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Ne-Yo And Wife Crystal Welcome Third Child
Cardi B Reveals She's
She got her own thing, that's why he loves her. Be- cause Ne-Yo and wife Crys- tal Smith's Miss Independent made her early debut June 25.
Sharing an image of the smiling singer and their new- born daughter, the entrepre- neur announced Isabella Rose Smith's early arrival on Instagram. "God said don't make plans honey!" she wrote. "She came 4 weeks early but right on time for mommy!"
The 5-pound, 7-ounce ad- dition joins the couple's chil- dren Shaffer Chimere
Pregnant With Baby
Smith Jr., 5, and Roman Alexander-Raj Smith, 3, and Ne-Yo's kids with his ex, Monyetta Shaw: Madilyn
Grace Smith, 10, and Mason Evan Smith, 9. As Crystal put it, "My world is finally complete."
OFFSET AND CARDI B
urday Night Live. Born on July 10, 2018, Kulture is now almost three years old.
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Cardi B is expecting her second child with Offset.
The rapper revealed her pregnancy at the 2021 BET Awards Sunday night (June 27) while onstage with Migos during their perform- ance.
The announcement, broad- cast from the Microsoft The- ater in Los Angeles, is the second time Cardi has used live television to confirm she's pregnant. When the couple's first child, Kulture, was on the way, Cardi de- buted her baby bump on Sat-
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Lil Baby Is Your 2021 ASCAP Songwriter Of The Year
Chris Brown Denies Hitting
The legend of Lil Baby con- tinues to grow with each pass- ing day.
On Tuesday (June 22), the Quality Control artist ce- mented his recent musical run after being recognized by the American Society of Com- posers, Authors and Publish- ers (ASCAP) as the 2021 Songwriter of the Year. Songs such as Pop Smoke’s “For the Night,” “Emotionally Scarred” from 2020’s biggest album My Turn and the
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HipHopDX Award-winning “The Bigger Picture” were all factored into the honor.
Lil Baby actually m a r k s the third Quality Control con- trol to claim ASCAP Song- writer of the Year bragging rights, as Cardi B and Quavo previously received the award. The 4PF boss is also fresh off another No. 1 album thanks to his collabora- tion with Lil Durk, The Voice Of The Heroes.
Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was accused of hitting a woman during an argu- ment in a Los Angeles home on Friday, authorities said. Brown denies hitting the woman.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told NBC News Tuesday that officers responded to a report of an ar- gument at a residence in the 19600 block of Citrus Ridge Drive in the San Fernando Val- ley area of Los Angeles.
The incident is being investi- gated as a battery and will be re- ferred to the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, according to the spokesperson.
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Few details have been re- leased, but TMZ reported that the woman alleged that Brown smacked her in the head hard enough for her hair weave to fall out.
Woman At His Home
Dove Celebrates Natural Hair With Nina Simone ‘Feeling Good’ Music Video
In honor of Black Music Month, Dove has partnered with Verve Records, UMe, and the Nina Simone Charitable Trust to create an original music video for legendary artist Nina Simone’s classic song “Feeling Good.” Pro- duced by Sara Lacombe, the BET-award-winning creative behind visuals such as City Girls featuring Cardi B’s “Twerk” and Migos featuring Drake’s “Walk It Talk It,” the “Feeling Good” video aims to celebrate natural hair, Black women, and raise awareness for The CROWN Act, a law to end race-based hair discrimi- nation.
The music video depicts a delicate portrait of multiple
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generations of Black females, living their truths, loving each other, celebrating their hair, and, of course, feeling good.
“Nina was a tireless cham- pion of individual freedom of expression. She inspired the
young, gifted, and Black to cel- ebrate their culture, remind- ing them their souls were intact just the way they were,” said a representative of the Nina Simone Charitable Trust in a provided press release.
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