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Dolly Parton and Duncan Hines partnered to create a baking collection filled with Southern cake mixes and frostings.
Kid Rock released a new song Monday, titled “We the People.” In it, he slams Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and COVID-19 public health mandates.
Tuesday nights are for “Grand Crew” and we mean that sincerely.
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BOSSIP’s Sr. Content Director Janeé Bolden caught up with “Grand Crew” actors Aaron Taylor Jennings and Carl Tart ahead of this week’s episode and discussed the unique way the show portrays Black men and their friendship dynamics. On the show Tart and Jennings play Sherm and Anthony, two very different people who are often forced to find a middle ground since they are roommates. While Anthony is an accountant and UCLA grad who happens to be vegan, Sherm is an anime-loving genius who is currently unemployed.
Aaron Taylor Jennings revealed that the important themes that are tackled in the storyline played a big part in his decision to join the cast.
“That’s ultimately what attracted me to this project,” Jennings told BOSSIP about the show’s comedic take on real issues. “Yes of course there’s so much fun shooting it and hopefully the audience is enjoying that as well, but the fact that it has that heart and it explores those themes in a lighthearted way so it’s not so heavy-handed, so it’s palatable, it’s like hiding the medicine in the soup. That’s important for us to see ourselves in that way, I think it gives us permission to be as we are and then, for other audiences outside of our community, to see us as non-monolithic and human, it’s done that job as well.”
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Jennings’ costar Carl Tart agreed, noting that he’s gotten a lot of feedback in his DM’s, both from Black men who see themselves in the show as well as those who feel the characters are soft.
“There have been some dudes that have slid in my DM’s like ‘Yo, what y’all are doing reminds me of me and my friends!’ “Y’all are the group of friends that I wish I had.’ “I see myself in y’all.’ ” Tart told BOSSIP. “Also I’ve had people hitting me up that have been like, ‘Man y’all too soft. I don’t like it. That’s not how a Black man is supposed to be portrayed!”
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“But who makes the rules on how a Black man is supposed to be portrayed?” Tart continued. “We’ve seen ourselves portrayed in such a negative light in so much media representation that people can’t understand, these are just Black dudes. You don’t have to put us in no box, you don’t have to be like ‘these dudes are THIS!’ Both sides of the coin are people crying out for something they never have had. I think that’s what’s really cool about what we’re doing. So while I definitely will be like, ‘Hold up man, don’t be in my DMs starting ish, you’ll get these hands. I step back and go oh this person needed this.’”
Check out our full interview with Aaron Taylor Jennings and Carl Tart below:
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“Grand Crew” airs Tuesday nights at 8:30 PM EST/PST on NBC
Elton John has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing him to reschedule at least two shows on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour.
Bad Bunny announced Monday his first-ever stadium tour with musical guests Diplo and Alesso on select dates. Tickets go on sale this week.
The legendary rocker accuses the music platform of “spreading fake information about vaccines,” and calls out popular talk show host Joe Rogan.
Taylor Swift has got bad blood with Blur frontman Damon Albarn after he claimed in an interview that she “doesn’t write her own songs.”
Ari Lennox’s year is already off to a rough start.
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The “Shea Butta Baby” hitmaker took to Twitter on Jan. 23 to air out her grievances with her labels, Dreamville and Interscope.
“I want to be dropped from the labels. I’m done and tired, ” the 30-year-old wrote.
Lennox hit send on a few more tweets detailing her frustrations with social media and she even called out a few “self-hating parasites” who judged her for being transparent about her emotional journey in the music industry.
“For Christ sakes. I realize I have no hits,” Lennox continued. “I realize you all can live without hearing my music. I realize my complaining is so aggravating to y’all . I don’t ask blogs to post me when I’m at my worst. You judgemental self hating parasites wouldn’t last a day as a signed artist.”
Lennox’s name has been tied up in all sorts of social media drama this month. Last week, the singer claimed she was “ambushed and blindsided” by questions regarding her sex life after she made an appearance on the Podcast and Chill show with South African host MacGyver “MacG” Mukwevho.
As the two were discussing her early breakout single “Pop,” which, if you didn’t know, is all about determining someone’s intentions after sleeping with them, MacG had the nerve to ask Lennox:
“And where are we at right now? Is someone f***ing you good right now?”
After the startling clip made its rounds across the internet, Ari told fans that she would never go back to South Africa or partake in interviews again. In fact, during her Twitter tirade on Sunday, the star shared that the highly inappropriate interview was the “icing on the cake” in regards to her decision to part ways with her labels.
