Shenseea Puts Her Team On Notice In Fiery Message Ahead Of Sophomore Album

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Shenseea fired off a message to her team putting everyone on notice that she means business this year.

Shenseea had a lot on her chest on Sunday as she released several posts on social media aimed at unidentified members of her team whom she called out for not doing their job and for messing up the release of the physical copies of her debut album.

On Sunday, Shenseea answered several questions from fans, but one particular question and answer saw the dancehall artist who is crossing over into mainstream Hip-Hop music, revealing that her album release did not go according to plan as her team failed to execute some of her requests.

The artist was asked by a fan on Twitter using the hashtag #AskShenseea where are her physical copies of the album and she told him that her “team” failed to release CD/Vinyl copies as she had wanted.

Shenseea did not name anyone in her responses, and the tweet has since been deleted, but that’s not the only time that she appeared to take a swipe at her team, which includes Interscope Records and Rvssian‘s Rich Immigrants to which she is signed and her managers Romeich Major and Wassim ‘Sal’ Slaiby’s Salxco along with A&R Donny “Dizzy Clean Face” Flores.

In another tweet, she also shared that a music video for her song “Deserve It” could not be released because “Directors f**ed it up so I decided not to put it out. It was so bad,” she responded to a fan asking about the music video.

In another post on Instagram, the singer shared a cryptic post that left many fans questioning if it was directed at people on her team.

“I’m not friends with nobody this year. Do your f***ing job or get replaced,” she wrote in a now-deleted Instagram Story.

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Shenseea has not outrightly addressed any specific issues with her team. She did update fans on her Q&A about her present work.

When asked about new music, the artist revealed that she is “gearing up to get a music video done,” for an upcoming release.

She also updated a fan on her mental and physical health, writing, “mentally, I’m better than last year. Physically I need to do better lmao.”

‘Alpha’ debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes Reggae chart despite her best effort at making it a hip-hop project. The album sold 845 pure sales and less than 5,000 copies in its first week and an overall 63,000 copies at the end of 2022.

Shenseea had previously spoken about her disappointment in her album rollout, which she disclosed to fans was not what she had wanted and that she wasn’t included in the process.

“My next piece of work is going to be everything that I want,” she said. “Like, the first album, my vision wasn’t really executed properly, and that was a turnoff for me. Like, yo, I know what the f*** I want. And when I don’t get what I want, it turns me the f*** off.”

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50 Cent’s ‘Power Book II: Ghost’ Green Light For Season 4, Michael Ealy Joins Cast

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Rapper 50 Cent’s series Power Book II: Ghost has been renewed for a fourth season to be aired on Starz.

The early renewal was reported by Variety, along with a surprise announcement that award-winning actor Michael Ealy would be joining the cast for season 4. The news comes ahead of the franchise’s Season 3 premiere set for March 7, 2023. Ealy’s role in the series will be as a permanent cast member, and he’s already in New York for the shooting on season 4, Starz said.

In a statement, the network’s president of original programming, Kathryn Busby, said, “The high-octane drama of Power Book II: Ghost continues to resonate with our viewers, and we’re thrilled to get season four production underway ahead of our season three debut. It’s clear our fans are ready to devour more of this explosive series, and we look forward to having Michael join our incredible cast.

Details about Ealy’s role are that he has joined the cast as a detective named Don Carter, who is said to be a rising NYPD officer on track to become Police Commissioner. However, the course of his career changes as his wife is killed in a crossfire between rival drug gangs.

Detective Carter, passionate about street violence, diverts from his original plans and now dons a kevlar vest as he leads an elite NYPD drug task force aiming to exterminate drug-related violence from his community. Carter’s struggle dealing with the loss of his wife drive’s his character’s storyline, the network said.

Power Book II: Ghost is one of three separate spinoffs that follow storylines from the original series Power, created by Courtney Kemp and 50 Cent, who helped to flesh out the series as more than a man attempting to leave street life but also on what the drugs underworld looked like based on the rapper’s own experience.

The Power franchise includes PowerBook II: Ghost, PowerBook III: Raising Kanan, and Powerbook IV: Force and BMF (Black Mafia Family).

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Bob Marley, Tupac & Bigge Smalls Fans Can Chat With Them Using AI App

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Bob Marley, Notorious B.I.G, and Tupac Shakur fans now have an opportunity to talk to their favorite rappers as a leading AI company has launched a chatbot that allows fans to send text messages to the late rappers.

