The question is not IF Nicki Minaj had breast implants, but how many?
Cartoonish rapper Nicki Minaj unleashed her new and improved boobs for the world to see on the MTV Movie Awards last night.
Of course, these are not the first implants for the 28-year-old “Your Love” singer who is completely fake from the neck down. It’s hard to say just how many breast enhancements Nicki has had to go along with her butt shots, nose jobs, cheek and hip implants. But does it matter?
Yes, say some mothers who are appalled that Nicki was invited to speak to their daughters at a school in Chicago. One mom emailed me to say she wasn’t warned that Minaj would make a surprise visit to Collins Academy High School last month.
“None of the parents received advance warning,” she wrote. “I was shocked and appalled that [Nicki Minaj] was the most positive role model the school could invite to speak to our students.”
The mom of a 16-year-old student, said she would have yanked her daughter out of classes if she had known that Nicki would visit the school that day.
Maybe the teachers used Nicki’s visit to teach the kids that the human body is made up of 60% water, but Nicki’s body is composed of 60% silicone and other industrial strength lubricants?
When Keenan Cahill Met Ciara
Keenan Cahill is the 15-year-old who gained YouTube fame by uploading videos of himself sort of, kind of lip-syncing to popular tunes.
Today, Keenan met up with R&B singer Ciara in New York’s Time Square to raise awareness for teen pregnancy. Together, they performed a memorable rendition of Diana Ross and The Supremes’ classic hit “Can’t Hurry Love”.
Pictures courtesy of JD over at The Life Files industry blog.
Celeb Style: Ciara rocking Air Jordan Retro 9
Singer Ciara just tweeted this pic of herself rocking a pair of Air Jordan Retro 9′s at the Hill Street Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club in Atlanta this morning.
Later this afternoon she’s off to the 2nd Annual Sprite Step Off Challenge at the Fox Theater in midtown. The step show starts at 5p.m.
I attended this same event last year at the Atlanta Civic Center. If you recall, controversy raged when the 1st prize of $100,000 in scholarships was awarded to the all-white Epsilon chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha out of Arkansas.
The white girls killed it at the majority black competition last year. They electrified the crowd with a dazzling step routine that clocked in at just under 9 minutes. But almost immediately after this video hit the ‘nets, accusations of “the fix was in!” began sounding from HBCUs across the country.
Black sorors complained bitterly that MTV (and their sponsor, Coca Cola which distributes Sprite) wanted a step crew winner that was more in line with their targeted demographic.
So what if the white women stole parts of their routines from black step crews? The truth is that the all-black Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha from Indiana University (who came in 2nd last year) should have stepped their game up a notch instead of acting like it was a dance competition.
The Zeta Tau Alpha girls should have been the sole winners because they stayed true to the historical black traditions of intricate stepping, call and response.
Well, to quiet the uproar (and to appease the media who began making inquiries), Coca-Cola announced that due to a “scoring discrepancy,” both the The Zeta Tau Alpha girls (white) and the Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha step crew (black), would be recognized as co-winners.
Naturally the outrage and indignation was split along racial lines, with white college students yelling racism right along with the HBCUs. Coca Cola’s excuses about scoring discrepancies fell on deaf ears.
“Why won’t they let YT be great!!!!!! I swear black people won’t let white people have anything,” was just one of the sampling of comments left on an all-white message board.
Probably due to the 2010 controversy, this year’s competition at the Fox Theater has been scaled down.
Instead of V-103′s Ryan Cameron hosting (as he did last year) — they have someone named DJ Rock-T of the Tavis Smiley Show handling the hosting duties.
Ciara will perform during the competition. Lots of tickets are still available at $20.
Hoodrat mom angry with teacher for posting photos of her child’s hairstyle on FB
When Barack Obama was elected president, I was hoping that he would pass a bill forcing all potential parents to take mandatory tests to prove they are competent to raise human beings, but I guess not.
A hoodrat who embarrassed her own child by sending her to school with Jolly Rancher candies in her hair is now upset because a teacher posted pics of the hood hairstyle on Facebook.
The mom, Lucinda Williams, claims her daughter begged her to tie the candies onto the ends of her braids for picture day at school.
You decide who is in the wrong: the mama for making her kid the laughing stock of the school, or the teacher for doing what anyone else would have done under the circumstances.
Ukailya Lofton, a student at Overton Elementary School in Chicago, turned up for her school photo on picture day with Jolly Rancher candies tied to her braids after she had seen the style in a magazine.
Her computer teacher asked her to pose for a photo with her braids hanging round her face and told her: ‘My husband is not going to believe this.’
