ESSENCE MAGAZINE FRONT COVER (JULY 2013 ISSUE) – SERENA WILLIAMS
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QUOTES OF THE DAY: UK RAPPER AKALA
“I remember the Daily Mail wrote an article about my sister (Ms Dynamite) at the time,” he says, “and essentially their argument was, ‘Well, she’s not really black, is she – she’s quite clever and she’s got a white mum!’ It was so funny the way they tried to co-opt us. Remember that big story about Bob Marley and his ‘white dad’ last year? He was unequivocally black power, but he’s rewritten as this fun-loving Rasta. Mark Duggan [the Tottenham man shot by police […]
JUMP OFF UK DEBATE: TULISA, MIKE GLC, THE SUN AND DRUGS STING DRAMA
Yesterday the proverbial hit the fan for N-Dubz star/former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos and her ‘best friend’ rapper Mike GLC (CLICK HERE to read all about this mess). Jump Off debaters Miss Lala, Teef and Letitia Hector discuss the situation. WARNING: SOME PROFANITY … Since The Sun put Tulisa and Mike GLC’s business out on road many have actually defended the pair and have gone as far as to accuse the tabloid rag (who are back on their expose grind) of snitching and entrapment. Hahaha. Miss Lala summed up my thoughts on […]
UK NEWS /VIDEO: SINGER AND FORMER X-FACTOR JUDGE TULISA CONTOSTAVLOS ALLEGEDLY ‘EXPOSED AS DRUGS FIXER’
N-Dubz star and former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has been allegedly exposed as a drugs fixer after she boasted to an undercover reporter from The Sun that she could get him any drugs he wanted saying, “Half the guys I know are drug dealers. One’s a massive cocaine dealer. He’s my best friend. He’s a gangster — he’s my gangster.” According to the newspaper her dealer friend is rapper Mike GLC who allegedly sold £800 worth of cocaine to the undercover reporter after […]
UK RADIO NEWS: FORMER CHOICE FM PRESENTER AND HEAD OF MUSIC KIRK ANTHONY DIES
It has been reported that former Choice FM presenter Kirk Anthony has died in Lagos, Nigeria. Earlier today radio station Smooth 98.1FM posted the following messages: With very heavy hearts, @Smooth981FM announces the passing of our dear friend & colleague, Kirk Anthony, who passed away yesterday. #RIPKirk — Smooth98.1FM (@Smooth981FM) June 1, 2013 Words cannot express the magnitude of this loss. He was truly an amazing man who did what he loved with so much passion. #RIPKirk — Smooth98.1FM (@Smooth981FM) June 1, […]
UK WEB SERIES: UNFAMOUS (EPISODE 2)
Check out new black British teen web series Unfamous. … Watch Episode 1
UK EVENT: THE I’MPOSSIBLE CONVERSATION, 2ND ANNIVERSARY (SUMMER EDITION 2013)
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WOMAN INJURED DURING MIGUEL’S ‘ENERGETIC’ BILLBOARD PERFORMANCE MAY SUE THE STAR
During his Billboard Music Awards performance last week R&B star Miguel got over excited and ended up injuring music fan Khyati Shah with his high-heeled boot. Watch below. … *Trying my hardest not laugh but failing miserably again* After this unfortunate incident Miguel invited Shah backstage, apologised and a gleeful Shah stated during post show interviews that she was “ok”. Today however it has been reported that Shah has hired herself an attorney and plans on suing the star. Her attorney Vip Bhola […]
WOMAN SUES MAC COSMETICS AFTER ALLEGEDLY CONTRACTING HERPES FROM RIHANNA ENDORSED LIPSTICK
The NY Daily News reports that a woman has claimed in a lawsuit that she contracted herpes at a Rihanna concert in Brooklyn from the singer’s RiRi Woo lipstick. 28 year old Starkeema Greenidge (yes that’s right STARKEEMA) from Harlem, New York alleges she contracted the virus when a representative of MAC operating inside a pop-up shop at the concert applied a used tube of lipstick on her upper lip. The employee instructed her to “press her lips together and spread the lipstick around,” according to the suit. “(MAC) didn’t use […]
UK NEWS: NEIGHBOURS SAY MOTHER OF FOUR RACIALLY ABUSED HER OWN CHILDREN AND MADE THEIR LIVES HELL
This is just sad. Social Services where the hell are you??? Via The Daily Mail A foul-mouthed mother of four who inflicted ‘a vile onslaught of racial and homophobic abuse’ on her own children that forced neighbours to sleep in their cellars has been slapped with an Asbo. Jobless and single Lauren Beckham, 31, verbally abused her four mixed-race children – aged from one to 12 – ‘day in and day out’ since she moved into a house in Shipley, West Yorkshire, […]
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