Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty Ray J and Princess Love will reportedly be producing and starring in their own 2-hour VH1 special that leads up to their daughter’s birth. According to TMZ , the 2-hour special will feature a few special guests, who will help the soon-to-be parents learn from those who have firsthand experienced with parenting. So far the guests include Heidi and Spencer Pratt, who have a 6-month-old son, Gunner. Plus Ray’s manager, David Weintraub and pal Too Short, who are also parents will be present to help with parenting pointers. The special is expected to air sometime in the summer, since that’s when Princess Love is due. SOURCE: TMZ | IMAGE CREDIT: Getty
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Top Dawg Entertainment is one of the best labels in the game right now, and the Los Angeles-based crew is taking their talents on the road for their approaching Championship Tour . The label’s insane talent including Kendrick Lamar , Schoolboy Q , Jay Rock , SZA , and Ab Soul , and all of them are going on a tour together across the United States–which is going to be insane. As if fans weren’t already excited enough, TDE dropped a promotional video for the impending tour, and it’s absolutely hilarious. Throughout the commercial, the labelmates are training for different sports, and they’re all terrible–but they continue practicing so they can make it to the championships. Check out the entire promo below, and make sure to watch until after the credits. You can buy your tickets for The Championship Tour, which starts next month, here .
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Top Dawg Entertainment is one of the best labels in the game right now, and the Los Angeles-based crew is taking their talents on the road for their approaching Championship Tour . The label’s insane talent including Kendrick Lamar , Schoolboy Q , Jay Rock , SZA , and Ab Soul , and all of them are going on a tour together across the United States–which is going to be insane. As if fans weren’t already excited enough, TDE dropped a promotional video for the impending tour, and it’s absolutely hilarious. Throughout the commercial, the labelmates are training for different sports, and they’re all terrible–but they continue practicing so they can make it to the championships. Check out the entire promo below, and make sure to watch until after the credits. You can buy your tickets for The Championship Tour, which starts next month, here .
Source: Paras Griffin / Contributor / Getty The internet doesn’t know what to do with Love and Hip Hop Atlanta’s Momma Dee and her recent performance. In the clip, she’s seen rapping along to her own Bodak Yellow freestyle while wearing a form-fitting body suit that accentuates the curves we didn’t even realize she had. Check out the clip below and get your life! Whew, somebody get Momma Dee and this booty. pic.twitter.com/Gz0ZDSzIGF — Afro-LightskinO. (@itsKARY_) April 16, 2018 What do you think about Momma Dee’s performance?
Source: Paras Griffin / Contributor / Getty The internet doesn’t know what to do with Love and Hip Hop Atlanta’s Momma Dee and her recent performance. In the clip, she’s seen rapping along to her own Bodak Yellow freestyle while wearing a form-fitting body suit that accentuates the curves we didn’t even realize she had. Check out the clip below and get your life! Whew, somebody get Momma Dee and this booty. pic.twitter.com/Gz0ZDSzIGF — Afro-LightskinO. (@itsKARY_) April 16, 2018 What do you think about Momma Dee’s performance?
Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn London , are doing press runs to promote their newly released book, Perfect is Boring . The mother daughter duo went to the Strand bookstore in New York City to talk about their book, and while there Tyra Banks talked to TicToc about gender pay gap, and how women can do their best to receive the pay they deserve when at a job. TicToc chatted with @TyraBanks , and she told us how to ask your boss for a raise #EqualPayDay #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/FugV5kfYQm — TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 10, 2018 When talking about the subject, Banks explains a way hat women need to go to their bosses when asking for a raise. A lot of people might go to their bosses and plead for a raise, talking about the things they need–“I need this raise because I can’t pay my rent,” “I need this raise because I don’t have the money to do this or that,” Tyra shoots down that option, saying there’s a better way. When going to your boss for a raise, the America’s Next Top Model creator urges women to tell their bosses the reason they deserve more money, and why their bosses are the ones who NEED them, and therefore need to give them a raise. That wasn’t the only thing Tyra and her mother talked about regarding the book, either. Banks also mentions her thoughts on Kanye West , and why him being “Self-centered” is actually a good trait, because he “never dulls his shine to make anyone else feel comfortable.” “I look at him as what a lot of people need more of. Kanye never dulls his shine to make anyone feel comfortable.” Tyra Banks mentioning Kanye in her interview with @MONEY . https://t.co/8v7xT5uzXt pic.twitter.com/zOxEbzwipo — TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) April 7, 2018
Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn London , are doing press runs to promote their newly released book, Perfect is Boring . The mother daughter duo went to the Strand bookstore in New York City to talk about their book, and while there Tyra Banks talked to TicToc about gender pay gap, and how women can do their best to receive the pay they deserve when at a job. TicToc chatted with @TyraBanks , and she told us how to ask your boss for a raise #EqualPayDay #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/FugV5kfYQm — TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 10, 2018 When talking about the subject, Banks explains a way hat women need to go to their bosses when asking for a raise. A lot of people might go to their bosses and plead for a raise, talking about the things they need–“I need this raise because I can’t pay my rent,” “I need this raise because I don’t have the money to do this or that,” Tyra shoots down that option, saying there’s a better way. When going to your boss for a raise, the America’s Next Top Model creator urges women to tell their bosses the reason they deserve more money, and why their bosses are the ones who NEED them, and therefore need to give them a raise. That wasn’t the only thing Tyra and her mother talked about regarding the book, either. Banks also mentions her thoughts on Kanye West , and why him being “Self-centered” is actually a good trait, because he “never dulls his shine to make anyone else feel comfortable.” “I look at him as what a lot of people need more of. Kanye never dulls his shine to make anyone feel comfortable.” Tyra Banks mentioning Kanye in her interview with @MONEY . https://t.co/8v7xT5uzXt pic.twitter.com/zOxEbzwipo — TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) April 7, 2018
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty As president of one of the biggest labels in the world right now, TDE’s Punch gets a lot of respect from both peers and fans of the most relevant artists in the industry. With that, however, comes some disdain from certain people when those they admire don’t share their same convictions–and Punch experienced just that when he tweeted out an incredible unpopular opinion. Cardi B is 2pac. — Punch TDE (@iamstillpunch) April 7, 2018 The internet was alllll over Punch for comparing Cardi B to 2Pac …especially for someone from Los Angeles, who understands the incredible importance Pac holds decades after his passing. It seems like Punch’s feelings with this one were pretty strong, and after spending a while arguing with fans in his mentions, DJBooth released an entire editorial the TDE bossman wrote on the subject. Cardi B Is 2Pac: A Guest Editorial From TDE's Punch ( @iamstillpunch ) https://t.co/9dS2Md89Rz pic.twitter.com/248W4e0ghg — DJBooth (@DJBooth) April 9, 2018 Punch explains throughout the article that he’s a huge fan of 2Pac, and the same things we admire about him to this day are the same qualities that draw the public to Cardi. Here’s a excerpt from his editorial that captures the crux of his argument pretty well: “I won’t pretend to know as much about Cardi as I do about 2Pac, but from what I do know, she embodies some of those same qualities. She’s a straight shooter right from the hip. Her interviews are as raw as her music. She’s politically incorrect, yet, her charisma means you cannot stop watching and listening, whether you agree or disagree. She says exactly what she’s feeling at the time the question is delivered.” Another point he makes throughout his comparison is both artists airing out their insecurities to the world, so that they point them out before anyone else can. Punch explains that sentiment here: “She put her insecurities right out in front for the whole world to hear. She controlled the narrative. Both expressed the same sentiment: THIS use to hurt me, but now it doesn’t. One of Pac’s most famous quotes was, “The reason I’m so harsh is because I’m so sensitive.“ In a nutshell, that sums up why, I believe, Cardi B is 2Pac. She fully embodies this idea of being brutally honest so she can’t be hurt. She tells you her teeth needed to be fixed, she reminds you she was a stripper, she opens up about her relationship with Offset. We hear about all the good times and the bad times in equal measure. If she’s the one who puts it out there, YOU can’t hurt her with it. She owns it ALL.” You can read Top’s guest editorial for DJBooth in it’s entirety here . What do you think–is Cardi B our newest iteration of 2Pac?
