Columbia Records Nas‘ debut album, Illmatic, is now 30 years old, so he’s marking its milestone anniversary with another debut. Starting Thursday, August 29, he’ll play his first-ever performance at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas, kicking off a three-show gig with the Las Vegas Philharmonic. The other shows are scheduled to take place on Saturday, August 31,…
Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Megan Thee Stallion wants fans to know her tequila line is on its way. She shared the news in a clip on social media, which captured her walking through the halls of Chicago’s United Center with the orange and red ombré bottle in hand. “Chicago Hotties, your [chica] is…
Cindy Ord/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Back when Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road” came out in 2019, Billboard wouldn’t allow it to appear on the country chart because it didn’t “embrace enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its current form.” But now, things are different, which is making Nas feel regretful.…
Saweetie may be in the spotlight now, but she hasn’t forgotten her struggle days. In an interview with Brown Bag Mornings, she recalled the times she’d couch surf at the homes of family and friends in LA because she was homeless. “I remember I was too proud to tell my friends and my family that I had nowhere…
Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images Kendrick Lamar’s no stranger to #1s. Just days after his “Not Like Us” diss track hit the Hot 100, Spotify placed his track “Alright” atop their list of 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of the Streaming Era (2015 to the present). The To Pimp A Butterfly cut, described as “social commentary…
Courtesy of Epic Records Tyla, Gunna and Skillibeng have come together for the music video to their viral collaboration, “Jump.” In it, Tyla hangs out in her native Johannesburg, South Africa, where she gets her hair braided, relaxes on a balcony and turns up with Gunna in a nightclub, among other things. A fight erupts, groups of people break out…
Three Six Zero/gamma Fresh off the release of her new album, empathogen, it was announced that Willow will join Childish Gambino on his The New World Tour. Speaking to Variety, she says she’s honored to be supporting him on the trek. “Childish Gambino is one of the most prolific visionaries of this generation,” Willow says. “It’s…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted an apology on Instagram following CNN’s release May 17 of surveillance video footage from 2016 that allegedly shows him assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. In the post Sunday, captioned “I’m truly sorry,” Combs says, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted an apology on Instagram following CNN’s release May 17 of surveillance video footage from 2016 that allegedly shows him assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. In the post Sunday, captioned “I’m truly sorry,” Combs says, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs was allegedly seen physically assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura on hotel surveillance video exclusively obtained by CNN. In the footage, reportedly filmed in an LA hotel on March 5, 2016, a man identified by CNN as Combs was shown chasing Ventura down a hallway, grabbing her by the back of…
