Met Gala 2025 Best (and a Worst) Of Both in Black & White Yes, it’s a very classic, stylish look. No, it is not the most original – as we can see by the fact that, first of all, there are myriad variations on this theme seen here, and second, that there are other looks we highlighted elsewhere that could, in theory, have By Duana • May 06, 2025 12:26 pm
Music Nicki's losing beef If you weren’t on social media over the weekend, you missed a lot of activity about the weekend’s most-talked about celebrity feud. It all started when Meg Thee Stallion released her new song, “Hiss”, last week, which Lainey mentioned here. But it’s safe to say that the By Stephanie • Jan 29, 2024 01:32 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for August 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Rihanna was trending last week because there was a report that she’d given birth to her second child, a girl. None of the major entertainment news outlets followed though, including TMZ. It was TMZ that had the exclusive last year when RiRi and A$AP Rocky’s By Lainey • Aug 14, 2023 09:07 am
Music Intro for June 26, 2023 Dear Gossips, The BET Awards were last night and Beyoncé and SZA were the big winners winning three awards each, including tying for Album of the Year. Both Beyoncé and SZA are on tour in Europe and did not attend the event. But Ice Spice was there and even though By Lainey • Jun 26, 2023 09:20 am
Music Intro for August 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, The MTV VMAs are happening this Sunday, August 28 with LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow as “emcees”. The reason that’s in quotations is because MTV is making a point of not calling them “hosts”: “This year’s ceremony will take a new and unique By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 09:31 am
Met Gala 2022 Cardi, Nicki, Meg: Rap Trinity Takes The Met Gala Female rappers have been some of the most influential figures in fashion long before Marc Jacobs, Donatella Versace and Giorgio Armani were clamouring to dress Lil Kim in the early 2000s. So it’s nice to see invitations to this year’s Met Gala were extended to Cardi B, Nicki By Cody • May 03, 2022 08:41 am
Douchebags Jesy Nelson, Blackfishing, And Why it Needs to Stop There has been lots of chatter around former Little Mix member, Jesy Nelson, after her first single as a solo artist came out on Friday. After the song and music video for “Boyz”, featuring Nicki Minaj, dropped, conversations around blackfishing, cultural appropriation, and fetishizing started, but these conversations are some By Anastasia • Oct 15, 2021 12:59 pm
Dumbass Intro for September 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, Met Gala hangover. For those of us who were covering the Met Gala and the VMAs before that and TIFF before that…yes. For the people who were actually at the Met Gala? Never. They partied again, last night. That includes Rihanna, who hosted her own Met Gala By Lainey • Sep 15, 2021 09:19 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Nicki & Rihanna Double Date Can we talk about the royal rendezvous that was Nicki Minaj and Rihanna hanging out? This reunion between two queens had both their names trending worldwide on Twitter the other day because many, like me, were escaping the pandemic and thinking back to 2010 when a flaming red-haired Rihanna was By Cody • Sep 08, 2021 10:23 am
Music Nicki & Drake: Hip-Hop’s Siblings Reunite Last night Nicki Minaj hopped on Instagram Live shortly before midnight to introduce the new music she’s been teasing all week. I was expecting the release of a new single, but she actually announced that she’d be making her critically acclaimed 2009 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, available By Cody • May 14, 2021 09:58 am
Music A New (Better) Nicki Minaj is Coming Imagine my delight Monday when Nicki Minaj signaled the end of what’s felt like the longest off-season of her career. It was just a couple pictures from a COVID-era, around the house photoshoot posted to Instagram. The caption read “FRIDAY”, which could have meant anything but we know means By Cody • May 12, 2021 10:40 am
Music The Weeknd: War on the Grammys Why do we keep seeing the music industry’s biggest honour sh-tting on the music industry’s biggest artists? We’re not just talking Grammy nomination snubs here. We’re talking about the Recording Academy allegedly mudslinging behind closed doors. This year it’s The Weeknd’s turn to take By Cody • Nov 25, 2020 10:12 am
Nicki Minaj The Return of Nas Maraj Everyone knows that gays do the most for Halloween. Every year, I religiously check Neil Patrick Harris’s Instagram to see what theme he and his husband have concocted for the family. (This year, it was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Halloween is called “Gay Christmas” for a reason, and By Prem • Nov 02, 2020 09:52 am
Music Is one of the most gossiped about rap feuds coming to a close? Yes, Cardi B accidentally posted a topless pic on her Instagram story yesterday, but there’s much more shocking news to discuss. Rumours are percolating that foes-turned-frenemies (turned back to foes), Nicki Minaj and Cardi B may once again be shifting their relationship dynamic to a friendlier zone — and burying By Cody • Oct 14, 2020 10:48 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Nick Minaj is pregnant This morning Nicki Minaj announced that she’s expecting, revealing her baby bump in a set of maternity photos posted to Instagram. With a curly yellow bob in one snap, a blue wig in another, and lots of tacky frills, the photoshoot is reminiscent of the Minaj we knew in By Cody • Jul 20, 2020 01:00 pm
Music Intro for May 13, 2020 Dear Gossips, History was made this week on the Billboard Hot 100. Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj’s “Say So” remix has topped the chart, the first #1 of their careers. And the first #1 of Nicki’s career. The #2 song on the Hot 100 is Megan Thee Stallion By Lainey • May 13, 2020 08:54 am