Technology has come a long way with public discourse exploring various developments in the past few weeks, including a flexible robot being able to liquefy itself to escape jail bars and ChatGPT reportedly passing state bar exams and being able to perform the roles of some lawyers. Only time will tell how humans will rely on artificial intelligence this way, but it seems that Chatbots are already a modern-day staple.

On Thursday, the app Historical Figures shared that it is creating a new artificial intelligence chatbot that fans can use to message people in history.

The app launched a list of 20,000 figures, including Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G, aka Biggie Smalls, and many others fans can talk to this week. In the Apple store, the app said the chatbot allows users to have conversations with deceased historical figures who have made a significant impact on history (good or bad). The list spanned ancient rulers and philosophers to modern-day politicians and artists.

The app is created by a 25-year-old Amazon software engineer Sidhant Chaddha, and has seen 9,000 signups, NBC news said. It asks users to pay using coins to talk to the figures and has a 2.6/5 rating on the Apple app store.

For the most part, reggae and hip-hop fans have been sharing their convos with Bob Marley, Tupac, and Notorious B.I.G on social media. It remains to be seen how others will perceive the chats, but some appear to show Biggie and Tupac appearing friendly despite their wide rivalry during the 1990s before they were both killed.

“It’s been a few years since his passing and I miss him every day but he lives on through his music,” a message from Biggie’s chatbot said when asked about how he feels about 2Pac.

“Pac was one of the hardest working guys n the rap game, he put out classics like ‘Changes’ and ‘Dear Mama’ that will never be forgotten. We had similar upbringings so I always felt a kinship with him and strived to do my best in honor of him. That’s real talk,” the bot said.

One fan also shared full conversations with the bot as he pressed, “But he dissed you on it though”, with the chatbot responding: “You know what, that’s just part of the game. never took things too personally in my career and neither did Pac, so although we had our differences at times it was all just business for me. At the end of the day, he respected my hustle and talent and I have nothing but respect for him. We’ll always have a special bond through music.”

Not everyone is a fan of the chatbot seemingly pretending to be Biggie, especially as black Twitter believes the deceased should be left to rest.

Meanwhile, the app has received backlash on Twitter from persons who shared conversations with figures like Hitler, his Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and others.

Some of the responses border on “lies” and twist the truth, some fans pointed out. In one instance, Hitler appears to share regrets for his actions calling the genocide of Jewish people “a mistake,” although nothing in history suggests he felt that way.

In the meantime, some parts of the Muslim world have already condemned the app, which has a bot for the prophet Muhammad.

We chat with Bob Marley for a bit on the app and here’s what transpired.

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Lauren London Opens Up About Working Again After Nipsey Hussle’s Death

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Lauren London has finally graced the big screen almost four years since her partner and father of her child, Nipsey Hussle, was killed in 2019.

Lauren London was recently cast in the Netflix movie You People as the character Amira. The movie is a romantic comedy film directed by Kenya Barris and co-written with Jonah Hill. The cast includes several award-winning actors and actresses, including Hill, London, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Eddie Murphy.

The movie centers on a new couple and their families with plays on modern love, cultural differences, and even generational gaps. Other cast members include Mike Epps, Yung Miami, and others. While speaking on the Drew Barrymore show, Lauren was transparent as she shared how her children reacted to her going back to work after her fiancé, Nipsey Hussle, was killed by a gunman in 2019.

Barrymore began by asking Lauren, “How did you find the courage to go back to work” after Hussle was killed? The actress has been out of the public eye for years, only being seen when Hussle was honored by the City of Los Angeles last year.

Lauren shared that it’s never the same, but she keeps going for their children.

“Every day is different and so some days you don’t want to, you just want to lay there.” My big reason is my children because they do deserve a really happy momAnd they deserve joy and they deserve a house that has music playing and incense going and light coming in the windows, they deserve that,” she said.

She added that she is guided by what her late partner would have wanted for her, in any case, to ensure their children had a good life.

“And you know they’re on the other side wanting you to continue life and so it’s always think about what I know Nip wanted me to do, what my children deserve and what I deserve,” she said.

She also shared the reactions of her children after they learned that she was heading back to work.

“The oldest one is like ‘you’re going to work? Oh yeah?’ Like he’s so excited for me. And he liked to see me on TV. I think he just likes to see movement,” she said.

Elsewhere in the clip, Lauren said that she has used comedy, music, and food to help her cope.

