TV Updates Will Meghan McCain leave The View? Since beginning her controversial tenure at the The View two years ago, Meghan McCain has consistently made headlines. Often conflating her identity to being a Republican with a current libertarian politic and personal enemy to Donald Trump, roundtable discussions and interviews have more and more become about Meghan herself as By Melayna • Jul 05, 2019 12:48 pm
Equality Issues Janelle Monáe: Pride in Paper Janelle Monáe just did an interview and gorgeous photo spread for Paper Magazine. Like everything she touches, it is amazing. The interview begins on a somber note, with Monáe talking about attending her first Pride celebration in New Orleans, falling on the same day 27-year-old trans woman Lavleen Polanco was By Melayna • Jun 26, 2019 01:08 pm
Music Everyone loves Lizzo Last night, Lizzo performed fan favourite “Truth Hurts” at the BET awards, in an incredible wedding dress atop a wedding cake with her dancers. As usual, Lizzo was totally herself: powerful, electrifying, and fierce. As Lainey mentioned earlier, Rihanna loved it too. And Lizzo documented the magic moment when she By Melayna • Jun 24, 2019 03:35 pm
Music BET honours Nipsey Hussle Last night at the BET Awards, some of the most meaningful moments were the ones honouring Nipsey Hussle, who was tragically gunned down in front of his store, The Marathon Clothing, at Crenshaw and Slauson, on March 31st, 2019. The area in Los Angeles, known to Crips as the Rollin By Melayna • Jun 24, 2019 12:25 pm
Music Nicki Minaj: the “Megatron” era Nicki Minaj exploded onto our Twitter timelines and Apple Music on Friday, releasing her new single and video for “Megatron”. Then, we were gifted a new episode of Queen Radio, Nicki’s personal platform, lovefest, beef-cancelling, cocksucker- of-the-day granting, and humour show on Beats 1 Radio. A lot of people By Melayna • Jun 24, 2019 09:52 am
Music Does Tory Lanez mean it? Tory Lanez emerged from his troll/rapper cave last week to expose what seemed like colourism against dark skin models at his video shoot for “Good Love”, a Nafe Smallz song he is featured on. I actually think Lanez is talented, and makes great music, but it often gets overshadowed By Melayna • Jun 20, 2019 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse and Taylour in Florence It’s super refreshing to see Jesse Williams in the news for a baewatch and not leaked details of his messy divorce and custody battle. A few months ago, we learned that he was dating bombshell actress Taylour Paige and he seems happy. Which, contrary to the internet’s opinion, By Melayna • Jun 20, 2019 10:52 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Cassie & Alex’s pregnancy announcement Cassie is pregnant with her first child! She made the announcement early this morning, captioning the adorable picture of her and her boyfriend, Alex (most fitting last name ever) Fine as follows: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Casandra (@cassie) on Jun 12, 2019 at 9:31pm By Melayna • Jun 13, 2019 03:47 pm
Douchebags Drake is not immune Drake and Chris Brown’s new single “No Guidance” has hit #1 on Apple Music, with Chris celebrating the win on Instagram and Drake chiming in in the comments: “Jeeeeeeez....wait till the video drops - also are we the first mortal enemy duo to go number one on Apple By Melayna • Jun 12, 2019 09:39 am
TV Updates Lena Waithe's The Chi drama In the past few weeks, we have seen some serious drama unfold publicly from the set of the Lena Waithe Showtime drama ,The Chi. Suddenly one of the stars, Jason Mitchell was thrust into the spotlight in a negative way, getting dropped from not only The Chi but also the By Melayna • Jun 10, 2019 01:26 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Twitter comes for Future over Rolex Last week, baby Future celebrated his 5th birthday and was gifted a Rolex from his father, Atlanta rapper Future. Due to baby Future having three high profile parents (Ciara, Future, and stepfather NFL superstar Russell Wilson), imaginary parents, caregivers, and childhood psychology Twitter went in on Future. All of us By Melayna • May 29, 2019 11:09 am
Douchebags Miley raps about Nicki Nicki Minaj is in the news. Usually this makes me happy but Miley Cyrus has decided to speak on her to roll out three singles. On one called "Cattitude," Miley raps “I love you Nicki, but I listen to Cardi.” As fans, we can joke about the Nicki By Melayna • May 28, 2019 03:45 pm
TV Updates Good Girls: there’s more to life than Game of Thrones SPOILERS Watching the season finale of NBC’s breakout dark comedy Good Girls was certainly an experience. The show has been so good, I was expecting to just love it and wait for season 3. But as the writers told us before the season began, season 2 was deeper, darker, By Melayna • May 27, 2019 03:21 pm
BFFs Omari Hardwick talks about Beyoncé When Omari Hardwick kissed Beyoncé twice on the cheek at this year’s NAACP Image Awards, the Beyhive lost its goddamn mind. The online backlash ran the gamut anywhere from Beyoncé looked uncomfortable and the interaction lacked consent (which I kind of believed) to Hardwick is ready to risk it By Melayna • May 21, 2019 04:32 pm
Ex Games Blac Chyna tells Wendy Williams Blac Chyna sat down for her first talk show interview with Wendy Williams this week. It seems weird that it’s her first because we know so much about her but it’s usually news/gossip written about her and Chyna is reclaiming her narrative. This reminds me of when By Melayna • May 17, 2019 02:25 pm
Break Ups Are Jhené and Big Sean back together? Last week, Jhené Aiko, vice president of my emotions (SZA, H.E.R and Lizzo are co-prez right now) released a freestyle called “Triggered”, a beautiful song that is clearly about her long-time love and current ex, rapper Big Sean. As usual, Twitter took notice: Jhené has been dropping hints By Melayna • May 16, 2019 03:45 pm
