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The rapper had already heard all of the criticisms of his headlining set at the festival in April. He promised that he wasn't going to have a show similar to that, one where he seemed like a boy delivering ample amounts of sound and effort into a vacuum.

Drake's Houston Appreciation Weekend: The Rapper Heads Out to Play a Ballgame

At the opening night (May 24) of his Jungle Tour in Houston, part of a finale to his second Houston Appreciation Weekend, Drake made plenty of concessions, including one that signaled a roar within the city's Toyota Center.

"Look, whichever city has the livest fans on the Jungle Tour, I'm bringing OVO Fest to their city in the next couple of years," Drake said.


It definitely should rub his hometown fans in Toronto the wrong way but it's a gamble for Drake. One he wants to pay off just as bad as Houston Appreciation Weekend has.

Sunday night meant that the show was completely on him. No pool parties to feign attendance at, no tribute events where he had to deliver speeches like a politician. No softball games for him to play left field in a number 24 jersey. Just him and the stage, him and the moving "jungle" he had created at Coachella that he decided to bring to Houston.


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"Oh my God, it feels good to be home," he said after opening the show with "Legend," from his Feb. 2015 album, If You're Reading This It's Too Late. "I was born in Toronto, but it feels like Houston adopted me."
The adopted portion has rubbed some locals the wrong way during the four-day mix of parties, charity events and concerts. Drake, always one to publicly show emotion when the time calls for it, made a calculated barb at detractors of not only him, but the weekend itself.
"I don't give a f--k what any n---a say about me -- this is a city that I love and I'm gonna give y'all all of me," he stomped before leading into "Worst Behavior." "F--k what they gotta say."


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The celebrities, some of whom have been in Houston during the duration of HAW were shown on the Toyota Center video board. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston and New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. were among the many famous faces, some of whom brought as many as 50 people as part of an entourage to converge upon the downtown Houston arena.

Unlike last year's intimate performance at Warehouse Live, which covered hits and such rarities as his personal "B-Sides" show, the opening night of the Jungle Tour picked up where Coachella left off, aiming for the hits and trying not to miss too big.

"Madonna," the track which led to the Queen of Pop sealing a much talked about kiss on Drake's lips in April was flipped instead to honor Rihanna. (Watch the video above.) The crowd bobbed and jerked when the opening chords of "Know Yourself" arrived and counted up to 10 before being led into "10 Bands."

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For a weekend that showed much of Drake's extended reach among various fields of entertainment, the opening night of the Jungle tour, the crown jewel of this year's HAW lacked in the guests department. Native Houstonian Travi$ Scott, he of "Company" fame from IYRTITL didn't appear. Nor did anyone else for that matter. For two hours, it was Drake, offering jokes and banter, omitting Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry's name from his "0-100" track to placate Houston Rockets fans by his lonesome.

His voice stood proud during "Jungle," shifted downward when performing "Hold On, We're Going Home" for the lovers in the audience and decided to close with a reprise of "Legend."

"H-Town until I die," he stated with emphasis, walking off the stage rather satisfied.

A woman of the United Kingdom, is being sought by police on charges of assault after allegedly biting off the finger of a much younger woman, police in France said. Brest Police said that the incident unfolded in a bar on Saturday night. According to the police investigation, the two women reportedly got into a fight after the boyfriend of the suspect was touched by the victim.

Witnesses said that the 22-year-old victim touched the 38-year-old suspect’s boyfriend before she proceeded to bite off her finger. The victim was rushed to a hospital while police went to search for the woman’s finger. Despite the search, the victim’s finger was not found. The woman will undergo a transplant to replace the lost finger. Police are looking to arrest the suspect, but so far, she remains at large.

Forbes' annual list of the five wealthiest artists in hip hop didn't change much in 2015, with Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, 50 Cent and Birdman all making the cut again. The only noticeable shift was Stunna going from number four to five, and now we've got some news that may partially explain his slight drop in earnings. The Cash Money CEO was recently hit with two separate tax liens from the IRS for unpaid back taxes, totaling around $2 million.

