Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Live Nation Urban Clipse is celebrating their new album with a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk. Now available to watch on YouTube, their concert quickly goes through the Thornton brothers’ discography with help from a live band. They performed throwbacks “Virginia,” “Keys Open Doors” and “Momma I’m Sorry” before…
Photo by Marc Piasecki/WireImage Kid Cudi may be Free in certain aspects of his life, but he’s locked into love with new wife Lola Abecassis Sartoremet. The two tied the knot during a ceremony on June 28 at Cap Estel in Èze in the South of France. “It was bliss,” Lola, head designer at ERL, tells Vogue. “A moment…
Parkwood Entertainment Texas can hold Beyoncé‘s red convertible: she’s switched it out for a mechanical gold horse. Footage from the singer’s Atlanta tour stop on Thursday showed her singing “16 Carriages” suspended above the audience. Instead of the red convertible she’d been performing in for previous stops, she sang while aboard the gold horse. This change comes a…
Joyner Lucas released “Time is Money” featuring DaBaby, Fireboy DML and J Balvin. “This song is about what it really costs to chase the dream, how time becomes your most valuable currency. I wanted to bring together voices from around the world that understand that grind,” says Joyner. You can keep Charlie Wilson in love by…
A street in Harlem will soon be named after hip-hop hypeman Fatman Scoop. A street co-naming ceremony will take place Aug. 9 on the corner of 109th Street and 5th Avenue, which will soon be called Isaac ‘Fatman Scoop’ Freeman III Place. The honor, which comes nearly a year after Fatman’s death on Aug. 30, 2024, will…
Courtesy of ‘Duke & Roya’ Jay Ellis is living out a childhood dream. He’s starring in his first off-Broadway play, Duke & Roya, as Duke, an American hip-hop superstar. Jay says he has always wanted to rap. “I used to make mixtapes with my homeboys when we were [in] middle school,” he tells ABC Audio. “So it’s actually…
Photo by Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Givēon will release his second full-length studio album on Friday, but he’s already thinking about the long game. In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Givēon said he’s inspired by Usher‘s longevity in the music industry. “I want to stay around because I value longevity as well. … Even…
Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for BET When Doechii accepted the best female hip-hop artist trophy at BET Awards 2025, she addressed the LA protests against undocumented immigrants being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Speaking to Variety, she explained she spoke up because she wanted to take advantage of the spotlight and her platform.…
Photo by Antoine Flament/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Rihanna‘s favorite childhood show was The Smurfs, making her a good fit for the role of Smurfette in the upcoming Smurfs movie. The film’s director, Chris Miller, said in an interview with Variety that “everything just clicked” once he learned of her connection to the show. “It felt completely natural…
Photo by Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Amex x Carbone Beach Wyclef Jean has a new title to add to his resume. After years of taking the stage at the Global Citizen Festival and working with the international organization, he has been named a Global Citizen ambassador. “It’s a true honor to be named a Global Citizen Ambassador.…