The ruling settles a weeks-long fight over whether OG 3Three, whose real name is Roderick Jean-Pierre Jr., could be safely released ahead of trial. A magistrate judge granted him bond on Sept. 18, but prosecutors quickly asked for that order to be stayed and reviewed by Tipton. They argued Jean-Pierre posed both a danger to the community and a flight risk, pointing to his alleged conduct during the incident at the center of the case, previous arrests, and what they described as past problems complying with bond conditions.

Tipton ultimately declined to disturb the earlier decision. Jean-Pierre’s attorney, Cordt Akers, seized on the result as a rejection of the government’s characterization of his client. “Now not one but two separate federal judges have determined Mr. Jean-Pierre is not a danger to anyone,” he told Complex. “When we get our day in court, we expect a jury to do the same.”

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Prosecutors And The Defense Tell Different Stories About The Houston Incident

Jean-Pierre faces federal charges of aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery and aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm during a crime of violence. The charges stem from an April confrontation at Confessions restaurant in Houston involving AllStar JR and NBA Ben10 that escalated into gunfire. NBA Ben10 suffered a spinal injury that authorities described as irreversible paralysis.

What Jean-Pierre allegedly did during the confrontation remains heavily disputed. Prosecutors have argued that video shows him brandishing a firearm and assaulting AllStar JR, and they cited the footage while pressing the court to keep him detained. His defense offers a narrower account, maintaining that Jean-Pierre was present but did not participate in the alleged robbery. Akers has said his client threw four punches during a later fight and left before AllStar JR allegedly shot NBA Ben10. AllStar JR is separately accused by federal authorities of possessing a handgun during the April shooting.

Monday’s bond ruling did not resolve any of those competing claims. Tipton’s decision determines Jean-Pierre’s custody status, not his guilt or innocence, and the criminal charges against him remain pending.

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Hottieween will land at Zouk Nightclub at Resorts World Las Vegas from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. The 21-and-over event currently lists general admission at $125, with a portion of proceeds benefiting Megan’s Pete & Thomas Foundation. Drinks from her Chicas Divertidas Tequila brand will also be part of the night.

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Hottieween Heads To Vegas

The Vegas stop also continues Megan’s tradition of turning Halloween into a full production rather than simply showing up in a costume and calling it a night. Her Pete & Thomas Foundation had Hottieween events in Chicago in 2024 and Houston in 2025, with both celebrations also supporting the organization’s charitable work.

Her seasonal rituals have become nearly as recognizable as the party itself. Megan kicked off October by reviving her annual pumpkin-head photoshoot, this time adding a blonde wig to the carved pumpkin look. Fans heading to Vegas have been given one instruction that matters most: come dressed accordingly. With Cirque du Soleil involved and Megan promising to take Hottieween into “another dimension,” subtle probably isn’t on the dress code.

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That was apparently enough for some corners of social media to start connecting dots that Chanté herself never drew. According to TMZ, Drake representative Melissa Nathan called the claims “inaccurate” and said his team could “completely and unequivocally” deny that he fathered the child.

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Why Drake’s Name Entered The Conversation

The theory didn’t materialize out of thin air, even if the conclusion proved unfounded. Chanté and Drake have known each other since their teens, and both have discussed their early romantic history publicly.

During his 2022 Toronto concert, Drake brought Chanté onstage and introduced her as his first girlfriend, describing her as someone he still loved deeply. Their connection goes back well before either became an established name in Canadian music, and Chanté has since spoken warmly about their longtime friendship. Billboard Canada has also noted their shared personal history when revisiting her appearance at the 2022 event.

That history, coupled with Chanté’s reference to the baby’s father having a studio ready for their son, appears to have fueled the online assumption that Drake was involved. Chanté, however, never named the rapper or suggested publicly that he was her child’s father. She also made her actual relationship status clear enough in the pregnancy announcement. “Mommy & Daddy are so excited to welcome you into the world,” she wrote, confirming that the child’s father is part of the picture without revealing who he is.

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Release Date: October 6, 2026

Genre: Hip-Hop

Album: MEGAN ACT III

Quotable Lyrics from Is You Cool?