That night she posted the cell-phone pictures on her Facebook page with the message: ‘Right! This is for picture day.’
Another parent whose child is the teacher’s friend on Facebook let Ukailya’s mother Lucinda Williams know that the girl’s photo was on the teacher’s page and people were mocking the hairstyle.The comments that appeared on the teacher’s Facebook page said things like: ‘I laughed so hard my contact popped out’, ‘yeah this is foolishness’ and ‘If you are going to make your child look ridiculous the least you could do is make them matching.’
When a furious Ms Williams notified the school, the teacher removed the photo and apologised but Ukailya’s mother is demanding she apologise directly to her daughter.
She told the Chicago Tribune: ‘What bothers me is that she still hasn’t apologized to my baby. No child should have to go to school to be bullied by their teacher.
‘She wasn’t even suspended, and an apology is not enough.’
Raven-Symone Debuts New Hairstyle
Actress/singer Raven-Symone, 25, posed with Steve Harvey, a guest, and gospel singer Yolanda Adams after speaking with high school students during “Disney’s Dreamers Academy” sponsored by Essence Magazine at Disney’s Epcot Center in Lake Buena Vista, Florida yesterday.
Raven, whose personal net worth is close to a billion dollars, told the kids that she cut her hair because her hairline was ate up. Hopefully, she will lead the charge against weave and hair extensions that has robbed our black women of their beauty and elegance.
“Disney’s Dreamers Academy” is a career enrichment event at Walt Disney World that features four days of activities geared toward high school students. Local celebrity blogger Tami of Talking With Tami, took her son to the event. Tami provided this video of Raven discussing her new ABC TV show coming out called, “The Great State of Georgia”. So watch your local listings for that!
Photos by Handout/Getty Images North America and Talking With Tami
Matt Damon and other celebrities turn against Obama
First it was black people, and now the fawning celebrities have turned their backs on U.S. President Barack Obama. Actor Matt Damon is at the forefront of celebrities voicing their opinions on Obama’s dismal track record of keeping his promises.
“I no longer hope for audacity,” said Damon, who was one of the President’s earliest and best-known celebrity supporters during his 2008 campaign. Damon expressed his disappointment in the way the country was being run on CNN’s Piers Morgan Show on Mar. 3.
He also slammed the President for failing to follow through on many of his campaign promises, particularly on education.
“I really think he misinterpreted his mandate and has doubled down on a lot of things. The idea that we’re testing kids and we’re tying teachers salaries to how kids are performing on tests, that kind of mechanized thinking has nothing to do with higher order. We’re training them, not teaching them.”
Other A-list celebs who threw their full support behind Obama in 2008 are now speaking out against his policies.
Barbra Streisand told Larry King last year that she thought the President should have been more aggressive on certain issues, like overturning the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ban on gay people serving in the military.
Even though the measure was eventually overturned, Glee’s Jane Lynch criticised Obama’s handling of gay rights issues in general, calling him a “huge disappointment”.
“We thought the great hope of Obama was going to magically change all that,” she said. “He’s just nicely walking the middle.”
Obama can’t please everyone, but he should at least try and appease the people who helped him win the election.
BYU Dismisses Men’s Basketball Player for Having Premarital Sex
In a society where pregnant teens are rewarded for their promiscuity with fame and fat checks, there are still bastions of morality left somewhere in this country.
Brigham Young University (BYU) is standing by its controversial decision to kick standout center Brandon Davies off the basketball team for having premarital sex with his girlfriend. As a result of Davies’ dismissal, BYU (27-3) dropped its next game to New Mexico in an upset.
Davies himself revealed his violation of the school’s honor code in a meeting with school officials. The 6-9, 235 lb. sophomore told school officials that he had sexual relations with his girlfriend despite taking a vow to “live a chaste and virtuous life.”
According to ESPN, “an honor code review is under way to determine if the BYU sophomore will be allowed to remain in school, as well as his status with the team next season.”
BYU faces a wave of criticism for dismissing Davies from the team, but many in the BYU community applaud the school’s decision.
“Everybody who comes to BYU, every student if they’re an athlete or not an athlete, they make a commitment when they come,” said BYU coach Dave Rose of a code that also forbids use of alcohol and coffee and requires students to be honest and attend church regularly. “A lot of people try to judge if this is right or wrong, but it’s a commitment they make. It’s not about right or wrong. It’s about commitment.”
Thanks to loyal reader Nicole B. for the tip!
Edited Mar. 3, 2011 @ 5:06 p.m. to add picture of Brandon’s girlfriend
