Lil Durk Says He Is Not Giving Up On Getting Back India Royale

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Lil Durk is not giving up although he is having a hard time convincing India Royale of his feelings, and his former girlfriend and mother of his daughter appear to be tired of his continued advances as she says she’s single.

On Sunday, Lil Durk penned a lengthy post on Instagram Stories as he explained that he is the cause of the breakup, but he continues to love her. “It’s f***ed up on my end not hers I f***ed up she played a small part she really a good girl who live life. Ima good guy good husband cause I just over talked never to her pain back from when she was back pregnant willow in the belly aka fat ma,” the Chicago rapper said.

“So I ain’t perfect but I’m for you and I love you and I’m all ears whenever we get back in a relationship you saved my life with you and willow and big sky outside all my kids,” he added as he also shouted out his late brother D’Thang.

He added in another story, “real love not a paid situation I just love her to death she fed up but ima save us.”

India Royale did not acknowledge the messages and even went on to assert to probing fans that she was single. “If it ain’t money in the text don’t send it,” she said in one tweet and added in another, “I’m very much single. Been, been.”

Durk also appeared hurt by the response from India writing, “I hopped on Twitter to say I love you to now I’m back gone crazy a$$ lady.”

Another tweet read, “talking bout my daughter stop it I’m not no goofy I’m smurk don’t’ forget.”

India Royale and Lil Durk share a daughter, Willow. The couple appeared to break up sometime last year. Durk has been constantly expressing his love to India, but she has continued to be steadfast, that she’s single and uninterested in Durk’s advances.

Neither Lil Durk nor India Royale have revealed the primary reason for their breakup last year, but speculations surfaced that the OTF rapper gotten another woman pregnant. Royale has since dismissed those rumors as false, but remains tight lipped on the reason she broke off their engagement.

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Nipsey Hussle’s Baby Mother Still Grieving His Death: ‘I Would Have Took Those Bullets’

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The mother of Nipsey Hussle’s daughter, Emani Dior Asghedom, shared a heartfelt note to the late rapper and said she wished he was around. Tanisha Foster,

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French Montana and Rubi Rose Confirms Relationship After Dinner Date

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French Montana and Rubi Rose are now an item.

The pair were spotted on a dinner date in Beverly Hills and were not shy about showing some affection as they left Mr. Chow. Rubi Rose recently revealed she was single and even got into a public spat with her ex-boyfriend DDG. The rapper/model appears to be now moving on from that fiasco with Bad Boy rapper French Montana.

French Montana is notorious for dating women in rap, including Trina and Iggy Azalea, and bagging Rubi Rose is just his latest conquest. As a result, some fans are skeptical that the relationship will be long-term. The “Unforgettable” rapper and Rose were beaming with smiles as they left Mr. Chow, one of the most famous eateries in Beverly Hills. The Moroccan-American rapper then wrapped his arm around his date as they headed to an unknown location.

According to TMZ sources, the pair are one hundred percent dating, but it’s unclear when they started being an item. Judging from the video, they are now very comfortable with each other, which means they past the awkward phase for a long time.

Rubi Rose

Rubi Rose previously dated rappers Takeoff, DDG and Lil Tjay, who she had an embarrassing falling out with after he refused to book her a flight back home after she went to visit him in New York. On the other hand, French Montana was previously married to Deen Kharbouch, and the pair has a son named Kruz Kharbouch. The couple got divorced in 2014. The “No Stylist” rapper also previously dated Evelyn Lozada, Khloe Kardashian, Rosa Acosta, Alexis Skyy, Trina, Iggy Azalea, Sanaa Lathan, Amber Rose, and Draya Michele.

French Montana recently became the most streamed African-born artist in history after securing dozens of new Gold, Platinum, and Diamond certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA. His song with Swae Lee, “Unforgettable,” is now certified 11X platinum.

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Spice Announces Pregnancy With Baby Bump Photo

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Dancehall artist Spice is pregnant.

