The Golden Globes were in full effect on Sunday night and brought out the biggest and brightest stars. The Black Star power was definitely on display on the red carpet. The night included some pretty big wins for people like Tracee Ellis Ross and Donald Glover who won an award for his TV series “Atlanta.” Issa Rae who is pictured above was nominated but did not win. Her chances for next year are looking very promising.
“Hidden Figures” beats out “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” for the no.1 spot at the box office.
Via Variety:
Fox’s “Hidden Figures” has topped Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” by about $1 million for the No. 1 spot at the North American box office, with $22.8 million at 2,471 sites, final figures showed Monday.
Sunday estimates had indicated that “Rogue One” was ahead by less than $200,000. But the comedy-drama “Hidden Figures” performed well ahead of those estimates on Sunday to deny “Rogue One” a fourth consecutive box office crown.
Chris Brown and Soulja Boy are taking their petty beef to the next level by hitting the boxing ring!
Soulja boy announced that he has signed his contract and the fight is “It’s going down!”
Chris Brown added: “BOXING MATCH SET. Legally. Man to Man. NO MORE DISSING AND NO MORE BULLSHIT.”
Despite Soulja Boy’s apology the feud with Chris Brown is still raging. On Wednesday (Jan. 4), both artists confirmed that a boxing match has been set for March.
One of my favorite male R&B singers of the new school has released a new song. August Alsina announced that he will be releasing a new album entitled “Drugs.” He also released a song of the same title on his Soundcloud.
According to August, the title is a reflection of a major realization the singer had while crafting new music.
“I realized how addicted to certain ways of living life I was, addicted to chaos, drama, confusion,” he said. “Lately, for me, it’s been about breaking the cycle and creating a new normal. That new normal is love. I have a newfound addiction. Through love and beautiful women, I’ve been able to find myself, reach higher places within myself.”
This marks the start of a new era for the singer. “Sooooo fucking excited to finally beable to release new music!!!!” he wrote to fans. “Thank you all for being so patient with me on my journey… Im so proud to share all of the newness with yal & spread vibrations of love through the music.”
2016 has come and gone and now we are almost done with our first week of the new year!! R.I.P to all that we lost in 2016, including Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and George Micheal to name a few.
2017 has brought additions as well, big congrats to Janet Jackson and her husband, Wissam Al Mana for welcoming their first son, Eissa Al Mana. Janet is 50 years old.
Pink also added a special addition to her family. She gave birth to Jameson Moon Hart December 26, 2016. Pink and husband Carey Hart already has a daughter.
It did not take long for drama to ensue in the first week of 2017. Our favorite shit starter Chris Brown has been embroiled in “Twitter/IG beef” apparently with Soulja Boy for liking one of Karreuche Tran’s pictures on Instagram. As we all know Karreuche is the ex-girlfriend of Chris.
It did not stop there, when Karreuche added her 2 cents, Chris went in on her:
Big drama and controversy also ensued when gospel great Kim Burrell went on a tirade attacking the LGBT community in a sermon that she preached, which also took aim at Bishop Eddie Long.
In the fiery sermon Kim tells the congregation,
“I came to tell you about sin. That sin nature. That perverted homosexual spirit, and the spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women, and it’s caused us pain on the body of Christ.”
“You as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted… You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast, you are perverted.”
“Watching Bishop Eddie Long go down to nothing is an embarrassment to the church.”
“Nobody would be thinking that you had aids if a homosexual man didn’t come out and reveal what you did behind closed doors.”
Kim Burrell was scheduled to appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show along with Pharrell to perform their song ‘I See a Victory’ from the Hidden Figures soundtrack. However, Ellen confirmed via Twitter that Ms. Burrell would not be performing.
Controversy is still brewing about Mariah Carey’s ill-fated New Year’s Eve performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. Both sides have been going back and forth pointing the finger with Mariah ultimately feeling “sabotaged” by the Dick Clark’s production team. Now Mariah has fired creative-director Anthony Burrell from her team confirmed by E! News.
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