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Rihanna has issued an apology directly to the Muslim community and everyone offended by an apparent oversight on her end. The Savage X Fenty Show executive producer apparently allowed a sacred song to play in her recent lingerie presentation, something Muslims people expressed was super disrespectful. The outrage reached Twitter and Instagram where thousands of posts went up calling for Rihanna to be cancelled.

According to CNN, “The hadith, a written record of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Mohammed and his closest companions, is considered extremely sacred to Muslims, and come secondary only to the Quran in terms of textual authority.” During the presentation, lingerie models danced to the song “Doom” by London-based producer Coucou Chloe, which streamed on Amazon Prime this past Friday. The song, released in 2017, includes a remix of a hadith narration about the end of times and judgment day.

Rihanna has received her criticism and knows where things went wrong now according to her public apology. After it was brought to her attention, she told a fan in her DMs that she felt hurt that she hurt the Muslim community in any way.

Then, Rihanna wrote an apology, addressing the Muslims who reached out to help her see the alleged oversight.

“I would more importantly like to apologize to you for this honest, yet careless mistake. We understand that we have hurt many of our Muslim brothers and sisters, and I’m incredibly disheartened by this.”

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Coucou Chloe made an apology via Twitter stating that she wasn’t aware that the lyrics she sampled from “DOOM” had sacred texts from the Islamic Hadith and is working to remove the song from all platforms:

“I want to deeply apologize for the offense caused by the vocal samples used in my song ‘DOOM’,” Coucou Chloe tweeted. “The song was created using samples from Baile Funk tracks I found online. At the time, I was not aware that these samples used text from an Islamic Hadith.”

Chloe continued:

“I take full responsibility for the fact I did not research these words properly and want to thank those of you who have taken the time to explain this to me. We have been in the process of having the song urgently removed from all streaming platforms.”

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Here’s some positive, Black love news…

R&B singer Tank was a SWEET husband, surprising his wife Zena Foster on her birthday over the weekend after she asked modestly for a wallet as a gift. The “I deserve” singer took his wife’s request and added some zero’s to it, buying the birthday girl SEVEN new designer bags.

Zena’s surprise went down as the couple celebrated her birthday with an intimate gathering with friends. The couple enjoyed pool time together, sharing photos on Instagram.

Zena, an entrepreneur and mother of two was surprised earlier in the evening when her hubby sashayed down the hall with seven bags filled with gifts for her. The wife buckled at the knees for a moment when she saw her gifts.

My baby @zenafoster just wanted like a small dope wallet for her birthday. So i got her 7 dope bags for her birthday

How sweet! Zena and Tank have been married since 2018. They have two kids together, Zion who is 12 and Zoey, 5.

Happy birthday Zena!

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Drake fans can breathe easy. Solana ‘SZA’ Rowe confirmed over the weekend that she DID date the Toronto rapper in the past, and it’s all love and peace — only he had the year wrong. SZA says she hooked up with the Six God in 2009, according to the singer herself.

This new revelation comes after Drake spilled deets about himself hooking up with SZA on the song “Mr. Right Now”, featured on 21 Savage’s last album. When the track first dropped, fans couldn’t stop thinking about the 12-year old fling, doing their own calculations on their ages. Many criticized Drake, who would’ve been around 22-years-old for dating 17 or 18-year-old SZA.

But SZA clarified for the critics that nothing “creepy” was happening between them, just innocent young people navigating life.

So It was actually 2009 lol... in this case a year of poetic rap license mattered. lol I think he jus innocently rhymed 08 w wait . Anybody who really knows me and was around during this time can confirm.. it’s all love all peace

I just didn’t want anybody thinking anything underage or creepy was happening . Completely innocent . Lifetimes ago .

Before all of the controversy, Drake promoted SZA’s latest video and single featuring Ty Dolla Sign in his IG stories. She didn’t comment on or why she allegedly unfollowed Drake after his verse outing their fling hit streaming services.

Does this clarify everything for you???

