Music
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Someone Has Dethroned Lil Nas X From the No. 1 Spot, So He Can't Ride That Horse No More
Has the time come when Lil Nas X can’t ride his horse “no more?” Well, he won’t be riding it on No. 1 Boulevard any longer because “Old Town Road” has been dethroned. *cue shock and awe* That’s right, according to BuzzFeed News, Billie Eilish has knocked Lil Nas X’s pervasive hit song off the…
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OMG! OK, It's Happening: Rihanna Reportedly Registered New Music With Her Publisher
We’ve expressed this sentiment more than once, but it needs to be repeated: Rihanna has successfully executed the best troll in modern music. The once-upon-a-time artist and now beauty and fashion mogul decided to announce she was debuting her much-anticipated new album in 2019 and proceeded to heighten her fans’ anxiety to astronomical levels while…
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Bryan Michael Cox Claims Jay-Z Told Jermaine Dupri to Turn Down a Similar NFL Deal
Up until last week, one of Black Twitter’s conundrums is deciding whether to choose $500,000 or an apparent lucrative dinner with Jay-Z. Well, Jermaine Dupri may be able to tell us just how beneficial that hypothetical dinner would be. Jay has been all over the news recently after holding a press conference with NFL Commissioner…
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Somebody Found John Coltrane’s Lost Album Blue World and We’re All Better for It
John Coltrane is kind of a big deal. Over the course of a career that spanned over two decades, the legendary composer and saxophonist churned out classic albums like 1957’s Blue Train and 1964’s A Love Supreme, all while trying to kick a vicious heroin addiction and expanding the boundaries of what we knew jazz…
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Exactly One Good Thing Happened This Week and That’s Normani Dropping This ‘Motivation’ Video
Beloveds, Normani has landed. On Thursday, the former Fifth Harmony singer dropped the video to her first non-collab song (she previously dueted with Sam Smith on “Dancing With a Stranger”), and every Hot Girl and City Boy under the sound of her voice felt their lungs expand, their skin glisten, their brows get fuller, their…
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Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' Will Get Nominated for CMA Awards, Right? Some Voters Don't Seem to Think So
Welllll, I’m going to take my horse to the Old Town Road, I’m gonna riiiide ‘till I can’t no more… *record scratch* Welp, the Country Music Association voting board may say Lil Nas X can’t ride his horse onto their nomination list. According to USA Today, ballots have gone out for the 2019 CMA Awards,…
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Missy Elliott Lasted Twenty Rounds and Finally Got Her Well-Deserved 2019 MTV Video Vanguard Award
Pass that dutch—it’s a celebration, bitches! Melissa Arnette Elliott—also known as Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott—has been honored with the 2019 Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award! Yep, that’s what we thought, MTV. Y’all knew what was up. *places mob torches back into storage* As an elderly Rose Dewitt Bukater mused in the 1997 hit Titanic, “It’s been…
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Mystikal Busted His Ass for All Our Sins and There’s Video Evidence to Prove It
Since I’ve spent my entire morning laughing at this shit, I suppose I’ll share with the rest of the class now. TMZ reports that some guy named Mystikal, who somehow ranks higher than Jadakiss on Panama Jackson’s list of greatest rappers of all-time, caught the L of the century when he fell off the stage…
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Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign Invite Us to Ride the Boat on Hot Girl Summer
After birthing the phenomenon known as “Hot Girl Summer,” its official anthem has finally arrived, courtesy of Megan Thee Stallion, with a little assistance from a pair of artists equally about that liberated life: Ty Dolla $ign and Nicki Minaj. We first learned of Nicki and Ty’s involvement with the song on Monday, when the…
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'Houston We Have a Problem': Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo Team Up for the Most Pure Hot Girl Video
We are one day away from the release of Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj’s much-anticipated collaboration, “Hot Girl Summer,” but Meg found it in her heart to gift us with one more blessed hangout: her and the incomparable Lizzo. The link-up started out as many Megan events do, with the Houston rapper pouring a…