Wale has been in the music industry for quite some time. When he first put out music he contributed to the culture, but some didn’t appreciate him. Wale continues to fight for his art and what he does as an artist. Follow @TheRSMS He used to feel he was damaged goods and because of the lack of support he let it effect him. Wale began to doubt himself, have anxiety and uncertainty. His focus now is having the right people around him, making God the center if his life and take his time with projects. Listen to “ The Rickey Smiley Morning Show ” 6am ET. RELATED: Wale Gives His Thoughts About Getting A Face Tattoo [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] RELATED: Wale Dragged Tomi Lahren On Twitter Once Again And The Internet Loved It RELATED: Wale On The Betrayal That Caused Him To Drop His Album A Week Early [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] The Latest : HAUTE OR NAUGHT: Rita Ora Is In An Armor Of Fashion At The Montblanc Event How The Industry Has Made Wale Question His Career [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] Father Kills Daughter And Ex To Avoid Child Support Payments ‘Empire’ Recap: Cookie’s Health Takes A Plunge Dave Chappelle Sued By This Banana Throwing Bozo He Mentioned In Standup Special Real Friends : Watch As Lil’ Yachty Birthday Gifts Quavo A Stack For Every Year He Was Born LeBron James Lines Up And Fades Alabama Football For Allegedly Stealing Barbershop Talk Show Series Viola Davis Scares Would-Be Burglars Away From Her Home #WakandaForever: Chadwick Boseman Does Not Have Any Vibranium In New SNL Teaser Mammary Munching Madness : Azealia Banks Pleads Guilty To “Boob Biting” Assault Case [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1851478″ overlay=”true”]
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Source: FayesVision/WENN.com / WENN Tonight’s episode of Love and Hip-Hop Atlanta picks up from where we left off last week. If you recall, Jasmine rolled up in Pressed looking for Rasheeda. Jasmine just wants to make sure her son with Kirk knows his siblings, but Rasheeda wasn’t there. Instead, she got Shirleen and Rasheeda’s stepdaughter, and they let her have it about her trifling behavior. Jasmine and Kirk messed up, but Jasmine seems to be the only one who is owning up to her part in the situation. She also seems to be taking most of the heat. And Rasheeda is way too calm about this anyway. via GIPHY Estelita went running to Mimi to tell her what happened with the Erica Mena ambush orchestrated by Stevie J. She’s still pissed off by the situation and needs to vent to someone who understands. She also admitted that she did have sex with Stevie. She lied about it to Erica about it because it was none of her business, and she also wasn’t here for Stevie blowing it up like some immature schoolboy. Mimi already knew what was up because Estelita is Stevie’s type and, of course, she’s very familiar with Stevie’s scandalous behavior. Eventually, Estelita goes into a tear-filled story about all the stuff she has been through—you know, the usual—rape, stripping, etc and how she refuses to allow Stevie to play her. Mimi suggests that she call Stevie and have a talk because heart to hearts always goes well with these people. via GIPHY Shirleen tells Rasheeda about Jasmine’s visit and of course, Rasheeda is just like… via GIPHY Rasheeda is pissed off that Jasmine told her mother the DNA test results before she got a chance to. Rasheeda also doesn’t want to talk to Jasmine, and feels like that’s for Kirk to do. However, she is aware that the child is innocent and seems to be flexible in terms of allowing him to meet his other siblings and be a part of the family. She delivers the message to Kirk that he needs to “keep Jasmine to in check.” Meanwhile, according to Jasmine, Kirk hasn’t even made any efforts to see their son. via GIPHY AND RASHEEDA IS WAY TOO CALM WITH KIRK! via GIPHY Next, we find Erica Mena hanging out with Yung Joc and Melissa celebrating her move to Atlanta. The latter two invite Tommie (at Erica’s request), who is meeting Erica for the first time. It gets quite interesting when Erica tries to bag her. According to Erica, she has long had a crush on Tommie, but Tommie ain’t with it. Tommie says that Erica is giving her crazy Joseline vibes, and when Erica asks to take Tommie on a date, Tommie is just looking like… via GIPHY And she bolts out of there because Erica is quite parched and intense. via GIPHY In Erica’s defense, her game was decent. Mimi and Estelita show up and this gives Erica the opportunity to apologize to Estelita for the ambush. She then tells her that she went through the same thing with men in the industry toying with their dreams (you know, Rich Dollaz) and taking advantage of her. They both get all teary-eyed about their struggles and how they’re going to lift each other up and not let Stevie put them asunder Tommie bolted out of there so fast that she accidentally took a bracelet that was given to Erica as a gift (she was