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Sara Bareilles Says ‘Yes to Marrying’ Joe Tippett
Sara Bareilles is ringing in 2023 by announcing plans to marry longtime boyfriend Joe Tippett. The musician and Girls5Eva star took to Instagram on New Year’s Day to reveal that she said “yes to marrying” the Mare of Easttown actor. “You are exactly who I want,” Bareilles wrote of Tippett in an Instagram caption alongside a photo of the two of them looking into each other’s eyes, with Bareilles wearing a gold band on her left ring finger. “The more I know you the more I know I love you…and you have introduced me to parts of myself I was afraid to love. And now I love ME more because of you,” she continued before joking. “So really this is all about me. Just kidding.” Getting serious again, she wrote, “What a gift you are. Let the games begin. Onward into absolutely everything with you.” In...
Here Are the Biggest Music NFTs in December as Year Ends 95% Down From January
NFTs had a wild 2022. January began with euphoric highs and a record $4.8 billion traded on OpenSea. By contrast, December ended the year with a hangover — volumes down by 95% with just $283 million traded in the month. Still, the crypto winter hasn’t deterred musicians from embracing Web3. December saw an uptick in music NFT activity thanks to legacy artists Armin van Buuren and Styles P, as well as high-profile drops from crypto-native musicians like 3LAU and Daniel Allan. The first “billion club” NFT was released, unlocking streaming royalties in a track with more than a billion Spotify plays. Meanwhile, the independent scene continued to flourish with a seventh-straight month of rising volume on Sound.xyz – the largest platform for independent musicians. Across the 10 biggest music NFT...
Memphis Legend Gangsta Boo Dead At 43
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 4 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
Woman Claims Newly Engaged LaKeith Stanfield Is Her Baby Daddy
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steve Granitz / Getty Actor LaKeith Stanfield is kicking off the new year with a heaping helping of baby mama drama. A woman claims the engaged Atlanta star is the father of her new baby daughter, Apollo. The woman scorned is Tylor Hurd, and she made her claims of Stanfield being a deadbeat in the court of social media. Reports Page Six: On Saturday, artist Tylor Hurd posted an Instagram reel of her baby girl and the “Sorry to Bother You” actor, 31, sharing sweet moments together. In one part of the clip, Stanfield could be seen dancing in front of the newborn as she sat in a chair watching him. The “Atlanta” actor was also photographed holding Apollo for a photo shoot and at a family entertainment center. “decided to leave being someone’s secre...
Gangsta Boo of Three 6 Mafia Has Died at Age 43
Latto, GloRilla and Gangsta Boo Team Up for Fast-Paced Club Banger “FTCU” Arriving with an official music video. Dec 2, 2022 9,631 Hypes Entertainment Barbara Walters Has Died at Age 93 The first female U.S. network news anchor. Dec 31, 2022 2,319 Hypes Entertainment Jason David Frank Has Died at Age 49 The actor was famously known for his role as Tommy Oliver and the White and Green Rangers in OG ‘Power Rangers’ series. Nov 20, 2022 953,323 Hypes Brazilian Football Legend Pelé Has Died at Age 82 One of the greatest to ever play. Dec 29, 2022 3,191 Hypes
Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton Perform New Year’s Medley: Watch
Miley Cyrus hosted the second iteration of her NBC special, Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party, last night (December 31) as part of the television network’s holiday programming. During the event, she brought out Dolly Parton to perform with her. Parton joined her goddaughter in singing Cyrus’ 2013 single “Wrecking Ball.” Their rendition of the song was combined with a duetted version of the Parton classic “I Will Always Love You.” The duo also performed Parton’s 1973 song “Jolene,” and covered Patsy Cline’s “Walkin’ After Midnight” and “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll,” which was notably popularized by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Check it out below. Miley Cyrus’ latest studio album, Plastic Hearts, was released in 2020. Elsewhere at her New Year’s Eve celebration, she was joined by David Byrne to perf...
Gangsta Boo, Rapper in Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43
Gangsta Boo, a former member of Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia and a pioneer of female Southern rap music, has died today (January 1), DJ Paul, WREG Memphis, and Fox 13 have confirmed. She was 43 years old. Born Lola Mitchell in Memphis, Tennessee on August 7, 1979, she started writing poetry at an early age. She often gave her poems to her father, who in turn decided to gift her a keyboard and a karaoke machine. By the time she was in junior high, Mitchell caught the attention of then-classmate DJ Paul while rapping in a talent show at age 14. “He wanted me to get on his mixtape, so I got on his mixtape and I became really popular,” she told Passion of the Weiss in 2012. “I was being requested to be on more of the Three 6 Mafia songs and I kind of just got in the group like that. Peo...
