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Soulja Boy, the Grammy-nominated rapper, appeared in a California courtroom Thursday for the first day of his civil trial involving allegations he beat and raped a woman while she was working as his personal assistant for nearly two years, ending in late 2020.

The “Crank That” artist, whose real name is DeAndre Cortez Way, denies the allegations. In opening statements, his lawyer said the evidence will show Way never hired the woman, who sued anonymously as a Jane Doe. He said the two had a consensual romantic relationship that overlapped with...

Gerren Taylor, a model who starred in the late 2000s BET reality series “Baldwin Hills,” died Sunday at age 30.

“The entire BET family mourns the passing of one of our own, Ms. Ashley Gerren Taylor, beloved star of BET’s Baldwin Hills,” the network said in a statement on Monday. “The untimely passing of such a young, bright light is difficult to process. BET’s thoughts and prayers go out to Ashley’s friends and family during this time.”

The cause of death was not immediately known, though Essence reported that Taylor had previously been battling lupus.

An L.A. native whose given name was Ashley Taylor Gerren, she appeared in all three seasons of “Baldwin Hills” from 2007 to 2009, one of a group of Black teenagers from the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of the city. She also appeared in the 2007 documentary “America the Beautiful,” about the challenges of female body image in contemporary society.

On the next episode of Marriage Boot Camp: Love & Hip Hop Edition, Soulja Boy and Nia Riley are in the hot seat. Judge Toler springs a surprise lie detector test on them and the Love & Hip Hop couple may have some explaining to do when they get their results back. In this exclusive Marriage Boot Camp clip, we can see Judge Toler asking Soulja Boy and Nia Riley which questions they want to ask of their partner. Soulja Boy starts out simple, just wanting to know of Nia, “Do you love me?” Then, Judge Toler brought up another […]

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Will these couples make it or break it? We tv just announced a new season of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition will debut in January.

The documentary series follows prominent couples from the world of hip hop as they take a two-week break to work on their relationship with therapists. This season features Waka Flocka and his wife Tammy Rivera, Jessica Dime and her fiancé, professional basketball player Shawne Williams, Soulja Boy and Nia Riley, and Lil' Mo and her husband, boxer Karl Dargan.

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