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The Eddie Murphy revival continues with Monday’s reveal of the trailer for Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name. Brewer’s biographical Netflix film stars Murphy as the late multi-hyphenate Rudy Ray Moore, whose 1975 blaxploitation classic Dolemite inspired a run of sequels and related continuations that spanned four decades. The original Dolemite takes the […]
Three luxury fashion houses—Versace, Coach, and Givenchy—have issued apologies to Chinese consumers after t-shirts released by the respective brands allegedly undermined China’s territorial claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. Over the weekend, Versace apologized for a t-shirt that listed Hong Kong and Macau as independent countries rather than semi-autonomous, special administrative regions of China. Yang Mi, an […]
Per the most recent count, updated Sunday, more than 10,000 firearms have been voluntarily turned in to local authorities as part of a massive buyback initiative in New Zealand. The buyback campaign was started in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings in March, during which 51 people died and another 49 were injured. The […]
Simone Biles has not at all fallen off after introducing herself to the world at the 2016 Olympics. She’s still out here winning competitions and pulling off never-before-seen feats. Her latest triumph came at the U.S. national championship. Friday, she became the first person to ever land two twists and two somersaults (a double-double) from […]
Olivia Jade has become serious tabloid fodder since her mother Lori Loughlin was implicated in that college admissions bribery scandal. The social media influencer has had enough of seeing her name in headlines and she took to her preferred platform to voice it. Jade flipped the bird to gossip publications, tagging People, TMZ, Perez Hilton, […]
50 Cent returned fire at Floyd Mayweather after the boxer made fun of Fif’s business ventures. In a bit of misdirection, 50 Cent started his reply in an apologetic mode. It sounded like he was calling off his long-running feud with Mayweather. However, it was just a set-up for 50 to clown Mayweather about his […]
Drake landed his ninth No. 1 album with the compilation Care Package. The collection of loosies and SoundCloud classics topped the charts as Drake albums are wont to do. Care Package moved 109,000 equivalent album units this week, of which 16,000 were album sales, according to Billboard. Having nine chart-toppers isn’t a record, but it […]
Kodak Black apologized for rapping that he’d punch City Girls‘ Yung Miami in the stomach while freestyling from jail. Miami is pregnant with producer Southside‘s child and Black admitted his off-the-cuff remarks crossed a line. “I bought Yung Miami a ring, she bought an 808 baby/When I see her, I’ma hit that bitch in her […]
James Harden has risen from the Sixth Man of the Year to become Houston‘s franchise player; he’s expected to earn $38 million next year. He’s sharing the wealth. Harden and his friends—including Adidas marketing manager Troy Payne—took a vacation trip to the Bahamas this summer. They decided to take a four-wheeler ride through the island, where Payne captured footage […]
Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” is inciting a major problem in a Massachusetts town: People keep pilfering signs from a street that’s actually named Old Town Road. NME reports that the sign has been stolen from the Greater Boston town of Wellesley at least three times since the spring. The multiple thefts have arrived when […]
