Who knew Solange Knowles was a drill rap fan? Ask yourself when was the last time Solange attended any recent events with her family.
She didn’t attend a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris with big sister Beyoncé and their mom Tina Knowles in Houston, Texas on October 5.
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In fact, Solange hasn’t attended any red carpet events with her mom and sister in years.
But she was in the front row at drill rapper Chief Keef’s concert at a club in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Solange, 38, reportedly threw herself at Chief Keef, 29, after the show. She reportedly pushed aside his young fans and begged for his phone number and a selfie.
Drill rap is a subgenre of rap music performed by gang members who have committed violent crimes, murder and drug trafficking.
Most drill rappers are killers pretending to be rap artists.
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Chief Keef (left) is pictured with drill rapper Lil Durk who is locked up in Miami on a murder-for-hire charge.
Chief Keef is credited with pioneering Chicago drill rap in 2012. His fifth mixtape, Back from the Dead (2012), spawned the single “I Don’t Like”, which marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video was viewed over 53 million times on YouTube.
According to members of a manosphere board, Solange’s groupie behavior fits a pattern.
One man wrote: “Solange is ratchet as hell (not a diss), it’s not surprising that she’s a keef fan. She had Master P host one of her albums and Gucci mane on another album.”
Another person wrote: “Solange was wild as fu#k back in the day. She used to be in the clubs when she was 16/17 fighting ho*s.”
And who can forget when Solange nearly broke Jay-Z’s jaw in an embarrassing elevator beatdown that was caught on video?
No wonder Beyoncé has distanced herself from her ratchet little sister.
On Wednesday in Madison, Wisconsin White pop, rock and folk artists performed at Harris’ rally. Respectable artists such as Gracie Abrams, Mumford & Sons, Remi Wolf, Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner performed.
But it was GloRilla’s raunchy performance on Friday that generated the most buzz on social media over the weekend.
Even loyal Democrats questioned the song selection and why Harris asked Cardi B and GloRilla to perform at her rally.
Democrats on a Black manosphere board expressed their disappointment in Harris.
One man wrote: “We are only good for entertainment. They should have gotten Samara Joy but we understand they are to humiliate black people all the time.”
Another person wrote: “So Brainwashed that people don’t even want to call it out and they know it is WRONG and not a good look but will stay quiet and go along with it. Classy is too boring to get Votes I guess.”
And a third person wrote: “Circus on both sides. This is how those funds get spent instead of using it to help ppl. Then get elected and help no one. Find God.”
??BREAKING NEWS: Rapper Glorilla is performing at Kamala Harris rally with lyrics that explain the size of her vagina
Glorilla: “Turned up with some biker shorts in showing off my Moose Knuckle.”
Legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked with Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra, died of natural causes at age 91.
Jones’ publicist, Arnold Robinson, confirmed to PEOPLE that Jones died at his Los Angeles home on Sunday, Nov. 3. He was surrounded by his family.
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“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the family said in a statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that he lived and know there will never be another like him.”
“He is truly one of a kind and we will miss him dearly; we take comfort and immense pride in knowing that the love and joy, that were the essence of his being, was shared with the world through all that he created. Through his music and his boundless love, Quincy Jones’ heart will beat for eternity.”
Jones won 28 Grammy awards and earned 80 Grammy nominations over his 70-year career as a music composer, songwriter and band leader. He also won an Oscar, Emmy Award and a Tony Award.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born on the South Side of Chicago on March 14, 1933. As a child, Jones learned to play the piano from his neighbor, Lucy Jackson.
His mother, Sarah, suffered a schizophrenic breakdown and was admitted to a mental hospital. His father Quincy Sr. remarried and moved the family to Seattle, where Jones attended Garfield High School and developed his skills as a trumpeter and arranger.
At age 14, Jones introduced himself to 16-year-old Ray Charles. He cited Ray Charles as an early inspiration.
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In 1953, aged 20, Jones traveled with jazz bandleader Lionel Hampton in Europe. During the 1950s, Jones toured Europe with several jazz orchestras. He formed his own orchestra but Jones was financially strapped and the band soon dissolved.
In 1960, he landed a job as musical director of Mercury Record’s New York division. In 1961, Jones was promoted as the vice-president of Mercury, becoming the first Black person to hold the position.
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During that same year, he composed music for The Pawnbroker. Following the success of The Pawnbroker, Jones left Mercury Records and moved to Los Angeles.
