Singing sensation, Summer Walker is in hot water over Toronto show

Singer Summer Walker made a huge splash in the music industry this year with her debut album Over It, but it seems that fans have not been happy with her in-person appearances, including her concerts.

Toronto fans claim that Walker’s highly anticipated Monday night concert was a nightmare as she had been more than three hours late. According to Billboard, angry fans took to social media citing how they braved the frigid Toronto temps while seeing Walker post photos hanging out with Drake and London On Da Track earlier in the night.

 

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Billboard also reported that when Walker finally came on stage, she performed for under an hour at the further disappointment of waiting fans.

— Summer Walker drops highly anticipated debut album ‘Over It’

“Summer Walker is really on a field trip while her fans in Toronto are getting hypothermia. You hate to see it,” one Twitter user wrote.

Summer Walker is really on a field trip while her fans in Toronto are getting hypothermia. You hate to see it 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/CGTu0HwT8O

— J (@SAsumptions) November 26, 2019

Another user took a screenshot of what looked like Walker’s Instagram stories and said, “The fact that summer walker had the audacity to post too is what’s sending me…talkin bout ‘I love Toronto.'”

The fact that summer walker had the audacity to post too is what’s sending me 😭😭😭😭😭 talkin bout “I love Toronto” pic.twitter.com/F2DPDob8Jk

— Alaa™️ (@ga1aaxy) November 26, 2019

Someone else tweeted, “Summer Walker is corny. Mental health and social anxiety is one thing but having your fans wait in the cold while you stroll around Toronto & posting it is wild unprofessional.”

Summer Walker is corny. Mental health and social anxiety is one thing but having your fans wait in the cold while you stroll around Toronto & posting it is wild unprofessional

— Jelecia (@WhyUMadThough) November 26, 2019

There was so much outrage that Walker decided she had to defend herself. The singer took to Instagram Live on Tuesday to explain what happened:

“Y’all don’t even know what goes on behind-the-scenes. I had to fire my sound team twice,” she said. “I couldn’t find my passport and birth certificate. I had to be up at 5 a.m. to go to two different offices to get a new passport and birth certificate. By the time I got to Toronto, all I had time to do was check-in, wash my a–, and get to the venue. I didn’t even know I was motherf—–g late.”

“I go on stage when I’m told to go on stage,” she continued. “Drake told me he was going to come to my show, and I told him not to come because I suck. He comes — very grateful and nice man. He’s extremely sweet. The thing is, we only spoke for two minutes. Him, Meek, and some other n—s walked in. We say hello and take a picture. We probably exchanged about two sentences and then they said, ‘Summer, it’s time to go on stage.’ I did what I was supposed to do. If I had known motherfuckers were waiting for four hours, I would’ve apologized.”

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This is not the first time Walker had to defend herself when it came to fan outrage. She recently revealed that she suffers from social anxiety, which caused her to cancel two dozen tour dates. Though some fans found her mental health struggles relatable, there were many others that wondered why she would choose to be famous in the first place, according to ESSENCE, one of the critics was none other than Wendy Williams.

“I can’t even accept an award in peace,” Walker on Instagram Live. “You see how I spoke…I was scared. Everyone else gave a long ass speech. I didn’t because I have social anxiety. “I just want to let y’all know—not me b-tch because I’m living a great life—but this is how people commit suicide. When people tell you what’s literally going on with them and then people still continue to bully them.”

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The oldest living American, Alelia Murphy, dead at 114

Just months after celebrating her 114th birthday, Harlem resident, Alelia Murphy has passed away.

Murphy’s granddaughter Nefer Nekhet confirmed that her grandmother died on Saturday. The health care workers union, 1199SEIU, for which Nekhet is a member, released a statement on Wednesday announcing Murphy’s passing.

“It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of Mrs. Alelia Murphy,” the statement read.”Mrs. Murphy was the oldest living American, having celebrated her 114th birthday in July, surrounded by her family, friends, community leaders, and members of our AFRAM Caucus.“

— Two of the five oldest people in the world are African-American women

According to CNN, Murphy, who was born in North Carolina in 1905, moved to Manhattan at the peak of the Harlem Renaissance and her involvement with community organizations, and her church over the years made her a local icon. After being widowed in 1953, she continued to support her children as a seamstress.

