Music
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All About the Comeback: Cardi B Wants to Name Her Next Album ‘Tiger Woods’
In a year when Cardi B stayed winning (a Grammy, a BET Award and a Billboard trophy among her victories), it’s obvious she’s good when it comes to the come-up. That appears to explain, at least in part, how the rap star came to decide to dub her next album “Tiger Woods.” Hip-hop and sports…
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Mannie Fresh Declares 'Back That Azz Up' the Greatest Love Song of All Time
Picture it…Sicily. Or any place that has a nightclub, actually. You’ve just walked to the bathroom after the DJ decides to play a bathroom break-worthy song. Whilst (hopefully) dousing your hands with water and soap after you’ve handled your business, you hear the beautiful violin strings of success start to harmonize in the background. Is…
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Angela Lansbury Just Found Out About a Girl Named Maxine, Learns 'Murder She Wrote' Song Exists
If you catch Dame Angela Lansbury suddenly bustin’ out a dutty wine over tea, you can thank her newfound discovery. The 93-year-old iconic actor recently appeared on q, a radio show on CBC, where she learned something delightful and new. That’s right, she finally became aware of the 1993 Chaka Demus & Pliers reggae hit,…
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Did Fiona Apple Prompt Chart-Topping Hip-Hop Phenom Lil Nas X to Take ‘A Little Time Off’?
It can’t be curtains already for Lil Nas X. On Friday, the “Old Town Road” rapper took to social media to tell his millions of fans that he’s taking a chill pill and will stand still. “It’s been a wild last 7 months and im ready to take a little time off,” the 20-year-old Atlanta…
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Berry Gordy Announces His Retirement at 89
After six decades in the entertainment industry, Berry Gordy is calling it quits. According to the Detroit Free Press, the 89-year-old music mogul made the surprise announcement on Sunday during Motown’s 60th-anniversary Hitsville Honors ceremony at Detroit’s Orchestra Hall. After accepting the Motown Legacy Award from filmmaker Lee Daniels, Gordy made the big reveal during…
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I Am Still a Part of the Rhythm Nation 30 Years Later and That's Alright With Me
I recently saw a Billboard article that ranked every song on Janet Jackson’s fourth studio album, 1989’s Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (we’ll just call it Rhythm Nation from here on out)—though I’m sure most folks think it’s her second album after her landmark album, 1986’s Control—and thought to myself that I could never do…
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Taylor Swift Claims She Had No Idea She Was a White Supremacist Icon Because She ‘Didn’t Have the Internet’ on Her Phone
As some of the largest and most respected news outlets in America (unless you count Fox News, which is huge in Whitekanda) reported that alt-right and Neo-Nazi groups were celebrating Taylor Swift as the idealized Aryan Goddess, the unseasoned singer of hits I could probably Google if my computer browser didn’t have a “bullshit blocker”…
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10 Thoughts About the Upcoming 'A Night with Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour'
1. I could understand a Las Vegas residency for “A Night with Whitney.” What happens there, rightly stays there, so it makes sense. Yes, that’s a non-sequitur. But so is ‘Whitney was popular let’s make her a ghost and tour her.’ I’ve been to Vegas and seen things that I have not seen anywhere else,…
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It's Not Right, It's Not Okay, but Whitney Houston Hologram Tour Dates Were Announced Anyway
We all read about it. A lot of us hoped it wasn’t true. They couldn’t have actually gone through with it, right? Wrong. According to Billboard, BASE Hologram has announced the tour dates for An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour. Yes, it’s happening. “Whitney Houston was a talent beyond words, and her…
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Andre 3000 May Have a New Album With Dr. Dre on the Way
It’s been 13 years since Andre 3000’s last studio album—long enough that many casual and devout fans of the rapper had squared up with the reality that Andre may never do one again. In fact, Mr. Three Stacks has seemed perfectly content acting, making Anita Hill merch, and occasionally hopping on a track to remind…