His film credits over the next seven years included Walk, Don’t Run, The Deadly Affair, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and many more.
In the 1960s, Jones worked as a music arranger for Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Horn, Peggy Lee, Nana Mouskouri, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington.
He also worked on his own solo recordings, including “Soul Bossa Nova”, which was used as the theme for the 1997 spy comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
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Jones produced all four million-selling singles for singer Lesley Gore (right) in 1963 and 1964, including “It’s My Party”, “Judy’s Turn to Cry”, “She’s a Fool”, and “You Don’t Own Me”.
Jones is pictured with Lesley Gore and Jamaican singer-songwriter Millie Small (center) in a photo dated August 1964.
In 1975, Jones founded Qwest Productions. In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz, the all-Black musical adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, which starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross. He won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for The Wiz in 1979.
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In 1982, he produced Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the bestselling album in music history. Jones picked up 2 Grammy Awards for his work on Thriller: Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Beat It.”
Jones never learned to drive after he was involved in a car crash at age 14.
Jones was a gossip who outed down-low homosexuals Marlon Brando, James Baldwin, Richard Pryor, and Marvin Gaye.
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Jones was married three times and had seven children with five different women. He is also survived by three grandchildren. He was godfather to actor-musician Quincy Brown, who was named after him.
In his final Instagram post on Sunday, Nov. 2, Jones shared a photo of himself and daughter Martina. He captioned the post: “Happy Birthday to my Tina Beena @martinafotos1!!. So proud to be yo papa! Big hug, I love you eternally.
Cardi B suffered a teleprompter glitch at Kamala Harris’ campaign rally in Wisconsin on Friday night. Cardi’s teleprompter broke after she walked onstage to her hit song, “Bodak Yellow.”
She stood at the podium for a full minute while attendees cheered and called her name. “One second guys, one second,” she said while pointing to the teleprompter.
“Ok, so I don’t take lightly the call,” she said before pausing again.
“Sorry guys, I’m a little nervous. I’m a little nervous guys! I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life,” she said as the crowd continued to cheer.
“I need Patience over here. Patience, where are you girl?” Cardi B said, referring to a staffer.
Another 2 minutes went by. Then Cardi B ad-libbed her speech off the top of her head.
“Hold on, hold on, hold on, how you guys doing tonight?” she asked the cheering crowd. “How are you guys doing tonight? Are we ready to make history? Are we ready to make history? Are we ready to change these four years? No, are we ready to change the next eight years? Because we’re gonna make sure we have Kamala Harris in office for eight years!”
A staffer brought Cardi B a cell phone with her prepared speech on the screen.
“I took my time writing this speech so I’m going to make sure I deliver it right,” Cardi B told the crowd.
Cardi B discussed women’s rights to have abortions, the economy, healthcare, and more. She also rebuked Harris’ Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump.
Harris supporters on a manosphere board were disappointed that the Democratic candidate paid Cardi B to speak at the rally.
One man said, “I do know her choices for speakers to endorse her for women’s rights are straight trash though. I have not seen one classy highly educated role model black woman speak for her yet. Just paid celebrity’s and ignorant tw3rk rapper girls.”
Another member wrote, “I thought Beyoncé was posed to be the complete infinity gauntlet endorsement and somebody said, we should get Cardi.”
Watch Cardi B’s speech below.
LMAO Cardi B's teleprompter was broken and she had no idea what to do for over a minute until someone ran on the stage to give her a phone to read off. Holy embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/BRl8xGP72e
Charlotte Hornets player Grant Williams was ejected from Friday’s game against the Boston Celtics. Williams was ejected for a hard hit on Celtics star Jayson Tatum at the Spectrum Center in North Carolina.
The dirty foul took place late in the 4th quarter during the Hornets’ 124-109 loss to the Celtics.
Via CBS Sports — With just over two minutes remaining, Miles Bridges missed a layup and the Celtics took off the other way. As Tatum was racing up the middle of the court, Williams came charging in from the blindside and body checked Tatum to the [floor].
Tatum quickly got up and walked over to the foul line. The officials reviewed the play and upgraded the hard hit to a flagrant-2 foul, resulting in an automatic ejection.
After the game, Williams accused Tatum’s teammate Jaylen Brown of “escalating” the situation.
“I understand he’s trying to protect his teammate,” Williams said of Brown. “But that’s [Tatum] my dog. No matter what, I got his back. … No malice or any issue with that.”
