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LL Cool J Pays Tribute to ‘True-to-Life Hero’ Chadwick Boseman
LL Cool J is honoring the legacy of celebrated actor Chadwick Boseman, who died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with cancer. “He inspired Black people all around the world… he inspired people in general, the rapper said in a new interview with STROMBO on Apple Music Hits. “I think in a short period of time he became a true-to-life hero in his ability to kinda fight through what he was dealing with unbeknownst to the world is just unbelievable, man.” “Playing that character in Black Panther and changing the perception of how movies with Black leads can be treated worldwide, he proved that this whole idea that Blacks couldn’t sell internationally was a complete and absolute myth,” LL Cool J said of the impact Boseman’s work had on the film ind...
Joyner Lucas & Ashanti Kiss & Make Up in Incredibly Intimate ‘Fall Slowly’ Video
Joyner Lucas packs in passion for his “Fall Slowly” single featuring Ashanti, who stars as his love interest in the music video out Wednesday (Sept. 2). But regardless of the artists’ undeniable chemistry (which fans questioned if it also presents itself off-screen with relationship rumors starting), the video shows there’s trouble in paradise. Physical and verbal arguments in public, Lucas’ arrest and Ashanti’s unanticipated pregnancy test result are juxtaposed with late-night kisses and cuddles and naps on couches. And he raps about their tumultuous relationship right within the first verse: “‘Cause when we hurt each other we come back to help each other heal/ You say I’m crazy, but at least you know my love is real/ But s&#...
Watch Post Malone Get Back to His Metal Roots in Raging Jam Session
Post Malone took some quarantine time to revisit his heavy metal roots in a jam session posted by YouTuber Jared Dines that also featured Dragged Under singer Tony Cappocchi and rapper Tyla Yaweh. In the videos posted by Dines, Posty can be seen reveling in the grind, slashing at his guitar on a pair of grinding metal tunes and helping the group blow through an extreme metal version of Wild Cherry‘s “Play That Funky Music” and a rip of Nirvana‘s “Breed,” with Malone behind the drum kit for those two jams. Malone, who played in metal bands as a teen before pivoting to hip-hop, has proven his rock bona fides over and over, most recently during an all-Nirvana covers COVID-19 fundraiser that raised more than $800,000 in April. Posty and Yaweh teamed up in Ju...
James Brown’s Daughter To Honor Chadwick Boseman at Memorial Event
Deanna Brown-Thomas, the daughter of late Godfather of Soul James Brown, will help honor late Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman at a memorial event in South Carolina on Thursday (Sept. 3). Brown-Thomas will speak at a tribute event in Anderson, South Carolina, where she is expected to thank Boseman for his iconic take on her father’s career in the 2014 Brown biopic Get On Up. Boseman, who was born in Anderson, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, surrounded by his wife and other family members, at the age of 43 after a four-year struggle with colon cancer. The final tweet from the Black Panther star’s account quickly became the most liked tweet of all-time. Thursday’s event, “Honoring the Life of Anderson’s Own Chadwick Bosemsan,̶...
Elvis Presley’s Graceland Tagged With Black Lives Matter and ‘Defund the Police’ Graffiti
Elvis Presley‘s Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tenn., was tagged with messages supporting Black Lives Matter and defunding the police on Tuesday night (Sept. 1). The graffiti on the iconic landmark was discovered Tuesday morning when employees at the late rock legend’s former home arrived at work to see the messages scrawled across a stone wall outside the mansion. The tags along Elvis Presley Boulevard also featured references to Breonna Taylor and the phrases “No Justice, No Peace,” “Defund MPD” and “F–k Trump,” with similar messages scrawled across the Depression-era Levitt Shell in nearby Overton Park where Presley performed his first paid concert in July 1954, according to the Daily Memphian. The spray-painted words covered over the...
Here Are 10-Year-Old Rock Prodigy Nandi Bushell’s 5 Best Drum Covers
Nandi Bushell has been drumming up a storm online with her insane instrumental skills, which have attracted Rage Against the Machine‘s Tom Morello and Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl, both of whom she covered. The rock stars have since given the 10-year-old rock prodigy her flowers and then some: Morello gifted her with a brand new black Fender Soul Power Stratocaster in June and just this Saturday (Aug. 29), Grohl squared off with his own sticks after the U.K.-based wunderkind challenged him. Rock out to Bushell’s five rave- and rage-worthy covers. The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army” The father-daughter duo banded together for “Seven Nation Army,” as dad shredded on the electric guitar and she shredded on the drums for a rockstar high-five-w...
