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Mariah Carey‘s sixth studio album, Butterfly, turns 25 on Friday, so she’s releasing a special anniversary collection packed full of goodies.

The Grammy winner teased the upcoming celebration on Instagram and cheekily pretended it hasn’t been a quarter century since she unleashed her five-times Platinum album. “Celebrating 25… minutes… since the release of my favorite and probably most personal album,” Mariah wrote, adding sales start on Friday.

Mariah isn’t just rereleasing the album, she’s packing it with eight new bonus tracks and classic live performance videos of past songs.

The set will also include 4K digitally remastered music videos for “Honey” and “The Roof.” Speaking of the “Honey” music video, she gave it the documentary treatment and teased a brief clip of it, which hints fans will learn a new thing or two about the spy-themed video.

Butterfly‘s special 25th anniversary edition will also be available in vinyl and cassette form.

Mariah also promised new Butterfly merchandise will soon hit her online store and shared a brief glimpse of some upcoming T-shirts, pants, tank tops, sweaters and more. 

The “Fantasy” singer ended the video with a promise that she has “more surprises” on the way.

Sales begin on Friday, September 16, which marks 25 years to the day Butterfly hit the shelves.

Mariah’s sixth studio album contained the hits “Butterfly,” “Honey,” “My All,” “The Roof,” “Breakdown” and “Close My Eyes,” as well as a cover of Prince‘s “The Beautiful Ones.” The record, which was nominated for three Grammy Awards, has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.

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After performing at the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, in February, Snoop Dogg is opening an immersive retail experience right across the street.

The Cali legend has partnered with the Funko lifestyle company to create Tha Dogg House.

“This new store stays true to who I am as an entrepreneur and rapper,” the hip-hop icon said in a statement. “I can’t wait for my fans to experience it, touch it, to feel it. Once you see it, it’s like no other thing in the world. Tha Dogg House will blow your mind.”

Featuring a massive Snoop mural, the location will pay homage to the 50-year-old MC’s iconic career. It will open in 2023 and offer fans exclusive collectibles from sports, music, anime, movies, television and more.

“Snoop Dogg is an entertainment powerhouse and remains one of the most innovative and versatile figures in the entertainment industry,” Andrew Perlmutter, chief executive officer of Funko, said in a statement.

“We look forward to the debut of our newest retail experience and our partnership with Snoop whose expertise and impact on pop culture further elevates the brand’s opportunity to connect with fandoms within music and sports,” he added.

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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

INTERLEAGUE

Colorado 3, Chi White Sox 0

Seattle 6, San Diego 1

Baltimore 6, Washington 2

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Houston 2, Detroit 1

Cleveland 5, LA Angels 3

Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1

NY Yankees 5, Boston 3

Minnesota 4, Kansas City 0

Oakland 8, Texas 7

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburgh 10, Cincinatti 4

San Francisco 4, Atlanta 1

Philadelphia 6, Miami 1

Chi Cubs 6, NY Mets 3

St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 1

Arizona 5, LA Dodgers 3

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

Atlanta United 1, Orlando City o

Austin 3, Real Salt Lake 0

Vancouver 3, LA Galaxy 0

Colorado 2, San Jose 1

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Disgraced R&B superstar R. Kelly was found guilty Wednesday on sex crime charges, including producing child pornography and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity, in his second federal trial.

Kelly, 55, faced multiple child pornography, sex abuse and obstruction charges involving an earlier investigation that ended with his acquittal in a 2008 state child pornography trial in his hometown of Chicago.

A jury in the same city found Kelly guilty on three counts of child pornography and three counts of enticing a minor. He was acquitted of a conspiracy to obstruct justice charge accusing him of fixing the 2008 trial.

Kelly faces 10 to 90 years in prison.

He is already serving a 30-year prison sentence after he was convicted in a New York federal court last year of racketeering and violating the Mann Act, a sex trafficking law, including having sex with underage girls.

Two further trials are pending for Kelly — one in Minnesota and another in state court in Chicago.

