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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

MTV Cardi B says fans might just be in for new music before the end of 2023. The rapper took to social media with the update that she’s pondering the thought of dropping a project, but she’s not quite sure what it’d be.  “I was thinking about being really quiet, really private but I don’t know.” Cardi is […]

A new BMF spinoff is on the way, says executive producer 50 Cent. The rapper took to Instagram over the weekend to tease an upcoming show based on the character Lamar, played by Eric Kofi-Abrefa. The London-born actor make an appearance in a video that features footage of the Manchester stop of 50’s The Final Lap Tour. “BMF LAMAR SPIN OFF COMING SOON!” 50 […]