Legendary rapper, Biggie Smalls has gotten a Brooklyn street renamed in his honor.
The corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place in Clinton Hill became “Christopher ‘Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace Way” on Monday. Uncoincidentally, this street is in the same neighborhood that Biggie grew up in, so many years ago.
The street is near a few murals dedicated to Biggie, including the one on Quincy Street and Bedford Avenue, “King of New York”.
According to Stereogum, the renaming was mostly thanks to Brooklyn resident LeRoy McCarthy, who also contributed to having Biggie’s birthday, May 21st, renamed as Notorious B.I.G. Day in Brooklyn in 2016.
In a tweet that came out of nowhere, Justin Bieber has challenged Tom Cruise to a fight in the octagon, and called out to UFC president Dana White to put on the fight.
I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon. Tom if you dont take this fight your scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite ?
Cruise has not commented on the tweet, and many expect him to decline. However that hasn’t stopped others from outlining the matchup.
@PMTsportsbiz laid out the details on the two unlikely fighters in a tweet. Cruise is more than double Bieber’s age at 56 and 25, and has twice the net worth, at $570M and $265M. However, Bieber is two inches taller and has a three inch longer estimated reach.
Despite this apparent physical disparity, many expect that Tom Cruise would destroy Justin. Cruise trains regularly for his action movies, and often does his own stunts. Also, he is likely 15 pounds bigger than Bieber, though his weight is unclear.
In a tweet, UFC fighter Conor McGregor offered to host the fight and mocked Cruise, saying that the fight would only happen if he is “man enough to accept the challenge” and “Does Cruise have the sprouts to fight, like he does in the movies?”
If Tom Cruise is man enough to accept this challenge, McGregor Sports and Entertainment will host the bout. Does Cruise have the sprouts to fight, like he does in the movies? Stay tuned to find out! https://t.co/TxsH9KUyFg
Surprisingly and yet also unsurprisingly, a San Francisco based radio station has banned Drake music from its playlists for the duration of the NBA Finals. The station is called KBLX and this news comes to us view The Mercury Review.
For anybody who somehow didn’t know. Drake is a Toronto Raptors super-fan and has been quite dramatic with his courtside support of the Raptors against the feared Golden State Warriors.
Elroy Smith, KBLX operations and programs director, spoke about the ban: “(We) could not stand on the sidelines and accept Drake showing no love for our Golden State Warriors. It is my joy to cease and desist all of Drake’s music on KBLX in support a team that is loved by the Bay Area and around the world. Oh yes, we are proclaiming a 3-peat.”
Though he is likely right implying that Drake’s fervent support for The Raptors may be taking a toll on The Warriors and their fanbase, Smith’s later statement that the ban was because of Drake “showing no love for our Golden State Warriors”, is not entirely true. Drake has both Steph Curry and Kevin Durant tattoos on his arm. Drake’s later statement that “all is fair in war and war” (a reference to “all is fair in love and war”) is actually quite descriptive.
According to Complex and Twitter, ASAP Rocky likes the idea of going on a world tour with Kid Cudi.
A twitter user tweeted at Kid Cudi, “would we see you do a world tour in the coming years.. revisiting places like Australia?” Cudi responded that he’d like to and why not bring some people like ASAP Rocky.
Rocky and Cudi have collaborated on tracks on Cudi’s 2013 album Indicud and Rock’s 2018 album TESTING, but they’ve never toured together. Thanks to @GYacoub95 for seemingly planting the idea in Cudi and of course shout-out to Twitter as a medium, for possibly bringing these two all star rappers together.
Jay Z just invested $1 million in a black-owned vegan cookie company called Partake Foods. It’s also dope because it is based in New Jersey.
Partake was founded in 2016 by the former Coca-Cola’s national sales director, Denise Woodard. This is a big upside because investors might be unsure of the market for vegan cookies but if someone with that much sales experience is sure to know a lot about potential markets.
It didn’t start out easy for Woodard; after launching the company, she had to sell cookies out of her car for 6 months while delivering daily demos for store managers and consumers.
Currently, Partake Food products are in 300 stores with Woodard commenting to Black Enterprise, ““We expect to finish this year with a new pack offering and in over 1,000 stores. We are so excited to collaborate with the MVP and Factory teams, as they both bring a wealth of knowledge in brand building and scaling consumer companies.” That’s a long intelligent sentence…another good sign.
Woodard said she would use Hova’s investment to expand the brand and her employees. Other investors include The FactoryBackstage Capital, SoFi Ventures, and Chuck Muth, Chief Growth Officers of Beyond Meat.
I’m learning so many new things today: first, that there is a National Ketchup Day and second, that in honor of that day, Ed Sheeran got his own Heinz Ketchup line called Edchup. On National Ketchup Day this past Wednesday, Heinz released the Ed Sheeran inspired line, if you couldn’t see that connection.
Back in March, Ed posted an Instagram photo of him holding a Heinz Ketchup bottle and in the comments, tagged Heinz and told them he had an idea for a TV ad.
Unsurprisingly, Heinz responded to the offer and commented, “Yo yourself @teddysphotos! We’re all. Actually, we’re all. But you get the idea. And we’d love to hear YOUR idea. Sorry, we’re nervous. Team Heinz is hitting you up RIGHT NOW”. Clearly, this limited edition bottle is the result of the collaboration.
If you weren’t convinced of Ed Sheeran’s love of Heinz, he even has a tattoo of a bottle on his arm. If anyone’s going to get a tattoo like that, it should be Ed Sheeran and it should be a redhead.
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