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 Lil’ Kim isn’t here for 50 Cent‘s latest antics.

The Power star recently took aim at the Queen Bee, posting a side-by-side of her next to a Leprechaun meme and writing, “I’m sorry i know it’s early but i don’t know why s[tuff] like this is funny to me. LOL,” according to a screenshot obtained by The Shade Room. 

While it was funny for 50, Lil’ Kim thought he could have done better. Commenting on the post, she replied, “ur so Obsessed wit [sic] me this is getting creepy.”

Adding the yawning emoji, she continued, “This one ain’t it bro not funny at all I was hoping to laugh wit [sic] u but cornyyyyyyy… U fallin [sic] off Im too bad and too fly in this video u reaching now but we all kno whyyyyyyyy.”

The “Lady Marmalade” rapper then went on to slam 50, calling him lame and claiming that the real reason he dissed her was because he was “crushin hard.”

Lil Kim’ ended her rebuttal with a plug for her upcoming book. “DONT FORGET TO PREORDER MY BOOK YALL MEMOIRS OF ” LIL KIM THE QUEENBEE” PEROOD,” she concluded. 

This isn’t the first time the “In da Club” artist dissed Lil’ Kim. Back in July, 50 compared her to an owl because of her outfit during a performance at the BET Awards. 

After catching wind of the diss, Kim admitted that it was “accurate” and “hilarious” but didn’t bother her “one bit.” That didn’t stop her from throwing a little shade herself, though.

“50 Cent, I see u still in ur feels about that dinner date u asked me on that I had to turn down,” she fired back. “Let it go, u have a beautiful girlfriend, I have a loving husband. Let it go.”

 

 

 

 

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Ghost and Iron Maiden are reuniting — in the virtual world, at least.

The “Run to the Hills” legends have announced a new Ghost-themed level in their Legacy of the Beast mobile game.

Players will lead Maiden’s iconic mascot Eddie alongside an avatar of Ghost’s Papa Emeritus IV character through a dungeon called the Mascarade Diaboliquet. The visuals for the level take inspiration from the cover of Maiden’s 2003 album Dance of Death and Ghost’s 2018 Prequelle single, “Dance Macabre.”

You can play the Mascarade Diaboliquet level now through October 20.

Ghost previously opened for Iron Maiden on the latter’s 2017 U.S. Book of Souls tour.

Meanwhile, both Ghost and Maiden recently released new music. Last month, Ghost premiered the single “Hunter’s Moon” for the new Halloween Kills movie, while Maiden dropped their Senjutsu album.

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Kenya Moore is thankful she survived another week of Dancing with the Stars after Bachelor alum Matt James was sent home by the judges.

“I thought I broke my ribs,” the Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed to Entertainment Tonight, explaining that the injury happened during Monday night’s performance.  She consulted a doctor the following morning because she was unable to make it to urgent care or an emergency room after the show.

“I was OK, but I just didn’t want to stop dancing. It meant everything for me to be here,” said Kenya, who didn’t elaborate on the extent of or what caused her injury. “I danced through all of that pain.”

Kenya also revealed that her injury placed additional pressure upon her pro dance partner, Brandon Armstrong, who would continually ask her if she was okay “every time he would touch me.”

“[Kenya] told me she is not 50, but she is not 22,” Brandon joked to ET.

Still, the two put on their brave faces and their hard work paid off, with Kenya adding she’s “just shocked” she survived a double elimination.  However, she suffered an emotional blow after being voted into the bottom two.

“I’m dancing injured. I had this emotional low last night after we performed, and it was just overwhelming to fight so much and do a great dance and then end up in the bottom again,” she recalled. “A lot of emotional things going on in my life right now. It was just overwhelming for me… I just cried myself to sleep last night.”

See how Kenya and Brandon salute Grease when Dancing with the Stars returns next Monday at 8 pm. ET on ABC.

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Ally Brooke is preparing to share a piece of her heritage with fans with the debut of her new music, which is entirely in Spanish. 

The former Fifth Harmony member couldn’t help but share her excitement about this new era of music that she’s releasing under a new label, and with a new team around her.

“This has been such a major blessing in my life,” she told People. “My fans can see how happy I am and I can’t even explain it. It’s indescribable.”

Singing in Spanish isn’t exactly new for Brooke or her fans. The singer, who grew up in San Antonio, Texas, shared that her new music “taps into my roots, how I grew up and who I am today.”

What was a new experience for the “Perfect” singer, however, was being “so involved with the creative process.”

“I co-wrote a lot of these songs,” she said. “This is me. This is totally me. And the world’s going to hear it. I can’t wait.”

“I feel a [sense of] relief, I feel like I’m an artist, I’m fully myself and I’m pouring myself into these songs,” she added. “And I felt like before, I didn’t have that chance. To be able to finally put my writing in every song is the best feeling.”

Brooke’s debut Spanish single, “Mi Música,” is out October 22. 

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Coldplay‘s new album Music of the Spheres is out tomorrow, and they’ve just announced a tour to go along with it.

The Music of the Spheres stadium tour will kick off with the group’s first-ever show in Costa Rica on March 18, 2022, and then travel to the Dominican Republic and Mexico before reaching the U.S., starting with an April 26 date in Los Angeles, CA.  That U.S. leg of the tour will wrap June 14 in Tampa, FL, after which the band heads to Europe and the U.K.  More dates will be announced soon.

