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Daily Mail:
Don't play the race or skinny cards, Ms Minaj - you're just a stroppy little piece of work whose video wasn't as good as Taylor Swift's — Superstar rapper Nicki Minaj once worked at a Red Lobster restaurant in the Bronx. — She was fired for ‘discourtesy to customers’.
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Billboard, The Wrap and Digital Spy
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TMZ.com:
Nicki Minaj's Ex-BF Safaree Samuels — Yo, Meek Mill ... I'm Not Gay, I'm Jamaican! — Safaree Samuels wants to set the record straight after Meek Mill's verbal assault — saying he's not gay ... he's just an awesome dancer. — Nicki's current BF, Meek ... went after her ex during that Tuesday night Twitter rampage.
Nicki Minaj / Guardian:
Taylor Swift's response to Nicki Minaj was faux-feminist and tone deaf — Bitterly disappointed that Anaconda didn't get a VMA nomination, Minaj made some smart points about lack of credit for black artists. Then Swift waded in ... What the hell happened on Twitter last night?
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Salon, UK - The Huffington Post and Stereogum
Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic:
Taylor Swift and the Silencing of Nicki Minaj
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Vulture, In Case You Didn't Know, The Superficial, Cele|bitchy, Gawker and The Wrap
Stephanie Webber / Us Weekly:
Meek Mill Stirs Pot With Nicki Minaj's Pal Drake: He Doesn't “Write His Own Raps!”
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In Case You Didn't Know
Beth Sobol / E! Online:
Kandi Burruss Is Pregnant! Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Expecting First Child With Husband Todd Tucker — Cue the lullabies! — It looks like the stork is heading to the ATL. E! News can exclusively reveal that The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband Todd Tucker are expecting their first child together!
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PerezHilton, Us Weekly, Sandra Rose, The Hollywood Gossip and Bossip
Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Kourtney Kardashian Is Seeking Sole Custody of Kids in Scott Disick Split, Has Met With Top Hollywood Attorney Laura Wasser — Step one. Kourtney Kardashian has met with top Hollywood divorce attorney, “disso queen” Laura Wasser, following her high-profile split from Scott Disick …
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Cele|bitchy, E! Online, X17 Online and Just Jared
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Esther Lee / Us Weekly:
Miranda Lambert Canceled Her Concert After Blake Shelton Filed for Divorce — Time tells all. Miranda Lambert canceled a concert in Calgary, Canada, several weeks ago, citing an illness, but the timing appears to have been all-too-coincidental after records from Blake Shelton's divorce filing were revealed on Tuesday, July 21.
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Daily Mail and POPSUGAR Celebrity
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PerezHilton:
Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert Struggling With Divorce — Despite Living Separate Lives Prior To Split!
Sarah Grossbart / Us Weekly:
Miranda Lambert “Heartbroken,” Blake Shelton “Devastated” Over Divorce
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Daily Mail, Cele|bitchy and Celeb Gossip …
Perez Hilton:
Kanye West Shows All Kinds Of Love & Support For Caitlyn Jenner In I Am Cait — See What He Had To Say! — Oh Yeezy, just when we thought we couldn't love you more! — Last night there was a premiere screening of Caitlyn Jenner's new docuseries, I Am Cait.
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X17 Online
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Tim Stack / EW.com:
AMERICAN HORROR STORY EXCLUSIVE: LILY RABE TO PLAY SERIAL KILLER ON HOTEL — From now until our huge fall TV preview, EW is bringing you 50 scoops in 50 days. Follow the hashtag #50Scoops50Days on Twitter and Instagram to keep up with the latest, and check EW.com/50Scoops50Days for all the news and surprises.
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Us Weekly, Digital Spy, Crushable and Just Jared
Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Dr. Dre, Ice Cube Break Silence on N.W.A Movie, Suge Knight's Murder Charge and a Reunion Tour (With Eminem) — I'm mustering the nerve to ask Dr. Dre and Ice Cube about the slaying that happened during the shooting of a Straight Outta Compton trailer — about the day in January …
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Rolling Stone
Donna Freydkin / USA Today:
Cara Delevingne goes bare in ‘Paper Towns’ — Cara Delevingne talks about the similarities between her and Margo, the character she plays in the movie adaptation of John Green's ‘Paper Towns.’ Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY — NEW YORK — The door inside the Greenwich Hotel room opens …
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Just Jared
Jamie Blynn / Us Weekly:
Pat Houston Starts to Let Go, Cleans Out Niece Bobbi Kristina Brown's Georgia Townhouse — While Bobbi Kristina Brown spends her final days at a Duluth, Ga., hospice center, her aunt and co-legal guardian Pat Houston has begun letting go. — Houston, the sister-in-law of Brown's late mother …
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New York Daily News, The Hollywood Gossip and PerezHilton
Michael K / Dlisted:
Glamour IS This Ad For RiRi's Perfume — Before all the full-fledged foolery of the day dirties up our pristine and innocent brains, let's fill it with some potent Dynasty eleganza brought to you by RiRi. — While dehydrated dandelion Taylor Swift once again painted herself up as the poor …
Chad Johnson / TMZ.com:
Wanted by Cops — 8:50 AM PT — Chad's on it. He says he's dispatched his lawyer to pay the $2k bond, so he doesn't get locked up. Chad Johnson pissed off a judge in South Florida, and now there's a warrant out for his arrest ... TMZ Sports has learned.
