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It looks like there may be some problems brewing between Kyrie Irving and Nike. Despite having one of the most popular basketball sneaker collections for the corporation, it appears as though the relationship has soured. After photos were leaked of the upcoming Kyrie 8 model, the Brooklyn Nets point guard commented on the pictures and didn’t hold back.

“I have nothing to do with the design or marketing of the upcoming #Kyrie8, IMO these are trash,” savagely said Kyrie, leaving a comment on a fan page dedicated to his sneakers. “I have Absolutely nothing to do with them! Nike plans to release it without my okay regardless of what I say, so I apologize in advance to all of my sneaker heads and true supporters of the #KAI11 brand.”

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Similarly, Vanessa Bryant recently called out Nike for producing unauthorized pairs of the “MAMBACITA” Kobe 6 Protro, claiming that she did not approve of their production or sale. “This is a shoe I worked on in honor of my daughter Gianna,” she said in June of this year. “The MAMBACITA shoes are NOT approved for sale. I wanted it to be sold to honor my daughter with ALL of the proceeds benefitting our @mbamabacitasports foundation but I did not re-sign the Nike contract and decided not to sell these shoes. (The MAMBACITA shoes were not approved to be made in the first place).”

Sounds to me like Nike needs to be more transparent with their athletes and sponsors. Take a look at Kyrie’s response below.

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Will Smith has a few major projects under his belt right now which shouldn’t be much of a surprise. In the past two years, he’s starred in major Blockbuster films like Bad Boys 4 Life, Aladdin, and Spies In Disguise. Plus, there’s been recent conversation about whether Will Smith would return for Suicide Squad that probably won’t come into fruition.

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Another film that Smith has been working on has been secured by streaming giant Netflix. Fast & Loose, an action-thriller starring Will Smith, was acquired by Netflix, according to Deadline. The film, which apparently was in a massive bidding war among major film companies, centers around Smith’s character John Riley who wake up in Tijuana with no recollection of being attacked. Later on, the plot twist reveals that he was living life as both an undercover agent and a major criminal kingpin. 

Smith also has another project in the work for Netflix. Emancipation, directed by Antoine Fuqua, is headed to the streaming platform, along with the sequel to Bright where Smith will reprise his role as Daryl Ward.

In related news, the trailer for King Richard emerged today. It’s the first look at Will Smith as the father of Serena and Venus Williams. That film is expected to hit theatres on Nov. 19th and HBO Max for 31 days after the film’s release in cinemas.

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You’d think that after facing backlash over transphobic comments, Boosie Badazz would likely try and stay out of any business that doesn’t pertain to him. Unfortunately, that’s not the case and today, he chimed in on the recent controversy surrounding DaBaby. The North Carolina rapper made some incredibly insensitive remarks to people with HIV and to the LGBTQ+ community which recently prompted BooHoo to cut their relationship with the rapper.

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People like T.I. have expressed their support for DaBaby while others, like Dua Lipa, have condemned the rapper’s comments at Rolling Loud. Boosie Badazz took to Instagram Live where he shared his unwarranted thoughts defending DaBaby. “Everybody ain’t with their nephew sucking dick. Not everybody with that shit. You just can’t put that shit on everybody and expect it to be cool,” he explained before dragging Lil Nas X — who wasn’t even at Rolling Loud — to use as an example.

“Lil Nas X said he wanna perform naked on stage for charity. You don’t fuck with him like you fuck with DaBaby,” he continued. “Be even-sided. You don’t feel that’s disrespect? Going dance naked. You don’t think that’s disrespect in front of boys who tryna be straight? It’s totally disrespect.” 

While DaBaby still is at the center of controversy surrounding comments he actually said, Boosie Badazz was still stuck on hypothetical situations. “If I’m at an awards and he go up there naked, I’m gonna drag his ass off stage and beat his ass,” he continued. “You let a n***a dance naked in front your children, you a mothafuckin’ crazy mothafucka. Or you like dick, too.” 

Check out Boosie’s rant below. 

Lil Uzi Vert might be trolling again but the rapper allegedly just found out that he’s not actually the age he thought he was. On Twitter, he said that his mother just found his birth certificate and, apparently, they’ve thought that he was a year older than he actually was for his entire life.

“Wait wtf I’m turning 26??? My mom found my birth certificate,” tweeted Lil Uzi.