looking at it). Tommie is was admittedly freaked out by Erica, but she decided to meet up with her at a fake photoshoot to give the bracelet back and to have a less thirst-filled discussion where they get to know each other a little better. This conversation goes much better as they politick about music and Stevie J’s trifling ways. Tommie, who says she just dates men, still isn’t interested in dating Mena, but she’s down to network when it comes to music and business moves. Finally, the episode wraps with an intro to Tokyo Vanity, because what would any Love and Hip-Hop be without a viral superstar? Anyway, Toyko Vanity is new to Atlanta so Sierra has taken her under her wing. The aforementioned two women, plus Karlie Redd are having girl talk at Sierra’s salon. Sierra mentions that she’s now dating BK Brasco and spills all the tea about how she has moved on from Shooter. Then Karlie Redd says she’s dating Sean Garrett (her new producer flavor of the month), who is best friends with BK Brasco. Of course! There was a stylist named Shan eavesdropping on their conversation the entire time so she takes this moment to inform Sierra that Shooter has a 2-year-old son by someone else. It comes out that Shan has been working at Sierra’s shop for a long time so why she’s just now revealing this information is um… via GIPHY Shan says that the mother of this child in question is also a patron of the shop. She knows this because she has been doing the woman’s hair all along. Now Sierra, Tokyo Vanity and Karlie Redd are mad at Shan for “putting Sierra’s business out in the street.” Mmmkay. We’ll be back next week, same dramaful time, same dramaful place. Yes, dramaful. RELATED POSTS ‘LHHATLS7’ Recap: Kirk Frost Delivers Memo From Captain Obvious About That DNA Test ‘LHHATLS6’ Reunion Part 2: Joseline Is A Special Kind Of Delusional
Source: Michael Caulfield Archive / Getty The music game is competitive so it’s no wonder that two of the top artists in the industry would throw friendly shots at one another. According to an interview Jermaine Dupri did with the Rap Radar podcast, while Usher was working on his 8701 album, Michael Jackson was working on his Invincible album with Rodney Jerkins . Both albums were also supposed to come out around the same time. The competition was so thick that Michael Jackson dissed Usher and motived Usher to drop “U Got It Bad”. Wow! watch @jermainedupri explain how #MichaelJackson dissing @Usher created “U Got It Bad” #RapRadarPodcast https://t.co/4cA5jENEit pic.twitter.com/hFX7eHt8Hc — brian b.dot miller (@bdotTM) March 17, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Source: Michael Caulfield Archive / Getty The music game is competitive so it’s no wonder that two of the top artists in the industry would throw friendly shots at one another. According to an interview Jermaine Dupri did with the Rap Radar podcast, while Usher was working on his 8701 album, Michael Jackson was working on his Invincible album with Rodney Jerkins . Both albums were also supposed to come out around the same time. The competition was so thick that Michael Jackson dissed Usher and motived Usher to drop “U Got It Bad”. Wow! watch @jermainedupri explain how #MichaelJackson dissing @Usher created “U Got It Bad” #RapRadarPodcast https://t.co/4cA5jENEit pic.twitter.com/hFX7eHt8Hc — brian b.dot miller (@bdotTM) March 17, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Source: Donato Sardella / Getty Demi Lovato has a brand new profile in Billboard , and “Sorry Not Sorry” singer proved the song to truly be her life motto with this 100% honest interview. Her latest cover is absolutely stunning, showing the freckled pop-star looking all sorts of sultry as an introduction of what’s to come in the pages of the mag. Thank you @billboard for this incredible cover https://t.co/SuNyvTP3w0 pic.twitter.com/ok9I3enUgU — Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) March 8, 2018 Throughout the interview, Demi dishes about her struggles dealing with fake friends throughout the industry. A tweet from Ms. Lovato a couple days back where she proudly proclaimed singing “Sorry Not Sorry” to one of “USA’s most notorious bullies” proves just how much she dislikes anyone holding others back. She talks in Billboard about the extremely negative experience she had the the 2016 Met Gala, also citing fake people. The other night I got to sing SNS directly to one of USA’s most notorious bullies. It felt so fucking great. That’s what the song is all about!!! Sorry not sorry that you were in the audience watching me kill it. — Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) March 6, 2018 She says about the night at the Met Gala, which led to her attending an AA meeting after: “I had a terrible experience. This one celebrity was a complete b***h and was miserable to be around. It was very cliquey. I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink.” So who can Demi actually count on in this industry? Peep her best girlfriends on the next page.
