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A birthday surprise turned sour last year when Da Brat joined LisaRaye McCoy on her show. LisaRaye has been co-hosting Cocktails with Queens on Fox Soul and for her birthday, Da Brat thought she would spark a happy sisterly moment live on-air. Instead, things quickly turned awkward as LisaRaye seemed upset by her sister’s appearance. Apologies and explanations were given, but it seems that LisaRaye has met with Iyanla Vanzant on Fix My Life in order to get to the root of the issue.

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In an exclusive clip shared by The Shade Room, Iyanla asked LisaRaye why she’s upset with Da Brat. “My upsetness is actually my feelings is hurt,” said the actress. “When she came out to the public, I know she’s going through a transition and stuff, but she have a new relationship, but this particular relationship, I haven’t heard anything. And when I say anything, I mean anything.”

“And then, when they tried to surprise me on my show, I was shocked,” LisaRaye continued. “Surprised, shocked… That she had even agreed to come on to say happy birthday and then she said we’ve had some distance in our relationship and then when she said that, it was like, I don’t even want, I don’t even know how to think about this.”

McCoy added that her co-hosts were “egging it on” and said, “for me, it was like, y’all don’t know sh*t.” Da Brat has shared with the world that she’s in love with her fiancée Jesseca Dupart and openly came out as a lesbian last year. Check out the clip of LisaRaye explaining her feelings below.

After announcing that he no longer had plans to portray Madea, fans of the loud-mouthed, gun-toting character were disappointed. Tyler Perry has created a billion-dollar empire out of his most famous character, but in recent years, he has spoken openly about hanging up his dress and letting the chips fall where they may. However, Madea fans received a bit of hope of seeing her on-screen once again after reports surfaced that Perry plans on penning a prequel about the life of Mabel Simmons. 

Variety reports that Perry has partnered with Showtime for a project simply titled “Mabel.” The outlet states, “Per the official description of the project, long before she was the force of nature known as Madea she was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy 20-something black woman named Mabel Simmons. When she moved to Atlanta in 1972 she set the city – and the world – on fire.”

“Multiple scripts” have reportedly been ordered from Showtime. Movies with Madea as a central character have helped Perry and Co. earn $500 million worldwide. This doesn’t include the other films, plays, and shows to be birthed out of Tyler Perry Studios. Would you watch this series? Who do you think should star as the title character? It will be interesting to see if a male actor continues the Madea legacy.

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When everyday people create dance challenges that help an artist’s single go viral on social media, often the artist will include the person in promoting the track. Megan The Stallion highlighted the young lady responsible for the TikTok “Savage” takeover and Doja Cat not only gave her “Say So” dance challenge creator a shout out, but she performed a portion of the moves live. Mooski’s “Track Star” has been huge online with much thanks to a TikToker named “City Boy J,” but after the music video for the single premiered earlier today (April 7), J returned to Instagram to share why he claims he was excluded from the visual. 

The music video for “Track Star” even star Coi Leray as a love interest and has a party scene where people are drinking and enjoying the music, but some people believe City Boy J should have received a mention for creating the “She’s A Runner Challenge.” J uploaded a video of himself executing the dance moves along with a caption that says he was excluded because of “who I am.”

“Nope I’m not in the video jus because some one don’t wanna work with me because of who I am,” he wrote. “It will not stop me from what made me who I am today and all I have done for mooski even if he don’t recognize what I did god and all my supporters is what keep me goin people might say what did I do jus know I changed a mans life and I’m still working from the Bottom with no support like I supported this song.”

City Boy J was elusive but people believe he was suggesting that his sexuality was an issue. His comments were flooded with people saying that if it wasn’t for him, the song wouldn’t have been as popular. Check out City Boy J’s post and the music video for Mooski’s “Track Star” below.

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A small-time Los Angeles-based actor was arrested on Tuesday by the FBI for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme in which he lied to investors about the success of his film distribution company. 

Zachary Horwitz, sometimes professionally known as Zach Avery, is accused of cheating investors out of $227 million and using most of the funds for himself, including purchasing a $6 million Beverlywood home.

Horwitz has appeared in several low-budget movies such as the horror film The Devil Below.

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Horwitz allegedly enticed the investors by falsely claiming his company, 1inMM Capital LLC, had film licensing deals with Netflix, HBO, and other platforms. His promotional materials claimed the company offered “safe” investments because “we receive confirmation from each of our outputs indicating their desire to acquire the rights to any title we purchase PRIOR to us releasing funds for the film.”

Horwitz provided investors with fake licensing and distribution agreements with Netflix and HBO which contained forged and fictional signatures, according to the prosecutors. Representatives for Netflix and HBO denied that they have engaged in any business with Horwitz or his company, according to the affidavit.

