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French Montana Accused Of Hacking Spotify Accounts For Streams
French Montana’s song “Writing on the Wall” is charting on Spotify this week, but at least one Twitter user believes the rapper and his team are cheating the system.
The single which features Post Malone, Cardi B, and Jamaican pop star Rvssian debuted on September 27, 2019 but only lasted five weeks on the Billboard Top 200.
Last week, “Writing on the Wall” reentered U.S. stream- ing charts.
This recent spike in streams caught the attention of Twitter user @karlamagne. On Thursday (January 3), he posted Twitter thread ex- plaining why he believes French and his team are hacking personal Spotify ac- counts to boost their stream- ing numbers.
The screenshots provided by @karlamagne are circum- stantial and do not offer con- crete proof of any
FRENCH MONTANA
pay-for-play actions taken by French or his team.
For one, the song is only rising in popularity on one major streaming platform: Spotify. While “Writing on the Wall” rose 27 spots to be within the top 50 on Spotify, the single simultaneously dropped a whopping 105 spots on Apple Music, settling in at No. 1192.
Diversity Above-And Below-The-Line Was Essential For ‘Harriet’ Filmmakers
As Cynthia Erivo becomes a formidable Oscar contender for best actress and original song for her performance in the title role in “Harriet,” one thing remains clear: Diversity is good business.
In recent years, Hollywood has seen “Wonder Woman,” “Black Panther,” “Us” and “Crazy Rich Asians” all be- come box office successes. Focus Features’ “Harriet” — the story of Harriet Tub- man, who escaped slavery to become a leader of the Under- ground Railroad and help oth- ers gain their freedom — may not be a blockbuster on the level of those other films, but it’s approaching $50 million at the domestic box office, not bad for a movie budgeted at $17 million.
Directed and co-written by
Kasi Lemmons, Tubman’s
story isn’t just about the fight for equality in front of the cam- era; it’s about championing di- versity behind it, too. As shown
CAST AND DIRECTOR OF ‘HARRIET’
by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which has examined the extent of underrepresenta- tion of gender, racial and eth- nic status of leading characters across the top 1,200 films from 2007-18, more work needs to be done.
Still, there has been an in- crease of late among African Americans both on camera and behind the scenes, and “Har- riet” is one film that made strides to consciously hire a
team with women and people of color. The film counts 13 people of color in top positions, including eight below the line, from casting director Kim Coleman to production de- signer Warren Alan Young.
Producer Debra Martin Chase, one of the five key above-the-line creatives, says it wasn’t hard to assemble the crew. “There’s definitely no shortage of people of color be- hind the scenes,” she observes.
Trey Songz Faces $10M Lawsuit Over Alleged Miami Club Sexual Assault
MIAMI, FL – Trey Songz is reportedly being sued for an alleged sexual assault that happened inside a Miami nightclub. According to The Blast, a Jane Doe from Geor- gia claims Trey (born Tremaine Neverson) in- vited her to the club following a 2018 New Year’s Eve party at Diddy’s house.
The paperwork reportedly states Trey “sexually as- saulted and battered Jane Doe by proceeding to force- fully place his hand under her dress, without her consent, and attempting to insert his fingers into Jane Doe’s
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vagina without her consent or permission.”
Consequently, she’s suing
the singer for $10 million, cit- ing assault, battery and inten- tional infliction of emotional distress.
“This is a lawsuit arising from a sexual assault and bat- tery committed by Neverson upon Jane Doe while the two were partying at the E11even Miami night club (“E11even”) on January 1, 2018. This suit is based on claims of Assault, Battery, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and Negligent Infliction of Emo- tional Distress. Plaintiff is seeking more than Ten Mil- lion dollars ($10,000,000.00) in damages.”
Kevin Gates And Wife Dreka Announce Pregnancy
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Kevin Gates released his I’m Him project just in time to close-out the year and now it appears the Louisiana- bred rapper will start off the new decade with yet another special delivery of sorts.
In a video posted to Insta- gram on December 29,
KEVIN AND DREKA GATES
Gates and his wife Dreka appeared together, all smiles, as they revealed a protruding baby bump with the “By My Lonely” architect indicating, “I put that to- gether.”
“We got something in the slow cooker,” Gates teases during the video.
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