Kehlani and Victoria Monét have been connected through music longer than most people realized. The confirmation didn’t come until 2023, but the timeline was sitting in the discography the whole time.

In April 2018, Kehlani addressed her sexuality publicly on Twitter. “I’m queer. Not bi, not straight. I’m attracted to women, men, REALLY attracted to queer men, non-binary people, intersex people, trans people. lil poly pansexual,” she wrote. Six months later, she announced she was pregnant, referring to the father, Javaughn Young-White, as her “best friend” and an “amazing partner” whom she trusted with her body.

What was happening behind the scenes that summer told a different story. On November 9, 2018, Victoria posted what became her public coming out. “I want everyone to know that I’m single (since people wanna pretend I’m not) and make imaginary rules for me. I secretly and respectfully went through a difficult break up this summer but enough is enough. I also like girls. Thank U, Next. Bye.” In a February 2020 interview with Gay Times, she explained what was behind it. “I literally fell in love with a girl,” she said. “And I had a boyfriend at the time, and then we broke up. But this woman ended up getting pregnant because she had a boyfriend in a polyamorous relationship.” Her ex was still publicly claiming they were together after the split, and that pushed her to post the tweet.

Kehlani, for her part, was navigating her own transition. She gave birth in early 2019, and her mixtape While We Wait arrived January 10 of that year with “Nights Like This” as the lead single. The song, written from the perspective of someone who was left for a man by a woman she loved, finds her questioning her former lover’s choice and what it cost her. “Thought you was mine, but you decided to be with him though / Took my feelings and just threw ’em out the window.” Fans connected it to Victoria almost immediately, given everything that had played out publicly just months before.

Later that year, Kehlani went public with YG in September 2019, and within a month the relationship was already under strain. Footage surfaced in October of YG making out with a woman outside Poppy nightclub in Los Angeles, shown in a video where he lifts the doors of a red Lamborghini and kisses a woman standing on the curb. His team responded with a statement: “He was drunk and got carried away. He is very regretful for putting himself in that situation and hurting Kehlani. He has no romantic connection to the girl, just a drunken moment carried away.” Kehlani let the music speak for her, releasing “You Kno Wassup” on November 13, 2019, and following it with “Valentine’s Day (Shameful)” on February 17, 2020, which confirmed the relationship was over. When she sat down with The Breakfast Club that May, she explained that she and YG had agreed to an open relationship with honesty as the only condition, and that condition wasn’t honored. “It was a lot of lies and a lot of covering up,” she said. “It was deep and it was intricate and it was weaving of something that turned into something else.”

The clearest piece of evidence connecting Kehlani and Victoria came that same month. On May 8, 2020, Kehlani released It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, and in a Twitter Q&A around the album she confirmed “Hate the Club” was written about a woman she would pull up on at a Shabba-themed party in Los Angeles, a recurring event she knew the woman would always be at. The lyrics placed it directly: “It’s a Saturday, Shabba in LA, Yeah, that’s your shit / On the second floor, with your pants down low, Hanging off your hips.” A few lines later, the subject becomes harder to miss. “Order another round and round and round / Drunk when I call you Monet / Beggin’ you to walk me out.” Then: “You’re a Taurus, let me feed you.” Victoria Monét’s last name is Monét. She is a Taurus. Fans also surfaced posts connecting Victoria to Shabba-themed events, pointing to them as further confirmation.

Victoria responded with her own music that August. Her EP Jaguar arrived August 7, 2020, closing with “Touch Me,” which she described in a press release as deeply personal. “As artists, it’s special when we let the music document the details of real experiences and that’s what ‘Touch Me’ does,” she said. “I think it’s beautiful for so many reasons and I hope people can find their own reasons with every listen.” Two months later, on October 8, the remix dropped with Kehlani featured, and when Victoria announced it on Twitter she tagged Kehlani directly. “It feels so nice to finally have music WITH you and not just about you,” she wrote.

That tweet confirmed what fans had been piecing together for two years, and in 2023, Victoria made it official. Appearing on Emily Ratajkowski‘s podcast High Low, she said the original “Touch Me” was written about Kehlani and spoke to where things stood between them. “We’re friends,” she said. “I kind of am like that with all of my past relationships. I really don’t like the idea of like, now someone’s dead to me, unless they did me wrong.”

The music has kept coming since. Fans have connected “When He’s Not There” from Kehlani’s 2024 While We Wait 2 mixtape to Victoria, and “Folded,” released in December 2025, has drawn the same speculation. Neither has confirmed those connections publicly.

