Latto Says She's ‘Big Daddy' While Rocking Carmelo Anthony's Syracuse Jersey

Latto headlined Syracuse University's Block Party 2025 over the weekend, and she got around to posting some pictures from her time on the central New York campus on Tuesday (April 29).
While she'll always be Big Mama, Latto went by Big Daddy in Syracuse as she rocked a throwback 'fit that went diamond in the streets of New York in the early 2000s. Latto donned a Syracuse Carmelo Anthony jersey with baggy True Religion jean shorts and a pair of Timberland boots. Anthony led Syracuse's basketball team to a national championship in 2003.
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One photo appeared to show Latto in the men's bathroom posing in front of the urinal as if she were using it, which fans had plenty to say about on social media. 'Why you in the men's washroom witcho John cena shorts babygirl,' one person wrote on X.
Per The Daily Orange, Latto delivered an energetic set that included over 15 songs, ranging from 'Georgia Peach' to 'Blick Sum' and 'Sunday Service.' She reportedly even changed the lyrics for 'Brokey' to fit 'when I leave Syracuse.'
Latto came bearing gifts as she blessed one lucky student with $1,000, and a Cornell University freshman named Kumba Cavazzini Diop got their hands on a pair of new Givenchy boots.
'One day, I was just a little girl screaming Latto songs in my living room every day,' Cavazzini Diop said. 'She noticed me today.'
On the music side, Latto has laid low for much of 2025 outside of recruiting Playboi Carti to hop on an official remix of 'Blick Sum' in January.
Find Latto's photos below.
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U.S. attorneys were expected to rest their case on June 20; the day's proceedings will reveal whether that schedule changes. Combs, 55, was arrested in September and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty. Diddy on trial newsletter: Step inside the courtroom as music mogul faces sex-crimes charges. Paul's employment ended in March 2024, he said. He was on a private jet with Kristina "KK" Khorram and Combs headed for the Bahamas, when he got arrested for cocaine possession. On the stand, Paul testified that this was just cocaine he had forgotten in his bag when he went to the airport. It was 0.7 grams, he said, which Steel characterized as for "personal use as best." The cocaine was for Combs. "It was a mistake, right?" Steel said, to which Paul responded, "Correct," explaining neither Khorram nor Combs had asked him to bring the drugs that day, he had just forgotten them. Steel seemed to make the suggestion that hard drugs made Combs more creative, happy and productive, and that it was in some ways beneficial to his process. "He got extremely creative. It was just an explosion," the attorney said. "You were not some drug mule, am I right?" Brian Steel, a defense lawyer for Combs, asked during cross-examination, to which Paul responded: "Absolutely not." Asked by Steel what he understood a drug mule to be, Paul said: "Someone who traffics kilos and kilos across the world." Steel then suggested that the amount of drugs Combs used was minimal. "This was just personal use?" he asked, to which Paul responded: "Yes, that was my understanding." Asked whether he ever observed Combs' ex-girlfriend Jane Doe, being hesitant or apprehensive before a "freak off." Paul responded no, confirming Steel's assertion that the woman, who is using a pseudonym for the trial, was "a willing participant." "You would not work for a criminal, would you?" Steel asked, to which Paul responded: "Absolutely not." "You never thought the 'king night' involved anything that was criminal?" Steel pushed further, referencing another name for the "freak off" sex parties that have taken a central role in the trial. Earlier in Paul's testimony, he described the large team that Combs employed as an enterprise. Steel asked during cross-examination: "You're not saying a criminal enterprise?" and Paul responded no. Discover WITNESS: Access our exclusive collection of true crime stories, podcasts, videos and more In testimony that took less than 2 hours, Paul, an alleged "drug mule" for Combs, took the stand to recount his employment with the music mogul. Paul graduated in 2022 from Syracuse and was hired as Combs' personal assistant shortly after. Another former assistant had told him to get in to get out and to make good connections, but that it would be a very tumultuous job, Paul told jurors. The assistant told Paul if he had a girlfriend to break up with her, and that he would never see his family, but it would be worth it for the connections. Paul's duties included making Combs' meal plans, coordinating workouts, packing "a lot of joints" and making sure he was on time for things like flights. Paul said he usually worked between 80 and 100 hours a week, but was always on call. He started at $76,000 a year, but by the time his employment was over, he was making $100,000 a year, Paul told jurors. Asked about procuring drugs for Combs, Paul said he did it more than five times but less than 10. He observed Combs doing cocaine, ketamine, marijuana and ecstasy, but not all that often, he said, and verified that he had arranged and cleaned up after "hotel nights" but only a few times. In February 2024, music producer and Combs' collaborator Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones Jr. mentioned Paul in his civil lawsuit against Combs that alleged sexual assault and harassment. 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Diddy trial updates: Alleged 'drug mule' Brendan Paul set to testify

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‘Native Prospects,' a contemporary view of the American landscape through an Indigenous lens

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Image courtesy of Kay WalkingStick/JSP Art Photography/Hales, London and New York But 'Native Prospects' is less about confrontation than it is assertion of difference, persistence, and a line drawn from past to present. That part matters: Indigenous artists here are contemporary, a declaration of a thriving culture that survived colonial deprivations of the land to flourish. Colonial artists in this exhibition are anchored in the past, often an ugly one, and tied to those deprivations: Cole's 'Solitary Lake in New Hampshire,' of a lone Indigenous man minimized against a glorious alpine scene, was painted in 1830, the same year as the federal Indian Removal Act went into effect, requiring all tribes east of the Mississippi to uproot and move west. His 'Landscape Scene from The Last of the Mohicans,' 1827, is the visual embodiment of James Fenimore Cooper's 'vanishing race' epic (the two were neighbors, and fellow aesthetic travelers). 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Advertisement Just to the left of Powhatan's Mantle is Alan Michelson (Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River), "Third Bank of the River (Panorama)," detail, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Alan Michelson And Alan Michelson, who Boston audiences might know best from 'The Knowledge Keepers,' Next to it, Michelson's 'Third Bank of the River (Panorama),' from 2024, adopts the colored bands of the wampum belt in a broad photo collage, infusing its linear color scheme with the landscape of the riverbank of the Mohawk reservation strung along its crest. From the distant past to the here and now, land has meant sovereignty, and survival. In the eerie vista of Michelson's panorama, you can start to imagine the future. Advertisement NATIVE PROSPECTS: INDIGENEITY AND LANDSCAPE Through July 6 . Farnsworth Art Museum , 16 Museum St., Rockland, Maine . 207-596-6457, Murray Whyte can be reached at