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Dancehall legends Bounty Killer and Baby Cham join Cedella Marley in congratulating Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz for qualifying for the women’s World Cup.

In what was nothing short of a spectacular showing of grit and tenacity, the Reggae Girlz, led by caption Khadija Bunny Shaw defeated Haiti in a 4-0 game to advance to the 2023 Women’s FIFA World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

Baby Cham, who is a former footballer, shared a video after the impressive game, writing, “OUR REGGAE GIRLS DID IT!! #worldcup Everyone Please Help Me to Send A BIG CONGRATULATIONS To Our Girls… Qualifying For Their Second Straight World Cup.”

Bounty Killer also shared his reaction, writing, “What’s your Stance I stand with country DEFENDING JAMAICA WATCH NITTY KUTCHIE FESTIVAL SONG A MASH UP THE PLACE…UP TOWN MONDAY’S MASH UP.”

Bounty Killer shared in another post, “Congrats to our Reggae Girls on qualifying for the World Cup.”

Cedella Marley, who is an ambassador for the Reggae Girlz team and who spearheaded a campaign to revive the program over a decade ago, also congratulated the girls on their accomplishments.

“THEY DID IT FIFA Women’s World Cup here we come To my Girlz – your resilience, strength, and teamwork blows me anyway every time… I am so proud the entire country is so proud some said neva but neva dun come,” Cedella wrote.

Cedella Marley, who is Bob Marley’s eldest child, almost single-handedly revived the Jamaica Women’s Football program after the team was axed by the Jamaica Football Federation in 2010. After approaching the JFF to help revive the team, she became an ambassador who helped raise funds and build brand awareness to attract corporate sponsorship.

Despite facing challenges in attracting funding, Cedella, with the help of her brothers Damian and Stephen Marley, were able to lead a crowdfunding campaign to kickstart the program. Damian and Stephen also recorded the theme song, “Strike Hard,” for the Reggae Girlz. The trio helped raise US$50,000 ahead of the 2015 FIFA World Cup. The Reggae Girlz went on to qualify for the 2019 World Cup and now the 2023 World Cup making it back-to-back qualification.

In a message posted on her Instagram Story, team captain Khadija Shaw lauded Cedella Marley for believing in the.

“When they were quick to scrap the senior woman’s program, again you said otherwise,” Shaw wrote. “Now look at us few years later going back to back World Cup. Despite the disrespect and the amount of backlash you have received, you always put us first and for that we are grateful. Thank you for giving us a chance and the opportunity.”

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Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia “Babsy” Grange also shared a message for the team.

“As Minister of Sports it is with great pleasure that I on behalf of the people of Jamaica extend congratulations to our National senior women’s football team who tonight qualified for a second straight world cup finals,” Grange wrote. “Our #ReggaeGirlz did it the hard way, their backs were against the wall in a high stakes must win game but they did it. The best of Jamaica was on show in Monterrey Mexico in this fantastic 4-nil win over Haiti.”

“Congratulations are also in order for the coaching staff, ambassador of womens football Cedella Marley, the JFF and everyone who played a part in this history making achievement,” she added. “Once again the true grit, determination and never say die attitide which we have become known for, came to the fore once again. A proud country salutes you.”

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Popcaan’s female fans are not too happy that he is off the market after going public with relationship with former Miss World Toni-Ann Singh.

The Jamaican artist has signaled that he is no longer free and single following the release of his song “Toni-Ann Singh,” where he professes his love for her and even promises commitment in the form of marriage.

The song appears on Burna Boy‘s new album Love, Damini, where Popcaan appears to be either provoking fans or confirming that he and the Miss Jamaica World beauty queen are a couple.

Popcaan recently shared several photos and videos of him and Singh, which sparked rumors that they are in a relationship. They were seen together in a private jet on the way to Grenada last month, and they were also seen spending quality time earlier this month.

In the meantime, Popcaan does not shy away from publicly expressing his love for Singh, as he describes the desire to one day marry her and make her his Mrs. Sutherland. Popcaan’s real name is Andre Sutherland. This is the first time that the entertainer acknowledges a woman he is dating publicly and openly expresses his love.

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“Imma make you my wife one of these days I know what you want my baby, no worry,” the Unruly entertainer sings.

“Gal you’re pretty like Toni-Ann Singh…Fi mi angel without the two wings yeah…Whine yuh waist me darling…let me feel like all of me falling, yeah…Bend over pon’ the rhythm…Bad man ah turn you like a steering wheel…Me love you like me savings, yeah,” Popcaan said in the song.

While some female fans found renewed validation for keeping their standards high for a man to treat them like how Popcaan is to Singh, some fans have expressed sadness at having their hopes of being with the singer dashed to pieces.

“Toni ann make every woman left mi to Bomboc***t!!! I’m so lonely,” Popcaan wrote on Twitter on Tuesday in response to women flooding his DMs.

He also shared several screenshots of his DMs on his Instagram account.

