Takeoff: Ye- Quavo: Nah we good. pic.twitter.com/oVwPzJc1L6 — Vanessa (@svasher_) November 15, 2018 Peep the funniest memes from James Corden’s magical Migos adventure on the flip.
Image via Raymond Boyd/Getty Images Chick-fil-A Shoots Down Viral Social Media Meme Sorry ladies and gentlemen, the internet has led you astray . According to the folks at TMZ , the viral meme that was blowing up on Twitter and Instagram this weekend is false, Chick-fil-A did not create their box of nuggets to fit perfectly on top of their cup of lemonade. People were losing their golden crispy minds this weekend when the meme began making its way around the net. Thing is the folks at Chick-fil-a say the only reason the boxes have those holes are for employees to designate nuggets, strips or “other”. Sorry to anyone who thought they had discovered the greatest life hack of all time. Put your nuggets atop your lemonade at your own risk.
pic.twitter.com/t3zs3iKTHM — Dre (@Crotin) November 12, 2018 King Bron’s Bald Spots Shatters Twitter We love you Bron-Bron but it really REALLY might be time to let it go–seriously, like, forreal forreal–based on a recent postgame glimpse of his missing ceiling that sent Go Sports Twitter into a hilariously petty TIZZY. y’all leave bron alone pic.twitter.com/tkPpcRjgA9 — (@PlayoffKobe) November 12, 2018 Peep the hilarious hysteria over Bron-Bron’s missing ceiling on the flip.
I warned him to GET OUT before it was too late pic.twitter.com/umYMACW0Qu — Lys (@shaalyssaa) November 1, 2018 Worst Halloween Costumes (2018 Edition) We gave you the absolute BEST Halloween costumes and the baddest Halloween snacks so you know we had to spotlight the lamest, wackest and tackiest “costumes” stinking up feeds across the internet. Hey everybody, Here is your daily reminder that blackface Is never ok and that my skin is not your costume. pic.twitter.com/5Mapxy9Gfj — Black Aziz aNANsi (@Freeyourmindkid) October 29, 2018 Peep the tackiest Halloween costumes of the year on the flip.
Lia Toby/WENN.com Lady Gaga Releases Music Video For “I’ll Never Love Again” If you haven’t seen ‘A Star Is Born’ yet, go see it. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper did an incredible job. Just looking at Gaga’s video for one of her biggest songs in the movie “I’ll Never Love Again” made us shed some thug tears. Watch the clip below: What did you think?
Virginia Sherwood/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Jocko Sims Says His “New Amsterdam” Character Is Anti-Swirl But He’s Not If you’ve been missing out on NBC’s new Tuesday night hospital drama “New Amsterdam” we’d like to suggest there’s no time like the present to catch up. Last week BOSSIP caught up with one of the stars of the show, Jocko Sims who plays heart surgeon Dr. Floyd Reynolds. Reynolds has a lot of chemistry with Dr. Lauren Bloom, played by actress Janet Montgomery, and while it’s clear the pair have a good thing going, Reynolds is reluctant to let their relationship move beyond the friends with benefits zone because he wants a black wife and a black family. BOSSIP: What did you think when you read about the swirl situation in the script? Jocko Sims: This was our goal, just to get people talking. That’s what was refreshing to me, that it sparked a conversation. When I first saw it I was a little nervous, because first of all what he said was racist. Flip it. Think about it if the roles were reversed. A white guy and Black girl and they’re having sexual relations and she asks if they can take things further and he says “Well, I can’t because you’re not white.” BOSSIP: But that happens all the time, especially if one party or the other is a certain religion. Like you will find that if you’re dating a Jewish person or another religion. JS: But is that racist? Speaking of Jewish, We showed this that a hospital and one guy was really concerned because he felt like if the tables were turned it would be wrong. My concern, I really try to look at things from multiple perspectives, whether it concerns race or not when I’m looking at characters. I was thinking he is going to offend people on both sides. Like I got hit up by Black women and they’re like “Whoo, that’s right!”, then I got hit up today at the airport like ‘What are you doing? Don’t be using us as an excuse… Da da da da da, you not really down.’ Bottom line again, we’re talking about it again in this country, we’re talking and that’s what we wanted. You’ve got your Turkish families, who are like “I want you to marry a nice Turkish… ” It’s interesting because I’ve been in that position. I’ve dated different races. I’ve had my mom’s voice in the back of my head. The only issue I had was maybe I wasn’t able to come to terms with why I didn’t wanna take “Susie” — I just made up a name — home, but I would be afraid of it. I sympathize with Reynolds because, yeah, he’s been there. HE’s going where I have been I’ve never been compelled to tell someone ‘Hey you’re good enough for — but yeah you can’t come home and meet Mom.’ That was a little bit unrealistic for me but everybody generally is loving it. Someone asked me what I would want for the future generations and all I would ask that we just be able to sit down and listen to one another and have a conversation. For folks, before they talk to listen. The dialogue is worth having. BOSSIP: So is this going to be something that we’ll continue to see because he did offer her a drink after that conversation. Does she go back to his apartment? JS: A few people have been confused by that. I think that was kind of unclear, because he asked her if she wanted a drink literally right after she almost died, so she was like ‘Right now?’ because you know ‘get a drink’ usually meant… But in this case he was literally asking her if she wanted a glass of scotch to relax, he wasn’t asking her for more sex. Will there be more? You know I can’t tell you that. Everybody on Twitter is like “You know they’re going to … ” That’s what I would expect too. Tune in to NBC at 10PM EST to watch Jocko Sims and the rest of his “New Amsterdam” cast.