What has been confirmed is that from 2018 to 2020, two of R&B’s most closely watched artists were processing the same relationship through separate projects without ever naming each other directly. The “Touch Me” remix was the first time they shared a record. Victoria’s tweet when it dropped said everything the music already had.

A federal judge in Miami has denied Megan Thee Stallion‘s request for a permanent injunction against Milagro Elizabeth Cooper, the online personality known as Milagro Gramz, ruling that the Grammy-winning rapper, born Megan Pete, failed to meet the legal standard required for the order.

Chief U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga issued the decision on Monday, finding that Pete did not show an imminent threat of future harm and that the proposed injunction raised First Amendment concerns significant enough to independently warrant denial.

As previously reported by miixtapechiick.com, Pete sought the injunction after a jury found Cooper liable on three counts following a November and December 2025 trial: defamation per se, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and promotion of an altered sexual depiction. The jury awarded Pete compensatory and punitive damages, and the court kept the cyberstalking injunction question open to decide after the verdict came in. Cooper filed her response in January, arguing pro se that the order Pete was seeking amounted to an unconstitutional restraint on protected speech and was inconsistent with what the jury actually found.

Pete asked the court to bar Cooper from contacting her, require her to stay at least 500 feet away at all times and 1,000 feet from any of her performances, prohibit further defamatory statements about her testimony, mental health, alcohol use, and family, and block any further distribution of the deepfake video. Judge Altonaga narrowed what she would consider at the outset, noting there was no evidence Cooper had ever shown up to Pete’s performances or attempted to locate her in person, and that several of the requested restrictions had no connection to the cyberstalking conduct described in Pete’s petition.

On the cyberstalking claim itself, Judge Altonaga was not convinced Pete had proved it. Florida’s statute requires showing the defendant’s communications were willful and malicious, served no legitimate purpose, and caused substantial emotional distress. The jury’s verdict didn’t resolve those questions cleanly. The jury found Cooper acted “intentionally or recklessly,” and because recklessness falls short of the willfulness and malice the cyberstalking statute requires, the court couldn’t read the verdict as establishing those elements. The judge also pointed to the jury’s finding that Cooper regularly disseminated news and commentary to the public and functioned similarly to traditional media, which worked against Pete’s argument that Cooper’s posts served no legitimate purpose, the same position Cooper had taken in her January response.

The ruling also turned on whether Pete faced a real, ongoing threat that money couldn’t address. Judge Altonaga found she did not. The petition underlying the injunction request was built on the same conduct the jury had already compensated Pete for at trial, and Cooper’s prior social media pages are no longer publicly accessible. Pete did not identify new content that was still circulating or causing harm.

Pete pointed to Cooper’s behavior after the December 2025 verdict as evidence the harassment was continuing, including Cooper’s Instagram Live comments about making a mixtape, a CBS News interview, and social media posts about the jury’s findings. Judge Altonaga reviewed each one and found none of it qualified as cyberstalking under Florida law. On the mixtape comment specifically, the judge read it as evidence that Cooper understood the limits the verdict placed on her, not that she intended to resume the conduct at issue.

Judge Altonaga held that the proposed injunction was overbroad and functioned as a prior restraint on speech, prohibiting future statements not yet found to be defamatory and covering subjects well outside what Cooper had been held liable for at trial. On this record, she found Pete had not shown why the need for an injunction outweighed Cooper’s First Amendment rights.

D4vd was formally charged today with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and entered a not guilty plea to all counts. His attorney entered the plea on his behalf during arraignment at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles. He remains held without bail.

David Anthony Burke faces one count each of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. The murder charge carries three special circumstance allegations: murder to prevent testimony, murder for financial gain, and murder by lying in wait. Prosecutors also allege Burke used a sharp instrument to commit the crime. If convicted as charged, he faces death or life in state prison without the possibility of parole. A decision on whether to seek the death penalty has not been made.

According to the complaint, Burke invited Celeste to his Hollywood Hills home on April 23, 2025. She arrived and was never seen alive again. Court records show the sexual abuse offense date as September 7, 2023, when Celeste was under 14. The mutilation charge carries an offense date of May 5, 2025.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman addressed the case in a statement. “When she threatened to expose his criminal conduct and devastate his musical career, Burke allegedly murdered her, cut up her body and stuffed her body in two bags that were placed in the front trunk of his car,” Hochman said. “There the dismembered body sat for over four months decomposing until it was found at a tow yard on Sept. 8, 2025.”

The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman of the Major Crimes Division. As previously reported by miixtapechiick.com, Burke was arrested by complaint on April 16 after the DA’s office declined to seek a grand jury indictment.