Yung Miami has responded to allegations that she was a “sex worker” for Sean “Diddy” Combs. The City Girl was recently named in one of the several lawsuits filed against the rap mogul.
On Thursday (March 28), the Florida native denied being paid a monthly fee to provide sexual favors for Combs and others at his behest, a claim that was made by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who has accused Combs of coercing him into having sex with himself and others.
Seemingly responding to users on X that believed the allegations made against her were true, Yung Miami took to the social media platform to express her disbelief. “Y’all be going for ANYTHING,” the Caresha Please host clapped back in a post, with one user suggesting that the artist would do anything for $250,000, according to Jones’ lawsuit.
However, Yung Miami would deem the accusations as hearsay and the product of a rumor that originated online. “Something the internet made up and yall ran with it!!!” the 30-year-old responded. “Ni**as don’t even pay that for child support why tf would a ni**a ever pay me 250k for. FOR WHAT??”
Yung Miami has also provided proof that conflicts with Jones’ claims that she transported pink cocaine. The claim stated that she transported the drugs from Miami to Virginia at Diddy’s request prior to his appearance at the Something in the Water music festival in Virginia in 2023.
On that date, a video shows her in New York being measured and fitted for the custom dress she wore at the 2023 Met Gala, which she and Combs attended together. During the star-studded event, Diddy confirmed that he and Yung Miami are romantically involved, but don’t refer to each other as mates, just simply close friends.
“We definitely go together real bad!” he said when asked of their relationship status. “She’s my date for the night… We don’t put titles on it. Everybody wants us to put a title on it, we don’t put titles. This like my best friend in the world, one of the most beautiful people God has blessed me with. And I’m blessed that she’s my date tonight.”
Later that year, during an interview with Billboard, the “Act Bad” rapper spoke of how she attracted Combs’ attention, as the two have been linked together dating back to 2022.
“I don’t know ’cause people say that I wasn’t Diddy type,” the artist explained at the time. “But clearly, I am. So, I think that you just be yourself because people, they gravitate towards real. Like, so many people try to be something that they not. You just got to be yourself. I’m just myself. I’m just that b**ch and that’s how you just bag a n**ga.”
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Steve Albini‘s bands Shellac and Big Black now have their catalogues available for listening on Spotify.
Albini passed away aged 61 earlier this month due to a heart attack. He was well known for being the producer of major albums such as Nirvana’s ‘In Utero‘, Pixies’ ‘Surfer Rosa’, PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’, Manic Street Preachers‘ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ and more.
Back in 2022, the late producer took his music off the streaming platform. He had previously criticised the company for platforming anti-vaxxers such as Joe Rogan, and tweeted later that they were a “terrible company”, adding: “I don’t want to be part of their business”.
He later told Attack Magazine that Spotify was “one of the few places outside of record stores where recorded music can earn anything at all, and for bands [with] more generous, honest relationships with independent labels not part of the ownership trust, then the payments from Spotify, though meager per-play, can add up to a viable income stream. Nobody’s getting rich, but it could pay for the groceries.”
Now, it appears that Albini’s work with his bands Shellac and Big Black are now available to stream on Spotify. This include’s Shellac’s final album ‘To All Trains’, which was announced shortly before Albini’s death and was released last Friday (May 17).
Tributes have poured in for the legendary producer since the announcement of his death. Our NME obituary hailed him as “a lone voice of anti-industry punk scene ethics, even as he worked with major labels on some of the biggest names in alternative rock.”
Meanwhile, Foo Fighters dedicated a rendition of ‘My Hero’ to the late producer in Charlotte, North Carolina last week.
“Tonight I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend that we lost the other day, who I’ve known a long, long time,” Foos frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd. “He left us much too soon. He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. I’m talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. Let’s sing this one for him.”
PJ Harvey also said he “changed the course of my life” during sessions for her 1993 LP ‘Rid Of Me’., and Joanna Newsom dedicated a version of her song ‘Cosmia’ to him, who engineered her 2006 album ‘Ys’. See further tributes here.
Elsewhere, Yourcodenameis:milo spoke to NME about how the 20th anniversary of their LP ‘All Roads To Fault’ was made all the more profound by the passing of Albini, who engineered the album.
Remembering their time with the punk and production legend, Lockey said: “We paid attention, saw everything he did, asked questions that he would gladly spend ages answering”.
“He once stopped the session and proceeded to give us a lecture on how the peanut built America. He schooled us in billiards, then showed us his favourite cooking shows that he’d recorded. It was all so natural and encouraging, we could do what the fuck we wanted and he’d capture it. That’s the deal, and we fucking loved it.”