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The Six God just lost a friend according to SZA fans, after he named dropped the singer on his latest verse. Drake spit bars about having a situationship with SZA on his verse for 21 Savage’s “Mr. Right Now”, causing quite the reaction from fans online. The alleged tryst went down over a decade ago according to Drake’s bars, but was it his place to tell?

“Yeah, said she wanna f*ck to some SZA, wait. Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08. If you cool with it, baby, she can still play.”

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Since 2008, SZA and Drake seemed to be “cool”, at least to the public eye. The two artist even snapped it up together in 2017 when SZA made a tour stop in Toronto for her “CTRL” album. Back then, even the photos had fans speculating that they’d might have had chemistry, but now we know, they have history.

SZA hasn’t confirmed or denied the rumor but she did one thing that fans believe says it all — she unfollowed Drake on Instagram. Does this confirm anything to you?

Meanwhile, SZA has been on Instagram moisturized and minding her business. Last month, the singer released her sensual video for “Hit Different” featuring Ty Dolla $ign. Fans were ecstactic with the release, blowing up the internet with positive reactions.

Do you think it’s wrong for Drake to mention he dated SZA in his music or is it his right as an artist to spill whatever tea he wants to on himself?

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“It’s not always black and white.” Ryan Dorsey has responded to rumors he’s moved on intimately with deceased ex-wife Naya Rivera’s little sister, turning misty-eyed on video.

“I can’t believe this is real life and that I am about to even address any of this nonsense,” Ryan began a 12-minute Instagram video. The actor, who was married to Naya for 4 years, before divorcing in 2018, continued:

“I usually don’t read comments on my own stuff because I just know how there can be 50 good things said and five negative ones and somehow, as humans, we get those five negative ones stuck in our heads, but it was brought to my attention that there’s a lot of people that have a lot to say and have opinions on a family’s tragic situation.”

In the lengthy clip, Ryan attempts to describe how upset he feels now that his son is without his mother, giving credit to his own mother for helping him cope while remembering that Josey will never have Naya to do that. He added he’s lost “a little over 20 pounds” since Naya tragically went missing below the surface of Piru lake over the summer. In short, Dorsey claims the decision for Josey’s ‘Titi’ to move in was on the 5-year-old.

“To have a young woman who is his blood, his Titi, who’s willing to put her life on hold and sacrifice things, uproot her situation for the betterment of your child, so when you put your child to bed, you don’t have to be alone with your thoughts, and you don’t have to be sad every day and night wondering when does it get better. At least you have someone there with you to talk to or just sit in silence and be sad with. You don’t have to deal with it completely alone.”

As far as the photo of him holding hands with Nickayla and a possible relationship, Dorsey says a relationship is not on his mind right now.

“I wish I was worried about a relationship right now, not thinking about this and living with this every day.”

“I also hope if you ever have to deal with anything tragic, that you’ll have peace and never [have] people following you and [taking] pictures and creating a false narrative based on an angle of a photo of two people grieving, who have been living their lives out of suitcases and just trying to get settled into a new place while grabbing a couple of things at Target for a young boy’s birthday party that we’re trying to put together.”

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Congratulations to The Mowry squad.

Baby brother Tavior Dontae Mowry recently jumped the broom with his long-time sweet Zandy. Just two months ago, Tavior made the announcement that he popped the question to his boo, Zandy Fitzgerald, sharing the beautiful moment in photos. Now 27-year-old “Dontae” is a husband.

The coupled wasted no time, tying the knot on September 21st. According to PEOPLE, the wedding went down at at the Graystone Quarry, a reclaimed rock quarry outside of Nashville. Tavior shared a photo from the alter excitedly.

Mr. & Mrs. Mowry.
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God is GOOD.
It’s SO LIT!!!

We present to you, Mr. and Mrs. Mowry.

Tavior and his new fiancee met 2 1/2 years ago and connected over ramen according to one of Zandy’s Instagram posts. For her special day, Zandy wore her beautiful hair in natural coils, stating under one of their wedding photos, “God writes the best stories.”

