Folks do not play about Issa Rae.
On Saturday (Oct. 7), just after shutting down Paris during Fashion Week, the HOORAE mogul spoke on a panel about mentorship, moderated by American Express‘ President of Enterprise Strategic Partnerships, Glenda McNeal, at CultureCon NYC 2023. McNeal began the conversation by mispronouncing Rae’s first name and even though she didn’t react to the mistake, the audience was not about to let that fly. “You guys know a lot about Issa [pronouncing her name as “Is-suh”] Rae for all the incredible work that she’s done,” said McNeal.
In a new interview with Huck Magazine, M.I.A. opened up about the exorbitant $16.6 million lawsuit the NFL slapped her with after her performance at Super Bowl XLVI. According to M.I.A., her then-manager Jay-Z suggested she sign off on a lawsuit designed to keep her penniless:
“If you’re talking about racism and sexism, [the lawsuit] showed the cracks in everyone I knew. I was at Roc Nation at the time and Jay Z was managing me.
If you had to give yourself a job title, what would it be?
Right now… [long pause] right now I’m just hosting events, doing photo-shoots, videos. Rappers pay me to come to their after parties. Right now I’m negotiating the reality show. [Stacks’ manager cuts in again: she’s a personality.]
It’s interesting to me that you don’t like having a lot of female friends, but the majority of people who fucked you over are dudes.
Katt Williams‘ name surfaced to the top of everyone’s news feed today (March 23) after he engaged in a physical altercation with a seventh grader. There were minimal details to the occurrence, just a 90-second video of Williams and the junior high school student exchanging words before he placed the comedian in a headlock.
Now, a full video popped up on YouTube which shows another angle on what exactly happened. At the beginning of the video, parents watch on as their kids play a game of soccer, alongside Williams.
In aninterview in 2014, after the Mike Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo., Christian rapper Lecrae began speaking out about police brutality and racial injustice.
“I think it’s unacceptable,” he said. “I think the government was created to serve the people, not to run the people. I think we’ve forgotten that the government works for us. They’re not in charge of us, we’re in charge of them, and I think we’ve forgotten that”