Month: June 2023
Chrissy Teigen & John Legend Welcome 4th Child Via Surrogate
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcomed their fourth child together, a son named Wren Alexander Stephens, earlier this month. The two made the announcement that their surrogate had given birth in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Stephens was born on June 19.
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted four children,” Chrissy wrote in the post. “As a little girl, 2 glow worms and 2 cabbage patch dolls were perpetually in my arms, helping me stir in my kitchen, watching Alf with me. We’d sleep together nightly, each getting the same amount of kisses as to note make the others jealous.”
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Chrissy Teigen & John Legend At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
From there, she referenced her and Legend’s late son, Jack, who passed away as Teigen suffered a late pregnancy loss in 2020. Afterward, she revealed she would not be able to “carry any more babies” on her own.
“My mom always searched for the Pound Puppy with 4 pups in her pouch, having no qualms about opening and peeking inside before purchasing,” she continued. “After losing Jack, I didn’t think I’d be able to carry any more babies on my own. To be honest, I’ve personally blocked out a lot of my mindset during that time, but one clear memory is being surrounded by people who wanted to make sure I wouldn’t go through that pain and loss again.”
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Teigen further explained that she and Legend reached out to a surrogacy agency in 2021. Eventually, they met a “compassionate surrogate” named Alexandra. “We ate hot pot to celebrate, watched Vanderpump Rules with our growing bellies, our families blending into one for the past year,” the 37-year-old continued. “Just minutes before midnight on June 19th, I got to witness the most beautiful woman, my friend, our surrogate, give birth amidst a bit of chaos, but with strength and pure joy and love.”
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Meet Noah, Fnatic’s Rookie Superstar
Just a few weeks ago, Oh “Noah” Hyeon-taek was playing in the Ultaliga, Poland’s regional League of Legends competition. After turning pro in 2018, Noah spent a few years with Awe Star before signing with LCK outfit KT Rolster in 2020. However, after proving himself at the academy level, Noah struggled to maintain his spot in the LCK starting lineup. After spending the entirety of 2022 back in the LCK Challengers League, KT Rolster released him. But now, Noah is Fnatic’s latest superstar ADC.
Noah helped lead Zero Tenacity to their second consecutive Ultraliga title. However, they pulled the group of death at EMEA Masters and bowed out after a 1-5 performance. Despite this, Noah had impressed enough to earn an invite to the LEC.
Fnatic were looking to shake things up. After ninth and eighth-place finishes in the Winter and Spring splits of the 2023 LEC season, the perennial contenders needed a change. As a result, they revamped their bot lane, bringing in Noah alongside KOI support Adrian “Trymbi” Trybus. All Noah did was establish himself as a league superstar.
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Noah Dominates Summer Split
After six games in his first LEC split, Noah has a KDA of 78. The next highest KDA in the league is held by Trymbi at 7. His KDA over the 19-game Ultraliga Season 9 split was 6.2. Simply put, Noah is a cheat code. He appears to understand the league, the meta, and the game like no one else in the league. His overall stat line is 36/1/42. Even in the single loss Fnatic has suffered so far, Noah still put up a KDA of 7.
Maybe this is all temporary. After all, Jeff Francoeur seemed to be a baseball god until teams figured out how to pitch to him. Noah has played three champions so far – Aphelios, Xayah, and Lucian. Maybe he struggles once he’s taken off comfort picks. But that’s the thing. Even if he reverted to his Ultraliga numbers, he’d still have the second-best KDA in the league.
But do we really want him to stop being great? Sure, if you’re one of the nine teams he doesn’t play for. But this is the sort of storyline esports fans live for. A kid who couldn’t stay in the Korean League, and gets a shot playing in the LEC after a standout split in one of Europe’s smaller leagues. It’s less a question of how can he last, and more of a question of how high can he go. And if he continues like he has, there might be no ceiling for Noah and Fnatic.
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Excel Executes A Perfect Week
In other LEC success stories, Excel Esports shocked the league with their Week 2 performance. They entered the week on a ten-game losing streak, only to snap it with an upset win over Team Heretics. Then they turned around and secured an easy win over the ailing Team BDS. Just like that, they had equaled their win total from the Spring split. All that left for the week for MAD Lions, the defending champions on a 4-1 start.
