Nicki Minaj accepts the Best Hip Hop award for “Super Freaky Girl” onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)/Cardi B attends Cardi B “Am I The Drama” meet and greet at DBS Sounds on September 22, 2025 in Riverdale, Georgia. (Photo…
Leon Thomas has released “Just How You Are,” the lead single to his project Pholks. “If you know you had my heart/ Could never finish what you started/ You love to pick my world apart/ But that’s just how you are,” he sings. Pholks “isn’t just an EP, it’s a movement,” he says on Instagram. Pholks is due…
J.I.D. performs during the 2025 Dreamville Music Festival at Dorothea Dix Park on April 06, 2025 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images) J.I.D has worked with several artists throughout the course of his career, but he specifically calls his collaboration with Eminem “a blessing.” “It kind of lets me know that I’ve been…
Pusha T and Malice of Clipse perform onstage during the 2025 ESPY Awards at Dolby Theatre on July 16, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) It’s been nearly three months since Clipse released Let God Sort Em Out, and they’re quite pleased with the album’s reception. In an interview with Billboard, they…
Afro Nation Portugal 2026 has announced the first wave of artists booked for the gig, naming Asake, Tyla and Wizkid. They are set to headline the three-day festival, which will also feature performances from Mariah the Scientist and “special guest” Gunna. Megan Thee Stallion samples Total‘s “Kissin’ You” on a song she teased on social media Wednesday. “Wake up,” she…
Host Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs speaks onstage during the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for MRC) One day before Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ sentencing, the rap mogul’s former girlfriend is pushing back on prosecutors’ claims that she was sex trafficked or…
Killer Mike of Run The Jewels performs on stage at Pechanga Arena on June 21, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) Killer Mike has issued a public apology to Ayesha Curry, Steph Curry‘s wife, after he commented on a TikTok video that made fun of her. Speaking to Shannon Sharpe on the Club…
Tyler Perry on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Disney/Randy Holmes) The cast of Tyler Perry‘s Why Did I Get Married? will reunite for the movie’s threequel, set to release on Netflix. Perry recently announced the stars joining him in Why Did I Get Married Again?, naming original cast members Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Lamman Rucker…
Todd Owyoung/NBC Doja Cat is known to the world as a singer, rapper, songwriter and producer, but on Wednesday night she flaunted her skills as an emcee. Doja served as co-host on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, rocking a metallic-colored look inspired by the ’80s, much like her latest album, Vie. While on the show, she reenacted…
Brandy and Monica’s The Boy Is Mine tour (Black Promoters Collective) The countdown has begun for Monica and Brandy‘s Boy Is Mine tour, which kicks off on Oct. 16. Speaking to Essence, Brandy says the trek is a “full-circle moment” that bridges the young women they once were with the adult women they have become. “[The tour…