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Family of Youngest Astroworld Victim Calls Travis Scott’s New Initiative a ‘PR Stunt,’ Scott Responds
'He’s pretty much trying to sway the jurors before they’re even assembled. He’s trying to make himself look good,' said Ezra Blount's grandmother, Tericia.
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‘I Changed the Whole Game’: Billy Porter Calls Out the Double Standard in Praising Harry Styles’ Nonbinary Fashion
The Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winning actor called out the fashion industry and Vogue, referencing the magazine's history-making cover of Styles in a dress.
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Idris Elba Confirms He Won’t Be the Next James Bond, and I Am ‘Shaken, Not Stirred’ About It
This news comes just as the latest installment of the popular film franchise No Time to Die hits theaters on Friday.
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OK, So SZA May Not Love Her Rolling Stone Cover, but It Sparked a Necessary Word About Mental Health
What’s wrong with this picture (above)? We see SZA, Megan Thee Stallion, and Normani, three brown-skinned, black leather-clad rising queens of the music industry in a photo evoking the height of Vibe magazine’s iconic covers—but this time, for Rolling Stone (shot by Campbell Addy, notably the first black man and only second black person to…
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Black Twitter Demands Answers After Rolling Stone's Colonized List of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time Resurfaces
I’m completely aware that opinions are subjective, but on Monday, Rolling Stone upset the entire balance of the universe all over again when its 2008 list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” resurfaced to torment us all. And no, “torment” is not hyperbole—because we live in a world in which Patti Labelle, the…
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She Get It From Her Mama: Zoë Kravitz Recreates Lisa Bonet’s Iconic Rolling Stone Cover
Few people can say they’ve had one parent on the cover of Rolling Stone, let alone two. Then again, few people are Zoë Kravitz, descended from bona fide cultural icons Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet. As a member of perhaps one of the coolest and most famous blended families on earth (oh hey, Jason Momoa),…
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Cardi B Is a Real Muva on Her New Rolling Stone Cover With Offset
Rappers are definitely the real rock stars of our era. They work hard, play hard, party hard, trash the occasional hotel room and get into fights. They live and love and make music worth shaking one’s ass to. (Don’t deny the power of “Bickenhead.”) Cardi B and the one-third of Migos known as Offset have…
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Janelle Monáe Confirms She’s a ‘Queer Black Woman in America’
In the lead-up to her new album, Dirty Computer, which drops this Friday, Janelle Monáe has more than hinted at her sexual identity. “Make Me Feel”—which channels her mentor Prince and features a synth line written by him—references both Black Mirror’s “San Junipero” episode, a queer utopian fantasy in which two women find each other…
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Rolling Stone Talks to Meek Mill—and Shares the Receipts on the Judge Who Put Him Back in Jail
Anyone who’s been following the Meek Mill case by now knows that it has taken on the feel of a Greek tragedy. The details that have emerged—Meek’s arrest when he was 19 for a bogus crack charge by a crooked cop, the ensuing years of probation under the eyes of a petty and overbearing judge,…
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The Most Recent—and Disturbing—Abuse Allegations Launched Against R. Kelly: Report
One of R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriends has come forward in a Rolling Stone article with new allegations of sexual, emotional and physical abuse against the R&B singer. Kitti Jones, a former radio DJ, cataloged the entire dizzying, two-year relationship with the “Pied Piper” of R&B to the magazine, describing how they met (at an after-party following…