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The Breakfast Club Faces Backlash for Having Russell Simmons as a Guest

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8 months agoon
The Breakfast Club receives heavy backlash on Twitter today after having mogul, Russell Simmons on the show. Simmons’ appearance on The Breakfast Club follows the release of the HBO Max documentary, On the Record. The documentary speaks out and exposes him for being an alleged sexual predator. On the Record features over 20 women who accuse Simmons of sexually assaulting and abusing them.
When asked by Charlamagne tha God whether he watched the doc, Simmons said, “I have not watched it.” Then continues to say that he’s guilty of being a “playboy” and believes the appropriate title of his actions should be “womanizer.”
Two of Simmons’ victims, Drew Dixon and Sil Lai Abrams, took to Twitter to air out their frustrations with the interview.
THIS. And @SheriSher_Bx alluded to the rape in her book in 2007. I also told many friends right after it happened but assumed I’d be blackballed, so before @MeToo happened, I assumed he’d get away with it and I’d carry it to my grave. Thank God we didn’t. Thank God we’re free. https://t.co/PegdU0OLa0
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
Teaching your daughters to have “boundaries” and say “no” won’t protect them from rapists like you @UncleRUSH I said “NO”… “STOP”… “PLEASE”… “I’M BEGGING YOU”… and CRIED, while you ripped off my clothes, pinned me down and told me to stop fighting. Fuck all the way off.
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
To be CLEAR @cthagod @breakfastclubam Your boy @UncleRUSH was stone-cold sober when he raped me. He tricked me. Said he’d ordered me a car. Told me to pick up a demo while I waited. Minutes later he emerged naked, wearing a condom and RAPED ME while I said NO, fought, and cried. https://t.co/yofn0VNmnQ
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
This is a TOXIC mess. @UncleRUSH is a serial rapist, and many of his victims are Black women. Yet @cthagod gives him a platform in the midst of a noble quest for Black liberation. We'll never get this foot off of our necks as Black people, if we don't love ourselves. https://t.co/8bZUr4JFpd
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
This is miserable. @breakfastclubam has hosted dignified guests like @KamalaHarris and my college classmate @CoryBooker and now allows the man who raped me, @SheriSher_Bx, and @Sil_Lai to smear our character and spout lies.
— Drew Dixon (@deardrewdixon) June 10, 2020
I guess Black women don’t matter after all. ???
Thank you to everyone who is calling out @breakfastclubam for choosing to have an *alleged* ? serial rapist on their show this morning to talk about how #BlackLivesMatter
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I'm waiting on my invite to come on your show to discuss my *allegations* @breakfastclubam @angelayee @cthagod @djenvy pic.twitter.com/sGN0nk14Ls
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
.@breakfastclubam has Russell Simmons on their show *as we speak* to kiki it up with a man credibly accused of rape & attempted sexual assault to promote his book
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
This is what we’re up against, folks. The abject silencing & erasure of his survivors and his history of violence https://t.co/Rh3POn2e5x
Let’s have a public conversation about my allegations @unclerush. Instead of you declining to be interviewed for @OnTheRecordDoc and then using friendly outlets like @breakfastclubam to allow you to speak unchallenged.
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I wrote about the rape in my first and second books. 2007 and 2016 respectively. The rape occurred in 1994. My first book was published in 2007. It took me 13 years to share my story-albeit withholding your name because I didn’t want my platform connected with his. Do better math https://t.co/hILIbaFCwn
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
I feel nauseous. Like, seriously sickened by this @breakfastclubam interview and I didn’t even listen to it.
— Alecto AKA Sil Lai Abrams (@Sil_Lai) June 10, 2020
This is so damn traumatizing.
People on Twitter also expressed their displeasure of The Breakfast Club having an alleged rapist on the show.
Russell Simmons is not the first sexual abuser The Breakfast Club has had on and he won't be the last.
— Kimberly Nicole Foster (@KimberlyNFoster) June 10, 2020
The Breakfast Club let Rush Limbaugh on, then followed up with Russell Simmons. I’m convinced they will let anybody on air
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 10, 2020
The same Russell Simmons that stepped down from all his companies & moved out of the country when multiple violent rape cases were opened against him? That “Uncle Rush”? https://t.co/PSPWIjgN0k
— Majesty Ria (@ToriNicksWho) June 10, 2020
If you want to understand how Black women survivors are silenced, look no further than how the broader hip hop community has closed ranks around Russell Simmons, blacklisted his accusers, and given him a megaphone to retrigger them. This is beyond unacceptable. https://t.co/uvVkm2yGPa
— Evette Dionne (@freeblackgirl) June 10, 2020
Why? Would you have Harvey Weinstein on? Cause that’s who Russell Simmons is. Turning your back on the women who have been brave enough to speak out… pic.twitter.com/wdrh0QhzP2
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) June 10, 2020
The breakfast club still interviewing Russell Simmons who fled to Bali to avoid being extradited for his crimes ?
— ? #JusticeforShukriAbdi (@JustSabina_) June 10, 2020
Breakfast Club: We would never interview or play songs from R Kelly
— I’LL SLAP YO AZZ JUS CUZ OF SLAVERY (@WhattUpJT) June 10, 2020
Also Breakfast Club: Russell Simmons will be on the show tomorrow morning
The Breakfast Club continues to be the worst. After Black women held onto their stories for decades, the hosts decide to bring Russell Simmons on their show. I would say "unbelievable" but what else can you expect from that show?
— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) June 10, 2020
Russell Simmons is saying a lot to say absolutely nothing & The Breakfast Club was the wrong platform to address a subject of this severity — rather you feel he’s guilty or not!
— Miyoncé (@Miata_Shanay) June 10, 2020
I can’t stand how they’re just letting Russell Simmons ramble in this interview with The Breakfast Club. They’re not really pressing him on these lame ass excuses he’s giving, especially regarding why he’s in Bali.
— Marie Chellie ??? (@marie_chellie) June 10, 2020
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Rolling Ray Undergoes Surgery After Wig Catches On Fire
Published
3 days agoon
January 19, 2021
Social media star Rolling Ray underwent surgery Tuesday morning to help treat the burns on his body after his terrible wig accident last week.
In a series of IG stories, he let his audience follow along as hot prepped for surgery.
Last week Rolling Ray announced he was hospitalized after his wig caught on fire! During a January 13 Instagram Live session from inside a hospital room, he showed his severely burnt and damaged face telling viewers he burnt his “whole skin, legs, arms, feet, and everything.”
Prayers for Rolling Ray 🙏🏿 pic.twitter.com/d6PwlLbrlI
— TheShadeRoom (@TheShadeRoom) January 14, 2021
y’all @DMVMOSTFAMOUS rolling ray is in the hospital because he was in a fire. send him prayer omg it looks so bad.🙏🏽❤️ pic.twitter.com/fm4oGyrzqM
— willow☯️🌙 (@IAMABLACKCHILD) January 14, 2021
In a more recent Live, Rolling Ray explained what happened that led to his whole wig catching on fire. Apparently, it was just an unfortunate smoking accident. “It just, like, lit on fire when I tried to light the cigarette,” he recounted. “So I get to trying to snatch the wig off. B***h, the fire goes to my f*****g shirt, to my feet, to my legs, to my back. It’s a fire everywhere, it’s a fire in the whole room.”
#RollingRay made headlines last week after it was revealed that he accidentally let himself on #fire. Now he says that the incident occurred while he was trying to light a #cigarette. pic.twitter.com/AlkoI8IjGy
— talksandthought (@Talksandthought) January 19, 2021
Of course the internet trolled him in a disgusting display of ableism and heartlessness. Comments like “Rolling Ray should have stopped, dropped, and rolled”and “karma’s a b***h” had social media split about his accident. His social media sensation comes from his harsh and, often, below-the-belt reads (just last month he told Yung Miami to “dig (sic) up” her dead baby father). However, the criticism didn’t stop him from responding on Twitter.
I miss y’all 🥺! See y’all soon, if this what Karma feels like she should’ve came harder because I’m alive while others still dead. God loves me 😍! Imma bounce back
— RollingRay!!! (@DMVMOSTFAMOUS) January 17, 2021
Rolling Ray might be problematic as all get-out, but we do not tolerate ableism here. We wish him well as he heals.
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On Tuesday singer-songwriter and “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino took to social media to reveal that she is having a baby girl, her first child with husband Kendall Taylor.
In a series of Instagram stories, Fantasia showed pink fireworks being shot off during a gender reveal party, to her and the hubby’s excitement! She continued by sharing what her daughter-to-be’s name will be, Keziah London Taylor.
The news comes after the couple revealed they struggled to conceive since their marriage in 2015. During a November episode of her IG Live show “Taylor Talks,” she described continuously praying for a child with her husband. Fantasia, a deeply devout Christian, was obviously elated when she shared the news.
BIG announcement 💜🎉 pic.twitter.com/z8zJAZNZUU
— Fantasia • #SketchbookOutNow (@TasiasWord) November 25, 2020
“God I Want To Thank You!” she said in an Instagram caption. “You Gave Us A Seed even when the Doctor said that one of my Tubes [was] Closed you said Different. @salute1st I Love You King and I can’t wait to see who He or She acts Like.”
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We can see Fantasia and family are all super excited to be welcoming a baby girl into their lives. All congratulations to her.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Are Getting Divorced, Report Says
Published
2 weeks agoon
January 6, 2021
In a story published Tuesday evening, Page Six is reporting that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting divorced, with the two already in settlement talks. The news comes after the couple spent the holiday season separately – Kanye at his ranch outside Cody, Wyoming, Kim and the kids with her famous family in southern California.
A source close to Kardashian was quoted saying, “Kim got Kanye to go up there so they could live separate lives and quietly get things sorted out to separate and divorce. She’s done.” Kardashian, 40, and West, 43, are said to be splitting because of marital problems directly related to Kanye’s very public mental health struggles.

