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Photo: Greg Gorman, courtesy Christie’s Legendary producer and musician Quincy Jones is opening up his “encyclopedic” wine collection to Christie’s auction house, with selections from around the world and some extremely rare — from 1928 and 1934, to be exact — fruit of the grape.  Christie’s explains, “The sale offers wine and music enthusiasts the opportunity to […]

Prince Williams/WireImage Three years after dropping her debut album, Misunderstood, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Queen Naija is back with a new EP. The R&B singer announced After the Butterflies, her sophomore album expected out on November 17.  Queen wrote that she’s “so happy” to finally be releasing a project and requested fans “enjoy this body of work that was created from a […]

Jack Bridgland/GQ In his spread for GQ’s 28th annual Men of the Year issue, Travis Scott opened up about the tragedy that was the 2021 Astroworld Festival. “I mean I was just overly devastated,” Scott said of the fatal crowd crush that left many concertgoers dead and others injured. “I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You […]

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 […]

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 […]

courtesy of Live Nation Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire are joining forces once again to bring back their Heart & Soul tour in 2024. The trek, an encore of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bands onstage together, will hit 30 cities, starting July 10 in St. Louis, Missouri. It will stop in St. Paul, Charlotte, Tampa, Nashville, […]

From long-awaited collaborative projects to sequel albums and fresh new singles, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Meek Mill & Rick Ross, Too Good to be True — After much anticipation, the MMG duo dropped off their star-studded joint album, including features from Future, Wale, The-Dream and Jeremih.  Chris Brown, 11:11 — For the singer’s 11th […]

Alberto Rodriguez/BET/Getty Images for BET Long story short, there’s new music out from 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne. As the duo continues the run leading up their collaborative album, Welcome 2 Collegrove, they’ve delivered a new song, “Long Story Short.” On Monday, November 13, the rappers are scheduled to perform the track on Jimmy Kimmel Live!  “Long Story Short” follows the album’s […]

ABC/Randy Holmes Chris Brown just couldn’t wait until November 11 to drop his new album, 11:11. In tandem with it being Brown’s 11th studio project and the original plan to include 11 songs, the singer had been promoting a November 11 release date — but recently announced fans should expect to have it sooner.  “GIVING YALL THE ALBUM EARLY,” he captioned his […]

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Atlantic Records Meek Mill and Rick Ross released the track list for their new collaborative album, Too Good to be True, naming a host of top hip-hop artists of today.  Fabolous, Vory and DJ Khaled are just some of the features included on the long-awaited project. Also making an appearance: Wale, The Dream, Jeremih, French Montana and Future.  Basketball stars Shaquille O’Neal and Damian Lillard, who records music […]