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Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are still going strong. In fact, there’s been chatter about that the couple is planning to get engaged once Fox’s divorce from Brian Austin Green is finalized. While they’ve been gracing timelines and headlines with their coupledom, Fox has still faced criticism for dating someone younger than her. 

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The age difference between Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly is only four years but still, there have been people that have questioned their age gap. In a recent interview with InStyle, Megan Fox said that the criticism she’s faced is rooted in a double standard.

“You want to talk about patriarchy? The fact that he’s four years younger than me, and people want to act like I’m dating a younger man. He’s 31, and I’m 35,” Fox explained. “Granted, he’s lived like he’s 19 his whole life, but he isn’t 19. No one would blink twice if George Clooney was dating someone four years younger. Four years? Go f*ck yourself. We would have been in high school together. That’s so ridiculous that women are treated that way.”

Later in the interview, MGK chimed in on his love for Fox. “She’s like the earth,” he said. “When it’s summer, it’s the hottest summer. When it’s winter, it’s the most amazing chill. In the fall and spring, it’s a beautiful transition. She is unlike any person I have ever met in my life. I just want people to understand this is real. I don’t think people get the opportunity to believe in real, great love, and that’s what we have together.”

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Weeks after pleading guilty to crimes against a minor, Drake Bell just so happens to be the new father of one.

On top of that, the actor made it clear that he has been married to his supposed “longtime girlfriend” Janet Von Schmeling for the past three years. Accounting for everything else he’s been in the headlines for, it didn’t really garner much attention, if you could believe that. According to PageSix, the couple was recently seen at Disneyland. Hey, get him out of there! That park is full of kids! Right, guys?

He took to Twitter to write, “In response to various rumors that are incorrect, I have been married for almost 3 years, and we are blessed to be the parents of a wonderful son. Thank you very much to all my fans around the world for your good wishes.” Just for reference, he did it in Spanish to tie in with the whole “Drake Campana” thing he’s got going on.

The artist and former Drake & Josh star is currently set for sentencing in July following being charged for an incident with a 15-year old girl in Cleveland in 2017.

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Although Lil Lonnie passed away approximately three years ago, it wasn’t until June that a suspect was officially found guilty for his murder. In 2018, rising rapper Lil Lonnie was shot multiple times while driving, causing him to crash his vehicle into a house, and he was ultimately pronounced dead on the scene. Last month, a Mississippi jury found that one of the suspects, Monya Davis, was guilty of first-degree murder in Lil Lonnie’s April 2018 shooting death, and on Tuesday, Davis was officially sentenced.

According to HipHopDX, Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson had an extremely difficult time deliberating on what would be the fairest sentence for Davis’ crime, but she eventually decided that the 23-year-old would be sentenced to life in prison.

“Not only was one young man’s life taken, but your life was taken,” Judge Faye Peterson remarked. “It’s a very tragic circumstance to see two very young people lose their chance and opportunities. What is most unfortunate and scary about this is it made no sense. You didn’t know each other. You hadn’t met each other. Just in a random, impulsive moment, someone lost their life.”

“I hope any young person sees where you are standing at this moment and realizes that once you pick up a gun, you will use it, and not only will you use it, but when you use it, you change someone’s life,” Peterson continued. “You didn’t even know who you shot at. That is the scariest portion of all that. It could have been anybody.”

According to HipHopDX, brothers Marshun and Antoine Carr are also charged with murder in Lil Lonnie’s case, so stay tuned to see what legal repercussions await them.

Rest in peace, Lil Lonnie.

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Back in late June, reports that NBA YoungBoy affiliate BBG Baby Joe was involved in a shootout began to surface. Details surrounding the incident explained that the shootout took place along Siegen Lane at around 9:45 pm between two cars. While one vehicle made off, the other one, which Baby Joe was inside, stopped “due to damage” and the three injured individuals were taken to the hospital. 

All three men were suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were anticipated to make a healthy recovery. In his first spotting since the shooting, new footage shows that BBG Baby Joe is making a speedy recovery in the hospital.

The newly surfaced footage shows the Baton Rouge native doing arm exercises while sitting in a wheelchair. “Baby Joe gonna come back stronger than ever,” read the caption.  

As for NBA YoungBoy, née Kentrell Gaulden, he’s currently sitting in a cell following an indictment in March on charges of possession of a firearm as a felon and possession of a firearm not registered to him in a federal database. He was arrested in California following a traffic stop that then turned into a brief chase. 

A Baton Rouge judge subsequently ruled that Gaulden should remain in jail until his trial, noting that Gaulden was “inclined toward reckless, illegal, dangerous behavior.” There’s been very few updates on his case since the arrest.

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At this point, it feels wiser to simply pretend that Logic never retired to begin with, short-lived as his downtime was. True, it’s entirely possible that Bobby needed a bit of breathing room; after all, the “Dadbod” emcee is a family man now, and it’s likely that time away from the studio was exactly what the doctor ordered.

Yet it mustn’t be forgotten that Logic is a student of the game, and stepping away for an extended period of time is seldom as straightforward a process as one might think. It truly wasn’t long before he once again felt the call of the booth, and now we’re in the middle of a full-blown album rollout. And so it continues with the announcement of “Get Up,” a brand new single following up his recent release of “Vaccine.”

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Saying little other than “Friday,” Logic made it clear that he’s coming back with a vengeance, allowing the music to speak for itself. As such, there’s really nothing to know about “Get Up” quite yet, though it will be interesting to see how it sounds in comparison to the tracks we’ve heard so far. 

Look for “Get Up” to land in a matter of days, alongside a slew of new releases. Given that he’s been dropping singles at a reasonably quick pace, it’s safe to assume that we’ll be receiving a new album from Bobby Tarantino sooner than later. 

Brazilian Butt Lift surgeries have been the talk of the town recently. The buttocks augmentation procedure has increased tremendously in the past decade as tons of young women and men go under the knife for the cosmetic enhancement. Despite their popularity, plastic surgeons have long warned of the dangers of BBL surgeries. 

It seems like many young people are willing to take the risk, however, to achieve the ideal hourglass figure popularized by shifting beauty standards across the country. Lil Baby, who has rhymed in the past about paying for the enhancement of the lady in his life, took to Twitter to give his hilarious take on the controversial procedure.

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“I still call her natural if she got it from her stomach,” penned The Voice Of The Heroes artist on Twitter, adding a sunglasses emoji to complete the cheeky tweet. Notably, a BBL procedure involves removing fat from other areas of the body and transferring it to one’s derriere. 

Another Instagram user chimed in, adding, “Lil Baby said it ain’t nothing wrong with moving the furniture around!” As mentioned before, however, plastic surgeons across the country have been vocal about the dangers of going under the knife for the procedure.

Botched surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow recently spoke to TMZ about the reality of the surgery. “It’s extraordinarily dangerous. It turns out that it’s the most dangerous, not only plastic surgery procedure, it’s the most dangerous operation there is with the highest fatality rate,” explained the famed surgeon.

He added, “The problem is there’s these very small, little veins in the buttock that leads directly to the vena cave, which is the major blood vessel that brings blood back from your body to your heart, to your lungs. If you get fat in those little vessels and it gets in the main vena cava and goes to your lungs, it’s over.”

What’s your take on Lil Baby’s sentiments?