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Blue Ivy Channels Dad & Biggie In First Grammy Award Post Win Photos
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Allen Berezovsky / Getty Blue Ivy is definitely following in the footsteps of her legendary parents and she allowed it to show in her recent post-Grammy Award-winning photos. On Thursday (Mar 18), proud mom, Beyonce, took to Instagram to share a video compilation of her many wins and ended it with two pictures of her daughter posing with her Grammy and wearing a crown. The little over one-minute montage features highlights from music’s biggest night, including her record-breaking 28th Grammy via Best R&B Performance and her Best Rap Song win with Megan Thee Stallion for “Savage Remix,” finishing off with Blue Ivy’s victory photo shoot. Wearing a plastic crown — word to Biggie — Blue sips out of her Grammy for Best Music Video using a blue paper straw....
Grammy: Young Nigerians redefining global music space – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated Nigerian Afrobeat star, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy, and hip hop artist, Ayodeji Balogun musically known as Wizkid, for winning awards at the 63rd 2021 Grammys held in Los Angeles, United States of America. The National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, in a statement issued yesterday, said the awards crowned the efforts of Nigerian superstars such as Fela Anikulakpo Kuti and others, who were the main progenitors of Afrobeat/Afropop that has become the mainstream music all over the world. According to Akpanudoedehe, “As a party, we are immensely proud that the country’s musical stars are leading the pack of young Africans who are redefining the global music ...
Beyoncé Shows Meghan Markle Love After Oprah Interview
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Aaron Chown – PA Images / Getty Beyoncé is showing her support to her friend Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, in a powerful way. On Tuesday (Mar 9) the superstar, who rarely posts online, has dedicated the homepage of her website to the Duchess, writing her a public thank-you note in response to her explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey. “Thank you Meghan for your courage and leadership,” Beyoncé said in the statement. “We are all strengthened and inspired by you.”The message is accompanied by a photo of Beyoncé and Markle meeting at The Lion King premiere in 2019. According to Entertainment Tonight, the couples discussed the birth of Harry and Meghan’s son Archie during their brief conversation, with Jay-Z offering the advice to “always find some time ...
Matthew Knowles Calls Fans “Idiots” For Beyoncé x Chloe Bailey Comparison
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Matthew Knowles may be known in the industry as being the one to develop Destiny’s Child and his legendary daughters but when it comes to comparing anyone to his children, he is very much still a dad. During an interview with radio personality, Leah A. Henry for “Leah’s Lemonade,” Papa Knowles discussed his feelings about the comparisons between his eldest daughter, Beyonce, and half of the Bey signed duo Chloe x Halle, Chloe Bailey, revealing that he doesn’t agree. Matthew Knowles stated that while he understands the comparison for Chloe to portray the triple threat in a biopic, he feels that fans trying to compare the two women’s talent are “idiots.” It all went down toward the end of their chat, when Leah told him that a lot of fans online constantly compare...
Beyonce’s Humanity Is Her Greatest Strength
I told them it was in New Jersey. “Just a train ride away,” I said, which was a lie but, after spending an hour hitting “refresh” to get tickets, I couldn’t risk telling my friends where the concert really was. To be fair, Atlantic City is much farther from Manhattan than I thought. It wasn’t until I was buying bus tickets from the 15th stop, on the second train line, that I fully understood the journey we were embarking on. Or rather, the pilgrimage. It was the first night of her Revel Casino residency, May 2012. Our seats were ridiculous—the payoff of my hour-long wait on the Beyhive—we were close enough to see sweat. And then, we were put under a spell. Hypnotized by an artistic masterpiece, an athletic feat, and the aptest definition of a show there is. Before us, was our hero, who was...
Blue Ivy Makes Appearance In New Ivy Park Ad, Internet Can’t Get Enough
Source: Allen Berezovsky / Getty Beyonce has been showcasing the drip with the release of her upcoming Ivy Park collection, but it was Blue Ivy who once again stole the show. On Wednesday (Feb 17), the 9-year-old heiress made a surprise appearance in the latest promo for Icy Park, the upcoming collaborative line between Adidas and Beyoncé’s Ivy Park imprint’s campaign video. While the campaign has featured appearances by a limited number of A-list talent, including Gucci Mane and Hailey Baldwin modeling head-turning pieces from the wintry collection, it’s Blue Ivy who stole the show. In the ads, you see Beyoncé and Blue standing side by side, as the eldest Carter heir dons a cropped jacket and sneakers from the upcoming collection. In another scene, Blue spins and jumps and throws up a pea...
