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Cardi B Signs With Reebok
Rihanna Issues Trump Cease And Desist Letter For Playing Her Song At Rally
Cardi B is making more money moves. On the heels of her public spat with Nicki Minaj, Cardi has inked a deal with Reebok.
Reebok officially announced the partnership on Monday (November 5). As the new spokesperson, Cardi will help promote the company’s Aztrek sneakers.
“Everything that you love about Cardi B is what you love about Reebok,” Reebok said in a press release. “Reebok has a longstanding legacy of noncon- formity, whether it’s creating the first workout shoe exclu- sively for women or putting bold-faced expletives and fresh-faced hip-hop stars in its big ad campaigns in the early ’00s.”
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Cardi celebrated her latest deal by posting a picture from a Reebok photoshoot on Insta- gram.
“If you dont know, now you know,” she wrote. “REEBOK! #Aztrek @Reebok @Reebok- Classics #Reebokpartner.”
The singer recently became aware that 45 played her song “Don’t Stop The Music” off of Good Girl Gone Bad during a rally, thanks to a tweet from Washington Post re- porter, Philip Rucker.
“Trump’s rallies are unlike anything else in politics,” he wrote. “Currently, Rihanna’s ‘Don’t Stop the Music’ is blar- ing in Chattanooga as aides
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toss free Trump T-shirts into the crowd, like a ball game.” Rihanna quote tweeted the reporter and wrote that the use of her music during his rallies will not be happening again.
“Not for much longer...me nor my people would ever be at or around one of those tragic rallies, so thanks for the heads up Philip!” she wrote.
T.I. Denies Involvement In $5M Alleged Cryptocurrency Scam
T. I. is being dragged to court over a $1.3 million dollar cryptocurrency scam called FLiK Tokens and is denying any involvement, The Blast re- ports.
“Tip is truly disheartened by the lawsuit,” T.I.’s lawyer, Al- bert A. Chapar Jr., tells The Blast. “Tip did not receive a single dollar from Felton or any of the money alleged to have been invested by the Plaintiffs, nor did he have any ownership of the company.”
In 2017, 25 investors con- tributed $1.3 million “for now worthless securities called FLiK Tokens,” court docu- ments from the lenders’ $5 million dollar lawsuit say. FLiK Tokens is the brainchild of At- lanta entertainment executive, Ryan Felton, whom Tip al- leges used his likeness to push investors to pour money into
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the company.
Investors claim Felton and
T. I. allegedly drove up the price of the new cryptocur- rency using their money, “dumped” the tokens, then dis- appeared. Felton explained to them that “T. I. had given FLiK tokens to members of his
family and friends who had sold massive amounts on coinexchange.com causing rapid devaluation.”
According to Chapar, T.I.’s conversations with Felton about possibly becoming an in- vestor were relatively short- lived.
Despite moving on from the opportunity, the company is being accused of using the Dime Trap rap star’s name an picture on their now-de- funct website illegally. Felton even threw Kevin Hart‘s name into the mix as an owner and also “created fake online posts on behalf of [Dallas Mav- ericks owner] Mark Cuban in order to manipulate the value of FLiK Tokens.”
The investors are suing both T. I. and Felton for securities fraud and want $5,000,000 in damages.
Nicki Minaj Makes Billboard History Once Again
Thanks to her latest collabo- ration with Tyga via the single “Dip,” Nicki Minaj has made history on the Billboard Charts yet again.
The catchy record bran- dishes the Queen creator as the first female artist with 100 ca- reer appearances on the Bill- board Hot 100 chart, joining her Young Money brothers Drake and Lil Wayne, Elvis and the cast of Glee.
Good news comes in bunches and the Billboard Hot 100 dis- tinction comes on the heels of Nicki winning the “Best Hip Hop” and “Best Look” awards at the 2018 MTV EMA’s last night (November 4) where she also performed with “Woman
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Like Me” alongside “Little Mix” and “Goodbye” with Jason Derulo and David Guetta.
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