Hip-Hop
G Herbo & Taina Williams Share Photo of First Child Together
Congratulations are in order for G Herbo and Taina Williams, who announced on Thursday (May 27) that they welcomed their first child together. The 25-year-old rapper shared a touching black-and-white photo of his baby boy’s fist resting gently on his bare chest, posting a set of black and white heart emojis on his socials. G Herbo welcomed his first son, Yosohn Wright, with his former partner Ariana Fletcher in 2018. He has yet to reveal the name of his newborn. Lil Durk, Lil Tjay, Sean Kingston, Reginae Carter, Trae Tha Truth and more congratulated the Chicago rapper on the latest addition to his family 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 power. Get to meet B...
R.I.P. John Davis, Vocalist Behind Milli Vanilli Dead at 66 Due to COVID-19
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-27T15:57:30+00:00“>May 27, 2021 | 11:57am ET John Davis, a session musician who provided vocals for Milli Vanilli, has died at 66. As his daughter Jasmin confirmed in a Facebook post, the cause was COVID-19. “This is Jasmin, Johns daughter,” she wrote. “[U]nfortunately my dad passed away this evening through the coronavirus. He made a lot of people happy with his laughter and smile, his happy spirit, love and especially through his music. He gave so much to the world! Please give him the last round of applause. We will miss him dearly.” Alongside Brad Howell, Charles Shaw, Jodie Rocco, and Linda Rocco, Davis was recruited by German producer Frank Farian in the late ’80s to sing o...
Nas Returns to Sony With New Mass Appeal, Orchard Deal
Independent music distributor The Orchard — a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment — has penned a new deal with Mass Appeal Records, a label co-founded by Grammy-award winner Nas in 2014, alongside Peter Bittenbender. The new partnership was announced on Wednesday (May 26). Through the venture, Mass Appeal will sign artists directly, with access to The Orchard’s suite of services, including full-service marketing, sync licensing, video services, transparent data analysis, advertising, rights management and radio, among other resources. Nas — who began his career at the Sony-owned Columbia Records — will also release new music through the partnership. Mass Appeal was previously signed into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group, which included releasing Nas...
Polo G Details New Album Hall of Fame, Shares Snippet of Unreleased Song
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-26T20:42:17+00:00“>May 26, 2021 | 4:42pm ET Chicago spitter Polo G has set a release date for his third studio album, Hall of Fame, and shared some details about the project through a cinematic announcement video. Slated to drop June 11th via Columbia Records, the 22-year-old rapper envisions the full-length as the next step in his continued level-up. “My goals for Hall Of Fame was just to make sure that I can show my diversity as an artist,” he said in a video posted on Instagram. “Really like elevate my sound, for the people to hear something that I ain’t ever did before.” The clip closes out with a soulful preview of the album dedicated to his friend Lil Wooski. On the unrelea...
Machine Gun Kelly Celebrated the One-Year Anniversary of Megan Fox’s Endless Love
Love, it’s a many splendored thing. Especially when it takes place in public and you’re a world famous rapper and actress in the midst of a whirlwind romance. Case in point: on Tuesday (May 25), Machine Gun Kelly noted a very special moment in his relationship with Megan Fox. “She said ‘i love you’ one year ago today,” the rapper/rocker tweeted out. For those of you keeping score (thanks Cosmo), that carbon dating appears to reveal that the couple got serious a month before they were first officially thought to have begun hanging out in mid-June 2020. The pair reportedly met on the set of their upcoming film, Midnight in the Switchgrass, in March 2020, which was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking f...
DMX Links Up with Griselda on New Song “Hood Blues”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-25T21:18:02+00:00“>May 25, 2021 | 5:18pm ET DMX’s posthumous album, Exodus, is out on Friday, and today we get a first preview with “Hood Blues”, a gritty new song featuring Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, and Conway the Machine. Check it below. Produced by Swizz Beatz, the single features a sample of Lee Mason & His Orchestra’s 1971 track, “Shady Blues”. The Yonkers rapper previously teased the Griselda collaboration during a February appearance on the Drink Champs podcast. In his closing verse, DMX recalls the trauma of growing up in the hood. “Do damage ’cause I’m a savage,” he raps. “Sometimes I can’t manage all the shit in my attic/ I was promised the world but I got t...
