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As his divorce from Kim Kardashian continues to move forward, Kanye West has been unsurprisingly absent from the spotlight. The Hip Hop mogul has been wheeling and dealing behind the scenes as a designer, producer, and artist, but his wife has remained front and center on social media, including sharing photos of their children. As gossip blogs continue to speculate about the end of their marriage, more rumors began to surface regarding Kim’s working relationship with Van Jones. 

Kim and Jones have both been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform efforts and some have theorized that behind the scenes, romance has brewed. Neither has confirmed or denied the reports, but Jones did speak on Kim’s journey to become a lawyer during his recent virtual interview with Ellen DeGeneres.

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Ellen noted that Kim has been studied as an apprentice with Jone’s organization and wanted to know how the reality star has been doing with her studies. “She’s doing amazing,” he said. “She has used her platform to help people behind bars. Her dad was a lawyer and she always wanted to be a lawyer, and so she decided—once she got a taste of what she could do using her platform, using her brain, she hasn’t let up.”

“I think she’s going to be an unbelievable attorney and she’s already one of the best advocates that we have in criminal justice.” Check out Van Jones speaking about Kim Kardashian below.

Ever since they announced their split, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have been doing their best at occupying their times. Lopez was immediately spotted with ex-fiancé Ben Affleck as they traveled together while A-Rod has been promoting his latest business venture, a men’s makeup line. It does seem that the romance between Lopez and Rodriguez has come to a final end without the possibility of reconciliation, and some are blaming it all on the recent scandal regarding Rodriguez allegedly sliding into the DMs of a reality star.

Southern Charm star Madison LeCroy allegedly told her Bravo co-stars that Rodriguez was a bit flirty in her direct messages while he was in a relationship with Lopez. The baseball great may have a thing for blonde-haired, blue-eyed women because Belinda Russell, the Australian host of Today Extra, shared that she, too, awoke to a DM from Rodriguez.

Belinda’s co-host brought up the DMs while on-air and they even shared a screenshot that showed Lopez’s ex telling her she has a “great feed!!” The co-host wanted to know if A-Rod was trying to flirt, but Belinda, who is happily married, didn’t think so. Rodriguez has been ridiculed for continuing to hit up those DMs even with a similar scandal on his heels, but many argue that he’s now a single man and can do what he wants.

Check out the clip of Today Extra below and see the content that Alex Rodriguez thinks is “great.”

They were married on reality television and were poised as the “it” couple of the Kardashian-Jenner clique, but sex addiction, drug abuse, and infidelity would ultimately lead to the downfall of Lamar Odom’s marriage to Khloé Kardashian. Although they were separated at the time of Odom’s near-fatal overdose, Khloé still rushed to her then-husband’s side. They officially divorced after the former Los Angeles Lakers star recovered, and since that time, Odom has admitted that he misses his ex-wife.

During his appearance on Radio Andy, Odom spoke about his feelings regarding Khloé. “Where do you and my girl, Khloe, stand these days, Lamar? Are you two in touch at all?” Andy Cohen asked Odom. “She was such a presence there during some of your hardest times.”

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“Yeah, she was, but, you know, unfortunately, due to my behavior and some bad decisions, we don’t really talk any longer. I miss their family tremendously.” Cohen seemed surprised and repeated, “You miss the family tremendously.” Odom replied solemnly, “Yeah, I do.” When asked what he misses about the Kardashian-Jenners, Odom didn’t skip a beat.

“Of course, anyone is gonna miss love that’s genuine,” he said. “Their personalities. Um, just spending time with them. One of the best times in my adult life.” This isn’t the first time that Lamar Odom has fondly reminisced about his marriage to Khloé and the relationship he once had with his ex-wife’s family. 

“We have to live with the decisions that we make and hopefully in time, people heal and are given forgiveness,” Odom told Cohen.

Check out the clip of Odom on Radio Andy below.

The verdict’s still in the air on whether or not burgeoning Harlem emcee Melii will be quitting the rap game, telling the world just over a month ago that she’s giving up the rights to her music due to a loss of interest sparked by trust issues within the industry. However, until the ink is dry on her retirement papers, she’d very much like for other female rappers to stop stealing her unique high-pitched rap flow.

