Rihanna and A$AP Rocky aren’t doing a good job of convincing us that they aren’t dating. To be fair, our reluctance to believe there isn’t anything going on between them may partially stem from the fact that people have been rooting for them to link up for years now. Their bonding over designer goods in Rocky’s 2013 music video for “Fashion Killa” first planted the idea that they’re a good match. When they walked the red carpet together at the British Fashion Awards last year, this fantasy was further fueled. Most recently, they were seen hitting it off after the Yams Day concert and were rumored to have shared a hotel suite later that evening. Speculation started that RiRi had moved to dating the rapper shortly just after the end of her three-year relationship with Saudi billionaire, Hassan Jameel. However, a source told E! News that Rihanna is “single” and that her and Rocky are just “good friends.” 

Now that you’re all caught up, you’ll understand why Rihanna and Rocky being spotted at the same nightclub on Tuesday morning (Feb. 11) may raise some eyebrows. According to TMZ, the Barbadian babe stepped in to The Nice Guy in West Hollywood just before 1 AM, while the Babushka Boi showed up just after 2 AM. Footage shows Rocky sneaking in the club’s entrance with his head down. While he may have been hiding under his hood to avoid the blinding flash of cameras, an alternative explanation is that he was trying to prevent the dating rumors from reigniting. E! News‘ source did say that Ri’s “hanging out” with Rocky and “just having fun”, so there is still a possibility that these meetups escalate into something more.  

Nicki Minaj has been laying very low since marrying Kenneth Petty in October, but her drama-free streak has just come to an abrupt end. On Friday, she and her hubby were shopping at Maxfield, a high-end retail store in West Hollywood, when they crossed paths with Nicki’s former man, Meek Mill, and a shouting match broke out. 

Clearly, there are some unresolved issues between Nicki and Meek because TMZ footage shows them calling each other names across the store. While the exact reason for the dispute is unknown, some of the words exchanged can be made out in the video… and they’re not nice ones. Nicki shouts, “Shut up bitch”, presumably at Meek. Kenneth taunts Meek that “she ain’t talking to you no more” and calls him a “pussy”, to which Meek retorts, “You pussy,n****!”

Meek was reportedly travelling with a pack of ten people, while the married couple was on their own. In the video, Meek is seen being held back by his own security and employees of the store, which seems to have prevented any hands from being thrown. He is then escorted out of the store as the shouting continues. 

New Jersey rapper, Retch, happened to be an innocent bystander in this incident. He posted a photo of himself and Meek in Maxfield, complimenting him for being a “real down to earth dude.” It was Retch’s lucky day because he then had the chance to meet Nicki, but their encounter had a rough start because Nicki thought Retch belonged to Meek’s crew. After clearing things up, Nicki ditched the hostility and agreed to take a selfie with Retch. 

When Young Thug isn’t giving out awards to fans who competed in his “Hot” challenge, booking music festival headlining spots or dropping music videos it seems as though you can find the rapper in the streets betting cold hard cash on his entourages athletic abilities. TMZ spotted Thugger outside the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood betting someone in his crew $2,000 that they couldn’t run from the bottom of a hill to the top. 

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The guy accepted the challenge and the clip below shows him making his way to the top of the hill and then sitting down from pure exhaustion. The “Best Friend” rapper coughed up the money he owed his friend but not before he shared some notes on his running form and ability. Young Thug (dressed in the skinniest of jeans) even showcased the proper form for running as he too ran the hill as well. 

Gunna can be seen silently watching the bet go down in the background. The duo is set to perform tonight in Los Angeles at Avenue. Watch Casanova’s latest visual for “So Drippy” that also features Thug and Gunna hitting up a club for a night out. 

On Friday, Selena Gomez released her first album in over four years, Rare. Several of the songs chronicle the falling-out of her long relationship with Justin Bieber and the aftermath of her coping with it. After she shared the album’s first single, “Lose You To Love Me”, Hailey Bieber was suspected of throwing shade at Selena for making not-so-subtle references to her husband on the song. Given these circumstances, a run-in between Hailey and Selena has the potential to be somewhat awkward. 

While we can’t confirm that Hailey and Selena dining at the same restaurant on Saturday night (Jan. 11) resulted in an awkward encounter, we can confirm that it sparked some drama online. TMZ reported that both of these stars dined at Craig’s in West Hollywood that evening. Hailey was there with her friend, Madison Beer, around the same time Selena was inside. Selena supposedly left an hour before Hailey’s party did, but there was some overlap in the time they spent at the restaurant.

A fight did not break out between The Biebs’ mutuals, but Selena’s fans tried to stir up some controversy anyway. Selenators flooded the comments of Madison Beer’s last post, shaming her participating in a ruse to spoil their idol’s album release weekend. Beer defended herself by explaining that it was merely a coincidence that Selena happened to be at the same resto. “i just had dinner with my friend hailey of 10 years… and that’s it?” she wrote in the comments. “how is that a crime? i love selena.. always have … and i would literally never in a million years try to upset her??? this is just mean and unnecessary and nothin happened.” 

Selena also weighed in to put her presumptuous fans in order. “This wasn’t intentional whatsoever,” she wrote. “I’m so disappointed that people would speak to someone like this … There is no issue.”