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Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Atlantic Records Lin-Manuel Miranda’s next musical is an album – not a stage production – based on one of his favorite movies. Warriors, which he made with playwright Eisa Davis, is a concept album based on the 1979 cult classic film The Warriors. The album was released on Oct. 18, with […]
Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Mary J. Blige is officially in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame following the induction ceremony Saturday night in Cleveland, and she believes she’s deserving of the honor. “The truth is that I’m a winner in every way. I’ve earned the […]
Quentin De Briey Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” was released amid his feud with Drake and has become a viral song known to bring people together, but there is more to the song than what people seem to understand. Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar for its November 2024 Voices Issue, K. Dot tells SZA what the record means to […]
Live Nation 50 Cent is planning to do some “extra stuff” at his first Las Vegas residency. Speaking with People, he shares he’s been thinking of what he can pull off now that his set won’t be taken down after every show. “I’ve been trying to put this together the whole time,” he says. “The things that I couldn’t […]
Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2024 Essence Atkins is back on primetime television thanks to Poppa’s House, a new sitcom airing Monday on CBS. She stars opposite Damon Wayans Jr. and Damon Wayans, who she’d been wanting to work with for some time. “I had worked with Junior before [but] Senior I had never worked with,” she tells ABC […]
ABC Audio/Stephen Iervolino Aldis Hodge plays brilliant criminal psychologist Alex Cross in the forthcoming Prime Video series based on James Patterson‘s bestselling book series, and at New York Comic Con on Friday he talked about Cross with ABC Audio. From the drop — a trailer of the show — fans were all in, the actor says. “The […]
Alamo Records Rod Wave has debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, directly following the #1 album Beautifully Broken by Jelly Roll. His Last Lap album landed at #2, earning 127,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 17. It’s his seventh consecutive top 10 on the chart since 2019. He’s had an album debut in […]
Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place Saturday, and among the night’s inductees was the Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige. Following an introduction from longtime collaborators Dr. Dre and Method Man, Mary took the stage performing a […]
A fun fact about the lyrics on Rihanna‘s “SOS” was shared in a recent interview with the songwriter, Evan “Kidd” Bogart. Speaking to the Behind the Wall podcast, he shares it was his first time ever creating a pop song. “I was going off of instinct. If you look at the verses, they’re crafted with a lot of […]
It’s a jam-packed New Music Friday, featuring some hip-hop and some R&B. Here are some of the latest releases: Queen Naija released “Missing You,” a tribute to her late friend/bodyguard Beast, who passed away in 2022. “Haven’t been myself since the day that you/ went away from me/ And I try not to get emotional from […]