TMZ reports that he's already paid up the $1,942,400.58, which was accrued from one lien in December 2014, and another this February. No word yet on what (if anything) this entails for Cash Money, but as Birdman's still worth over a hundred mil, we'd guess that the label's still fairly safe.

20-year-old aspiring football player from Afikpo North, Ebonyi State, Jacob pictured above has been arrested by the Lagos state Police command for killing a mechanic, Moruf Sanni by stabbing him to death over an arguement regarding age difference at Iwaya,Yaba on Monday May 25th.

According to reports, the victim, Moruf had an argument and a fight with someone in his area simply identified as 'Somebody', over who was older on Sunday May 24th. The fight was  then settled by the elders in the area.

Angered by Moruf's claim that he was older and was not going to give him respect, 'Somebody' contacted his friend, Jacob to teach Moruf a lesson.

Jacob accosted the deceased in his compound and didn't teach him a lesson but stabbed him repeatedly on the neck and head and killed him. He was arrested by the residents of the area who witnessed the incident and chained to the corpse.
Father of the deceased, Mr Lukman, who is a taxi driver, said he had gone in search of fuel and as he returned, a neighbor ran to his house to inform him that somebody was fighting his son

    “Somebody ran to my house. He said a strange man was fighting with my son. I immediately rushed there, only to see the corpse of my son. The suspect was tied to my son’s corpse. I simply thanked him for killing my son and walked away.”

The victim's mother according to a relative of the deceased lost her mind immediately she saw her son's corpse because the deceased was the second son she had lost.

     “February 20 of this year made it exactly 3 years that the first child of the family was killed. A police stray bullet hit him when the police came to look for some hoodlums. So, when this one happened again, their mother just ran away and has not been seen since then.”the relative said

A police source  who spoke on condition of anonymity said the suspect when interrogated gave a different version of events.

     “He said they went for a birthday party on Sunday night and it was there they had a disagreement. The following morning, he confronted Moruf and the deceased then brought out a knife which he collected from him. He said Moruf then got a bottle and it was while he wanted to block him from using it that it mistakenly stabbed him in the neck.”the police source said

The father of the deceased has asked for his son's body for burial but the corpse has been deposited at a mortuary while the police says they are investigating the matter.

 On Saturday May 23rd, Frances Udukwu beat out 17 other contestants to emerge the first ever winner of the Miss Nigeria USA beauty pageant which held in New York. Frances is a 25 year old graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health and Health care Systems Management from Temple University and currently has a career as a health care consultant. More pictures after the cut...

A loving Indian mother has taken steps to get a partner for her gay activist son, Harish Iyer, by placing an advert in a newspaper, reports Hindustan Times.

Normally, the advert would have been a noble and a loving step from a mother but the snag is that India has a law against gay marriage which was promulgated in 2013 when the country’s Supreme Court ruled that ‘carnal intercourse’ interpreted as gay s*x, is punishable with anything up to a life sentence.

The mother who is worried that her son who is a world renowned gay rights activist based in Mumbai and has been mentioned in Guardian’s list of 100 Most Influential LGBT people in 2013, may not find a partner and so, she had to run the advert that reads:

‘Seeking 25-40, well-placed, animal-loving, vegetarian, for my son (36, 5’11”) who works with an NGO. Caste no bar.’

Harish Iyer himself said of his mother:

“My mother is like any other mother. She wanted to find me a partner and help me settle down. It became news only because I was looking for a man instead of a woman.”

A loving Indian mother has taken steps to get a partner for her gay activist son, Harish Iyer, by placing an advert in a newspaper, reports Hindustan Times.

Normally, the advert would have been a noble and a loving step from a mother but the snag is that India has a law against gay marriage which was promulgated in 2013 when the country’s Supreme Court ruled that ‘carnal intercourse’ interpreted as gay s*x, is punishable with anything up to a life sentence.