Kehlani Shares the Key to Having ‘Fun’ With Makeup & Her Go-To Product
As for the key to Kehlani’s effortless look? Lime Crime’s best-selling Freckle Pen, which easily allows users to “tap and dab” on some natural-looking freckles. “I oftentimes end up with makeup artists covering up my freckles,” she explains. “I do like coverage a lot for my acne and acne scars, but often, it erases my freckles and so my makeup artist just tends to replace the freckles I already have with the freckle pen.” While makeup artistry seems to come easily to the “Can I” singer, she jokes that her beauty journey was a bit “forced.” “I remember going to Sephora when I was about to go on my first tour and I was like, ‘Can somebody in here teach me how to do a basic face that I can do onstage every day? I wi...
J. Cole Charts All 12 Songs From ‘The Off-Season’ in Hot 100’s Top 40
All 12 tracks from The Off-Season flood the Hot 100’s top 40, including a record-tying four concurrent debuts in the top 10. Here’s a recap (all are debuts except where noted): Rank, TitleNo. 2, “my.life,” with 21 Savage & MorrayNo. 5, “amari”No. 7, “pride.is.the.devil,” with Lil BabyNo. 8, “95.south”No. 13, “applying.pressure”No. 14, “100.mil’,” with BasNo. 17, “interlude” (down from its No. 8 debut/peak)No. 19, “let.go.my.hand,” with 6LACKNo. 20, “punchin’.the.clock”No. 25, “the.climb.back” (re-entry; new peak)No. 28, “hunger.on.hillside,” with BasNo. 33, “close” J. Cole is the first artist to chart as many as 12 songs...
Solange Knowles to Expand Creative Expression Platform Saint Heron: ‘We Are Creating a Legacy’
Saint Heron, founded by Solange Knowles, is officially expanding. On Monday (May 24), it was announced that the creative expression hub will become a multidisciplinary platform, studio and creative agency. Speaking on her decision to broaden Saint Heron into a cultural institution, Knowles, 34, said in a statement, “Worldmaking has been a huge part of my practice. … As we transition to an institution, the answer and the vision become abundantly clear. We are creating a legacy where we not only continue the work we have already built, but preserve collections of creators with the urgency they deserve. She continued, “Together we want to create an archive of stories, and works we deem valuable. We want to open up these works publicly, and make them accessible to student...
Chi Modu, Legendary Hip Hop Photographer, Dies at 54
Born in Nigeria in July 1966, Modu was raised in New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University, graduating in 1989 with a degree in economics. It was at Rutgers that he began to dabble in photography and upon leaving college he studied the medium at Manhattan’s International Center of Photography. His first job as a photographer was at Harlem-based New York Amsterdam News. In the early 1990s, he joined The Source, one of the premier hip hop magazines, and rose to become the director of photography. Influenced by the likes of Roy Decarava and André Kertész, he was known for capturing candid, unguarded images of artists, many of whom had never been shot professionally before. In all, Modu shot 30 covers for The Source during what many consider to be hip hop’s golden age. His images documented b...
Doja Cat and SZA Perform “Kiss Me More” at 2021 Billboard Music Awards: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T00:17:37+00:00“>May 23, 2021 | 8:17pm ET Open a new tube of chapstick and check out Doja Cat and SZA’s first performance of “Kiss Me More” at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. “Kiss Me More” is the first single from Doja Cat’s upcoming album, Planet Her, and Sunday marked the first time she and SZA have sung it together live on stage. Surrounded by dancers with their heads in giant orange balls, the pair delivered a stylish performance. SZA sang from atop a rotating pedestal platform before kicking it down to Doja for a dance-remix breakdown. Check it out ahead. After jumping into bed with hyper-sexualized songs like the “34+35” remix, you might be wondering, why a song about l...
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Bring Timely ‘Optimistic’ to the 2021 Billboard Music Awards With Sounds of Blackness and Ann Nesby
Legendary songwriter/producer duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis linked up with soul and gospel singers Ann Nesby and the Sounds of Blackness for a mighty performance of the early ’90s hit “Optimistic” at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night (May 23). Delivered as a tribute to the duo’s hometown of Minneapolis, from Prince’s Paisley Park, Jam and Lewis shouted out the “place that musically has always represented change to the status quo.” They were then joined on stage by Nesby and the Sounds of Blackness, who performed “Optimistic” in a towering a cappella rendition, with powerful photos of recent activism (much of which has been recently centered in Minneapolis) shown on a screen behind them. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you a...
