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03 Jul 2023

Carrie Underwood Gets Matching Tattoos With 74-Year-Old Mom & Sisters: See the Pics

Everyone comes back from Las Vegas with a good story, even country music superstar Carrie Underwood. In photos shared to her Instagram on Monday (July 3), the Grammy-winning star showed off the matching tattoos she got with her mom and sisters in Sin City.

“When your 74-year-old mother asks you and your sisters to get matching tattoos with her in Vegas, the only questions are, ‘What?’ and ‘Where?’” the “Before He Cheats” singer quipped. “I never would’ve thought I’d see the day that Mama Carole would be gettin’ some ink!”

Underwood, her mother and her two sisters all got matching heart tattoos. While the rest of the Underwood ladies got tatted on their wrists, the star opted for a foot tattoo.

The “I Told You So” singer was in town for Reflection, her Vegas residency at the 5,000-person capacity Resorts World Theatre; she was the first artist to perform on theatre’s stage. The American Idol alum’s show runs for 90 minutes and features some of the most memorable songs from her 15-year career, including “Jesus Take the Wheel,” “Blown Away,” “Cowboy Casanova” and “Something in the Water.”

Up next, she’ll be opening for Guns N’ Roses on select August dates for the rockers’ World Tour. Then Underwood returns to her Vegas residency in September.

The eight-time Grammy-winner has earned 42 entries on the Billboard Hot 100, four of which have hit the top 10, including the No. 1 hit “Inside Your Heaven.” On the Billboard 200, she has earned four No. 1 albums from 10 top 10 entries: 2007’s Carnival Ride, 2009’s Play On, 2012’s Blown Away, and 2018’s Cry Pretty.

Check out the pics of the Underwood women’s new tattoos below:

03 Jul 2023

Black Twitter Exodus: What Is Spill?

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In the wake of another chaotic situation caused by Elon Musk, Black Twitter users are making a move to the new Spill social media platform in droves.

On Saturday (July 1st), Twitter users were greeted with an error message that either said “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets.” Musk stated in a tweet that users who were unverified would only be able to read 600 posts a day, but Twitter Blue subscribers would be able to view 6,000 a day. For Black Twitter, that was the last straw in what many felt was the Tesla and Space X CEO’s continual disrespect, prompting many to sign up for Spill.

Spill is a social media platform with the purpose of creating a safe space for diverse communities with a distinct focus on Black women and LGBTQ+ communities. The app had recently launched its beta version on June 19th. It was created by Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell and DeVaris Brown, former Black Twitter employees who were let go in the wake of Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform. “Our thesis was if we could build a platform from the ground up that caters to these groups, these culture drivers, and then solve the core problems that they’re facing, that our community is facing more specifically, that would make for a better experience for everyone,” Terrell said in a recent interview. The exodus of Black Twitter users, including numerous famous figures such as Keke Palmer and Desus Nice has propelled Spill to be number one in Apple’s App Store as of Monday (July 3).

Spill is styled as a microblogging app with a visual-first approach, with users being able to select from four colorways for their home page. Instead of Twitter’s 140 characters per tweet, each post or “spill” is set at 90 characters but users can get creative with images and GIFs, and even short videos in their posts. Spill is currently invite-only for new users, and is only available on iOS devices, which has spurred some complaints from those using Android devices. But many who’ve made their way to the app are praising it for its diversity and fun factor, as well as the dedication to keeping it a safe space for everyone. Hashtags such as #SpillMigration and #Spillionaires were in wide use on the app, with many more on Twitter making public requests for invite codes.

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03 Jul 2023

Watch Kelly Clarkson Find Out About Scandoval & Take a Dig at Her Ex-Husband 

Scandoval was the affair heard around the world — except to Kelly Clarkson, who was shocked to find out that Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval cheated on his longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix with her best friend, Raquel Leviss.

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“Wait is that the [couple] that they’re not together?” the singer asks Las Culturistas co-hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers while appearing on their podcast recently. When told what happened between Sandoval and Madix, Clarkson was in complete shock. “With one of the castmates? So it’s, like, on TV?” she exclaimed. “Oh my God, that girl went through that publicly?”

“So, wow, you really are off the grid when you’re off the grid,” Rogers joked to Clarkson, as the affair has been making endless headlines and has been inescapable for pop culture fans over the past few months.

“What kind of depth of a–hole?” Clarkson said of Sandoval, before taking a dig at her own ex-husband Brandon Blackstock when Rogers called Sandoval a narcissist. “I do have experience,” she said of dealing with narcissists. The pop star and daytime talkshow host filed for divorce from Blackstock in 2020.

Watch the Scandoval discussion below, and watch the full episode of Las Culturistas here.

03 Jul 2023

Taylor Swift Reminds Fans to Pre-Save ‘Speak Now’ in New Video: ‘The Next Chapter Begins…’

Time is ticking down before Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) finally arrives this Friday (July 7), and Taylor Swift is here to remind you to pre-save the record.

In a Monday (July 3) exclusive video for Spotify, the 33-year-old pop star looked like she’d come straight out of 2010, wearing a whimsical green sundress and a long necklace, her hair in a fishtail side braid. “Hey! It’s Taylor Swift,” she said, seated in front of a purple backdrop and flickering purple candles.

“The next chapter begins on July 7, when Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) comes out,” she continued, smiling at the camera. “You can pre-save it now on Spotify.”

The video can be found on Swift’s “Upcoming releases” page on the music streaming app, which links fans to a timer counting down to release day, the record’s full tracklist and physical copies of the record available for purchase on the “Anti-Hero” singer’s website. Previously, Swift filmed a video for the Spotify page giving fans a peek at one of the magical purple vinyl discs and its accompanying poster.

Featuring re-recorded versions of all 14 of Speak Now‘s original tracks and six previously unreleased songs “From the Vault,” the fast-approaching project will mark the third of six planned “Taylor’s Version” albums. In 2021, Swift dropped both Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), leaving her 2006 self-titled debut, 2014’s 1989 and 2017’s Reputation as the only albums left in the re-recording process.

Last week, Swifties got a taste of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) when “Back to December (Taylor’s Version)” was featured in a new The Summer I Turned Pretty season two trailer, which also included the Grammy winner’s Folklore fan-favorite “August.” The new season arrives on Prime Video exactly one week after Swift’s album, following a first season that included several other Swift tracks (“False God,” “Cruel Summer,” “This Love,” “The Way I Loved You” and more).

In June, Swift laid down some rules ahead of the album’s release at an Eras Tour show in Minneapolis. Just before performing “Dear John,” a scathing Speak Now ballad widely believed to be about her ex-boyfriend John Mayer, the Grammy winner asked fans not to spread hate online on her behalf.

“I’m 33 years old,” she told the crowd. “I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19. I’m not putting this album out so that you can go and should feel the need to defend me on the internet against someone you think I might have written a song about 14 billion years ago.”

Watch Swift’s new message to fans on Spotify below:

03 Jul 2023

Michael Jordan Doesn’t Condone Son Marcus Jordan Dating Larsa Pippen

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Michael Jordan is not accepting of his son, Marcus Jordan, dating Larsa Pippen. The Internet certainly will reply, “Ya think?”

The slander was ripe as soon rumors began swirling that 32-year-old Marcus, who runs a successful sneaker brand and boutique in Miami (Trophy Room), was allegedly dating 48-year-old Larsa, the ex-wife of his dad’s longtime Chicago Bulls runnings mate Scottie Pippen. Then in January, Marcus and Larsa confirmed that they were indeed a whole couple—on Instragram per current celebrity protocol.

But while the Internet heaped on slander, and basically pointed to the relationship as cause for Scottie Pippen’s recent, and suspect critique of Michael Jordan’s game, Air Jordan had been mum on the topic. But recently, as TMZ reports, Jordan was spotted leaving dinner at Matignon in Paris and he as asked his son’s relationship with the woman who is 16 years his senior.

Recently, Mike responded to paparazzi asking about the May December relationship with a curt “No” when asked if he approved. And that was about it.

Hey, it’s now on the record. Thanksgiving might be real awkward this year.



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03 Jul 2023

Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk Broke Twitter, Black Twitter’s Migration To Spill Officially Underway

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Phony Stark, aka Elon Musk’s masterclass in breaking something that worked perfectly before he bought it, is pretty much complete. Over the weekend, Twitter was an absolute mess, and Black Twitter became officially fed up with the platform.

What the hell is a rate limit?

That’s what many Twitter users were asking over the weekend and some still as of today. Elon Musk took to his broken platform to reveal that all users were hit with limits on how many tweets they could read, causing a significant outage as people tried to keep up with what was happening in the world.

The Trump of Tech said in a tweet that verified account users can see up to 6,000 posts daily, while unverified users only see 600.

Newly registered Twitter users got it the worse, only being allowed to see 300 tweets per day. He eventually lifted that number to 10,000, 1,000, and 500, but the damage was done.

Musk claims that his platform is dealing with “extreme levels of data scraping” from “several hundred organizations” and “system manipulation” while not naming precisely who is doing it.

Is Elon Musk Lying?

Of course, people are calling C A P on Musk’s claims. Spotted on Crooks and Liars, web developer Sheldon Chang accused the Tesla and Space X chief’s Twitter “DDOSing itself, on rival Mastodon.

Per Crooks and Liars:

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed’s been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I’m being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it’s jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon’s latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It’s amateur hour.

Another developer was able to back up Chang’s claims by also replicating those DDOSing results.

Another claim accuses Musk and Twitter of simply not paying their bills after it moved from Google’s Cloud Services to their servers, and that’s when all of the issues began.

Black Twitter Is Packing Up & Leaving

Since Musk took over and imposed many dumb ideas, users have been looking for a substitute for Twitter. BlueSky caught on immediately but, per The Verge’s reporting, is pausing sign-ups “temporarily” as it deals with the influx of people signing up to use the platform.

