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Janelle Monaé to Play Josephine Baker in A24 Series De La Resistance
Janelle Monaé is set to portray cabaret singer-turned secret agent and civil rights activist Josephine Baker in A24’s forthcoming television series De La Resistance, Deadline reports. Created and run by Jennifer Yale (Legion, Outlander), De La Resistance follows Baker’s career as a barrier-breaking entertainer and a World War II secret agent for the French Resistance. Born in America but loyal to France, Baker performed at the Folies Bergère in Paris and was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics. In 1939, she was recruited into France’s military intelligence agency, where she socialized with Germans at embassies, ministries, and night clubs to gain information for the war effort. She was later award...
Kanye West Earns Gold and Platinum Plaques for “Ni**as in Paris,” “No More Parties in LA” and More
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Cypress Hill “Come With Me,” Tink & 2 Chainz “Cater” & More | Daily Visuals 5.3.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Cypress Hill has been rocking in the rap game for longer than most rappers today have been alive so it’s only right that we tip our hats to the OG stoners who helped pave the way for weed themed rap music. Keeping their love affair with Mary Jane going strong all these decades later, Cypress Hill releases some new visuals to “Come With Me” in which we’re taken back in time to a prohibition era where marijuana became the drug of choice while liquor was banned across the U.S. Back in 2022, Tink decides to get a little seductive with it and in her 2 Chainz assisted clip to “Cater” gives her boo a private strip tease before Chainz gets turnt and takes over the party. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Fendi P, Juciy J and Duke Deuce, and more. CY...
D.L. Hughley Says Pete Davidson “Out Of Pocket” For Getting Kanye & Kim’s Kid’s Initials Tattoo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bobby Bank / Getty Apparently, the messy and public feud between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian‘s current boo Pete Davidson is still ongoing, and while Ye typically seems to be the aggressor in the reality TV-ish shenanigans, this time it’s Pete causing folks online to raise their eyebrows. It appears that Davidson has tattooed the first initials of Kanye and Kim’s children’s names on his neck in the order of the children’s ages. Yikes! Related Stories “Yeeeeah, I gotta say I’m team Kanye on this one. While it might be true that Pete treats his body like it’s the inside of a high school yearbook and is constantly getting simple-word tattoos to represent various things in his world, getting the names of someone else’s children tattooed on his neck is weird,...
Cardi B Insists She Was Joking When She Made Booger Sugar Reference At Met Gala Party
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Noam Galai / Getty If nothing else Cardi B has been known to shoot from the lip and create controversy at times with her words and thoughts, so when she seemingly encouraged people to drink some liquor and to “take a line” at the Met Gala, people thought she was being deadass. She says she wasn’t. According to Page Six, Cardi felt the need to clear up her intentions and naturally said she was only joking when she said “Make sure you got your drinks, make sure y’all do your little [lines]. Whatever the f–k you have to do. We got to turn the f–k up. I want everybody dancing!” We mean, we wouldn’t be surprised if some if not many of the celebrities attending the Met Gala on Monday (May 2) took a little nose candy with them to indulge in. In a video pos...
DJ Mustard Files For Divorce From Wife After Just A Year & A Half of Marriage
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty Welp, so much “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. I will love and honor you all the days of my life.” DJ Mustard filed for divorce from his wife after a year and a half of marriage. TMZ Hip Hop has obtained documents revealing that the successful producer is over his marriage with Chanel Thierry, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. Mustard claims the couple officially split Monday (Apr.2). Mustard, whose real name is hilariously Dijon McFarlane, has three children with Thierry and is asking for joint custody of the children between the ages of 2 to 10. Related Stories The former couple had been together for two years before jumping the broom ...
