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Rihanna Shares First Video And Photos Of Her Baby Boy With A$AP Rocky
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WWD / Getty Fans got their first glimpse of Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s adorable baby boy this weekend when the singer shared a video of the infant to TikTok. The photos were also shared on the blog site, Hollywood Unlocked. The site’s founder, Jason Lee claimed on Twitter that he was contacted by Rihanna to share the photos on his blog. Related Stories The Fenty Beauty billionaire and the A$AP Mob co-founder announced that they were expecting a baby together in January. Their baby boy was born in May. The photos are the first of the baby boy whose name has not yet been shared with the world. As we reported back in November, the singer told The Washington Post that she and Rocky haven’t shared the baby’s name yet for a pretty simple reason....
Starz To Develop 50 Cent-Produced British Boxing Drama
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JACK GUEZ / Getty 50 Cent is setting his creative sights on the ring as the Starz network is developing his new drama series focusing on the world of British boxing. According to reports, the network is moving forward with developing the new series, which is entitled Fightland. The synopsis for the series details how a former world champion fighter who left the sport in disgrace is pulled back to that world after finding that his childhood best friend and training partner disappears. “To save his friend,” the official synopsis continues, “the troubled fighter will have to return to a way of life that nearly destroyed him — one that cost him everything to leave behind.” Related Stories 50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, will serve as an executive producer for th...
YouTube Boots Pornhub From Its Service Due To Policy Violations
HipHopWired Featured Video YouTube removed the channel for the adult video platform Pornhub from its services, citing a number of community guidelines violations. Before its removal, Pornhub had nearly 1 million subscribers to its YouTube channel. As reported by Variety, YouTube offered a statement to the outlet explaining why its side made the decision to remove Pornhub from its platform. From Variety: “Upon review, we terminated the channel Pornhub Official following multiple violations of our Community Guidelines,” YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said in a statement to Variety. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and channels that repeatedly violate or are dedicated to violative content are terminated.” The outlet went on to explain that the adult video company continued to s...
The Velvelettes Singer Bertha McNeal Dies at 82
Bertha Barbeee McNeal, a singer in the early Motown group the Velvelettes, died Thursday (December 15), The Detroit News reports. She had been receiving hospice care for colon cancer in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the weeks before her death, according to The Detroit News. The Velvelettes’ lead singer, Cal Gill Street, said in a statement, “She was an angel. I’ve lost my dearest friend. She was the group historian, and the glue that kept us together.” Raised in Flint, McNeal co-founded the Velvelettes at Western Michigan University in the 1960s. They successfully auditioned at Motown, and made a splash with the Billboard Top 100 singles “Needle in a Haystack” and “He Was Really Saying Something,” both early landmarks for the producer Norman Whitfield. Bananarama had a hit covering the latter in...
Little Simz, Mica Levi, Sabrina Carpenter, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend. This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Sabrina Carpenter, For Tracy Hyde, Little Simz, and more. Listen below and follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our...
Alex Ross Perry Is Making a Pavement Movie
This month, the indie director Alex Ross Perry staged an unlikely musical theater show in New York: Slanted! Enchanted!: A Pavement Musical. The production is part of an unorthodox feature film on the beloved indie-rockers, according to a profile in this week’s New Yorker. Though details are thin, the movie will reportedly mix footage from the musical and its creation with elements of biopic and documentary. The film is reportedly based on an obscure directive from Stephen Malkmus, who, as profile writer Hannah Seidlitz reports, “said he wasn’t interested in hiring a documentary filmmaker. He wanted to hire a screenwriter. But he didn’t want a screenplay.” Perry, whose résumé includes Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” video and an array of beguiling movies starring Elisabeth Moss, decided to...
