Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Mo’Nique is out there living her best weight loss life y’all. The Oscar-winner recently shared on a video showing off her super-snatched waist..and it was everything. She let her fans get a little peek of her at a recent photo shoot rocking a pair of curve-hugging jeans and a cinched waist poppin’ to Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow. ” The 50-year-old also showed some love to her fitness trainer Dwight Holt, Jr. , for helping her dance off the pounds. “CARDI B, baby you will get a photo shoot going. DANCING MY POUNDS OFF. WHAT A TEAM,” she wrote. YOU BETTER WERK QUEEN! As we previously reported , earlier this year Mo celebrated weighing under 200 pounds for the first time since high school. “I said that I would share this new journey with y’all on the weight loss and getting healthy,” the comedian said in a video she posted on Instagram. “Today was the first time in my adult life that I’ve been under 200 pounds, so I wanted to let you all know it’s possible and you can do it and we can get there.” She added that she achieved this weight loss without having to go under the knife or falling for any diet fads. “For me it was no surgery, no prepackaged foods, not listening to no spokespeople saying ‘it’s easy and you can do it.’” “It was just putting in the work and not giving up on me … it’s called giving yourself a chance to live the best life you can live.” Clearly, all this hard work has paid off: BEAUTIES: What do you think of Mo’s weight loss and new body? RELATED NEWS: Mo’Nique Sends Message To Nicki Minaj And Cardi B About Their Ongoing Femcee Beef Slay! Mo’Nique Celebrates Weighing Under 200 Pounds For The First Time As An Adult Oprah Gets Real About Weight Loss: ‘I Can’t Accept Myself If I’m Over 200 LBS’ [ione_media_gallery src=”https://hellobeautiful.com” id=”2871762″ overlay=”true”]
(Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage) Justine Skye Is Beautiful Justine Skye is only 23-years-old and she’s living her dreams as a singer, has fancy Hollyweird friends and classic beauty. She showed up to R ihanna’s Diamond Bal l with the face of a supermodel. Whether or not you like her get up, her greatest asset is her stunning face and quietly she’s one of the prettiest young women in the industry. Why is she so underrated??? More of Justine Skye and her undeniable beauty after the flip.
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Kanye West ‘s album rollout for Graduation is something that should be taught in every music history class. The Chicago native dropped his third studio album on September 11, 2007, in an event that is still talked about pretty often for something that happened eleven years ago. Though he wasn’t exactly a small-time rapper at the time, Kanye was the underdog in his highly publicized competition with 50 Cent , who both released their albums on the same day. 50 didn’t retire afterward as advertised, but Mr. West ended up raking in a whopping 960K in first week sales and beating out Curtis ‘ 690K. This solidified Ye’s spot at the top of the hip-hop game and skyrocketed his whole career–every album that followed for Kanye, to this day, has reached #1 on Billboard charts. While it’s nearly impossible to say one thing that Kanye West is known for or best at, his visuals as a whole are a pretty good start. From fashion, to design, to music videos, Ye is always thinking about how things look just as much as he’s considering how they sound. With that being said, the music videos from Graduation are some of Kanye’s most iconic, most viewed, and most talked about. In honor of the project’s eleven year anniversary, let’s take a walk down memory lane and remember how all 6 of the music videos off of Graduation fare today. 6. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” is arguably one of the best songs on the album–and one of the best tracks in Ye’s entire discography–but the same can’t really be said for the video. While it’s a good example of the always beautiful and deliberate display of colors that the rapper is known for throughout his work, it’s a very simple video as far as Kanye visuals go–not a bad thing, just not as memorable as a lot of his visual concepts are. 5. “Homecoming” The video for “Homecoming” was nominated for Best Hip-Hop Video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. A tribute to his hometown Chicago, the all black-and-white Hype Williams -directed visual is a pretty straight forward look at the people, landmarks, and monuments of the windy city. Though the music video does it’s job paying homage to the Chi, a song with such heavy visualization and allusions could have benefitted from a colorful, illustrative video. 4. “Stronger” Another gift from Hype Williams, “Stronger” gives us a visual initially shot over 9 days in Tokyo, Japan. The guerrilla-style visual is futuristic, which fits the theme of Graduation as a whole, but specifically the sounds of Kanye and Daft Punk on the track. The original storyline for the video features West playing a man in a motorcycle gang, who gets into a bar fight with Japanese rivals. West ended up not liking the video, abandoned the storyline, and edited the visual to obtain “the hottest shots possible,” adding more footage in New York City. 3. “Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele)” In “Flashing Lights,” a Playboy model drives out to the desert, strips down, and pops open the trunk of her car to reveal a bound-and-gagged Kanye West before pounding him with a shovel. This video is some incredible foreshadowing for the genius to come from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‘s visuals, and it’s most definitely a bright highlight in Ye’s catalogue of impressive music videos. 2. “Good Life (feat T-Pain)” The music video for “Good Life” is something special. It was directed by Jonas & François with animation by So-Me, and is jam packed with colorful writing, creativity, and fun. This visual is the perfect representation of living the good life and evokes the same feeling the song itself does, watching Kanye and T-Pain happily sing along to their smash hit. 1. “Good Morning” Those who hold Graduation– or any Kanye album for that matter–close to their heart are bound to disagree on which visuals come out on top, but there’s no denying how iconic the music video for “Good Morning” is. Starring the famous Dropout Bear, the video was directed by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami , who also designed the album artwork and the cover art for its singles.
