Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Ciara is looking to help increase the number of Black girls who take up coding. On Tuesday, the R&B songstress announced the Build a Beat Challenge in partnership with Black Girls Code, a nonprofit providing Black girls and gender nonconforming youth with code and computer programming education. The nationwide contest and its mission to “spark a musical coding…
Keke Wyatt Keke Wyatt recently made a change to her physical appearance by shaving all of the hair off her head. She debuted the new look in a post shared with her 1.7 million followers on Instagram. “OMGGGGGGG!!! Why do I feel SOOOO FREE?” she said, noting she thinks cutting hair down to the scalp is “a must do!!!” The…
Alberto Rodriguez/BET/Getty Images for BET With only a few days away from the anticipated release of 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne‘s Welcome 2 Collegrove, the duo treated fans to an album trailer. Narrated by 50 Cent, the short clip, shared in a joint social media post, depicts a younger version of the rappers and tells the story of their career beginnings and how…
Rolling Loud The California-based Rolling Loud festival will return in 2024 with Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert and Post Malone as headliners. Taking place on March 15-17, Rolling Loud California will feature performances by Bryson Tiller, Summer Walker, Flo Milli, Mozzy, Rae Sremmurd, YG & Tyga and more. The festival will also shine a light on a few Mexican artists, such as Fuerza Regida, Natanael Cano, Junior…
Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images Outkast‘s André 3000 has made his triumphant return to music with the upcoming release of his debut solo album, New Blue Sun. A first-of-its-kind for the Grammy-winning rapper, the new LP is expected out on November 17. For fans who’ve long loved and listened to the iconic hip-hop artist and are expecting a nostalgic collection…
FAX Records/Epic Records It may come as no surprise to some that Tyla‘s viral breakthrough hit, “Water,” nabbed a 10th week atop Billboard‘s U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart. The South African star on the rise holds the crown after making her Billboard debut with the song in October and climbing to number one to halt the 58-week record held by Rema and Selena Gomez‘s “Calm…
Johnny Nunez/Getty Images Although he’s currently serving a 10-year prison sentence, Tory Lanez plans to continue dropping new music. Gearing up for the release of the Alone at Prom Deluxe, which is expected on November 17, the Canadian rapper unveiled the album cover art Monday. With the graphic, Lanez paid tribute to model Alexa Alita, who, before her apparent passing earlier this year, starred as the…
Prince Williams/WireImage K Camp has shared an important health update with fans: he will soon undergo vocal cord surgery. “Dear fans, I wanted to share some important news. I’ll be undergoing vocal surgery in a few days,” he wrote in his Instagram announcement Monday. He added, “Let’s pray that this doesn’t affect me or my music. Thank you…
Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Denzel Washington has signed on to play the Carthaginian military legend Hannibal in an as-yet-untitled movie for Netflix. The streamer announced that the Oscar winner will reunite with his Equalizer franchise director Antoine Fuqua for the project, which is being written by John Logan, who earned an Oscar nomination…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Lil Durk‘s latest single, “Smurk Carter,” gets Lil Wayne‘s stamp of approval. After taking a listen to the new song, credited as Durk’s homage to the rap icon — and another of his idols, Jay-Z — Wayne said he liked what he heard. “That b**** was bad, that b**** hard,” Wayne said in a video shared to Durk’s…