“5: 44 in the morning and mi cyah sleep that toni Ann song hurt mi… hope she treat u right because I not taking u back I fed up time I focus pon mi self…I can’t do this anymore Andre all pon tiktok ya star every time I refresh my fyp,” one screenshot read.

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“My Kenya wifey upset,” Popcaan also wrote about a DM he received where another woman from Kenya wrote about being hurt by the song.

“You don’t even care about your unruly women from Kenya bruv you’ve hurt me big time been with you since I don’t know when like dawwg you said real thugs never forget the dump land or where we come from now you are forgetting your women from Kenya it’s okay… you’ve hurt me am crying like a bombclaat gyel but it is what is chubble street foot feet #beef but I can always be second wife to tonni you know,” the screenshot said.

Another woman wrote, “me feel hurt but what can I do but wait until my time…gonna always love my Popi with or without Toni whatever she wah name.”

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Ne-Yo says he passed on signing singer Lucky Daye after he broke one rule.

Lucky Daye missed out on what could have been an amazing opportunity as an artist signed to Ne-Yo. Back in the early 2000s, Lucky Daye was one of the rising talents being watched in the music industry. However, according to the R&B singer/producer, he didn’t sign Daye because he violated his boundaries regarding a specific request.

While speaking on the FAQ Podcast to promote his eighth studio album, ‘Self-Explanatory,’ Ne-Yo was questioned about a lot of events in his music career. One particular story from his career centered on the shape of R&B in the world right now, and that’s when the story about Lucky Daye was shared.

He recalled working with Lucky Daye in the early 2000s and even planned to sign him to Compound Entertainment, owned by him and which is an affiliate of Def Jam Records. The two first worked together on “She Got Her Own,” and Daye even worked with Ne-Yo on several of his hit songs, including “Miss Independent.”

“He was going by David Brown. We were working,” Ne-Yo explained. “The remix to ‘Miss Independent’ with me, and Jamie Foxx, and Fab? Jamie Foxx’s verse — Lucky Daye wrote that verse. He wrote the verse because it was supposed to be him.”

Daye was, however, not featured or worked on the sophomore single, “She Got Her Own,” because of personal issues with Daye, who couldn’t respect his boundaries.

“I was going on a short little run or whatever, and I let Mr Daye stay at my house,” Ne-Yo said.

“Now at this point, I have a big beautiful house, and I’m like, ‘Bruh, you’ve got full reign of the crib. You can go wherever you want to go, do whatever you want to do — just don’t go in my room’,” Ne-Yo added about his conversation with Daye.

“I come back one morning. Open the door up, I don’t see this dude nowhere. I go upstairs to my room. Sure enough, he’s asleep with a chick in my bed,” Ne-Yo says.

“He had no excuse. What could he say?!” Ne-Yo continued. “I gave you one rule. One. Told you one place you couldn’t go. Mind you — big crib. There’s rooms, a backyard, whatever. Just don’t go in this room. Not only are you in my room, you’re in my bed. You in my bed with somebody.”

Ne-Yo added that he felt it was a character flaw of Daye that he couldn’t follow the rules and decided he couldn’t work with him.

“At the time, I was upset. I was mad, so that was kind of the end of that whole situation. Like bruh, if you can’t follow this simple rule, I don’t know if this thing gon’ work.”

In the meantime, Ne-Yo’s new album is set to drop on Friday. The last time he dopped music was in 2019 with his album ‘Another Kind of Christmas.’

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Fans are finally getting a look into what might have happened to cause the split between Quavo and Saweetie, even though it has been prompted by the 2020 footage of the couple seemingly having a fight in an elevator.

The “Walk It, Talk It” rapper has also admitted that he’s not happy about how things ended up between the two. He made the revelations while being interviewed by GQ. The Migos rapper also opened up about his current love life and the lessons that he learned with Saweetie.

He took the opportunity to let fans and critics know that he never wants to harm women in any way, including physically. Even if that is the case, the video is pretty damning as the two seem to have a heated argument in which the “My Type” rapper is seen throwing an object at Quavo’s head.

The object misses, and then he drags her into the elevator, after which they struggle over a suitcase, and she falls to the ground.

“I don’t like what people think. When they saw the elevator thing they thought it was abusive, something crazy,” he added later on.

It seems that the lesson has been learned as he also admitted that he has not jumped into another relationship just yet as he is seeking to work on himself. He added that his main focus right now was to establish himself as a human being before he got involved in any more relationships.

The two officially began dating in September 2018 and were often in the limelight as fans constantly reposted clips of them together and some of the special moments that they shared, but Saweetie confirmed that they had broken up in March 2021.

In the same interview with GQ, Quavo opened up about the status of Migos amid recent rumors of the group splitting up with himself and Takeoff forming a duo, and Offset left hanging. There are also rumored tension between Quavo, Takeoff and Offset’s wife, Cardi B.

Quavo is saying that doing music separately will only help the group as a collective in the long run.

“It was all about Migos, Migos, Migos. The three of us,” the Atlanta rapper said about Migos dominance as a group in the 2010s. “I feel like every group member has to establish themselves. Their own body of work. If not, you start losing members.”

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