You may recognize Robinne Lee as an actress in films including Hav Plenty, Seven Pounds and the Fifty Shades Of Grey sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.
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She’s also the author of the bestselling novel The Idea Of You, and most recently she produced (along with Gabrielle Union) a same-titled film based on that book which stars Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine, which debuted on Prime Video this week.
Our Sr. Content Director Janeé Bolden chatted with Lee about her book’s creation and evolution, check out their Q&A below:
On writing The Idea Of You:
I have always since I was little I’ve been like obsessed with two things, writing and acting. I started writing when I was very little, I still have books from like 3rd grade, like short stories, but I wrote my first novel when I was 14, and it was like 884 pages — handwritten pages that I have in my guest room in a box.
I’ve always written things for myself because it was my outlet, and then I started pursuing a career in acting, but writing was what I would do. In acting so much of your daily life is just waiting. You do auditions and then you’re waiting to hear back, or you get the part but even then you’re waiting. You’re in your trailer, you’re waiting, and then in between auditions you’re waiting. I feel like with acting you’re you’re always waiting for someone to give you permission to practice your craft and to create. So writing was what I did for fun and it was something that I could do and express my creativity and then have something to show at the end of the day. I didn’t have to wait for permission, I didn’t have to wait months, I didn’t go through post production or have to worry whether or not I got cut out of the scene or whatever. It was all mine and I had it.
In 2012, it’d been like 6 years working on a novel and could not sell it, shortly before The Idea of You and it was very frustrating to me. I kind of shut down for a couple of years and then and I got the idea to this to do this book. I knew it was great story. I hadn’t seen it done before. I knew that I could do it really well and respectfully and honestly and then I knew that time was of the essence because I wanted to be the first one to get it out, but I was also writing in current time and social media and all those things play a role. When I wrote that, Snapchat hadn’t been invented, TikTok hadn’t been invented and things are happening so fast, I wanted it done and out and in the world.
On The Idea Of You becoming a film:
I was just really lucky. The first agent I sent it to loved it. He spent a couple several weeks doing notes. I spent a few months taking his notes and we sold it within two weeks. It just happened like that and shortly after it coming out into the world, Cathy Schulman came on as a producer and optioned it. That kind of just got the ball rolling. It’s been out now for seven years and sometimes I felt like I was I was selling one book a day. I’m just very, very good about social media engagement and like any reader who’s reached out to me with positive or negative commentary and finds me in my DM’s I respond to. I kind of feel like I built up this relationship with my readers and it’s kind of helped the snowball effect, because then it becomes they tell someone and they tell someone and you know and so it’s kind of gone by word of mouth.
It had a really kind of a big explosion during the pandemic when we were all in lockdown and there was a wonderful article in Vogue Magazine written by Michelle Ruiz. I think that’s when that article came out, that’s when Annie (Anne Hathaway) signed on and then the rights were purchased and it kind of took off. Up until that point I was just kind of like shepherding this little baby book that I had wanted the world to see and read and experience and to know this woman’s journey and to know that as women we are expected to put others happiness before our own so often, and just as we’re coming into our power, we’re told that we’re no longer desirable and we don’t have value, our value is diminishing. It’s really painful to see that out there and to see it in our culture reproduced over and over again. I just wanted to change the discussion and open us up to something new and show our power and show that we’re these multilayered human beings. We are capable of running businesses and also having crazy sex and being madly in love and being a great mom. We can do all that, so it was really important for me to kind of get that out there.
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On what it was like having Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine play the characters she wrote:
They did a really great job. I write visually when I’m setting a scene but I can’t necessarily see the characters’ face. I have a feel for the characters I’m writing but I didn’t cast it in my head and so it’s really interesting to see actors step into the roles. It’s like, ‘Oh that’s Solène’s face, so that’s Hayes’ face!’ I feel like they inhabited them both very well, very specifically, and they’ve made them their own. That’s all you can ask from an actor, is that they respect the work that they’re being given and that they fully inhabit it and they give it 100%. I think they both do that and the commitment is on the screen. Their chemistry is beautiful and the emotional scenes are wonderful and you feel the full arc.
The Idea Of You is currently streaming on Prime Video
Khloé Kardashian seemingly closed the door to her Barnum & Bailey baby daddy Tristan Thompson, but hinted that she’s open to dating women.
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Fans have long worried about Khloé’s unlucky love life since almost reaching the “death do us part” part of marriage to Lamar Odom. Then they watched unserious serial inseminator Tristan drag her down to klown town. Now, the mom of two is joking that she might check the temperature for a dip in the lady pond.
Ok, Khloé! We’re not mad at it, and it sounds like the 39-year-old doesn’t mind the idea either.
Khloé Reacts To Comments That She “Should Be A Lesbian”
On X (formerly Twitter) a fan account posted a picture of the Good American founder looking dapper, suited, and booted. The caption said, “I still think Khloé should be a lesbian.”
While it seems like every detail of the reality star’s life was already broadcast, she gave us a surprising glimpse into her dating preferences. On Tuesday, she revealed that she hasn’t completely ruled it out, according to TMZ. It might be a matter of just meeting the right person, regardless of gender.
“Well, you never know what my future holds,” Khloé wrote, adding a free-spirited cartwheel emoji.
When another fan chimed in with a scissor-related gif, she responded with laughing emojis. After the on-again, off-again shenanigans with Tristan, Khloé can’t do much worse with another gender.
