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Reality star Tommie Lee is apologizing to Chris Brown and the mother of his son Ammika Harris after she got into a drunken rage after she attempted to play with the child over the weekend.

Lee faced backlash due to her rude comments and insults about the artist’s son, whom she called “slow” and an “albino,” after Harris prevented her from touching or playing with the child seen backstage at a recent Chris Brown concert.

The reality star’s main page on Instagram was deleted after Chris Brown fans reported her account for bullying. It seems that Zeus Network also distanced itself from her after Natalie Nunn and Baddies star Rollie called her out for the rude behavior.

While at a press conference promoting an upcoming fight on the Zeus network between herself and Nunn, Tommie Lee apologized to Brown and his family and explained the situation as just “friendly sport.”

“I want to start off by addressing the elephant in the room. I want to start off by saying I love the children,” she said. “Last night in defense mode…I want to apologize to Chris Brown and his baby mother because it’s not my character. It started off as the, you know, friendly sport of it. It got real, it happened. We all human and I’m just here to knock this ***** out at this point.”

On Tuesday night, Tommie Lee went off on Instagram Live after she was called out for blowing up on Harris, who reportedly stopped Tommie from touching and playing with her child. The reality star accused her of closing a door in her face, although many fans felt that Tommie was out of line for trying to touch someone’s child uninvited.

To make matters worse, she did not apologize or accept accountability and instead went on to bash Chris, Harris, and even the innocent child.

“I don’t care about your baby. F*ck your baby,” she continued. “And f*ck his daddy, too. The f*ck? Really. Like, girl. I ain’t pressed ’bout no motherf*ckin baby. F*ck him. All y’all look albino as f*ck,” she ranted.

Chris Brown has not reacted to the incident since.

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Nicki Minaj couldn’t go to Trinidad carnival without performing her new track with Machel Montano and Destra Garcia.

Nicki Minaj has been enjoying her birth country as she participated in this year’s carnival activities, with a big part of her island visit including meeting and greeting her fans. The artist has been very active on social media in recent days as she partied with her fans and danced in the streets to soca music.

The artist shared a video of her performing the verse for her song “Shake The Place” with Machel Montano and Destra Garcia, where fans stood mere inches away from her. Minaj became animated as she sang the verse for fans.

She also wore a beautifully rich purple costume embellished with beads and stones from the band Tribe and a large feather backpack created by local designer Natalia Carimbocas on Tuesday, which was the day for the Carnival road march as thousands of people gathered in their skimpy featured or beaded outfits and hit the streets dancing and celebrating.

Minaj shared videos of herself on the celebrity truck entertaining fans for the second day in a row. Fans screamed and swooned at the artist while on the truck.‘come out,” Minaj points to the crowd, and fans begin to scream in approval.

Nicki Minaj later came down to the deejay booth, where she and Machel gave a live performance for their fans. Fans can be seen dancing and rocking to the track.

Minaj also shared an article from the local newspaper, The Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, which covered a story on her visit to the island. The newspaper wrote that Minaj’s visit brings major exposure to the island given that Minaj has many millions of fans on social media and otherwise. Her presence is also expected to boost the country’s Carnival event.

Nicki Minaj’s followers also reacted to her latest post, with some expressing desire to travel to the island.

“Omg, I wanna go now,” Cuban Savage wrote.

“Where is the lime for later queen? Haha,” another fan asked.

“My dream is to go to Carnival one day I know u had hella fun,” another person said.

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American singer/songwriter Mya is tapping into dancehall culture again with a new collaboration with none other than Bounty Killer.

Mya previously collaborated with Ding Dong on “Hands Free” on the Sexting Riddim released in 2019, “Take Him Out” with Spice in 2013, and “Girls Dem Sugar” with Beenie Man. Now, she says she has an unreleased song with Bounty Killer.

“You can dance to it,” Mya says as she declines to give more details when pressed by local host Dutty Berry. “It’s a cultural dance that’s all I can tell you,” she laughed.

Mya said that she has been working and she completed two albums during the pandemic, and she is excited to be sharing her music with fans. The R&B legend was speaking at the recent post-Valentine’s Day concert “Lovers and Friends” event held on February 18 at Priory, St. Ann. The artist joined headliners Rotimi, R&B giant Bobby Valentino, and local acts Christopher Martin, Sizzla, Alaine, J Written, and British Geeza.

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Mya also spoke about her love for dancing and also shared that her song with Bounty Killer will be a different vibe.

Mya also reacted to fellow artist and former “Lady Marmalade” collaborator Pink shading the other artists that were on the set for the song. In a recent interview, Pink said “Lady Marmalade” was 12th on her favorite songs because “it wasn’t very fun to make. I’m all about fun, and it was like a lot of fuss and there were a lot of personalities. Kim and Mya were nice.”

Mya, however, brushed off the question noting that she was not always aware of what took place backstage on sets with fellow artists as she was about her business and left as she was done.

