The 24-year-old is hitting the slammer for licking a carton of Blue Bell ice cream at a local Texas Walmart. A Texas man by the name of D’Adrien Anderson is going to jail for posting a video of himself licking a carton of ice cream in Wal-Mart and putting it back on the shelf. Anderson was supposedly influenced by a 17-year-old girl who committed the same revolting act in a video that went viral in July 2019. The young woman who was later identified by authorities inspired a string of social media videos of people contaminating grocery store products and putting them...
Biden gains more allies. After the man who was projected to lead the DNC in November had a slow start, he is back where everyone expected him to be. Joe Biden entered the Democratic race for the presidential nomination as a favorite, but a slow start in New Hampshire, Nevada, and Iowa almost doomed his campaign. Lo and behold, Biden captured South Carolina off the strength of Black voters, and rebounded during Super Tuesday to steal the lead back from Bernie Sanders. Biden was able to pick up momentum due to Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Tom Steyer backing out...
Vert is on the come up. After watching Lil Uzi Vert struggle with his label and not releasing music for so long, it’s great to see him back on top again. Uzi dropped of Eternal Atake this past weekend, and the project is expected to debut #1 on Billboard with between 250-350k units moved. Uzi’s comeback is warranted; Eternal Atake is getting praise from critics and fans alike. Now that fans have been able to bump the project for just a few days, Uzi is ready to hit them with some more. He has already spoken about dropping a deluxe version of Eternal Atake, and now...
Big Boi’s KryptoniteFest will be held in Atlanta, and will feature performances from Big Boi himself, Goodie Mob, EARTHGANG, and more! Big Boi, most notably known for his work with Andre 3000 in Outkast, is getting ready to hold his first-ever festival in his hometown of Atlanta, GA. The KryptoniteFest joins a long list of festivals that are already enjoyed by fans and artists alike. Many of the festivals on this list are well-established brands that have been putting on shows for years, however, artist-thrown festivals have been growing in popularity over the years as well; OVO Fest, Camp Flog Gnaw,...
Amanda Bynes and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have split after getting engaged just 3 weeks ago. It looks like Amanda Bynes won’t be walking down the aisle anytime soon, as her fiancé confirmed that they had in fact called off their engagement after just 3 weeks. Amanda and her former man, Paul Michael, first announced their engagement Instagram on Valentine’s Day, when Amanda posted a photo of her massive sparkly rock. “Engaged to tha love of my life,” she wrote on the now-deleted post. According to TMZ, however, her “diamond” engagement ring was not made of real diamonds after all, and was...
Oscar-winning director, Taika Waititi is set to produce a “Charlie & The Chocolate Factory” animated Netflix series. Netflix has announced that filmmaker, Taika Waititi will be curating two animated renditions of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory for the world-renowned streaming service. Waititi has directed a plethora of films but is probably most known for directing films like Thor: Ragnarok, Boy, Hunt for Wilderpeople, and What We Do in the Shadows. The 44-year-old recently took home the Oscar Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on Jojo Rabbit and just wrapped up filming Searchlight Pictures’ soccer comedy Next Goal Wins, featuring actors Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, Armie Hammer,...
Kim Kardashian West reminds her millions of followers that Julius Jones has still not been granted clemency. For a while now, Kim Kardashian West has been leveraging her voice to advocate for the wrongfully-accused. She went as far as pursuing a law degree in order to gain a better understanding of the system she is working within and the power she has to change it. She is now calling attention to the case of Julius Jones, a death row inmate in Oklahoma. On Saturday (Mar. 7), Kardashian tweeted a video produced by The Black Wall Street Times based in Tulsa. “It features men...
We’re still waiting on this true story. McScam, the Ben Affleck produced film starring Matt Damon about the real-life Mcdonald’s Monopoly scammers is still a go. In a recent interview with Collider, Affleck confirmed that the project is still in the works. The movie has been in development since 2018. “We’ve gotten a new draft, that’s really good,” Affleck explained. “Hollywood’s a weird place, because the person who was running the studio when they bought that script, just left that job. And the studio that was going to make it got bought by another studio.” Affleck is referring to the...
Cardi B’s “Invasion Of Privacy” – the longest-charting female rap debut ever – just achieved another milestone. It has been almost two years since Cardi B shook the world with the release of her debut album, Invasion Of Privacy. The songs on there hold up to this day and the charts reflect that people are still feverishly bumping them. In January, IOP became tied with Lauryn Hill’s classic, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, for the longest-charting debut by a female rapper. At that point, both albums had spent 91 weeks on the Billboard 200. The following week, Cardi became the sole holder of...
Tyler, the Creator, Summer Walker, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib are just a few of the artists set to release special edition vinyls for Record Store Day this year. News of this year’s Record Store Day comes after we learned from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that last year, vinyl record sales were set to top “traditional” CDs for the first time in 30 years. We have all watched vinyl records steadily grow in popularity over the past few years, so it’s no surprise many of us are excited about the new and exclusive releases coming up. Our generation grew up...