Drake and Nicki Minaj lead the BET Awards 2024 nominees with seven and six nominations, respectively. Drake’s nominations include Album of the Year for For All The Dogs (Scary Hours Edition), Best Male R&B/Pop Artist, Best Male Hip Hop Artist, Best Collaboration with Sexyy Red and SZA for “Rich Baby Daddy,” Viewer’s Choice with Sexyy…… read more »
Soulja Boy has apologized to Metro Boomin after receiving severe backlash from the hip-hop community for his posts about the producer’s late mother. The rapper recently lashed out at the producer after a 12-year-old tweet from Metro resurfaced online, where he made a jibe at the former. “My phone rings to come to the studio…… read more »
Kehlani has announced that their fourth studio album, Crash will arrive on June 21. The Grammy-nominated singer, who had earlier teased the LP’s title through a slew of tweets, also revealed the album’s artwork on social media. The artwork features the singer sitting atop a demolished car, with their legs covered in a metallic apparatus.…… read more »
Blue Note Entertainment Group and Black Radio Productions have unveiled a legendary lineup for their newly announced “Blue Note Jazz Festival Presents: The Black Radio Experience.” “Blue Note Jazz Festival Presents: The Black Radio Experience” will be hosted by Sway Calloway. It is scheduled to take place on August 30 to September 1 at The…… read more »
Warner Brothers is set to release Prince’s Purple Rain on 4K Ultra HD and digital platforms on June 25th in celebration of the iconic film’s 40th anniversary. Prince, who made his acting debut with Purple Rain, starred as The Kid in the movie, alongside Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, and Clarence Williams III. Albert…… read more »
French Montana has announced his 2024 “Gotta See It To Believe It” Tour featuring special guests Fabolous and Fivio Foreign. The 7-city tour kicks off on August 1 at Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, making stops across North America in Buffalo, Chicago, Toronto and more before wrapping up at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on August…… read more »
Cardi B says she is not dropping a new album this year, as she had promised a few weeks back. The rapper made the announcement in a conversations with fans online about the follow up to her 2018 debut album. It has been six years since the rapper released her first studio album, Invasion of…… read more »
Eminem ran a fake “Slim Shady” obituary in the Detroit Free Press earlier this week to promote his upcoming 12th studio album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace). The message features a photo of Eminem in a white Jason Voorhees hockey mask. The headline reads, “Slim Shady Made Lasting Impressions” and the subhead…… read more »
Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s diss tracks hog the limelight on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart dated May 18, claiming the top six slots on the list. Lamar’s “Not Like Us” debuted at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Rap Songs chart. The song logged 70.9 million official U.S. streams in the tracking week ended May…… read more »
Hip-hop superstar Lizzo has spoken out in support of Palestine, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo on social media. In a video she shared on Instagram, Lizzo thanked “all of the activists who have been working tirelessly to help the liberation and the freedom of the people who have been genocided all over the…… read more »