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According to US Weekly, Coly’s manager confirmed the news on Thursday with an Instagram photo of the hip-hop artist smoking outside. Coly’s manager speaks out. “Rest in peace @iamlucascoly I love you bro. My heart is ripped in half. Wait […]

DeepRoots CPS Farm, a Black-owned urban farm in northwest Charlotte, is expanding its growth with the help of a local organization. The Carolina Farms Fund, which purchased a $1.4 million property through an agricultural conservation easement, is now allowing DeepRoots CPS Farm to lease the land for four years. Additionally, DeepRoots owners Cherie and Wisdom Jzar have the option to buy the land, The Charlotte Observer reported.

Whether through a surprise date, a thoughtful gift, or simply a heartfelt message, here’s everything you need to know to make this National Boyfriend’s Day memorable. When is National Boyfriend Day?  National Boyfriend Day is observed on Oct. 3 each year, according […]

In one of the most startlingly fast celebrity lawsuits ever, rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs settled a case within 24 hours of R&B artist Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filing in November of last year. And that one settled case has set off a massive number of lawsuits against Diddy, involving as many as 120 men and women (including 25 minors) this past month. With the startling amount of accusations from Ventura’s case, along with recent updates from Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, this has made fans and foes of Diddy wonder more about the real relationship between Diddy’s longtime girlfriend Kim Porter.

How Did Diddy and Kim Porter Meet?

Porter became more well-known for dating the founder of Bad Boy Records than for her own aspiring modeling career. She met him in the early ’90s when he was an A&R executive at Uptown Records. At that time, she was in a relationship with R&B singer Albert “Al B. Sure” Joseph Brown III. She’d also just had Quincy Brown in 1991 with the singer (on his father’s same birthdate).

“I wasn’t trying to holler at her or anything, but I was admiring her — her lips, her eyes, her mouth, her shape, her energy — and thinking, ‘I wish I had a girl like that,’” Diddy told ESSENCE magazine.

While Porter was dating Brown, Diddy was dating stylist and fashion designer Misa Hylton, whom he had a child (Justin Combs) with in 1993.

When Andre Harrell, Diddy’s mentor and founder of Uptown Records, hired Porter as a receptionist, new father Diddy still didn’t initially make a move. Although she was born in Columbus, Georgia, she’d moved to Atlanta to advance her career.

Described by Diddy as “Bohemian, mixed with Georgia peach hospitality,” he cracked a joke about her being the type to want to walk barefoot in the grass. With their polar opposite personalities, he didn’t think he had a shot.

Turns out that he did, and that led to an on-again, off-again relationship from May 1994 to August 1999 and again from June 2003 to July 2007. In April 1998, Porter birthed Christian Casey Combs. However, they broke up once infidelity rumors and confirmation spread that he was dating pop star Jennifer Lopez.

Unlike other people in Diddy’s circle, Porter may have been one of the few who actually stood up to him. She even kicked him out of their shared home and changed the locks after finding out about Lopez. Describing him as “very, very intrusive,” their relationship could get as volatile as her throwing a “small” television at him. Years later, the two reunited and Porter birthed twins D’Lila Star Combs and Jessie James Combs.

Even through all the highs and lows of their relationship, Diddy still stood by his opinion that Porter was on the carefree side.

“She was smooth, you know, like ice,” he said. “She’s cool and collected and thinks before she speaks. You meet a lot of young ladies, and they just don’t do that. Kim was never pressed; she was always in control.”

While Diddy admitted he was “used to applause when I walk in the room” and claimed to want someone “a little more aggressive,” Porter was consistently cool as a fan around him through all the fame and fortune.

Who Is Kim Porter Outside Of Diddy?

Although she didn’t have huge modeling names in her resume, she was no stranger to big name models. In fact, she was a bridesmaid at Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee Simmons wedding, along with Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb.

People certainly knew who she was, ranging from the star of Heavy D’s “Nuttin’ But Love” to Big Daddy Kane’s “Smooth Operator.” She also had small roles in The Brothers, Systems Within, Wicked Wicked Games, Mama I Want To Sing and Single Ladies.

Not exactly someone who would bite her tongue, she was also vocal on social media about equality, posting messages about Black Lives Matter, remembering September 11, sending voting reminders and highlighting the irony of the criminal justice system. Clearly a supporter of marijuana, she also made sure to post on 4/20 too. And while her own four children post about how much they miss their mother after she passed away of lobar pneumonia on November 15, 2018, the 47-year-old could relate and posted about missing her own mother too.