The mother who is worried that her son who is a world renowned gay rights activist based in Mumbai and has been mentioned in Guardian’s list of 100 Most Influential LGBT people in 2013, may not find a partner and so, she had to run the advert that reads:

‘Seeking 25-40, well-placed, animal-loving, vegetarian, for my son (36, 5’11”) who works with an NGO. Caste no bar.’

Harish Iyer himself said of his mother:

“My mother is like any other mother. She wanted to find me a partner and help me settle down. It became news only because I was looking for a man instead of a woman.”

At a press conference in Lagos, Director- General of
a PRO-LIFE non-governmental organisation, The Project for Human Development, PHD, Jerry Okwuosa raised an alarm over alleged plans by the United Nations Population Funds, UNFPA, to reduce the Nigerian population by offering abortion services to pregnant women and girls recently rescued from Boko Haram by the Nigerian Armed Forces.

He condemned any attempt to subject the pregnant women and girls in the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps to a traumatic, violent-wrecking and life-threatening abortion process. Okwuosa who accused UNFPA of having hidden intentions which is to reduce the population of Nigeria said:

     “We are aware that currently UNFPA is providing counselling to these Nigerians in the displacement camps in Borno State.


Also reproductive health kits and dignity kits have also been deployed in Borno and Adamawa states to support safe childbirth. These are laudable achievements but at a hidden cost he said.

    “We are being told that all the visibly pregnant mothers in the IDP, camp must be aborted and others sterilised for fear that their babies will become Boko Haram terrorists, since some of them have been raped by the sect. UNFPA’s abortion and sterilisation services are geared towards depopulation,” he posited. “The UNFPA is an organisation whose primary interest is population control. In the developed countries of the world now in their demographic winter, UNFPA’s job is to promote population increase by all means.

He further stated that developed countries will do anything to increase their population because they are dying out.

Mr Sonnie Ekwuwusi, a director in the organization agreed with Okwuosa'ssentiments stating that the appointment of former Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin as Director General of UNFPA was aimed at making Nigerians and Africa as a whole buy into the idea of depopulation

Ekwuwusi however condemned any attempt to subject these pregnant women and girls in the IDPs to a traumatic, violent-wrecking and life-threatening abortion processes.
He recommended:

    “The pregnant girls and women should be offered free ante- natal clinics and rehabilitation centres where they could go to safely give birth to their babies and afterwards they could give them out for legal adoption if for any reason they do not want to keep the babies,”.

CEO of Capital Oil, Ifeanyi Ubah made an announcement on Sunday that his company would release 13 million liters of fuel to help out with the fuel scarcity situation in the country since then officials of the Nigerian Army have taken over the Ojodu Berger outlet of Capital Oil, buying petroleum products in drums, after they had scared away thousands of prospective consumers.

The armed personnel came pretending to maintain peace and order, but they soon abandoned their primary responsibility and started buying fuel in drums.

They shoved, maltreated and chased off those who were on queue to tend to themselves.

The military officials who were fully dressed had taken over the only two pumps that dispensed the Premium Motor Spirit.

There was an unregistered white Isuzu truck the soldiers had been using for the ‘deal’ and this truck had visited the filling station for the fourth time and each time bought fuel.

The fourth truck was loaded at 8:50pm on Monday night.

The vehicle, on each visit, left with at least 14 drums and dozens of gallons filled with fuel.

Helpless consumers, some of who slept at the filling station, suspected the soldiers were buying fuel to sell to sell in Lagos black market.

Those who complained about what was going on were severely beaten

By 9pm on Monday, not more than a hundred cars left the station with fuel.

Source: Punch

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who has made waves of connections reaching out to disaffected Catholics and insisting on making the poor a top priority, hasn't watched TV since July 15, 1990, he revealed in an interview published in the Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Pueblo.

The pontiff did not reveal why he gave up watching TV, except to say he decided it wasn't for him, before promising the Virgin Mary he wouldn't watch again.


      
That promise has kept him from watching his favorite soccer team, Buenos Aires-based San Lorenzo, but he told the paper a member of his Swiss Guard tells him the scores and keeps him up to date on the standings.
      