Lamb of God Announce Two Massive Global Streaming Events
Lamb of God is bringing rock to quarantine, announcing on Tuesday (Sept. 1) the first-time-ever live performances of the band’s new self-titled album and their landmark 2004 album Ashes of the Wake, both performed in the band’s hometown of Richmond, VA. The first stream is scheduled for Friday, September 18, and will feature songs from the latest album released June 19. The second stream will follow on Friday, September 25, with a performance of Ashes of the Wake, in its entirety for the first time ever. Both sets will feature encores, including fan favorites as well as songs that haven’t been performed in years. Both streams will begin at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT. Livestream tickets will be $15 per show or, for a limited time, $20 for both shows and are on-...
24kGoldn’s ‘Mood’ Ascends to Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart Throne
The Iann Dior-featuring song jumps 3-1. 24kGoldn scores his first No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts as “Mood,” featuring Iann Dior, jumps 3-1 on the lists dated Sept. 5. “Mood” rises as the greatest gainer in all three chart metrics: streaming, airplay and sales. In the streaming and sales tracking week ending Aug. 27, the song scored 20.8 million U.S. streams (up 37%) and sold 7,000 downloads (up 63%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. In the radio tracking week ending Aug. 30, it earned 7.8 million all-format audience impressions (up 251%). 24kGoldn has charted one other entry so far on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs: “City of Angels” reached No. 7 on each list in...
Cardi B Is the New Face of Balenciaga
In the words of Cardi B: “I like those Balenciagas, the ones that look like socks!” Now, the rapper will be wearing a whole lot more Balenciaga, because she’s the new face of the designer fashion brand. The clothing label took to Twitter on Tuesday (Sept. 1) to share the promo photos behind their new line, featuring the “WAP” star laying among a playground in a silky black gown. “New Face of Balenciaga,” Cardi wrote, retweeting the photo. This isn’t her first dip into the fashion world. Cardi has had a number of lines with Fashion Nova, and is often seen flaunting her designer ‘fits on Instagram. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back...
Cardi B & ‘Best Friend’ Kulture Step Out in Matching Pink Birkins
Cardi B is passing on her style genes to baby Kulture. The rapper took to Instagram on Monday (Aug. 31) to share an adorable video in which she’s strutting outside of a building with her two-year-old daughter in head-to-toe pink (and matching pink Birkin bags). “Me and my best friend,” Cardi captioned the clip. See it here. The toddler, who just turned two in July, received the luxurious Birkin from her dad Offset as a gift. In a video he shared, Kulture is dressed in a fairy princess outfit as Offset presents his little girl with a gray gift bag, which contains Hermes’ iconic orange box. As they unwrap the box together, it turns out to be a small, bright pink Birkin bag inside.”Wow! Oooh! OK, girl! I see you, beautiful baby!” Offset coos...
Luke Combs Extends Career-Opening Record Atop Country Airplay Chart With ‘Lovin’ on You’
Combs has led with each of his nine singles. Luke Combs banks his ninth consecutive career-opening No. 1 single on Billboard‘s Country Airplay chart, as “Lovin’ On You” rises 3-1 on the list dated Sept. 5. The song increased by 13% to 31 million audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 30, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. “Lovin’,” which Combs wrote with Thomas Archer, Ray Fulcher and James McNair, is the fourth single from Combs’ second full-length, What You See Is What You Get, which debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the all-genre Billboard 200 in November 2019, with 172,000 first-week equivalent album units. The set has logged 26 weeks atop the former, where it holds at No. 3 (21,000 units, up 1%). [embedded content] ...
Tim McGraw’s ‘Here on Earth’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Country Albums Chart
McGraw passes Merle Haggard to tie for the second-most No. 1s since Top Country Albums began in 1964. Tim McGraw notches his 17th No. 1, and 16th No. 1 debut, on Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart with the arrival of Here on Earth on the survey dated Sept. 5. The LP earned 24,000 equivalent album units, with 17,000 in album sales, in the week ending Aug. 27. On the all-genre Billboard 200, the set starts at No. 14. It was released Aug. 21 and produced by McGraw and Byron Gallimore. [embedded content] McGraw passes Merle Haggard to tie for the second-most No. 1s since Top Country Albums began in 1964. George Strait leads with 27 No. 1s, ahead of Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, McGraw and Willie Nelson with 17 each. Plus, as McGraw earns his first Top Country Albums No. 1 of 2020, he ha...