SZA Scores First No. 1 Album With SOS
SZA has landed her first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. SOS—her highly-anticipated follow-up to Ctrl—earned 318,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week, reports Billboard. It marked SZA’s biggest week to date and earned the album the fifth largest debut of the year, following Taylor Swift’s Midnights (1.578 million), Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (521,000), Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss (404,000), and Beyoncé’s Renaissance (332,000). Previously, Ctrl hit its peak position on the chart in July of 2017, when it debuted at No. 3. Of the 318,000 equivalent album units for SOS, there were 404.58 million on-demand official streams of the LP’s tracks, which tallied up to 309,500 SEA units. That earned SOS the biggest streaming week ever for an R&B album, the seco...
Pusha T Steps Down as President of Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music
Seven years after assuming the position, Pusha T has resigned from his role as president of Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label. The It’s Almost Dry rapper revealed the news in an interview with XXL on Monday. When asked directly if he’s still the president of G.O.O.D. Music, Pusha simply replied, “No. No, I’m not.” While it’s been reported that G.O.O.D. Music is no longer a part of Def Jam Recordings, he went on to clarify that he still has a separate deal with Def Jam. “I have a 50/50 venture with Def Jam,” Pusha said in the interview. “For my own music and for my label.” Pusha’s latest album It’s Almost Dry was released via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam in April, making it one of the final projects to drop under the venture, alongside 070 Shake’s June LP, You Can’t Kill Me. The last time Pusha a...
Bam Margera Rocks Out at Amon Amarth Show After Hospitalization: Watch
Bam Margera was spotted side-stage at an Amon Amarth concert on Friday (December 16th) in San Diego following his recent hospitalization. It was certainly encouraging to see Margera rocking out with the Swedish Viking metal band after his serious health scare. The former Jackass star was hospitalized at a San Diego hospital ICU earlier this month and placed on a ventilator after testing positive for COVID-19. His condition included a case of pneumonia, with deteriorating oxygen levels. It appears Bam made a full recovery, as footage from the Amon Amarth show sees him wearing a huge smile while headbanging and capturing video on his phone. Advertisement Related Video Earlier this year, Margera completed a one-year substance abuse program as part of a court-mandated rehab ...
Stanning BTS Goes Live for 200th Episode Event
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS Borahae, ARMY and ICONICS! The Stanning BTS is about to hit its 200th episode, and to celebrate, we’re taking it live! Advertisement Related Video Hosts Kayla and Bethany will be recording a live Stanning BTS episode via Zoom, open to all listeners, ICONICS, and ARMYS. The event takes place on Monday, December 19th, at 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET, and you can join in by clicking this link. More information is available via the Stanning BTS Instagram and Twitter accounts. “It would be so amazing to see all of you ICONICS there,” say Bethany and Kayla. “Often, we see you during ICONIC hangouts every month, but we are super jazzed to get to have a...
Weird Pavement Musical Becoming Weird Pavement Movie
That weird Pavement jukebox musical from earlier this month is part of a weird movie directed by Alex Ross Perry, though nobody, especially not the filmmakers, seem able to articulate what that means. According to a new profile in the New Yorker, Pavement’s label Matador Records reached out to Perry three years ago. The band sought a movie, but frontman Stephen Malkmus did not want a documentary. He “wanted to hire a screenwriter. But he didn’t want a screenplay.” According to Perry, “No one knew what that meant.” Perry decided to make something “legitimate, ridiculous, real, fake, idiotic, cliché, illogical,” he said. “You take the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan movie, the Scorsese documentary, the Pennebaker documentary, and the movie Dylan himself directed that everyone hates [Ren...
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Two People Killed, One Other In Critical Condition Following Crowd Crush at London’s O2 Academy Brixton [UPDATED]
Two people died and another individual was left in critical condition on Thursday night following a crowd crush outside London’s O2 Academy Brixton, The Guardian and The New York Times report. Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, died on Saturday morning. Gabrielle Hutchinson, 23, who was working as a contracted security provider, passed away on Monday morning. A third woman, 21, still remains in the hospital in critical condition. A total of eight people were hospitalized after the incident, which occurred during a performance by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Asake. Metropolitan police arrived the south London venue around 9:35 p.m. after reports that an overwhelming number of people were attempting to force entry into the venue; the injuries are “believed to have been caused by crushing”...
