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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Encanto’ Ballad ‘Dos Oruguitas’ Wins at 2022 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: Full Winners List
Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s “Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto won best song written and/or recorded for a film at the 2020 GMS Awards, presented by the Guild of Music Supervisors virtually on Sunday (March 20). So, does this mean momentum in the Oscar race for best original song is shifting Miranda’s way in the closing days of Oscar balloting? (The final-round voting period for the Oscars runs from March 17-22.) It may be, but you can’t draw that conclusion from this outcome. Miranda’s chief rival for the Oscar, Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “No Time to Die” from the film of the same name, wasn’t nominated here. That James Bond theme still seems to be the song to beat for the Oscar. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news While the Oscar for best original score ...
Lil Durk Scores Second No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘7220’
Lil Durk scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 26) as 7220 debuts in the top slot. The rapper previously topped the list with The Voice of the Heroes, a collaborative set with Lil Baby, for one week in 2021. 7220 launches with 120,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 17, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data – Lil Durk’s best week for a non-collaborative project. 7220 was released on March 11 via Alamo Records. See latest videos, charts and news After eight weeks in a row at No. 1 – and nine weeks in total on top – the Encanto soundtrack is pushed down to No. 3 with 64,000 units (down 12%). Also in the top 10, Ghost debuts at a career-high No. 2 with Impera – which launches with the largest sales week of any album in 2022 – whil...
Kanye West Out Of Grammys Lineup Due To “Concerning Online Behavior”: Report
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ronald Martinez / Getty Trolling and harassment on the Internet does have its consequences. Kanye West has reportedly been removed from the Grammys lineup due to “concerning online behavior.” In case you’ve been willfully avoiding his name, Ye has been firing virtual shots at his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson for weeks. Part of the fallout has been many, including comedian DL Hughley, calling out and likening Ye’s behavior as stalking and harassment. Now, according to The Blast, the showrunners of the Grammy Awards have decided to remove the “Power” rapper from the award show, citing his timeline, basically. Reportedly, Ye’s people received a call on Friday, March 2020 from the Grammy organizers telling him his services were n...
Kanye West Grammys Performance Offer Rescinded: Report
Kanye West has been barred from performing at the 2022 Grammys, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety point out. Variety cited an initial report from the Blast that attributed the Recording Academy’s decision to rescind the offer for West to perform due to his “concerning online behavior.” A representative for West later confirmed the details of the Blast report to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. West was not among the first group of performers revealed for this year’s Grammys ceremony, and any news of a potential set from the rapper was unannounced. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Kanye West and the Recording Academy for comment. West was recently suspended from Instagram for violating the platform’s policies on hate speech, bullying, and harassment in a recent pos...
Goonew, Maryland Rapper, Shot Dead at 24
Maryland rapper Goonew, best known for his distinct whispery delivery and his frequent collaborations with Lil Dude, has died after being shot on Friday night (March 18) in Prince George’s County. Goonew’s manager confirmed the news to The Washington Post, stating that the rapper died a few hours after he was transported to a hospital. Local CBS affiliate WUSA9 spoke with Goonew’s family following the tragic news. “I don’t believe this,” Goonew’s mother, Patrice Parker Morrow told the outlet. “All he wanted to do is try to get his family out the hood. He had a heart bigger than his body, when they took him, they took me.” Goonew was 24 years old. Born Markelle Antonio Morrow, Goonew released his first mixtape, Certified Goon, in 2017 and followed it up with Goonwick, Big 64, and Goonrich U...
‘CODA’ & Docs About The Beatles & Tom Petty Win 2022 PGA Awards (Full Winners List)
CODA, Encanto, Summer of Soul and documentaries about The Beatles and Tom Petty won at the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards, which were held on Saturday (March 19) at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The Producers Guild Awards are often a bellwether for the Oscars. Since its inception, the PGA has correctly predicted 22 of the 32 winners of the Academy Award for best picture. In the last five years, they have agreed three times (The Shape of Water, Green Book and Nomadland), and disagreed twice. Five years ago, La La Land won the PGA Award, but Moonlight (eventually) won the Oscar. Two years ago, 1917 won the PGA Award, but Parasite won the Oscar. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The two surviving members of The Beatles — Paul M...
