Courtesy Julien’s Auctions Prince‘s yellow “Cloud 3” guitar — one of four such instruments the late artist played onstage in the ’80s and ’90s — sold for $910,000 at the Music Icons sale held by Julien’s Auctions on Thursday. That’s a new record for the most expensive Prince guitar ever sold at auction. The guitar was…
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic At the Bad Boys: Ride or Die premiere in Los Angeles Thursday, Will Smith hit the red carpet with his own apparent ride or die, Jada Pinkett Smith. Part of a global campaign of premieres to promote the movie — with stops in in Madrid, Spain; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Berlin, Germany —…
Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Images for The House of Creed and Remy Martin Grammy winners Usher and Victoria Monét are adding another prestigious honor to their resumes. The two artists are being recognized with special awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, or ASCAP. Usher will receive the ASCAP Voice of the Culture Award for…
Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images That’s Doctor Fat Joe to you. The Bronx rapper – birth name Joseph Cartagena – received an honorary doctorate from Lehman College in his home borough on Thursday. After accepting the Doctor of Humane Letters degree, Fat Joe addressed the graduates at the commencement ceremony with a speech about working your way…
Manny Carabel/Getty Images Roddy Ricch is back with a new track dropping at midnight Thursday. The rapper announced the new song, titled “Survivor’s Remorse,” on Instagram, and revealed the cover art, which features him standing in a blue room wearing a white tank top and black wide leg pants. The song will be the first…
ABC/Chrys Davis Megan Thee Stallion’s new album is set to arrive this summer, following the release of “Hiss” and “BOA.” In a new cover story for L’OFFICIEL, the rapper teases that fans can expect themes of “renewal” and “rebirth” on the yet-to-be-titled offering. “This is music I would like if I wasn’t Megan Thee Stallion,”…
Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images The Notorious B.I.G.‘s mother, Voletta Wallace, is speaking out about Sean “Diddy” Combs. Following Rolling Stone’s recent expose on the embattled mogul, Wallace told the outlet she wants to “slap the daylights out of him.” She added that she hopes Diddy apologizes to his ex-girlfriend Cassie and his mother. “I’m sick to my stomach,” she…
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Gypsy is coming back to Broadway, this time with six-time Tony Award-winning star Audra McDonald attached, according to the Majestic Theatre and social media accounts. The show made its debut on Broadway in 1959 and has been revived multiple times, most recently on London’s West End in 2015. The…
BET Usher is set to be honored with the Lifetime Achievement BET Award at the BET Awards this year. The award is given to “industry pioneers who have powerfully shifted culture and the entertainment industry.” Previous recipients include Whitney Houston, Prince, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Busta Rhymes. “The relationship between BET and Usher…
Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images Salt-N-Pepa have received the action figure treatment. Super7, the San Francisco-based premier pop-culture design house and producer of lifestyle-oriented collectibles, will release a two-pack of Salt-N-Pepa figures, featuring the group dressed as they were in both the “Push It” music video and artwork for “Shake Your Thang.” DJ Spinderella is not included…