On Tuesday (March 14), the Queen of Dancehall confirmed speculations that she is pregnant with her third child. Spice dropped some hints over the weekend that she might be expecting, leaving fans to speculate. Today she decided to end the speculations and confirm what we all thought when she shared a photo of her growing baby bump, which appears to show she is at least eight months into her pregnancy.

Spice, whose real name is Grace Hamilton, didn’t share any further details about her pregnancy except to thank God for her bundle of joy. “God has been so good to me,” she wrote on her Instagram. The pic appears to be from her maternity shoot and shows her wearing a long flowering blue dress and blue hair. Blue is Spice’s favorite color, so no surprise her shoot is decked out in blue.

The Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star did not share who her baby daddy is. Spice dated video director Justin Budd for over two years before the pair called it quits in the summer of last year. She addressed the breakup in one of her Instagram Live sessions, where she hinted that Budd was too controlling.

Spice & Justin Budd @spiceofficial IG

“Me love, if yuh want man fi control yuh, mek you no go deh with him,” she said at the time. “Every minute oonu a talk bout ‘mi miss rasta’… mi wuk too hard fi deh which part me deh me don’t want no man stress, mi nuh no man hold me down, me nuh want no man tell me wha fi do, mi nuh want no man tell me say me can’t dance, me can’t do this, me can’t skin out, mi can’t bruk out, me can’t wear certain clothes, me can’t this, me can’t that.”

Since then, the former couple, who won over the hearts of dancehall fans, was never seen together again, and Justin Budd never addressed the breakup.

Spice was hospitalized in the Dominican Republican in November last year. After spending over a week in the hospital amid rumors she slipped into a coma, the “Romping Shop” singer confirmed that she had a ruptured hernia that she needed surgery for. She also dispelled rumors that she had a heart attack and was in the Dominican Republic to get a BBL done.

Spice baby bump

In January 2023, Spice announced that she would be performing live for the first time since her health scare at the upcoming Start Di Fun Music Festival in the Cayman Islands, set for March 24th. It’s unclear if she has since canceled that performance.

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Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa In Jamaica Planning Black Star Line Festival

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Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa are keeping true to their word as they both visit Jamaica months after declaring that they were looking into bringing their Black Star Line Festival to Jamaica in 2024.

On Monday, Mensa shared a photo of himself enjoying the beach at a property in Ocho Rios. “Headed to Kingston I heard that’s where the sauce is at,” he captioned the photos.

Black Star Line Fest also shared on its Instagram Story that Mensa and Chance were visiting in relation to the festival’s staging in Jamaica. “The boys have touched down in JA,” the festival page captioned a photo of Mensa relaxing at the beach while taking a phone call.

Both of the Americans also linked up with international superstar, Popcaan as they were spotted at a bar together, and Mensa also shared a video of them by the toll stop in St. Catherine. Last October, the artists revealed that following the successful execution of their inaugural Black Star Line Festival in Accra, Ghana, on January 6, 2023, they were considering bringing the show to Jamaica for 2024.

Chance The Rapper, Popcaan and Vic Mensa (from left) in Jamaica

“We’re actually thinking about hosting the next one in Kingston, Jamaica,” Chance said. “We’re still working it out in our heads. And we love the city of Accra and Ghana and West Africa as a whole. We just want to continue to, like, create a community in other spaces.”

The event held in Ghana was free and featured performers, including Erykah Badu, who headlined Jeremih, T-Pain, Sarkodie, Tobe Nwigwe, and others.

The festival is named after Jamaica’s civil rights hero, Marcus Garvey’s company of the same name, which made connections for Africans between Africa, America, and the Caribbean.

The modern-day festival aims to connect Black Americans to black diasporas abroad, but more so, the influx of foreigners will also stimulate economic activity in the places attendees go. The inaugural show saw 52,000 attendees, for the event hailed a massive success by the two Chicago rappers.

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Nicki Minaj Teases ‘Red Ruby Da Sleeze’ Video With Skeng

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Nicki Minaj gave fans a teaser of her upcoming music video for “Red Ruby Da Sleeze.”