The rapper has had a strange fixation with “the 27 club” for years, addressing a theory last year that he planned to die at that age. Perhaps this is simply his way of bypassing the “27 club”?

“Damn bro so you was 18 but really 17,” asked one fan. “Yes WTFFF!!!” responded Uzi.

When someone tried to fact-check him and ask how he got his license if he never knew his correct age, Uzi replied and said that he doesn’t have his license. “So you drive your Really expensive anime Sport cars without a license?” they asked. “Yes,” he responded, with a smiley face. 

For what it’s worth, last week, Lil Uzi (and Grimes) tried to convince his fans that he was in the process of purchasing a new exoplanet. Experts later deemed that his claims were “bogus.” Maybe he’s lying about his real age too?

Lil Uzi Vert’s birthday has already been updated on Wikipedia, stating that he was born on July 31, 1995 instead of 1994. With his birthday coming up in a few days, it looks like we’ll be reliving the rapper’s twenty-sixth year all over again.

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Tyler, The Creator recently delivered his new album Call Me If You Get Lost, a project that is already earning buzz as a potential album of the year contender. In a way, the album marked a return to his hip-hop roots, and the album’s lead single “LUMBERJACK” served as a brutal reminder of how he gets down as an emcee.

Tyler drove the point home with a blistering performance of “LUMBERJACK” at the recent BET Awards, and many were quick to praise it as the ceremony’s highlight moment. Tyler actually spoke about his experience at the BET Awards during a recent interview with Complex, revealing a bit of insight into what it meant to bring his vision to the big stage. 

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“I was so hype to perform at the BET Awards,” he tells the publication. “Having Durk and Lil Baby and Styles P just tell me how good the performance was meant a lot. I just never felt like my style of music would ever have been, not even appreciated, but allowed on there. And because of that, I would mock it. It was like a defense mechanism because I felt like I wasn’t accepted by that audience. But when they asked me this year, man, I was enthralled. I was so happy.”

“I was like, man, I have to perform, like, one of my hardest rap songs on there,” he continues. “Cause that, that channel taught me how to rap. It taught me about just all the stuff I know. So, man, shoutout to the BET team. ’Cause they were awesome.”

He goes on to speak on an encounter with an older fan, who told him that “People think that when you do a performance with a concept or at a level like that, that it has to be for the Billboard Awards. It has to be for the Grammys. But when they go to BET, they think that they have to tone it down and make it cheap.” The fan, a sixty-year-old black man, was happy to see Tyler bring such an elaborate and creative performance to the BET stage. Tyler found himself particularly touched by the encounter, to the point where “his eyes started watering.” 

Clearly, Tyler, The Creator’s BET performance was an impactful one on a variety of levels, and we can only hope he leads by example and encourages other artists to follow suit. For more from the Call Me If You Get Lost emcee, check out the full story over at Complex.

WATCH: Tyler, The Creator performs LUMBERJACK at the BET Awards

Charlotte Hornets basketball player PJ Washington has gone viral, but NBA fans aren’t feverishly talking about the University of Kentucky basketball product‘s professional-level play. Rather than his skill, Twitter users have found themselves wrapped up in PJ Washington’s allegedly estranged relationship with Brittany Renner.

According to Hip-Hop Lately, the fitness model has been romantically linked to James Harden, Drake, Lil Uzi Vert, Jamal Murray, Ben Simmons, Trey Songz, Chris Brown, Colin Kaepernick, and more in the past, but PJ Washington and Brittany Renner had reportedly been going strong for a while, eventually having a baby together roughly a few months ago on May 5, 2021.

Within a matter of months, rumors started to surface that PJ and Brittany had sadly parted ways. Countless fans have since theorized that Renner had only been with the NBA player in an effort to get pregnant by him, with many pointing to her book, Judge This Cover, which reportedly documents Renner’s past sexual experiences. However, in a surprising tweet-and-delete, PJ Washington appears to have confirmed his fans’ theories, saying, “You was faking it all along.”

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Instead of hitting Twitter to ease PJ Washington’s worries and offer their condolences to him, NBA fans have instead opted to engage in an all-out roasting session of the 22-year-old Charlotte Hornets forward. Most fans have joked that Washington should go ahead and get ready to start paying child support for nearly two decades, while others have expressed their amazement with Brittany Renner’s allegedly elaborate plan to trap Washington in the first place.

Check out a bunch of NBA Twitter’s reactions below.