Shooting Wounds 4 in Downtown Austin as City Hosts South by Southwest Festival
Four people were shot and wounded in downtown Austin, Texas, early Sunday (March 19) as the city hosts the annual South by Southwest festival, police said. According to the Austin Police Department, the shooting took place on the 400 block of 6th St. Officers told people to avoid the area at around 2:50 a.m., warning via Twitter that the gunman was still at large. However, police tweeted that a suspect was in custody shortly before 5 a.m. Police and the Austin-Travis County EMS said the victims’ injures were not life-threatening, and all four had been taken to the hospital. The coronavirus pandemic forced the SXSW festival to go virtual the last two years. In 2019, multiple shootings took place as the festival drew to a close, prompting Austin’s police chief to pledge more security for the...
How SXSW’s Only Ukrainian Act Fled Kyiv to Bring ‘Masters of War’ to Austin
To get to this moment — singing “Masters of War” at the Speakeasy in Austin, Texas, on Saturday (March 19) with Bob Dylan‘s guitarist while fans draped in Ukrainian flags roared from the balcony — Oleksandra Zaritska endured a terrible journey. On Feb. 25, the 29-year-old singer for popular regional trio Kazka was living in central Kyiv when Russia invaded her country. Early that morning, she witnessed the bombing from her balcony. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I will remember this for my whole life,” Zaritska tells Billboard, with the occasional help of a translator, during South by Southwest at a downtown Austin food hall a day prior to the Speakeasy gig. As emergency sirens blared throughout the city, Zaritska, better known as Sasha, deci...
Barbara Morrison, Legendary L.A. Jazz & Blues Singer, Dies at 72
Barbara Morrison, a legendary singer in the Los Angeles jazz and blues music community, has died. She was 72. Morrison passed away on Wednesday (March 16), according to her brother Richard Morrison. A cause of death was not disclosed. “We are working on keeping the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center open to preserve my sister’s legacy,” Richard Morrison said in a statement, referring to the L.A.-area facility his sister founded in 2009. In early March, a GoFundMe was launched for Morrison after she was admitted to the hospital with cardiovascular disease, the Los Angeles Times reports. The page helped raise more than $13,000. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Born in a suburb of Detroit in 1949, Morrison moved to Los Angeles in the early 1970s at the age of 21 and went o...
Fivio Foreign ft. Quavo “Magic City,” Lil Durk “Computer Murderers” & More | Daily Visuals 3.18.22
HipHopWired Featured Video There was a time when every single Migos video took place in the strip club and though they’ve since moved on to bigger and better things Fivio Foreign takes one Migo back to where it all began. Linking up in the visuals for “Magic City,” Fivio Foreign and Quavo head to the t*tty bar to get completely swarmed by thick and twerking women who make that thunder clap while the two rappers make it rain. Looks like they had a helluva time. Back in Chicago, Lil Durk continues to drop new clips in support of his latest LP 7220 and in his latest clip to “Computer Murderers” does pushups with stacks of cash in both hands to flex on some next ish. Well, can’t say we’ve ever seen that done before. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from R.A. the Rugged Man fe...
‘Maury’ Show Cancelled After Thirty Year Run
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty It’s the end of an era. Maury, the syndicated talk show hosted by Maury Povich for over 30 years, had been canceled. Deadline reports that NBCUniversal will cease production at the end of the current season, with Povich set to retire. Original episodes are scheduled to air through September, and reruns will continue in syndication. Originally titled The Maury Povich Show, it premiered back in 1991. The show covered a variety of subjects like teenaged runaways, domestic violence, bullying and other salacious topics. But Maury (as it became officially known in 1998) became a pop culture sensation thanks to the paternity test episodes. Viewers would wait for Maury to say “You are (or, are not) the father,” which became a catchphrase. The lie dete...
Bun B Shares How To Boss Up At “Earn Your Masters” Pop-Up At SXSW
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @alivecoverage / @alivecoverage The South By Southwest festival is always a place to get enlightenment from some of the best in various fields, and one great example from this year’s edition was found in Texas’ own Bun B being part of a special pop-up event. The veteran MC and one-half of the iconic duo UGK took part in the Earn Your Masters keynote conversation at the festival in Austin, Texas on Thursday (March 18th). The event, held at Mala Vida, was presented by the hosts of the Earn Your Leisure podcast, Troy Millings and Rashad Bilal in conjunction with UnitedMasters, the creative coalition founded by music industry legend Steve Stoute as a platform for independent artists to fully take command of their artistic journey from owning their recording m...