Congratulaions to The Mowrys!

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Insta-baddie Ariana Fletcher is recovering right now after getting plastic surgery. The 25-year-old revealed to fans on Instagram live that she’s recently undergone a major surgery involving her breasts and she’s currently on bed rest.

Like any plastic surgery, there’s real pain involved in the recovery process, which Ari says is only intensified after adding a “permanent” bra into the mix.

“So I had to get a revision done, and I got them, like ,closer together. And I got a lift and I got a permanent bra inside my chest. That’s why it hurt so bad.”

The mention of a “permanent bra” confused a lot of people watching Ari explain her surgeries. One fan commented, “imagine never having the joy of taking your bra off after a long day.”

Contrary to how it sounds, the permanent “bra” procedure it not a literal bra under the skin, but a silicon cup, glued to the rib (if that sounds any better???) and is usually used as a corrective procedure, according to plastic surgeon Dr. Farhadi, in a recent Marie Claire article.

Ari is still recovering, but this is what her breasts looked like before surgery.

Ari makes most of her coins by being an influencer online. She’s been in many hair, lash and clothing campaigns, so we understand her wanting to look her ‘best’.

Do you think Ari’s surgery will be worth it?

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If ‘and I oop…’ was a beef, it would be the random fight between Future’s baby mama Eliza Reign and singer Summer Walker who were arguing loudly on social media yesterday after Summer had negative things to say about Eliza’s child support battle with rapper Future. Eliza then shut her down pointing out childless Summer’s apparent lack of desire to bathe.

The feud started when Summer Walker called out Eliza Reign on her finsta (fake instagram) account @galactawhore, writing over her photo, “SHE WANTS 53 THOUSAND A MONTH. WOMEN LIKE THIS ARE SO DISGUSTING AND SAD. I FEEL SO BAD FOR THIS MAN. WHERE DO Y’ALL EVEN FIND THESE TYPE OF WOMEN?”

Reign clapped back in her Instagram stories to Summer who has zero children, asking her where her brain was at. She also pointed to Summer’s boyfriend, famous producer London On Da Track, who she says is “worse” than Future when it comes to providing for his children.

Eliza Reign went on to explain that babies are expensive and how the “$53k” amount came about. Reign said in several different IG story posts that after Future refused to provide his finances, the judge used public information from Forbes to come up with the amount.

The mom then clarified that she wants enough for private schooling for her daughter Reign and to have a lifestyle similar to her dad’s in order to “see the world through the eyes of the privileged.” She also added that she’s not worried about the people who don’t agree with her in this case. Ending on a sour note, she said she won’t continue explain herself to a girl who says she doesn’t bathe.

Eliza had been referring to a post made in 2019 where Summer said she detested taking showers.

Yikes!

Summer Walker has been dating London on Da Track for over a year now and he is having a child support battle of his own. Recently we reported that his baby mama wanted him jail for failing to pay child support for their toddler son. THe young mom is seeking to receive $4,600 a month for living and daycare expenses.

It seems like Eliza was just trying to speak up for herself, do you think she’s fed up with all of the criticism by now?

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Tiny Harris is super excited for her daughter Zonnique, who is currently pregnant with her first child, so much that she couldn’t help but show her and her boo Bandhunta Izzy, some love on instagram.

Previously, Tiny spoke of for her 24-year-old daughter after Zonnique face criticism only for not being married to her rapper boyfriend.Tiny, however, approves of Zonnique and her boo  Bandhunta Izzy being together and co-parenting. She described Zonnique as following in her footsteps, with Tiny being T.I.’s third baby mama and wife.

“I said I ended up being a third baby mother too. I wouldn’t change it for nothing in the world, because at the end of the day I wouldn’t have had the three kids I had with this man. I feel like my kids are the most amazing kids, I don’t regret it.”

In a recent post, Tiny shouts out the young lovers as she promote Zonnique’s new music coming soon.

