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Towanda Braxton Takes To
Nicki Minaj Takes Home 2 AMA Awards
Pretty in pink, Nicki Minaj won 2 American Music Awards Sunday night.
Nicki Minaj had a reason to smile when she scored two wins at the American Music Awards on Sunday.
The 32-year-old rapper scooped favorite rap artist as well as favorite rap/ hip-hop album for The Pinkprint. Tak- ing to the stage to accept her second award of the night, Nicki thanked fellow artists and collaborators Beyonce - who she called 'Queen B', Drake, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and 'my baby' Meek Mill.
Chris Brown Pushes Back Album Release
Cover of album ‘Royalty’
Chris Brown previously an- nounced his musical baby Roy- alty would be arriving on November 27th, but as it turns out, it’s not quite ready (he re- cently posted IG video that he’s still working on music).
As a result, the opus has been pushed back to December 18th. Seems they want to make sure it was out before Christmas to maximize those first week sales.
Jeremih Agrees To Plea Deal For DUI
Jeremih
Jeremih has reached a plea deal in a DUI case. The Chi- town crooner has pleaded no contest of reckless driving.
The “Don’t Tell ‘Em” singer will serve two years of probation and attend a mandatory alcohol and drug education class as apart of his deal. The charges stem from when he was pulled over by the police on his birth- day in July. He was charged with a misdemeanor and posted bail for $15,000 the next day.
Man That Shot Lil Wayne’s Bus Gets 20 Years
Social Media About Being
Jealous Of Sister Tamar
Towanda Braxton is clap- ping back at rumors that she’s jealous of sister Tamar Brax- ton.
The latest round started after reports spread that Towanda envied her little sister’s stint on Dancing With The Stars. Now that Tamar is out because of a health scare, the rumors heightened and claimed that Towanda wanted to take her slot and that the family was feuding because Tamar wouldn’t let her.
Well, Towanda has now taken to Instagram to respond. She started by posting a collage selfies of her and Tamar to- gether with the caption, “Baby sis STILL on FLEEK! Can’t no hospital bring us down! Love you #TayMonster #SisterSis- ter” earlier this week. She then hopped on Twitter the next day
Lil Wayne was shot at by Jimmy C. Winfrey
A man accused of shooting into Lil Wayne‘s tour buses on a Georgia highway has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years probation.
Cobb County District Attor- ney Vic Reynolds said in a news release that Jimmy Carlton Winfrey pleaded guilty Friday to six counts of vi- olating the Street Gang Terror- ism and Prevention Act.
Winfrey had been indicted on 30 counts. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors won’t pursue the remaining counts.
Prosecutors say Winfrey threatened Lil Wayne, whose real name is Wayne Carter, in April at an Atlanta entertain- ment venue and then left. Pros- ecutors say Winfrey later fired on two buses in the rapper’s en- tourage after they left the venue. No one was injured.
Towanda and Tamar Braxton
to confirm that the recent spec- ulation wasn’t true. Sometimes you have 2 pick and choose your battles. You don’t need prof for the truth. Messy peo- ple have 2 make money 2 feed their lies.”
She decided to end her mini rant on a “positive note” and thank fans for buying the sis- ters’ Christmas album.
The Braxton Christmas Album and for making it hit the top 10 on the holiday charts!
Snoop Dogg Helps Deliver 1,500 Free Turkeys
Rihanna Teases New Album With Website
Rihanna's album Anti seems to be underway; all the signs are pointing to that being so.
The mogul singer tweeted, “Excited to share this with you!!” with a link to a website in conjunction with Samsung (a part of the $25 million part- nership) to promote the LP.
The website is called AN-
TIDIARY and seems to be
geared towards Rihanna jour-
naling the process of her
album. RIHANNA
Tamar Braxton Says She Is Feeling Better
Snoop Dogg in Inglewood handing out free turkeys
Say what you will about Snoop Dogg, but one thing he’s always done is give back to his community.
The latest example is deliv- ering more than 1,500 FREE turkeys to families in Ingle- wood (California).
Mayor James Butts said that the rapper joined him for last Thursday’s giveaway at an indoor arena and that he took pictures with hundreds of peo-
ple at the event.
If you’re not aware, this is
the second year Snoop has helped Inglewood give away turkeys to families in need.
Last year, he asked the city what he could do to give back to the community, where his production crew is based.
Mayor Butts responded by saying the city needed help with passing out over 800 turkeys. And that’s how it began.
Tamar Braxton surprised her co-hosts with a call in on The Real.
TayTay excitedly talked about how fortunate she feels to be at home.
‘I just miss you guys. I miss all the fans. I miss being in the studio and feeling the love and the essence of The Real,’ she exclaimed.
The Tamar & Vince Star con- tinued, saying, ‘To be honest, like, I cannot wait to come back. I am just so elated and I feel so blessed to come out of the hospital because the real- ization is– a lot of people don’t come out of the hospital with multiple PE’s like I had, and I just feel blessed beyond meas-
Tamar is at home recovering.
ure. God is so good.’
She also penned an emo-
tional Instagram caption to her husband, who faced similar health issues.
Russell Simmons Says He Was ‘Devastated’ By The Rush Card Glitch
Russell Simmons ad- dressed users of his prepaid card service, RushCard, who are still claiming they don’t have access to their money, and says he’s been “devas- tated.”
A computer glitch prevented users of the debit cards from being able to access funds for 18 days in October.
“It was one of the most dev- astating days in my adult life,” Simmons said.
The company has since fixed the glitch and transitioned to a new payment processor.
There is a multimillion dol- lar remediation fund being launched in 10 days that will be used to make customers
RUSSELL SIMMONS
whole. If they were late on their rent, the company is tak- ing care of it if they can prove it. The arealso waiving fees through February 2016, which is costing the company a year of profit.
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