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Lil Uzi Vert Quits Music And Fans Freak: ‘BRB While I Cry’ See Wild Tweets
‘Cosby Show’ Star Joseph C.
A sad day for rap. At the age of 24 and with a sophomore album completed, Lil Uzi Vert suddenly announced his retirement from music on Jan. 11. Twitter freaked out.
Lil Uzi Vert, 24, best known for “XO TOUR Llif3” and lending his vocals to Migos’ “Bad And Boujee,” is stepping down from the micro- phone. The rapper posted the heartbreaking announcement
gram Story on Jan. 11. “I wanna take the time out to say I thank each and every one of my supporters but I’m done with Music,” he wrote. “I deleted everything. I wanna be normal” He added on separate lines, “I wanna wake up in 2013” and “You are free.” Fol- lowing through on his word, the artist purged his feed of music-related content, only leaving 28 selfies up.
And Child Support In Divorce
LIL UZI VERT
of his retirement to his Insta-
Former “Cosby Show” star Joseph C. Phillips will receive spousal and child sup- port from his ex-wife, despite her effort to not be made to pay up.
According to court docu- ments obtained by The Blast, Phillips will get $833 per month in child support for the couple’s 17-year-old son. The support payments are retroac- tive to August 2018, so Joseph will get $4,165 for the last five months.
As far as spousal support goes, Phillips will get $2,258 for the months of November and December of 2018. He will then receive $1,659 per month, beginning this month.
Nicole Phillips was also ordered to pay Joseph $5,000 to help cover his legal fees.
Nicole filed for divorce from Joseph last July after 23
Phillips Awarded Spousal
Big Boi To Join Travis Scott & Maroon 5 For Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show
JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS
years of marriage.
Phillips — who played Lt.
Martin Kendall, husband of Lisa Bonet‘s Denise Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” — had been married to Nicole since 1994. The couple has three sons: Connor, Ellis, and Samuel.
Maroon 5 made a big an- nouncement over the weekend regarding the band’s Super Bowl LIII halftime perform- ance. On Sunday (January 13), the pop group shared an Insta- gram video revealing Outkast luminary Big Boi has joined the lineup.
Daddy Fat Saxxx will per- form alongside both Maroon 5 and Travis Scott at At- lanta’s Mercedes-Benz Sta- dium on February 5.
Scott’s participation yielded a healthy dose of push- back from those boycotting the NFL for its treatment of former San Francisco 49er quarter- back Colin Kaepernick. JAY-Z reportedly tried to talk Scott out of participating, while Meek Mill took his con- cerns to Twitter.
Big Boi’s involvement has already elicited similar results.
BIG BOI
Eddie Murphy To Reprise
But, it looks like the ATLien is looking forward to being able to represent for his hometown. He posted Maroon 5’s video as well with the caption, “#SBLIII ATL let’s get it!”
According to a 2015 inter- view with ESPN’s The Dan LeBatard Show, Outkast once turned down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl. Big Boi revealed it was ulti-
mately André 3000 who de- cided against it.
“We were supposed to per- form at the Super Bowl,” Big Boi said. “But we had two songs, ‘The Way You Move’ and ‘Hey Ya’ and Dre didn’t want to split the songs up. He didn’t want to cut the songs. He wanted to do both songs. They was like, ‘Y’all can’t do it.'”
‘Akeem’ Role In ‘Coming
Jeannie Mai Settles Divorce; Keeps $1.2 Million Mansion
Eddie Murphy has re- portedly signed on for Coming To America 2, the sequel to the 1988 original. According to Deadline, the illustrious comedic actor will reprise his role as African prince “Akeem” who traveled to Queens, New York to find a potential wife.
Paramount Pictures has hired director Craig Brewer to bring the film to life. Brewer recently directed Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name.
In the sequel, Akeem dis- covers he has a long lost son and returns to America to meet the heir to the throne of Za- munda.
“After many years of antic- ipation, I’m thrilled that Com- ing to America 2 is officially moving forward,” Murphy said in a statement. “We’ve as-
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sembled a great team that will be led by Craig Brewer, who just did an amazing job on Dolemite, and I’m looking forward to bringing all these classic and beloved characters back to the big screen.”
To America’ Sequel
If you’re a fan of “The Real” co-host Jeannie Mai, you’ll be interested to know that yo’ girl and her ex-husband have completed a divorce settlement in which she gets to keep their multi-million dollar L. A. man- sion, among other things. He didn’t do so bad, either.
It happened last month when she and ex, Freddy Harteis, came to an agree- ment. Specifically, neither party will have to pay the other spousal support, but she gets to keep the home – valued at $1.2 million – in the Sherman Oaks section on L. A. in the San Fernando Valley
She also keeps her clothing, jewelry, and personal effects and several bank accounts, ac- cording to The Blast.
Mai, who was represented
Jeannie Mai and her now ex-husband Freddy Harteis.
by powerhouse attorney Marci Levine, will also keep her SAG pension plan and her interest in her entertainment company, Mai Dream Inc. She also kept any money she pulled in since the date of separation.
Her ex-husband will walk away with a 2003 Mercedes Benz C-Class, a 2016 Dodge Ram 2500 Power Wagon, a Sprinter Pull Log Trailer, and several bank accounts.
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