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Kanye West ‘s album rollout for Graduation is something that should be taught in every music history class. The Chicago native dropped his third studio album on September 11, 2007, in an event that is still talked about pretty often for something that happened eleven years ago. Though he wasn’t exactly a small-time rapper at the time, Kanye was the underdog in his highly publicized competition with 50 Cent , who both released their albums on the same day. 50 didn’t retire afterward as advertised, but Mr. West ended up raking in a whopping 960K in first week sales and beating out Curtis ‘ 690K. This solidified Ye’s spot at the top of the hip-hop game and skyrocketed his whole career–every album that followed for Kanye, to this day, has reached #1 on Billboard charts. While it’s nearly impossible to say one thing that Kanye West is known for or best at, his visuals as a whole are a pretty good start. From fashion, to design, to music videos, Ye is always thinking about how things look just as much as he’s considering how they sound. With that being said, the music videos from Graduation are some of Kanye’s most iconic, most viewed, and most talked about. In honor of the project’s eleven year anniversary, let’s take a walk down memory lane and remember how all 6 of the music videos off of Graduation fare today. 6. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” is arguably one of the best songs on the album–and one of the best tracks in Ye’s entire discography–but the same can’t really be said for the video. While it’s a good example of the always beautiful and deliberate display of colors that the rapper is known for throughout his work, it’s a very simple video as far as Kanye visuals go–not a bad thing, just not as memorable as a lot of his visual concepts are. 5. “Homecoming” The video for “Homecoming” was nominated for Best Hip-Hop Video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. A tribute to his hometown Chicago, the all black-and-white Hype Williams -directed visual is a pretty straight forward look at the people, landmarks, and monuments of the windy city. Though the music video does it’s job paying homage to the Chi, a song with such heavy visualization and allusions could have benefitted from a colorful, illustrative video. 4. “Stronger” Another gift from Hype Williams, “Stronger” gives us a visual initially shot over 9 days in Tokyo, Japan. The guerrilla-style visual is futuristic, which fits the theme of Graduation as a whole, but specifically the sounds of Kanye and Daft Punk on the track. The original storyline for the video features West playing a man in a motorcycle gang, who gets into a bar fight with Japanese rivals. West ended up not liking the video, abandoned the storyline, and edited the visual to obtain “the hottest shots possible,” adding more footage in New York City. 3. “Flashing Lights (feat. Dwele)” In “Flashing Lights,” a Playboy model drives out to the desert, strips down, and pops open the trunk of her car to reveal a bound-and-gagged Kanye West before pounding him with a shovel. This video is some incredible foreshadowing for the genius to come from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ‘s visuals, and it’s most definitely a bright highlight in Ye’s catalogue of impressive music videos. 2. “Good Life (feat T-Pain)” The music video for “Good Life” is something special. It was directed by Jonas & François with animation by So-Me, and is jam packed with colorful writing, creativity, and fun. This visual is the perfect representation of living the good life and evokes the same feeling the song itself does, watching Kanye and T-Pain happily sing along to their smash hit. 1. “Good Morning” Those who hold Graduation– or any Kanye album for that matter–close to their heart are bound to disagree on which visuals come out on top, but there’s no denying how iconic the music video for “Good Morning” is. Starring the famous Dropout Bear, the video was directed by Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami , who also designed the album artwork and the cover art for its singles.
