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Straight Outta Compton
Young Star Dies After Falling From 4th Floor Fire Escape
KYLE JEAN-BAPTISTE
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, a 21- year-old New York actor who made his Broadway starring debut July 23 in Les Miserables as the youngest – and Broad- way’s first African-American – Jean Valjean died Friday night in a home accident, falling from the fourth-story fire escape of his mother’s Brooklyn apart- ment. The accident occurred as Jean-Baptiste sat with a friend on the fire escape, then stood up, slipped and fell back- wards. His performed his final turn in Les Miserables Thurs- day, and planned to leave the show September 6 for a role in Broadway’s The Color Purple.
Lil Wayne and Master P Perform Together For The First Time
Master P and Lil wayne
Lil Wayne’s “Lil Weezyana Fest” in New Orleans was Fri- day night (August 28), and Tunechi brought out several guests including Juvenile, Turk, Mannie Fresh, and Master P. No Limit and Young Money on the same stage is history.
Wayne clearly doesn’t have any worries when it comes to his situation with Birdman. In a night filled of big moments, ar- guably the biggest of them all was Master P and No Limit. “Make ‘Em Say Uhh” still has the staying power as many other performances ear- lier, encouraging tons of people to turn up to P’s wild move- ments on stage.
Y’all make some noise for my dog Lil Wayne,” Master P said right after, acknowledging that the unity of No Limit and YMCMB has been years in the making. Mia X also made a rare appearance, and Master P promised that his No Limit For- ever crew was back in the studio making music.
Future Spends Time With Son At Epic Fest
Future must’ve gotten tired of seeing Russell Wilson playing daddy to his son, Fu- ture Zahir aka Juicy Man and decided to commit to his fatherly duties this weekend.
On Saturday the “absentee dad” was spotted spending some rare quality father and son time with the adorable 1- year-old at Epic Fest.
Still #1; Faith Based
‘War Room’ Finds Base
Despite the holy box office threat of Sony’s faith-based title War Room this week- end, Universal’s hip hop biopic Straight Outta Comp- ton continued to spin records at No. 1 with a studio reported figure of $13.2M, making it the third Uni film this year after Furious 7 and Jurassic World to hold the top box of- fice spot for three weekends in a row.
Overall, it’s the fourth film this year to complete that feat after Warner Bros’ American Sniper dominated January. By the end of Labor Day weekend, if Compton holds for four
Scene from faith-based movie ‘War Room’.
frames, it will match F7‘s lengthy run at No. 1. Total do- mestic box office for Comp- ton is at $134.1M.
Rumor: Chris Brown’s Baby Mama Involved With Burglary Of His Home
Janet Jackson Pens Letter To The Late Aaliyah
Janet Jackson’s letter to Aaliyah
It looks like Breezy has been getting scammed this whole time... Someone has come forward alleging that Nia Guzman, the mother of Chris Brown’s daughter and the girlfriend of wanted crim- inal King Ba, is not only in- volved in his scams, but she participated in a kidnapping and in the burglary of Chris’ LA home recently.
The woman who states her name as “Nadia” contacted Famelous to expose Nia, King Ba and others in their circle.
“Nadia” says Nia and King Ba stole her wallet and went to the bank immediately to with- draw her money while she was held against her will. She also
CHRIS BROWN
described Jas Prince, a friend of both Chris and Nia as a pimp and master manipu- lator of a string of robberies of some celebrity homes, includ- ing Chris’! She says they plan to hit more cribs in the future.
August 25 marked the 14th anniversary of the tragic death of Aaliyah, and Janet Jack- son took some time out to ac- knowledge her late friend.
In a handwritten note posted to her Twitter page, Janet wrote, “What I shared with u ever sacred everlasting N it’s pure + it will endure. I love u Aaliyah. #RIP.” With the photo, Janet captioned with a lyric from her 1997 song "To- gether Again": “I know u r there shining down on me. #ConversationsInACafe,” she
wrote.
Aaliyah was a huge fan of
Janet's. In an interview on the Rosie O’Donnell Show in 1997, Aaliyah said, "I am a huge fan of Janet. I try to mention her in every interview because I want to meet her and maybe at some point in my ca- reer collaborate with her."
Janet and Aaliyah only met in person once and planned to work together, but unfortunately that never came to pass.
Rapper Kicks Woman In Chest At Lakeland Club
KEVIN GATES
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Those that know about Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates know he’s .. well, different ... on so many levels.
He solidified his “different” status earlier this year when he proudly admitted to the world that he was sexing his cousin.
Well fast forward to Friday night when he was performing at Club Rumors in Lakeland, Florida. A female audience member at the front of the stage reach out and touch his leg and in return, gets a seri- ously vicious kick to the chest/facial area from the 29- year-old Baton Rouge rapper. The woman is apparently OK and even stuck around after getting kicked. This isn’t the first time he’s gotten physical
while
performing. Interesting, ac- cording to TMZ, he’s also been in two separate altercations with ... women at Club Z in Michigan.
No charges had been filed and Gates hasn’t commented on the issue.