By: Kevin Goolsby

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With so many moms working from home while taking care of their families and everything in between, celebrating moms seems more important than ever this year. Whether she’s a fitness fanatic or simply craves comfort and style, PUMA has become the standout brand to help make Mother’s day this year special.

The perfect pair of leggings

PUMA x Luxe Eclipse Women’s 7:8 Leggings

• PUMA x Luxe Eclipse Women’s 7/8 Leggings – $55.00 USD
• You can never have enough leggings, right?! Active or not, leggings are a mom go-to. Made with PUMA’s signature dryCELL technical fabric, these new leggings will keep mom feeling fit and supported before, during and after any exercise. Available in four colorways: Puma Black Heather, Med Gray Heather-Rosewater, Med Gray Htr-Sunny Lime Htr + Black Htr-Bubblegum Htr.

Florals for spring (and for mom)

• PUMA x Downtown Women’s AOP Tee – $35 USD + Downtown Women’s AOP Shorts – $40 USD
• Spring is here and warmer weather is coming. Make mom feel twice as nice with a matching floral short set that is both fun and fashionable. Made with 100% organic cotton, this set is perfect for chilling at home with the family, catching up on Zoom with friends or a walk around the neighborhood.

Super-comfy pants she can look forward to putting on every day

• PUMA x Studio Women’s Tapered Pants – $60.00 USD
• Moms need to be comfortable. With a relaxed fit and tapered legs to allow for freedom of movement, these functional yet fashionable training pants are perfect all day, every day no matter what the activity. Available in two colorways: PUMA Black or Medium Gray Heather.

All-white sneakers she can wear with anything

• PUMA x Cali Women’s Sneaker – $80.00 USD
• Inside or outside the house, an all-white pair of sneakers is an absolute must-have fashion staple. Treat mom to something classic with a fresh new pair of white sneakers that are comfy and can be paired with any outfit. Available in additional colorways beyond PUMA White.

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From “Certified Gangsta”

Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, Freekey Zekey, Duke Da God, Hell Rell, Jim Jones and Cam’ron are forever engrained into hip hop culture as Dipset! They were fashionably different, hand their own slang, their own swag and cult following. Some consider them the modern day Wu Tang Clan.

Breaking into the music game, being noticed and being consistent can be tough. Jim Jones began as Cam’ron’s hype man. 

Remember Horse and Carriage? Jimmy was Mr. Me Too!

Appearing on a Mother’s Day edition of the Scoop B Radio Podcast, Nancy Jones, mother of Love & Hip Hop reality star and rapper, Jim Jones, weighed in on Jim and Cam’ron’s relationship being repairable, stating:

“Well you know what that’s on them. I would love for them to get it together and even though a little damage has been done. And if it was left up to me, I honestly would call myself stepping in but you know what? They are two grown men, they’re not young boys anymore. So that’s something where they have to either work it out or don’t work it out and that’s how it is. I hate for it to be like that but sometimes it is what it is.

Check Out Mama Jones and Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson on Scoop B Radio:

Mama Jones recalled the early days:

“I would always tell not only him, but his sisters and all of them it’s always better off having your own because you have no problems or nothing like that. After a while when I saw different things with him and Cam I said to him: ‘now it’s time to stop the things you are doing with him and do you.’ I didn’t know he was going go and rap but I told it was time to stop and do you. You do something great and something that you know where you can make money, because I knew soon as you was born I knew you were a star in my stomach and everything, soon as you were born that was it. I said: ‘oh a star is born.’

She recalled when Jimmy starting his solo career:  

“So one day I was laying in bed then he came home with this record saying, “I’m On My Way To Church” and showed me a $175,000 check,” she told me on Scoop B Radio. “And I said: ‘what the hell?’ 

“And I see him in front of the album and I almost lost my mind. Me and him were in front of the bed and I started jumping on the bed and after that he told me “mommy you inspired me because you told me now it’s time for me to go out and start to do my own.”

