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Valentine’s Day is typically all about red roses, boxes of chocolates, teddy bears, balloons, and other trinkets designed to express our love for those dear to us. However, there is a segment of the population that likes to light up their loved ones’ lives in another fashion via cannabis, and we’ve got a handy gift guide for some ideas.
I’ve been candid in these pages in expressing that my use of cannabis isn’t purely recreational. While I try to treat the plant as the medicine it can be for various ailments, I can admit that there are times I’m just looking to kick back and relax. To me, this guide is geared towards sharing the love and the leaf.
I’ve got some brands here that I’ve featured before and continue to use in my daily life, along with some items I’ve yet to try but will make certain to do so very soon.
Stay tuned for our upcoming 420 gift guide, which will be a hefty one, in April.
Happy Valentine’s Day to the lovers out there. Indulge safely.
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1. Blazy Susan Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2024
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Blazy Susan was founded in Colorado by Virginia native Will Breakell and is one of my favorite brands in the space. Rolling trays, smell-proof fanny packs, rolling papers, rose wraps, you name it. I am a huge fan of their products, including their resin blaster cleaner.
Check them out here.
2. Dazed x Stache
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Dazed Cannabis, a Black and veteran-owned cannabis company, partnered with the Stache apparel brand for a limited hoodie and stash bag collaboration. The hoodie comes equipped with a smell-proof pocket, which Stache is known for. Grab one for you and your boo so you can mob in the city on the low.
Get yours here.
3. G Pen
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G Pen offers a wide array of devices for concentrates and flower and has several collaborations including one with Dr. Greenthumb, fronted by B-Real of Cypress Hill fame. I featured the G Pen Dash+ in the image space, which is great for those of us who either don’t feel like rolling up or for folks like me who aren’t very good at it.
Learn more here.
4. Stündenglass Kompact Gravity Infuser – Pink
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Those of us of a certain age might know about the infamous gravity bongs, especially early in our quest in cannabis consumption. Stündenglass improves upon the tech by way of its award-winning gravity infusers. Look at that pink! Doesn’t that just scream romance?
Check them out here.
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Nkechi Diallo, also once known as Rachel Dolezal has lived quite the charmed life and is currently in hot water with an Arizona school district. The former Rachel Dolezal is currently working as an elementary school teacher north of Tucson, Ariz. but parents are raising concerns over her OnlyFans page being advertised publicly.
Local outlet KVOA shared a brief report that Nkechi Diallo reportedly works in the Catalina Foothills School District, which rests north of Tucson in Pima County. According to KVOA’s report, Diallo’s public social media pages point to her OnlyFans page and users on social media have been posting images and videos from the site featuring Diallo in sexually explicit poses and the like.
Most might remember Diallo, under her former name Rachel Dolezal, was fired in 2014 by the NAACP in Spokane, Wash. due to not revealing that she was actually a white woman posing as a Black woman. She was also an African Studies professor in the state ahead of changing her name officially.
From what we know, Diallo’s OnlyFans page has been in operation for a few years now, and before it was just teasing and maybe partial nudity. The streets are saying that she’s doing a lot more than posing these days.
racheldolezalIt isn’t known what actions, if any, the Catalina Foothills School District will take, nor could we determine if the OnlyFans page operated by Diallo is still active. Further, we weren’t able to find out the sources of the leaked images that have been shared across Reddit and X, formerly Twitter.
On X, the reactions to the recent mention of Diallo’s OnlyFans, which was public knowledge to some, have been cropping up. We’ve got them listed below.
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9. Bingo Was Not On My Bingo Card This Year
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Jordan The Stallion captured the hearts of millions via his popular TikTok channel where he pokes fun at his mature look despite being in his 20s. In a new clip featuring his signature deadpan humor, Jordan The Stallion was able to obtain an appearance from the legendary Method Man, which got a big reaction on social media.
What we’ve learned about Jordan The Stallion is that his birth name is Jordan Hewlett, and he hails from Riverside, Calif. A former baseball player, Jordan’s rags-to-riches story is one that he’s told in media appearances, and he’s currently sitting at just over 12 million followers on TikTok.
The new clip features Jordan holding his smartphone to film himself speaking in a mirror, a style he’s perfected since starting his page in 2020. After hilariously explaining that outlets have been writing about him, with one calling him the older brother of Method Man, Jordan then brings the Wu-Tang Clan swordsman into the frame, and the pair continue their banter.
What makes this completely hilarious is that Method Man, who turns 53 this year, might have children around the same age as Jordan The Stallion. What should be noted is that M-E-T-H-O-D Man has kept himself in fantastic shape over the years and it looks like Jordan’s been hitting the weights hard as well. And yes, in this particular video, that we’ll share below, we can kind of see the similarities.
Check out the video and the reactions from X, formerly Twitter, below.
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Suge Knight might not be free to roam the streets at the moment, but he still presents as a menacing figure even as he sits behind bars. The former Death Row Records honcho had choice words for his former signee, Snoop Dogg, and alleged that the rapper’s wife has been stepping out with other men among other jabs.
As spotted on X, formerly Twitter, Suge Knight took offense at Snoop Dogg replying to a Vl*dTV Instagram post suggesting that people pray for Knight after the outlet posted a story about the mogul taking shots at Diddy, Russell Simmons, Andre Harrell, and Dr. Dre.
Knight then shared another video of Snoop talking brazenly with another man and threatening the fade, with Knight writing in the caption, “If you only could act like this when the camera rolling Snoop Dogg.”
However, the big haymaker of the series of tweets was Knight posting a picture reportedly featuring Snoop’s wife, Shante Broadus, allegedly on vacation in Hawaii with an unnamed man. Again, we’re not clear on the context of the image, we’re just reporting what was shared with the public.
We’ve scanned the online streets for a response from Snoop Dogg but it appears he’s taking a higher road now. Some online are even saying that with Snoop now in the ownership of Knight’s former label, the beef stems from that.
In the midst of these tweets aimed at the Long Beach veteran, Suge Knight is also making wild claims about Steve Harvey and Diddy.
Check out reactions from X below.
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Jada Kingdom continues to try and mind her business as she leans further into her relationship with Pardison Fontaine. However, given Pardi’s famous ex-girlfriend, Megan Thee Stallion, fans are pulling out all the stops to compare the two women and are currently debating their twerking skills.
All of this is very strange behavior but walk with us slowly so that we can catch the readers up. A video from the top of the year featuring Pardison Fontaine with Jada Kingdom dancing has been clipped up next to a video of Megan Thee Stallion dancing.
A clip of the two artists was posted by @YSLONIKA on X, formerly Twitter, and has since gone viral with over 2 million views. Writing “Jada ate her up and she’s fuIIy dressed too,” the post suggests that Kingdom has the superior cheek situation to Hot Girl Meg although both women are beautiful in their own right.
This swiftly turned into the Jada Kingdom vs. Megan Thee Stallion twerking dance battle with some fans on X simply wondering why such a corny debate is kicking off and that we should just be enjoying the sights among other replies.
Kingdom was already in the crosshairs of Meg’s fanbase, The Hotties, after some connected bars from the “COBRA” single to her Jamaican counterpart while making her the target of infidelity rumors in connection to Pardi. Kingdom has since said she was not the woman Megan allegedly walked in on with Pardi and has not addressed the issue since.
On X, we’re watching the very odd debate play out. We’ve got the best reactions we could muster below.
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Drake has often bragged about his prowess with the ladies and even once alluded to his, ahem, situation on a popular song a few years back. Now, The Boy is trending online after an alleged leaked video featuring Drake and his other “boy” went viral online.
To be completely honest with the readers, we have no idea where the alleged video came from, if it’s truly a leak, or why the footage is out there for the world to see. In a brief drive-by of the video, viewed for editorial purposes, a person thought to be Drake is sitting on a couch while holding on to the “joystick” with a shot of the person holding a smartphone to capture the image.
Drizzy once pointed to the size of his appendage on A$AP Rocky’s hit posse cut “F*ckin’ Problems” with 2 Chainz, and Kendrick Lamar, immortalizing himself by saying, “I don’t really say this often/But this long d*ck n*gga ain’t for the long talkin’.”
If the clip that’s going around X and other online spaces truly is the OVO Honcho, it appears that some agree that Drake wasn’t lying during that particular bar. As expected, some fans are saying that the leak was done on purpose to keep some of the rumored Megan Thee Stallion smoke off him, while others are showing off some incredible thirst.
We’ve got reactions from all sides below.
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Kanye West aka Ye was not a fixture at the 68th Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 4) but his presence certainly loomed after his Watch The Throne collaborator Jay-Z ruffled some feathers. With Taylor Swift taking home the coveted Album of The Year Grammy Award, Kanye West saw his name trending on X with users connecting the dots between Hov’s epic speech and Swift’s win.
Ever since the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards when Kanye West famously interrupted Taylor Swift during an acceptance speech, the pair has been reluctantly tied to one another. Using similar talking points Ye used in the past, Jay-Z dressed down the Recording Academy and the fact that his wife, Beyoncé, has never won the Album of The Year award.
Fans on X noted that Kanye played Jay-Z’s speech via his Instagram Story feed, which reads to most as a cosign and perhaps a possibility that the pair are in good standing with each other. That said, the reaction to Jay-Z’s viral Grammys moment is both filled with admiration and some calling it a whiny display of entitlement — which is the sentiment of social media fans, not one we’re openly supporting.
Ye, who last won the Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Grammy Award in 2021 for his album Jesus Is King, has 21 trophies in all.
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign are gearing up to release their multi-volume collaborative project Vultures, the first of which is slated to drop on Feb. 9.
Check out some reactions to Ye trending in the wake of the 68th Grammy Awards below.
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Jay-Z doesn’t make many public appearances where he speaks these days, but that shifted majorly over the weekend. During his acceptance speech at the annual Grammy Awards ceremony for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took a slight shot at the Recording Academy and mentioned that his wife, Beyoncé, has a leading 32 Grammy Awards but has never won the coveted Album of The Year trophy.
Flanked by his daughter Blue Ivy, Jay-Z took to the stage but humbly thanked Dr. Dre, the man for whom the award is named. In a loose moment for both men, Hov is heard lavishing praise upon the veteran producer, who bashfully tried to keep the moment focused on the man on the stage.
From there, the rapper born Shawn Carter launched into a freewheeling speech where he mentioned Beyoncé, who looked on with a beaming smile, stating that he doesn’t understand how the Academy hasn’t voted for her to win the AOTY Grammy.
Jay then spoke about the nature of the award show itself, mentioning the historic win for DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince and their 1989 boycott of the ceremony. The Brooklyn bomber then made mention of how the pair went on to watch the Grammys anyway. He then turned the moment on himself after he boycotted the Grammys in 1998 for snubbing the last DMX, who had a monster year with two top-charting and acclaimed albums.
It didn’t end there as Jay continued to shoot from the hip, saying that some nominees will feel like they were robbed and that some might actually get robbed before wrapping it up and saying that some people probably didn’t deserve to be nominated.
Check out the speech from Jay-Z below. Keep scrolling for reactions from X, formerly Twitter.
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Jamaica is a popular destination for many Americans, but the U.S. government has issued a recent travel alert advisory for the Caribbean island. According to reports, Jamaica is undergoing a recent spat of murders and other crimes over the past few weeks, prompting a Level 3 advisory.
The State Department issued its travel advisory late last month, citing the recent crimes in Jamaica, which include murders, sexual assaults, and robberies, even inside all-inclusive resorts where travelers are thought to be safer. As it stands, the government agency is suggesting potential visitors to reconsider traveling there.
From the advisory:
Country Summary: Violent crimes, such as home invasions, armed robberies, sexual assaults, and homicides, are common. Sexual assaults occur frequently, including at all-inclusive resorts.
Local police often do not respond effectively to serious criminal incidents. When arrests are made, cases are infrequently prosecuted to a conclusive sentence. Families of U.S. citizens killed in accidents or homicides frequently wait a year or more for final death certificates to be issued by Jamaican authorities. The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica has for several years been among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. U.S. government personnel under COM security responsibility are prohibited from traveling to the areas listed below, from using public buses, and from driving outside of prescribed areas of Kingston at night.
On Jan. 29, the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica added, “We strongly encourage you to obtain traveler’s insurance, including medical evacuation insurance, before traveling to Jamaica. The Department of State does not pay medical bills.”
News of the travel advisory made its rounds on social media with reactions varying from humor to some looking at this as an opportunity to visit the country at a cheaper price.
See the reactions below.
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Nicki Minaj and her beef with Megan Thee Stallion has become quite a hot topic, and a recent chat with Joe Budden displayed the depths of that rift. Via Twitter Spaces, Nicki Minaj went on a rant targeting Megan Thee Stallion, suggesting that the Houston star was never shot among other jabs.
On Wednesday (Jan. 31), Nicki Minaj joined Joe Budden, who maintains a robust Twitter Spaces community, for a 40-minute chat with the unavoidable topic of Megan Thee Stallion at the center. At several points in the discussion, Minaj suggested that Megan was never shot by Tory Lanez and that Roc Nation and an entity she referred to as “the machine” is responsible for the issue between the women.
Minaj also shared that she believes social media users were being paid $250 to disparage her online, only to turn around and say they’re supporting her diss track “Bigfoot” and once more saying the so-called machine is behind all of this.
“This is a dialogue between me, the machine and a bunch of different machines having to come together constantly using different people. When one fails, let’s go somewhere else and try,” Minaj said.
Because of Minaj’s vocal tones and voice changes, some were suggesting, as they’ve done previously, that the Queens superstar has a substance abuse problem. However, Minaj claims she’s never done cocaine and even said she’s willing to be tested.
On Twitter, reactions to Nicki Minaj discussing Megan Thee Stallion with Joe Budden went wide. We’ve got a handful of them below.
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