Jennifer Hudson transforms into Aretha Franklin in the new trailer for the Franklin biopic Respect. The film is set to premiere this December. The official trailer for Respect debuted during the BET Awards on Sunday night, with Hudson’s powerful cover of “Respect” soundtracking the preview. The clip features scenes of Franklin performing …
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Kanye West and Kid Cudi will each voice characters in an upcoming animated show inspired by their 2018 collaborative LP Kids See Ghosts. The rappers shared a two-minute preview of Takashi Murakami-directed show, which follows the wild adventures of Kanye Bear and Kid Fox. The clip opens with the two …
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Miguel, Doja Cat and Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes are part of a stacked lineup of musicians who will perform during Black Power Live, a digital benefit taking place this Saturday, June 27th, on Twitch. The event will be hosted by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and feature a mix …
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San Francisco’s Outside Lands announced Wednesday that its 2020 festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, organizers also revealed that the festival will return in 2021 with a lineup led by Tame Impala, Lizzo, the Strokes and Tyler, the Creator. The decision to cancel this year’s Outside …
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Lil Baby enjoyed another week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with My Turn. No one came close to challenging the rapper, who coasted along with more than 80 million streams. Lady Gaga‘s Chromatica spent another week behind Lil Baby at Number Two, picking up …
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The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings changed: the word “Penny” eviscerated with black paint and “racist” scrawled above the signs. An old theory linking the …
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A year ago today, author Ta-Nehisi Coates and others testified on Capitol Hill at a House hearing on H.R. 40, a bill meant to establish merely a commission to study the possibility of granting reparations to African Americans as recompense for the work of their enslaved forebears. Coates, famously, had …
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On Thursday morning the Latin Recording Academy announced that the nominations for this year’s 21st Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards will be released on September 29, 2020.
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It was Memorial Day weekend 2011, and Awad Bilal was twerking in front of a thousand people. Bilal was a touring dancer for New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia at the time, and the band had rolled into a university-organized festival in Hartford, Connecticut, where they’d be opening for Snoop …
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Ruth B has released a moving new video for her song “If I Have a Son,” which features images of the Black Lives Matter protests captured by Flo Ngala. “Your skin, it glitters like gold/There’s love inside of your soul,” she sings over sparkling piano as photographs of protesters flash …
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