Nicki Minaj onstage at the 2018 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California. If you’re a rapper who woke up this morning assuming you and Nicki Minaj were on good terms, check again. This afternoon Minaj released her long-delayed, mired in utter confusion, fourth album Queen. It’s a mostly innocuous effort, save for the stray potshot here and there, with the extreme exception of third track “Barbie Dreams.” It’s a song that takes its aim before a single bullet rolls off the barrel of Nicki’s tongue: Its inspiration comes from Biggie’s “Just Playing (Dreams),” which famously listed off all the women in R&B of that era he wished to have sex with, and was then famously flipped by Lil’ Kim for her own song, “Dreams,” where she fantasized about all the R&B men she’d have sex with. Read More...
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1. Born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, he initially wanted to use The Weekend as a stage name. But an already existent Ontario rock band forced him to make a slight edit. 2. Emigrating from Ethiopia in the late 1980s, his parents Makkonen Tesfaye and Samra Tesfaye landed in Toronto. Never married, they split up and he and his mom shared a tiny apartment with his grandmother in the city suburb of Scarborough. Read More...
The perverted hotel porter who raped X Factor star Lucy Spraggan in an attack so traumatising it forced her to quit the talent show early was quietly deported to India after serving less than half of his 10-year prison sentence, MailOnline can reveal.
Spraggan was a 20-year-old contestant in the 2012 series of the hit ITV talent show when her life was ruined by sexual predator Soby John, who assaulted her in a luxury hotel room. Read More...