Black Ink Crew's Puma Receives First Harlem Rises Award

Puma Receives Harlem Award

Congrats to Puma of Black Ink Crew! He received the first Harlem Rises Award. He says the her feels really good to do something for the people at Harlem. Harlem Rises kicked off last week on June 5th.

“I’m not from Harlem, but I’ve made a lot of my greatest accomplishments here. It's like Harlem adopted me,” said the Bronx native. “It feels amazing to be able to accept an award for doing something really good for the culture and the people.” 

and get ready for more "Black Ink Crew. The 2nd season premieres this fall.

Watch It Here: Lyfe Jennings Talks K. Michelle Beef

"She's Creating A Terrible Future"

Lyfe Jennings has few words for K.Michelle. He is responding to K. Michelle's recent antics and their beef that they had last October when she refused to be the opening act for him at a Tampa concert. He says she is creating terrible future for herself if she continues to have beefs with people.

Check out the video. Do you agree?

Draya Michele Tweets She Will Not Join 'Love and Hip Hop: NY'

Draya Not Joining 'Love and Hip Hop'

Draya Michele is squashing the rumors that circulated recently on the blogs that she will be joining the 4th season of Love and Hip Hop: NY. MediaTakeout was the first to report that she will be joining the show.

I am not going on Love and Hip Hop. That's a great show and all but no... #lies
— Draya Michele (@DrayaFace) June 10, 2013

Left Eye's Sister Says She Was Never Consulted About The Biopic Movie

Left Eye's sister, Reigndrop Lopes has revealed to Missjia that her and her family was NEVER consulted about VH1 biopic movie that is set to air this fall. 

This is what she tells the blog

"We didn’t even know when they were shooting. The only way I found out was because a friend of mine was cast as an extra and flew down here, and I happened to go up there with her. We didn’t know anything at all.

She [Left Eye's mom] was hurt, she was pissed off, and hurt more than anything, but it’s like what can we do? Legally, I don’t think we can do anything, but it’s just more morally, why wouldn’t you involve the family? We’re right here in Atlanta, and we’re open to being involved. And when you don’t reach out, it makes you wonder why, question why. We don’t know why."

She also shares her thoughts on Lil Mama playing her sister

"Well number one, I would have liked to be told before the whole world knew. We found out online from the fans. My initial reaction was I was kind of in the middle. I didn’t know her to be an actor, and I didn’t know how well she would do portraying Lisa, so I really didn’t know how to feel. I actually got the chance to go up to the set one time, and I did see her doing some of her scenes, and it looked pretty good to me, and I was actually surprised. I told her that she was doing a good job. So hopefully, all the scenes are like that. She’s a really big fan, so I think it’s important to her to portray Lisa the right way even if some of the stuff in the script isn’t really accurate. I know it’s important for her to really bring out who Lisa was as a fan."

Royce Reed Slams Evelyn's Upscale Magazine Interview

Ex Basketball Wives cast membet, Royce Reed, is is NOT happy with Upscale magazine interview that Shaunie, Tami and Evelyn did recently. They talked about changing their behavior for the upcoming 5th season. well Royce was not happy with the response Evelyn gave when she was asked why Jennifer and Royce was fired. 

If you read the interview, Evelyn said that Royce was a 'non factor' and I guess that set Royce off on twitter. 

Royce did a twitter rant basically calling Evelyn a 'mentally slow hypocrite'. Check out her tweets.

Photos: Benzino To Guest Star On 'Single Ladies" Season 3

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Benzino On 'Singles Ladies'

The upcoming third season of Single Ladies, which is currently shooting in Atlanta , is bringing in more guest  stars for the new season. One of them being Benzino from Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta. Here is a sneak peel photo he instagramed recently

The 3rd season of Single Ladies premieres this fall

Shaunie, Evelyn and Tami Cover Upscale Magazine + Talks Jennifer/Royce Departures

Shaunie O Neal, Evelyn Lozada, and  Tami Roman cover the latest issue of Upscale magazine and they are coming clean about the show's controversy and why they think Jennifer and Royce left the show.

via Jasmine Brand

On the show's negativity

"People were connecting my behavior on the show with the incident with Chad. They were like, ‘Well if she acts like that on the show, then I’m sure she acts like that at home.’ I’m a totally different person at home."

-Evelyn Lozada

"I was very depressed last summer. I was dealing with some things that were going on with my mother and everything that was happening with the backlash from the show. I started eating everything under the sun. I blew up to about 190-ish pounds. I’m a tall girl, so I wear it well, but I was bordering between [size] 14 and 16 in my clothes."
-Tami Roman

On why they think Jennifer and Royce left the show

"It was a chemistry thing. It just became awkward to film or even come up with a conversation. It just wasn’t working for TV."

-Shaunie O Neal

"Royce has been a non-motherf—ing factor for the last two seasons, so it just didn’t make sense anymore. And as for Jennifer—Shaunie is [being] nice but I’m going to tell you this—we don’t condone the incident with Jennifer, but we do . You know something’s bound to happen when you put a bunch of women together and there’s a lot of conversation and going on. So when Jennifer went on this whole anti-show campaign, it was a little tough for us as ."

-Evelyn Lozada

The 5th season of Basketball Wives premieres in August