“I want to be free,” she wrote.
Earlier this month, keyboard warriors lit into the “Whipped Cream” crooner for gushing about her recent trip to Ghana and how the beautiful getaway helped her to heal some “depression and anxiety” she was experiencing.
“Yea Ghana is the most beautiful country in the world,” she wrote on Twitter after her recent performance there. “I’ll never forget suddenly crying the first time going to a beach in Ghana. It was so triggering. And I didn’t feel alone. My heart ached/aches for my ancestors. It was a surreal experience.”
Online haters quickly chastised Lennox for the tweet with some questioning if her ancestors were “even from Ghana” while others poked fun at the Washington D.C. native’s post with comments like “she thinks she’s in Wakanda.”
Yikes!
All in all, it looks like Ari is just fed up with the peanut gallery constantly criticizing her for “complaining.”
“Complaining that I’m complaining about the shit I’m going through meanwhile in real life you’re just as unhappy just as fu*ked up,” she shot back at haters in her string of tweets over the weekend. “You crying in the car too. Somebody calling you insensitive and dramatic too. You could never be honest about your demons.”
Now, just because Ari wants out of her contract, doesn’t mean she’s going to stop making music. The sultry R&B vocalist reassured fans that even if she is dropped from her label, she would continue to crank out her classic songs about “d***” independently, and at her own discretion.
Welp! There you have it. Poor Ari Lennox just can’t catch a break!
Netflix’s new Kanye West documentary, “jeen-yuhs,” premieres at Sundance Film Festival and covers 20 years, from Ye’s mom to his mental illness.
Don Wilson, the last surviving founder and guitarist of pioneering surf-rock group The Ventures, died Jan. 22 at age 88, surrounded by family.
Nick Cannon‘s late son, Zen, will always hold a special place in his father’s heart.
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Nick Cannon shares with fans online that he’s still mourning the death of his 5-month-old baby boy who died of brain cancer in December.
After subsequent surgeries and procedures, Zen’s health took a turn for the worse around Thanksgiving. Cannon said he was with Zen when he took his last breath on December 5, 2021. A few days after Zen’s passing, Cannon shared that he had gotten a rib tattoo in his memory that took over five hours to complete.
“We could have had that existence where he would’ve had to live in the hospital, hooked up to machines, for the rest of the time,” he added. “To see that happen to a 2-month-old, I didn’t want that. I didn’t want him to suffer.”
In the photo shared on Instagram, Cannon sits with five of his children, including 10-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe, whom he shares with ex-wife Mariah Carey.
Cannon shared Zen with his ex, model Alyssa Scott.
During Nick Cannon’s recent interview with People he opened up about explaining Zen’s death to his six other children, describing the conversation with his older children as “pretty intense.”
Outside of baby Zen and twins Moroccan and Monroe, Cannon is dad to 7-month-old twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, 1-year-old daughter Powerful Queen and 4-year-old son Golden.
“But their understanding and them being there for me probably helped me keep it together as well as really deal with it,” he shared. “Specifically, even, Roc and Roe. They were there for the entire journey.”
Cannon gives much credit to his oldest daughter, Roe, for helping him process Zen’s loss, telling PEOPLE, “My daughter, really, she’s so in tune and in line and wise beyond her years. I got a lot of therapists, but she’s probably my best therapist.”
“She keeps me in check. She’s so pure and so honest. To be 10, she asks some really strong and powerful questions. Really, just it’s all out of love. She’s my oldest child. Even though they’re twins, she came out first and she lets everybody know it. She’s helped me keep it strong.”
Cannon’s ex girlfriend and mother of baby Zen, has also helped to keep him strong. The Wild “N Out host spoke highly about Scott, whom he said is “the strongest individuals” he has ever seen.
“For a mother who carried a beautiful child for nine months and nurtured and cared for him every single day through this process… I attempt to be there for her, but I watch her strength and I’m in awe daily,” he said, per Yahoo News.
Scott previously told PEOPLE that it was “a privilege being Zen’s mommy” and that his “spirit and light will shine bright forever.”
“Oh my sweet Zen. The soreness I felt in my arm from holding you is slowly fading away. It’s a painful reminder that you are no longer here,” she wrote. “I caught myself looking in the backseat as I was driving only to see the mirror no longer reflecting your perfect face back at me. When I close a door too loudly I hold my breath and wince knowing a soft cry will shortly follow. It doesn’t come. The silence is deafening.”
BOSSIP sends love and condolences towards Nick Cannon and his family as they continue to process and heal from this loss.