Source: Chiaki Nozu / Getty Drake stacked the deck for his “Nice For What” video, showcasing over a dozen super-talented queens that have been killing their respective games; And it was all directed by the incredible Karena Evans . Over a sample from Lauryn Hill ‘s “Ex-Factor,” Drizzy delivers encouraging lyrics for the ladies, while supermodel Jourdan Dunn , actress Michelle Rodriguez, gymnast Misty Copeland and many more rise above the stresses the world throws at them. Issa Rae , Tiffany Haddish , Yara Shahidi and Tracee Ellis Ross are just a few of the 14 phenomenal women Drake managed to secure cameos from. Flip through for a full list of the stars and see if you can spot them all in the video below.
How much is too much to allow a 2-year-old to live?” This was the question asked by Prince George County’s State Attorney Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) asked the jury in her opening statement. “Is it $200? Is it $400? Is $600 the magic number?” she said. It’s hard to believe a father would kill his child, not to mention her mother, because of child support. But on Tuesday, a jury convicted a Maryland man named Daron Boswell-Johnson on two counts of murder in the double killing. Reports say not long after Boswell-Johnson became a father he took to the Internet posting questions that related to child support in hopes that other dad’s who had gone through it could help. According to the Washington Post , in 2015 Boswell-Johnson’s posts asked, “How can I stop child support?” “How does the court know if child support is not paid?” he typed shortly after. And in January 2016, he asked, “What if I am behind on my child support?” It would only be a few weeks later that his paycheck would start seeing a $600 a month garnish. Soon after, in the early morning of Feb. 2, 2016, his daughter Chloe Davis-Green and her mother, NeShante Davis, were dead. With no gun and no DNA evidence linking Boswell-Johnson to the murder scene, prosecutors relied on his videotaped confession to detectives, cellphone records, surveillance videos and notes he wrote to his loved ones before heading to jail. “I know I failed you as a son,” he told his mother. See a short video where Boswell-Johnson is being interviewed by cop. “I’m not the monster they are making me seem to be,” he wrote to the mother of his other two children. “I was lying to them until they bring me your picture,” he told his girlfriend. The lie he refers to is when he first told officials that he was sleeping at the time in question. But then he was shown surveillance video of his SUV rolling out of his apartment complex that morning. He acquiesced, and told detectives he simply went to his daughter’s townhouse to see her off to school. WP reports eventually, after hours of denials, Boswell-Johnson confessed, prosecutors said. He woke up in the early hours of Feb. 2 and drove to Fort Washington, parking his car down the street from Davis’s home, then sat on the steps two houses away waiting for Davis to emerge for work, detectives testified, describing Boswell-Johnson’s confession. “I want to talk about child support,” Boswell-Johnson said to her, according to his recorded police interview. When she refused to talk, he pulled a gun from his waistband and fired, he said in his confession. Davis was shot in the back and Chloe suffered two gunshot wounds, with the bullets piercing her car seat, according to expert testimony at trial. The close-range gunfire was so violent, according to prosecutors, it blew Chloe out of her car seat and the beads out of her hair. “He went there to terminate his child support,” Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Ruddy said after showing jurors the bloodstained pink onesie Chloe was wearing the morning of the shooting. “Chloe was a bill . . . a bill that he wasn’t going to pay.” After the killing, Boswell-Johnson fled and went to work. Read more on the story here . READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: GET THE HOTTEST STORIES STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX: Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit
