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It’s not just gossip, folks: Missy Elliott hit the halls of her high school alma mater on Monday (Oct. 17) to celebrate having a street in her hometown named after her.
“Manor High! This my school I graduated from & yes I was the class clown always in the hallways cuttin up,” she tweeted on Wednesday (Oct. 19) alongside a video of herself ginning and dancing down the hallway. “All the teachers would say Melissa stop beating on the lockers & rapping get to class & now look I’m back Celebrating! #757 VA P-Town.”
The rapper made her return to Portsmouth, Va. to attend the dedication ceremony for the newly renamed Missy Elliott Boulevard and proudly shared a snap of herself holding the street sign with her name across it.
According to local reporting, the ceremony took place at Manor High’s football stadium and was followed by a parade in honor of the “Work It” MC that led from the athletic field out into town. Other A-list attendees included fellow Virginia natives Pusha T, Trey Songz and Timbaland, as well as Congressman Bobby Scott and Governor Glenn Youngkin. Portsmouth Mayor Shannon E. Glover also presented Elliott with a key to her hometown during the dedication.
Last month, Elliott performed during the RIAA Honors: Pioneers in Hip-Hop event in Washington D.C., where Dr. Dre and DJ Jazzy Jeff also took the stage. She recently reminisced on Twitter about working with Destiny’s Child to write “Confessions” for their 1999 sophomore album The Writing’s On the Wall.
Check out Elliott return to her high school for the naming of Missy Elliott Boulevard below.
Manor High! This my school I graduated from & yes I was the class clown always in the hallways cuttin up🤣😂 All the teachers would say Melissa stop beating on the lockers & rapping get to class😫😂 & now look I’m back her Celebrating! #757 VA P-Town🔥 https://t.co/GQkqjZfzYJ pic.twitter.com/Aq9t5GyhhJ— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) October 19, 2022
Megan Thee Stallion rang in her second anniversary with boyfriend Pardison Fontaine on Tuesday (Oct. 18) with a rather, erm, cheeky social media post.
“Yr 2 with U,” the rapper captioned the carousel using a blue heart emoji. Each picture shows the happy couple together. In one, she’s flipping the camera the bird while her rapper beau grins from behind her finger. But fans were in for a surprise after swiping through the first few photos.
Partway through the slideshow, Meg included a candid snap of Fontaine playfully biting her backside. In the next photo, the pair pose together in bed while the “Sweetest Pie” rapper wears a gray mud mask in the name of self-care. The final snap shows Fontaine lifting his shirt to reveal the tattoos across his abs while Megan poses in a sheer green bodysuit.
The superstar’s sweet anniversary post comes just days after she pulled double duty at Saturday Night Live by simultaneously serving as host and musical guest in Studio 8H. During the show, she performed a medley of “NDA” and “Plan B” as well as Traumazine album cut “Anxiety,” and hilariously found herself stuck with Bowen Yang and Ego Nwodim at a club in the music video sketch “We Got Brought.”
Next, Meg is set to headline Amazon Music Live as part of Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday night football coverage. Her livestream concert will air Nov. 3. Other artists participating include Lil Baby and Kane Brown, with host 2 Chainz.
N.O.R.E. spoke out Monday (Oct. 17) about the wave of backlash he’s faced over having Kanye West as a guest on his Revolt TV show Drink Champs.
Speaking to Hot 97’s Pete Rosenberg and Laura Stylez, the rapper explained, “Well the logic was the same way you guys are giving me the platform. I think you guys have love for me, you guys have respect for me, and you guys think that I should have a say. I have a relationship with Ye. When he was going through a lot of the things he was going through, he would call me and he would actually listen to me and take my advice. So I felt I could control the situation. I felt that I could control the interview, and learned early on that I didn’t.”
N.O.R.E. went on to add that “as a Black man, I feel like I failed,” but justified his thought process that “as a journalist,” the controversial interview was considered a success. “Because as a journalist, you’re really not supposed to have an opinion,” he said. “You’re supposed to let people talk. And my biggest critique on Drink Champs is ‘N.O.R.E., you always cut people off!’ And this is the one time I didn’t cut the people, didn’t cut ’em off, and everyone’s mad.”
A bit later, the artist offered a mea culpa for providing his pal with a platform to broadcast what many critics are denouncing as hate speech, saying, “I sincerely apologize to anybody that was hurt by Kanye’s words, by Kanye’s actions.” However, he also claims he called out his longtime friend over his eyebrow-raising statements regarding George Floyd and the Jewish community within minutes of the interview starting.
Watch N.O.R.E.’s full walk-back of his interview with Ye below.
Drake took to social media on Tuesday (Oct. 11) to ring in his son Adonis’ fifth birthday with an adorable look at the kiddo’s birthday party.
“Happy 5th to my twin,” the superstar wrote using a crossed finger and sparkling heart emoji while showing off Adonis’ superhero-themed bash. With his blonde hair in matching cornrows with his famous dad, the five-year-old got to shoot hoops dressed in a red and yellow cape and even met Spider-Man at the party. Meanwhile, Drake was in proud papa mode, wielding a handheld camcorder to capture every magical moment.
Plenty of the Honestly, Nevermind rapper’s famous pals flooded the post’s comments section to wish Adonis well on his big day, too. “Young king !!!! Happy bday !!!!” DJ Khaled wrote with a crown emoji, while Chance The Rapper commented, “Happy Birthday to the lil man” along with two birthday cake emojis. Nicki Minaj also chimed in, writing, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUTE BOY!!!!!!!”
Just last week, Drake added yet another No. 1 to his string of chart-topping hits on Billboard’s Rhythmic Airplay chart thanks to “Jimmy Cooks” featuring 21 Savage ascending to the top spot (chart dated Oct. 8) and earlier this week, it was announced that he’ll play his very first dates in Chile and Argentina as one of the headliners for Lollapalooza’s 2023 iterations in both those countries as well as Brazil alongside a reunited Blink-182 and Billie Eilish. On Nov. 11, Champagne Papi will also hit the stage at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem for a special concert with SiriusXM.
See snaps from Adonis’ 5th birthday party below.
In clips shared by Vice, the rapper also revealed he received a COVID-19 vaccination in a moment Fox News cut from broadcast.