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Swae Lee Offers $20K For
'Cosby Show' Star Keshia Knight Pulliam Engaged To Actor Brad James
Lost Hard Drive: ‘All My
Songs Are On There’
Swae Lee is asking his 8.9 million Instagram followers for their assistance. On Monday (December 14), the Rae Sremmurd rapper issued a cry for help to his Instagram Stories after he apparently lost his hard drive at the Los Ange- les International Airport. He also put up a handsome reward for its safe return.
“I got 20K for anyone who found my hard drive @LAX T2 delta airlines this morning,” he wrote above a photo of himself. “all my songs are on there.”
Swae Lee hasn’t put out a proper solo album since 2018’s Swaecation, but is expected to release another solo project called Human Nature some- time in the near future. In Oc-
Keshia Knight Pulliam is set to walk down the aisle for the second time. The actress who's known for her role as Rudy Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" is engaged to marry her boyfriend, actor Brad James, after a year of relationship.
James, 39, popped the big question earlier this month in Atlanta with a custom dia- mond eternity ring. He and his
BRAD JAMES AND KESHIA KNIGHT-PULLIAM
41-year-old bride-to-be cele- brated their engagement in a "magical, intimate, COVID compliant evening filled with love."
The newly-engaged couple were joined by Ella, Pul- liam's 3-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
"Keisha and Brad are ex- cited to find their happily ever after," her representative is- sued a statement to People.
SWAE LEE tober, Swae
Legendary And Terrifying: 'Ma Rainey' Cast Recall Chadwick Boseman's Final Role
promised SremmLife 4 was on its way in an Instagram post alongside
His fellow actors call it as- tonishing and movie reviewers use words like heartbreaking.
Chadwick Boseman’s
final performance, in the film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” coming to Netflix on Friday, would always have been bitter- sweet, but it’s also expected to bring the late actor the kind of awards attention he never won in his short life.
“It’s a legendary screen per- formance,” said director George C. Wolfe. “He ap- proached the role with such fe- rocity and gave his guts to the role, and that’s what you see up on the screen.”
Boseman, best known as the hero of “Black Panther,” died in August at age 43, hav- ing kept secret a four-year bat- tle with colon cancer.
In “Ma Rainey,” the screen adaptation of August Wil-
his brother Slim Jxmmi.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN IN ‘MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM’
son’s stage play of the same name, Boseman plays ambi- tious trumpet player Levee, hungry for change, who clashes with blues singer Ma, played by Viola Davis, a hot 1920s day in a Chicago record- ing studio.
In one of the play’s key mo-
ments, Levee rails against God for turning his back on Black people in a speech that the other actors said gave them chills.
“It’s like everything came to a stop,” said Michael Potts, who played one of the band members in the film.
Jay-Z Is Selling $50 Hand-Rolled Joints For 'Stoners' With Money To Burn
JAY-Z positioned himself as a player in the cannabis in- dustry when he announced his MONOGRAM line last Octo- ber. Now as its first product, his brand is selling hand- rolled joints at $50 apiece – and we can't help but applaud this IDGAF power move.
If you were thinking "well I'd pay $50 for a joint rolled by HOV himself," think again. MONOGRAM's flagship prod- uct, the “OG Handroll,” a 1.5- gram joint rolled by “highly trained artisans” – sorry to
JAY-Z
disappoint. The steep price the company points out the
joint is made with small-batch flower and is supposed to burn like a premium cigar, in a technique that was devel- oped over a year.
There is also the "Loosie Preroll Pack," which contains four 0.4 grams of marijuana "that have been individually wrapped to foster communal smoking with ease." The price for the four-pack is "only" $40. The brand also offers dif- ferent strains of non-rolled marijuana that are priced be- tween $40 and $70.
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