+ Megan Thee Stallion attends the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Leon Bennett/FilmMagic (Getty Images) Small Town Horror: The Story of a Food Network Star Turned Killer Off English Megan Thee Stallion may soon be cosplaying as Megan Thee Actress once again if a new movie deal […]
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Photo: Frazer Harrison / Staff (Getty Images), Amy Sussman / Staff (Getty Images), Tommaso Boddi / Stringer (Getty Images) Young Black woman are running the world! Although people have tried to bring these women down, they have risen above the haters. From musicians and actors to influencers and models, these are the Black women that […]
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Photo: Frazer Harrison / Staff (Getty Images), Amy Sussman / Staff (Getty Images), Tommaso Boddi / Stringer (Getty Images) Although haters will hate and have tried to bring these ladies down, they failed. Instead, these women have risen above the trolling. Young Black women are running the world! From musicians and actors to athletes and […]
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Screenshot: Instagram/@chenoir Che Noir is the hardest rapper on this list. No question. Born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., Che is a lyricist that is incredibly vivid and descriptive in her music. She paints a picture of the environment she grew up in and drops the listener into a new grimy and gritty world, that […]
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Screenshot: Instagram/@chenoir Che Noir is the hardest rapper on this list. No question. Born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., Che is a lyricist that is incredibly vivid and descriptive in her music. She paints a picture of the environment she grew up in and drops the listener into a new grimy and gritty world, that […]
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Rihanna is seen on March 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: thecelebrityfinder/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (Getty Images) It’s been a scary time for Rihanna as of late. TMZ reported that the 35-year-old singer was recently targeted by a stalker. The tabloid stated that a man traveled from South Carolina to Beverly Hills and attempted to enter […]
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Photo: MEGA/GC Images (Getty Images) Kanye West is back on social media. For the last few months, the controversial Chicago rapper has thankfully been quiet, keeping his anti-Semitic thoughts and pro-Hitler comments to himself. But, in a random turn of events, Kanye is claiming that after months of spewing hate speech towards Jewish people, he’s […]
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Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) Beyoncé doesn’t take a lot of L’s. That’s why when she does inexplicably suffer a loss, it becomes big news. One of her ventures that has failed to reach the Queen Bey level of success is her Ivy Park activewear line with Adidas, and now it appears the Grammy winner […]
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In an interview excerpt that has now gone viral, “Swarm” creator Donald Glover caused a stir when he explained how he wanted the star of the series, Dominique Fishback, to approach her character. CC Off English In the Vulture article, Glover states: “I kept telling her, ‘You’re not regular people. You don’t have to find […]
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Photo: FX Donald Glover, aka, Childish Gambino, is one of the most talented humans on earth. Just watch an episode of Atlanta. He can sing, rap, write, and act. Not to mention, he’s also a great comedian. So anything having to do with entertaining people and making art for people to consume, Gambino is the […]
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It’s been five years since beloved Florida rapper XXXTentacion was fatally shot in front of his car during a robbery attempt outside of a motorcycle shop. The 20-year-old rapper was killed just as his promising career was beginning to take off. CC Off English On Monday, the three men who were accused of murdering the […]
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I watch a lot of British TV and the one thing I’ve discovered is that their detective shows are better than ours. American procedurals can get incredibly predictable. On cop shows in the United Kingdom, you never know what to expect. Even when you know who the killer is, you still never know what’s going […]
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Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix / Stringer (Getty Images) Although some of us still can’t stop thinking about his character in For Colored Girls throwing those kids off the balcony, we’ll separate him from the character to admire his beauty. What a good-looking man!