In July, her 114th birthday celebration in the Harlem neighborhood she had lived in since 1926 made national headlines as she was named the oldest living American. Murphy was surrounded by friends, family and the community that loved her dearly. July 6 had also been declared “Alelia Murphy Appreciation Day.”

— Pharrell promises class of Harlem graduates internships next summer

During the ceremony, New York state Sen. Brian Benjamin dubbed Murphy a “Harlem landmark.

“She is the glue that holds this family together,” Nekhet said of her grandmother at the time.

Though Murphy did not speak at the ceremony, she did have family reveal that she believed she had reached her major milestone because of God and “being a good person.”

According to CNN, Hester Ford of North Carolina, who also was born in 1905, now holds the title of the oldest living American.

Happy birthday Hester Ford! 🎂 The Charlottean turns 113 today and she may be the oldest living person in the U.S. https://t.co/Gie7wa5OcR pic.twitter.com/7oBViksRMb

— The Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) August 15, 2018

As of Friday afternoon, it is not clear if officials have determined Murphy’s cause of death.

We send out sincerest condolences to Murphy’s family.

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From Carmen to Nefertiti, J'Nai Bridges Is the Next Big Voice in Opera

Amid the surrealist sets, majestic costumes, soaring voices and intricate harmonies of the Met Opera’s current revival of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten, based on the 17-year reign of the revolutionary 18th Dynasty Egyptian king, one of the most striking elements is that of his famed queen, Nefertiti.

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T.I. and Tiny discuss prison in part 2 of Red Table Talk

The highly-anticipated episode of Red Table Talk with rapper T.I. had his wife Tiny by his side, was expected to address the controversy surrounding comments about the “Top Back” rapper’s daughter. Part two of the episode will be just as dramatic as part one, as the couple addressed life after T.I. returned home from prison.

In clips posted to the Red Table Talk Facebook page, T.I. and Tiny are seen in a second part of their now infamous “hymen gate” episode taking on the topic of how their relationship dynamics changed after the Atlanta rapper came home from prison. It is no secret that both artists have had their run-ins with the law. According to People, in October 2007, T.I. was arrested before the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta Georgia and charged with two felonies: possession of three unregistered machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.

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He was sentenced to one year and a day in prison. He reported to prison in May 2009 but was released seven months later. Then in 2010, both T.I. and Tiny was arrested on drug charges, which led to his 11-month sentence, which he served from Nov. 2010 until Aug. 2011.

“When I went to prison I guess she felt like, ‘Well now I have to figure out what I’m going to do. Because I don’t have you here to continue the protocols and practices that we established in the fundamental stages of this relationship.'” He said. “So when I got back the world was upside down. She kinda had an air like, ‘It’s my time.’ I thought we were going to hit the ground running and get back to things being the way they were.”

In a second clip, Tiny, who did not speak much in the first part of the episode, seemed to take offense to her husband’s perspective on her newfound voice.

“Once I got on my own two feet, I felt like I should have a voice too,” Tiny said, “and that voice, it was a little different than what he was used too. And that to me is what caused the issue. It wasn’t because I was being outlandishly disrespectful.”

T.I. attempted to interject, but his wife wasn’t having it.

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“If you recall,” she continued, “you could not move, you could not go anywhere. I was still in the house [because] I was still on probation doing all the things, but because I had a voice that was not so timid; to me this is my outlook on it.”

“This is her perspective,” host Jada Pinkett-Smith said as T.I. continued trying to interrupt.

“He felt like ‘this is not the woman I left,” Tiny said, “‘this is not the woman I wanted. If I tell her this she’s gonna listen and she’s going to do it the way I want her to do it. He went and found somebody where he could be like ‘hey, don’t move. Do that,’ and I was not her.”

— ‘Family Hustle’ trailer reveals T.I. and Tiny living in separate homes

In 2018, footage leaked online appeared to show the once self-proclaimed “King of the South,” cheating on Tiny. The couple addressed the video on their show The Family Hustle.

The dramatic episode will air Monday on Facebook Watch.

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NFL Superstar and Super Bowl Champ Richard Sherman Pays Off School’s Cafeteria Debt

Richard Sherman was already Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl superstar but now the NFL baller is a superhero for young students who’ve had trouble paying for meals at school.

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