Switching (or at least expanding) teams worked out beautifully for celebs like Niecy Nash, Da Brat, and Brittney Griner finding love.
Before Khloé welcomed two children with her baby daddy, she was married to Lamar Odom. The retired NBA star confessed to cheating throughout most of the marriage, which lasted from 2009 to 2013. Khloé also supported Odom through struggles with addiction and serious health complications from substance abuse.
Even if True and Tatum’s mama wants to continue a roster of ballers, the WNBA is full of talent!
Fans will tune in to every up and down of Khloé’s next romantic rollercoasters whether she’s with another man or not.
Drake dropped “Family Matters” airing out Kendrick Lamar’s alleged family drama only for Compton’s own to respond within minutes alleging that Drake has a secret daughter while apologizing to Drizzy’s family for having to deal with the alleged OVO Ozempic taker.
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On late Friday, the battle of the century between Drake and Kendrick Lamar took an unpredictable left turn. After Kendrick released “Euphoria” and “6:16 In LA,, Drake dropped his latest offering “Family Matters” complete with a music video destroying the van from the cover of good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Drizzy’s record took the beef to a different level with no-holds-barred disrespect that opened the door for Kendrick to go even lower.
According to Complex, Drake mentioned Kendrick’s wife Whitney Alford, and alleged that the rapper domestically abused her.
Not only that, he hinted that Alford might have cheated and had a child with Kendrick’s manager, Dave Free.
Later in the song, Drake questions how Kendrick proposed in 2017 but it’s 2024 and he still hasn’t had a wedding.
“You the Black messiah wifin’ up a mixed queen /And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem,” raps Drake. “On some Bobby sh*t, I wanna know what Whitney need /All that puppy love was over in y’all late teens /Why you never hold your son and tell him, “Say cheese?” /We could’ve left the kids out of this, don’t blame me /You a dog and you know it, you just play sweet /Your baby mama captions always screamin’, “Save me” /You did her dirty all her life, you tryna make peace /I heard that one of them little kids might be Dave Freeeeee /Don’t make it Dave Free’s /’Cause if your GM is your BM secret BD.”
“They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat up your queen/The picture you painted ain’t what it seems/When you put your hands on your girl, is it self-defense ’cause she bigger than you? /Your back is up against the curb, you diggin’ for dirt, should be diggin’ for proof /Why did you move to New York? Is it ’cause you livin’ that bachelor life? /Proposed in 2015, but don’t wanna make her your actual wife /I’m guessin’ this wedding ain’t happenin’, right? / ‘Cause we know the girls that you actually like / Your darkest secrets are comin’ to light /It’s all on your face like what happened to Mike.”
He then taunts Rocky who he calls out by his government name, about his previous relationship with Rihanna.
“Rakim talking s*** again/Gassed cause you hit my BM first n***a do the math who I was hitting then/I ain’t even know you rap still cause they only talking bout your fit again/Probably gotta have a kid again before you think of dropping s*** again.”
He also addresses Rick Ross and once again makes weight loss medication allegations.
Less than a full day after Kendrick Lamar released “6:16 in LA,” Drake has responded to it, and “euphoria,” which arrived Tuesday (April 30). Drake’s third jab at Kendrick comes after April’s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made”—which was removed from digital streaming platforms and online accounts after threat of legal action by Tupac Shakur’s estate. Within an hour of “FAMILY MATTERS,” Kendrick has fired back with “meet the grahams.” Both songs, attempts at ruining one another’s careers, are explained below:
“FAMILY MATTERS” arrives as a seven-minute music video, which is made up of several songs mixed consecutively. The video opens with a spinning diamond-encrusted necklace and medallion and a figure throwing the finger. As that image hits the screen, Drake raps admit he’s “emptied the clip” for less, and that because Drake’s seed was mentioned, the father is now involved. Then, a Dodge Caravan—similar to that on Kendrick Lamar’s deluxe edition of good kid, m.a.a.d city album, is taken to be smashed at a scrap yard. Sections of the song also address Drake’s other collaborators-turned-nemeses, including Rick Ross, The Weeknd, Future, and Metro Boomin. Drake also seemingly adds A$AP Rocky to his growing name of opps—adding a second “F__kin’ Problems” collaborator to the mix.
The video dedicates much of its vitriol to Kendrick. Drake spats at Lamar’s suggestion he stop using the N-word.
“Out here begging for attention, n___a say please / Always rapping like you ’bout to get the slaves free / You just acting like a activist it’s make believe / But you won’t even go into your hood and plant money trees,” he charges. Drake runs head-on to the fact that Kendrick’s fiance and the mother of his children is biracial. The OVO leader also alleges that Kendrick favors white women, and charges that some of the infidelity alluded to on 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was with a white female. “You say you hate the girls I f__k but what ya really mean? / I been with Black and white and everything that’s in between / You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem / On some Bobby s__t I wanna know what Whitney need / All that puppy love was over in your late teens / Why you never hold your son and say cheese? / We coulda left the kids outta this, don’t blame me.“
Meanwhile, Drake focuses on Kendrick’s relationship a lot. His lyrics question if Kendrick’s pgLang business partner and longtime manager Dave Free may have fathered one of the MC’s children. “Your baby mama captions always screamin, ‘save me’ / You did her dirty all her life, you tryna make peace / I heard that one of them little kids might be Dave Free / Don’t make it Dave freeze / Cause if your GM is your BM secret BD / Then this is all making plenty f__kin’ sense to me / Ayy, let that shorty breathe / Shake that ass b___h / Hands on your knees, hands on your knees / Hands on your knees, hands on your knees / Shake that ass for Drake, now shake that ass for Free.“ Then, in the final seconds of the seven-minute video, Drake also accuses Kendrick if beating his wife—something that has never been mentioned publicly. “They hired a crisis management team / To hide the fact that you beat on your queen / The picture you paint, it ain’t what it seems / Ya dead!” In that segment of the video, Drake wears a diamond around his neck—moments after questioning why Lamar’s near decade-long engagement has not evolved to marriage.
