Rich Fury/Getty Images for Def Jam Recordings Cardi B‘s first baby, Kulture, isn’t much of a baby anymore. The New York rapper celebrated her first born’s fifth birthday on Monday, July 10, with a trolls-themed event, a mini photoshoot session and more. “My baby is five….Happy birthday to my pretty princess,” Cardi wrote on Instagram, sharing video of the…
Only The Family Entertainment / EMPIRE King Von‘s music lives on. The Chicago rapper’s estate will release Grandson, Von’s posthumous album featuring a list of top rappers like G Herbo, Polo G, Tee Grizzley, 42 Dugg and fellow Chicago rapper Lil Durk. The feature artists and track list for Grandson was revealed on social media and via Spotify billboards plastered across New York, including in Times Square. Von’s forthcoming album will…
Unique Nicole/Getty Images Michael Winans, in partnership with 5-0 Studios London, announced a new seven-part film series is in the works on the famous Winans gospel music family. Winans 100- Thankful will chronicle the Winans family tree, tracing their roots back more than 200 years, starting with ancestors Louis and Ruby in 1805 and the six generations that followed. “We are many generations…
Venla Shalin/Redferns Lil Nas X had a brush with the law Monday in Oslo, Norway. The newspaper Dagbladet reports that police in that city temporarily closed down a tunnel because four Americans were riding scooters through it. “There were four Americans who got lost in the tunnel,” a police spokesperson told the paper. “They tried to get out but…
ABC/Jeff Neira Simone Ledward Boseman, the wife of late actor Chadwick Boseman, dedicated her latest social media post to her husband. Taking to her Instagram Story Monday night, Ledward Boseman shared a sweet photo of the two of them, showing Chadwick grinning while she kisses him on the cheek. “Missing you terribly,” she captioned the picture. Two years after Boseman died from…
Generation Now/Atlantic Records In a blazing ascent to the top of the music charts, Lil Uzi Vert has unleashed their latest album, Pink Tape, to claim the prestigious No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 albums chart. According to Billboard, the album’s explosive debut, as reported by Luminate, raked in a staggering 167,000 equivalent album units in the United States, covering…
Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage In real life, Issa Rae would absolutely never want to be president. But in Barbie Land, she’d jump at the opportunity to do the job. As the entertainment mogul prepared to flex her acting chops as the head honcho in the new Barbie movie, she thought of a few historical Black female figures to help bring her President Barbie character to…
Peacock/Skip Bolen Peacock released a trailer to Twisted Metal, the adaptation of the hit Sony Playstation video game series, on Monday — and it doesn’t watch its language. Straight out of the gate, the series shows off its mature bona fides, with Anthony Mackie setting the scene: “Twenty years ago, the world fell to s***.”…
Snoop Dogg kicked off his High School Reunion Tour with Too Short, Warren G, Berner, special guest DJ Drama and more at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver last week. Snoop shared the stage with Wiz Khalifa for a special performance of “We Dem Boys.” The hip-hop icon performed hits “Gin and Juice” and “Who Am I” from his debut album, Doggystyle, which dropped 30 years ago. Drake confirmed a…
Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage The new Barbie movie couldn’t have happened without the head Barb Nicki Minaj, so producers called upon the beloved rapper to add her flair to the film. Speaking about her recent song “Barbie World” with rising rapper Ice Spice, which appears on the movie’s soundtrack, Nicki said her involvement with the film is “full circle.” “I am so excited to be…