Categories
Music

WATCH: Lainey Wilson Welcomes A Mini Version of Her Fiancé ‘Duck’ On Stage During Las Vegas Concert

Lainey Wilson’s fans always show up in style for her live shows, but one young cowboy at her Vegas concert stole the spotlight, creating an unforgettable moment.

During her recent run of shows, Wilson has made it a tradition to bring a young female fan onstage to be crowned the “Cowgirl of the Night.” At her T-Mobile Arena concert during the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas on Sunday, Dec. 7, she added a new twist, welcoming another fan who instantly caught her eye to join her on stage as well.

Photo Courtesy Lainey Wilson
Photo Courtesy Lainey Wilson

While scanning the crowd, the Louisiana native took notice of a boy who was dressed up as someone very near and dear to her heart – her fiancé, Devlin “Duck” Hodges. The fan was seen sporting a pair of blue jeans, a camo hat, a fake mustache and a black long sleeve that had “duck” written in white letters across the chest, making it very clear that he was trying and replicate the former NFL player’s signature look.

Wilson pulled the boy on stage at the perfect time in the setlist as she sang the upbeat “Yesterday, All Day, Every Day,” a song that portrays her love story with her fiancé. The tune finds Wilson sharing a look into the night they first met in 2021 at Nashville’s Silverado Dance Hall & Saloon after being introduced by a mutual friend. With playful, vivid lyrics, she recounts that magical night want goes on to wish that she could relive it again and again.

“Yesterday all day, every day/ Stuck in a loop like Punxsutawney/ No tock on the ticker, I don’t wanna change/ Twenty-four more of you loving on me,” she delivers on the chorus.

Holding the young boy’s hand, she twirled and danced around the stage, singing the heartfelt track. Once she gently escorted him offstage, she returned to the mic to finish the song on her own. In the midst of the permeance she jokingly told the crowd, “I’m marrying a man named Duck…y’all keep him in your prayers.”

“Yesterday, All Day, Every Day” appears on the expanded version of her GRAMMY-winning album, Whirlwind, which arrived on August 22. The five additional tracks also includes “Bell Bottoms Up,” “King Ranch, King George, King James,” “Somewhere Over Laredo” and “Peace, Love, and Cowboys.”

Lainey Wilson and the real “Duck” are currently in the midst of wedding planning, following their engagement back in February. He popped the question on the porch of the late country legend George Jones’ estate in Franklin, Tennessee, and she said “yes.”

Devlin Duck Hodges, Lainey Wilson; Photo Courtesy Lainey Wilson
Devlin Duck Hodges, Lainey Wilson; Photo Courtesy Lainey Wilson

Along with wedding planning, the multi-PLATINUM singer, songwriter has a lot more on her plate as she prepares to extends her headline tour in 2026. The new dates will include stops across Australia and New Zealand with special guests Flatland Cavalry and Kaitlin Butts on select dates.

A full list of upcoming dates can be found on Lainey Wilson’s official website.

The post WATCH: Lainey Wilson Welcomes A Mini Version of Her Fiancé ‘Duck’ On Stage During Las Vegas Concert appeared first on Country Now.

​Country Now

Categories
Hip Hop

Jennifer Lopez Stuffs Stockings In Spandex & Everyone Loses It

Jennifer Lopez just turned a simple holiday chore into a full-body flex, dropping a new video that shows her stuffing a Christmas stocking while casually reminding everyone why she’s still one of the most sculpted women in entertainment, at any age.

The clip appears innocent at first: J Lo walking around her home, a cozy cropped sweatshirt on top and leggings on the bottom.

But once she steps in front of the fireplace, the whole tone switches. Her abs are carved, her waist is tight, and her backside looks like it was trained by a Navy SEAL and a Pilates instructor at the same time.

Every move, reaching, stretching, stuffing the stocking, turns into another reminder that her gym routine is not theoretical. It’s visible.

This isn’t filtered, staged promo either. It’s a candid-style moment inside her house, the kind of thing most people do in pajamas. Jennifer does it, looking camera-ready and athletic to the point of disbelief.

View this post on Instagram

The leggings don’t just fit; they cling. Her glutes don’t just show; they sit high and locked, as if they’ve never taken a day off. And there’s a reason she’s pushing this hard right now.

J Lo is deep into preparation for her upcoming Las Vegas residency, set to kick off in 2025. She’s been training nonstop, rehearsing choreography, building her stamina, and maintaining the kind of shape required to perform multiple shows a week under Vegas lights.

Sources close to the production have said the residency will be one of her most physically demanding yet, with heavy dance numbers, costume changes, and a setlist leaning into her most energetic hits.

