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Wiz Khalifa Creates ‘Sonic’ Movie Theme Song ‘Speed Me Up’ Feat. Ty Dolla Sign And More
Gabrielle Union Fires Back After
Terry Crews Throws Her ‘Under
The Bus’ Amid AGT Drama
Wiz Khalifa has been en- listed by Sonic The Hedgehog creators for the theme song to Paramount’s feature adapta- tion of classic Sega videogame.
The movie comes on Febru- ary 14th but experts believe that it could do as much as $41M-$47M during 4-day opening. Wiz has some com- pany on the upbeat track from Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Yacthy and Sueco the Child. Ty doesn’t leave the opportunity in shouting Nipsey Hussle during his verse.
This is not the first Sonic encounter for Wiz. — the Tay- lor Gang boss previously
Terry Crews is catching heat across social media for throwing Gabrielle Union under the bus after her contro- versial ousting from “America’s Got Talent.”
Crews insists he neither ex- perienced nor witnessed any racism or discrimination on the set of AGT—contrary to what Union alleged after she was fired as a judge for complaining about the show’s “toxic culture.”
Crews, who hosts AGT, told TODAY he never saw any racist behavior behind the scenes.
“That was never my experi- ence. In fact, it was the most di- verse place I have ever been in my 20 years of entertainment,” he told the hosts. “When you look at what the allegations were about, it was given by an un- named source. It’s funny be- cause I believe you should listen to women, you should always believe women, so I asked my wife what I should do. She was like, ‘first of all, if it’s coming from an unnamed source — be- cause Gabrielle Union has not made any statement to this day about any of these allega- tions publicly ... if she hasn’t made a statement, why would you?’”
Union did not mention Crews by name, but in a series of tweets posted after his ap- pearance on “Today,” she praised the “multiple witnesses who bravely came forward to let everyone know” she wasn’t lying, and slammed “those who
WIZ KHALIFA AND SONIC
GABRIELLE UNION
enthusiastically will throw you under the bus.”
She went on to note the lack of diversity among production as well as the hair and makeup department.
Union also claimed that the involved parties agreed not to speak about the situation until the investigation is complete: “But if we doing this... ohhhhh baby let’s gooooooooooo!” she tweeted.
Many Black women have taken to Twitter to call out Crews for not defending Gabby the way she did for him when he claimed former WME agent Adam Venit sexually as- saulted him at a 2017 party. Crews sued Venit but his case was ultimately thrown out.
It’s worth noting that Terry Crews ain’t even married to a Black woman, so why are folks shocked that he shaded a Black woman and refuses to believe her allegations? Make it make sense, y’all.
sampled Sonic music in his song ‘Ms. Rightfernow‘ more than a decade ago.
Sonic The Hedgehog is di- rected by Jeff Fowler in his feature directorial debut, and
written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller. It stars James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, Jim Carrey, and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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