For several years the rapper’s various antics have caused fans to worry. After coming out as a Trump supporter, West then announced his own 2020 presidential bid under a new political party: the Birthday Party. At a campaign rally in South Carolina, he was seen rambling, debating individual audience members, and at times, crying. In various interviews, he has rambled on almost incoherently, and his tweetstorms are now infamous.
For her part, Kim has always supported her husband and has openly discussed the difficulties of their marriage. Back in June, she shared on social media, “Anyone who has [bipolar disorder] or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand… People who are unaware or far removed from this experience can be judgmental and not understand that the individual [themself] have to engage in the process of getting help no matter how hard family and friends try.”

It appears she has finally reached her limit in the union with the unnamed source saying, “She is serious about taking the bar exam and becoming a lawyer, she is serious about her prison reform campaign. Meanwhile Kanye is talking about running for president and saying other crazy s**t, and she’s just had enough of it.”
Separately, a source close to Kanye alleges that the rapper is sick of his wife and her family, which might have some truth to it since he has tweeted some pretty nasty things in the past. “I been trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek at the Warldolf [sic] for ‘prison reform,’” he said in a now-deleted July tweet. Recently, he hasn’t been featured on his wife’s Instagram and has largely remained out of the public eye.

With the news yet to be confirmed, the “divorce is imminent” reports are just rumors for now. We’ll be following the news as more information comes out.
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