He also told investors his company distributed 52 films in South America, Africa, and Australia, according to court records obtained by the paper, and gifted his funders bottles of pricey Johnny Walker Blue Label scotch.

The actor owes investors roughly $227 million — defaulting on 160 payments to them since 2019, the report said, according to the FBI.

He is charged with wire fraud, which carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. At his Tuesday arraignment, Horwitz was released on a $1 million bond.

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If you’ve ever uploaded or published anything on the internet, then you know the dread when you realize a mistake was made. With pictures, most people just delete their unfortunate look and move on, but for the Kardashian-Jenners, it becomes a full-blown investigative moment. Days ago, a bikini photo of Khloé Kardashian appeared online and since that time, it’s reported that the reality star’s team has been working overtime in order to get it scrubbed from the web. That seems like a near-impossible feat considering screenshots are plentiful, but that hasn’t stopped Khloé from trying her best.

According to Page Six, Kardashian’s camp called the unedited photo “beautiful” but stated that it was shared without Khloé’s consent. “The color edited photo was taken of Khloé during a private family gathering and posted to social media without permission by mistake by an assistant,” Tracy Romulus, chief marketing officer for KKW Brands, reportedly said in a statement.

“Khloé looks beautiful but it is within the right of the copyright owner to not want an image not intended to be published taken down.” The internet, however, remains defiant and it’s rumored that some users have been locked out of their social media pages for posting the image. Others have complained that Twitter has kept them from accessing their accounts and some have allegedly received legal notices to remove the image. This hasn’t stopped users from reacting accordingly. Check out a few responses to the controversy below.

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Regardless of what someone may think of Soulja Boy, one thing he’s going to do is create a wave. Soulja is deserving of his roses as he was one of, if not credited as the first rapper who trolled the internet and went viral, so it’s unsurprising that he’s topping the charts over on TikTok. Weeks ago, he unleashed his “She Make It Clap” single and it quickly became the next big thing on the social media platform. In true Soulja fashion, he’s taken to Twitter to brag about his success and declare that it’s time for a Soulja Boy takeover.

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“I really freestyled she make it clap on twitch then dropped it as a real song and it went viral, #1 on tiktok and I got like 5deals from it im goated bro no kizzy,” tweeted the rapper. “And I see these rappers copying my tiktok wave they think they slick y’all wasn’t doing this last month lmao I go #1 and here they come.”

“My song is doing better than rappers on a major level with marketing budgets let that sink in,” he added. “F*ck that sh*t I’m finna sign and take over the whole industry again that’s what they scared of can’t hold me back it’s up and stuck watch this! N*ggaz wasn’t saying stay independent last month! What’s the difference now!!!!”

After The Shade Room reposted his tweets, Soulja added a few more thoughts in the comments. “#1 no label. 7 deals on the table. Stop playing,” he said. “What y’all think? Sign or stay independent?” Do you think Soulja Boy is poised for a takeover? Check out “She Make It Clap” below.

She’s spent nearly two decades in the spotlight so Keke Palmer knows the ins and outs of being a child star-turned-adult. At 27-years-old, Keke has accomplished more in her career than veterans twice her age, and with each new project, she sets a new standard for not only herself but those who will follow in her footsteps. We’ve all bore witness to the pitfalls of child stardom and somehow, Palmer has been able to avoid scandal. In her recent cover feature with InStyle, the actress details her experience with growing up under the pressures of Hollywood as a kid.

“At a young age, as a child [in the] entertainer world, your emotions are always the last thhttps://www.hotnewhiphop.com/keke-palmer-defends-admiration-of-tyler-perry-blasts-social-media-critics-news.118692.htmling that people care about. I think you get really quickly into being a people-pleaser and trying to be everything that everybody wants you to be,” said Palmer. “I think in a lot of that, you end up being misunderstood.”

“I’ve fought a lot of that most of my adult life, and I’m still new into my adult life,” she added. “And I think that’s something that I work towards every day is to not worry about people not understanding me, because I understand myself.” Keke said she prefers being alone because “I actually like me” and just because she’s nice doesn’t mean she has some sort of issue with herself.

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“Actually, no. It’s y’all not knowing what y’all want and projecting that on me that’s giving me the stress,” said Palmer. “Me, on my own, in my own room, I’m happy as hell… I had to really come to that understanding that success is what you make it and what you design it to be. Everybody is not Beyoncé, and that’s alright. That doesn’t mean that you’re not amazing because if you’re not Beyoncé, maybe you are Norah Jones.”

Listen to Keke chat with Laura Brown for InStyle below and check out a few shots from her cover feature.