Opening for Coldplay on most of the dates will be H.E.R.

Tickets go on sale October 22 at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.  A Verified Fan presale, which you have to register for via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan Program, is available starting October 20.

“Playing live and finding connection with people is ultimately why we exist as a band,” Coldplay says in a statement. “We’ve been planning this tour for years, and we’re super excited to play songs from across our whole time together.”

The band goes on to say that they’ve spent the last two years “consulting with environmental experts to make this tour as sustainable as possible.”

To that end, Coldplay plans to power the tour via “renewable, super-low emission energy” — like solar panels at every venue, a “kinetic” stadium floor and kinetic bikes powered by fans. The power will be stored in the first-ever mobile, rechargeable show battery, made with recyclable BMW batteries.

They’ll also plant one tree for every ticket sold, give discounts to fans who use low-carbon transport to and from shows, offer free drinking water in an attempt to eliminate plastic bottles and put 10% of all the proceeds into a fund for environmental causes.

 

 

 

 

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It’s considered a high honor to write a Bond song, but for Billie Eilish, it became a full-circle moment when she was tapped to compose the theme for the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday, the “bad guy” singer revealed she had plenty of practice before taking a crack at her now Grammy-winning song because, when she was younger, she and her brother and collaborator, FINNEAS, would pretend to write Bond themes for fun.

“Years before the Bond song — our song — was even a topic of discussion with us, we would do it as a songwriting exercise,” Billie recalled. “We would just be like, ‘Let’s sit down and do some chords that feel Bond-esque.'”

Eilish said she and her family are massive Bond fans, so she’s well aware of the theme-song talent that came before her, including Paul McCartney and Sam Smith. When it came to picking her favorite Bond singer of all time, the honor went to Adele, who performed 2012’s “Skyfall.”

“I know that was more of a recent one, but my favorite song in the world,” she raved. “I loved that song.”

Kimmel also brought up the possibility of Eilish winning an Oscar for “No Time to Die,” which led to the two discussing the singer’s interest in making movies; she’s already directed a few documentaries.

While Eilish said “cinematography is really something I admire,” she said she won’t venture out from behind the camera to “act in stuff” unless “something came along that felt right.”

“I used to want to make a movie really bad, like that was a thing I was planning on doing,” she teased. “Who knows.”

Eilish and Finneas later closed the show by performing “Happier Than Ever.”

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Tonight in Irvine, California, Luke Bryan kicks off the final four shows on his Proud to Be Right Here Tour.

And as much as he’s enjoying being back on the road, the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year is looking ahead to a time when he won’t be hitting it quite so hard, as he steps back to spend more time with his sons, 13-year-old Bo and 11-year-old Tate.

“The boys have been coming out some on the road with me this year,” Luke explains, “and I’ve got hunting trips planned and fishing trips planned.”

“And I think as my boys get a little older and really start being in varsity sports and stuff,” he continues, “I’m gonna really have to take some tangible, you know, [time off, and] back the afterburners off. And certainly I’m prepared for that.”

For now, Luke heads to Fresno and San Bernardino, California on Friday and Saturday, before wrapping the trek October 28 in Brandon, Mississippi.

“Right now, it’s like, let’s get things rocking,” Luke says. “And as long as I’m having fun doing it — and I mean, my voice feels better than it’s ever been, and I’ve been having a blast out on stage. So as long as I’m having fun, I’m gonna keep doing stuff.”

“But then, you know, things will certainly have to naturally slow down,” he points out.

There’s not much slowing down in the near future, however. Luke plays Florida’s Tortuga Music Festival in November before hosting his popular Crash My Playa getaway vacation in Mexico in January. In February, he heads to Sin City to kick off his Vegas residency.  

Meanwhile, Luke’s just released “Up,” on the heels of his latest #1, “Waves.”

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Next year, Ashanti will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her triple-platinum self-titled debut album by re-recording the entire project.

The 2002 album featured the hits “Foolish,” “Happy” and “Baby,” and earned a Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album. Now, the 41-year-old singer looks forward to releasing the new version on her own independent label.

“It makes the most sense after being in the game for 20 years and having the rights to be able to go back and re-record my first album,” she explains to Essence about why she is recreating the most successful project of her career.

She says her goal is to “sonically make it feel that same rawness, but with the 2022 spin on it — just sonically making it crispy,” adding, “I don’t want to stray too far because I’m really proud of what we created, but I’m excited about it.”

The singer/actress notes that when she recorded the original music, she was “a little naive, a little green, and super vulnerable…a young girl from Long Island in SoHo writing records in the studio with a bunch of rappers,” including Ja Rule.

“I was happy that as a young female, I was writing my own records,” she recalls. “A lot of the guys didn’t believe me. They thought I had a ghostwriter. They would make me sit in front of them and write.”

In 2022, in addition to recording the new version of the album, Ashanti will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“The fact that everything is happening in God’s timing that I’m celebrating my 20-year anniversary,” Ashanti says with gratitude. She adds about also getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year, “The timing couldn’t have been planned better.”

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