Elsewhere in the song, Drake suggests Kendrick Lamar is only gang-affiliated by proxy. He calls out YG and Chris Brown for their legitimacy, while Kendrick is not. He demands to see the Compton superstar’s TDE paperwork, claiming that Lamar is dodging a probe into his business. As with “Push Ups,” Drizzy goes at Lamar’s height. Even at the chorus, Drake says he wanted to keep it “PG” — clear double entendre to Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s pgLang company.
Other jabs include claiming that since Top Dawg “robbed” Kendrick’s father (as told in the song “DUCKWORTH”), that it’s “like father, like son” with what the record executive did with K-Dot. Drake claims it was Kendrick who told the Tupac estate to publicly threaten Drake to have last month’s “Taylor Made” diss removed online. He also leans into Kendrick’s comparisons of himself being Prince and Drake being a modern-day Michael Jackson. Drake—who flips Kendrick’s idea that he stands alone—seems to suggest that Kendrick wanted J. Cole to be out of the spotlight.
In other sections of the track, Drake makes light of Rick Ross’ weight (and weight loss) while bringing up the rapper’s past job as a correctional officer. This comes after Drake confronts RR’s accusations of a nose-job. He then accuses Rocky’s fame coming from fashion, not rap. He pokes at his history with Rihanna, and that should would tell Rocky that Drake is superior. “Rakim talkin’ s__t again / Gassed cause you hit my bm first / N___a do the math, who I was hitting them / I ain’t even know you rap still cause they not talking bout your fit again / Probably gotta a kid again before you think of dropping any s__t again.”
Drake closes out the song (which is credited to Boi-1da, Tay Keith, Mark Ronson, and others) suggesting he may be taking a leave of absence, having made such a statement.
Approximately one hour after Drake clapped back at Kendrick with “FAMILY MATTERS,” Lamar delivers “meet the grahams.” It is the most personal attack on Drake since Pusha-T’s 2018 charge, “The Story Of Adidon.” Like Eminem’s “Stan,” Kendrick writes the song as a series of letters. “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest / It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive / I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him / Life is hard, I know, the challenges always gon’ be this home / Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown / And you a good kid that need good leadership / Let me be your mentor, since your daddy don’t teach you s__t / Never let a man piss on your leg, son / Either you die right there or pop that man in the head, son / Never fall in the escort business, that’s bad religion / Always remember, you could be a bitch even if you got b___hes / Never code-switch, whether right or wrong, you a Black man / Even if it don’t benefit your goals, do some push ups / Get some discipline, don’t cut them corners like your daddy did, f__k what Ozempic did / Don’t pay to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership / Understand, I’m throwin’ rocks and hidin’ hands, that’s law / Don’t be ashamed ’bout who you wit’, that’s how he treat your moms.“ The verse rips apart Drake’s character, his role as a father, and weaves in three generations of a family.
The next verse is addressed to Drake’s parents and uses some of the harshest words in the Rap diss canon. “Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator / Even usin’ you to prove who he is is a huge favor / I think you should ask for more paper, and more paper / And more, uh, more paper / I’m blamin’ you for all his gamblin’ addictions / Psychopath intuition, the man who like to play victim / You raised a horrible f__kin’ person, the nerve of you, Dennis / Sandra, sit down, what I’m about to say is heavy, now listen / Mhm, your son’s a sick man with sick thoughts / I think n___as like him should die / Him and Weinstein should get f___ed up in a cell for the rest they life.” Moments later, he adds, “He hates Black woman, hyper-sexualizes them, with kinks of a nympho fetish / Grew facial hair ’cause he understand bein’ a beard just fit him better / He got s_x o__enders on OVO that he keep on a monthly allowance / A child should never be compromised and he keepin’ his child around them / And we gotta raise our daughters knowin’ there’s predators like him lurkin’ / F__k a rap battle, he should die so all of these women can live with a purpose.“
As was the case with that, this song is an indictment against Drake’s racial background,his parents’ role in his life, and accuses Aubrey Drake Graham of hiding a child. This time, it is an alleged 11-year-old daughter that Drake has shielded from the public. “Dear baby girl, I’m sorry that your father not active inside your world / He don’t commit to much but his music, yeah, that’s for sure / He a narcissist, misogynist, livin’ inside his songs / Try destroy families rather than takin’ care of his own / Should be teachin’ you time tables or watchin’ Frozen with you / Or at your 11th birthday, singin’ poems with you / Instead, he be in Turks, payin’ for sex and poppin’ Percs / Examples that you don’t deserve / I wanna tell you that you’re loved, you’re brave, you’re kind / You got a gift to change the world, and to change your father’s mind / ‘Cause our children is the future, but he lives inside confusion.“
Kendrick closes with an attempted knockout blow. “His father prolly didn’t claim him neither / History do repeats itself, sometimes it don’t need a reason / But how I like to say it’s not your fault he’s hidin’ another child / Give ’em grace, it’s the reason I made Mr. Morale / So our babies like you can cope later / Give you some confidence to go through somethin’, it’s hope later / I never wanna hear you chase a man ’cause his fell behavior / Sittin’ in the club with sugar daddies for validation / You need to know that love is eternity and trumps all pain / I’ll tell you who your father is, just play this song when it rains / Yes, he’s a hit-maker, songwriter, superstar, right / And a f__kin’ deadbeat that should never see more life / Meet the Grahams.“
The artwork is a pullback of the “6:16 in Los Angeles” artwork, with jewelry receipts, a colorful button down shirt, and several prescription drug boxes and containers.
