Sporting a grey WGA-branded “strike” t-shirt, writer-director Charlie Kaufman led a packed-out masterclass this morning in the main hall of the Bosnian Cultural Center at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Sexyy Red has spoken to NME about motherhood, working with legendary trap producer Tay Keith and why she started rapping.The St. Louis rapper’s salacious lyrics have seen her go viral on several occasions – with the Tay Keith-produced trap hit ‘Pound Town’ recently giving her much notoriety. The song gained popularity after the comical and vulgar opening lines of the track (I’m out of town, thuggin’ wid my rounds / my pussy pink, my bootyhole brown”) were spread across TikTok.
Back in May, Nicki Minaj hopped on the song’s remix ‘Pound Town 2’.Reflecting on the success of her breakthrough song, Red – real name Janae Nierah Wherry – told NME: “I knew it was a good song because I felt like it was something so relatable and funny, But once I saw it going viral… I’m still in shock at how crazy it went because I still didn’t expect it.”With the beat coming from the Grammy Award-winning producer Tay Keith, Sexyy Red didn’t want to put any “bullshit” on it. However, it was only her and Keith that seemed to be sure that ‘Pound Town’ would become a smash it“My team, they didn’t like it,” she said. “They didn’t think it was it.
They thought I was playing on a beat too. ‘You got to really say something on his beat,’ they said. ‘This is Tay Keith’s beat.
You can’t be playing on his beats and stuff’. But I sent it to him and he said he liked it, but we ain’t know [it was] going to get this big, though.”There were other raunchy rappers before her – such as Lil’ Kim, Khia and Trina – but Sexxy Red denied any influence other than her “baby daddy” as her initial inspiration. After discovering that he was “messing around” with another girl, Red wrote a diss track about him and his “lame” mistress.“I was feeling on some simp, crybaby shit,
.Sporting a grey WGA-branded “strike” t-shirt, writer-director Charlie Kaufman led a packed-out masterclass this morning in the main hall of the Bosnian Cultural Center at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
When it comes to dupes of designer bags, the high street really has been delivering recently with affordable versions of some of the season’s most popular it bags lining its shelves. We’ve recently found alternatives to the TikTok-loved Diesel bag, and a Marks and Spencer’s version of the coveted £20k Hermès 35 Birkin, and our latest discovery is two high street dupes of the trending Goyard Saint Louis Claire-Voie GM Bag, £985 here.
Naman Ramachandran Irish actor Liam Cunningham’s eclectic career includes playing fan favorite Davos Seaworth in HBO’s “Game of Thrones” and starring roles in Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or-winning “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” and Steve McQueen’s BAFTA-winning “Hunger.” Cunningham has won acting prizes at the Irish Film and Television Awards three times. Next up for him is the Amblin and Universal film “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” by “The Autopsy of Jane Doe” filmmaker André Øvredal. The supernatural thriller, adapted from a chapter of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel “Dracula” called “The Captain’s Log,” is set aboard the schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry 50 unmarked wooden crates from Transylvania to London.
The family of a teenager murdered by Scotland’s youngest female killer have pleaded with the Government to protect more young people from a terrifying surge in violence.
Katcy Stephan SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers from the first two episodes of “Only Murders in the Building” Season 3, “The Show Must…” and “The Beat Goes On,” now streaming on Hulu. When “Only Murders in the Building” picks up at the start of Season 3, fans aren’t greeted with the familiar faces of crime-solving trio Mabel (Selena Gomez), Oliver (Martin Short) and Charles (Steve Martin). Instead, they’re dropped into a 1962 production of “No Strings” on Broadway, seen through the eyes of a pigtailed 10-year-old later revealed to be actor (and murder suspect) Loretta Durkin, portrayed as an adult by Meryl Streep. For series co-creator and writer John Hoffman, who also directed the first two episodes of the new season, meeting Streep for the first time was daunting — until she revealed a surprising connection to her character that put him immediately at ease.
Sinead O’Connor has been laid to rest and hundreds of people lined the streets to say a final goodbye.
A man declared himself a 'fugitive' on Facebook as he fled to Bulgaria after being found with ingredients to make a bomb.
Marta Balaga Stellan Skarsgård and Gustaf Skarsgård introduced their latest film “What Remains” at Locarno Film Festival on Friday. Directed by Ran Huang, it was written by Huang and Megan Everett Skarsgård. Andrea Riseborough also stars.
Last month, East London rapper Lancey Foux released a near-platonic earworm of a track titled “MMM HMM” featuring St. Louis’s fastest-rising star, Sexyy Red.
Nick Viall is spilling the beans on his “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test” co-star Tom Sandoval.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have made some solid moves this off-season. You can add starting point guard Darius Garland to the list of people who are excited about the new additions. Garland is hyped to continue building around the team’s first playoff appearance since 2018.
You really had to be there. Gucci Mane's mixtape era was a furious, controversial, and genre-shifting moment for hip-hop, and not just because of the music. The cover art for his projects were absurd even in the context of Atlanta trap, reflecting the infectious personality that would come to dominate rap, from its sound to its gossip blogs.
Ariana Madix is not ready for a sit down with Tom Sandoval.
Sinéad O’Connor‘s last TV interview, in which she discussed whether she was “the first ever cancelled person”.The acclaimed Irish singer and activist died yesterday (July 26) at the age of 56, her family announced.“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time,” read a statement by the singer’s family reported by The Guardian.While tributes pour in from the music industry and beyond in the wake of her death, fans are also lauding her activism and the criticism she faced for speaking her mind.In 2021, O’Connor held her last TV interview on the Today chat show, with host Carson Daly suggesting that the singer was the “first cancelled person”.“That’s a good question, I never thought of that,” O’Connor replied, saying she considered herself a “protest singer”.“Sinéad O’Connor was never meant to be a pop star,” she said.Watch the interview below.Since O’Connor’s death, Morrissey has written a scathing critique of the music industry’s response to the news.In a new blog post titled ‘You Know I Couldn’t Last’, Morrissey criticised the wider industry’s response to her death, arguing that it was hypocritical when they “hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you”.“She had only so much ‘self’ to give,” the former Smiths frontman began.
Irish singer, songwriter and activist Sineád O’Connor, whose death at 56 was announced by her family today, is being remembered by her peers as an icon whose commitment to honest expression, in both her music and her life, was unwavering.
Irish model Vogue Williams was left red-faced as fans were stunned to learn exactly how often she and her husband Spencer Matthews get on the bedroom during an episode of their podcast Spencer & Vogue.
Everyone wants to know about Sexyy Red.
Akon has confessed to lying about being an “African prince” when he was younger in a recent podcast appearance.The pop-rap star – real name Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam – was born to Senegalese parents in St. Louis, Missouri before relocating to New Jersey. However, due to his family spending a lot of his childhood in Senegal, he thinks of the country as home.Whilst talking to N.O.R.E and DJ EFN on Drink Champs, he revealed that he would lie about being an “African prince” while living in New Jersey because “he wanted to feel accepted.”“I used the excuse that I was a survivor because it made me feel better about it,” he said.
Drake got up close and personal with rapper Sexyy Red during his Tuesday stop on his It's All a Blur tour.The 36-year-old took to his Instagram Story to share a photo with the St. Louis rapper taken backstage at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
a social media advertising partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.Now, conservatives are attacking four bands taking part in the Bud Light Backyard Tour — in which the musical acts each play a free concert in four different cities throughout August — for merely being associated with the “Bud Light” brand.As part of the tour, the pop band OneRepublic will play in Nashville on August 10. Country music group Midland will play in Oklahoma City on August 15.