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Kai Cenat isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Sorry, Elliott Wilson. The popular Twitch streamer shared with his fans that he will stream with his most prominent guest yet, Kanye West.
During a stream on Thursday (Jan. 23), Cenat told his viewers that he’s heading to Japan to hang out with alleged billionaire Kanye West, aka Ye. He revealed that he and West have been in constant communication and is very confident that he will get Ye on his popular stream.
“He’s a very good, motherf**king dude,” Cenat revealed to the chat before doubling down on his confidence the stream is happening. “I think he’ll be open to the stream. If I had to say a percentage, it’s at like probably 90 percent, my n**ga. We’ve been talking almost every day.” Cenat also noted the College Dropout crafter has been “highly responsive.”
Cenat expressed shock that he and the West would be linking up, adding, “Never would I have thought I’d be able to say that. It’s set. We goin’ crazy.”
KANYE WEST
KAI CENAT
STREAM IN JAPAN 🎥
🚨COMING SOON🚨 pic.twitter.com/kP9M7lMhsp
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Remember When Kanye West Called Kai Cenat an Industry Plant?
West wanting to link up with Cenat is an epic turn of events. We didn’t forget that West called Cenat an “industry plant” during an interview with Justin LaBoy.
“Of course!” Ye said when LaBoy asked if Cenat was an industry plant. “That exact genre is the most industry plants. It’s about influence and mind control. And then he gonna mention my daughter’s name a week later. N***a, don’t mention my daughter’s name and then you dissing what’s paying they $200,000 a month child support. … Don’t mention this and then mention my daughter name. It be that kinda shit where I’m like that don’t make god happy.”
Yeezy might also have been mad that Cenat claimed that his daughter, North West, said Cenat was her favorite streamer.
Then there was the moment Cenat clowned a pair of pants that Ye sent him that didn’t fit.
Kanye West sent Kai Cenat the wrong Size Pants😭 pic.twitter.com/bjd1ahhOnt
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“If you posting something negative, you sit on the wrong side of the future ’cause we out here stepping away from Adidas,” Ye said to Justin LaBoy. “He gonna talk shit about my pants.”
Ye called Kai an “industry plant” after his clothes from Yeezy didn’t fit correctly on stream. pic.twitter.com/XoT2sw9fzV
— Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) April 23, 2024
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Hmmmm.
We have to tell Kai Cenat to beware and not let Ye use you to promote whatever nonsense he’s pushing.
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Playboy Magazine is back from print purgatory and has tapped Lori Harvey to grace the cover of the return issue.
You read the right: Lori Harvey is gracing the legendary men’s magazine cover, returning to magazine shelves for the first time in five years.
Harvey, who has become quite popping among Black male celebrities, teased the Playboy cover with a tantalizing video she shared on her Instagram account.
In the small but very hot clip, Harvey rocks a sparkling one-piece with furry boots in one look and, in another, a low-cut dress that teases her g-string.
“For nearly seven decades, PLAYBOY wasn’t just a magazine—it was a movement,” said Mike Guy, Editor in Chief, PLAYBOY Magazine. “This issue celebrates our rich history while embracing a bold new vision for the future, blending nostalgia with innovation to inspire a new generation of readers.”
Harvey is not the only celebrity to be featured in the magazine. Comedian Nikki Glazer will also participate in the highly coveted Playboy interview, touching on her rise to stardom, her unfiltered approach to life, and what drives her comedic genius.
Oh, and of course, it wouldn’t be an official PLAYBOY Magazine without the Playmate of the Year, which will be revealed during this year’s Super Bowl.
Lori Harvey Has Social Media Sizzling
Fans have been reacting positively and letting out their thirst in anticipation of seeing what the cover shoot will look like.
“This is huge for my sister. Congrats Lori!!!” one user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote.
Another user wrote, “It looks like they’re reaching for an entire new audience! They have such longevity as a company and Lori is a great choice. She’s gorgeous.”
We wonder how her dad, Steve Harvey, feels about this cover.
The magazine can be preordered now. It will be available at Barnes & Noble newsstands nationwide on February 10, 2025.
You can see more reactions in the gallery below.
1. Go ahead and shoot yo shot
2. Yes she does look amazing
3. Same sis
4. It sure is
5. We all are.
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The dating scene for the past few years has been struggle to say the least and if ya’ll thought things would be easier for celebrity couples expecting a baby, think again.
According to People, Coi Leray has taken to social media to fill the world in on how her baby daddy, Trippie Redd did her dirty while she was three months pregnant with their child. Taking to Instagram to break the devastating news the “Self Love” rapper wrote “💔 Nothing worst than being cheated on. I wouldn’t wish this pain on my worst enemy. 😢 God bless.” The news comes just days after Leray revealed that she and Trippie Redd were expecting.
Continuing to share her feelings on social media, Leray shared a post from X which read “I believe that people’s actions can make it clear that they have no respect or regard for you, regardless of what they say. Their actions clearly indicate that they don’t value you. When you notice this, take it for what it is. Remember, actions speak louder than words.”
People reached out to reps for both Coi Leray and Trippie Redd, but haven’t received a response as of yet.
Our only question is, why do women keep letting Trippie Redd smash? No shots. Just sayin.’
Interestingly enough Trippie Redd and Coi Leray did briefly date back in 2019 before calling it quits. Then things picked back up in 2024 after Trippie seemed to make his way back into Leray’s life.
People reports:
In August 2024, Leray and Redd seemed to rekindle their romance when the “Lemon Cars” performer posted a video call between her and Redd on X. “Sleeping on FaceTime, waking up on FaceTime,” she wrote in one post.
In September 2024, Redd confirmed to TMZ that he and Leray were dating again and he slid into her DMs in hopes of giving their romance a second chance.
You know what they say, sometimes God brings your ex back into your life to see if you’re still that [redacted].
Whether Leray will just continue on as a single parent given Redd’s infidelity or if she’ll forgive him in an attempt to make things work is anyone’s guess. But either way, we’re wondering if Benzino will get involved in this situation as someone done did his baby girl dirty.
What do y’all think about Coi Leray revealing that Trippie Redd played her while being pregnant? Let us know in the comments section below.
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CNN is embarking on a massive round of job cuts, citing a new restructuring plan by its CEO to focus on a digital-based future.
According to reports, CNN has announced its plans for massive layoffs within the company. The news was delivered to employees in a memo from CEO Mark Thompson Thursday (Jan. 23), in advance of the network restructuring to be better modernized for a digital-based audience. It comes a year after the network, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, already enacted a round of layoffs leading to the exit of 100 employees. That represented 2.9% of the 3,500-member worldwide workforce at the time.
“I know that whatever the total number of job losses, the impact on the individuals involved can be immense,” Thompson wrote in the memo. “The process of change is essential if we’re to thrive in the future, but I both acknowledge and regret its very real human consequences.” CNN is laying 200 people, representing a cut of 6% to its workforce. The layoffs will not affect the network’s more recognizable names, as they are under contract.
Former Fox News host Chris Wallace and Alysin Camarota, who were prominent figures on CNN, recently left after their contracts expired.
The restructuring plan includes a goal to reach $1 billion in revenue by 2030. Part of that plan is to hire at least 100 people in the upcoming months to build a stronger digital presence focused on “new high-quality journalism and storytelling.” This will also include work on a “lifestyle-oriented digital product” in development by CNN. It follows the company installing a digital paywall on its website for the first time for consistently heavy users, who can access it at a monthly price of $3.99.
One outspoken opinion on the move was expressed by President Donald Trump, who mentioned it while bashing the MSNBC network on his Truth Social media platform Wednesday evening (Jan. 22): “MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn’t even have a right to broadcast — Only in America!”
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1. So Trump lied basically
2. It sure will haunt him.
3. Suckers
4. Listen to Black women
5. It was never about the economy
6. We tried to warn folks
8. It’s going to be a spooky 4 years
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Sen. Bradford Blackmon, a Black Democratic Party state senator in Mississippi, introduced a bill, the “Contraception Begins At Erection Act” that pokes fun at the position of anti-abortion critics. While the bill would most likely fail to pass, the Contraception Begins At Erection Act was designed by Sen. Blackmon to highlight men and their role in pregnancies and place the onus on them to be active in the process.
Local outlet WLBT reports that Mississippi’s Sen. Bradford Blackmon drafted and posted the bill earlier this week, which would make masturbation against the law and would result in fines that range between $1,000 to $10,000 for each offense. Sen. Blackmon said such self-assisted emissions would be allowed for sperm bank donations or when using contraception that prevents pregnancies.
“All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation,” Blackmon said via a statement to WLBT. “This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”
Mississippi is one of a dozen states that either have a full ban or mostly total ban of abortion according to data shared by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Blackmon
The full bill can be read via the state’s legislative bill status system here.
On X, folks are applauding Sen. Blackmon’s bill for calling out the hypocrisy of critics and the policing of women’s bodies done by certain segments of elected officials and the wider population
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6. Laughter died.
8. Someone didn’t read the story.
10. Another non-reader.
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The Nashville high school shooter was a Black teen revealed to have embraced neo-Nazi ideals such as being a “Groyper incel,” according to his social media.
The male student who shot two fellow students, killing one at a high school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday morning (January 22) was revealed to be an African-American student who left a manifesto posted to social media showing his embrace of white nationalism and self-hate. He was identified as Solomon Henderson, a 17-year-old in the Reserve Officers Training Corp at Antioch High School. Henderson would take his own life after the shooting.
The 300-page manifesto was posted to Henderson’s account on X, formerly Twitter, four hours before he walked into the cafeteria at the school at 11 A.M. Central time and fired multiple rounds with a pistol, killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and grazing one 17-year-old unidentified male student. The document showed that Henderson’s motivation for the shooting was a hatred of Black people. “I’m ashamed to be black. I feel like s*** being a n******”, he wrote in the text.
Another message in the document posted before the incident read, “God I am ugly. 4 hours to go,” which was imposed over a photo of Henderson. The document also revealed that Henderson considered himself a “Groyper Incel,” a term used by followers of the neo-Nazi figure Nick Fuentes and members of the involuntarily celibate movement. Henderson cited Fuentes as a major influence, in addition to far-right figure Candace Owens and Kanye West aka Ye, along with other white nationalist mass murderers in inspiring his violence.
Henderson’s manifesto was also filled with notes on his plans for the shooting, stating that he initially planned to commit the act on Thursday but moved it up because he was scared of “failing to kill myself or go to jail” and that he aimed to “kill at least 10 people.” He also detailed his embrace of Neo-Nazi ideals, writing: “We must aid the Aryans regardless of our race.”
Henderson also was confirmed by police to have live-streamed the shooting on multiple platforms, including Kick which shut down his account shortly after the incident. “We extend our thoughts to everyone impacted by this event,” the company said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. “Violence has no place on Kick. We are actively working with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to support their investigation.”
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams sat down for an interview with Tucker Carlson, sparking more concern and drawing more criticism.
A day after attending the inauguration of President Donald Trump, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was more vocal about his criticisms of former President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party in an interview with Tucker Carlson. The interview, which was previously taped, aired Tuesday night (Jan. 21). “People often say, well, you know, ‘you don’t sound like a Democrat’ and ‘you seem to have left the party,’” Adams said in the interview at Gracie Mansion. “No, the party left me, and it left working-class people.” Adams has stated he will run for office again as a Democrat (he was once a registered Republican in 1990), but has cozied up to Republicans heavily in the last year since being federally indicted on corruption charges.
The 50-minute interview also showed Adams attacking former President Biden, stating that in conversations with aides in the White House, he was told to tone down his criticisms of the administration’s policies regarding migrants entering the U.S. “Basically, be a good Democrat, Eric,” Adams said to Carlson. “That was the basic overall theme.” He also related what another Biden aide told him: “Listen, this is like a gallstone. It’ll pass.” Carlson also touched on Adams’ five federal indictments. “I have no reason to suck up to you,” he said. “I thought it was ridiculous.” Adams responded gaily, ‘When I read it, I was like, where are the bags of cash?”
The interview was a sea change, as the embattled mayor had previously blasted Carlson as someone who “perpetuates racist, anti-immigrant propaganda.” Adams has been under fire after abruptly canceling his appearances at events to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday (Jan. 20) to attend Trump’s inauguration, and he offered no comments on Trump’s subsequent executive orders. State Senator Zellnor Myrie, who is running against Adams in the upcoming Democratic primary, ripped the interview in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“If you’re busy tonight, you can catch him on the Steve Bannon podcast tomorrow.” Even one of Adams’ strongest allies, the Reverend Al Sharpton, questioned Adams’ intentions. “To say you’re not going to raise your eyebrows would be being dishonest,” Sharpton said in a segment on MSNBC. “I think this is going to cause a lot of us to say, ‘What is this all about?’”
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Looks like another reality TV romance has bitten the dust. Ashley Adionser and Tyler Francis, the Season 7 couple from Netflix’s hit series, Love is Blind, who once set our hearts aflutter, have decided to call it quits.
A little over a year after jumping the broom together on the show, the crowd-favorite coupe has parted ways, with Ashley issuing a statement confirming their decision to end their relationship, saying:
“After much reflection, I want to share that Tyler and I have been separated for several weeks and have now made the difficult decision to end our marriage,” Ashley said in a statement to People. “While I had hoped for mutual understanding and transparency in our relationship, it has become clear that our paths are no longer aligned, making it impossible for me to continue in this marriage.” She added that she knows that this decision is “necessary” for her own “growth and peace.”
While Ashley’s statement to People didn’t offer details, she concluded her message sharing that she “will value the time and love [they] shared.
“While this chapter is ending, I will always hold respect for the time and love we shared,” Ashley continued. “I kindly ask for privacy during this deeply personal time as I focus on healing and building a new future. Thank you for your understanding and support.”
The couple’s onscreen love story hit a bump when Tyler revealed that he had donated sperm to help a friend, fathering three children that he initially said he had no relationship with. Photos challenging his story, as well as claims from the mother of said children, later circulated online when the season aired. Tyler, who spoke about wanting to have kids multiple times in the show, was side-eyed by many viewers (some of whom began calling him Tyler the Procreator).
During the reunion, Tyler acknowledged that he had lied about not knowing what the children looked like and suggested that he had wanted to protect their privacy. Ashley also clarified that she knew about the situation before having an on-camera discussion, calling it “insulting” to her intelligence for people to “imply that she was blindsided.”
Tyler has yet to publicly comment on the split.
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Warner Bros. is now staring at a $500 million lawsuit from Chris Brown for sexual assault allegations used in its Investigation Discovery docuseries Chris Brown: A History of Violence.
Spotted on Variety, Brown is fed up with his image being tarnished and is taking legal action against Warner Bros. and Ample, accusing the two companies of “libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress through defamatory claims made against him in A History of Violence.”
The “Look At Me Now” crafter claims that the evidence used in the docuseries to substantiate the docuseries claims is false.
Per Variety:
“To put it simply, this case is about the media putting their own profits over the truth,” the lawsuit reads. “Since the beginning of October of 2024, Ample LLC and Warner Brothers were put on notice that they were promoting and publishing false information in their pursuit of likes, clicks, downloads and dollars and to the detriment of Chris Brown. Ultimately, on October 27, 2024, they aired ‘Chris Brown: A History of Violence’ (the ‘Documentary’), knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating basic journalist principles.”
Brown’s lawsuit also says that “Jane Doe’s” claims that the docuseries uses as evidence have been “discredited over and over” and that the alleged victim was “a perpetrator of intimate partner violence and aggressor herself.”
The lawsuit also states that Chris Brown knows he made “mistakes” and that they were “publicly acknowledged and addressed by him in his 2017 documentary, ‘Chris Brown: Welcome To My Life.”
The mistake in question was physically assaulting the biggest pop star on the planet and his former flame, Rihanna. Brown was also hit with a restraining order from another ex-girlfriend, Karrueche.
We shall see how this lawsuit pans out.