Within minutes of the song, Drake has denied the claim while scoffing at Kendrick, claiming “These guys are in shambles.”
Less than a full day after Kendrick Lamar released “6:16 in LA,” Drake has responded to it, and “euphoria,” which arrived Tuesday (April 30). Drake’s third jab at Kendrick comes after April’s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made”—which was removed from digital streaming platforms and online accounts after threat of legal action by Tupac Shakur’s estate. Within an hour of “FAMILY MATTERS,” Kendrick has fired back with “meet the grahams.” Both songs, attempts at ruining one another’s careers, are explained below:
“FAMILY MATTERS” arrives as a seven-minute music video, which is made up of several songs mixed consecutively. The video opens with a spinning diamond-encrusted necklace and medallion and a figure throwing the finger. As that image hits the screen, Drake raps admit he’s “emptied the clip” for less, and that because Drake’s seed was mentioned, the father is now involved. Then, a Dodge Caravan—similar to that on Kendrick Lamar’s deluxe edition of good kid, m.a.a.d city album, is taken to be smashed at a scrap yard. Sections of the song also address Drake’s other collaborators-turned-nemeses, including Rick Ross, The Weeknd, Future, and Metro Boomin. Drake also seemingly adds A$AP Rocky to his growing name of opps—adding a second “F__kin’ Problems” collaborator to the mix.
The video dedicates much of its vitriol to Kendrick. Drake spats at Lamar’s suggestion he stop using the N-word.
“Out here begging for attention, n___a say please / Always rapping like you ’bout to get the slaves free / You just acting like a activist it’s make believe / But you won’t even go into your hood and plant money trees,” he charges. Drake runs head-on to the fact that Kendrick’s fiance and the mother of his children is biracial. The OVO leader also alleges that Kendrick favors white women, and charges that some of the infidelity alluded to on 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers was with a white female. “You say you hate the girls I f__k but what ya really mean? / I been with Black and white and everything that’s in between / You the Black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem / On some Bobby s__t I wanna know what Whitney need / All that puppy love was over in your late teens / Why you never hold your son and say cheese? / We coulda left the kids outta this, don’t blame me.“
Meanwhile, Drake focuses on Kendrick’s relationship a lot. His lyrics question if Kendrick’s pgLang business partner and longtime manager Dave Free may have fathered one of the MC’s children. “Your baby mama captions always screamin, ‘save me’ / You did her dirty all her life, you tryna make peace / I heard that one of them little kids might be Dave Free / Don’t make it Dave freeze / Cause if your GM is your BM secret BD / Then this is all making plenty f__kin’ sense to me / Ayy, let that shorty breathe / Shake that ass b___h / Hands on your knees, hands on your knees / Hands on your knees, hands on your knees / Shake that ass for Drake, now shake that ass for Free.“ Then, in the final seconds of the seven-minute video, Drake also accuses Kendrick if beating his wife—something that has never been mentioned publicly. “They hired a crisis management team / To hide the fact that you beat on your queen / The picture you paint, it ain’t what it seems / Ya dead!” In that segment of the video, Drake wears a diamond around his neck—moments after questioning why Lamar’s near decade-long engagement has not evolved to marriage.
Elsewhere in the song, Drake suggests Kendrick Lamar is only gang-affiliated by proxy. He calls out YG and Chris Brown for their legitimacy, while Kendrick is not. He demands to see the Compton superstar’s TDE paperwork, claiming that Lamar is dodging a probe into his business. As with “Push Ups,” Drizzy goes at Lamar’s height. Even at the chorus, Drake says he wanted to keep it “PG” — clear double entendre to Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s pgLang company.
Other jabs include claiming that since Top Dawg “robbed” Kendrick’s father (as told in the song “DUCKWORTH”), that it’s “like father, like son” with what the record executive did with K-Dot. Drake claims it was Kendrick who told the Tupac estate to publicly threaten Drake to have last month’s “Taylor Made” diss removed online. He also leans into Kendrick’s comparisons of himself being Prince and Drake being a modern-day Michael Jackson. Drake—who flips Kendrick’s idea that he stands alone—seems to suggest that Kendrick wanted J. Cole to be out of the spotlight.
In other sections of the track, Drake makes light of Rick Ross’ weight (and weight loss) while bringing up the rapper’s past job as a correctional officer. This comes after Drake confronts RR’s accusations of a nose-job. He then accuses Rocky’s fame coming from fashion, not rap. He pokes at his history with Rihanna, and that should would tell Rocky that Drake is superior. “Rakim talkin’ s__t again / Gassed cause you hit my bm first / N___a do the math, who I was hitting them / I ain’t even know you rap still cause they not talking bout your fit again / Probably gotta a kid again before you think of dropping any s__t again.”