Source: LWA/Dann Tardif / Getty With the end of February comes the end of Black History Month, but that doesn’t mean melanated brilliance should stop being celebrated. #DrawingWhileBlack was a social media campaign that gained traction in September of 2017 and now it seems to be resurfacing just in time to close out Black History Month. The hashtag was started by agender college student Annabelle Hayford ( @sparklyfawn ), who wanted to start a movement that celebrated and brought more attention to Black artists. Hey guys its Annabelle!(Abelle For short)I’m a MICA illustration student and organizer for #drawingwhileblack ! Thank you guys for supporting this hashtag and black kids like myself Tumblr/insta: sparklyfawn Website: https://t.co/9spM6qpesL Store: https://t.co/npK1HNcMlG pic.twitter.com/fUBmsNEPRV — Abelle (@sparklyfawn) February 25, 2018 “During the summer, I worked as an animation production intern at Warner Bros. through the Hanna-Barbera Reach Honorship ,” Annabelle told Refinary21 . “However, like a lot of Black artists, I didn’t really see my identity properly represented in the art world [due to] the lack of Black art or Black artists.” Thus the hashtag was born. “It show[s] everyone that Black artists do exist,” Annabelle continued. “We just need the same recognition that our White counterparts [get] so this industry can be more accessible for everyone.” Annabelle isn’t the only artist with a story to share. Swipe through to peep some more amazing work from #DrawingWhileBlack. You’ll find the stories to be diverse and quite inspiring!
Hayden Panettiere always fascinates me…and has for a long time…well before she was a mom and sex toy to a 7 foot tall Russian heavyweight boxer who you know fucking destroys her everytime they fuck….something she may like, because the rehab going rich broken kid probably doesn’t feel unless it’s really thrust into her…so like cutting…or other things these broken women do to feel or channel pain they internalize.. she uses cock internally to rip out her insides…… But then again, I wasn’t in her rehab facility or her group therapy, I have no idea what her issues are, but there are issues…like a Selena Gomez…and that’s what happens when you’re raised in Hollywood by Soap Star weirdos, all vain and superficial, thrown into the industry, like a dwarf and a dwarf toss, because she’s midget sized, where nerds fell in love with her, because nerds are easy to seduce, and her strong muscular back, got jerked off to…before disappearing…until today…when this bathing suit comeback happened… it’s weird…but she’s got some tits doesn’t she… TO SEE THE REST OF THE PICS CLICK HERE The post Hayden Panettiere in a Swimsuit of the Day appeared first on DrunkenStepFather.com .
Source: NurPhoto / Getty Beside her extremely popular music, Fenty Beauty has quickly become one of Rihanna ’s most popular and successful projects to date. Though her makeup has made waves throughout the industry in recent months, the songstress’ beauty line isn’t the only hustle Robyn has going for her right now. Rihanna just dropped a Valentine’s Day-themed capsule of socks on Thursday, which is her latest in her collaborations with the company Stance. The three Valentine’s socks are being called the ColdHearted collection, which includes three different pairs of bejeweled calf-length socks–each going for a whopping $125 price tag. As aforementioned, this isn’t Rih’s first time collaborating with Stance, and her other socks are most definitely more affordable for regular folk; Those pairs from her previous endeavors are still available online , and include some more versatile designs and lengths. Happy Valentine’s ladies. My newest collab with @stance drops tonight! Get the #ColdHearted collection at Midnight PST on https://t.co/qH9ci0RpIm #rihannaxstance pic.twitter.com/QToaUpSFzK — Rihanna (@rihanna) February 7, 2018 You can grab Rih’s new collection of socks with Stance here .
