After Nicki Minaj filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Marley Green, the blogger accused her of threatening her life. The “Super Freaky Girl” rapper immediately responded and denied the claim.
As previously reported, Nicki is suing Green, known as Nosey Heaux, for saying she was a “cokehead” known for “shoving” cocaine up her nose.
In the lawsuit, the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award winner says Green “falsely and maliciously” called her a drug addict in a Twitter video posted Monday that “outrageously defamed” her and sparked a “firestorm of social media attention.”
After word spread of the lawsuit, The Neighborhood Talk posted the Instagram headline: “Pay Up! Nicki Minaj Makes Good On Promise To Sue YouTuber Who Accused Her Of Doing Coke: ‘Nothing Less Than $75,000.’”
Green replied in the comment section, “Actually Nicki doxxed me and is sending people to threaten my life.”
Nicki fired back, “That’s another false allegation you just made. That, in addition to all the new lies you said will probably cost you more than you know. So now…welp…BYE MARLEY!!! BWAHAHAHAHA.”
Minaj later tweeted she had several other lawsuits just waiting to be filed.
“Hmmm thinking if I should dish them out daily, weekly, orrrrr maybe even monthly…,” she wrote. “this Judd-Li folder is huge. LETS GO!!!!! next.”
She added, “Now let’s hope the ppl you guys r doing all this dirty work for love you enough to hire top notch lawyers for you & to pay your bills once I own your blogs, your shows, those IG pages y’all tried to protect so bad. Couple artists in the folder too. I’ll own your publishing. Duds.”
Charlie Puth is out with “I Don’t Think I Like Her,” a song about dealing with trauma from a past relationship and how it’s affecting his ability to find happiness.
GAYLE teamed with blackbear for the chaotic duet, “fmk.” The two also teamed for an animated music video. The single is part of GAYLE’s new EP, a study of the human experience volume two, out October 7.
“Astronaut in the Ocean” rapper Masked Wolf is out with “Sailor on the Moon,” which features hip-hop artist IDK and KayCyy. Masked Wolf talks about his rise to fame, rapping, “Started in the ocean but I’m still holding the flag/ Sailor on the moon waving back, I had to land.”
Anne-Marie teamed with Aitch for the spiteful breakup anthem “Psycho.” She said in a statement, “This song was inspired by personal experience. I was once in a situation where the guy I was seeing was gaslighting me when I suspected he was cheating on me, which he was!”
Daya released the EP In Between Dreams and two new visuals for “New Romantics” and “See You In My Dreams.” “The songs on the new EP deal with that gray area in between dreams and reality,” Days said of her new offering, adding she uses music to “find my own voice and identity.”
Madonna dropped a new remix of “Hung Up” featuring Dominican rapper Tokischa, which she first performed in June as part of her Pride celebration. The track is slowed and more rhythmic, channeling an electronic Reggaeton vibe.
Carly Rae Jepsen released “Talking to Yourself, the third single from her album The Loneliest Time. “This is not a revenge song, but its not NOT a revenge song either,” she tweeted.
Madonna dropped a new remix of her 2005 hit song “Hung Up” featuring Dominican rapper Tokischa, which she first performed in June as part of her Pride celebration. The track is slowed and more rhythmic, channeling an electronic Reggaeton vibe.
Carly Rae Jepsen released “Talking to Yourself, the third single from her album The Loneliest Time. “This is not a revenge song, but its not NOT a revenge song either,” she tweeted and added the song lyrics, “I was always invisible/ Consequences are difficult to face.”
Michelle Branch released The Trouble with Fever, her fourth studio album and first work since 2017. Michelle has since released the music video for “Not My Lover,” which sees her singing karaoke in a blue nightclub with her friends, who all vibe to the breakup anthem.
Ringo Starr‘s latest EP, a four-song collection titled EP3, was released Friday on CD and digital formats.
As its title suggests, EP3 is the third in a series of EPs; the former Beatles drummer has now recorded and released three EPs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coinciding with EP3‘s arrival, Ringo has debuted an official music video for lead track, the upbeat rock tune “World Go Round.” The song was co-written by Toto lead singer Joseph Williams andfounding Toto guitarist and longtime All Starr Band member Steve Lukather.
The video features Starr at his home studio and rehearsal space, playing the song with Lukather and recording vocals with some backing singers. The clip also includes scenes of Williams playing keyboards.