So this new video isn’t just holiday content. It’s a preview. Jennifer’s body looks stage-ready and she seems totally dialed in.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Waka Flocka Flame Snaps On Diddy After Watching 50 Cent Doc

Waka Flocka Flame unloaded on Diddy when he got stopped at LAX being questioned about watching Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning, calling the Hip-Hop mogul a “monster” over claims he played a role in Tupac’s murder.

The Atlanta rapper was caught by TikTok creator Joy of Everything and wasted no time being honest about how he felt after watching the four-part docuseries produced by 50 Cent.

“With all that bread, that boy a monster. That could be my own brother, and I would never f### with him a day in my life,” Waka said, standing in the airport, clearly disgusted.

@joy.of.everything

We talk with Waka Flocka Flame about 50 Cent’s Diddy documentary The Reckoning, and his reaction says everything. Flocka makes it clear that if the allegations are true, Diddy is a “monster,” and even if he were his own brother, he’d disown him. As a 2Pac fan, Flocka says that if Diddy had anything to do with what people have long suspected, then it’s game over.

♬ original sound – Joy Of Everything

If you haven’t watched Sean Combs: The Reckoning yet, it’s been fanning flames online since it dropped. The series digs into decades of dark accusations against Diddy, including claims he helped fuel the deadly East Coast vs. West Coast beef and might have had a hand in the murders of both Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

One episode zeroes in on Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former Southside Crip boss who got locked up in September 2023 for his alleged role in Tupac’s 1996 killing.

In his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend, Keffe D claimed Diddy offered $1 million to have both Tupac and Suge Knight killed. He also said he passed the gun to his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, the guy who allegedly pulled the trigger. Anderson was killed two years later in 1998.

Diddy’s legal team has been on defense, slamming the Netflix doc as a “shameful hit piece” and accusing the streamer of using “stolen footage that was never authorized for release.”

Waka, who’s always shown love for Tupac, made it crystal clear where he stands.

“I’m a 2Pac fan,” he said. “That n#### did anything to Pac, it’s f### him for life. Everybody that love that n####, it’s f### him.”

Meanwhile, Diddy is currently locked up at Fort Dix in New Jersey, serving a 50-month sentence for transporting two male escorts across state lines.

Keefe D has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder with the use of a deadly weapon and remains in custody. His trial is set take place in 2026.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Jay-Z Drives Massive $500M Bet On Korean Culture

Jay-Z’s MarcyPen Capital Partners unveiled a sweeping cross-continental play at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, rolling out plans for a $500 million fund aimed squarely at the soaring global demand for Korean culture.

The new vehicle, MarcyPen Asia, is designed to zero in on South Korean lifestyle and consumer brands that are ready to scale far beyond their home base, marking a striking fusion of Hip-Hop hustle and K-Pop culture momentum.

A majority-owned MarcyPen team based in Seoul will steer the effort as the fund targets growth-stage companies in entertainment, beauty, food and lifestyle. These are the sectors riding the wave of Korean influence that has swept across music, film and fashion in the past decade and shows no signs of slowing.

MarcyPen and Hanwha Asset Management will pinpoint opportunities on the ground in South Korea and create new pathways for Korean companies seeking to break into international markets.

MarcyPen Asia also reflects the broader philosophy of the firm co-founded by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Jay Brown, Larry Marcus, Robbie Robinson and D’Rita Robinson. From its headquarters in Beverly Hills, the investment group has consistently sought out companies positioned at the crossroads of culture, creativity and commerce.

This latest move extends that strategy into one of the most influential cultural engines in the world.

If the partnership succeeds, it could become a bridge between East and West that doesn’t just push brands into new markets but reshapes how cultural capital is invested.

By aligning Korean innovation with MarcyPen’s entertainment pedigree, the fund signals a new era of cooperation fueled by audiences who now consume art, beauty and lifestyle without borders.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Man Busted For Attempted Murder In Jets Star Kris Boyd Shooting

The 20-year-old Bronx man who allegedly gunned down New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd outside a Manhattan nightclub now faces attempted murder charges that could send him to prison for decades.

Frederick Green surrendered to Buffalo police on Monday after the Regional Fugitive Task Force tracked him to his girlfriend’s apartment. He had been hiding there for nearly a month since the November 16 shooting that left Boyd fighting for his life.

The shooting happened around 4:30 A.M. outside Sei Less restaurant on West 38th Street. Boyd and teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood had just left the upscale establishment when they got into a verbal dispute with another group.