Urban Islandz first reported that Nicki Minaj shot a music video in Trinidad with dancehall artist Skeng. However, the 6-second clip that the Trinidadian rapper shared on her Instagram Story shows her stunting in her pink Rolls-Royce with red interior. The clip also shows her kneeling on the hood of the luxury ride while Skeng stands next to her, smoking and drinking something from a red cup. This means that perhaps a portion of the video was shot at her home in Los Angeles.

Nicki was on the island for Carnival and also took time out to link up with Machel Montano, Patrice Robers, and Destra Garcia, who she worked with last year on the “Fine 9” single.

Nicki Minaj took Skeng under her wings after collaborating with him last year on “Little Miss (Remix)” and recently signed the dancehall artist to her newly launched record label. She also flew the young Jamaican dancehall star out to Los Angeles earlier this month when she made a surprise performance at Rolling Loud Music Festival during Lil Wayne’s set. Skeng also got a chance to meet Weezy for the first time, an artist he is a huge fan of.

In the meantime, “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” debuted this week at No. 1 on the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart, which means Nicki Minaj now equals Drake’s record of 13 songs at the top of that chart. The song also debuted at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart continuing Nicki’s impressive run on that chart.

Nicki recently revealed that she is plotting her next album, which will be released sometime this year, and will also embark on a major world tour this year. Since dropping the new song, the Queen of Rap has been getting a lot of praise from her fans and celebrities alike, including Ice Spice, who says the song is fire. Speaking of Ice Spice, Nicki recently called her “the people’s princess” of rap and followed her on Instagram.

Nicki Minaj is now in full music mode, but it’s unclear how much of her album she has already recorded.

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Young M.A Fans Express Concern After Newly Surface Video

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A new video of the rapper Young M.A has sparked concern among her fans as she appears sick. The “Successful” artist was spotted getting a lineup and fade

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Human remains returned to Statia 30 years after they were sent to the Netherlands

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The remains of nine indigenous people shipped to the Netherlands after an archaeological dig over 30 years ago have been repatriated to Statia.

The bone fragments, along with other artefacts, were unearthed during the 1984-89 excavation at the F.D Roosevelt Airport by archaeologist Aad Versteeg as part of a research project by the Archaeological Centre of the Leiden State University in the Netherlands and the Archaeological-Anthropological Institute of the Netherlands Antilles on Cura?ao. The project investigated several archaeological sites in the Windward islands of the Netherlands Antilles, particular in Saba and Statia, to gain an insight into the way of life and patterns of organisation of the indigenous inhabitants of the islands in the pre-Columbian period.

Almost all the excavated material, including artefacts that dated back to the fifth century, was shipped to the Netherlands. The research results were published in the 1992 publication “The Archaeology of Sint Eustatius. The Golden Rock.”

Now, after a near year-long process, which included discussions between the authorities in Statia and the Netherlands, the human remains are back on the island. The Statia Cultural Heritage Implementation Committee will consult residents on burial, said Nasha Radjouki, the programme manager for culture with the Statia Government.

“It’s imperative that we involve the Statian community as we consider how and where to rebury these human remains in a respectful way,” Radjouki emphasised. “The Statian community must know that there is more to their history than just what has been written, and be involved in the new narrative.”

The transfer agreement for the return of the remains was signed last month by Government Commissioner Alida Francis, in the presence of Island Commissioners Derrick Simmons and Glenville Schmidt, Radjouki, and members of the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research, a non-governmental organisation involved in the study of all aspects of the rich and diverse archaeological heritage of the island.

“The discovery more than 30 years ago, and the eventual return of the remains of the indigenous people, helps us to recognise that in addition to the enslaved Africans, we also had an indigenous community who had their own burial grounds,” said Francis. “Our story is much broader and richer than even we thought, and it’s up to us to tell this story.”

The return of human remains is the first phase of a wider repatriation project being undertaken by the Department of Culture. The rest of the artefacts – boxes of ceramic, lithia, coral, shell food remains and artefacts – will be returned in the third quarter of this year. Following this, the process will begin to have William and Mary College, a US public research university, to return a collection of Statian artefacts currently in its possession.