Drake closes out the song (which is credited to Boi-1da, Tay Keith, Mark Ronson, and others) suggesting he may be taking a leave of absence, having made such a statement.
Approximately one hour after Drake clapped back at Kendrick with “FAMILY MATTERS,” Lamar delivers “meet the grahams.” It is the most personal attack on Drake since Pusha-T’s 2018 charge, “The Story Of Adidon.” Like Eminem’s “Stan,” Kendrick writes the song as a series of letters. “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest / It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive / I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him / Life is hard, I know, the challenges always gon’ be this home / Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown / And you a good kid that need good leadership / Let me be your mentor, since your daddy don’t teach you s__t / Never let a man piss on your leg, son / Either you die right there or pop that man in the head, son / Never fall in the escort business, that’s bad religion / Always remember, you could be a bitch even if you got b___hes / Never code-switch, whether right or wrong, you a Black man / Even if it don’t benefit your goals, do some push ups / Get some discipline, don’t cut them corners like your daddy did, f__k what Ozempic did / Don’t pay to play with them Brazilians, get a gym membership / Understand, I’m throwin’ rocks and hidin’ hands, that’s law / Don’t be ashamed ’bout who you wit’, that’s how he treat your moms.“ The verse rips apart Drake’s character, his role as a father, and weaves in three generations of a family.
The next verse is addressed to Drake’s parents and uses some of the harshest words in the Rap diss canon. “Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator / Even usin’ you to prove who he is is a huge favor / I think you should ask for more paper, and more paper / And more, uh, more paper / I’m blamin’ you for all his gamblin’ addictions / Psychopath intuition, the man who like to play victim / You raised a horrible f__kin’ person, the nerve of you, Dennis / Sandra, sit down, what I’m about to say is heavy, now listen / Mhm, your son’s a sick man with sick thoughts / I think n___as like him should die / Him and Weinstein should get f___ed up in a cell for the rest they life.” Moments later, he adds, “He hates Black woman, hyper-sexualizes them, with kinks of a nympho fetish / Grew facial hair ’cause he understand bein’ a beard just fit him better / He got s_x o__enders on OVO that he keep on a monthly allowance / A child should never be compromised and he keepin’ his child around them / And we gotta raise our daughters knowin’ there’s predators like him lurkin’ / F__k a rap battle, he should die so all of these women can live with a purpose.“
As was the case with that, this song is an indictment against Drake’s racial background,his parents’ role in his life, and accuses Aubrey Drake Graham of hiding a child. This time, it is an alleged 11-year-old daughter that Drake has shielded from the public. “Dear baby girl, I’m sorry that your father not active inside your world / He don’t commit to much but his music, yeah, that’s for sure / He a narcissist, misogynist, livin’ inside his songs / Try destroy families rather than takin’ care of his own / Should be teachin’ you time tables or watchin’ Frozen with you / Or at your 11th birthday, singin’ poems with you / Instead, he be in Turks, payin’ for sex and poppin’ Percs / Examples that you don’t deserve / I wanna tell you that you’re loved, you’re brave, you’re kind / You got a gift to change the world, and to change your father’s mind / ‘Cause our children is the future, but he lives inside confusion.“
Kendrick closes with an attempted knockout blow. “His father prolly didn’t claim him neither / History do repeats itself, sometimes it don’t need a reason / But how I like to say it’s not your fault he’s hidin’ another child / Give ’em grace, it’s the reason I made Mr. Morale / So our babies like you can cope later / Give you some confidence to go through somethin’, it’s hope later / I never wanna hear you chase a man ’cause his fell behavior / Sittin’ in the club with sugar daddies for validation / You need to know that love is eternity and trumps all pain / I’ll tell you who your father is, just play this song when it rains / Yes, he’s a hit-maker, songwriter, superstar, right / And a f__kin’ deadbeat that should never see more life / Meet the Grahams.“
The artwork is a pullback of the “6:16 in Los Angeles” artwork, with jewelry receipts, a colorful button down shirt, and several prescription drug boxes and containers.
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Social media is ABLAZE yet again after Kendrick Lamar went ‘Back To Back’ with another flurry of entendre-laden shots aimed at Drake on “6:16 In LA” which sparked more hilarious shenanigans across the internet.
This comes just days after the “King Kunta” rapper clapped back at Drake’s “Push Ups” diss with scathing diss track “euphoria” where he listed every single reason why he HATES the Canadian hitmaker.
Over the course of the nearly 7-minute song, Kendrick dissed everything you can diss about Drake, including his fake tough bravado and alleged plastic surgery.
Drake: *breaths*
Kendrick on a Tuesday:
🗣️you a b*tch 🗣️you cant dress 🗣️your abs fake 🗣️Pac hates u 🗣️you a scammer 🗣️you not Black 🗣️you a deadbeat dad 🗣️you dont write ur raps 🗣️you a culture vulture 🗣️Im your biggest hater for LIFE 🗣️dont nobody like u 🗣️STOP SAYING N*GGA
— Shanelle Genai’s YeeHaw Agenda✨ (@shanellegenai) April 30, 2024
“And notice, I said “We,” it’s not just me, I’m what the culture feelin’ /How many more fairytale stories ’bout your life ’til we had enough?/How many more black features ’til you finally feel that you black enough /I like Drake with the melodies, I don’t like Drake when he act tough/You gon’ make a n*gga bring back Puff, let me see if Chubbs really crash somethin’ /Yeah, my first one like my last one, it’s a classic, you don’t have one /Let your core audience stomach that/Didn’t tell ’em where you get your abs from”
At one point, Kendrick even expresses his disgust over Drake saying the n-word in one of several petty moments on the track.