But Brown was still upset during the post-game press conference.
“Like, what are we talking about? Y’all see the same play that I was seeing?” Brown asked reporters. “He hit him like it was a football play. Like, Ray Lewis coming across the middle or something. It is what it is. Grant know better than that.”
Williams and Tatum are former Celtics teammates. Williams played for the Celtics for 4 years.
The clip below shows the tense atmosphere between Williams and Tatum in the locker room before Williams was traded.
Williams held out his hand to greet Tatum’s son named Jayson Jr. But Tatum got up, took his son’s hand and walked away.
Celtics play-by-play announcer Mike Gorman once called Williams “annoying” and a “bad locker room guy”.
It’s obvious that Tatum, 26, doesn’t speak to Williams, 25. Rumor has it that Tatum pressured the Celtics to trade Williams.
There are rumors of sëxual tension between Williams and Tatum. But Tatum is heterosexual and a devout Christian who praises Jesus for his success.
In addition to Jayson Jr., Tatum and singer/songwriter Ella Mai had their first child together recently.
NBA star Anthony Edwards scored points with social media users by filing for paternity of a baby girl.
The Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guard fathered the child with Instagram influencer Ayesha Howard. She announced her daughter’s birth on Instagram in a post dated Oct. 22.
Ayesha didn’t have to file for a paternity test. Anthony got to the courthouse before she did.
He petitioned a Georgia court for a paternity test and child support in September — before the child was born.
In addition to her newborn daughter, Ayesha shares a young son named Jason with rapper Lil Baby.
Page Sixreported that Anthony filed to take a paternity test to determine whether or not he fathered her child.
“If genetic testing shows that the petitioner is the father, the petitioner requests an order establishing the minor child’s paternity,” read the court documents obtained by Page Six.
Page Six reports that a status conference is scheduled in a Georgia court for Nov. 13.
Women on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) praised Anthony for taking the first step to provide for his child.
NBA players are usually forced to take responsibility for their children.
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The 23-year-old NBA star is the proud father of 4 children, including a daughter with his current girlfriend, Shannon, pictured together at the Paris Olympics. They first went public as a couple in 2020.
Shannon also shares a son named Krue with Chicago drill rapper Chief Keef. Both Chief Keef and Lil Baby are among Anthony’s favorite rappers. He also listens to rappers Drake, Kodak Black and Kendrick Lamar.
Shannon attends all of Anthony’s home games where she sits courtside with her daughter. She posted an Instagram slideshow of photos taken at a recent NBA game.
TikTok scammer Ashley Grayson was sentenced to 120 months in a federal prison for a murder-for-hire scheme. Grayson was sentenced on Thursday, Oct. 31. She was assigned to a federal medical facility because she’s pregnant with her third child and due to give birth soon.
She has 4 weeks to surrender to the federal bureau of prisons.
According to Atlanta Black Star, the federal indictment was filed on June 29 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The complaint states that Ashley and Joshua Grayson reportedly contacted someone and paid them to murder another person.
The hitman’s name was omitted from the complaint, and it lists only the initials D.H. for the potential victim. However, investigators determined the Graysons were in contact with someone to carry out the murder between Aug. 26, 2022, and Sept. 11, 2022.
Joshua Grayson was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.
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The Graysons are well-known on social media for their online credit repair and content businesses. Ashley Grayson gained notoriety online after she reportedly won $1 million in a lawsuit. But she claimed she earned the money after launching her online businesses.
In posts on Instagram and Facebook, Grayson showed off her lavish lifestyle. One video showed her proposal to Joshua Grayson, which took place on a rented yacht and featured a performance by R&B singer Monica.
Videos and pictures of the event went viral, which earned the couple a massive social media following.
One year after their engagement, allegations began circulating that Grayson greatly exaggerated her personal wealth and bragged that she was singer Monica’s best friend. But Facebook users claimed and that the money she flaunted was actually from a worker’s compensation settlement after she lost a finger at her old job.
In Facebook posts, one woman accused Grayson of cheating her out of $2,000 after she bought her online course and was subsequently blocked.
In 2022, Grayson filed a defamation lawsuit against a financial coach named Derricka Harwell alleging that a comment Harwell posted under one of Grayson’s Facebook posts was “false, defamatory, and injurious.”