Beyoncé Is About To Hit The Slopes With New Icy Park Collection, Gucci Mane Models
Source: Ivy Park / Ivy Park Winter is still here and Beyoncé wants to ensure she provides the proper drip to her fanbase. She has unveiled a cold weather collection that has all the snow bunny feels. As spotted on Page Six the official Ivy Park Instagram page released a trailer teasing a new drop. The post featured a video showing models posing in a winter wonderland with quick flashes highlighting some key pieces; including the Ivy Park Ultra Boost, Forum Lo, Forum Mid and Super Sleek sneakers, along with a brand-new Super Sleek Boot. The caption simply said “ICYPARK Coming Soon”. The account followed the clip up with two photo posts; the first featured Gucci Mane. The second featured Hailey Rhode Bieber, Justin Bieber’s wife wearing a pink graphic two piece while laying on a tr...
Remembering Larry King’s Interviews With Lady Gaga, Prince, Beyonce & More
It’s estimated that King, a 25-year veteran of CNN, conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews during career. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. Watch 10 of King’s most memorable sit-downs with musicians below. Frank Sinatra (1988) Sinatra gave a rare interview to King in 1988, marking the iconic singer’s last major TV appearance before his death 10 years later. During the chat, Sinatra revealed that he never got over his stage fright (“I tremble every time…”) and called writers of kiss-and-tell books “pimps and whores.” Barbra Streisand (1995) Streisand appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live several times dating back to the early 1990s. In this mid-’90s appearance, the legendary singer and actress discussed her f...
Bedazzled: Our 2006 Beyoncé Cover
This article originally appeared in the July 2006 issue of SPIN There are shoes, all sorts of shoes, lining the far wall of the studio. Many of them have the kind of heels for which only the adjective precarious will do, and some of the more glittery ones look like they’ve come straight from the set of Austin Powers in Goldmember (which, when you consider it, is kind of apt). Then there are the dresses, racks and racks of them, each noteworthy for its brevity (they finish where most dresses begin). An attentive fashion person is running a brush through a wig that the superstar will not need to wear, and somebody else is making haste with a needle and thread through a piece of sheer material that the superstar will don at some later stage. On a table in the middle of the studio sits fi...
Tommy, Can You (Still) Hear Me?
Music in general is too rarely inspirational. It has too often become the white noise we shove into the background as we scan social media feeds. If music is a savior that pulls us together, we’ll need to embrace the resurrection of the almighty concept album. They fill in the small pixels that complete the big picture, and sometimes inspire other musicians to elevate their game. If you said Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, you are wrong. But you may also be right. That’s because the term “concept album” is rather ambiguous. In its most generic form, it’s an album where all the songs adhere to a certain theme or concept. The purists, however, will tell you that it maintains a cohesive theme via a narrative of some sort. Hip hop artist Deacon The Villain describes them ...
The 35 Greatest Concerts of the Last 35 Years
We know, we know — the best concert of all-time is your friend’s obscure indie-punk band playing a sweaty neighborhood basement back in ‘94. We admit that one slipped through the cracks. Maybe it’s a fool’s errand, but this list is our attempt to narrow down three and a half decades of worthy live music events — legendary festivals, headlining tours from major artists, one-off stage collaborations, multimedia spectacles — into an eclectic and satisfying blend. – Ryan Reed 35. Heilung at Castlefest (8/5/2017) CREDIT: Gonzales Photo/PYMCA/Avalon/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Music-related viral clips tend to be silly and easily digestible, like the dude riding a skateboard to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” while sipping on Ocean Spray. So it’s heartening that Heilung’s debut l...
Megan Thee Stallion Reveals She Is Texting Buddies With The Carters
Source: ABC / Getty Megan Thee Stallion’s phone book is better than yours. The Houston rapper has a lot to be happy about, her debut album Good News has finally arrived, her new single “Body” is talk of social media thanks to the #BodyOdyChallenge, she’s got a new fashion line with Fashion Nova, and she killed the AMAs with a dope performance and took home an award. Entertainment Tonight caught up with Thee Stallion to talk about all of her wins in a year that featured some controversy thanks to Tory Lanez shooting her in both feet. When asked what is working with Beyoncé on the “Savage Remix” and Cardi B on the chart-smashing raunchy single “WAP,” she gushed about collaborating with both artists. “Working with Cardi and Beyoncé, it was two totally different experiences.” She further...
