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Rosalind O’ Connor / NBC Dave Chappelle helped kick off the new season of Saturday Night Live, returning as host for the fourth time. He delivered a nearly 17-minute monologue, breaking his previous 16-minute record for longest opening monologue in 2020 and touching on topics including the Los Angeles wildfires, Donald Trump‘s comments about Haitians […]
DGC Records The Roots are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their album Do You Want More?!!!??! with a special residency at the legendary Blue Note in New York City. They’ll be performing a total of six shows from March 13 to March 15. “We are doing SIX early Roots era focused shows,” Questlove wrote on Instagram. “Yall better riggety […]
Raymond Boyd/Getty Images Barbie is paying homage to Aaliyah, launching a collectible doll in her honor. Available starting Thursday, on what would have been her 46th birthday, this addition to the Barbie Music Collector Series celebrates the legacy of the “Princess of R&B,” who died in 2001 at 22 years old. Inspired by her iconic “One in a Million” music […]
Courtesy Janet Jackson / AEG Presents Las Vegas Janet Jackson is giving fans more opportunity to see her perform with the extension of her residency, JANET JACKSON: LAS VEGAS. She’s added six new dates to her schedule, bringing her to a total of 16 shows. She will now have shows through the end of May, taking place at the […]
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy SZA is years into her career with two successful albums, but fame is still something she grapples with and thinks she wasn’t meant to have. “Some people are very well acclimated in being perceived and also have a different mechanism to approach that,” SZA tells Extra […]
Paras Griffin/Getty Images, FILE Defense attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs claimed in a new court filing on Tuesday that videos depicting sexual activity between the rapper, his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and male prostitutes “confirm Mr. Combs’s innocence” because they show sexual activity among “consenting adults.” There are nine videos of what prosecutors have alleged Combs called “freak […]
Disney/Randy Holmes Snoop Dogg made an appearance on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he discussed the devastating wildfires in LA. The fires have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and he says he thought his family would be among the evacuees. “I got three phones, and they all blew up,” he recalled. “I […]
Courtesy of Governors Ball Tyler, The Creator has snagged another headlining gig, this time at New York City’s annual Governors Ball. He’s been announced as one of the headliners for the three-day festival, where he’ll help to wrap things up on the first night. Tyler is scheduled to perform on Friday, June 6, following sets by T-Pain, […]
Blair Caldwell Beyoncé is officially postponing a major announcement she had planned to release today, Jan. 14. “The January 14th announcement will be postponed to a later date due to the devastation caused by the ongoing wildfires around areas of Los Angeles,” the singer wrote in a message shared on Instagram late Monday. “I continue […]
Photo by Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Though SZA‘s SOS is all the rage right now, her debut album, Ctrl, featured a song inspired by and named after Drew Barrymore. During Monday’s episode of the actress’s self-titled talk show, SZA sang her praises while describing just how much of an inspiration she was to her. “It […]