Too rare to compare, Brazilian hair (Brazilian hair)
Look pretty with makeup, pretty in bare (Pretty in bare)
These b****es be hatin’, the reason is clear (Reason is clear)
A b***h really pressure, I stay in the mirror (Yeah)

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Even Slime Language 3 has suffered from some bloat. However, his recent YSL tour has been doing well, and there is renewed interest in the label’s lineup. Going into next year, Young Thug wants to drop some new music, and he has some big plans on the horizon.

For instance, in a recent interview, Young Thug revealed that he may very well be on the verge of dropping some new music with Drake.

“We got a few songs… We finna drop, finna do what we gotta do,” Thugger said.

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Young Thug Is Prepared

Elsewhere, Young Thug revealed that he is thinking of coming through with an R&B album. It feels as though Drake could be the perfect fit for such a project. However, he did make it clear that this new project will be s*xual in nature.

“I’m going real R&B,” he explained. “Most of the songs are like s*xual though, it’s probably 2 or 3 heartbreak songs. Most of them are just like fun times, but it’s R&B, though.”

New Young Thug music is always an exciting prospect, but if he can’t get back to the old version of himself, then perhaps that excitement won’t exist for much longer. In a world where rap is losing mainstream influence, an artist like Young Thug is being looked to as a potential fix. Only time will tell whether or not he can be the change hip-hop needs.

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While in Los Angeles for ComplexCon, DJ Akademiks was interviewed by none other than Adam22. It was during this conversation that Akademiks revealed the consequences of some of his comments over the years.

Namely, he believes some record labels are completely petrified of him. The commentator told Adam that labels see him as a kingmaker. Someone who could blow an artist up with a co-sign. In that same breath, he is someone who can derail an artist if he decides to get on their bad side.

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DJ Akademiks On Record Labels

“They make it sound like I’m just snapping my fingers,” Akademiks said. He cited comments from Lil Baby and Meek Mill, who have said that Akademiks’ comments have led to missed opportunities and bags.

Meek famously stated that Akademiks put a stop to a $1 million budget that he had. Ak has even been told that labels are telling their artists not to beef with him. If they do, it can lead to serious backlash from fans, which then impacts how the label will want to promote the artist.

Adam22 noted that if he was told something like that, it would inflate his ego to a truly insane degree. “You can’t tell me that. That’s not a diss to me. You’re amplifying me when you tell me that,” he said.

Needless to say, if you are a young artist, stay away from Akademiks. It could cost you that major label debut.

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This co-sign from K-Dot has proven to be immense for AZ Chike’s career. Going into the release of No Rest For The Wicked, there was all kinds of interest. This is especially true as some fans felt as though a Kendrick Lamar feature was inevitable.

In the end, there was no Kendrick feature to be found, and some felt as though the artist did AZ Chike dirty. However, Chike himself doesn’t feel that way. He recently revealed that there was never a Kendrick verse to begin with. Meanwhile, on The Shop, AZ Chike revealed how Kendrick’s co-sign not just impacted his career, but his life as well.

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AZ Chike On Kendrick

“You got to know who you are before you f*** with them, and if you don’t, they going to see right through you,” AZ Chike said. “That’s what the co-sign mostly did for me. I had to find out who I was. I had to destroy who I was and rebuild from there.”

All of this just goes to show that Kendrick Lamar is an artist with lots of power. He can help make or break a career with just a few quick comments. Putting AZ Chike on “Peekaboo” worked out well for everyone involved, and now, Chike remains a prominent name in West Coast rap.

While some are going to continue to be critical of the way Lamar moves, there is no doubt that the people he’s helped are grateful.

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By now, Brown’s children are familiar names to longtime fans. Royalty grew up inside his career, Aeko arrived during an on-and-off relationship, and Lovely entered a family dynamic that has since become much more public. Then, Jada’s presence added another dimension, especially after her pregnancy became snarled in the existing tension between Brown and one of his children’s mothers before their son was born.

The women behind these relationships each have a different history with Brown, and those histories matter. They didn’t all enter his life the same way, nor have they occupied the same space since becoming mothers to his kids. There have been romances, blurred timelines, breakups, custody battles, reconciliations, and enough social media crossfire to make an uncomplicated “who’s who” considerably less simple than it sounds.

