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Rapper Meek Mill is helping students start the school year on a good foot. According to NewsOne, Mill, who was born as Robert Rihmeek Williams, teamed up with PUMA to donate more than 500 backpacks filled with school items to students at his old school, the James G. Blaine Elementary School. Meek attended the Philadelphia-based school as a young child. They also donated a year’s worth of supplies to more than 30 classrooms.
“Growing up in Philly, I’ve watched families struggle to make ends meet and buy basic school supplies for the kids,” Meek told Billboard last year in an interview after he partnered with the School District of Philadelphia to donate 6,000 backpacks to underprivileged students. “Those memories stay with me and that’s why I’m committed to giving back to families in my hometown, putting smiles on kids’ faces and helping them start the school year on the right now with the right supplies.”
The rapper even paid a visit to the school and shared a video on his Twitter account.
Got together with to @puma surprise students at James G. Blaine school. Every student at the school received a backpack and supplies pic.twitter.com/GmGfGJH4MI
— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) September 13, 2019
This comes on the heels of Meek helping city officials in North Philly with the unveiling of a renovated basketball court in East Fairmount Park, where Meek grew up, on Saturday, Aug. 17. He helped fund the project with the assistance of several different organizations, including PUMA, Roc Nation, and the Philadelphia Parks & Rec Department.
Meek, along with fellow rapper Rapsody, and singer Meghan Trainer were named ambassadors for Roc Nation and the NFL’s Inspire Change campaign, which Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced in August.
Meek also signed a recent business deal with Roc Nation to launch his own label, Dream Chasers. Furthermore, the prison reform advocate also just became co-owner of Lids Sports Apparel, the largest North American hat retailer.
Ah yes, welcome. As you now know, Bill Hader just won an Emmy for his work as Barry Berkman on the HBO show Barry. And you’re probably wondering why. Well, that’s your fault because Barry is one of the best comedies on television right now.
Focused on Barry Berkman, a hit-man who goes to Los Angeles and finds a desire to study acting, he is caught between his past life as a hit-man (which seemingly keeps following after him) and his new desires to apply his trauma from being in the Army and his life as Monroe Fuches’s strong arm, (played brilliantly by the nominated Stephen Root).
Throughout the first season, we saw as Barry struggled to separate himself from Fuches and how, no matter how hard he tried, he ended up being roped back in to a life he wanted to leave behind and, season 2 saw Barry’s struggle to conceal his murderous past came to a forefront. Everything in Barry’s life begins to fall apart because of his actions that came at the direction of Fuches and we watched as he fought against everything he knew to try and find his own freedom.
He couldn’t escape and it ended up being some of the best acting that we’ve ever seen from Bill Hader and, clearly, for this entire season in the Oustanding Lead Actor category. Out of every nomination, I truly believe that Bill Hader’s nomination and win was extremely warranted and hopefully, everyone will take note and actually watch the show (at this point, I just want someone to talk to me about Barry).
As you can see though, Barry and Bill Hader got some love for his win on Twitter.
Every time something good happens for Bill Hader, I become more powerful. https://t.co/tKFlSnKLc5
— Alex Boniello (@AlexBoniello) September 23, 2019
I like when the Emmys shake things up with outside the box winners, but Bill Hader’s S2 work on Barry was next level shit. #Emmys2019
— Emily VanDerWerff (@tvoti) September 23, 2019
BILL HADER FUCKING WON HIS 2nd EMMY AWARD pic.twitter.com/04D0RNfYNW
— bill hader 2 times emmy winner (@shxdowmarvl) September 23, 2019
Every person I know has fallen in love with Bill Hader this year. His nervous delight at meeting Keith Morrison behind the scenes at Dateline was my “I’d smash” moment of 2019. https://t.co/Fcc1rY1jvo
— Laurel Stucky’s Notebook (@raesanni) September 23, 2019
Bill Hader just won the award for Best Actor in a comedy series and we’re *very* excited. #Emmys2019 pic.twitter.com/iVvTvqdq1b
— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) September 23, 2019
So, if you haven’t watched Barry before, what do you need? Do you want Bill Hader to win a third Emmy for his work as Barry Berkman? Would that make you finally watch it? Anyway, it’s time you sit down, get your HBO up, and go on the journey of Barry Berkman finding his love for acting.
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After her big screen debut in Hustlers, Cardi B could be snagging a role on a TV series soon. Fran Drescher, who starred in the 90’s sitcom The Nanny, reportedly met up with the “Money” rapper to discuss possibilities of her taking on the starring role if the series is revamped.
“That was just kind of laying out groundwork,” Drescher told Entertainment Tonight. “I do think she’s great, and she would be kind of like my top choice if she’s disciplined to do this show every week. It can be a grind, but she’s got a baby now and it could be a very comfortable, lovely way to, you know, work, be seen worldwide, and still do mini-concert tours when you’re on hiatus.”
Drescher already has an idea of how the casting would go. Instead of reprising her role as Fran Fine, she wants Cardi to have it while she stars as her mother.
“I could play Sylvia, the mom. And John Leguizamo could play [Fran’s dad], Morty. So, you know, we’ll see. There’s a lot of opportunities to do something fantastic with it and bring it right into the 21st century.”
Cardi made her first small screen debut back in 2017 on BET’s Being Mary Jane. Her first movie was also a hit, raking in $31 million during its opening weekend at the box office.