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Queen Latifah is a hip-hop pioneer, TV star and Oscar-nominee. She has done everything there is to do in the entertainment business. She’s always been known as someone who uses her experience to help others in the industry. The Equalizer star continues that trend with her Queen Collective short film series, which recently returned to […]
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Whoopi Goldberg is apologizing after using an outdated ethnic slur on Wednesday’s episode of The View. CC Off English The longtime cohost let it slip during a segment of the show where she and her fellow cohosts were discussing Donald Trump and those who still falsely believe the 2020 election was rigged. Per The Hollywood […]
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Photo: Prince Williams/Wireimage (Getty Images) When Drake announced the It’s All Blur Tour, fans were excited that they’d have another chance to see the most popular rapper in the world perform again. CC Off English Drake on tour with Her Loss collaborator 21 Savage? Of course, fans were ecstatic. Champagnepapi hasn’t been on tour since […]
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Photo: Andy Lyons (Getty Images) We really don’t talk enough about Little Richard. Though the music legend never failed to remind the world that he invented rock ‘n roll, everyone should be holding him up as a game changer and a groundbreaker the way we do with artists like Elvis Presley, The Beatles and the […]
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Let me first start by saying I LOVE US FOR REAL. And by “us,” I mean Black people. Now that that’s said, let’s get into this epic, photo of Black joy and excellence that was taken at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party featuring a handful of Black Hollywood royalty. CC Off English According to […]
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Photo: Matthew Eisman (Getty Images) The Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, Eve, was at one point the most popular female rapper in the world. Her 1999 debut album, Let There Be Eve… Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, became the third album by a female rapper to debut at the top of the Billboard 200. While she hasn’t […]
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Photo: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Image (Getty Images) The question won’t sit well with the many people who disliked Rock’s clapback Netflix special Selective Outrage, an uneven hour that’s been thinkpieced to oblivion since its debut. But if you watched last night’s broadcast of the 95th Academy Awards, you might have noticed that it lacked the Black star […]
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Photo: Chris Pizzello (AP) Updated 3/12/23 at 8:46 p.m E.T: Kimmel’s monologue referenced last year’s slap and painted Will Smith in an unflattering light. He joked: “Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the chances of a fight just went way up. We want you to have fun, feel safe and, most importantly, we […]
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Photo: Chris Pizzello (AP) Updated 3/12/23 at 8:46 p.m E.T: Kimmel’s monologue referenced last year’s slap and painted Will Smith in an unflattering light. He joked: “Five Irish actors are nominated tonight, which means the chances of a fight just went way up. We want you to have fun, feel safe and, most importantly, we […]
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Photo: Chris Pizzello (AP) On March 12, Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars for a third time. The first time he hosted the prestigious awards ceremony was back in 2017, when La La Land was deemed the winner for Best Picture when it was in fact Moonlight. As ABC 7 reported, Kimmel sat down with […]
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Photo: Chris Pizzello (AP) “This article-your thesis and including the title-is regressive in so many ways. You’re arguing that Black folks need to impart violence-intentionally, publicly, in anger-on other Black folks when they stray from whatever narrative one deems as justifiable. That people’s (in your assessment) poor decisions justify a public ‘stomp down’. Or, in […]
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Photo: Rich Fury / Staff (Getty Images) Rihanna is a new mother to a son with her boyfriend, musician Asap Rocky. And during the 2023 Superbowl, she showed us all that she was expecting another baby. Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, and Savage X Fenty are still very active brands today, with Rihanna announcing that Fenty […]
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Photo: Kris Connor / Stringer (Getty Images) Oh the hipocrisy. How interesting that Chris Rock was talking down on Will and Jada Smith’s marriage in his latest Netfix stand-up special Selective Outrage, when he wasn’t all that great in his almost two-decade-long marriage to his ex-wife, Malaak Compton-Rock. CC Off English Compton-Rock, a former publicist, […]
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Start Slideshow Photo: Mason Poole (Getty Images) We all know the Best Original Song performances are the most entertaining part of the Oscars. With Rihanna set to sing her nominated track “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, it’s definitely time to take a look back at some of the most memorable Best Original […]
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Photo: Kris Connor / Stringer (Getty Images) Oh the hipocrisy. How interesting that Chris Rock was talking down on Will and Jada Smith’s marriage in his latest Netfix stand-up special Selective Outrage, when he wasn’t all that great in his almost two-decade-long marriage to his ex-wife, Malaak Compton-Rock. CC Off English Compton-Rock, a former publicist, […]
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Photo: Chris Pizzello (AP) “This article-your thesis and including the title-is regressive in so many ways. You’re arguing that Black folks need to impart violence-intentionally, publicly, in anger-on other Black folks when they stray from whatever narrative one deems as justifiable. That people’s (in your assessment) poor decisions justify a public ‘stomp down’. Or, in […]
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(L-R) Guy Torry, Cedric the Entertainer, Kym Whitley, Deon Cole and Chris Spencer attend Lexus UPTOWN Honors Hollywood at Sunset Room Hollywood on March 08, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Randy Shropshire (Getty Images) Being a Black comedian isn’t exactly the easiest job in the world, but thankfully, Lexus and Uptown Magazine have combined […]
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Photo: Robert Kamau (Getty Images) As the fallout from Chris Rock’s Netflix special “Selective Outrage” continues, the discourse makes more and more interesting turns. Celebrities are embroiled over differing opinions over whether words are just “jokes” or if comedians should be held accountable for what they say. CC Off English We saw the same kind […]
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