Rickey Smiley Morning Show Podcast

NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl champion, AJ Brown’s car was stolen. Brown sent a message out on social media and urged the person to return his car before he finds it himself.  

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Tamar Braxton has joined the RSMS crew, so they dubbed this a Tamar Tuesday. Tamar Braxton discusses being a mom while being on tour with October London. Tamar Braxton also talks about her mom, her family and new music. 

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Kanye West has put himself in the news again. Ye released some tweets, and a new song entitled, “Cousin.” In the tweets and the song, he spoke about finding pornographic magazines with his cousin and then he started performing sexual acts to his cousin from the age of six to fourteen. 

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Former NFL tight end and current media personality, Shannon Sharpe is being sued for rape and assault. A former female friend of Sharpe’s has claimed that she was raped and assaulted by him on many occasions. The unnamed woman is being represented by Tony Buzbee, who was under scrutiny for hos mishandling of Jay-Z's sexual assault case. 

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Award winning actor, Sheryl Lee Ralph has received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sherly Lee Ralph is celebrating close to fifty years as an entertainer. She spoke about the blessing of people showing up for her when she received her star on the Walk of Fame. 

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LeBron James is defending his wife Savannah James on social media. This is after rapper Kevin Gates saying he would not want to be LeBron James because he does not think that Savannah gawks at LeBron like the white women do. LeBron responded by a social media post with him and his wife “not responding to peons.” 

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Jermaine Dupri was on a podcast, and he was speaking about working with Xscape. Dupri said that it was hard to break them because people thought that the group was unattractive. It made things worse when The Notorious B.I.G. called them ugly in one of his songs.  

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There is some sad news coming out of the Vatican City. They have confirmed that Pope Francis has passed away at eighty-eight years of age. Pope Francis was appointed to the papacy in 2013 and was the first Latin pope. The funeral date has yet to be set.  

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The ex-wife of hip-hop icon DMX, Tashera Simmons, joins the RSMS crew. Simmons speaks about her new memoir, “Dying to Self,” which describes her marriage to the late great rap superstar. 

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Bobby Brown was not done spilling all of his thoughts on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast, Club Shay Shay. Bobby Brown said he did not like the song Britney Spears did when she sampled his song, “My Prerogative.”  

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In sad news, a mass shooting at Florida State University took the lives of two people and injured six others. The suspected shooter is the son of a Florida sheriff and used their police issued firearm to commit the shooting. 

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Rapper Wale has credited fellow rapper and friend J. Cole for getting him out of his writer’s block. He said after talking with J. Cole, and Cole telling him to meditate, he was able to make a song after. 

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Men, particularly black men have been taught not to share emotion. It has caused men to struggle with mental health issues. Faith based psychologist, Dr. Alduan Tartt joins the RSMS crew to talk about men’s mental health and what is the definition of masculinity.  

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There are people that are online saying that Jeff Bezos’ flight from his company, Blue Origin, to space was not real. Earlier this week, Gayle King, along with Katy Perry and a crew of all women took Bezos’s spaceship to space for eleven seconds and returned to Earth. Now people are saying that it was never a real flight, and they never went into space. 

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Marvin Sapp is not letting his controversary go away without capitalizing on it. Pastor Marvin Sapp is releasing a new song entitled, “Close the Door.” This is after the distinguished Bishop made news after telling ushers at a church service to close the doors and have the congregation donate $40,000. 

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