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Safaree says he is not in a relationship with Kimbella Matos, the woman who had a blow-up with his ex-wife Erica Mena shortly after the couple announced their divorce.

Kimbella Matos was spotted out with Safaree for his birthday last year while his wife gave birth to their son Legend. They were later linked together as dating after Erica Mena confirmed that the Instagram model was seeing Safaree.

Erica was not particularly pleased and had even had words with Kimbella over her decision to be with Safaree. On Thursday, Kimbella appeared on a clip of an upcoming episode of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta where she and Safaree talked about his relationship with Erica, and Safaree also clarified that she is just his lady friend.

“You get your own bag, I like that. I like a woman who hustles and have ambition because all I do is work,” Safaree tells Kimbella as they are seen walking and holding hands and later kissing in public.

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“You just make me very happy. I respect you and I respect your situation all the way. I would never come interfere and I feel like I don’t want no issues with anything because I really have nothing to do with that,” Kimbella says without mentioning Safaree’s issues with the mother of his two children.

Safaree, however, reassures Kimbella that his decision to agree to Erica’s divorce had nothing to do with the 26-year-old.

“You’re not the reason I got a divorce ok,” he says while she added, “and that’s what a lot of people think. People think and got this narrative of me that I caused your relationship to end.”

In a cutaway scene, a producer asks Safaree an important question about his relationship with Matos, “Erica knows about this girl…how do you think Erica will react when she sees you with Kimbella?” a producer asks Safaree.

“She’s not my girlfriend,” Safaree says as he adds, “honestly this is just a stage of me and Kimbella getting to know each other. As far as how my ex would feel, that’s really not my problem.”

In the comments under the post, many people called Safaree out for claiming that Kimbella is not his girlfriend despite their homemade porn videos leaking on the internet.

“This was filmed 7 months ago stop tagging me,” Safaree urged.

Some comments also flamed Safaree for his comments and response.

“You brought her on the show and was gassing her up Jean vest! That’s so bad,” one person said.

“7 months so wasn’t you married still?” another asked.

“Why bring her on the show then,” another asked.

It’s unclear if Safaree and Kimbella are still together or finally together.

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Wizkid preps his new album while dropping off some new music.

The Afrobeats singer on Thursday previewed a new track from his upcoming album “Money & Love” and also announced the release date for his upcoming album More Love, Less Ego. This album is Wizkid‘s fifth studio album, and while it is not yet available in the United States, the artist shared a screenshot of the track list of the project already released in Doha, Qatar.

The artist also shared the music video for “Money & Love,” which has 90s vibes to it, including women fully clothed reading magazines at a bus stop while the artist sips from a fancy tea cup.

Wizkid’s career has been steadily growing over the years as he put in work with Drake, Justin Bieber, and Beyoncé and even had one of the biggest Afrobeats tracks, putting the genre on the map and helping to secure its own Grammy category.

With tracks like “Essence,” featuring Tems, and his recent collaboration with Chris Brown, “Call Me Everyday,” the artist has helped to pave the way for Afrobeats fusion in the United States mainstream market.

Wizkid More Love Less Ego

In August, Wizkid earned a new milestone and a career first as the only artist from the continent of Africa to earn a Recording Industry of America Association (RIAA) Gold certification for his album Made in Lagos.

Along with his album sales commendation, he is also a four (4) time Grammy nominated artist, and he also won his first Grammy award for “Brown Skin Girl” after working on Beyonce’s ‘Black is King’ album.

Wizkid also holds two other RIAA Gold certifications, one for the Grammy-nominated single “Come Closer,” featuring Canadian rapper Drake and another for Beyonce’s “Brown Skin Girl.” While speaking about his achievements, the artist spoke about Afrobeats going global.

“I don’t see it like that,” he said. “I don’t think I’m the first through it. I don’t know what I did, but it just kicked the door open. I feel like everyone’s about to come through right now. There’s about to be loads of records from Africa,” he said in August.

Last month, the Grammys revealed that it was visiting countries in Africa to canvas support for a possible Grammy category for Afrobeats. The genre has also received its own separate playlists on streaming platforms and charts as it grows internationally.

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Kanye West is looking to expand his school Donda Academy to Houston, Texas, and he wants 50 Cent to help him.

Just a day after it was announced that Donda Academy had abruptly closed the school for the remainder of the academic year, which runs till May/June, and sent parents scattering to retrieve their $15,000 a year tuition, the rapper switched gears and announced that the school will be opened on Thursday and asked parents and children to show up for devotion.

“Dear Donda Academy Families- we hope this email finds you well. First, we would like to express our gratitude for the community of families and scholars that Donda Academy brought together. However, at the direction of our Founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately. Thursday, October 27th. THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW,” a letter purportedly from the school read.

“Our leadership team will be working diligently to assist all families during this transition, ensuring that every scholar has what they need to succeed in their next community in a prompt and gracious manner.”

As companies and even personalities announced that they cut ties with Kanye West following his antisemitic remarks, 50 Cent also appeared to joy troll the “Gold Digger” rapper as he poked fun at himself with a fake news headline.

“Curtis Jackson has reportedly cut ties with 50 Cent,” Fif wrote in a post on Instagram, which had a picture of him in a suit representing Curtis Jackson and a photo of him smoking weed and counting money in a sweat suit to represent 50 Cent the rapper.

He added, “I’m getting rid of anybody who can get me fvcked up like kanye right now ! LOL.”

Kanye later reposted a screenshot of 50 Cent’s post writing,

“We got Donda school designs we need to build with 50 in Houston,” he wrote.