Sorry Niq I had to post this cause it’s super cute & mainly My new 💩 frm you my 1st

It looks like Zonnique is following in her mom’s footsteps career-wise as well. The young mother is a reality star and a sultry R&B singer with a number of popular hits under her belt.

Are you ready for a new project from Zonnique before or after she has her precious bundle?

Sooo, uh, we didn’t have Niecy Nash coming out as queer and marrying a woman on our 2020 Bingo card. We also didn’t foresee this happening a few months after finalizing her divorce with second husband Jay Tucker.

But it happened and our fave 50-year-old baddie looked happy in the stunning reveal where she introduced her wife Jessica Betts to the world.

“Mrs. Carol Denise Betts 💍,” she captioned. “@jessicabettsmusic #Love Wins🌈 @robertector.”

Betts shared the reveal to her own page with the caption “I got a whole Wife 👽💍.”

“#PlotTwist,” another caption read on a photo of the two cuddled close together.

Betts previously worked with Nash on an episode of “Claws” in 2018. At the time, Nash shared a behind-the-scenes video from the episode on Instagram.

“#BTS One of my favs ❤️@jessicabettsmusic this was my [character’s] wedding song,” Nash, who plays Desna Simms on the series explained at the time. “It didn’t make it in the final cut but I love it! ➡️ for her singing MUCH better than me.”

Interestingly, Nash can be seen referring to Betts as her “homegirl.”

While speaking with ET last November, Nash revealed that she wasn’t ready to start dating after her split in December 2019.

“I’m just over here drinking my water and healing,” she said with a smile. “I ain’t ready to put all this back on the block. It’s too much too soon.”

This marks Nash’s third marriage. Her first to Don Nash from 1994 to 2007 and her recently dissolved union with Jay Tucker from 2011-2020.

The newlyweds had not publicly been known as a couple nor did Nash identify as queer before the viral reveal that left social media scrambling for answers.

How do you feel about Niecy’s surprise wedding to Mrs. Betts? Should we have seen this coming? Tell us in the comments and peep the funniest, wildest and pettiest reactions from the latest episode on the flip.

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Yikes! It looks like Larissa aka “Bootz” from several VH1 produced reality series has an issue with Oscar winner Mo’Nique. Bootz is calling Mo a ‘hypocrite’ in a recent interview where the actress reveals she was allegedly blacklisted by the comedian once upon a time. Larissa feels like Mo’nique’s more recent message of standing up for herself and Black women is all a facade.

While interviewing with Lacie Sculls from “Talk Of Love”, Bootz told a story about the time she was asked to not attend an event due to Mo’nique not wanting her there. Apparently, this message got to Larissa through her then publicist. Still obviously upset about it, Larissa tells her side. Hit play to hear:

Interesting. Mo’nique wasted no time addressing the rumors. “Y’all should be ashamed of yourself”, she wrote. Fans have dug up clips of Mo’Nique and Bootz interacting on “Charmed School”, which aired over a decade ago. Did these two look like that had tension to you?

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If any one of you have an extra $44,000 laying around during the pandemic, you can buy an exquisite turntable designed by Pierre Riffaud for Saint Laurent.

“The French fashion house’s umbrella for limited-edition luxury goods, Rive Droite, has teamed up with Pierre Riffaud for a new limited-edition marble turntable that comes with a jaw-dropping $44,000 price tag, according to HypeBeast,” Robb Report writes, adding “To put that into figure into context, that’s nearly $2,000 more than the starting price of BMW’s entry-level luxury sedan.”

In a statement, Saint Laurent reportedly said of their new release “The quality of sound, simplicity and originality is what makes them so prestigious. Riffaud’s turntables are compared to high fashion technology.”

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Pierre Riffaud started designing turntables in the mid-’80s “and has garnered a reputation over the last four decades for crafting players that combine beautiful design, exquisite materials and technical excellence,” Robb Report goes on. “And it would appear its collaboration with Rive Droite is no different. Built atop a grand marble base, each piece of the turntable is handmade to ensure the perfect balance and precision.”

Check out some photos up top and let us know what you think.