An appearance the Streamys has caused a lot of drama for TikTok and OnlyFans star PinkyDoll. Fans were quick to point out that PinkyDoll, real name Fedha Sinon, was much darker IRL than she appeared in her content. This led people to speculate that the content creator was utilizing lighting and makeup to lighten her skin to garner more attention online. While Sinon is a Black woman, there have long been arguments that lighter-skinned Black women find more success compared to their darker-skinned counterparts.
PinkyDoll addressed these claims in a conversation with TMZ. “Well you know, when I go into the sun, I get a little darker. But I love to be a Black woman, what can you do?” she began. “I think they are just hating.” The interviewer quickly moved on to a different topic without challenging PinkyDoll’s answer. She didn’t really defend herself or actually address the allegations. Of course, she doesn’t have to. At the end of the day, she’s just playing the game and winning like so many other people. However, her answer is unlikely to go over well with many people who think she is manipulating perceptions of her race for profit.
This is just the latest drama that PinkyDoll has found herself in this month. A few weeks ago, the content creator went on an explosive rant after finding multiple sites hosting her leaked OnlyFans content. “I see all these websites. How dare you, you going to let other people put my face and my body out here doing stuff like that,” she said. “I’m going to sue all of you, I’m going to sue you. You allow the people to post Pinkydoll.”
It’s unclear if PinkyDoll has decided to follow through with these threats but it’s a very common problem for sex workers. Elsewhere, back in July, PinkyDoll came under fire for breaking character during a stream in order to discipline her son. While many people supported her during that moment, many others saw it as overly harsh. Or maybe it was just the shock of seeing PinkyDoll become Fedha Sinon for a moment and talk like a real person. However, the allegations of “light skin fishing” remain a developing story and we’ll have any updates here on HotNewHipHop.
Ice Cube has been active in the news recently. He has been heavily promoting his role in the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film and his Big3 basketball league, as well as celebrating 50 years of hip hop. In addition to his press run, Cube has also recently been the subject of controversial headlines. The hip hop legend has never been afraid to speak his mind, but has received backlash for some polarizing opinions that he expressed in recent interviews. Many took issue with the platforms on which he appeared, what he actually said during his interviews, and his history of contentious ideologies. Today, we will be covering exactly why people are mad at Ice Cube.
The recent outrage towards Cube stems from a series of controversial interviews that he conducted within the past month. He recently sat down with Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan for separate meetings where they discussed their political views and opinions. He also met with politicians Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dennis Kucinich.
Ice Cube told Piers Morgan that “Black people are in the same place” as they were in 1865 regarding racial oppression and Black ownership in America. He also denounced “cancel culture,” saying that “you got to be willing to fight for your rights and fight for what you believe in.” While unafraid of getting canceled, Cube’s discussion with Morgan was met with poor reception as the latter is a polarizing figure in English media known for his conservative politics and constant slander of Meghan Markle.
Ice Cube’s meeting with Tucker Carlson garnered the largest response from fans and casual viewers alike. He and Carlson expressed anti-vaccine sentiments in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as remarks towards politicians with “hidden agendas.” Cube called the COVID vaccine a “rush job” and encouraged his children to decline vaccination as well. However, he did not tell anyone publicly not to take the vaccine. The N.W.A. rapper has always stood firmly in his beliefs, but the public shared their views on his controversial interviews on social media.
Sellout? I work for myself. I’m self-made. How do you feed your family??? How much do you sell your time for per hour on your job? https://t.co/OsB1ekxm9o
Upon Ice Cube’s meetings with Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan, people took to Twitter/X to voice their opinions. His sit-downs with conservative platforms known for racist sentiments perplexed fans as the West Coast legend built his early career on being outspoken against institutional racism and police brutality with records like “F*ck The Police.” Following Ice Cube’s statements, he was met with tweets calling him a “sellout,” likening his political stances to that of Kanye West.
Many also expressed disappointment in the rapper for meeting with Tucker Carlson. One person tweeted, “I told you Ice Cube is a right winger.” Cube responded to many of these tweets, defending his views. While the backlash was overwhelmingly negative, some defended the rapper, including Chuck D of Public Enemy. However, this is not the first time that people have been critical of Ice Cube’s views and beliefs.
NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 25: Ice Cube applauds during week one of the BIG3 three on three basketball league at Barclays Center on June 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)
Many are calling out Ice Cube for going directly against the values that he built his career on. Unfortunately, he has a deep history of making controversial remarks throughout his career. On multiple occasions, he has expressed his beliefs in conspiracies as it pertains to the prison and the music industries. There is also a history of the rapper spewing antisemitic rhetoric that goes back as early as 1991 when he aimed lyrics on “No Vaseline” at his Jewish manager, Jerry Heller. In 2015, a rabbi sued Cube, claiming that his security team assaulted him outside of an MGM Casino. The rapper has maintained his innocence and denied assaulting anyone.
