Famous battle rapper Serius Jones has been kept behind bars for several months now on charges of human trafficking and pimping, among others. According to a report by The Mercery News on Monday (June 1st), Serius, born Saleem Bligen, was charged in January of this year before he was arrested by Walnut Creek police on February 6th. The eight-count criminal complaint filed against Serius includes charges of human trafficking, pimping, assault, robbery, and other felonies.

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The records indicate that one alleged victim, referred to as Jane Doe to protect her identity, has accused Serius of “willfully and unlawfully depriv[ing] and/or violate [her] personal liberty” by “forcing her into prostitution” from July 31st and October 15th, 2019. The report also claims that on October 15th, Serious allegedly “assaulted” this same woman “by means likely to produce great bodily injury.” It is also alleged that he stole her 2007 Lexus and threatened her in an attempt to dissuade her from cooperating with police the next day.

Following his arrest, a GoFundMe, which claimed that Serius had been arrested for “a false accusation of a stolen vehicle” with no mention of any further charges, was set up to cover his legal fees. However, after raising just $110, the page was taken down. Serius has pleaded not guilty to all of these charges, and has a court date scheduled for August.

Fans might remember Serius Jones from his success on the MTV freestyle battle rap series, Fight Klub. He went on to launch a rap career of his own after he was declared the all-time Fight Klub Champion.

TikTok is in some hot water after a user reported an era that blocked users from seeing the tags “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#GeorgeFloyd,” among other hashtags related to the recent police murder of George Floyd. 

The error was caught by a user who noticed that he was unable to see the tags while attempting to upload a video to the platform, and called the social networking site out. This triggered a response from TikTok, who issued the following statement:

“We are aware of an issue that is impacting the hashtag view counts displayed at the upload stage. This appears to affect words at random, including terms like #cat and #hello. Our team is investigating and working quickly to address the issue.” 

A spokesperson for the social media app also told TheWrap that view counts on the app of the hashtags #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter have been fixed as well. TikTok made it clear the issue was not specific to these hashtags, adding, “This appears to affect words at random, including terms like #cat and #hello. This bug is affecting view count displays on hashtags at random in the Compose screen only, but it is not affecting tags, videos, or discovery of uploaded content. Our team is investigating and working quickly to address the issue. We apologize for the confusion this is causing.” 

TikTok was also accused of censorship back in March after they were accused of taking down videos of Lizzo in a bathing suit, with other women claiming the same thing happened to them. The company denied any wrongdoing. 

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If Snoop Dogg wasn’t fed up with 6ix9ine before, he sure as hell is now. Ever since the recently incarcerated rapper made his comeback last week, Snoop has made it abundantly clear that he does not approve of 6ix9ine’s snitching ways, nor the celebration surrounding his return to music. However, on Friday (May 15th), 6ix9ine added fuel to the fire by accusing Snoop of being a snitch as well, claiming that he served as an informant to the feds in Suge Knight’s criminal case. Snoop initially fired back with a comedic clip of Omar Rey as his character, Pimpin Silky, but after 6ix9ine refused to let up on his claims, Snoop knew he couldn’t just ignore the situation. The OG first shared a video on Instagram, issuing a warning to 6ix9ine to leave him alone for his own sake while calling him a “ratboy” and a “b*tch.”

“Last time you said something, I ain’t have time,” Snoop says. “But today, I got time.” 6ix9ine then commented on the post, “EXPLAIN YOUR PAPERWORKKKKK.”

Later, Snoop posted a fake trailer for a “dramedy” about 6ix9ine called Tattle Tales. “The tail of a rat,” Snoop wrote in the caption. “Comin soon from bitch9 I mean snitch9. I mean fuc it from cuZblood.” 

“This is only funny to the old heads everybody over 50,” 6ix9ine responded. “Still hasn’t even denied the paperwork. lEavE mE AloNe ‘you’re blowing my cover.'”

Finally, Snoop had had enough. He issued a formal response to 6ix9ine’s claims in the comments of the movie trailer, explaining why 6ix9ine is dead wrong.

“N*ggaz know I ain’t have nothing to do with suge knight getting time we had the same lawyers,” Snoop wrote. “This [rat] reaching calling me a snitch and FYI. He most likely drew up the papers he do work with the [cops]. Suge and me on great terms now so if I told on him we would never be cool and that’s a fact. Now carry on and stay tuned for the tattle tales movie and record lil bitch @6ix9ine0fficial I got time.” 6ix9ine has yet to respond to Snoop’s latest comments.

Theories, conspiracy or otherwise, tend not to need factual proof in order to become a hot topic on social media. If something is controversial, especially if it includes names of respected, famous figures, it takes only a few moments for it trend. That's exactly what happened to Oprah Winfrey back in March when she found herself as the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter after allegations that she'd been arrested for sex trafficking and child pornography ran rampant.

WWE fighter Velveteen Dream has been getting a bit of a push as part of the NXT division as of late although now, he is facing some serious allegations. Recently, a user took to the platform to expose some Instagram messages they allegedly exchanged with the wrestler. As the story goes, Velveteen Dream said his DMs were open on his IG story. That's when he allegedly began to message the underage girl and sent her a nude photograph. As soon as he allegedly began to ask for photos back, the girl took her story to .

Some people began to claim that the wrestler may have been hacked although audio provided by Ringside News suggests he was allegedly sending voice memos to an underage girl and even asked where she went to school.

Bhad Bhabie debuted a new look on Instagram the other week, however the look was so different from her normal appearance that it resulted in backlash– specifically, there were plenty of comments claiming the young artist was trying to look black.