Theother three tracks on EP3 are “Everyone and Everything,” which was written by hit-making producer and songwriter Linda Perry; “Let’s Be Friends,” a catchy dance tune co-written by Starr’s longtime studio engineer Bruce Sugar and acclaimed songwriter Sam Hollander; and “Free Your Soul,” a laid-back, reggae-flavored tune that Starr co-wrote with Sugar.
Vinyl and cassette versions of the EP are due out on November 14.
EP3 was preceded by the Zoom In and Change the World EPs, which were released in March 2021 and September 2021, respectively.
Meanwhile, Ringo currently is touring North America with his All Starr Band; their next concert takes place tonight in Clearwater, Florida.
Jeff Bridges is reflecting on his recent health battles with cancer and COVID-19.
The True Grit actor, 72, announced in 2020 that he’d been diagnosed with lymphoma. In March 2021, while undergoing chemotherapy treatments, he contracted COVID-19.
“The chemo wipes out your immune system and when COVID hit me, I had nothing to fight it,” Bridges told E! News. “I was just really at death’s door a couple of times there.”
“I remember the doctors saying to me, ‘Jeff, you gotta fight,'” he recalled. He said he thought he was “in surrender mode” but was able to change his mindset thanks to his medical team, trainers and family who “brought me back.”
The Old Man star shared in September 2021 that he’s in remission.
Having survived both cancer and COVID-19, Bridges said he is prioritizing his wife, Susan, whom he married in 1977 and calls “the love of my life,” as well as their three daughters and their three grandchildren.
“So often things are right on our nose that we don’t appreciate,” he said. “But it turns out there are many positive sides in my life that came out of that experience.”
Bridges just began appearing in commercials touting monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, which he said helped him.
Strumming a guitar as he walks through the woods, he declares, “I love being alive, man!”
Ozzy Osbourne has premiered the first episode of his new behind-the-scenes series documenting the making of his new solo album, Patient Number 9.
The six-and-a-half-minute video is titled “When Ozzy Calls” and features interviews with a selection of the many guests that contribute to Patient Number 9, including Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, producer and guitarist Andrew Watt and Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne.
You can watch “When Ozzy Calls” streaming now on YouTube. The second episode debuts next Friday, September 23, followed by the third and final installment on September 30.
Patient Number 9 is out now. It also includes contributions from Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
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BLACKPINK released their music video for “Shut Down,” the latest single off their newly released album, BORN PINK. The group was clear about one thing in the song, rapping: “It’s not a comeback since we never left.”
The feisty music video sees the group — comprised of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa — asserting their dominance by sitting on a blinged-out tank and running through a city filled with BLACKPINK signs.
BORN PINK dropped Friday. To celebrate its release, Los Angeles is now home to the BORN PINK: The Pop-Up Experience, which runs all weekend long. Fans can visit the site at 8175 Melrose Avenue until Sunday at 6 p.m. PT.
BLACKPINK’s new pop-up experience is in partnership with Spotify, which revealed the group broke a new record on their site. After releasing the track “Pink Venom” last month, the song became this year’s most-streamed single by a female act.
It’s been nearly two years since BLACKPINK released an album. They released their debut studio work, The Album, in October 2020.
Lisa chatted with CR Fashion Book about the new album and how the band maps out their new phases in music. Billboardobtained an advance copy of the spread, which airs as part of the mag’s fall/winter edition.
“Before our comebacks, we always get into lengthy conversations about what we can do to improve,” Lisa said. “We try to bring out the best outcomes by discussing our thoughts on music videos, outfits, choreography, and even the littlest details such as hair colors.”
Lisa opened up about the two-year wait for the new album and revealed she has kept herself pretty busy in the meantime. She said she’s been working to “improve myself as an artist” by working in music, photography and fashion.
After threatening to end his partnership with Gap in a recent social media tirade, Kanye West has now made it official.
His attorney, Nicholas Gravante Jr., notified Gap on Thursday that the YEEZY company is terminating their partnership. West accused Gap of breaking their agreement by not releasing apparel or opening planned retail stores, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Ye stated that his contract required the company to sell 40 percent of his YEEZY line in stores during the second half of 2021 and open five YEEZY retail locations by July 31, 2023.
The 24-time Grammy winner previously issued Gap an ultimatum in a since-deleted Instagram video, which accused the company of stealing his designs.
“You have to really give me the position to be Ye and let me do what I’m thinking, or I have to do the thinking somewhere else,” West said in the clip. He added that he has plans to “open YEEZY stores worldwide,” starting in Atlanta.
Pentatonix‘s Scott Hoying unleashed his first solo single on Friday called “Mars.”
