Azealia Banks‘ Twitter has been quite eventful lately. Between interviews, spats with Iggy Azalea (that prompted responses from T.I. Q-Tip, Solange and Lupe Fiasco) and word exchanges with Action Bronson, the Harlem rapstress has been putting her 140 characters to controversial use. But one of her opponents has apparently attempted to make amends. Bronson, who went tweet-for-tweet with Banks after getting caught up in her clash with Iggy, reached out to a mutual friend to deliver an apology.
A gunman who opened fire in a Houston shopping center Monday (Sept. 26) has been shot dead by police after injuring nine people, the New York Daily News reports.
A call around 6:30 a.m. was sent to more than 15 EMS crews in the area after they received reports of gunshots near a Petco in southwest Houston near Rice University. Six of the injured people were sent to a nearby hospital–one was listed in critical condition–while one is in serious condition and one is in fair condition.
Adam Blackstone has been added to the creative team behind the pending Broadway revival of The Wiz. Deadline exclusively reported the award-winning music director has signed on as the production’s dance music arranger with his associate Terence Vaughn. The role also reunites Blackstone with frequent collaborator and the stage-show’s chreographer JaQuel Knight. The announcement was made by producers Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson, Brian Anthony Moreland, Ambassador Theatre Group, Kandi Burruss, and Todd Tucker.
Cam’ron is considering suing Melyssa Ford over her “insinuation.” Cam returned to Instagram Live on Thursday (Dec. 7) with more vitriol for Ford. He addressed the former video vixen for suggesting he and Ma$e may have slept with underage girls. “First of all, we only like older [women]; second of all, it was 1992, and we were underage. That’s A and B. We wasn’t supposed to be in there. We wasn’t 18, I had just turned 16.
R&B singer Chanté Moore and former BET executive Stephen Hill officially wed on Saturday (Oct. 22). “We are married and we were surrounded (literally) by love, friends and family while it happened. More later. Not now. Still being about it. #LoveWins #Stēphante #LeaningIn,” wrote Hill, 60, under a photo of his blushing bride. He added, “I was supposed to post yesterday…at the same time as this beauty right here. And then I saw…this natural beauty right HERE.