Mama Jones said that she learned from her own life experiences that it was better to blaze her own trail and she imparted that wisdom on to her son. “Yeah do your own,” she said.

“It’s nothing like you having your own because when you’re underneath somebody it’s a problem. You know I have a problem with it, I tell you like this I never really held on to a job I always made my own jobs because I can’t take a boss that’s over me telling me what to do, how to do it and the whole nine I’m not good at following directions like that so instead I have to go out and do my own and that’s what I did and that’s what I wanted him to do.”

She also talked about the early days of Mase, Jimmy, and Cam’ron:

“Oh I was very happy for them, I told them to be very careful. There were times they would get into little scraps and stuff like that. And I would have to come between them and tell them to get it together. Whenever they got into their little disputes they would get it together but now everybody is grown up and everybody wants their own. Everybody wants this and that, it’s kind of a little rough it’s kind of a little hard to where I say I’m gonna to control anybody. And I don’t want to control nobody and I got tired of the bickering and carrying on, making yourself look like an ass out there to people on TV or Instagram or on the radio. I don’t even like even with Love and Hip Hop the way they’re carrying on and stuff like that. Even though we started out like that, but when we started out with Love and Hip Hop it wasn’t like it is now Love and Hip Hop. Now, I might as well call it the wrestling ring.”

Despite differences, both Cam’ron and Jim Jones are coming around. Jones recently spoke about he and Cam’ron fractured relationship in February in an interview with Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex. He was contrite. According to Jones, Cam’ron was the most important member of the group and he protected him at all costs, making sure he was “untouchable.”

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Wanda Durant and Kevin Durant embrace. Photo Credit: NBC Sports

Sunday is Mother’s Day. Athletes can’t do it without the love of their momma’s! While the Golden State Warriors have about a week off before they take on either the Houston Rockets or San Antonio Spurs in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals, why not reach into the Scoop B Radio vault and acknowledge Wanda Durant, the mother of Golden State Warriors small forward, Kevin Durant?

When accepting his 2014 NBA regular season MVP award, Kevin Durant tributed his big gain by tailoring his speech to his mother, Wanda Durant, stating: “You made us believe. You kept us off the street. Put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn’t eat, you made sure we ate. You went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us … You the real MVP.”

His story resonated so much with many because he and his brother were products of single parent homes, yet they never went without anything and they grew up happy.

Kudos to good parenting.

Appearing on Scoop B Radio Overtime, Wanda Durant chatted with me about her son. Everyone tells her that her son is great, but what is the biggest surprise now that your son is successful? “Well I’ve always known Kevin, I’ve always known him because I was a mother that was very present in my children’s lives,” Wanda Durant told me on Scoop B Radio Overtime.

Check Out Wanda Durant Chatting With Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson On Scoop B Radio Overtime.

She continued: 

“So I always knew who he was. His temperament is the same today as it was many years ago the thing that I’m really proud of and that I admire about him so much is that he is secure in who he is as a person. I’ve seen him become a giver and that’s a legacy that my family has held dear for many years, I see that he’s confident in himself I see that he is a leader he’s caring and loving but I’ve always seen these traits in Kevin, in both of my sons actually because those things were very important to me as a mother so I’m just grateful that, the foundation that I tried to lay in him that he also grabs hold to some of those really important things and made it apart of his foundation and now he’s building upon that. I’m really grateful to see the man that he has become.”

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It looks like the Harlem World rapper is at it again. Known for putting out products to fulfill an immediate need like the true hustler he is, artist Cam’ron has just put out his own Mother’s Day cards featuring who else but his own mother. While Mother’s day may be over, who says you can’t get a head start for next year? Come on, we all know Killa Cam is all about the novelty items; you might as well add this to your collection next to your Killa Crunch and Ebola mask.

Get your hands on some Cam’ron greeting cards here.

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