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Rapper Da Brat has been steadily on the rise with her ‘comeback’ after serving jail time over a club brawl but she’s now facing a severe financial setback.
If you recall, the rapper was ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages back in 2014 to Shayla Stevens, the former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader she smashed in the face with bottle back in 2007 .
Welp, Shayla wants her dough and now she’s filed several garnishment documents in an attempt to secure payment.
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ATL Live on the Park presented it’s October 2016 edition last Tuesday evening.
The popular monthly LIVE music showcase, created by Shanti Das and Marlon Nichols is held at Atlanta’s Park Tavern and features established and emerging artists.
[FLASHBACK: Ludacris, Silkk The Shocker & More At ATL Live on The Park (Sept 2016)]
This weeks lineup featured Torion Sellers, Cornbread and Victor Jackson and was hosted by radio personality Ed Lover.
Attendees included Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat, A.J. Johnson, Gary With Da Tea and more.
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It’s official! Comedian/radio personality Rickey Smiley has landed his own reality show.
Smiley tried his hand at a scripted series based on his life a while back (click HERE if you missed that) but it didn’t do too well, and now he and Roger Bobb are trying again… this time without a ‘script’.
TV One recently announced that Smiley’s show is in production and the hour-long show featuring the syndicated morning show host and stand-up comedian will be titled “Rickey Smiley For Real.”
The new reality show will reportedly follow Smiley as he navigates the “ups” and “downs” of professional demands, single fatherhood, and intimate relationships.
Shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, where he resides during the week, and in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where he raises his family, Smiley’s struggle to find work-life balance while trying to maintain a love life will be a central focus of the series.
[Sidebar: Pretty soon there will be no one in Atlanta without a reality show! *sigh*]
More details about Rickey Smiley’s new reality show below… Continue Reading…
Just the other day, I revealed that Claudia Jordan (formerly of The Real Housewives of Atlanta) had lost her 2nd job in as little as 30 days.
[READ: Twice Unemployed: Claudia Jordan FIRED from The Rickey Smiley Morning Show… ]
In my post, which you can read above, many of you expressed your desires to hear rapper Da Brat onair as a regular addition to The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.
Welp… it appears the Gods heard your cries because now Da Brat has been named as Jordan’s permanent replacement on the popular radio show!
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Details about Da Brats new blessing below… Continue Reading…
Word on the curb is that Demetria McKinney, the up & coming pop star/friend of the show on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, may have ‘borrowed’ the track for her ‘Keep it 100’ single (ft. Da Brat) from an up & coming gospel artist.
Demetria performed her song during the RHOA girl’s trip in Puerto Rico (click HERE if you missed that).?Well, that nationwide tv exposure may have exposed her single to a bit of scrutiny.
I received the following ‘Hot #RHOA Tea’ via email a few days ago…
from: (Name Removed)
to: StraightFromTheA
date: Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:51 AM
subject: HOT #RHOA TeaThe song (100 ft Da Brat) that the new girl Demetria Mckinney keep signing on the Real Housewives Of Atlanta, She stole it from a gospel artist name Uncle Reece and he did it better…lol
Facts: Look at the dates the videos was published
Also spotted poppin’ bottles at the popular Atlanta nightspot was NFL baller Victor Cruz (NY Giants), Atlanta ‘housewives’ Claudia Jordan & Demetria McKinney and?rapper?DaBrat.
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