According to Billboard, “6:16 In LA” has several suspected meanings as 6/16 is Father’s Day, 2Pac’s birthday, the burial date of Nicole Brown Simpson, the start of OJ’s trial, the date Euphoria premiered on HBO, and more.
Kendrick Lamar Octuple Entendre
•Pac Bday •Father’s Day 2024 is 6/16 •6:16 in LA – Play on Drakes Timestamp Records •Bible Verses 6:16 •Nicole Brown Simpson funeral 6/16 •OJ Simpson Trial on 6/16 •Drake self proclaimed 6 God, 616 number of Beast •Euphoria Premiered 6/16 pic.twitter.com/tPfwETqtMl
One of the biggest takeaways from the trending diss track is Kendrick’s implication that Drake has moles and fake friends in his OVO camp.
“Have you ever thought that OVO is workin’ for me?/Fake bully, I hate bullies, you must be a terrible person /Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it /Can’t toosie slide up outta this one, it’s just gon’ resurface /Every dog gotta have his day, now live in your purpose /It was fun until you started to put money in the streets /Then lost money ’cause they came back with no receipts /I’m sorry that I live a boring life, I love peace.”
Drake: Your feet are small 🤣
Kendrick: God has chosen me alone as His instrument to strike you down. Your pride has landed you in a den of snakes where your most trusted advisors are plotting your downfall and when that inevitable moment strikes, you will deserve it.
Kendrick also alleged that Drake is paying people to dig up dirt on him like he allegedly did Pusha T but it’s clear, at this point, that Kenny is a simple family man who frolics around the park from time to time.
“If you were street-smart, then you woulda caught that your entourage is only to hustle you /A hundred n****s that you got on salary /And twenty of ’em want you as a casualty /And one of them is actually next to you /And two of them is practically tired of your lifestyle /Just don’t got the audacity to tell you /But let me tell you some game ’cause I can see you, my lil’ homie /You playin’ dirty with propaganda, it blow up on ya /You’re playin’ nerdy with Zack Bia and Twitter bots.”
Who do you feel is winning the battle: Drake or Kendrick? Tell us down below and peep the funniest, wildest, and messiest reactions to Kendrick’s “6:16 In LA” diss on the flip.
She’s baaaaack! Keyshia Cole reactivated her IG to address Gloss Up’s “sneaky link” love triangle with the singer’s new man Hunxho, whom Gloss says was with her “last night.”
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Gloss Up got everybody talking when she dropped some steamy pictures with Hunxho. The post was from a music video for her new single “Come Here” featuring Keyshia’s new boo. Although the images looked professional and matched the energy of the song, the super shady caption hinted that it’s “real life.”
“You Know What It Is In Real Life . 4L StinkaLink,” Gloss wrote before later adding in an edit that their new song just dropped.
When Keyshia went from cheering on her boo on his IG live to Error 404: Not Found, fans feared another man played in her face. The beloved R&B diva didn’t stay gone for long. She returned to IG to seemingly address the rumors about Hunxho and his video with Gloss Up.
“Him being yo ‘sneaky link’ when you have a ‘man you bout to marry’ is nasty work,” Keyshia wrote on her IG stories. “I was actually rooting for the video to come out.”
Keyshia also clarified that Hunxho and his ex filmed the music video before she even met him. She continued to let the chopper sing about trifling “Hollywood s**t” before ending with love and light.
“The way people wanna see the next unhappy and miserable is forever crazy to me but I know how this Hollywood s**t go. I’m not surprised but ion wish nothing but love, prosperity, health, and happiness for ALL YALL,” she concluded with mended heart and praying hands emojis.
Hunxho Reacts, Gloss Up Shades Keyshia Cole While Bragging She Was With Hunxho “Last Night”
The one and only Ms. Cole gave curious fans some answers, but raised even more questions about what Hunxho’s “sneaky links.” Hunxho gave an unsurprisingly shady response to the situation. The 24-year-old seemingly reacted by simply posting, “Y’all hell” with a series of laughing emojis.
Spoken like a true ain’t shit nigga 😩😫😭😭😭Even though I really feel like all this shit is just publicity for the song pic.twitter.com/kxwcYyfYRo
— The Stoned Baker 😮💨👩🏾🍳 (@Mrs_Jumpman23) May 3, 2024
Gloss Up quickly clapped back with some shade about Keyshia’s age. She also taunted the singer that she was with Hunxho “Last Night” when Keyshia called him “crying.”
“My mom taught me to respect my elders… I was with him last night & saw you crying blowing up his phone,” with a sad face.
Oop! Keyshia’s pen (and Twitter fingers) are nothing to play with but like everyone else beefing lately, Gloss Up sounds willing to keep that same energy.
The Not Ya Girl rapper previously said Hunxho was just a “sneaky link” and she had no plans to spin the block. However, she claimed “all I got to do is call” to have him running right back. Is that also what went down “last night?”
Whew, this is “nasty work,” indeed. Unfortunately, the chorus of “told you so” started as soon as Gloss posted those pictures and will only get louder from here. Keyshia already defended against criticism about their 18-year age gap and Scrappy’s “paid” relationship speculation.