With the increasing rumors questioning her relationship, life and death now that Diddy is under a microscope (and incarcerated in the Special Housing Unit at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center), all her kids are asking is that people remember Porter for the “beautiful, strong, kind and loving woman she was.”

Even if you didn’t like country music, it was impossible to not hum a little bit of “Old Town Road.” After all, the 2019 single featuring Billy Ray Cyrus was on the Billboard charts for 45 weeks and spent 19 of those weeks in the number one spot. Then, Montero sold 126K in its first week. Montero Lamar Hill aka Lil Nas X may have wished for the same popularity in country music as Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, which sold 407K its first week this year, or to have the same success as featured artist Shaboozey. But as an unknown artist who introduced himself to the public with a chart-topping single and album, his turnout is notable.

Every country singer can’t be billionaire Taylor Swift (and that includes the legendary Dolly Parton at $675 million or Beyoncé with $800 million). Still, Lil Nas X is doing well for himself. So what is Lil Nas X’s net worth?

What Is Lil Nas X’s Net Worth?

Lil Nas X’s most recent estimated net worth is $9 million, which includes a considerable amount from album sales. As a shrewd marketer, ranging from Tweet Decking about Nicki Minaj to making people feel bad about Doug the dog’s birthday party, this is an artist who knows how to get people’s attention.

He may be one of one for organizing the best choreographed music video in jail, and he did so naked. Bisexual and public about it, he gets a major thumbs up from his LGBTQ+ followers for not letting people shame him for his openness (belly out and all). And other well-known artists have wasted no time to collaborate with him, including Jack Harlow, Doja Cat, Elton John, Megan thee Stallion and Miley Cyrus. From the devil shoe collaboration between Lil Nas X and New York-based art collective MSCHF to seducing the devil in his “Montero” music video, his knack for creativity leaves fans and foes talking.

What Is Lil Nas X Up To Today?

For fans who have been waiting four decades for another Beverly Hills Cop, news of Eddie Murphy starring in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F was met by cheers. And Lil Nas X added a little extra funk to the well-known instrumental on the film’s soundtrack song “Here We Go!” And this week, he’s announced his paid partnership with health and beauty company YSL Beauty. From superhero outfits to perfectly manicured nails, it’s difficult to predict what Lil Nas X will do next.

According to The Associated Press, Jennings is now able to sue the police officers who arrested him. When Jennings decided to sue the cops, Chief District Judge R. David Proctor dismissed the lawsuit in December 2023. His judgment was based […]

Interviewer’s questions criticizedThe questions and tone of the interview have been drawing intense criticism from supporters of Coates and supporters of Palestinians. “Critics call for CBS Mornings’ journalist, Tony Dokoupil to be removed after his line of questioning,” reporter Willi Quinn wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Critics call for CBS Mornings’ journalist, Tony Dokoupil to be removed after his line of questioning regarding Israel and Palestine during this morning’s interview with author and journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates pic.twitter.com/4ngegStwTw
— Willi Quinn (@willi_quinn) October 1, 2024

“Wild that CBS challenges [Coates] more than they will Vance during the VP Debate,” human rights attorney Qasim Rashid wrote on X.

He called Professor Coates, one of the most celebrated & accomplished thinkers of our time, an “extremist,” because his book dares to center Palestinian humanity. A masterclass reply from Coates.
Also, wild that CBS challenges him more than they will Vance during the VP Debate. https://t.co/0OHnr0hwUg
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) September 30, 2024

Journalist Abdallah Fayyad described Dokoupil’s questions as “incredibly hostile, combative, and rude” toward Coates and “cartoonishly racist, blaming Palestinians for their own oppression.”

The questions that one host asks are incredibly hostile, combative, and rude (telling Ta-Nehisi Coates that his new book wouldn’t have any value were it not for the accolades he previously received). They’re also cartoonishly racist, blaming Palestinians for their own oppression. https://t.co/9b4ZwiORga
— Abdallah Fayyad (@abdallah_fayyad) October 1, 2024

So far, CBS News appears to be standing by its journalist and its interview, which remains prominently posted on the network’s X account. And Coates, after standing firm to his principles and point of view in a surprisingly tense exchange, will continue to promote his book and his analysis of race and ethnicity in Israel and the United States.

On Oct. 2, both associations filed an antitrust lawsuit calling out NASCAR and its owner for using anticompetitive practices, which makes it difficult for all to compete on an equal playing field, CNBC reported. Why is Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing, […]