Nick Cannon Laughs Off Andy Cohen’s Vasectomy Question on New Year’s Eve: ‘My Body, My Choice!’
Nick Cannon has a message for those who question whether he should stop having kids: “My body, my choice!” Just days after welcoming his 12th child, the Masked Singer host was questioned by Andy Cohen during CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live special on Saturday night (Dec. 31) about his growing family and whether he’d consider getting a vasectomy. “Nick, I mean, you are singlehandedly repopulating the Earth. I give it up to you, man. What is your plan here? What is your endgame with the kids? You just want to keep going, or is there a number? Do you want to hit 20? Where are we going with this?” asked Cohen, who was co-hosting the broadcast alongside Anderson Cooper. Cannon, dressed in all white, laughed off the comment, responding, “Andy, clearly I don’t have a plan. Honestly, man, it’s just so m...
Box Office: ‘Avatar 2’ Rocks New Year’s Weekend, Crosses $1.4B Globally
Avatar: The Way of Water will ring in 2023 in style. James Cameron’s tentpole is expected to finish the long New Year’s weekend with an estimated $440 million-plus domestically, well ahead of the first Avatar, which came out of the year-end holidays with $352 million on its way to earning north of $750 million domestically (that includes rereleases). The 2009 film still ranks as the top-grossing movie of all time globally with $2.92 billion in ticket sales. Avatar: The Way of Water will cross $1.4 billion in worldwide ticket sales sometime on Monday after sprinting past the $1.37 billion mark on Sunday (Imax accounts for a huge $152.2 million, the fourth-best showing of all time.) That puts it among the 15 biggest films of all time. Overseas, the sequel grossed a sizeable $186.7 million fo...
New Music Releases and Upcoming Albums in 2023
Kali Malone: Does Spring Hide Its Joy [Ideologic Organ] Ladytron: Time’s Arrow [Cooking Vinyl] Måneskin: Rush! [Epic] Oddisee: To What End [Outer Note Label] Rian Treanor & Ocen: Saccades [Nyege Nyege Tapes] Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes: A Short Diary [ECM] January 27 The Arcs: Electrophonic Chronic [Easy Eye Sound] Bob Dylan: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (Deluxe Edition) [Columbia/Legacy] Crosslegged: Another Blue [self-released] Deathprod: Compositions [Smalltown Supersound] Fucked Up: One Day [Merge] Green Day: Nimrod (25th Anniversary Edition) [Reprise/Warner] H.C. McEntire: Every Acre [Merge] King Tuff: Smalltown Stardust [Sub Pop] Meg Baird: Furling [Drag City] New Age Doom & Lee “Scratch” Perry: Remix the Univers...
David Byrne and Miley Cyrus Cover David Bowie at New Year’s Celebration: Watch
Miley Cyrus hosted the NBC holiday special Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party last night (December 31), which found her performing alongside a cast of famous friends. During the event, she brought out Dolly Parton to perform a series of songs as duets, and she also was joined by David Byrne. Cyrus joined the Talking Heads frontman to sing “Everybody’s Coming to My House,” the lead single from his 2018 album American Utopia. She also covered the David Bowie classic “Let’s Dance” with Byrne. Both performances featured a backing band with a brass section, keyboardists, guitarists, backing vocalists, and more. Watch the performance below. Plastic Hearts, Cyrus’ seventh studio album, was released in 2020. Earlier this year, she followed the release with Attention: Miley Live, a 26-track collection of...
The Pointer Sisters’ Anita Pointer Dies at 74
Anita Pointer, the singer and longtime member of the Pointer Sisters, has died, TMZ and Rolling Stone report. A representative for the group published a statement on the Pointer Sisters’ website confirming her death. She died in Beverly Hills, California, and “was surrounded by family at the time of her death,” according to her publicist, Roger Neal. She was 74 years old. Anita Pointer was born in Oakland, California, in 1948. She was the fourth of six children and sang in the church growing up alongside her three sisters: Ruth, Bonnie, and June. Anita joined the group in 1973 after her sisters June and Bonnie found success with their early singles. Their 1973 song “Yes We Can Can” landed them on the Billboard charts for the first time, peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 12...