The Grammy winner infuses his signature, soaring vocals into a song that contains deeply personal lyrics about his journey of self-discovery and finding love.
“The song ‘Mars’ is very special to me, it’s not only a song I’m very proud of but also releasing it is such a symbol of all the self work I’ve done over the years,” Scott said in a statement. “It’s a song I wrote from such an honest place about the love of my life and how much he impacted me as a person.”
He continued, “I’ve always dreamed of releasing solo music, but for a multitude of different reasons I never did. This year has been really special and transformative for me so it felt like the right time to go for it.”
In addition to a new single, Scott released its official music video that was shot in Joshua Tree National Park. He picked the location because, while he couldn’t actually film the video on Mars, the barren landscape of the national landmark was enough to capture the red planet’s allure.
The single is available to download and stream now.
(NEW YORK) — A hotter-than-expected inflation report this week pummeled the stock market and punctured hopes of relief for strained households.
New government data showed that prices rose slightly in August, worsening the cost woes for consumers as the Federal Reserve readies to decide on another interest rate hike next week.
While prices are rising in nearly every sector, some products have experienced more significant price spikes than others.
At the grocery store, for instance, price leaps vary considerably. The price of eggs is up nearly 40% from where it stood last August; while the price for margarine trails close behind, having jumped 38% over that time, according to the consumer price index released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The price of pork chops, however, rose little more than 5% since last August; and the price of tomatoes even inched downward over that period.
“We’re getting to a point where a lot of things are coming back into balance now,” Omar Sharif, founder and president of research firm Inflation Insights, told ABC News.
Still, many prices continue to climb sharply, since businesses face a host of heightened costs tied to supply chain disruptions, labor shortages and distribution costs, he said.
“We haven’t been in a situation in a long time where the entire cost structure of operating your business has gone up at the same time,” Sharif said. “Given the inflationary environment, it’s a lot easier to pass these costs along to your consumers.”
Here’s what you need to know about which prices are going up the most and why:
Airfare and travel-related expenses
Those who took a flight over the summer know that airfare prices have skyrocketed. Airline fares have jumped 33% since last August, which far outpaces the overall year-over-year inflation rate of 8.3%.
The steep increase in prices owes to the release of pent up demand from the pandemic, when people across the globe isolated in their homes and forwent travel. That leap in demand has collided with a shrunken supply, Sharif said, noting a pilot shortage this year that has reduced the flight capacity of airlines to roughly 80%.
“Post-omicron bookings this year have skyrocketed,” he said. “It’s one thing if you don’t have enough baggage handlers. It’s another if you don’t have enough pilots.”
Travelers have received some small relief, however. Between July and August, the pace of prices for airfare actually fell by about 4.5%.
Still, other prices in transportation and transportation-related goods have risen sharply over the past year. The cost of public transportation is up more than 20% since last August; and the price of tires over that time rose nearly 14%.
Gas and diesel fuel
Energy price hikes continue to dramatically outpace the overall inflation rate. The CPI’s energy index, a general measure of energy prices, rose almost 24% since last August.
Despite a sustained drop in gas prices over recent months, the cost of gas remains about 25% higher than it was a year ago.
The cost at the pump for diesel fuel has worsened even further over the last year. A category of prices called “other motor fuels” — which includes diesel and alternatives like ethanol — skyrocketed 53% since last August.
Diesel prices are especially important because they push prices upward in industries across the economy that rely on diesel trucks for the distribution of their products, said Sharif.
“It’s costly to move stuff across the country,” he said.
Gas prices have fallen in recent months amid a drop in demand from the summer peak and a decline in crude oil prices.
But the price of gas remains elevated due in part to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which prompted a widespread industry exit from Russia that has pushed millions of barrels of oil off the market.
Meanwhile, a longstanding oil supply shortage endures from a pandemic-induced production slowdown that hasn’t caught up with the bounce back in demand as people have returned to many of their pre-pandemic activities.
Eggs, flour and coffee
It doesn’t take a sleuth at the grocery store to find sky-high prices. But some sticker shocks delivers a stronger blow than others.
As mentioned, the prices of eggs and margarine have risen dramatically. The costs of other breakfast items have also spiked. The price of roasted coffee is up almost 19% over a year prior; while the price of milk has jumped 17% over that time.
The price of flour, meanwhile, has leapt a staggering 23% since last August, sending prices up for desserts and other baked goods.
The cost increases don’t stop at products meant to be consumed by human beings. The price of pet food has gone up 13% since a year ago.
