Eve attends the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail The Queens at Lincoln Center on July 11, 2016 in New York City.
Andrew Toth/FilmMagicCongratulations are in order for Eve, who announced Friday (Oct. 15) that she's expecting her first child with husband Maximillion Cooper.
"Can you believe it @mrgumball3000 we finally get to tell everyone!!!!!" she captioned two photos of the stylist MC showing off her baby bump, which both her and Cooper's hands caressed in the second shot. "You all know how long we’v [sic] been waiting for this blessing!!! We get to meet our lil human February 2022."
The 42-year-old rapper, who has been married to Cooper since 2014, is already a stepmother to his four children from a previous marriage: Lotus, 19, Jagger, 17, Cash, 15, and Mini, 13. Cooper shared the same set of images on his Instagram account, "Very excited to share this news… we have a lil human on the way!"
Swizz Beatz, who signed Eve to his Ruff Ryders label imprint Full Surface Records in the '90s, commented, "Congrats Queen" before joking that he and wife Alicia Keys were "the God parents." The megawatt producer is serving as the executive music producer of ABC's new series Queens, starring Eve, Brandy, Naturi Naughton and Nadine Velazquez as a '90s girl group called the Nasty Bitches trying to shine once more in the spotlight.
Naughton wrote underneath Eve's post, "Yessss!!! I’m so glad it’s out! Congratulations girl!!! soo happy for you guys." Trina also sent an arrangement of orange heart emojis after the two went head-to-head in a Verzuz battle back in June.
See Eve's precious announcement below.
Metallica bassist Jason Newsted says he is now “free and clear” after facing throat cancer.
The 63 year old musician, who played with the Enter Sandman legends from 1986 through 2001, has shared details of his diagnosis publicly for the first time. He explained that doctors discovered it early, and on May 8, 2025 he “underwent a procedure” to treat the condition.
Speaking on the Let There Be Talk podcast, he said: “They took a bunch of s*** outta here and then they went in with lasers this way and took a bunch of s*** out.
“So the cavern inside my head is different than it was, but we got it early. And I got my ‘free and clear’ about three weeks ago. So I beat it.”
Jason contributed to several of Metallica’s most iconic releases, including 1988’s ...And Justice For All, their self titled 1991 album, 1996’s Load, the 1997 follow up Reload, and 1998’s Garage Inc.
After going through his cancer experience, the bassist made a point to slow down and actually give himself time to recover instead of constantly pushing forward.
He explained: “I promised myself I was going to rest, and that was the first time I’ve done that in my life.
"I’m usually just on or off. And so I promised myself I was gonna take the gravity off and lay down for the right amount of hours."
The health scare also led Jason to give up smoking weed and drinking alcohol, something he admits he likely would not have done otherwise.
He added: “The great spirit got my attention and said, ‘That’s not good right now, man.’ And so it pulled me off it.
"And so now I’m more clear-headed than I’ve been in my entire adult life. And so there’s blessings within everything. The lemonade I’m making this summer, bro — mm. Sweet. Ooh.”
Jason has previously said that his unexpected departure ultimately helped Metallica continue moving forward, while James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich later admitted they struggled to process his decision at the time.
Lars told Apple Music in 2021: “Jason is the only member of Metallica who has ever left willingly. And that in itself is a statistic.
"And the resentment from James and I was just so… 'You can’t do that. You can only leave if we want you to leave'.
"And then we weren’t equipped at the time to do a deep dive into why he was leaving. So of course, now you can see 20 years later, it makes complete sense.”
