One of the hallmarks of the B’DAY Era was Beyoncé forming her all-female band, The Suga Mamas.
The band toured with Beyoncé from 2007’s The Beyoncé Experience, all the way through 2014’s On The Run. The band was also present for some of Beyoncé’s most iconic moments like Glastonbury & Super Bowl XLVII.
They also appeared in music videos like Green Light, Irreplaceable, Countdown & Blow.
Katty Rodriguez (Sax) & Crystal Torres (Trumpet) are still touring with Beyoncé to this day.
Tupac's murder went unsolved for 27 years. Then the man in the front passenger seat published a memoir about that night, and a Las Vegas jury just needed 3 hours to convict him.
Here's the wild part. Duane "Keffe D" Davis had already confessed to police back in 2008, and it was legally useless. He talked under a proffer deal, the "queen for a day" arrangement where investigators promise nothing from the session gets used against you. Detectives heard the full story of September 7, 1996 and couldn't touch him.
So Davis walked. For over a decade, the only living person from that Cadillac was free, protected by his own confession.
Then he started selling the story. TV interviews. YouTube sit-downs in 2017. And in 2019, a memoir called Compton Street Legend, where he put himself in the car and named his own nephew as the shooter.
The proffer only protected what he said inside that interview room. A book published for profit has no Fifth Amendment protection. The judge ruled the memoir independent evidence, the case got reopened, and in 2023 Davis became the only person ever charged in the most famous cold case in music history.
There was no weapon, no DNA, no other living eyewitness. The prosecution's case was two dozen witnesses plus hours of Davis narrating his own crime. His defense was that he invented all of it for money.
The jury took under 3 hours. He faces life, sentencing October 13.
Police couldn't close the case with 27 years of investigation. His book royalties closed it in one memoir.
My thoughts on the reunion.
Trinity ate!!!
Not enough Carl and Aniya
Not enough Zach lashings for him being messy
Mel cleared her set
Sol is pussy ass latto
Too much screen time for Jaiden and Caleb
Not enough sincere lashings
Amora still delusional
Bea strange
Did Melanie antagonize Sol and was being standoffish? Absolutely. But after they had that conversation it was put to rest and Sol enjoyed her time with Sincere until he didn’t pick her. She resented Melanie for that instead of Sincere, that’s what makes her weird. #LoveIslandUSA
They centered this whole reunion around Melanie. That’s how you know Mel was the IT GIRL from this season! Everyone wanted a moment with her and she cleared her set. Give her her 10’s #LoveIslandUSA
Once again, if Gizelle was the greatest reality star that some people swear she is, she would address her own shit with Candiace and self produce herself in a scene with her own problems with her own castmates, but instead she will forever instigate on other people to avoid having to face her own shit as always, lol, she could have had a huge moment with Candiace for this episode, another example of her not bringing anything that pertains to HER on camera #RHOP