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NBC Having Regrets For Pushing Tamron Hall Out
Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN Spends 20th Week In Top 5 On Billboard
Compton artist, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn is not only one of the best-reviewed projects of 2017, the double platinum LP is a huge com- mercial success as well.
Damn spent four non-con- secutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200. Kendrick's latest body of work has also remained within the Top 5 on the chart for 20 straight weeks.
The album hosts the Top 20 songs "DNA," "Loyalty," "Element," and "Humble."
Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN has been among top 5 on Billboard.
The latter track hit #1 on the Hot 100.
Beyonce Gets Birthday Greetings In Iconic Way
Tamron Hall was pushed out of her job at NBC for Megyn Kelly.
After dissing Tamron Hall, NBC probably has more than a little regret for displacing the popular Black host to bring former Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly to the network.
It turns out, that Kelly, is really good at drawing viewership from the older White male demographic. And now NBC executives are in “total panic” over fear that people of color, women and younger audiences will have
no interest in watching Kelly’s morning show set to debut on Sept. 25, according to The Daily Beast.
Kelly’s initial venture at NBC, a Sunday night public affairs program, failed to get the ratings the executives ex- pected.
Meanwhile, Hall has moved on in her career. Hall is developing a daytime talk show, which she will host and produce, with Weinstein Tel- evision.
Although Beyonce had over a thousand Made In America festival attendees sing happy birthday (Sept. 3), it probably doesn’t com- pare to this level of recogni- tion. To commemorate her 36th bornday, a few of the Lemonade artist’s family and friends replicated her wide-brimmed black hat look from her “Formation” video.
A few of the prominent women included her mother Tina Knowles Lawson, new mommy Serena Williams, her confidants
Beyonce’s family and friends channeled ‘Formation’ to say Happy Birthday. Mrs. Michelle Obama and Mrs. Tina Knowles Lawson.
Kelly Rowland and the iconic former First Lady Michelle Williams, and MichelleObama.
‘True To The Game’ In Theaters September 8th
Lil Wayne Released From Hospital After Suffering Multiple Seizures
Lil Wayne was hospital- ized in Chicago on Sunday (September 3) in connection with epileptic seizures, but the Young Money rapper has reportedly been released from the hospital. Doctors are suggesting the hardwork- ing artist take a break for awhile until he’s back in top form.
Although many people speculated his seizures stemmed from his use of Lean (or Purple Drank), sources close to Wayne told TMZ the seizures were due to a hectic schedule and sleep deprivation, and not because of the codeine-laced drink.
On Monday (September
Lil Wayne and his daughter Reginae at her graduation.
4), his daughter, Reginae Carter, assured fans on Twitter Weezy was “doing fine.”
Wayne is reportedly tak- ing two weeks off, but will
perform his next show on September 23.
In 2012, Lil Wayne’s pri- vate jet made an emergency landing in Texas due to an in- flight medical seizure.
Directed by Preston Whitmore II, and execu- tive produced by Manny Halley, True To The Game hits theaters September 8th. Starring Columbus Short,
the film is an adaptation of the best selling novel of the same name by Teri Woods. The film tells a story about love, drugs and sex.
Rae Sremmurd Sued By Concertgoer
A Michigan man is suing Rae Sremmurd after at- tending one of the duo’s concerts in October 2016, reports TMZ.
According to the uniden- tified man’s lawyer, he’s filed a lawsuit alleging Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi launched a bottle full of water into the crowd without considering the consequences.
In the court docs, the man claims he was hit so forcefully that “a chunk of his face” was torn off and he was forced to go to the hos-
Rae Sremmurd onstage.
pital. He says he suffered permanent scarring and dis- figurement.
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