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Despite being incarcerated, Gunna is presenting Gunna Family Fest 2022 on Saturday in College Park, Georgia, to mark the celebration of the second annual Gunna Day.

The “Drip Too Hard” rapper has been in Fulton County Jail since his arrest in May stemming from a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act conspiracy indictment. Young Thug and more than two dozen other defendants were also arrested and accused of being members of the Young Slime Life gang.

In June, Gunna sent an open letter to fans claiming he was “being falsely accused” and vowed to “never stop fighting to clear my name.” He has been denied bond twice by the judge overseeing the case.

Last year, the City of South Fulton, Georgia, declared September 16 Gunna Day.

On Saturday, the Gunna Family Fest 2022 will feature a variety of rides, games, food and free merchandise.

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For the cast of Black Panther, shooting the sequel without the star, the late Chadwick Boseman, was very painful.

“Every day, someone else would manifest their grief, and we’d have to come together to help soothe them and take care of them,” Winston Duke tells E! News.

Duke portrays M’Baku, leader of the Jabari tribe. In the original film, he saved the life of King T’Challa, played by Boseman, after a near fatal battle for the throne with Michael B. Jordan’s character, N’Jadaka.

“We had to overcome this grief and create something really beautiful and special, and we did,” Duke adds. “I think we accomplished that.”

The sequel picks up after the death of T’Challa, as the country of Wakanda looks to crown a new leader and new Black Panther. Most of the stars of Black Panther return for Wakanda Forever, including Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright and Dania Gurira.

As previously reported, last weekend, Boseman, who died in 2020 from cancer, was named a Disney Legend.

The Disney Legends Award is given to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to the Disney legacy.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever premieres in theaters November 11.

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After Nicki Minaj filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Marley Green, the blogger accused her of threatening her life. The “Super Freaky Girl” rapper immediately responded and denied the claim.

As previously reported, Nicki is suing Green, known as Nosey Heaux, for saying she was a “cokehead” known for “shoving” cocaine up her nose.

In the lawsuit, the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award winner says Green “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.”

After word spread of the lawsuit, The Neighborhood Talk posted the Instagram headline: “Pay Up! Nicki Minaj Makes Good On Promise To Sue YouTuber Who Accused Her Of Doing Coke: ‘Nothing Less Than $75,000.’”

Green replied in the comment section, “Actually Nicki doxxed me and is sending people to threaten my life.”

Nicki fired back, “That’s another false allegation you just made. That, in addition to all the new lies you said will probably cost you more than you know. So now…welp…BYE MARLEY!!! BWAHAHAHAHA.”

Minaj later tweeted she had several other lawsuits just waiting to be filed.

“Hmmm thinking if I should dish them out daily, weekly, orrrrr maybe even monthly…,” she wrote. “this Judd-Li folder is huge. LETS GO!!!!! next.”

She added, “Now let’s hope the ppl you guys r doing all this dirty work for love you enough to hire top notch lawyers for you & to pay your bills once I own your blogs, your shows, those IG pages y’all tried to protect so bad. Couple artists in the folder too. I’ll own your publishing. Duds.”

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After threatening to end his partnership with Gap in a recent social media tirade, Kanye West has now made it official.

His attorney, Nicholas Gravante Jr., notified Gap on Thursday that the YEEZY company is terminating their partnership. West accused Gap of breaking their agreement by not releasing apparel or opening planned retail stores, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Ye stated that his contract required the company to sell 40 percent of his YEEZY line in stores during the second half of 2021 and open five YEEZY retail locations by July 31, 2023.

The 24-time Grammy winner previously issued Gap an ultimatum in a since-deleted Instagram video, which accused the company of stealing his designs.

“You have to really give me the position to be Ye and let me do what I’m thinking, or I have to do the thinking somewhere else,” West said in the clip. He added that he has plans to “open YEEZY stores worldwide,” starting in Atlanta.

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Mariah Carey opened up about the flack she received from the music industry when she came out with Butterfly, her sixth studio album. 

Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Grammy vented her frustration about being belittled and doubted by “the corporate morgue, the entities that run things.”

Mariah began working on Butterfly amid her divorce from Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola and knew she wanted her music to embrace her heritage. That meant exploring hip-hop and R&B, but her label wanted her to continue her career in “purely pop records.” 

“Hip hop existed long before these guys, who were in control of the record business, knew of it or knew about it. They thought it was a trend or a passing fad,” she quipped. “They thought they knew better.”

The singer believes the pushback arose from “a confusion over what box to put me in” because she was mixed race. She also felt her label feared her music would become “too urban.”

“It wasn’t anyone’s favorite thing that I wanted to do hip hop-ish records,” she continued. “…People did not believe in it, or believe in me in that genre and that moment.”

Butterfly went on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. The making of this album will be explored in the upcoming documentary series about her life, directed by Lee Daniels.

Mariah celebrated Butterfly‘s 25th anniversary on Friday, writing on Instagram, “I will never forget the day I released this album to the world. I had never felt more exposed and vulnerable yet free and euphoric at the same time.”

She called the album “one of the proudest moments of my life.”  

Mariah unleashed a bunch of Butterfly-related anniversary goodies, which are available on her official online store.

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(LONDON) — David Beckham joined the miles-long queue Friday to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II.

The soccer legend joined the hundred of thousands of people waiting in line for hours to pay respects to the monarch, who is currently lying in state at Westminster Hall ahead of her state funeral on Monday.

“I grew up in a household of royalists and I was brought up that way,” Beckham told ITV News from the queue. “If my grandparents would have been here today I know that they would have wanted to be here, so I am here on their behalf and on behalf of my family.”

The former Manchester United star is married to former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, with whom he shares four children, sons Brooklyn, 23; Romeo, 20; and Cruz, 17; as well as daughter Harper, 11.

“It’s a sad day, but it’s a day for us to remember the incredible legacy that she left,” he said of the queen, adding that “Her Majesty meant so much in so many different ways.”

Beckham said he was “lucky to have a few moments” with the queen throughout his life and career, noting that the “most special moment” for him was receiving his Officer of the Order of the British Empire distinction, or OBE, which was bestowed on him by Elizabeth herself in 2003.

Elizabeth died Sept. 8 at age 96 and is the longest-reigning British monarch, having held the throne for 70 years.

The late queen’s eldest son King Charles III has since inherited the throne.

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Chrissy Teigen is opening up about the pregnancy loss she suffered two years ago, now calling it an abortion. 

“Two years ago, when I was pregnant with Jack, John [Legend] and my third child, I had to make a lot of difficult and heartbreaking decisions. It became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn’t either without any medical intervention,” Teigen explained while speaking at social impact agency Propper Daley’s “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation” summit Thursday, per Entertainment Tonight. 

“Let’s just call it what it was: It was an abortion,” Teigen author continued. “An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance. And to be honest, I never, ever put that together until, actually, a few months ago.”

Teigen elaborated that it took the overturning of Roe v. Wade for her to come to the realization of what had actually happened, and explained that Legend was the one who initially brought it to her attention. 

“I fell silent, feeling weird that I hadn’t made sense of it that way,” the model recalled. “I told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn’t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion.”

The admission comes a month after Teigen, 36, and Legend, 43, revealed they are currently expecting their fourth child. The pair are already parents to six-year-old daughter Luna and four-year-old son Miles.

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