Doja Cat
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Billboard Music Awards 2021: The Weeknd, Megan Thee Stallion, Drake, Saweetie Among Nominees
On Thursday, Billboard announced its nominees for the annual Billboard Music Awards. This year’s ceremony will air live at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and will include fan-voted categories for Top Social Artist and Top Collaboration. Because y’all know how we get down ‘round this way, let’s go ahead and get into the Blackity-black nominees,…
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Mic Drop: Welcome to the Party
Where the party at? Clearly, it’s in this week’s new releases because each is a lyrical, melodic and funky bop that gives us a lively look into the artist’s creative capacity. Of course, these parties are primarily still taking place in our living rooms and blasting through our headphones, but it’s a party nonetheless. Music…
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Say So Long to This Savage Year: Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion to Perform at Dick Clark’s New Year Rockin’ Eve
Billboard announced today that “Juicy” singer Doja Cat is one of the latest additions to the performances for this year’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The “Like That” artist will join the West Coast lineup, hosted by “Level Up” singer Ciara, from Los Angeles’ Hollywood Party. Meanwhile on the East…
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AMAs 2020: Less Zoom Screens, More COVID-Compliant Stages—Can You Feel a Brand New Day?
The time has come for the world’s largest fan-voted award show and you’re now reading the world’s largest award show recap site! OK, I may have made up the latter part of the sentence, but thanks for joining me! As per usual, I’m here to give you the Black-ass play-by-play. This time, it’s the 2020…
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Have We Officially Lost All Sense of Time, or Did Halloween Hit Early at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards?
It’s October, right? Frankly, we’re not entirely sure, at this point; the days are shorter, the darkness both literally and figuratively encroaching, and it’s getting colder—in fact, it’s starting to feel eerily like it did when we first started lockdown—maybe we’re stuck in a time loop? At any rate, given that our current state of…
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The 2020 VMAs Were Virtual and It Was Like MTV Started Playing Music Videos Again
It’s time for yet another awards ceremony with a virtual stage! This time, it’s MTV’s biggest night for music—the Video Music Awards (VMAs)! The actual ceremony as a whole was pretty—er—white, but here’s a Black-ass fact: Keke Palmer was the first-ever Black woman to host the VMAs solo! The first VMAs debuted in 1984, so…
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Doja Cat’s ‘Dindu Nuffin,’ Explained
“Trust me, they’re both real!” in any context doesn’t inspire much confidence.
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Doja Cat Defends Herself Amidst Allegations of Racism, Self-Hate
Well, it was quite the weekend for Doja Cat. The rapper and singer should be feeling on top of the world, as not too long ago, she nabbed her first No. 1 hit with the song “Say So” alongside Nicki Minaj. However, the internet did as the internet does when someone gets popular, and dug…
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Question for the Singer: An Open Letter to Lana Del Rey
Question for Lana Del Rey: Now that you’ve pulled out your MacBook and fixed your fingers to claim that you’ve been criticized and crucified for the inability to truly moan along perform lyrics in your catalog pertaining to “being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing…