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Sweet Baby Beysus! Beyoncé Went and Bought Another Church
There are far too many to count, those who worship at the altar of Ms. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. But given that, it’s only fitting that this generation’s, er, Michael Jackson would just go ahead and get herself a church. So, yeah, that’s what she did. TMZ reports that Beyoncé recently purchased a 7,500-square-foot, 100-year-old…
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Met Gala 2018: Did Vogue Catch Your Fave Live on Camera?
Go down a wormhole, but make it fashion. This was pretty much how I spent Tuesday night, watching video after video on Vogue’s YouTube channel, where all of our Met Gala faves were featured talking fashion, true confessions, and their takes on the night’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Let’s start with…
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Good Vibrations: Solange Writes About Jamaica, Grace Jones and Her New Album
It’s a marvel to grow up alongside an artist, and even more wonderful to see the ways in which she or he continues to evolve and shape—and be shaped by—the world in turn. Solange is very much one of those artists for me: a woman whose journey has been far from predictable, whose gifts are…
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Beyoncé x Balmain = Best Coachella Homecoming Ever
What happens when the reigning prince of fashion gets a request to dress Queen Bey for her takeover of one of the most famous music festivals in the world? You get some major fashion moments to go along with all of that amazing music. Olivier Rousteing, creative director of Balmain, turned heads during Paris Fashion…
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Mathew Knowles on Infamous Solange vs. Jay-Z Elevator Fight: ‘If You Know Solange, That’s Solange’
It was the elevator fight seen around the world. In one corner you had Solange Knowles, and in the other you had Jay-Z, getting pummeled by Solange. And in another, you had Beyoncé fixing her dress after the 2014 Met Gala event. Now, four years later, Mathew Knowles, the father of Beyoncé and Solange, is…
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Soul Singer Alleges That Kanye West and Solange Knowles Illegally Sampled His Track
Prince Phillip Mitchell, also known as Leon Mitchell, isn’t the sort of household name that Kanye West and Solange are. Still, if you listened to Kanye’s Graduation (the 2007 album went double platinum, so it’s safe to say that most of us have), Mitchell’s work will be familiar to you; his song “If We Can’t…
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Solange Opens Up About Autonomic Disorder, Cancels New Year’s Eve Afropunk Performance in South Africa
Solange Knowles has spent much of the past year on the road, taking her acclaimed album A Seat at the Table and creating a space for black female art everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to the Guggenheim Museum. But the year has taken its toll on the 31-year-old singer, who was forced to cancel her headline…
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Black Twitter Has Questions About SZA’s ‘The Weekend’ Video
It’s sometimes disappointing when you have a favorite song off an album and construct the visuals in your head for the music video, but when the video premieres, you’re left disappointed and wondering “WTF?” And those are the exact sentiments many people on social media are sharing after watching the Solange-directed video for SZA’s new…
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Celebrating Ourselves: A Toast to #TeamNatural
The year 2017 was a good year for black hair. Solange did the absolute most, impressing us with African-inspired avant-garde hairstyles. Then there was Erykah Badu—aka “Sara Bellum,” aka “Fat Belly Bella,” aka “Medulla Oblongata,” aka “Low Down Loretta Brown,” aka “Analogue Girl in a Digital World”—who pushed all the way through in what she…
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Solange Stars in Calvin Klein’s New Campaign
Solange and several other singers are the new faces of Calvin Klein’s “Our Family. #MyCalvins” campaign. The Grammy Award winner is being joined by Kelela, Dev Hynes, Caroline Polachek and Adam Bainbridge of Kindness. The campaign was photographed by Willy Vanderperre, and Solange posted a preview on her Instagram: That blond ’fro is everything!