Author: Gesi Lloyd

Chris Brown told the world this week that he is done being nice. In a string of Instagram Stories on Tuesday, the 37-year-old singer said he hates the music industry, does not like most celebrities, does not want anyone’s approval and is ready to be the villain. He also called himself the king and claimed no artist alive can touch him, even on his worst day. The timing makes the rant more revealing. Two days later, a Los Angeles judge signaled he would cut the $12.9 million a jury awarded to a housekeeper mauled by Brown’s dog, lowering it to…

Rihanna’s beauty business took home wins across makeup, skin care and hair care at Allure’s 2026 Best of Beauty Awards, with Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin and Fenty Hair each landing a top honor in their category. The sweep lands during a milestone year for the awards themselves, marking the 30th anniversary of Allure’s annual list, which recognized 319 products across the industry this cycle. What products actually won Fenty Beauty’s Shake ‘N Play Buildable Liquid Blush took Best Liquid Blush, praised for its natural, skin like finish and a tightly curated five shade range that held up through a full…

Rain and wind are shaping several NFL Week 2 matchup Today, and the biggest threat to fantasy lineups isn’t the game getting the most hype. It’s tucked into the early afternoon slate, and the numbers behind it are worse than anything else on the board. Wind speeds above 15 mph start disrupting passing offenses and field goal accuracy, and multiple Today matchups are approaching or clearing that line. Which games look safe to trust with your studs Buccaneers against Browns sits at the calm end of the spectrum, with temperatures climbing into the upper 80s, only a 20% chance of…

President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that the United States will form an AI Force led by a yet to be named artificial intelligence czar, a declaration made entirely through a Truth Social post with no funding, no organizational chart and no timeline attached. The Trump announcement arrived less than 48 hours after a top White House science official told the United Nations Security Council that Washington rejects any international body’s attempt to govern AI on a global scale, positioning the United States as the loudest voice in AI policy while offering the least defined domestic structure of any major…

Jay-Z sat down with producer Rick Rubin for eight episodes to unpack more than two dozen of his own songs, and the result is one of the most personal documents of his career. The series, Jay-Z in 8 began airing on HBO and HBO Max on September 18, with two new episodes dropping every Friday through October 9. It arrives during a year Jay-Z has spent celebrating three decades in music, and it answers a question longtime fans have quietly asked for years. What was actually going on in his head when he wrote some of his most quoted verses.…

Jauhara Jeffries settled her sexual assault lawsuit against Trey Songz roughly a year ago, but she still has not touched most of that money, and a Miami Dade judge just told her she has to wait a little longer. The delay is not about the underlying case against Songz at all. It comes down to a legal claim called a lien that is sitting between Jeffries and her own settlement funds, and it says a lot about a part of the legal process most people never hear about. What did Jeffries ask the court for? Jeffries wants the court to…

Medicaid programs in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico have now signed on to President Donald Trump’s most favored nation drug pricing model, according to a Friday announcement from the Oval Office. The move expands a plan first floated a year ago, and it answers a question a lot of families on Medicaid have been asking for months. Does this actually lower the price of the medication they depend on. The honest answer right now is partly, and the details are still thin. What is the GENEROUS model and how does it work? The program, officially called GENEROUS,…

A trespasser was stopped on the property Friday night, September 11, while Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were away. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, deputies from the Malibu Lost Hills station responded to a suspicious person call around 10:30 p.m. By the time deputies arrived, the woman had already been located by private security and was standing outside the property. Deputies warned her to leave, and she did so voluntarily without further incident. No arrest was made. Do the earlier conflicting accounts of this incident now make sense together? Yes, this update resolves that discrepancy. Harris’s…

Colorado beat Weber State 52-21 in its home opener at Folsom Field on September 12, improving to 2-0 for the first time since Sanders’s first season leading the program in 2023, yet Sanders opened his postgame press conference visibly agitated, saying he needed to calm himself down before taking questions. His frustration centered on penalties and what he saw as a lack of complete dominance against an opponent from the lower resourced Football Championship Subdivision, rather than on the final score itself. How dominant was Colorado actually on offense? Extremely, at least for stretches. The Buffaloes opened the game with…

The former NFL wide receiver made a graphic, sexually explicit threat against comedian and content creator Druski during a street interview with We Outside by Sidetalk, after being asked whether he believed Druski’s viral CTE sketch was mocking him specifically. Brown said he considered it possible the skit targeted him, then vowed retaliation, describing it using explicit language before adding that the group would come after Druski physically. When asked what he would actually do if he ran into Druski in person, Brown scaled the threat back somewhat, saying he and others would give the comedian a wedgie as payback…