In the meantime, Mya’s performance at the Lovers & Friends concert received rave reviews from happy fans who were treated to original choreography as well as a live performance from the artist.

The artist also shared her love for Jamaica, noting that she visits the island yearly and could “feel the love.”

“It’s a place where you can see love in creation. You can taste love,” she said.

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United Kingdom’s Privy Council has rejected Vybz Kartel’s application to introduce fresh evidence into his appeal even as his substantive appeal remains before the court.

On Tuesday, reports first surfaced that the artist’s appeal was denied, but it was later clarified that it was, in fact, Kartel’s application to introduce ‘fresh evidence’ in the appeal that was denied.

The ruling on Tuesday revealed that Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, had made a subsequent application to the Privy Council on November 12, 2021, where he applied to the court to have fresh evidence in the form of phone evidence garnered by international cyber experts entered to support his substantive appeal.

The substantive appeal was filed on November 20, 2020, where Kartel argued several grounds of facts and law that the evidence against him had been tampered with and that he did not receive a fair trial.

A ruling on the substantive appeal is still pending, contrary to earlier reports that the appeal was denied in its entirety.

A notice of the ruling was released on Tuesday (February 21) said, “Having considered an application for permission to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica on April 3 2020 in the matter between [the Appellants] and The King [Respondent] and having considered written submissions from the Appellants and the Respondent we have agreed to report to Your Majesty as our opinion that 1) permission to appeal be refused (in the application dated November 20 2020).”

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The ruling added that the additional grounds of appeal advanced by Vybz Kartel also “be refused and also refused on the application for an extension of time and application to rely on fresh evidence.”

The ruling noted that the additional grounds application filed in 2021 “do not support the submission that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case.”

In the meantime, Jamaica’s Director of Public Prosecution, Paula Llewellyn, shared that Kartel was appealing on “fresh evidence” grounds after hiring cyber experts to examine the cell phones that his team claims were tampered with. The examination was done in the presence of the DPP, which holds state evidence until a trial is over.

The artist is accused of being the mastermind behind a murder plot to kill his associate, promoter Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams.

Vybz Kartel and his co-defendants were found guilty on March 13, 2014, and he was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison while the others faced similar sentences. An appeal court judge reduced his sentence to 32 years and 6 months in 2020 after hearing arguments about evidence tampering in the trial. However, the murder conviction still stands. Kartel’s co-defendants are Shawn ‘Storm’ Campbell, Kahira Jones, and Andre St John.

Williams’ body has never been found, but the highly publicized case involved circumstantial evidence that police used to show that Kartel had the motive to kill Williams after two illegal weapons in his possession reportedly went missing. The police also tendered evidence from Kartel’s blackberry phones showing him speaking in codes ordering the death of Williams.

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Rapper Cam’ron shared with the hip-hop community that his mother, Fredericka Giles, passed away.

Giles was 67 at the time but appeared to have been hospitalized due to illness. Cam’ron hinted in a lengthy post honoring his mother and expressing shock at her untimely passing. On Saturday (February 18), the rapper shared that he was speechless with grief at losing his mother, who fought for good health since 2007 when she experienced a stroke at an early age.

“In 2007 my mom had a stroke leaving her partially paralyzed on her left side and a speech impediment, but if you followed her or was her friend on social media you would never know any of that,” Cam’ron wrote. “She was witty, funny, intelligent, sarcastic and outspoken,” the rapper said in the lengthy post.

“People would say ‘cam I know you’re writing ya moms captions’ and I wasn’t. I would see my moms captions and say ‘where are you learning this?’ (Lingo) she’s [sic] tell me “be easy lil homie’ lol. So I’m so sad to inform you guys of her passing,” he reminisced.

Cam’ron shared that his mother’s nickname was Virgie, and she was well-known, where she had a community of people that supported her. The rapper said he had not wanted to speak on her death but wanted to inform her community.

“I wasn’t going to share this because I’m in a lot of pain and Didn’t think it was anyones business,” the Dipset rapper. “But thinking about it, I really wanted to thank you all for making my moms days and nights for the last decade or so. Social media was her go-to for, entertainment, news, general gossip etc. She would send me anything she thought I should know, about me or not, good or bad.”

“She also had friends on here she fight me about,” Cam added about his mom’s presence on social media. “If I had a show anywhere (Boston, cali, texas etc) and she’d say ‘yo my friend is gonna be at the show get him/her in!’ And I’d say ‘mom you don’t know these people’ she’d say ‘yes I do that’s my friend’ (me) ‘you never even met them’ (her) ‘I SAID GET THEM IN!!!’ Lol and I would.”

The Dipset rapper’s mother is also well-known to fans after making a guest appearance on the song “Me, My Moms & Jimmy” on her son’s album, ‘Confessions Of Fire’ released in 1998.

Cam’ron shared that his mother was hospitalized the past week as he recollected their conversations about her missing his birthday post and them spending her last moments together.

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