TIME magazine has rolled out their annual list of the year’s “100 Most Influential People” with Kanye West leading the pack. Despite being named the most influential, West says his life is not about being prideful or competing with his fellow man.
“I’m not in a competition with anyone. I don’t care about having a legacy, I don’t care about being remembered,” West said.
West’s wife, Kim Kardashian, joins him on the list along with Laverne Cox, Lee Daniels, Kevin Hart and more. See the full list here.
The rumors are true! Nicki Minaj is engaged to rapper Meek Mills! Minaj posted a cryptic Tweet late Wednesday afternoon hinting that she got a diamond from Meek Mills. Hours laters, she posted a pic of her huge 15-karat heart-shaped yellow diamond on Instagram. A source close to Minaj confirmed that couple is indeed tyinh the knot.
“Both Meek and Nicki have been spending amazing quality time together lately and have gotten extremely close these past few months…It may seem like it all is happening very quickly, but Nicki and Meek are in this 100. They truly love each other,” the source said. Congrats, O-Meek-a! [Complex]
Nate Parker has arranged an all-star cast for the Nat Turner biopic he’s directing. Gabrielle Union, Aja Naomi King, Aujanue Ellis and more are slated to star in The Birth of a Nation. Parker, who also wrote the script for the film, will ply the lead role of Nat Turner, the leader of the historic slave revolts in the Old South. The Birth of a Nation is slated to debut in 2016. [Madame Noire]
Rapper The Game is turning to reality TV for help getting back in the game of love. She Got Game will be a weekly hour-long series following the rapper as his celebrity friends set him up on dates with different women over the course of 10 episodes.
“Relationships are hard, and The Game knows that working in the entertainment business makes it even harder,” said VH1 VP Susan Levinson. “In this series, he gets to try a different strategy, taking the advice and suggestions of the friends who know him best.” [Necole Bitchie]
WEMOJIS is your new app for culturally relevant emoticons. Two brothers, Trey and Donovan Brown, created the app to fill the need for Black and Hispanic representation on smartphones. Now you can get everything from emoticons to hand signs to hygiene symbols with a splash of color thanks to WEMOJIS. [WEMOJIS]
Furious 7 is speeding to the top of the movie and music charts. The soundtrack, featuring Wiz Khalifa’s emotional song, “See You Again,” has reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, pushing Wale’s album, The Album About Nothing, down to No. 11. [Billboard]
