It started with a tweet and now it’s a movement. Flavor Flav has been a staunch supporter of women’s sports and Olympians for years, and now he’s organized SHE Weekend to celebrate women athletes for four straight days in Las Vegas.

The Public Enemy rapper announced Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend (Sports Hospitality & Entertainment) on Thursday (April 30), which is set for July 16-19 in Sin City.

“Introducing: Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend. Sports. Hospitality. Entertainment. July 16–19. Las Vegas. It started with a tweet. Now its a movement,” he wrote to X. “We’re focused on real impact. For women’s sports. For women athletes. For what comes next.”

It all started back in February when Flav wanted to organize an event to celebrate the U.S. women’s hockey team winning the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

“Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations, so I created a GoFundMe,” he wrote to X at the time. “I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the U.S.”

As of press time, the GoFundMe has now raised over $133,000. Flav has also partnered with MGM Resorts to put the weekend celebration together, which has expanded to all women’s sports, medalists and athletes who competed in the Summer and Winter Olympics.

The weekend will be filled with celebratory events, giving the Olympians their flowers and providing opportunities for the athletes to meet potential sponsors. There will also be several meet-and-greets for fans to mingle with the Olympians, according to FOX 5.

It’s going to be a busy weekend on the Strip, with the NBA Summer League running the same weekend in Las Vegas.

Flavor Flav has continued to champion women’s athletics, as Flav served as the official hype man for the U.S. bobsled team at the 2026 Winter Olympics. He’s also a sponsor for the men’s and women’s U.S. water polo teams, which saw him assist in raising funds for the women’s team to make the trip to Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

David Allan Coe’s place in country music was never especially tidy. That was part of the point.

Coe, who died April 29 at age 86, built a career that ran alongside the Nashville mainstream without ever settling inside it. He emerged in the 1970s as country’s outlaw movement reshaped the format, sharing the independent streak of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and others, while often pushing further into rougher, more confrontational territory.

His Billboard chart history reflects that tension. Coe charted 30 titles on Hot Country Songs from 1974 through 1987. He never reached No. 1 as a recording artist, but earned three top 10s: “Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile,” which became his highest-peaking hit, reaching No. 2 in 1984; “The Ride,” which hit No. 4 in 1983; and “You Never Even Called Me by My Name,” which rose to No. 8 in 1975 and went on to become a lasting singalong staple –– part joke, part truth and long a country anthem.

Coe logged 20 entries on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart during his lifetime. Castles in the Sand (1983) and Once Upon a Rhyme (1975) were his best showings, each hitting No. 8 and spending a combined 46 weeks on the chart. He most recently made the list with The Essential David Allan Coe, in 2005-06.

Coe did top Hot Country Songs as a songwriter, with Johnny Paycheck’s “Take This Job and Shove It,” written by Coe, a No. 1 in 1977 and ultimately one of country’s defining working-class anthems. Other Coe-penned songs include “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone),” also a No. 1, for Tanya Tucker in 1974, and “Single Father,” written with and charted by Kid Rock in 2004.

Coe’s career, of course, extended beyond what chart numbers can capture. His Nothing Sacred and Underground Album recordings, explicit and controversial, complicated his standing then and now. Still, his influence runs through country’s harder-edged lanes, especially among artists drawn to the genre’s less-polished side.

David Allan Coe did not always fit Nashville’s center, but for more than a decade and beyond he became part of its chart story.

A former executive at 50 Cent’s companies is suing him over accusations that he threatened and harassed her after she refused to take part in illegal behavior, including framing a man for serious crimes.

Attorneys for Monique Mayers announced Thursday (April 30) they had filed a lawsuit in Georgia federal court against the star rapper (Curtis Jackson), claiming he had “waged a years‑long campaign of retaliation, harassment, and intimidation” against their client.

Mayers, who served 12 years as a senior executive at 50’s G-Unit and other companies, claims she was fired in 2019 because she would not take part in illegal activity, including bankruptcy fraud and lying to the police to frame his former bodyguard for serious crimes.

“Jackson ran his workplace the same way he built his public persona: through fear, humiliation, loyalty tests, and punishment,” Mayers lawyers write in a copy of the complaint provided to Billboard by her lawyers. “Ms. Mayers would not lie to police. She would not frame another person. She would not risk federal charges or prison to protect Jackson’s secrets.”

After her termination, Mayers says the rapper “unleashed a years-long intimidation campaign,” including more than 80 harassing and threatening calls and messages: “The message was unmistakable: Protect Jackson’s secrets or .. suffer the consequences,” the complaint reads.

In a statement to Billboard, 50 Cent’s attorney, Reena Jain, said she and her client “categorically and strenuously deny the baseless allegations” raised in the lawsuit, which she called “nothing more than a stunt to garner media attention and damage Mr. Jackson’s reputation.”

“Ms. Mayers is a disgruntled former employee who was terminated for cause over five years ago,” Jain said. “This lawsuit is nothing more than a transparent attempt to use the guise of a legal proceeding to seek an unjustified payday well outside of the applicable statute of limitations.”

In the lawsuit, Mayers claims 50 Cent also later dragged her into federal and state investigations over alleged wrongdoing at his Sire Spirits liquor company, then had his lawyers threaten her during a live court deposition by referencing an unrelated murder.

“Jackson demanded illegal favors because he believed people around him existed to serve his needs, protect his image, and absorb his risks,” her lawyers write. “When Ms. Mayers rightfully refused, Jackson fired her. Then he used texts, calls, threats, and grotesquely outrageous deposition conduct to punish her, frighten her, and attempt to force her silence.”

In technical legal terms, Mayers’ lawsuit accuses the rapper of intentional infliction of emotional distress and invasion of privacy. It is seeking an unspecified amount of damages for “severe emotional distress,” as well as punitive damages to deter others from “weaponizing their resources to terrorize former employees who refuse to commit fraud.”

But in her response statement, 50 Cent’s lawyer pushed back on the facts alleged in the lawsuit. Jain said that when the alleged threats against Mayer came to light, the star’s lawyers not only encouraged her to go to law enforcement, but also reported them themselves to “ensure they were thoroughly investigated.”

“We look forward to vigorously defending against these false claims in a court of law and anticipate a swift dismissal of this frivolous lawsuit,” Jain said.