It’s not the first time Bhad Bhabie has been pummelled with accusations that she was blackfishing, and it’s not the first time she’s replied to these accusations either. Following her very-tan new look, she diverted attention back to Coronavirus with her response at the time. However it seems she’s still being targeted by her haters quite heavily, as she addressed the accusation once again during a new Instagram Live session. Unfortunately though, she may have just dug herself a deeper hole.

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In her latest IG rant, she compares her situation to that of Tarzan– the fictional character who was raised in the jungle by animals despite the fact that he was a human boy. 

She reflects on how these headlines are affecting her career, and could possibly affect her money too, if it means other artists and industry execs will judge her because of it, too.

“To see people wanna judge me off a picture, under a fucking light, that made me look a little bit darker. Then try to slander my name and make me seem like a racist person,” she goes off in the clip, which you can watch in full below. “I am not racist at all, and any fucking video of me saying the n-word, I was saying it in a fucking song, I was fucking thirteen, and where I grew up in Florida, we all said that shit.” 

She goes on to say, “At the end of the day we’re all people, we all bleed red…And then another thing I like to say is, y’all say that I’m tryna be black. Maybe a reason for me [tryna be black] is because I grew up in the hood. Tarzan…the story of Tarzan. He grew up around the bears in the jungle. He didn’t know no better!”

“That’s all he knows!” she continues, “When someone grows up in a certain area or a certain place, they’re a part of their environment. They only know what’s been around, what’s been taught to them.”

What do you make of this?

Yung Berg was on the wrong end of some accusations this past weekend when a former “girlfriend” accused him of pistol-whipping her, which resulted in her being hospitalized with a broken nose. At the time, the police report said the two got into a verbal dispute, before Berg reportedly hit her numerous times with a pistol, but there’s two sides to every story, and now Berg is telling his.

On Tuesday, Hitmaka took to his Instagram to share a statement from his lawyers, which says he acted in self-defense and was set up in what he believes was a home-invasion. Berg’s lawyers say a couple armed-robbers were apparently working with the alleged victim, who Berg said was NOT his girlfriend, and she was trying to let them in to rob Berg. Thankfully, they were unsuccessful in doing so thanks to Berg’s security and alarm system, but not before Hitmaka caught the alleged victim in communication with the robbers text on her phone, proving she was trying to set him up. Since then, Berg has given all his information and video evidence to the police in hopes the perpetrators are caught in the future.

You can read Berg’s statement & story of what happened (below) and make your own assessment on who to believe because someone is lying through their teeth. We’ll keep you posted once more info comes to light.

Keke Wyatt has allegedly been keeping her kids from seeing her ex-husband, Michael Ford, for 18 months, according to Michael himself. On Tuesday, the R&B singer’s ex shared a photo of their daughter, Ke’Yoshi Bella, on Instagram to wish her a happy fifth birthday. On the post, he exposed some pretty serious custody violations on Keke’s part, alleging that she has been in contempt of a court order by keeping all their kids away from him for the past year-and-a-half.

“Today is bittersweet for me as it’s your 5th Birthday Ke’Yoshi Bella,” Michael wrote on the adorable photo of his little girl when she was a baby. “It’s been 18 months since I last seen your beautiful energetic lil face in person and as bad as I wanna see you, hug you, kiss you, shower you with love, affection, and gifts i can’t because Unfortunately you’re being illegally withheld from me (along with my other babies) by someone who is in contempt of a legal court order.”

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While the alleged situation is obviously very upsetting for him, he mentions that he has scheduled a court date to confront Keke about her actions. “God has allowed my strength, temperament, and patience to be tried and tested,” he continued. “However I know He is on the side of right and truth so the battle has already been won! I’ll see that person in court soon as a court date has already been set so hold on Bella daddy’s coming to get you baby and we’re definitely getting sugar wasted for your belated birthday party! With love Daddy.” Beyond revealing the alleged truth about Keke, he also cleared the air about some rumours about himself. Back in 2017, Keke accused Michael of abandoning her while she was 8-months pregnant with their child and their other child battled cancer. Someone in the comments of Michael’s recent post asked him to answer to these claims.

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“Ummmm didn’t you leave your family tho while she was pregnant & dealing with the emotions of your child having cancer,” @breybee wrote. “It was above you when decide to leave right?” Michael replied to the comment, flat-out denying these rumours. “Umm no I didn’t and if you digested and believed any of those fabricated stories please check your level of discernment,” he wrote. “God Bless.” Keke ultimately got remarried to her current husband, Zachariah Darring, in 2018, and the two went on to have their first child together. Their son, Ke’Riah Darring, was born on January 6th earlier this year. Ke’Riah became Keke’s tenth child, though it is unclear how many were fathered by Michael and are, thus, being allegedly kept from him.

Kylie Jenner is on the hot seat for seemingly trying to emulate Beyoncé's entire look in some of her latest photos on social media. On Thursday evening, Kylie shared some shots of herself all dressed up in a floor length, neon green, leopard print hooded dress and a long, curly, blonde wig on Instagram and Twitter. As a result, the Internet went off on Kylie, since the photos in question really make it seem she's trying to actually become Beyoncé.

Lena Waithe has been accused of stealing the idea for her new series, Girls Room, following the release of the show’s trailer. On Wednesday, Waithe took to twitter to respond, maintaining that she didn’t take the storyline from Atlanta screenwriter Nina Lee. “I was brought on to write the scripts and produce the content. I have never seen Nina Lee’s work nor would I ever steal another artist’s work,” Waithe wrote.

“As a creative myself, I can only imagine how she must be feeling and I look to #Dove to give us more clarity on the situation,” she added.