They may have needed nearly 40 minutes to do it but Excel beat MAD to cap a shocking reversal of fortunes. The team that everyone had counted out, that everyone expected to blow up and rebuild after the season, had gone 3-0. Furthermore, thanks to results elsewhere, Excel found themselves in fifth place. After a disastrous year, Excel were suddenly playing for a playoff team.
Excel’s final week begins against current league leaders G2. However, we’ve already seen what Excel can do against teams atop the LEC. Furthermore, their other two games are much more crucial. First, there’s Astralis (2-4), a must-win game for Excel, not only to keep their playoff hopes alive but also to dash Astralis’. Then, they end the split against Vitality (1-5). While Vitality could already be eliminated by Monday night, the win might mean everything for Excel.
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Alabama Barker Slammed For Recent Outfit
Travis Barker’s daughter is once again making waves for all the wrong reasons. According to Page Six, the aspiring rapper posted a new video to TikTok recently that has fans discussing her outfit choice. In the video, she sports a bikini and a poncho with Rastafarian colors that she should have probably known better than to wear. Many commenters agreed that the fit reminded them of Adele’s similar famous blunder. In a misguided 2020 picture, the “Easy On Me” singer sported a Jamaican flag bikini in a picture that also received its fair share of criticism.
It’s not the first time Alabama Barker has gotten into trouble for cultural appropriation. Last month she promoted some of her new music on TikTok and drew comparisons to many black female rappers. When the music video dropped even more people chimed in. Comments claimed that she was appropriating the image of black rappers and blackfishing. While it wasn’t entirely just hate for the singer there was certainly an uncomfortable feeling about her video.
Alabama Barker In Trouble Again
In other news, Alabama’s dad Travis Barker is expecting a child with Kourtney Kardashian. Alabama made it publicly known that she was there for Kourtney following the announcement. The couple also revealed the gender of their baby in a recent musical gender reveal. Kourtney sits on Travis’ lap while he plays a drumroll leading up to an eruption of blue confetti confirming that they’re having a boy. The pregnancy was announced during one of Blink-182’s recent concerts. Kourtney made a hilarious reference to the video for the band’s hit song “All The Small Things.”
Travis Barker has kept pretty buys touring with the original Blink-182 lineup. The trio played a surprise show at Coachella to kick off their reunited tour. Since then he’s still found the time to get into the studio. Rapper Tyga has been seen going in and out of Barker’s studio repeatedly as the two are reportedly working on new music together. What do you think of Alabama Barker’s controversial video? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Nas Reveals He’s Already Back In The Studio
Nas has been on an incredibly prolific run over the last few years. He’s released three installments of his King’s Disease series of albums with Hit-Boy. The first one dropped in 2020 with the second edition following a year later and the third a year after that. He also found time to drop a second new album in 2021 called Magic. Each entry in the King’s Disease series have been both critical darlings and fan favorites. Now, Nas appears to be back in the studio all over again.
According to HipHopDX, the veteran rapper told Vanity Fair exactly that in a recent interview. “I’m in one of these creative growth spurts, it’s something that I’m really excited about, and it surprises me, Nas told the publication. He also clarified that he knew a burst of creativity would come eventually. “I’m not too, too surprised because I was also waiting for the day that I felt like this again, and I knew it would come.”
Nas Getting Back To Recording
Nas also hinted in the interview that there could be new music coming in the King’s Disease series. He describes the series as a constant flow of music and that he doesn’t “wanna stop it once it’s flowing the way it’s flowing.” In an interview last month Nas reflected on King’s Disease III. He described rap music as “his therapist” to the Wall Street Journal. He and Hit-Boy further collaborated on a track for the producer’s new album earlier this year.