While fans are of the opinion that 50 is trolling Kanye, the idea of his Donda Academy and G-Unity foundation that’s been paying for business programs for students of Houston High School coming together is impressive.

Still, 50 Cent might not be interested, as the rapper recently said in an interview that Kanye’s outbursts indicated that he was in a dangerous place.

“He’s in a dangerous area,” 50 said in an interview as he spoke about Kanye’s ‘’slavery was a choice” comments and his MAGA hat saga.

50 Cent also said he is strongly considering building a school in Houston because its something that he has never done before and Ye idea intrigue him. “You know the vibes i’m on the move. I never built a school, I might really build one in Houston,” Fifty said.

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News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Thurs. Oct. 27, 2022: Call it destiny. A Caribbean American diva and a Caribbean born diva collaborating on one show.

Fresh on her Emmy win and being honored with an OJ from her mother’s homeland of Jamaica, Caribbean American actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, 64, will debut in the “Savage X Fenty Vol. 4″ fashion show by Caribbean born super star Rihanna.

Ralph will be a swim wear model in the fashion show, which will stream live on Prime Video on Nov. 9th.

Prime Video described the event as “a seductive fashion fever dream,” adding it will “raise the bar yet again with a new all-star lineup of models, actors, some of the biggest names in music, and more.”

Alsowalking in the fashion show will be Caribbean born “Black Panther” actor Winston Duke; “Empire” alum Taraji P. Henson, “Shang-Chi” star Simu Liu, “black-ish” actor Marsai Martin, “Snowfall” actor Damson Idris, model-actor Cara Delevingne, drag queen Kornbread, singer Ángela Aguilar, actor and dancer Taylour Paige and comedians Lilly Singh and Rickey Thompson.

Other models include TikTok stars Avani Gregg and Bella Poarch, as well as supermodels Irina Shayk, Joan Smalls, Lara Stone, Precious Lee and Zach Miko, among others, Prime Video said in a Tuesday statement.

Musicians Anitta, Burna Boy, Don Toliver and Maxwell are also set to perform at the event, for which Rihanna served as an executive producer and creative director.

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DaBaby says that since his Rolling Loud controversy in July, he lost more than 100 million dollars.

The rapper’s career has been on a downward spiral since July 2021 after he made disparaging and insensitive comments about the LGBTQ community and people living with HIV/AIDS. Since then, he was dropped by several festivals, and not only has his bookings dried up, but there has been a lull in his career with him being unable to pull much of a crowd while he has also seen some of the lowest sales of his career. The rapper has insisted that he is being blackballed by streaming platforms.

The Rolling Loud appearance resulted in several major controversies, which DaBaby proudly insists are “three viral moments.” In particular, the rapper brought out collaborator Tory Lanez right after Megan Thee Stallion’s set, which was problematic in itself as Lanez was on bond and had strict conditions to abide by, which included keeping his distance from Megan as his felony assault case goes on.

The appearance led to Lanez’s bond being revoked for violating the terms of his release, and he was arrested and placed in jail before he was granted a second bond at a much higher amount.

Since then, DaBaby’s career has taken a nosedive, but the rapper insists that he can’t be canceled. While speaking with Ebro Darden on Tuesday, he explained that he had lost a lot of money over the last year.

“F**k no, I’m not into the conspiracy theory this and that until you see it cost a n***ga a 100 million dollars within a year’s span, then you see this real, this ain’t no conspiracy s**t, this s**t real,” DaBaby said.

Tory Lanez and Dababy

DaBaby, who recently released a song claiming that he slept with Megan Thee Stallion, was called out for bringing Tory Lanez out on stage, especially since he and Megan previously collaborated on music, but their relationship appeared to have soured. The rapper, however, said he didn’t care about fans thinking that he was antagonizing the Houston rapper by bringing Lanez on stage.

“Nah, I could care less, if I wanted, the song I just put out, the second a n****ga played he tough on the internet, I could have busted a n****a bubble…stand on your business without involving me, don’t make me say why you feel some type of way about this song coming out..me and bruh been did this song before whatever alleged altercation they had,” DaBaby said.

The “Sneaky Link Anthem” rapper says that he didn’t care about Megan’s situation as it had nothing to do with him.

“This n***ga paid me for the verse, paid me for the video, crazy, what am I gonna do? Because of an alleged situation he got going on that don’t got nothing to do with me, I’m not supposed to not give this man what he paid for? Not post this sh*t, it’s not that deep,” DaBaby insisted.

DaBaby also appeared to shade Megan Thee Stallion over their collaboration “Nasty” featuring Ashanti, where he hinted that the “WAP” rapper used him to get on Billboard charts.

“They already got what they needed me for, they came to me to get on Billboard, to get a position on Billboard, they already got that..you paid for that, you got that, that is what it is, no hard feelings.”

Despite his career appearing to slow down, the rapper also insisted in a part of the interview that he is still an “international rockstar.”

“I’m real n***ga rock star. Like I said out my mouth. These people looking at me, when I say these people I mean everybody, like the world, they look at me household name like superstar, like international superstar, I still am an international superstar.”

DaBaby also addressed the recent track “Boogeyman,” where he claimed he slept with Megan but did not say whether his claims were true or not.

“It is what it is. I said a long time ago, keep me out the business. It’s a song. It’s out right now. N***gas can take it how they want to take it.” He said adding that backlash won’t make him change the lyrics.

Elsewhere in the interview, the rapper also appeared to blame the mother of his child, fellow rapper DaniLeigh for not talking to her brother, who later fought with DaBaby and his security detail. The beatdown was caught on tape, but the rapper has not taken any responsibility for his role in the fight, which left Dani’s brother Brandon badly beaten.

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