Nia Guzman & Royalty Brown

Royalty Brown arrived in May 2014, but the world would not learn she was Chris Brown’s daughter until the following Spring. By then, Brown was still entangled in his famously on-and-off relationship with Karrueche Tran, which made the paternity news considerably more explosive than a simple birth announcement. Tran later said she learned online that Brown had fathered a child with Nia and described the revelation as the final blow after years of trying to repair their relationship.

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Now, Nia was not exactly a stranger who had wandered into Brown’s orbit overnight. Reports at the time described the two as having known each other for years, and TMZ reported that Royalty was conceived in 2013. Brown publicly embraced fatherhood once the news broke, sharing photos of Royalty in April 2015 and later naming his seventh studio album Royalty after her. The transition, however, was anything but smooth. He and Nia spent much of those early years arguing over custody, child support, and what she believed was a safe environment for their daughter. Brown was granted joint custody in September 2015, though their disagreements continued publicly after that.

Time appears to have cooled at least some of that friction. Nia, who once openly criticized Brown’s parenting and the people around him, has more recently struck a very different tone. During his latest dispute with Diamond, she defended Brown as a father, saying he “goes above and beyond” for his family and describing him as “very present” and “very active” in his children’s lives. Given how loudly the two once disagreed over Royalty, that endorsement carries a little extra weight.

Ammika Harris & Aeko Catori Brown

If Nia’s chapter came with court dates and public sparring, Ammika Harris has mostly occupied the quieter corner of Brown’s family life. The model was first romantically linked to Brown in 2015, not long after his relationship with Karrueche Tran imploded, and the two resurfaced together years later at Paris Fashion Week in January 2019. Exactly what they were to each other tended to remain slippery. Dating, exes, back together, maybe not. The labels moved around more than either of them seemed interested in explaining.

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What became definite was Aeko Catori Brown, born November 20, 2019. Brown confirmed his son’s name weeks later with a photo of himself holding the newborn’s tiny feet. Their first year as parents came with an unusual complication when Ammika and Aeko were in Germany as COVID-19 travel restrictions separated Brown from his son for months. They eventually reunited in 2020, and whatever happened romantically between the adults, they settled into a comparatively low-drama public rhythm around Aeko.

Ammika has largely kept that same energy. Even when Brown’s latest dispute with Diamond pulled his other co-parents into the fray, she prefaced her defense by making it clear that online family warfare is not usually her ministry. “I don’t involve myself in nonsense but come on now,” she wrote, before adding that “all of the children are very well taken care of by their dad.” For someone who generally keeps her distance from the noise, stepping into it at all said plenty.

Diamond & Lovely Symphani Brown

Diamond entered the picture at one of the blurrier stretches of Brown’s romantic timeline. The model was first linked to him in 2019, when she attended his 30th birthday party and began appearing around him more regularly. The timing raised eyebrows because Ammika was pregnant with Aeko that same year, although Brown and Ammika’s relationship status was never especially easy to pin down. Diamond and Brown were reportedly casual for a time, with her occasionally joining him on tour.

Lovely Symphani Brown was born on January 7, 2022. Brown did not immediately address the speculation surrounding her paternity, but by April, he publicly acknowledged Lovely with a photo on his Instagram Story. For a while, Diamond and Brown appeared to keep their co-parenting arrangement relatively quiet. That peace did not hold.

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By 2026, the relationship had spilled into court. Diamond filed a paternity case in April, saying Brown had already acknowledged Lovely through a voluntary declaration, and asked for legal and physical custody while proposing visitation for him. Brown countered by seeking joint legal and physical custody.

Their disagreement has since become the loudest of Brown’s current co-parenting relationships. Diamond alleges that during a six-to-seven-month stretch, he did not ask to see Lovely. Brown agrees he has gone seven months without seeing his daughter but says Diamond is the reason why. She later shared texts she said showed her inviting him to see Lovely during New York Fashion Week, arguing that the problem is not simply access. With court filings, Instagram rebuttals, back-and-forth spats, allegations of threats, and now alleged receipts entering the conversation, whatever quiet arrangement they once had is long gone.