In a BlueSky post, the company said:

“We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues. We’ll keep you updated when invite codes will resume functionality. We’re excited to welcome more users to our beta soon!”

Black Twitter, which basically makes the platform pop, is done with Elon, and his shenanigans are on the move to Spill, which happens to be founded by two former Twitter employees, Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell, and DeVaris Brown.

If you look up and down Twitter timelines, it’s Black users sharing their Spill profiles or asking for invite codes so they can join the mass exodus.

Welp.

Is this truly the end of Twitter? That remains to be seen, but it’s looking like it’s on its way into social media purgatory.

You can see more reactions to Elon Musk breaking Twitter in the gallery below.

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03 Jul 2023

Steven Victor Explains Pop Smoke Album Cover Snafu

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Pop Smoke’s manager, Steven Victor, sat down and explained exactly what went on with the artists’ album cover designed by Virgil Abloh that caused a backlash.

The late rapper’s manager recently sat down for an interview on the latest episode of the Rap Radar podcast, which aired Friday (June 30). Victor, who also hails from Brooklyn, addressed the criticism directed at him over how he’s managed the affairs of Pop Smoke, with the album cover of Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon, and his work with the late designer Virgil Abloh.

“That was bullshit,” Victor began when asked about the controversy beginning with the fan reception for Pop Smoke’s debut posthumous album release. “People sit back and think they know, but they don’t know s–t. They’re like, ‘oh, this is not what Pop would like.’ I’m like, ‘f–k you talkin’ about?’”

Months after Pop Smoke, aka Bashar Jackson’s murder in February 2020, Victor showed off the album cover artwork from Abloh on his Instagram page. Comments piled up, with many calling the artwork from the Louis Vuitton designer “lazy” among other scathing descriptions.

He continued: “When we did the video for ‘Shake the Room,’ like that whole concept and idea was Virgil’s idea, and when we were going through the process, like at first, Pop was like—’cause, y’know, he’d never had a video like that—he was like, ‘I don’t know,’ but he trusted Virgil’s vision, so it would’ve been the same thing.”

The backlash – which included a fan petition – compelled Victor and the label to replace the cover art, and Abloh would later delete the image from his own social media accounts. Conceptual artist Ryder Riggs was then commissioned to create a new album cover. It would eventually be a chrome rose against a pitch-black background.

“I was brought on to do design and creative direction for this project, and I was experimenting with flowers in 3D at the time,” Riggs said in a Complex interview after the cover’s debut. “While I was experimenting, I realized, ‘Oh my God, this is so perfect.’ People use flowers to memorialize people, and by fixing it in metal, it’s taking something that’s fleeting and making it permanent.”

Check out the entire interview below.


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03 Jul 2023

Raekwon The Chef’s Wedding Guests Include Nas, Ghostface, Fat Joe & More

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Congratulations are in order for Hip-Hop legend, Raekwon The Chef, as the Wu-Tang Clan swordsman will now have some help in the kitchen. He tied the knot at a star-studded wedding over the weekend.

Taking to Instagram to show love to his recently wed brother from another mother, Nas congratulated the “Incarcerated Scarfaces” rapper and shared pics from the ceremony with a caption that read, “Rae Day! Congratulations to @raekwon & his family. ~From the family.” From the pictures posted alone you can see there were a few Hip-Hop legends in attendance as Nas, Fat Joe, N.O.R.E. and fellow Wu-Tang Clan members were on hand to help Rae celebrate his newfound union to a woman we only know as Jasmine.

With successful Hip-Hop friends like this, y’all know those wedding gifts and wedding envelopes were next level. Just sayin’.

Even Faith Evans joined in on the festivities and performed for Rae and his new wife to get their new life off to the right vibe.

As spotted on HipHopDX, check out pics and videos of the celebration below and wish Raekwon and his Wiz the best in the comments section below.

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03 Jul 2023

FN DaDealer, YSL Records Signee, Charged With Murder

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FN DaDealer, a young rapper signed to Young Thug‘s Young Stoner Life recording label, was arrested and charged with murder. FN DaDealer is currently being held without bond in Fulton County, Georgia.

As reported by local news outlet WSB-TV, FN DaDealer, 20, was arrested in late June after he was connected to a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in Mechanicsville.

FN DaDealer, real name Jakobe Moody, was arrested on June 29 and charged in the shooting death of Tremaine Glasper, 28. The outlet adds that Moody is currently behind bars at Fulton County Jail facing charges of murder along with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

According to details provided by the outlet, Glasper was shot on June 5 while sitting inside a vehicle, prompting officials to respond to calls regarding the shooting. The investigation revealed that Moody was one of three gunmen.

The outlet spoke with Moody’s mother, who claims her son was not involved in any street activity and that he was primarily focused on his burgeoning music career.

Police did not reveal details about the other two suspects.

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