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5-Year-Old Celebrity Kid Produced Song on Kendrick Lamar’s New Surprise Album
All you Kendrick Lamar fans are having a very blessed Friday, I’m sure. The Grammy Award-winning rapper dropped a surprise album late Thursday night, seemingly called untitled unmastered—or he could just be saying that the album is both of those things. It’s an eight-track project, and none of the songs have names. Another special thing…
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That Rihanna Reign Just Won’t Let Up: Deets on Her Shoe Deal With Manolo Blahnik
Rihanna’s the queen of endorsements. Fly ones, too. She’s on the cover of April British Vogue, and inside she spills the beans on her new six-shoe endorsement campaign with the legendary high-end shoe company Manolo Blahnik. In the issue, she models in one of the shoes from her collection: thigh-high boots with crystals aligned at…
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President Obama Reveals His Family Will Stay in DC After He Leaves Office
President Barack Obama confirmed today that his family will stay in Washington, D.C., after they leave the White House so that Sasha can finish up high school there, according to CNN. The president announced his plans during a lunch in Milwaukee, saying, “We’re going to have to stay a couple of years in D.C. probably…
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Expectant Miss. Mother Includes Late Husband in Family Photo Shoot
Photos have the ability to hold memories of all that has transpired and to freeze our most precious moments in time. Yet with additional technical touches, they can reflect even more than that. When Nicole Bennett of Jackson, Miss., unexpectedly lost her husband, Deonta, two months before her due date, she reached out to photographer…
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Will Smith and Bad Boys Producer Have Reportedly Put Things in Motion for the Trilogy
TMZ caught wind of news that Will Smith and Jerry Bruckheimer—the producer behind the Bad Boys franchise—have inked a deal to put the franchise’s trilogy into motion. Sources told TMZ that Smith and Bruckheimer spent four hours at dinner Tuesday night and met up again for a long lunch Wednesday to hatch out the details.…
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This Empire Actor Reportedly Wants Out of the Show
Page Six got word from unnamed sources that Trai Byers—the actor who plays Andre Lyon on Empire—wants off the show. Apparently Byers feels that the role and the show are beneath him, since he’s a Yale-trained actor. The sources say that Byers has been exhibiting “diva behavior” on the set and, so, the show’s producers…
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An Open Letter to Melissa Harris-Perry From a Grateful Student
Dear Professor Harris-Perry: When the news broke that you would no longer be appearing on MSNBC, it signaled the end of a very important era for me. I was in graduate school at Princeton University when President Barack Obama was sworn into office as our first black president, a time when we could only speculate…
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Venus Williams Says Serena Encouraged Her to Return to Tournament After Racist Experience
Anyone with a little sister knows that sometimes the wisdom she imparts can resonate with you so deeply. It has something to do with seeing this younger person whom you’ve always led turn around and do the leading and the guiding. That’s what happened to Venus Williams and her baby sister, Serena. In a letter…
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Watch: Tyrese Tsk-Tsks Chris Rock for Dissing Jada Pinkett Smith
Editor’s note: This article contains social media posts that some may find offensive. Tyrese didn’t watch the Academy Awards Sunday night because he was part of the cohort of people who were boycotting the show because of its lack of diversity in the main acting categories. But he did catch wind of host Chris Rock’s…
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Where Chris Rock Went Wrong in His Oscars Monologue
In Monday’s Washington Post, Daniel Drezner praises Chris Rock’s opening monologue at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony as “genius.” In particular, he admires the way Rock made fun of and tamed the #OscarsSoWhite elephant in the room. But where Drezner sees the structure of Rock’s routine as a model for how politicians can criticize their own…
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