Jada Wallace & Chris Brown’s Youngest Son

Months before her place in Brown’s family tree became official, she had already spent plenty of time hovering around the edges of his public love life. The model and influencer was linked to Brown by late 2024, with sightings together becoming more frequent through 2025 and into Paris Fashion Week the following January. Still, the pair kept the relationship mostly to themselves, which made the pregnancy rumors surrounding Jada that much louder.

Diamond helped blow the door open in February 2026. Amid a social media fight with Brown, she referenced him having another baby on the way, prompting Jada to jump into the argument herself. Jada accused Diamond of keeping Lovely from Brown, while Diamond pushed back and dragged Jada’s pregnancy into an already combustible exchange. At that point, neither Jada nor Brown had publicly confirmed they were expecting.

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Two months later, there was little left to speculate about. Jada announced the birth of her son in April, sharing photos of the newborn while Brown celebrated in her comments. She has since shown that she has no problem speaking up when Brown’s parenting is questioned. This blowup with Diamond prompted Jada to tell her to stop being “ungrateful” and “miserable,” insisting that Brown’s children and their mothers are well cared for. Quiet relationship, loud defense. Apparently, both can be true.

Four Mothers, Four Very Different Stories

The count is easy, but the history behind it is not. Calling Nia, Ammika, Diamond, and Jada Chris Brown’s “baby mamas” may be convenient shorthand, but it flattens four very different relationships into one messy little label. One began with a paternity revelation that helped end another romance. Another has remained intentionally difficult to define. One is now tangled in an increasingly public custody fight, while the newest addition spent months existing mostly in rumor before becoming part of the family for good.

Brown’s family tree has grown in public, sometimes gracefully and sometimes with the whole internet standing nearby holding popcorn. What connects these women is not one shared experience with him, but the fact that each relationship has evolved on its own terms. Judging by how quickly one co-parenting dispute can pull the entire family into conversation, those branches are still very much alive.

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Since then, the two have eased up on their tensions. However, that isn’t stopping Akademiks from giving his two cents on how Meek is conducting business. During a conversation with Trap Lore Ross, Ak actually gave Meek some advice about booking rates and how to become relevant again.

Akademiks began the conversation by alleging that he has insider information about what Meek’s booking rate is. He claims that Meek is asking $300K to do festivals like Rolling Loud. However, that’s the kind of money a headliner would make, and there aren’t any festivals willing to make Meek their main attraction.

Based on the way these festivals do their budgets, an artist like Meek Mill would be overlooked entirely, as the interest-to-cost ratio just doesn’t make sense anymore.

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DJ Akademiks On Meek Mill’s Booking Price

Akademiks then went on to say that there is a very real solution here. If Meek were to drop his booking rate to $70K, he would be getting penciled in at these festivals a lot more often. He could be placed in the mid-tier billing, and fans would get to see him live again.

It’s an interesting analysis of the situation that certainly makes logical sense. However, you must first trust Akademiks’ premise that Meek is, in fact, overcharging for his current services.

These last few years have not been easy for Meek. However, he has classic records, and no one can ever take that fact away from him.

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This new special releases on Wednesday, October 7 on Hulu and Disney+. As part of the marketing for the special, the multitalented actor has been going on the interview circuit. On Monday, he even did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, where he spoke about a plethora of topics.

For instance, he was asked about platforms like Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay. A whole host of comedians have done the show, including Katt Williams. Foxx, on the other hand, won’t be doing the show anytime soon, even if he sees the appeal.

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Jamie Foxx On Shannon Sharpe

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“It seems like you get in trouble,” Foxx said. “It seems like if you don’t say something really crazy, you can’t really affect the algorithm.”

His comments are more of a criticism of the internet than they are of Sharpe. When your show lives on a place like YouTube, the algorithm rules all. It’s ultimately why the Katt Williams interview was such a success.

However, Foxx is an interesting enough personality to not have to play those games. Surely a nice and normal interview between the actor and Sharpe could do some serious numbers, especially in light of what Foxx has gone through lately.

Regardless, it is just nice to see Foxx healthy again. He is a legend of music, television, and film, and the world is a better place when he’s doing his thing.

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