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Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Pharrell Williams‘ nonprofit Black Ambition is returning for its fourth annual Demo Day, during which over $2.7 million will be given to the winners of the 2024 Black Ambition Prize Competition. The applicants were first narrowed down to 250 of the most compelling Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, then to 40 people who got pitch […]
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Now that Young Thug is free, his “Lifestyle” includes mandated community service, which serves as part of his 15-year probation sentence. He recently received a FaceTime call from his lawyer Brian Steel and offered some advice to the students attending Emory University School of Law. “You gotta always look at it like they’re there […]
Scott Kirkland Halle Bailey is “extremely upset” with DDG for taking their son, Halo, onto Kai Cenai‘s livestream without her consent. “[H]i everyone. just so you know i am out of town and i don’t approve of my baby being on a stream tonight,” she tweeted in a since-deleted post. “[I] wasn’t told or notified […]
Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images It’s only been a few hours since Donald Trump was elected president, but Boosie already has some requests. In tweets shared directly to the president-elect, he asked to be pardoned for gun charges he’s currently facing in San Diego. “CAN U PARDON ME ON MY FED CASE? i’m a NON […]
Photo by Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for BFI Before Pharrell became a Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, artist and fashion designer he is today, he had only one job. “McDonald’s was my first and only job,” he told BBC Radio 2. “I got fired three times. I was eating the chicken nuggets.” “The first two times it […]
Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic In Megan Thee Stallion‘s Prime Video documentary, she opened up about a number of things, including her past relationship with Tory Lanez. Though she admitted she lied to Gayle King about whether they’d been intimate, it hasn’t stopped Gayle from being a fan. “I thought it was the first time she […]
Photo by Frank Hoensch/Redferns Ice-T has had his share of rap beefs, but he says it’s nothing like the rap feuds/battles in modern day. Speaking to the Boss Talk 101 podcast, he noted one of the differences is the existence of social media, which he says “is an amplifier to everything.” “It forces reaction that really could […]
Disney/PictureGroup Yara Shahidi and Keith Powers are in talks to star in a coming-of-age romance called Bloom, as are Kedar Williams-Stirling and Renée Elise Goldsberry, Deadline reports. Directed by Cole Swanson, who also wrote the script, Bloom follows Ace (Williams-Stirling), a young, talented Black artist, who moves to Italy for university and winds up on a journey of self-discovery. Along the way, he finds love and […]
SZA is one of the many celebrities urging people to go to the polls on Election Day. “Make sure [you] vote today or [you] can’t complain,” she wrote on her Instagram Story, noting she voted two weeks ago. Ty Dolla $ign, Blxst and Doechii all appear on Ab-Soul‘s upcoming album, Soul Burger. The newly unveiled track […]
NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images A North Carolina town is honoring the Queen of Christmas. Cary, North Carolina, changed its name for one day to honor Mariah Carey. The town’s mayor, Harold Weinbrecht, announced on the local radio station Mix 101.5 that on Nov. 1 the town would be renamed Carey in honor of […]