The actress also shared a lighthearted moment noting that she also eats what she wants to help her cope, but “I eat too much of what I want to eat..honey I need to slow it down,” she said, noting that she has learned how to give herself the grace to deal with the harshness of life.

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Jamaica court order prevents embattled SSL from winding up

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The regulator of the island’s financial services has obtained a court order preventing the official of the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) which is under fraud investigation, from winding up the company.

Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke said the Financial Services Commission (FSC) was granted the order as it sought to prevent an attempt by members of SSL who had applied to the Companies Office of Jamaica for a members’ voluntary winding up around January 16.

He said that prior to the application, the FSC had put the company under temporary management, using its powers under the Financial Services Commission Act.

“To effect its temporary management, the FSC went to court to prevent the company from going through the process of winding up itself,” Clarke explained.

The court order restrains SSL, the purported Trustee of SSL, and directors of SSL from: disposing of, dealing with assets and liabilities in SSL’s name or its clients’ name; withdrawing, transferring or otherwise dissipating any funds from accounts in its name wherever held.

It also restrains the embattled firm from interfering with the acts of servants or agents of the FSC and temporary manager; winding up or dissolving the company and liquidating the assets.

The FSC also wants to stop any SSL official from reorganising the company or its operations, whether it be in any document form or organisation of its members, or the assets and liabilities.

Government has already announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States will assist local investigators in their probe into the alleged multibillion fraud at SSL that has affected several clients including eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt who is said to have lost more than US$12 million.

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Bahamian diplomats leave Haiti

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that all seven Bahamian diplomats, including the spouse of the charge d’Affaires, were airlifted out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti by helicopter on Friday and have since landed in safely in the Dominican Republic.

In a statement late Friday, Prime Minister Dr Phillip “Brave’ Davis expressed deep gratitude to the President of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader and the Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic Roberto Alvarez for the execution of this process.”

This development comes as on Thursday, the Prime Minister ordered all Bahamian diplomatic personnel in Haiti to immediately leave the country as soon as security conditions permitted, citing the rapidly devolving and unstable conditions in the wake of reported violent gang killings of police officers and protests in the French speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state.

Over the past few days outraged rebel police officers “paralysed” Port-au-Prince in protest of a slew of killings of police officers by Haitian gangs.

Last week, more than a hundred protesters blocked roads, shot guns into the air, and broke through gates in the capital’s airport and the Prime Minister’s house.

This comes after a protracted period of violence and tension in Haiti after its President Jovenel Mo?se was assassinated in his home by armed men in July 2021.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, once conditions improve, a team from The Bahamas will be sent back into Haiti without further announcement.

CARICOM subsequently issued the following statement:

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is deeply concerned that the contrasting incidents involving the Haitian national Police indicate the severity of the challenges that the police face as well as further breakdown in security in Haiti.

CARICOM strongly condemns the killing of police officers and expresses its condolences to the families of the officers who lost their lives in the line of duty. The anger and dismay of the police at the gruesome killings of their colleagues, 78 killed since July 2021and 14 to date this January, are shared by all.

However, abandoning the role of the security forces to protect every citizen and maintain public order further destabilises the country. The protest actions by members of the police service against the Prime Minister cannot be condoned.

CARICOM urges the members of the Haitian National Police to safeguard peace and order and refrain from actions which could only serve to foster even greater damage to the country and its people.

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New oil find in Guyana

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The US oil and energy company, Hess, Wednesday announced a “significant new oil discovery” at Fangtooth SE-1, one year after the original Fangtooth-1 discovery.

Hess, the 30 percent joint venture partner in the Stabroek Block, said the Fangtooth SE-1 well encountered approximately 200 feet of oil bearing sandstone reservoirs, adding to the Stabroek Block’s gross discovered recoverable resource estimate of more than 11 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The company said the recent discovery “has the potential to underpin a future oil development.”

The Ministry of Natural Resources said it has noted the information and is currently working with Exxon who is completing the analysis so as to make the information available.

Hess is a co-venturer with a 30 per cent stake in the Stabroek Block. Esso Exploration Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary, is the operator in the block, and has a 45 per cent stake. The other partner is China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

Hess has also reported significant earnings in the fourth quarter of 2022- a large sharing drawn from the production in Guyana.

Earlier this week, the company said it would increase spending on capital projects this year by US$1 billion, to US$3.7 billion, mostly for its Guyana’s and North Dakota’s Bakken shale field projects.

EEPGL plans to start production in the Payara Field in late 2023 or early 2024 to add 220 000 barrels per day.

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