In 2020, Ice Cube posted a series of tweets with images relating to antisemitic conspiracy theories. He also praised Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who is notoriously antisemitic and homophobic. Kanye West cited Cube as an inspiration for his antisemitic Twitter rants last year, though he distanced himself from West. Kanye later expressed that 21 Jump Street, which Ice Cube starred in, made him “like Jewish people again.”
Ice Cube once met with Donald Trump and received almost the exact same reactions to his most recent meetings with Tucker Carlson and Piers Morgan. Each time that Ice Cube has angered the public, people have called him out for betraying the views that he expressed in his politically charged classics. He continues to remain unwavering in his opinions, vocalizing his beliefs no matter the reaction.
Recently, Blueface has been under fire over a controversial clip. In the clip, a group of women is seen dancing provocatively in his home, which he calls a “casual day.” He then takes the camera into a pantry, where his 6-year-old son Javaugn is shown rummaging for snacks. “Son, come here. It’s booty cheeks out here and you’re in here looking for chips and Slim Jims. You ain’t gay is you?,” he asks the boy. Javaugn tells him “no,” and is met with a handshake from the father who enthusiastically calls him “my man.”
The clip got social media users debating whether or not encouraging the young boy to engage in adult situations was appropriate or not, with many suggesting the behavior is pedophilic. Others thought it was strange and offensive of the rapper to celebrate his son not being gay. Hot Boy Turk, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to believe Blueface’s behavior is a problem compared to other current events. He took to social media to weigh in.
“So y’all getting mad at [Blueface] for being proud of his son not being GAY but didn’t have nothing to say about #GAYPRIDE in front of INNOCENT CHILDREN,” he wrote. Turk’s comments on the controversy got him some backlash as well, with several defending Pride. Various commenters thought comparing Blueface’s behavior to Pride was silly, claiming what’s showcased during the event isn’t nearly as suggestive as what was happening in Blueface’s home. “This is so stupid,” one Instagram user says, “You can look at that little boy and you can see he had no idea what Gay meant.” “Man could have cared less,” they also added, “he just wanted a snack.”
Hot Boy Turk isn’t the only person to publicly come to the rapper’s defense recently. Karlissa Saffold, Blueface’s mother, spoke out about the situation last week. “False alarm, false alarm. He ain’t see nobody’s a**,” she claimed. Saffold continued, “I went off, and they said he was not present to watch nobody’s a**.”
Kim Kardashian has admitted that she feels a wee bit “guilty” about Kanye West’s actions, as well as brands dropping him due to his antisemitic remarks in the past year. On The Kardashians, season three, episode six, Kim K touches on the topic of her ex-husband due to something she posted recently. “I feel guilty that I, like, posted something in support of the Jewish community, then people dropped him today?” she said of her social media power.
During Kanye’s anti-Jewish tirade over the last few months, Kim Kardashian has remained quiet. Instead of calling the father of her children out by name, she’s instead offered support to the Jewish community. In return, more brands have left the rapper in the dust. “And I’m like, ‘Is that my fault that, like, I posted that? And did that, like, push them, and I should have just kept quiet?’” Kim asked her sister on the show. “But I’m vocal about everything else, and it’s like, I never know what to do.”
Kim is in a tough position, being a vital influencer in pop culture who is attached to the most toxic influencer in pop culture. While she wants to be vocal about what’s important, she doesn’t want to cause grief for her ex-husband. During the episode, she becomes rather inconsolable about the whole ordeal. Kanye put Kim in a corner where she has to hurt somebody. If she were to say nothing at all, it’s almost as if she condones his behavior.
In all honesty, Kim Kardashian did the best that she could in a horrible situation. Seeing as everybody is canceling Kanye for his awful takes, it’s a matter of time before all brands are rid of him. So while she wants to blame herself, it really isn’t her guilt to have. She broke down in tears on the Hulu original TV show, saying she was confused. She didn’t recognize the person she had married before. Together, Kim and Kanye have four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.
Yesterday, Keke Palmer posted a video of herself having the time of her life at an Usher concert. In the video, she’s seen wearing a sheer dress with a black bodysuit underneath. It was that outfit that sparked some controversy that has spiraled out of control. Afterward the father of Palmer’s child, Darius Jackson shared his thoughts on the videos in a tweet. “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” his tweet reads. The post caught fans’ attention and sparked a LOT of responses. “The moment men start seeing woman as mother figures they forget that they have any duality outside of that and think they can’t be multifaceted,” one of the top responses reads.