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Jamaican doctors and teachers accept wage offer

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Teachers have accepted the government’s latest wage offer ending industrial action that had led to protest action last week and a resumption of classes on Monday.

In addition, doctors have also voted to accept the offer made by the government.

Last week, Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr Nigel Clarke announced that J$4.3 billion had been allocated in the budget for this fiscal year to settle wage agreements with some of the major public sector groups, which ends on March 31.

Clarke said the Andrew Holness government has allocated J$10.2 billion for rank-and-file police officers, with an additional one billion for District Constables and J$600 million for members of the Police Officers Association, totalling J$11.8 billion.

The total amount allocated for junior doctors is J$6.4 billion.

“We want the doctors to receive the amounts in March 2023. We want to be in a position for these amounts to leave the Consolidated Fund in March 2023. These amounts alone total J$30 billion, and this size of payment cannot be accommodated in the upcoming fiscal year,” Clarke said.

The sum for teachers is approximately J$12 billion.

On Sunday, the teachers associated with the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) voted to accept the wage offer after they had initially rejected the wage offer under the government’s public sector compensation review programme.

President of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA), Dr Mindi Fitz-Henley, said 95 per cent of those present on Sunday voted during a special meeting of the JMDA elected to accept the offer.

“The JMDA met with its membership this evening, and the outcome of the vote is that 95 per cent of persons voted to accept the new compensation package from the Ministry of Finance,” Fitz-Henley said, adding that the wage offer will protect and allow future generations of doctors to properly be hired in posts.

“It is important to note that with this offer, we get all of our doctors currently employed in a contract into a post and we also protect the future generation of doctors to come by, ensuring that they also have to be hired into a post,” she added.

On Friday, March 10, Ministry of the Finance and the Public Service sent a new wage offer to members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, hours after the leadership of the groups representing the cops denied that they had rejected a proposed pay package from the Government.

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AMCHAM advocates for continuation of Duty-Free Imports from Jamaica

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The American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica (AMCHAM Jamaica), participated in federal hearings before the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) in Washington DC last Thursday, as the USITC begins their periodic review of the duty-free access of goods from Jamaica and the region to the United States.

AMCHAM Jamaica CEO, Jodi-Ann Quarrie, represented the Chamber at the hearings on March 9, 2023, where she gave oral testimony defending Jamaica’s use of the duty-free regime. She also answered questions about potential impediments for Jamaican businesses as the USITC reviews the economic impact of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) and related programmes, more commonly known in Jamaica as the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). These programmes allow for duty-free imports from designated countries including Jamaica.

After the hearings, Quarrie said, “We must ensure that a clear market for Jamaican goods in the United States continues to be maintained. We value this platform to express our perspectives and share valuable insights with the USITC regarding the economic impact of the programmes on Jamaica and the Caribbean region.”

Among the issues discussed were regulatory costs, the difficulty in securing inspections, the insecurity concerning the iterative process of U.S. trade law renewals, female participation in the labor force, and the impact of the Jamaican diaspora.

President of AMCHAM Jamaica, Ann-Dawn Young Sang, emphasized the importance of representing the Jamaican business community in these hearings. “The revenues from exports to the US constitute a large part of Jamaica’s foreign exchange earnings. It is therefore crucial that the members of the Chamber are able to be represented and that solutions are put forward for the improvement of the CBI program. Because of our close working relationship with the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC, AMCHAM Jamaica is sensitive to the need to continue this partnership between the United States and Jamaica to build strong economies, strengthen ties, and to contribute to the recovery of Jamaican businesses post-Covid.”

AMCHAM Jamaica was the only Jamaican representative at the hearings. Other participants included Zulfikar Ally, Minister Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Guyana, and Industry association representatives from Haiti, and Antigua and Barbuda among others.

The decision on the future of the CBI will take into consideration how Jamaica has utilized the programme, and the report on the findings of the USITC is expected to be completed in September 2023. AMCHAM Jamaica will continue to advocate for the continuation of the regime in the best interests of the Jamaican business community.

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