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s Kidd Creole Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Manslaughter
Note: This article contains descriptions of violence. Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a first degree manslaughter conviction, TMZ reports. Last month, a New York Supreme Court jury found Glover guilty of stabbing an unhoused man to death in August 2017. TMZ reports that in addition to the 16-year sentence, Glover will face five years of post-release supervision. Glover was arrested and indicted in 2017 after stabbing a 55-year old man named John Jolly, who was unhoused and unacquainted with Glover. The original police report alleged that Glover stabbed Jolly in the torso two times on August 1, 2017 at East 44th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York. Following the attack, Glover i...
Thundercat Announces 2022 North American Tour
Thundercat will embark on an expansive North American tour this summer. He’ll kick things off July 23 in Denver, Colorado, and stop off in Las Vegas, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, and many other cities before wrapping things up at Format Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas on September 25. Thundercat will open for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Khruangbin throughout his tour, as well as play a string of headline festival sets. Find his full schedule below. Thundercat shared his last studio album, It Is What It Is, back in 2020. The LP went on to win a Grammy, and Thundercat toured extensively behind the record in 2021 with support from Channel Tres. Later that year, he issued his most recent single “Satellite.” He recently reissued his debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse. Read Thunderca...
Janelle Monáe to Play Josephine Baker in New A24 TV Series
Janelle Monáe has been tapped to play jazz icon Josephine Baker in a forthcoming television series from A24, Deadline reports. The show, titled De La Resistance, will center on Baker’s work as a world renowned jazz performer—and also her role as as a spy for the Allies during the French resistance in World War II. Jennifer Yale, who has worked on series such as See, Outlander, and Underground, is the creator and showrunner of De La Resistance. In addition to landing the lead role, Monáe will produce the series via her own Wondaland Pictures. Monáe’s latest Met Gala look nodded at Josephine Baker; the artist wore a close-cut, beaded Ralph Lauren gown with a fitted hood for the gilded glamour-themed event. Monáe’s most recent studio album Dirty Computer came out in 2018. She’s starred ...
Watch FKA twigs’ New Video for “Thank You Song”
FKA twigs has shared the final music video from her latest mixtape Caprisongs. The clip is for “Thank You Song” and it’s directed by Aidan Zamiri. In the video, FKA twigs can be seen riding an empty bus at night before eventually saddling up to another mysterious patron on the vehicle. Check it out below. FKA twigs recently released music videos for a number of songs from Caprisongs. Last month, she shared clips for “Honda” and “Oh My Love,” as well as a video for her Shygirl collaboration “Papi Bones.” Her most recent song to get the music video treatment was “Which Way” with Dystopia. Earlier this year, she also dropped visuals for “Jealousy” and “Meta Angel.” In April, FKA twigs was cast in the forthcoming reboot of The Crow. She also directed and starred in a short film called Pl...
MusiCares Launches Free Virtual Event Series for Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental health has never been more important in the music industry. After suffering blow after blow over the past two years due to the pandemic, music professionals around the globe were stripped of their income streams—and livelihoods. But as the music industry trends up, MusiCares wants the mental health of its professionals to grow in lockstep. The RIAA’s MusiCares program provides creatives around the globe with mental health awareness resources. In support of Mental Health Awareness Month, they’ve launched a free series of events that are open to all. You can check out the programming, courtesy of a press release MusiCares shared with EDM.com, below. Click the hyperlinks to register. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles In addition to MusiCares̵...
Selina Combines Music, Culture and Coworking In Stunning Locales Around Tulum, Cancún
Delivering incredible experiences in more than 145 destinations worldwide, Selina has positioned itself as one of the most recognized hospitality brands at the intersection of lifestyle, culture, adventure and coworking. Launched in 2015 by Rafi Museri and Daniel Rudasevski, who opened the first Selina in Pedasi, Panama, the brand is driven by a culture of embracing community. They actively remodel defunct and sometimes unconventional properties before transforming them into international hubs for the new generation of travelers. With remote work having picked up considerable steam—as well as more and more companies expanding internationally while employing people from across the world— now more than ever, digital nomads are finding themselves working at some of the world’s most unique cor...