After the controversy had been completely set off, Jackson doubled down on his opinions in a new tweet. Subsequently, he tweeted “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is.” Unsurprisingly, his doubling down did little to quiet fans’ anger. Now Usher himself has weighed in on the situation, though he’s hardly taking sides. Meanwhile he made light of the whole affair in a post on the new Meta app Threads. His post reads “Am I trending yet?” While the app doesn’t even have a trending page yet it’s clear Usher knows he’s part of some big online discussions right now.
Keke Palmer isn’t the only celeb caught dancing at a recent Usher show. Last month a video of Patti LaBelle getting down at an Usher show while fans cheered her on went viral. Earlier this year, Usher released his new single “GLU,” his first new track since 2021.
Usher also joined Muni Long for a remix of her song “Hrs & Hrs.” The remix turned the track into a hot and heavy duet between the pair. What do you think of Usher’s response to the ongoing Keke Palmer drama spawned from one of his concerts? Let us know in the comment section below.
Jacquees is now somehow involved in a drama-fueled online battle that includes Keke Palmer, Usher, Darius Jackson, and more. There is footage of an Usher concert in which the R&B singer is serenading Keke. This would be harmless, except for what she’s wearing. She had a skintight black leotard with sheer black lace covering the rest of her, exposing her backside. The father of Keke’s recently born child, Darius Jackson, took exception to the revealing outfit, claiming on Twitter, “It’s the outfit tho… you a mom.”
“We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife [and] mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others,” Jackson continues. “[And] he gets told how much of a hater he is.” Keke Palmer fans rushed to her defense, with one commenter randomly throwing Jacquees into the mix. “It’s Usher like cmon now,” the Tweet reads. “I could see if it was Jacquees.”
Not fazed one bit, Jacquees responded to the comment with, “Leave me out of it.” While the handle @b0mbchell_ was giving a backhanded compliment to the Georgia R&B crooner, Jacquees was having none of this smoke. He was not about to get in trouble on the internet for absolutely nothing. From all of this backlash, Darius Jackson continues to double down on his claims, still not pleased about Keke Palmer’s outfit. Usher has yet to comment about the outfit or Jackson’s stance on the issue.
As for Keke herself, she seems undaunted by Jackson’s comments, having nothing but good things to say about the Usher performance. She showered the praise on her Instagram: “I am telling y’all right now, if you haven’t seen [Usher,] YOU MUST GO!! HE WAS SO FABULOUS!!” For Jacquees, his only hope is that Ms. Palmer doesn’t come to his show anytime soon. Otherwise, he might have to answer to Darius Jackson.
Soulja Boy has decided to enter the chat with podcasters like Adam22 and No Jumper. This beef has been bubbling for a while now, with Soulja going off in a video in September 2022 saying he made podcasters famous. He also said he had the most views out of any interview on a specific podcast. Now, he posted an Instagram Live where he ranted on Adam22 and Desto Dubb for five minutes.
In the video, he talks about Desto Dubb’s friend who died recently, repeatedly asking why his crowd is mad at Soulja when Soulja never did anything. Desto allegedly talked about how he slapped Soulja around, but the Boy wasn’t having any of that smoke. He then turns his attention to Adam22 at the end of the video when a commenter throws his handle in the chat. “Adam22, you can text me the address to No Jumper if you want. I can slide right now, bro,” Soulja Boy says.
“Stop playing with me, bro, for real,” Soulja continues, talking about both Desto Dubb and Adam22. He’s also talking about the random commenters in the chat trying to stir things up by adding handles into the chat so the contentious podcast host can come on with his opinion. There’s plenty of evidence of bad blood between the rapper and the podcast host, as well as a ton of alleged legal trouble for Adam22. Together, the pair make for some toxic content, with back-and-forth threats and disses.
While most of the video is borderline incoherent, the message is clear: Soulja Boy is done playing games with anyone and everyone. All Soulja has done news-wise this year is win a civil court case against his ex-girlfriend and show up on random podcasts. He also seems to want to beef with everybody in the rap game. Soulja says he used to try to fight with Bow Wow back in the day, and now he’s going after young rappers like NBA YoungBoy.
K-Fed is about to move to Hawaii, and he’s taking his sons with him. Their mother, Britney Spears, has not seen any of them in over a year with intention. And now it sounds like Kevin Federline won’t force his kids to go see their mom before the tropical relocation. Sons Sean Preston and Jayden have the choice of saying goodbye to Britney before they jet off to Hawaii in August. As of this writing, they have yet to make a decision.
Kevin Federline is actually encouraging the brothers to go see Britney. But he won’t force them or pressure them into doing something they don’t want to do. According to TMZ, Kevin’s attorney and Britney’s lawyer exchanged a letter where K-Fed was asking Britney permission to move the boys to Hawaii with him and his current wife. In order for them to actually relocate, they needed Britney’s permission, which she gave a few days ahead of an imposed response deadline.