“There’s a group outside who begin to, their words, begin to ‘chirp them’ about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them: ‘Do you think you’re better than us?’” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

Boyd didn’t like the “vibe” inside the restaurant and only stayed about 10 minutes. But when the Jets players walked back outside, the same group confronted them again with verbal insults.

That’s when Green allegedly fired two shots. One bullet struck Boyd in the abdomen, traveled into his lung and lodged in his pulmonary artery. The 29-year-old cornerback was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition.

Doctors successfully removed the bullet from Boyd’s lung. He later posted on Instagram, thanking fans for their support: “I’m coming along, starting to breathe on my own now. Sincerely appreciate everyone!”

The suspect refused to answer questions about why he shot Boyd or whether he knew the victim played for the Jets.

Green has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Boyd remains on injured reserve for the Jets. The shooting occurred just as the team was fighting for a playoff spot in what many considered a make-or-break season.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Diddy Vowed To Drug & Pimp Out Danity Kane, Says Ex-Bodyguard Gene Deal

Gene Deal’s just dropped explosive information that Diddy threatened to “drug” Danity Kane on the heels of Aubrey O’Day’s emotional scene in 50 Cent’s documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning.

The former bodyguard’s disturbing revelations connect directly to O’Day’s emotional breakdown in the documentary, where she learned for the first time about witness testimony alleging she was assaulted by Diddy and another man at Bad Boy studios in 2005.

“This s### is so crazy…because I heard him say it. But to know that he was doing it, it’s a whole nother f###### thing,” Gene Deal told The Art of Dialogue. “He said it. ‘I’ma drug them out and pimp them out to my n#####, they keep f###### with me.’ And he was talking about Danity Kane as a group. He didn’t single out any one of them. But to hear that he did it, that s### is crazy to me.”

Gene Deal’s interview becomes even more chilling when viewed alongside Aubrey O’Day describing how she appeared “sprawled out on a leather couch, looking very inebriated” during the alleged assault.

“Does this mean I was raped? Is that what this means?” O’Day asked through tears in the documentary. “I don’t even know if I was raped, and I don’t want to know.”

Deal’s allegations suggest O’Day’s condition that night wasn’t from voluntary drinking. The former bodyguard revealed he was disturbed after watching O’Day in the documentary.

To then hear O’Day’s text message confirming she was drugged and that Diddy was having sex with her was upsetting for him, as he realized the verbal threats he had heard were actually carried out.

“It makes you feel sick. I guess I wasn’t looking for it. But to see her pain, and to see that she had to experience some s### like that. The n#### was doing a lot of that s### right under your nose on the days that you wasn’t working or the days that you left early or you wasn’t around,” Deal said.

Aubrey O’Day has long maintained she was fired from Danity Kane for refusing Diddy’s sexual advances.

“I absolutely felt that I was fired for not participating sexually,” she stated in the Netflix documentary. The singer also revealed sexually explicit emails Diddy sent her while she was in the group, saying, “This is your boss at your work sending you that email. What happens in real life to anyone else? Your boss gets fired. Six months later, I was fired.”

The former bodyguard also revealed Diddy’s pattern of inappropriate behavior extended beyond Danity Kane.

Deal mentioned that Diddy “tries everybody,” recounting how Diddy “tried me before” by having two women in bed and inviting him to join. Deal declined the offer.

The revelations add another disturbing layer to the mounting allegations against Diddy, who was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison in October after being convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

He was acquitted of more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

The Netflix documentary Sean Combs: The Reckoning, executive-produced by 50 Cent, premiered on December 2 and features never-before-seen footage of Diddy discussing his legal troubles just days before his September 2024 arrest.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Diddy Prepares $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Netflix, Per New Report

Diddy is moving toward a massive courtroom fight as he and his family prepare a $1 billion defamation lawsuit against Netflix in a clash that goes back to the most watched documentary on the platform right now. The rumored development arrives as attorneys for the Combs family push back at explosive claims featured in the 4-part series executive produced by 50 Cent.

The Netflix special has dominated viewing charts with more than 25 million streams and ignited a storm of allegations about the Hip-Hop mogul’s personal life. The project includes accusations that Diddy abused women, assaulted male employees, forced the Notorious B.I.G.’s family to cover funeral costs and even slapped fired out of his mother Janice Combs. Those claims traveled fast across social media as the series gained traction.

Representatives for Biggie’s estate contacted Media Take Out directly and disputed the suggestions about funeral expenses. According to the estate, the idea that Combs made the family pay for the legendary rapper’s funeral is completely false. The allegation is being described as inaccurate and unsubstantiated.

