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Gucci Mane And Keyshia Ka’oir Are Now Mr. And Mrs. Radric Davis
Gucci Mane is officially a married man following a plush wedding ceremony that took place on Tuesday (October 17).
Labeled ‘The Mane Event’ the 37-year-old rapper mar- ried his longtime girlfriend, cosmetic mogul, Keyshia Ka’oir.
The $1.7 million ceremony was held at Miami's swanky Four Seasons.
The event was broadcast
live on BET on Tuesday night.
While many fans watched the
wedding from the comfort of
their own homes, live atten-
dees included Diddy, Rick
Ross, 2 Chainz and Big
Sean. Keyshia.
Gucci Mane and his wife,
Frank Ocean Cleared In $14M Libel Suit By His Dad
In May, Frank Ocean asked a California court to toss his father’s $14.5 million law- suit.
In February, Ocean’s fa- ther, New Mexico resident Calvin Cooksey, sued the “Channel Orange” crooner, claiming that a blog on Ocean’s Tumblr page last year was libelous enough to warrant him millions of dollars in dam- ages.
“I was six years old when I heard my dad call our trans-
Frank Ocean was sued by his father.
gender waitress a f—-t as he dragged me out a neighbor-
hood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty,” Ocean, 29, wrote on June 21, 2016.
On Tuesday, according to the JasmineBrand (October 17th), the Grammy Award- winning artist got his wish. In short, a California federal judge ruled that his father failed to show that his son de- famed him with a 2016 Tumblr post that recounted him calling a transgender waitress an anti- gay slur.
Name Revealed Of Star Wars Movie Starring Donald Glover And Thandie Newton
The title for the upcoming Star Wars Han Solo film has been revealed.
Director Ron Howard revealed the news on Twitter, the movie is called ‘Solo’ A Star Wars Film.
The film, starring Donald Glover as young Lando Calrissian and Thandie Newton in an undisclosed role, will be in theaters on May 25, 2018.
Donald Glover will play the young Lando Calrissian and Thandie Newton is also starring in the movie.
Behind The Scenes Clips Left Out Of Movie ‘Girls Trip’ Are Out And Making News
With its DVD, Blu-Ray on On Demand release this week, behind-the-scene clips from Girls Trip have been re- leased.
The film centers on when four lifelong friends, known as the Flossy Posse, get to- gether nothing can stop them but themselves. As the four in- dependent friends reunite from across the country and travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sis- terhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there’s enough dancing, drink- ing, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee and produced by Will
The behind-the scenes clips are included on blu ray, DVD released Tuesday.
Packer, it stars Jada Pin- kett Smith, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish.
Ja Rule Fighting Festival Lawsuits By Saying He Too Was ‘A Victim’ Too
Rapper Ja Rule plans to fight a multiple lawsuits against him over the Fyre Fes- tival fiasco by claiming he, too, was bamboozled by his ex- partner.
“Billy McFarland ran the show,” Thomas Herndon, a lawyer for the Queens-born rapper, told Manhattan federal Judge Kevin Castel, accord- ing to Page Six.
“My client got wrapped up in this unintentionally,” Hern- don said of his client, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins. “His ideas got hijacked by Mc- Farland.”
Herndon spoke at a hear-
JaRule is fighting multiple lawsuits over the failed festi- val. His ex-partner, Billy Mc- Farland was charged with defrauding investors.
ing over a proposed class ac- tion lawsuit of irate concertgo- ers who say Ja Rule and McFarland ripped them off by selling tickets to a luxury music festival in the Bahamas that they billed as taking place on a private island with “fully furnished” living quarters, but ended up serving cold cheese sandwiches and forcing guests to live in tents.
McFarland, who was charged criminally for de- frauding investors, did not at- tend Tuesday’s hearing and was not represented by a lawyer, Page Six reports.
Kickstarter Fund Set For National Museum’s Anthology Of Hip Hop And Rap
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), has turned to crowd sourcing for its next ambitious project – a nine-disc chronological com- pendium of over 120 songs from hip-hop and rap.
The “Smithsonian Anthol- ogy of Hip-Hop and Rap” will contain tracks painstakingly selected by a panel of artists, music critics, academics and industry heavyweights.
To contextualize the various songs, various scholars and songwriters will contribute original essays, and NMAAHC
Chuck D holding a photo of Ice Cube, and the proposed 300 page box collection that will accompany the 9-disc an- thology.
will provide never-before-pub-
lished photography.
“We anticipate getting
something which is a perfect mix of image, words and music,” says Huib Schip- pers, director of Folkways, “which is very much represen- tative of what hip-hop culture is.”
Schippers and his Folk- ways colleagues launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $250,000 or more to put to- ward production costs.
Schippers says “the whole production cost is close to $1 million” for the box set, and the label will need to sell thou- sands of the finished antholo- gies to break even.
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