"Once upon a time, a prince asked a beautiful princess "Will you marry me?" The princess said no, and the prince lived happily ever after." - Diddy, "Happily Ever After (Interlude)"
"If you thought the numbers I put up in 2021 was big, wait until 2022… If you thought the number was big last year…” - Nick Cannon on the "Lip Service" podcast, when asked if he had any more children on the way
“I want to tell them I love them. I’m proud of them. Continue to be who you are. Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. I knew what I wanted to do when I was young, so no-one needs to tell you.” - Dwyane Wade on the TIME100 Summit 2022 red carpet
Everything's not "alright, alright, alright." Actor Matthew McConaughey visited the White House press briefing to discuss the Robb Elementary School killings, which took place in his hometown of Uvalde, TX. The actor delivered a thoughtful 21-minute speech about the need for gun reform, and he shared the stories of those families whose children's lives were violently cut short that day.
Lil Nas X believes he received no BET Awards nods this year because of his sexuality. The "Montero" singer even dropped a new song dissing the network called "Late To The Party." And now, he's getting support from one of hip-hop's royalty: Queen Latifah.
"Tommy’s in my ear like, ‘Yo, I wanna buy the company,’ I’m like, ‘Yo I got a concussion man it’s loud. Let’s talk later.’ But they did make the offer." - Dame Dash explaining what happened at Fashion Paris Week right before Tommy Hilfiger offered to buy Rocawear.
"We just riffed … and we tag on each other’s lines. It was like Jay Z and Kanye [West] when they were on tour together. I just love Dave, and I look at it like [Jean-Michel] Basquiat and [Andy] Warhol and we’re just collaborating.” - Chris Rock during a September 2020 interview on The Howard Stern Show, talking about Chappelle's popups on Rock's 2017 Total Blackout Tour
The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards returned to the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and HBO's "Euphoria" had a great night with four big wins. But Jennifer Lopez was honored with The Generation Award. And Jenny From The Block gave thanks to the people who gave her joy as well as the ones who broke her heart.
The Rock loves buying houses for his mom Ata Johnson. The family moved around a lot when he was younger, and it got worse when his parents divorced. But this home might be the final one. "'After a lifetime of traveling, I want this home to be my last," Ata Johnson told her son. "Thats my dream.'”
Only 4% of video game developers identify as Black.
According to the New York Times, an official statement issued from a Blazers spokeswoman reads as follows: “An offer was made by Phil Knight. The team remains not for sale.”
“To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written." ― Ricardo Piglia, "Respiración artificial" #FreeBrittneyGriner