READ ALSO: Diddy’s Mom Says He Never Slapped Her, Trashes 50 Cent’s Diddy Doc…

Janice Combs’ team followed with their own response after the documentary included claims that Diddy mistreated his mother. Her representatives rejected the narrative entirely and called it “deeply hurtful” and “fabricated,” adding fuel to the Combs family’s argument that Netflix allowed harmful material to flourish.

Inside Diddy’s camp, people familiar with the situation insist the project was built on unreliable interviews and misleading statements that mischaracterize his life at a critical moment.

One insider told MTO, “This documentary was made to assassinate his character. It isn’t journalism — it’s entertainment.” Their position is that the series goes beyond sensationalism and crosses into defamation as it presents what they view as fiction dressed up as fact. Interesting.

Behind the scenes, the family has hired one of the country’s most powerful firms with plans to seek at least $1 billion in damages, the source says. Sources say the number could rise if Netflix refuses to retract certain claims. If the case moves forward, it would eclipse the high profile $750 million defamation settlement reached in the fallout over the 2020 election. That comparison alone underscores how far the Combs family is willing to go.

Presently, Netflix stands behind the program while 50 Cent continues to comment online, creating a volatile mix of views, memes and more making this a complete spectacle. What began as a docuseries could become a legal showdown that could reshape celebrity defamation battles for years. Le Sigh.

I guess the fans will wait and see.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Jeremy O. Harris Free After Three Weeks In Japanese Custody Gettings Busted With MDMA Haul

Jeremy O. Harris walked free Monday after spending three weeks in Japanese custody following his arrest at Okinawa’s Naha Airport for allegedly attempting to bring MDMA into the country.

The Tony-nominated playwright and actor was detained on November 16 when customs agents reportedly found 780 milligrams of MDMA in his tote bag, according to a spokesperson for Okinawa Regional Customs.

Harris, 36, was not formally charged and has since been released, his representative said. The writer of “Slave Play” plans to remain in Japan to continue research for a future project.

Before his arrest, Harris had been preparing to attend the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia to promote his indie road movie “Erupcja,” which features Charli XCX. His scheduled appearance was canceled after his detainment.

Japan is known for its rigid drug laws, with even minor drug offenses often leading to prolonged detention and legal consequences.

In a high-profile example, Paul McCartney was arrested in 1980 for marijuana possession and subsequently banned from the country for years.

Harris rose to prominence with the provocative Broadway hit “Slave Play” and has since expanded his reach into television, portraying fashion designer Grégory Elliot Duprée on Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.”

He’s also appeared in HBO Max’s “Gossip Girl” reboot and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

The Grouch Reflects On Aesop’s Death As Living Legends Solider On With Christmas Tour

The Grouch is at his Los Angeles home taking a couple of well deserved days off—kind of. With the second leg of the annual How the Grouch Stole Christmas Tour starting Thursday (December 11) at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California, there’s still a lot to do. As he tells AllHipHop, he’s been “wearing a lot of hats:” driver, merch supervisor and performer, to name a few.

But at this point, Grouch is well seasoned, having launched his music career in the 1990s. He’s gone on dozens of tours, performed at countless venues and traveled around the world with his Living Legends brethren—only this time, there’s one missing.

In August 2025, Derrick McElroy, better known as Aesop the Black Wolf or simply Aesop, died suddenly, leaving the rest of the Living Legends—Luckyiam, The Grouch, Eligh, Bicasso, Sunspot Jonz and Scarub—in shambles. Just 50 years old at the time of his death, Aesop wasn’t supposed to go and the tight knit Hip-Hop collective was by no means ready to say goodbye.

Despite the massive, soul-crushing loss, the Living Legends have soldiered on, honoring Aesop every chance they get, whether it’s with tribute t-shirts, photos, video montages during concerts, social media or his verses. But each show is a challenge in its own way.

“Now that Aesop’s not here, I got to take out his verse or add it, and it’s just been a lot for me,” Grouch explains. “But it’s what I signed up for.”

View this post on Instagram

That’s the easy part. Living Legends performed with Atmosphere, Hieroglyphics, Dilated Peoples, Immortal Technique and CunninLynguists at the historic Red Rocks Amphitheater in September, mere weeks after Aesop’s death. The air was heavy with grief though there was a sense he was there in spirit. That continues to happen on occasion but, of course, a Living Legends show will never be the same.