Source: Prince Williams / Getty Hopes are already sky high for the next season of Atlanta , even though news just broke recently that the fan favorite was renewed. It seems impossible for something with this much hype to garner even more anticipation, but Donald Glover managed to make that happen with some recent statements on what season 3 has in store. The creator and star of the series spoke about his creative process during an Emmys For Your Consideration screening. According to reports from Indiewire , Glover commented on the behind-the-scenes creativity of the series during a panel saying, “I align the seasons I think, to me, like Kanye records…I feel like this is our Graduation . This is probably our most accessible but also the realest — an honest version of it — and I feel like the most enjoyable, like the third album.” Gambino continued on to say, “We were all on iMessage together and kind of talking about it, and I think people were really hungry to like beat ourselves, which is great.” So there you have it–even today, Graduation remains many fans’ favorite Kanye album, and it’s most definitely the project that garnered the most positive reception and mainstream radio play. With season 2 of Atlanta being a lot darker than its predecessor, we now know they’ll be making more of a crowd-pleaser with season 3. Atlanta just recently wrapped up its previous season in May, and there is still no word on when fans can expect it return to the small screen–but there has been confirmation that it will come back faster than we got the second season. Good news all around.
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty When it comes to Pusha T , you’re either 1. A true fan and have his new album Daytona on repeat 2. Could care less about his album, but his “The Story of Adidon” diss against Drake was fire! or 3. Team Drizzy fo’ life! Well since the heat has died down between Push and his Champagne Papi archenemy, Push has had some time to reflect. He did a quick interview with GQ that was quite revealing, even for the most hardcore Pusha T fans. Swipe through for Pusha T highlights about Drake backing down, Push’s weird relationship to Kanye and his feelings about the outdoors. It might stretch your ideas about what King Push is really about…
(Photos Bauer-Griffin/GC/ Taylor Hill/WireImage) Dennis Graham Claps At Wendy Williams Over Spicy Hot Topics Wendy Williams really went IN on her hot take of the the Drake vs. Pusha T beef. We thought the tweets and commenters were ruthless, NO. Wendy kept it all the way funky. She called out Drake for being a non-writing a$$ rapper and his daddy for allegedly skipping out on him, only to return after he was successful. And She didn’t stop there…she brought up Aubrey’s messy porn hub BM, putting her cakes on BLIZZY. Wendy said: “So you don’t write your own music. Anything you say is not really from your heart. You’re stupid enough to wear blackface…and then what is this we’re hearing about you having a baby with a stripper??? He (Pusha T) Also attacked Drake’s dad Dennis. Dennis walked out on Drake when he was only five. Pusha said Drake parades Dennis around in Steve Harvey suits *breaks out in laughter*.” The fireworks came early this year! Holy hail, do you think Wendy went too far??? Drake’s pops is MAD at this. Dennis Graham fired back at Wendy on IG. Hit the flip to see!
(Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) MSNBC is set to air a special at 9pm tomorrow hosted by Joy Reid and Chris Hayes, with special reporting from Trymaine Lee. It’s the same day Starbucks is scheduled to close all locations for racial bias training. This looks like a good and much-needed discussion… Hopefully, people of all races will tune in. And hopefully this will go a long way towards white people not calling the police on black people for just living their lives. Sidenote: Are you boycotting Starbucks still or do you think they are really doing something with their racial bias training?
Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Desus Nice and The Kid Mero are completely dominating the late night game right now, and they’ve been on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon five times just in the last year. This week, the pair made their way to Late Night With Seth Meyers for an interview, where they talked about how dope it felt to sell out a show at The Apollo–along with how different it is to do a show live versus recording their podcast, Bodega Boys. Along with the success of their own late night show and their recent 5 borough tour, the Bronx natives also discuss what it’s like having different “family members” come out of the woodwork every time they become more successful. And as always, the boys give their extremely spicy hot takes about politics.
