Amy Sussman/Getty Images The Recording Academy just announced another performer who has been added to the lineup for the 66th Grammy Awards: this year’s most-nominated artist, SZA. The official Instagram account for CBS, where the show will broadcast live on Sunday, February 4, first shared the news on social media, writing, “You don’t want to snooze and miss this moment!”…
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Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images You can’t tie him down, but you can call him the Billboard Hot 100 chart leader. Jack Harlow has landed a fourth nonconsecutive week at #1 on the chart dated February 3 with his single “Lovin on Me.” This makes it his longest reign on the chart to date. His song “First Class”…
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Kevin Winter/Getty Images DJ Cassidy is bringing back his famed Pass the Mic Live! series for a 2024 Mother’s Day celebration. Cassidy will make his return to the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 11 for the annual Mother’s Day Good Music Festival. Special guests for the one-night-only event include Boyz II Men, TLC, Bobby Brown, Method Man, Redman, Faith Evans, Total and…
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Live Nation A Boogie Wit da Hoodie will be soon taking his music on the road, and he tapped a few guests to join him. Luh Tyler, Dess Dior, NLE Choppa, Fridayy and Byron Messia will support the New York rapper on his newly announced Better Off Alone Tour. Produced by Live Nation, the global tour kicks off on April 10 in New Zealand before traveling…
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Disney/Randy Holmes Halle Bailey is setting the record straight about how she handled her pregnancy. The Little Mermaid star responded to a comment on X, formerly Twitter, that said she wasn’t honest about being pregnant. A fan wrote that they’re not sure people are mad Halle hid her pregnancy but that they’re “annoyed that she went out of her way…
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Hip-hop’s internet was in shambles all weekend thanks to Megan the Stallion and Nicki Minaj. After Megan dropped “Hiss,” a track that appeared to diss Nicki, among others, the “Roman’s Revenge” rapper responded with a series of not-so-nice tweets and a diss record of her own. In “Big Foot,” which is an apparent slight about Megan being shot in the foot,…
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ABC/Jeff Neira The leading ladies of Tyler Perry‘s cult classic Sistas sat down with Tamron Hall Friday to talk about the hit show and dish on why fans love it so much. Season 7 kicked off earlier this month and Crystal Renee Hayslett, Novi Brown, Ebony Obsidian, Mignon and KJ Smith say it’s the close bond they share on and off the screen that makes the show so successful. “It was…
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Columbia Records Lil Nas X is not too bothered that his song “J Christ” failed to top the charts. The singer, whose HBO documentary Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero is out now, tells Variety he’s proud of the song and its controversial video. “Everyone expected me to be upset or something,” he says. “But I’m a very spiritual person.…
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From diss tracks to songs from movie soundtracks, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Kevin Gates, The Ceremony — The Louisiana native dropped off his fourth album, a project described as centered around Kevin’s spiritual growth and personal development. He also released the music video for one of the…
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Slaughter Gang/Epic Records For fans of 21 Savage who were expecting a movie on his life and career to hit theaters this summer, sad news: it won’t happen. The “Rich Flex” rapper revealed that the trailer he dropped for the American Dream biopic was just a joke. “No, that was a parody,” 21 told Shannon Sharpe in an appearance on Club Shay Shay. It turns out he was…
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