EDDIE MURPHY INDUCTED INTO NAACP IMAGE AWARDS HALL OF FAME
Congratulations are in order for Eddie Murphy. He’s set to be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.
Arsenio Hall will present Eddie with his Hall of Fame Award, which honors those who are pioneers in their field and whose influence will shape the profession for generations to come. “We are honored to celebrate one of the most influential comedic geniuses in the entertainment industry and an individual who has inspired a generation of Black talent,”Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, said in a statement. “To this day, Eddie Murphy’s work continues to bring joy and laughter to individuals around the world, and he is an amazing example of Black excellence, creativity, and artistry.”
Murphy will receive his award at the 52nd NAACP Image Awards on March 27th. It’ll simulcast across all ViacomCBS Networks, including BET, CBS and MTV.
Source:Variety
TAYLOR SWIFT WILL BE JOINED BY COLLABORATORS AT THE GRAMMYS
Taylor Swift is set to perform on the GRAMMYs on Sunday, her first GRAMMY performance in five years. And apparently she won’t be up on that stage alone. During an interview with CBS News she shared a little tidbit about her planned performance.
“One thing I can tell you about my Grammy performance that isn’t highly confidential is that my performance includes my collaborators Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff,” she said, “Which is really exciting, because this has been an adventure that the three of us have gone on since the very beginning of quarantine and lockdown.”
Taylor, who is nominated for six GRAMMYs this year, worked with both Dessner and Antonoff on her two surprise albums, “folklore” and “evermore.”
Source: US Weekly
KIMYE NO LONGER ON SPEAKING TERMS
We know that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting a divorce. Now we hear that they’re not speaking.
“Even before Kim filed for divorce, Kanye changed his numbers and said, ‘You can contact me through my security,'” an insider explained. “Despite this, she trusts him around the kids. He loves them and is seeing a lot of them.”
Speaking of co-parenting, the two have managed to do this without speaking to each other. “[Kim] leaves the house and [Kanye] arrives and hangs out with the kids. They have an army of nannies so the transition is easy.” At this point, neither of them is talking about the situation.
Source:Page Six
JUSTIN BIEBER HAS NO CELLPHONE TO PROTECT HIS MENTAL HEALTH
Justin Bieber is on the cover of “Billboard” magazine, and inside he talks about how he’s moving on from his past, and shifting his priorities in order to improve his mental health. The singer even reveals that he no longer carries a cellphone, and only stays in contact with people through an iPad, during certain hours of the day.
“I definitely learned how to have boundaries, and I just don't feel like I owe anybody anything," he says. "That has helped me to be able to just say no and just be firm in it and know that my heart [wants] to help people, but I can't do everything. I want to sometimes, but it's just not sustainable."
Justin says he usually shuts down around 6 pm, and goes to bed at a “reasonable hour,” and wakes up at around 8 am. He notes, "At this point, I've reached a level of success so many times that I know success isn't a be-all, end-all to my happiness"
Justin canceled 14 dates on his “Purpose” tour back in 2017, after suffering what was described as a “mental health crisis” but thanks to therapy and his relationship with God he is in a better place now.
"Everything was about success, benchmarks and such, and then I was just still empty, you know?" he says. "All my relationships were suffering, but I had all this success and all of this money, and it just wasn't fulfilling for me." Justin notes that he since changed his “priorities,” because he didn’t want to be “another statistic of young musicians that ended up, like, not making it.”
As for how he wants people to see him now, he shares, “I just want to be somebody who can say, 'Look, I did some things that I'm not too proud of, but I took a look in the mirror and decided to make some changes, and you can too.”
Source:Billboard
NICOLE YOUNG DENIED RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST DR. DRE
Nicole Young was in her divorce case against Dr. Dre. She requested an emergency domestic violence restraining order against him over the diss track he released last month.
As we told you, the mogul known as Andre Young released a song that includes the lyrics like, “Trying to kill me with them lies and that perjury/I see you trying to f--k me while I'm in surgery/In ICU death bed on some money s--t. Greedy b---h take a pic. Girl you know how money get.”
The way Nicole sees it, the song means that Dre has “upped the ante and is now outright threatening me to keep my mouth shut or else.” Clearly the judge didn’t agree.
Source:TMZ