It sounds like we need Keyshia’s next album ASAP!
Do you think Keyshia Cole and Hunxho will go the distance after the drama? Will there be another round of beefing with Gloss Up?
On Wednesday, Donald Trump aka Commander-in-Thief, aka Orange Juissolini, aka Trumple-weird-skin, aka Grand Wizard Jan Sixer(I made most of those up) made a campaign stop in Wisconsin, a key battleground state that President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020, so that he could continue lying to his MAGA minions and anyone else who will listen.
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This time, however, he managed to be at least slightly more alarming than usual by announcing that if he’s elected as president once again, he will give “power” to police officers and grant them “immunity” from being prosecuted.
Donald Trump: “We're going to give our police their power back and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution.” pic.twitter.com/OPhnTvnMtY
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 2, 2024
“We’re going to give our police their power back and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution,” Trump said while doing that weird thing with his hands where it looks like he’s trying to open and close a normal-sized book but his stubby little baby hands just can’t quite handle the job.
Here’s a question; what is it with Trump who calls for blanket immunity for people who are in positions of power that should absolutely not be placed above the law? He has already been shouting from every rooftop he can find that presidents should be immune from prosecution, despite the fact that it’s a ridiculous and dangerous notion, and the fact that he has called for the prosecutions of Biden and Barack Obama for ambiguous “crimes” neither he nor any other Republican has been able to define.
Now, this guy—who instigated the Caucasi-D-Day rebellion on Jan. 6, during which numerous Capitol police officers were viciously attacked—is vowing to protect police officers from accountability. It’s already a steep uphill battle for Black victims of police violence to see even a semblance of justice. Trump wants to make it even harder based on the ridiculous assumption that cops aren’t already essentially a protected class.
Mind you, Trump has already vowed to protect white people from anti-whiteness because he believes there’s an “anti-white feeling” in America that “can’t be allowed,” which is an odd feeling to have in a country that is more than 60% white and where white people dominate every important entity in Western society — from the corporate world to state and federal governments to all aspects of the justice system.
But don’t worry, guys, because Trump definitely loves the Blacks, and he’s going to show it by—*checks notes*— inviting rappers to a rally.
Anyway, Trump’s rally in Wisconsin was generally his usual lie-o-thon. He claimed “Biden came in and unleashed mayhem on our economy,” a popular notion that economic data does not support. He also claimed Biden “unleashed havoc on our border,” which is why migrants have been “flowing in from the poorest and the heaviest-crime countries all over the world,” which he has insisted has greatly increased crime in America while statistical data indicates that there haven’t been any surges in crimes in the cities most migrants have come to, and that, in many of those cities, crime rates have fallen. He claimed that in 2020, he “won the election in Wisconsin,” which he didn’t, and he claimed that he ” won the election in other locations” that he factually lost.
And, of course, the Jan. 6 inspirer added to the conservative propaganda regarding violence at pro-Palestine college protests after protesters were recently arrested at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also praised the police response to protests at Columbia University. (Because when it comes to factless propaganda that has been spread far and wide, game recognize game.)
“To every college president, I say: Remove the encampments immediately, vanquish the radicals and take back our campuses for all of the normal students who want a safe place from which to learn,” Trump said.
As the Black adage states: A lie don’t care who tells it. Unfortunately, MAGA voters don’t care if all they’re hearing is lies as long as they come from the butthole-shaped mouth of their messiah.
Less than a day after Keyshia Cole stood by her new man on IG, she deleted her social media after Gloss Up shared a new music video featuring her hunching on Hunxho.
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Someone get our girl Ciara’s prayer! Fans suspect Keyshia Cole’s new relationship had a grand opening and grand closing as Gloss Up, appeared to lay claim to him just a few weeks after Keyshia confirmed their coupledom. Yikes!
On Friday, Gloss Up was posted up with Hunxho in pictures she posted on Instagram. The pair looked very cozy, hugged up in a kitchen, and while some comments assumed the situation was strictly business for a new music video, Gloss Up’s caption added more fuel to the fire.
“You Know What It Is In Real Life . 4L StinkaLink,” she wrote.
The former couple collaborated on her new song “Come Here,” and the steamy video sparked even more block-spinning speculation. In it, Hunxho hugged her curves as Gloss Up threw it back in the kitchen. He was also by the Not Ya Girl star’s side as she clapped her cakes in a bubble bath.
“With my yeah yeah, ask him if he miss it, he like hell yeah/ P***y gripping dripping, ain’t no slipping once he in there,” she rapped on “Come Here.”
It Was All Good Just A Day Ago: Keyshia Cole Went From Fighting For Her Hunxho Love To Tapping Out On Social Media
The former couple is clearly working together, but it still seems deeper than rap and of course, fans are wondering why Keyshia went from ride-or-die repping her boo online yesterday to deleting all her social media.
It would be pretty extra if Keyshia took a temporary L publicly to play up the drama but it wouldn’t be the first time celebs trolled fans for views. Whatever this whole Hunxho hunching hoopla is, Keyshia definitely has everyone talking and listening to her boo’s new feature.
Omg #keyshiacole ig really gone lol! Maybe she saving herself from the embarrassment because the whole she’s older and he’s younger no matter the age these men will make a damn fool out of you!! pic.twitter.com/HYL5v14oPY
Interestingly enough, Hunxho isn’t promoting the feature at all. Instead, it looks like he’s directly competing against “Come Here” by dropping his own song titled “Come Over” featuring 2 Chainz.