Hmm…we wonder who she could be referring to! 

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“I don’t want no more of you bitches trying to take my flow,” Melii said in a recent clip that’s going a bit viral, finishing off her message with a slightly cocky, “Yeah, I said it!” verbal sign-off.

A few names came up from spectators after The Neighborhood Talk posted the clip on social media, and a few of the names weren’t even rappers surprisingly. One follower wrote, “So I’m gonna be honest her and Daniileigh music sounds alike [sic],” referring to Def Jam’s oftentimes-controversial R&B princess DaniLeigh, meanwhile another person went for the more obvious suspect by commenting, “Y’all know damn well she talking about that lil girl Coi!” Don’t even front — you know you was thinking Coi Leray, too!

While we can somewhat understand Melii’s frustrations with feeling jacked without any proper form of credit, there’s also the notion that it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day if her plan involves quitting music anyway. Hopefully this doesn’t lead to any rap wars in the immediate future, but at the same time a little competition never hurt when it comes to hip-hop. Well, as long as it stays on wax. May the highest-pitched voice win!

Who could Melii be talking about? Sound off with your thoughts down below in the comments section: 

The back and forths between Kwame Brown and his sports critics have become chaos for Charlamagne Tha God. After Brown responded to people who continued to criticize his former NBA career, the radio host took to The Breakfast Club to air out Brown’s sordid personal family history. Later, Brown came forward to blast Charlamagne, telling him there were things that the talk show host mentioned that Brown, nor his son, knew about. Brown insinuated that he was keeping certain information away from his children, and some of those news stories were about family members he hadn’t even met.

Brown also brought up Charlamagne’s previous rape case and later, Charlamagne gave himself “Donkey of the Day” on The Breakfast Club for using the sports star’s personal life as a talking point. Apologies came a bit too late for Funk Flex who used to ordeal to take a deep dive into those rape charges and aired out Charlamagne’s personal history. 

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There have been reports that Charlamagne has unleashed his legal team on Funk Flex considering that court documents reportedly show that Charlamagne’s DNA was not found on the alleged teen victim. Ebro Daren of Hot97 has jumped in to share a few thoughts about the online meltdown that is occurring in real-time.

“So…. when you gossip for a living, people gone gossip about your allegations. But you sending lawyers?” questioned Ebro over on Twitter. “Now when you were going at Flex did he send lawyers? When you went at Mister Cee did anyone send lawyers? When you edited Cipha’s audio and lied did anyone send lawyers?”

“People make bad decisions and can change, but when them old bad decisions come back to haunt you… In this game it has been fair game in the past,” he added. “Drugging and Rape of a minor should be examined for generations to make sure other young men do not think this behavior will be swept away just because they have power and influence.”

“I have mostly left this topic alone because I don’t want to contribute to the pile on,” Ebro said. “But you sending lawyers bro?” Charlamagne Tha God hasn’t directly addressed the latest outrage over the previous rape allegations. Check out Ebro Darden and Funk Flex’s posts below.

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Receiving the title of Artist of the Decade at the Billboard Music Awards was the icing on the cake to a long, successful career for Drake. The OVO mogul accepted his coveted award with his baby boy Adonis by his side, and after taking all of the red carpet photos with his fellow famous friends, he linked up with more celebrities at the after-party of the year—thus far.

Now that the dust has settled on the BMA festivities, more information about Drizzy’s post-award get-together has been shared. According to E!, Drake grabbed a bite to eat at The Nice Guy restaurant before he made his way to SoFi Stadium where he hosted his official afterparty blowout.

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A “source” told the outlet that Drake’s team rented the stadium for the evening and inside, there was reported a “gigantic banner with his name and ‘Artist of the Decade.'” Attendees included DJ Khaled, Chris Brown, SZA, Kehlani, Offset, Lori Harvey, Michael B. Jordan, Winnie Harlow, and many more who showed face and were photographed entering and exiting the ultra-exclusive shindig.

“There are huge champagne towers and several bars set up throughout the stadium,” the source added. “Drake also has cute album books featuring his favorite moments through his career set up around the stadium.” Check out a few flicks below.

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