Mainstay Touring Rod Wave‘s Birthday Bash is back again, with its 2025 date set for Aug. 29 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida. Dubbed Rod Wave The Introduction To: The Redemption Experience, the one-night-only show will feature a set filled with songs from his latest album, Last Lap, as well hits from throughout his discography.…
Photo by Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures It’s possible Rihanna will no longer be the only Smurfette in her clan once she gives birth to her third baby with A$AP Rocky. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight‘s Kevin Frazier on the red carpet for the Smurfs world premiere in Brussels, Rocky seemed to reveal the gender of their…
Motown Gospel Tasha Cobbs Leonard is well known in the gospel world, but she has yet to release a studio album. That time has finally come, as she’s announced her debut, Tasha, will arrive on July 25. The album will feature 15 songs infused with gospel, worship, pop, hip-hop and ‘80s R&B influences. The album features John Legend,…
ABC/Troy Harvey Nearly 30 years into her acting career Taraji P. Henson is set to make her Broadway debut. She’ll be starring alongside Cedric the Entertainer in Debbie Allen‘s production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson. Taraji will take on the role of Bertha Holly, wife of Cedric’s character, Seth Holly, with additional casting to…
Photo by Aeon/GC Images Lizzo flexes her rap skills on her surprise mixtape, My Face Hurts From Smiling, a project she feels has healed her depression. The mixtape, she tells Rolling Stone, was a spontaneous one inspired by the success of her freestyle to “Whim Whammie” by Pluto and YK Niece. “The process for this mixtape…
Credit: Maggie Conarro Beyoncé‘s hometown show in Houston Saturday was marred by a scary moment. Towards the end of her show, Bey performs “16 Carriages” while riding in a red Cadillac that’s suspended in the air. But on Saturday night, the car began tipping to one side, and then got stuck that way, leading to…
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Blue Jacket Fashion Show It’s been 20 years since the release of Jeezy‘s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, which he now considers “the blueprint” to his success. “When I look at 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me and Makaveli, more so Makaveli, it was the blueprint for me — because it just had real rules…
Paramount+ LL Cool J is showing you where hip-hop was born in a new docuseries on Paramount+. A trailer for Hip Hop Was Born Here finds the rapper taking a trip to the park in the Bronx where DJ Kool Herc founded the genre. Also featured in the clip are Rev. Run, who discusses block…
Andre D. Wagner Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s Grand National Tour is far from over, but it’s already become the highest-grossing co-billed tour in Billboard‘s Boxscore history. Billboard reports the two grossed $256.4 million, beating Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour by 1%. The tour also leads Billboard‘s list for the 40 biggest co-billed tours of all time and has…
Teyana Taylor/Def Jam Recordings Teyana Taylor and beau, Aaron Pierre, lay in a “Bed of Roses” in the music video for the song. The visual starts with a monologue by Issa Rae, who is assuring her lover that he is in a safe space and can open up. “Did I imagine us? Did I imagine these feelings, did…