The lawsuit claimed that Harwell’s post “permanently damaged” Grayson’s personal reputation “online and around the world” and made people believe that Grayson “stalked and harassed” Harwell.
Wait! Have y’all been following this Ashley Grayson story?! Her and her husband were indicted by the FBI for racketeering and m*rder. ? pic.twitter.com/9twekeP1Fg
Young Thug’s father reacted to his son’s non-negotiated plea deal on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Thugger (born Jeffery Williams) was released from jail on Thursday night after changing his plea to guilty in Georgia’s longest-running criminal trial.
Thugger, 33, pled guilty to gang activity, drug possession, and weapons offenses.
Judge Paige Reese Whitaker sentenced the rapper to 15 years probation, community service and thousands of dollars in fines.
Additionally, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis banned Young Thug from living in the city of Atlanta. He is barred from living in the metro Atlanta area for the first 10 years of his probation.
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The terms of Young Thug’s probation upset his father, Jeffery Williams Sr., who called for Atlantans to oust Willis in the upcoming election.
Williams Sr. was annoyed that his son is barred from living in Atlanta.
“I’m totally against that, because this is where he’s from,” he said. “And to have a district attorney take that away from him that isn’t a resident from here. She’s from another state, and to see her take a man away from where he’s from, to have to go live somewhere else? That’s offensive to me. I’m really offended by that.”
Williams Sr. said he wanted his son to fight the charges, and “let them keep embarrassing themselves.”
He said Young Thug will “get back to work” in the studio to “get back to our normal life.”
Williams Sr. wore a cap endorsing Courtney Kramer for the district attorney’s office.
“We need to get rid of the poison that’s in our system, and that’s the district attorney’s office,” he said.
“So vote Courtney Kramer. I support Courtney Kramer to the fullest. I feel like she’s the best person for the job,” he added.
Social media users are reacting to photos that show President Joe Biden biting several babies at a White House Halloween party.
Videos and photos of Biden biting babies went viral on social media on Wednesday, Oct. 30. White House staff transformed the South Lawn into a Halloween wonderland with candy and activities for families, local students, and children of military families.
President Biden greeted a line of children and parents and distributed candy in signature White House wrappers.
As photographers and videos captured the scenes, Biden bit a baby’s thigh, put a child’s toe in his mouth and nibbled at a third baby wearing a blue dress.
Biden dressed up as himself in a blue suit and blue and white striped tie. The first lady Jill Biden wore a panda costume.
The scenes drew humorous reactions and rebuke from Republican influencers on social media.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson tweeted: “Apparently Joe Biden is biting babies at The White House this evening.” His post had been viewed 740,000 times by Thursday morning.
Jenna Ellis, a suspended lawyer who used to work for Donald Trump, posted an article of Biden biting a baby on X, writing: “How is this real?”
Kylie Jane Kremer, one of the organizers of the “Save America” rally on January 6, 2021, wrote on X: “Someone call 911 immediately JOE BIDEN JUST BIT A SECOND BABY AT THE WHITE HOUSE This is NOT a joke. He stuck this second child’s foot in his mouth three times!”
Question: How was your Halloween? Post pictures in the comments section.
A 21-year-old soldier is charged with the murder of a female sergeant whose body was found in a dumpster on an Army base last week.
Sarah Roque, a 23-year-old mine detection dog handler, was assigned to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
Her body was found in a dumpster near her barracks on October 21.
Roque was reported missing when she failed to show for formation that morning. A search began for her within hours.
Special Agent John McCabe, who oversees the Army Criminal Investigation Division in the Midwest, said Roque was found dead later that day.
Within three days, McCabe announced an arrest was made in the case. But the suspect’s name wasn’t released to the media until Thursday, Oct. 31.
Specialist Wooster Rancy of the 5th Engineer Battalion is charged with murder. He is being held in pretrial confinement while awaiting an evidentiary hearing.
He is from North Miami, Fla., and enlisted as a combat engineer in 2022, Stripes.com reported.
Roque was born in Lubbock, Texas and raised in Ligonier, Indiana. She enlisted in 2020 to become a combat engineer, according to her obituary. She worked in the 5th Engineer Battalion as a bridge crewmember and boat operator from October 2020 until August 2022.
She deployed to Poland as a boat operator with the 74th Multirole Bridge Company.
Roque reenlisted in 2022 and transferred to work as a mine detection dog handler, according to her obituary. She partnered with a dog named Zorro.
