Two years since the release of his Grammy Award-winning “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Kendrick Lamar is back with an album as bold and declarative as its title: “DAMN.” And while Lamar grapples with familiar subject matter — God, violence, survival and self-worth among them — the energy has shifted away from the jazz, funk-filled sound […]
The new season of VH1’s “Basketball Wives” is set to premiere on Monday, April 17. In the meantime, the extended trailer for the show has dropped and oh boy, is it ever a doozey! As you may have heard, Evelyn Lozada is back and immediately gets into it with Tami Roman. There’s no faking the […]
Netflix has dropped a first trailer for “Dear White People,” its series adaptation of writer and director Justin Simien’s 2014 feature film of the same name. It tells the story of a diverse group of students of color experiencing campus life at a fictional Ivy League university dominated by white students. The series stars Logan […]
Chris Brown is said to be furious at his boy Quavo from Migos for dating his ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran behind his back, according to TMZ. Breezy reportedly feels betrayed by the rapper he thought was his friend, and blames Quavo for the restraining order Tran filed against him earlier this year, which accused the singer […]
Yara Shahidi has got her pick of schools to attend this fall! As college acceptance season begins to wind down, many high school seniors are still waiting to find out which school they got into. The Black-ish star, however, doesn’t have to wonder because she got into all the schools she applied for. Yara, who […]
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police department denies that officers took a rapper’s jewelry. Boosie Badazz — formerly known as Lil Boosie — says in a Tuesday video that Biloxi police seized a bag of jewelry on Sunday when they arrested five members of his entourage for assault. Biloxi Police Lt. Christopher De Back […]
Willow Smith’s MSFTS Production is partnering with Cartel Entertainment on a pair of female-led projects for young adults. The two companies have acquired film rights to Alwyn Hamilton’s YA trilogy Rebel Of The Sands, and will also develop “Menencholy,” an animated series based on Smith’s original book proposal, reports Deadline. “Rebel of the Sands,” a […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper Drake and EDM duo The Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each. Dick clark productions announced Monday that the performers set a record for most nominations in a year. The 2017 awards show will air live May 21 from the T-Mobile Arena in […]
WE Tv has unleashed a 20-second teaser for its new series “Growing Up Hip Hop Atlanta” ahead of its spring premiere. Bow Wow, Shaniah Mauldin, Ayana Fite, Reginae Carter, Brandon Barnes, and Zonnique Pullins are in the cast. https://www.instagram.com/p/BSjkDrxBaO6/?taken-by=shadmoss&hl=en Mauldin is the daughter of Jermaine Dupri; Fite is the daughter of DJ Hurricane, who was […]
NEW YORK (AP) — MTV has scrapped gender specific categories for its upcoming Movie & TV Awards. In place of the Best Actress and Best Actor categories, this year’s awards will honor a non-gendered Best Actor in a Movie and Best Actor in a Show. The move follows the Grammy Awards’ decision in 2011 to […]
American Crime and Burning Sands star Trevor Jackson, “Saturday Night Live” vet Chris Parnell and “Veep” actor Matt Walsh have joined Yara Shahidi in ABC’s proposed “Black-ish” spinoff, reports Deadline. Their episode will serve as a backdoor pilot for the potential spinoff, which centers on Shahidi’s character Zoey Johnson — Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow’s […]
Hip hop artist French Montana defended his denigrating comments about a Black woman, saying he has a Black son.