Last year, Nas teamed up with Mass Appeal for a series of EPs meant to celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. The short projects would be helmed by various producers and aim to tell the full story of the genre’s history. So far the series has dropped two EPs helmed by DJ Premier and Swizz Beatz respectfully. Nas himself has also appeared on the opening song of both projects. What do you think of Nas returning to the studio so quickly? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Bow Wow Blames ‘Trash Ass Music’ For Hip Hop’s 2023 Chart Struggles
Bow Wow was asked why he thinks Hip Hop hasn’t topped the charts this year and he didn’t beat around the bush, blaming it on a diminishing standard.
Casanova’s Girlfriend Disputes Reports Of Prison Attack Amid Recent 15-Year Sentence
Swaggy Jazzy, the girlfriend of the notorious Casanova, has taken to Instagram to dispute reports of the rapper being attacked in prison and has expressed confidence in their situation. This comes after the Brooklyn rapper’s recent sentencing to over 15 years in prison for his involvement in a shooting and his leadership role in the […]
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Nas Reveals He’s Back In The Studio: ‘I’m In One Of These Creative Growth Spurts’
Nas may have released his debut album nearly 30 years ago, but he’s still just as hungry and is currently back in the studio working on his next project.
Erica Banks Takes Shots At A ‘Greedy’ Label In A New Song And Fans Are Sure Who She Means
It looks like Megan Thee Stallion may have an unexpected new ally in her fight against her label, 1501 Certified — the woman ostensibly brought on to “replace” her at the label. Fans are sure that “Buss It” rapper Erica Banks has some beef of her own with 1501 after a new song snippet circulating online finds her criticizing an unnamed label for being “greedy.”
“Give a f*ck about that label they see me,” she snaps in the 30-second clip. “And they owe me some money, they greedy.” Of course, you never know; there could be a third label involved somehow, or Banks could even have issues with Warner Records, where she signed in 2021. Considering that her complaint sounds a lot like Meg’s issue with 1501, though, a lot of the signs are pointing in that direction. And where there’s smoke… etc.
Erica Banks takes a shot at 1501 ENT in a new song snippet and reveals she’s no longer on the label.
“Give a f*ck about that label they see me and they owe me some money they greedy.” pic.twitter.com/4jQ6LENkP5
— Rap Alert (@rapalert6) June 28, 2023
If it is true that Banks is dissing 1501, that would make a couple of things that Meg’s been right about over the past few years after Tory Lanez was convicted of shooting her in 2020. Meg’s long maintained that the terms of her deal with 1501 were unfair; as she has fought the label in court, she later accused its owners of hiding money after she was granted numerous restraining orders against 1501 so she could continue releasing new music.
It could also mean that the collaboration between the two women some fans have been hankering for since the “Buss It” challenge broke the internet could be one step closer.
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Trick Daddy Defends JT After Lil Uzi Vert Incident At BET Awards
Trick Daddy has come to the defense of JT after the City Girls rapper threw her phone at Lil Uzi Vert and stormed out of the 2023 BET Awards. A nearby attendee recorded the incident between JT and Uzi and it quickly went viral on social media after the event. In the clip, JT seems to call Uzi a “bitch-ass n***a” and a “groupie.” In a video on his Instagram page, Trick described JT as his “homegirl,” while arguing “that’s how Miami bitches react.”
“Y’all know when I get live I got some shit to say,” Trick said. “Let me explain something to you n****s. If you not from Miami, if you not from the state of Florida, leave our Miami and Florida bitches alone if you don’t understand them.”
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Trick Daddy At The BET Awards
He continued: “All y’all bitches got something to say about JT. ‘Oh, she was ratchet, too ghetto.’ That’s what you get when you fuck with a Miami bitch. I actually thought she represented. That’s my homegirl man. That’s my homegirl, that’s how Miami bitches react, that’s how they behave, that’s how we was raised. What y’all expect out of it? She ain’t do shit wrong…JT did what a typical Miami bitch would do to a typical Miami n***a, and that definitely a n****a that ain’t from Miami.”
Trick Daddy Defends JT
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It was initially rumored that Uzi flirting with Ice Spice was the cause of the spat. A rep. for JT later confirmed to TMZ that this wasn’t the case. They claimed that the fight “had nothing to do with Ice” and instead she “had become frustrated when she lost her seat after the audience shuffled around.” Check out Trick Daddy’s comments on the situation above.
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