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André 3000 Drops 2 New Songs for Mother’s Day
André 3000, one of the best who ever did it, dug into his personal stash of music to bless us with two new joints for Mother’s Day. And frankly, that nigga playing clarinet for 17 minutes still sounds better than all the rap that’s out here today. Mother’s Day, especially for those who have lost…
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Beyond the Blue
Vibrantly glowing inside a dark hall, a small ball of fire burned suspended midair. The flaming orb bounced upward, lingering shortly, before landing in Princess Inara’s palm. Her brown eyes stared intently into the flame as if it were a mystical crystal ball. Unfortunately, she found no answers to her problems hidden within the circular…
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Did Azealia Banks Bully Cardi B Into Deleting Her Instagram Account?
Azealia Banks, “the poster child for self-destruction,” continues to sow her seeds of dissension by calling out yet another black woman in entertainment for some politically impossible standard of blackness that she herself cannot live up to. This time, that woman is Cardi B, who, after clapping back at Banks on Friday, deleted her entire…
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Ava DuVernay Has a Mother’s Day Gift for Us All: A Wrinkle in Time Will Be Rereleased for Mother’s Day Weekend!
“Ava’s looking forward to speaking with you,” one of Array’s publicists said via the phone. (Array is Ava DuVernay’s grassroots distribution, arts and advocacy collective focused on films by people of color and women.) I smiled harder than necessary at the publicist’s statement, since I was the only one in the room and on the…
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R. Kelly Gives a Defiant Performance in Midst of North Carolina Protests and #MuteRKelly Campaign
I thought this dude was canceled. Apparently not. And as a recent show in Greensboro, N.C., reveals, R. Kelly is still as nasty as he wanna be, with his fans there to support this accused child sexual predator and woman abuser. The Associated Press reports that the singer told the crowd gathered for his concert…
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Former Loud Records CEO Announces a Wu-Tang 36 Chambers Redo. We Say Blasphemy
Personally, I think it’s a byproduct of the “sampling culture” of the ’80s and ’90s, plus capitalism, that’s eating up anything remotely creative. These days, so-called artists can’t seem to come up with anything original, so it’s all about reboots, remakes and taking whole swaths of already released songs instead of coming up with something…
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Young Dolph Blesses the 2 Duke University Baristas Who Were Fired for Playing His Song ‘Get Paid’ With $20,000
Two Duke University employees, Britni Brown and Kevin Simmons, were fired from their job at the university coffee shop, Joe Van Gogh, for playing the aspirational new Negro spiritual by Young Dolph entitled, “Get Paid.” Following in the tradition of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Madam C.J. Walker, Young Dolph raps: Get paid, young…
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Becoming Royalty: Actress Parisa Fitz-Henley Talks Transforming Into Meghan Markle
On May 19, the most publicized wedding of the year will be telecast worldwide, and millions will tune in to watch as the British royal family openly accepts its first member of African descent, Meghan Markle. Of course, for royal-watchers, no contemporary marriage of this magnitude would be complete without the attendant Lifetime movie to…
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Gillian Jacobs Is the ‘Life of the Party’ On-Screen, but Not So Much, She Says, in Real Life
Pittsburgh native Gillian Jacobs’ characters always seem to have a wild side to them. From her wild-child character Mickey on Netflix’s Love to her role on the recently released movie Life of the Party, in which she stars as Helen, a “Girls Gone Wild” college student, you’d think that Jacobs might have something in common…
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Meek Mill Discusses His Opioid Addiction, Says Jay-Z Quietly Paid His Legal Fees
Two weeks after he was released from a Pennsylvania prison, Meek Mill joined Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club for a wide-ranging interview that included discussion of his addiction to opioids, his friendship with Philadelphia 76ers owner Michael Rubin and much more. Mill discussed his addiction to Percocet, which he says he was reintroduced to by…