The comments for both songs are full of fans joking that Keyshia “Should’ve Cheated” as they wonder whether Hunxho expects her or Gloss to “Come Over.”
As much as listeners love Keyshia’s classic songs about heartbreak, they didn’t want her to have material for another one so soon.
Since the 42-year-old confirmed her relationship with Hunxho on X, she’s defended dating the rapper nearly half her age. Middle-aged male celebs get away with it all the time, but Keyshia became the latest cougar dragged online for a cradle-robbing romance.
— La'Janeé | Investigative Reporter (@_LaJanee_) April 26, 2024
Earlier this week, #LHHATL star Scrappy alleged that the singer was with 24-year-old Hunxho for a “fake” PR relationship. According to the rapper who appeared on the Bag Fuel podcast, he’s been there before with a relationship that his label paid him to push, so he believes that’s exactly what Keyshia and Hunxho are doing.
Keyshia clapped back on X (formerly Twitter) to set the record straight.
“And what hurts the most is SCRAPPY SAYING THAT S**T! Naw nicca u get paid to (Fake a relationship) like U SAID like what are they even talking about. Tryna get clicks. Hopefully this helps,” she wrote in response to a fan disagreeing with Scrappy.
Maybe the “Heaven Sent” singer is playing chess, not checkers, by generating buzz for an R&B rollout.
Source: Prince Williams / Getty
Whether the mess is real or not, it’s sure to play out online with many hoping Keyshia still comes out on top.
On Saturday, April 27, 2024, 31-year-old Breyon Woods of Dearborn, Michigan was teaching his 4-year-old son how to do yard work so that he can learn discipline, work ethic, and respect for property when they were accosted by 63-year-old Mark Denis Grzybowski.
As I’m showing my son how to use the blower, like we’re coming from the backyard into the front, and I just look to the left, he got the rifle pointed right at me and my son,” said Breyon Woods. “He said last year we left stuff on his driveway, and this year, we’re not going to do it.”
B-b-b-but wait, it gets worse! Following this incident, Grzybowski barricaded himself inside his home and had a tense 4-hour standoff with multiple police agencies.
Eventually, the armed anglo saxon surrendered to authorities and was arrested and charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault, carrying a weapon with unlawful intent and felony firearm. He is currently being held on a $50,000 bond.
We sincerely hope that he has no means to pay and had to rot in jail until his trial.
Detroit News reports that Grzybowski could face 2 years in prison for the assault and 5 years for the felony weapons charge.
Raven-Symoné is coming to her wife’s defense after social media trolls allegedly sent “death threats” to the actress’ forever partner, Miranda Maday, for not watching her iconic Disney Show.
In a video posted to TikTok on May 2, the former child star urged internet detractors to back off her wife.
“I’m here with Miranda, my wife, to tell you to stop it in the comments and stop with the death threats in her DMs,” Raven, 38, said as she donned a stern face. Maday sat beside her flashing a coarse look with her arms crossed.
“It is disrespectful to her and in turn disrespectful to me. Stop it.”
Please stop with the death threats and miss information about @miranda v. pm. Its grown to a place that is completely disrespectful and out of control. Haters will hate and by all means do you boo boo HOWEVER do not spread lies and threaten my wife, marriage, or her character. I chose her and all of her…. Stop.
Although she has discussed the topic in the past with Keke Palmer, That’s So Raven fans lit into Maday shortly after she admitted to not watching her wife’s iconic show growing up during a recent appearance on the Bottoms up With Fannita Podcast.
Baffled by the “wild” death threats, Maday stepped in to “clear the air” about the controversy.
“I never have once said that I did not know who Raven was. I only have ever said that I did not grow up watching That’s So Raven,” she explained. “I did not watch her as a child. But since getting married and meeting her in 2015, I have seen the majority of her work.”
After watching That’s So Raven and witnessing her wife’s remarkable career evolution, she lauded the actress as “endlessly talented.” Maday said her wife deserved recognition for her outstanding contributions to the iconic Disney Channel series.
“I’m receiving so much hate for something that is really just a spiral of misinformation,” she added.
Raven chimed in, “For all the blue checks out they’re acting like trolls, sit down. Thank you, no need.”
In the caption she added, “Haters will hate and by all means do you boo boo HOWEVER do not spread lies and threaten my wife, marriage or her character. I chose her and all of her… stop.”
What Did Miranda Maday say on Bottoms Up With Fannita?
During an April 15 appearance on Bottoms Up Fannita Maday admitted to never watching That’s So Raven as a child. When the show came out in 2003, Raven’s wife claimed she was a little “too old” to be watching the Disney channel.
“I’m married to her and the fact that I didn’t watch the show was something that Raven appreciated,” Miranda shared.
“I think I was a little too old. My sister who is five years younger than me watched That’s So Raven, loved That’s So Raven, and now that I’ve seen all of it, I love That’s So Raven.”
However, this isn’t the first time Maday has caught flak for the admission.
In 2023, Keke Palmer grilled her on Baby, This Is Keke Palmerabout never watching the legendary Disney series which aired from 2003 to 2007.
“I watched Even Stevens. I knew who Raven-Symonéwas…. ish,” Maday told the actress.
“So, you just specifically decided to avoid That’s So Raven. The biggest show that Disney ever had?” Palmer opined, which caused Maday to shrink in embarrassment.