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 04: Britney Spears performs onstage during the Britney Spears ‘Piece Of Me’ Summer Tour – Brighton Pride at Preston Park on August 4, 2018, in Brighton, England. (Photo by Dave Hogan/BCU18/Getty Images for BCU)
With being allowed to move, this closes what might be the final chapter of the K-Fed and Britney saga. Despite the tumultuous relationship between the parents, they have recently been nothing but supportive of each other. Britney didn’t fight the Hawaii relocation. Kevin Federline recently defended Spears after a Daily Mail report claimed she was on methamphetamines. After allowing the Hawaii move, Spears took to social media to support to her sons, calling her eldest, Sean Preston, “her first love.”
This isn’t the first time Britney has dealt with family dilemmas. She got out of a traumatic conservatorship with her father back in 2021. This was after 13 years of her father abusing his powers as conservator of her estate. She’s also had a falling out with her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears. Her mother implores that she reconcile with Jamie Lynn. Seeing as she allowed her sons and Kevin Federline to move to an island, perhaps she extends the olive branch to her sister as well.
The BET Awards took place in Los Angeles over the past weekend and plenty of storylines emerged from the show. Now, Da Lench Mob rapper J-Dee has taken his thoughts about the show to Instagram. He was pretty upset with both Tyler Perry and the show itself for how it ignored many of rap’s west coast pioneers. The show sought to pay tribute to hip hop’s 50th anniversary with a major group performance. Included in the performance were artists like E-40, Warren G, Redman, and more. J-Dee clearly wasn’t happy with the lack of west coast representation.
“F*CK THE BET AWARDS YOU N*GGAZ STILL ON THAT BULLSH*T SO NOW WE SET TRIPPN ON BET OUT WEST. YOU BANNED FROM LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA UNTIL I START SEEING SOME WESTCOAST RAP VETERANS GET THE PROPS WE MFN DESERVE, J-Dee said on Instagram. He followed it up by calling out Tyler Perry directly. “@tylerperry YOU FOUL AS F*CK FOR THAT. NO MC REN NO ICE CUBE NO ALONZO WILLIAMS NO ONE WHO PAVED THE WAY OUT WEST 40 YEARS AGO.”
That was far from the only storyline coming out of the BET Awards. The biggest one by far was a fight that went viral between Lil Uzi Vert and their partner JT. Though many thought it had something to do with Ice Spice, both parties have denied that. The pair also showed up together at Uzi’s own Pink Tape party a few days later to prove things were fine.
Some of the biggest performances of the night also stole the show. Latto delivered a performance so great it was literally knocking people over. Offset and Quavo also surprised everyone by reuniting to pay tribute to Takeoff, who passed away last year. Ice Spice herself also performed during the show. She brought hits like “Munch” and “Princess Diana” to the BET stage much to the amusement of many fans. What do you think about J-Dee’s issues with the BET Awards? Let us know in the comment section below.
Early in his young career Bobby Shmurda definitely made some pretty major mistakes he likely regrets. Thankfully. he’s learned from much of that and now he’s trying to spread that wisdom to fans. In an interview on The Pivot podcast, Bobby dispensed some wisdom he’s learned with age. He advised fans on how to walk away from harmful situations and not be hurt by what people say. Instead, he says he now knows better than to take the bait and can choose to just move on with his life.
Fans in the comments were quick to praise Bobby Shmurda for his maturity. “This is growth. Maturity comes with time, errors, pain, reflection, and detachment. The lessons become wisdom,” one comment reads. “The mentality of a grown man that knows his worth, I hope he teaches the youth that looks up to him,” another says. Fans hope that Bobby’s message will resonate with younger rappers and prevent them from getting into the same kind of trouble that he did.
Recently, Bobby Shmurda received a cosign from Boosie Badazz. Boosie called Bobby “one of the realest” young rappers out right now. He’s also been very vocal recently about Gunna, Young Thug, and the YSL RICO case. He recently dropped a freestyle where he took aim at those that choose to snitch. While he doesn’t mention Gunna by name many fans were able to connect the dots. Later in the freestyle he also expresses his desire for Young Thug to be freed. It’s far from the only time he’s made his thoughts on the matter clear.
Bobby Shmurda also reacted to Gunna’s first public appearance since his plea deal. He showed up at an NBA playoff game between the Celtics and Heat last month. Shmurda expressed his disbelief that Gunna would do that while Young Thug is still in jail. What do you think of Bobby Shmurda’s advice to younger artists about walking away from fights? Let us know in the comment section below.
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