Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About Tory Lanez Shooting

Megan Thee Stallion has been relatively quiet lately about the 2020 shooting incident that forced her to get surgery on both feet and left fellow rapper Tory Lanez facing a maximum sentence of 22 years and eight months in state prison if convicted of the crime.

However, with the case headed to trial in September, the Houston rapper and entrepreneur is once again breaking her silence on what happened that night following internet backlash that has mostly kept her mum on the subject other than an April interview with CBS’ Gayle King.

"I want him to go to jail,” Megan Thee Stallion told Rolling Stone in a no-holds-barred interview published Wednesday. “I want him to go under the jail.”

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The 27 year-old-rapper, who is the cover model for the magazine's July/August Hot Issue, elaborated on what happened that night and decried the role social media played in denying her victimhood.

"In some kind of way I became the villain," she said. "I wonder if it’s because of the way I look. Is it because I’m not light enough? Is it that I’m not white enough? Am I not the shape? The height? Because I’m not petite? Do I not seem like I’m worth being treated like a woman?”

Megan Thee Stallion, who previously stated that the catalyst for the incident was an argument that broke out between her, Lanez, and her ex-best friend Kelsey Harris as they left a pool party because the rapper was "ready to go, and everybody else wasn't ready to go, was scared that she would not be able to be herself anymore after the shooting.

"What nobody knows is, I had to get the surgery the same night. I stayed in the hospital in California for maybe four days," she said, adding that after her hospital stay she wasn't able to walk.

Megan Thee Stallion added, "I still have bullet fragments in my feet right now." Lanez, whose real name Daystar Peterson, was ordered into custody by a judge in April after he violated a protective order by harassing Megan Thee Stallion online. The judge said some of his tweets appeared to be direct messages to the star, but he was released hours later after posting bail.

The pretrial hearing is scheduled for July 28, with the trial set to begin Sept.14.

TMNT Game Features New Track by Ghostface Killah and Raekwon the Chef

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Fans of the Foot and Wu-Tang Clans rejoice.

Tribute Games is releasing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge this month, and it appears to be the best kind of throwback.

Publisher Dotemu says the latest release in the long-running turtle's franchise "gnarly game design takes you back to the ’80s," and with most of the original voice cast on board the nostalgia is thick. But for music fans its the inevitable joining of forces with New York's other greatest martial arts family that delivers the hype.

Wu-Tang's Ghostface Killah and Raekwon the Chef's contribution of “We Ain’t Came to Lose" to the soundtrack cements the ties between dysfunctional warrior brotherhoods while at the same time offering franchise fans something Vanilla Ice's "Ninja Rap" could never do — a certifiable TMNT banger.

Peppered with bars harder than a roundhouse kick to the head the track elevates ninja-rap to an art form:

With heroes in the half shell going to war, got the city on the siege and they holdin’ the fort, got extra-large pizza boxes all on the floor, get sized up by negative thoughts, your time’s up on whatever you thought, individual starvin’ the floor, so the samurai’s sword on point for the course, dangerous metals, high like the rain and Terra, the twilight meets the brain of Shredder, all for one and trained together…

The move comes seven years after the Pharma Bro, Martin Shkreli, caused a great imbalance in the music world's Chi by snapping up the only copy of the Wu-Tang Clan's last album "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" — which at the time meant most of us would be dead by the time the group's seventh studio effort would be commercially available (2103) thanks to an ironclad purchaser's agreement.

Following Shkreli's incarceration for securities fraud "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" was seized by federal agents to help pay his debts and eventually sold in 2021 to crypto collective PleasrDAO for $4 million. PleasrDAO said they hoped to make it more widely accessible, but until then this effort from two of the group's finest should help satiate Wu-Tang fans' thirst for new music from the Slums of Shaolin. 

Preview the entire track below.

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Jennifer Hudson Joins Rare Club With Tony Win

Jennifer Hudson sings the Star Spangled Banner to start the Concert for Valor in Washington, D.C. Nov. 11, 2014. (DoD News photo by EJ Hersom)

Jennifer Hudson's meteoric rise from "American Idol" contestant to entertainment force of nature continued Sunday at the 75th annual Tony Awards.

The 40-year-old singer and actress earned a Tony for her role as a co-producer of the best musical winner "A Strange Loop."

With the victory, the star, whose portrayal of R&B icon Arethra Fraklin in 2021's "Respect" was heavily lauded but did not earn her Oscar consideration, joined one of Hollywood's most elite clubs.

absolutely iconic that Jennifer Hudson got her Emmy wearing an "EGO" ring, and now she just won a Tony to complete it, becoming the 17th person in history to EGOT pic.twitter.com/73SDZN7p09

— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 13, 2022

Hudson became just the 17th person, and second black woman, along with comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg, to reach EGOT status. The rare accomplishment requires an artist to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award in their career.

Hudson joked to People magazine in 2020 about one day joining the small group of EGOT winners.

“I got a dog and named it Oscar, and then I won my Oscar. And then I got a dog and named it Grammy, and then I won my Grammy,” she said. “So I think I should get some dogs and name them Emmy and Tony — and it’ll give me good luck, and I’ll win [They’re] like my good luck charms.”

By then she was well on her way to accomplishing the goal. In 2007 she earned her Oscar for her breakout role in "Dreamgirls," Grammys followed in 2009 (best R&B album for her eponymously-named studio debut) and 2017 (best musical theater album for the musical "The Color Purple"), and in 2021 she earned a Daytime Emmy for her work on the animated short "Baba Yag," which she helped voice and co-produced, to set the table for her latest triumph.