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Famously Fly: Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 Includes Some of Our Most Fashionable Faves!
You’ve seen them on screen, on the red carpet and often, right here on The Glow Up. And now, just in time for New York Fashion Week, several of our favorite fashionable celebs have landed on Vanity Fair’s Best Dressed 2018 list! And because we’re always rooting for everybody black (it’s our job, as well…
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Time Traveling: Tom Ford Kicks Off NYFW Spring-Summer 2019 With Retro-Inspired Glamour
Tom Ford has always had a flair for the darkly dramatic—the type of striking statements that get shoutouts by Jay-Z or Oscar nominations (for each of two films, so far). From his 1996 reinvention of Gucci (which spawned the memorable white cutout dress in Toni Braxton’s “Unbreak My Heart” video) through launching his own label,…
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Childish Gambino Drops Animated Video for 'Feels Like Summer,' Featuring Our Hip-Hop Faves Hanging Out in the Coolest Neighborhood Ever
As we head towards Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer and cookout season, Childish Gambino has dropped an animated video for “Feels Like Summer,” featuring cameos from some of our hip-hop and R&B favorites. As Gambino casually strolls down the street in what has to be the coolest neighborhood ever, we catch a glimpse…
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Will Award Over $1 Million in Scholarships to 11 Lucky High School Seniors
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter are already well known for their philanthropy, especially as it pertains to contributing toward the higher education costs of college-bound students. They are continuing that legacy this year with a new scholarship program. Parkwood Entertainment announced in a press release Saturday that the Carters will be awarding $100,000 each…
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Fan Who Rushed the Stage at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Show Charged With Battery
The fan who created pandemonium at the Atlanta stop on Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II tour when he ran on stage after the two stars is now facing criminal charges. Atlanta Police Officer Lisa Bender told the Associated Press that 26-year-old Anthony Charles Maxwell was initially cited for disorderly conduct and released on…
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Someone Jumped Up to Get Beatdown on Stage During Beyoncé and Jay-Z's On The Run II Tour
Whew, chile, when Beyoncé and the father of her children asked, “Have you ever seen a crowd going apeshit?!” they never imagined that would lead to some unsophisticated philistine jumping on the stage and chasing them like the couple owed him money. As reported by CNN, the incident happened towards the end of the couple’s…
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The House of Abundance: The Carters Eyeball the Colosseum in Rome for Next Video and Give Us a Glimpse of The Twins on a Yacht
The Carters are in the midst of their On the Run II tour currently and you can basically call it a stunt-on-all-of-us-relentlessly tour. The lovebirds were recently spotted on a yacht, because where else would you spot them? But this time momma Beyoncé and poppa Jay-Z had the babies with them, well one of the…
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Jay-Z Rails Against Philadelphia and Its Mayor for 'Evicting' His Made In America Festival
In an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, rapper and mogul Jay-Z let it be known that he was none too happy about the city of Philadelphia’s decision to “evict” his six-year-old Made in America Festival for 2019. This September will be the last Made in America Festival if Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney…
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Work Hard, Play Carter: The Carters Take a Stylish Time Out in Italy
Here’s what I’m doing on my summer vacation: writing hundreds of posts for The Glow Up, maybe fitting in a trip or two to midwestern meccas in Wisconsin, Minnesota or Iowa to catch up with the fam, catching a few free concerts in the park in Chicago and intermittently catching a few rays at my…
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Set to Headline Global Citizen Festival to Honor Nelson Mandela in South Africa
Beyoncé and her hubby Jay-Z will be headlining this year’s Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100. I doubt I’ll be in South Africa come Dec. 2 but I hope there’s a live stream. The news about this event keeps getting bigger and better—Oprah Winfrey will be the keynote speaker. Other hosts of the event include Naomi…