Pope Francis said he really misses the tranquility of just walking the streets.
The Pope concluded that he would like to be remembered as a "good guy" who tried to do good".

      

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who has made waves of connections reaching out to disaffected Catholics and insisting on making the poor a top priority, hasn't watched TV since July 15, 1990, he revealed in an interview published in the Argentinian newspaper La Voz del Pueblo.

The pontiff did not reveal why he gave up watching TV, except to say he decided it wasn't for him, before promising the Virgin Mary he wouldn't watch again.


      
That promise has kept him from watching his favorite soccer team, Buenos Aires-based San Lorenzo, but he told the paper a member of his Swiss Guard tells him the scores and keeps him up to date on the standings.
      
Pope Francis said he really misses the tranquility of just walking the streets.
The Pope concluded that he would like to be remembered as a "good guy" who tried to do good".

      

She posted this and wrote "Always!". Are these people truly okay with this or just pretending to be? They are teenagers, how are they supposed to comprehend this. I can't imagine my dad waking up one day to tell me he wants to be a woman. I sincerely don't know what I'd do...
Isn't that the sweetest thing..

The man riding his bicycle from Yola to Abuja was spotted outside Buhari’s office on Lobito crescent today.

 Bruce Jenner visited Kris at her home and said he wanted to talk to her about his transitioning. He said he made a note of what he wanted to say to her so that he wouldn't leave anything out. He urged her to sit down then started to talk to her.

    "First of all, you're amazing woman,' he said, reading from the note. 'We've had so many great moments together, 23-25 years of great moments together. They're still inside me. They're still part of me and I don't want to let that go. In so many ways , I have lived my life running away from me and who I am.

    We have raised amazing children together and those memories will live inside of me forever and I will continue to have more of those. I want to get through all of this and the do the best darn job of not hurting anybody, that includes you. I would hope that you would kind of be on board.
 Kris, who couldn't stop crying said she was confused because Bruce shut her out a long time ago hence didn't understand what was happening.
She said 'You were angry and that made me angry' but Bruce said she treated him badly the last 4-5years of their marriage. He said he wasn't happy.

 She said No, you were just very very angry to the point that we had to separate and get divorced. You never said this was going to be the end result, ever, but now it makes sense to me. I think just being honest is just something we would have all appreciated,' she went on, 'and I think the truth in your head is different from the truth that comes out of your  mouth and different from your actions.
He started sobbing and said he didn't tell her the truth before now because he didn't want to hurt her.

She looked at him with tears in her eyes and said she always knew that he wanted to dress differently and that was something he liked to do when he got that urge but that she didn't know that he wanted to be a female.
'I don't know when you went from, 'this isn't working for me anymore' and to, 'I'm going to go all the way,' and I am going to start taking hormones. You didn't even tell me as a married couple that you were taking hormones' she said


However, he said he didn't take the hormones until after they separated and he went to a therapist, trying to figure himself out.

Kris was upset that every time he was angry and she wanted to talk to him, he always shut down.
'Bruce, you never explained,' she remonstrated with her ex. 'You said I just wouldn't understand and you couldn't talk about it.That was your answer every time.'

'I turned into the Wicked Witch of the West because of how you were behaving,' she said.
Finally, the former couple found a way forward and acknowledged that they still had love for each other.
'I just want to get through this and do the best damn job of not hurting anybody and that includes you,' Bruce told Kris.
He said he had had the identity crisis since he was 10 years old.
He said Kris was the toughest one to talk to and apologized for his lack of honesty with her throughout their marriage. He said he apologized for not being more open and for hurting her

    I am going to miss Bruce and I am trying so hard just to process my pain and get through my days, it's a struggle everyday. I wake up in the morning and realize oh my god this is really happening. I have to mourn this person I was married to all these years. You  think you're going to grow old with somebody and then they drastically change over the course of a few years. It's like I have to mourn Bruce Jenner. I am confused as to what happened to Bruce because I miss Bruce and I wont be able to really have Bruce anymore, all I'll have are my memories and pictures. I feel like you died, like Bruce is dead".

 He said he wanted to still be part of her life and her in his and would be a better person as 'her'.
He said he's 65 and wont be around for too long.
What if I get of cancer and only have 3 months to live? I will never be happy because I didn't get to live like I am supposed to be as a woman" What if something happens to me? He said.

I just want you to know that I still love you Kris and I want to be in your life. He said.

Kris responded that she loved him as well, I just want you to be happy even though I feel blindsided by this drastic change.

They parted ways with a hug and still in tears.

"Everything is going to be good, I promise you". He said.

TMZ is reporting that Armen Djerrahian is suing Rick Ross for using a photo of Jay Z that he took of him back in 2003 in his latest video for “Movin Bass” featuring Hov. The photo is a rather famous pic of Hov throwing up the Roc-a-fella sign with his hands, but it only appears in the video for literally like half a second.

Djerrahian says the shot popped up in Rozay’s new video, which it does, and he wants ALL the profits they made off using the Jay Z image, and a court order to block them from further use. According to Djerrahian's lawsuit, he was never contacted about the photograph's use and was not credited in any way. Thus, the lawsuit.

TMZ is reporting that Armen Djerrahian is suing Rick Ross for using a photo of Jay Z that he took of him back in 2003 in his latest video for “Movin Bass” featuring Hov. The photo is a rather famous pic of Hov throwing up the Roc-a-fella sign with his hands, but it only appears in the video for literally like half a second.

Djerrahian says the shot popped up in Rozay’s new video, which it does, and he wants ALL the profits they made off using the Jay Z image, and a court order to block them from further use. According to Djerrahian's lawsuit, he was never contacted about the photograph's use and was not credited in any way. Thus, the lawsuit.

 And here they are the 2015 'WORST DRESSED LIST' by Dencia,More pictures after the cut...

 And here they are the 2015 'WORST DRESSED LIST' by Dencia,More pictures after the cut...

D'banj has been commended by the president of World Bank,  Korean-American physician and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim for his devotion to the African Union's year of Women's empowerment, where he is encouraging global artists to raise awareness about poverty and other related issues.

D'banj has been commended by the president of World Bank,  Korean-American physician and anthropologist Jim Yong Kim for his devotion to the African Union's year of Women's empowerment, where he is encouraging global artists to raise awareness about poverty and other related issues.

Iggy Azalea managed to get people talking after she appeared on the Billboard Awards last night with a more pointed chin  compared to what it used to look like. People think she had a chin implant. Adding fuel to the fire, the rapper shared a photo of herself on her instagram page yesterday and wrote "Loving my new look.”.

Iggy Azalea managed to get people talking after she appeared on the Billboard Awards last night with a more pointed chin  compared to what it used to look like. People think she had a chin implant. Adding fuel to the fire, the rapper shared a photo of herself on her instagram page yesterday and wrote "Loving my new look.”.

 Nigerian music star, 2face Idibia is obviously not happy with governance in Nigerian. The singer woke up today, dropping a number of tweets aimed at changing the mentality of Nigerians and especially tasking the government to do a lot more than offering lip-service to the masses. In one of the tweets, 2face goes very direct, indicting governments at all levels by saying: ‘Since 1999 till date the government of Nigeria both federal and state have done nothing worth celebrating considering the amount of money stole.

 The rapper performed in this lovely outfit at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards which held at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 17 in Las Vegas. See more photos after the cut...

 The rapper performed in this lovely outfit at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards which held at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 17 in Las Vegas. See more photos after the cut...

This photo of president-elect Muhammadu Buhari shaking hands with Lara Oshiomhole has sparked a heated debate on Twitter.

Some say that the handshake was inappropriate from the viewpoint of some Islamic tenets.

While others see nothing wrong with the handshake.How do you feel about it?.

This photo of president-elect Muhammadu Buhari shaking hands with Lara Oshiomhole has sparked a heated debate on Twitter.

Some say that the handshake was inappropriate from the viewpoint of some Islamic tenets.

While others see nothing wrong with the handshake.How do you feel about it?.