“We got a tribute part to him in the show,” he says. “But just being on stage and him not being there that’s an obvious thing. We’re missing a person that’s been with us for 30 years. Even staying at some of the hotels we’ve stayed at or being in some of the cities—all these different triggers that can spark a memory of him are just hitting right and left. Sometimes I just block it out, and sometimes it’s just deep and I’m like, ‘Whoa, he’s really not here.’ I just miss his spirit. I miss his laugh.”

Still, without Aesop—who had a huge, colorful personality and truly cared about the people in his life—the vibe has shifted.

“We include his verses on some of the songs, but it’s obviously not the same,” Grouch adds. “Part of me feels like, ‘Oh, he’s on stage with us.’ There’s moments where something will happen and I’ll be like, ‘Oh yeah, like he’s here.’ I love that but, it’s a big void.”

View this post on Instagram

Thankfully, Grouch has his fellow Legends to lean on. For this year’s iteration of How the Grouch Stole Christmas Tour, he’s enlisted Souls of Mischief and CunninLynguists to round out the bill. They, too, have proven to be good support systems. Some of their friendships, in fact, stretch back decades.

“I always try to get a creative lineup,” he says. “A lot of years I tried to do a younger artist and an older artist. I’ve tried a couple things and this time we were just like, ‘Let’s keep it a golden era, underground hip-hop lineup. The Souls of Mischief thing is really huge because I went to high school and even junior high with a couple of the guys.”

In many ways, The Grouch exists because of them. He explains, “They were in a grade higher than me and they were cooler than me, so I didn’t really know them. But I was inspired by them in real life, watching them on Yo! MTV Raps, seeing them sign to Jive Records and have their initial success. I was super inspired. It gave me a feeling that if these guys from my hometown and my actual school can do it, then maybe I can do it, too.”

He adds, “The power of them creating, what I believe is, one of the best Hip-Hop songs of all time,’93 to Infinity,’ those guys are Hip-Hop royalty. To have them on the same stage as us in 2025 is a beautiful blessing.”

Living Legends’ latest album, The Return, was released in 2023. The How the Grouch Stole Christmas Tour wraps up December 20 in Salt Lake City. Find a list of tour dates above.

​AllHipHop

Categories
Hip Hop

Ja Rule Vows To Sue 50 Cent As Social Media War Erupts Over Diddy

Ja Rule threatened legal action against 50 Cent after the rapper posted a controversial video to his 36 million Instagram followers involving a salacious story about Ja and Diddy in a hotel room.

The post featured a clip from The Art of Dialogue, in which Diddy’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, recounted an incident in North Carolina involving Ja Rule, Diddy, and two women.

According to Deal, Ja’s cousin tried to enter a hotel suite where Ja and Diddy were allegedly behind closed doors. Deal said he blocked the cousin, who then tried to force his way in, prompting Deal to throw him into a piano.

“Puff and Ja Rule run out the room, Puff got his towel, Ja grabbing his towel, but they butt naked. Ja was like ‘yo what’s going on, yo Gene that’s my cousin.’ Puff’s like ‘Yo Gene, what happened. I said, ‘he tried to get in the room. I told him he couldn’t get in the room.’ Puff looked at Ja. Ja said, “You ain’t want to go in that room because there’s a lot of freaky s### going on.”

In the original clip, Gene Deal suggested Puff and Ja Rule were playing with butt plugs the Bad Bad founder had purchased in New York earlier in the day.

Ja Rule blasted 50 Cent for reposting the clip, calling it defamatory and threatening to take him to court. “I thought jug head was smarter than that, posting a blatant lie to your millions of minions SLANDER and DEFAMATION… DUMMY!!! Lawsuit on the way…”

The feud reignited as the Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning stirred public scrutiny around Diddy’s alleged history of abuse. Ja Rule accused 50 Cent of exploiting the situation for profit and clout, not justice.

On X, formerly Twitter, Ja called 50 “a cancer to the culture” and demanded he donate proceeds from his Diddy documentary to domestic violence organizations, which 50 Cent is already doing.

Ja Rule also resurfaced past allegations against 50, including a 2013 domestic violence case involving Daphne Joy and later accusations she made and dropped, of rape and assault.

“50 is no different,” Ja wrote, suggesting that 50 Cent could easily be the subject of his own exposé. He hinted at creating a documentary of his own, stating there’s “a lot to unpack” about 50 “allegedly.”

Ja also shared old photos of 50 Cent and Diddy together, accusing 50 of hypocrisy and calling him a “dry snitch” for constantly exposing others.

“He always telling on somebody,” Ja said.

As of now, 50 Cent has not responded directly to Ja Rule’s threats or the “cancer to the culture” remark. The clip remains online.

​AllHipHop