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Nicki Minaj has filed a $75,000 defamation lawsuit against a blogger who said she was a “cokehead” and was known for “shoving” cocaine up her nose.

In the lawsuit, the rapper says Marley Green, a blogger known as Nosey Heaux, “falsely and maliciously” called her a drug addict in a Twitter video posted Monday that “outrageously defamed” her and sparked a “firestorm of social media attention,” Rolling Stone reports.

The filing includes a transcript of the video in which Green calls Minaj a cokehead: “[Minaj is] shoving all this cocaine, shoving in all this cocaine up her nose. Allegedly. Thank you. Allegedly. But we all know it’s true. F*** – listen, I can’t even say allegedly with that ‘cause I – we know it’s true. I’m not saying allegedly on that. Nicki Minaj is a cokehead.”

The lawsuit says that Green’s “statement was false because [the] plaintiff has never used cocaine.”

Green says she’ll countersue.

“Nicki Minaj has been in a rage for several days now. She threatened me, sent her barbz to harass and threaten to kill me, now doxxing me. She has gone way too far and I’m definitely suing her. #Survivingthepettys,” Green tweeted.

“Marley Green is a disgrace – someone so lacking in fundamental decency that she has posted vile comments about Nicki’s one-year-old son,” Minaj’s lawyer Judd Burstein said in a statement sent to Rolling Stone.

“She will no longer be permitted to use the name ‘Nosey Heaux’ because we will take her trademark from her when she does not have enough money to pay the judgment,” he added. “Anyone else who spreads lies about Nicki will suffer a similar fate.”

Nicki’s lawsuit follows Cardi B successfully suing blogger Tasha K for defamation in April. She was awarded more than $4 million in damages.

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Teddy Riley appeared on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk Facebook Watch show Wednesday and opened up about not seeing his son Mykal in three years.

“I’m just hearing from so many different people that told me that his mom’s goal is to keep him away from me,” the legendary Grammy winner told Jada and her co-hosts, daughter Willow and mother Adrienne Barfield Norris.

“It really hurts because here’s someone I wanted to marry, I gave everything to.”

Mykal lives with his mother, and Riley is attempting to gain full custody of his son.

“All my sons, we have a bond, but Mykal was like, wow,” the creator of new jack swing continued. “Now he’s 9. My father, I didn’t meet him until I was 9, my biological father. I said to myself that I never want to be like my dad. I have to change the narrative and be in all my kids’ lives.”

In July, the “No Diggity” hitmaker shared an emotional birthday tribute to Mykal on Instagram.

“This is probably one of the saddest days of my life. It’s my baby son’s birthday today and I haven’t seen him in three years plus,” Riley wrote. “I’ve done everything that I’m supposed to do as a father financially & mentally but because this woman have process evil way, I have to deal with the corrupted government ATL system just to see my son but that will all change,” he continued.

“Thank God I’m a AMERICAN NATIONAL citizen and my day will come to be with my son for the rest of his life and mine,” Teddy added. “I’m being patient for that day, and when it comes I shall celebrate, because he deserves to live a great life as a Prince of a King!”

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On Wednesday, ABC dropped the first full trailer to its spin-off The Rookie: Feds. As previously reported, Niecy Nash-Betts stars in the series, reprising her Rookie role of Simone Clark, a plain-talking newbie FBI agent. 

The flagship show’s John Nolan, played by Nathan Fillion, also appears in the new clip, showing there will be crossover between the two Los Angeles-based programs.

“I need outside-the-box thinkers who keep things low-key, and that’s just not you,” says Simone’s new boss, the by-the-book Special Agent Matthew Garza, played by Felix Solis.

A colleague advises Simone to not ruffle any feathers during her six-month probationary period, to which the new fed replies, “I don’t got that kinda time. I’m not 25! I gotta shine right out the gate!”

She proves it later in the trailer by snagging some of a fleeing suspect’s DNA underneath her perfectly done acrylic nails — appropriate for the former Claws star. “Pretty good, right?” she laughs. 

The show kicks off September 27 on ABC. 

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