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Tina Fey & Amy Poehler to Host 2021 Golden Globes From Separate Coasts
The anticipated reteaming of Fey and Poehler will mark their fourth Globes hosting outing after the three-peat from 2013-2015. The production, a joint effort between NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and dick clark productions, is the latest high-profile Hollywood awards show to adjust while adhering to COVID-19 protocols that limit large scale gatherings. The Emmys pulled off a hybrid event with host Jimmy Kimmel on stage at the Staples Center alongside presenters and guests while nominees appeared remotely from dozens of locations around the globe. The Golden Globes, originally scheduled for January, will air live Feb. 28 coast-to-coast from 5-8 p.m. PT/8-11 p.m. ET on NBC. Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P. Henson are set to announce nominees Wednesday morning. The Golden Glo...
Mickey Guyton Makes Late Night Debut With ‘Black Like Me’ Performance on ‘Colbert’
Country star Mickey Guyton delivered her heartbreaking anthem on racial injustice, “Black Like Me,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday night (Feb. 1), marking her late night debut. “It’s a hard life on easy street/Just white painted picket fences far as you can see/If you think we live in the land of the free/You should try to be black like me,” she sang in the stripped-back rendition of the song, surrounded by candles. “Look. At. God!” Guyton wrote in the YouTube video’s comment section. “I made it on a late-night show mom! My heart cannot take it. Thank you so much for having me on the show.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with givin...
Anuel AA & Ozuna Celebrate ‘Los Dioses’ Debuting at No. 1 on Top Latin Albums Chart
“It was a process in which we had a lot of fun,” Ozuna tells Billboard. “We supported each other with the lyrics and the creative process. When you are comfortable and enjoy what you do, time passes, and great things happen like this album.” Los Dioses was released Jan. 22 via Aura/Real Hasta La Muerte/Sony Music Latin. It starts with 29,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Jan. 28, according to MRC Data. Out of the set’s opening sum, 6,000 derive from sales and the bulk of the remainder from streaming activity. The Top Latin Albums chart ranks the most popular Latin albums of the week in the U.S. based on multimetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent a...
Rapper Silento Arrested And Charged With Murder Of His Cousin
Source: Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office / DCSO Things continue to seemingly get worse for Silento. Police say he is now is responsible for a family member’s untimely passing. As spotted on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the former teen Hip-Hop sensation has some very serious allegations looming over his name. On Monday (Feb. 1), the artist born Ricky Lamar Hawk was arrested for his involvement in the murder of 34-year-old Frederick Rooks. Dekalb County police made the announcement via Twitter. “Today, Ricky Hawk, 23, was arrested for the murder of his cousin Frederick Rooks, 34. On January 21, the DeKalb County Police Department investigated Rooks’ death after he was found shot on Deep Shoals Circle. Hawk is in the DeKalb County Jail charged with Murder. #WeAreDKPD,” read the t...
Revered Hip-Hop Photographer Ricky Powell Has Passed Away
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Famed Hip-Hop and street photographer Ricky Powell has passed away. NME is reporting that the triple OG cameraman who worked with the likes of Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, and Andy Warhol died of heart failure at the too-young age of 59. “I just want to let everybody know he was a very special man, and he will be sorely missed.” Powell began his professional career in 1986 when he left his gig selling lemon ices to join with Run-DMC and Beastie Boys on the Raising Hell tour. After capturing some of Hip-Hop’s most iconic pictures during that run, Powell went on to become one of the most notable photographers in the game and eventually published a few books including Oh Snap!: The Rap Photography of Ricky Powell and Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs 1985-2005...
Macklemore’s White Guilt When He Won Grammy Over Kendrick Lamar Led To Drug Abuse
Source: Johnny Louis/WENN.com / WENN History has shown us that The Grammys doesn’t reflect nor truly represent our culture. One of their biggest gaffes apparently caused one performer to turn to illegal substances. As spotted on AllHipHop.com Macklemore was a recent guest on Talib Kweli’s People’s Party show. The two discussed his meteoric rise in 2012 with the release of The Heist with Ryan Lewis. The album would go on to put his name on the map via the crossover single “Thrift Shop”. Naturally, his Grammy Award win for Best Rap Album over Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City in 2014 came up during the conversation. To hear the Seattle native tell it, the win was a bigger curse than it was a gift. “It wasn’t just the Grammys that we won. We won every f***ing thing,”...
Georgia Police Chief & Officer Caught On Bodycam Saying Disgusting Racist Remarks At BLM Rally
Source: picture alliance / Getty Here is one instance when police bodycam footage actually worked in getting racist cops fired. A police chief and an officer from the small Georgia town of Hamilton are now out of a job after being caught saying racist and misogynistic remarks on footage recovered from a bodycam one of the officers was wearing. The disgusting comments were made as the two law enforcement officials were preparing to patrol a Black Lives Matter protest last year. On the video, both officers can be heard having a conversation. Brooks can be heard using the N-word and made lewd comments about Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams asking which one they would rather sleep with? Complaining about the protests, Allmond also made...
Black Coffee Teams Up With HyperionDev To Gift Scholarships to Prospective Coders
Thanks to a new partnership between Black Coffee and HyperionDev, several prospective coders will be on their way to class with a full scholarship. HyperionDev is a remote learning organization that provides coding boot camps and certifications to software developers. The company states that a six-month part-time or full-time investment is all it takes for students to become job-ready, even when starting from limited-to-no experience. Alumni have gone on to work for Amazon and IBM, among other tech giants. Luckily, Black Coffee is among the investors helping to lower the barrier of entry even further by partnering with the platform to give away scholarships to prospective students. Entrants will need to submit a creative 60-second video and write a 200-word essay in order to be...
UK Covid Rave Broken Up By Police Before Hundreds Of Ticket Purchasers Arrived
A forthcoming rave that had sold hundreds of tickets to individuals in advance has been shut down by UK police. The event, titled, Covid Rave, was scheduled to take place last weekend in an abandoned warehouse, but it was thwarted by police ahead of time as organizers arrived to begin making preparations. Northumbria Police made several arrests on the scene. In the process, concert equipment and drugs were also seized. Subsequently, attendees who had purchased tickets were warned by police via social media to stay home. Assistant Chief Constable, Neil Hutchison, condemned the actions and stated that the event would have been illegal even in the absence of a pandemic. “This event was widely marketed, flyers were distributed and tickets were sold to hundreds of people. It woul...
Elon’s Talking Shift: Tesla CEO Says New, Shifterless Model S Selects Drive and Reverse Itself
Tesla no longer has a public-relations department, so when the automaker’s chief executive officer, Elon Musk, tweets vehicle-related information (as opposed to stuff such as “Bitcoin is my safe word” or “420 is ten times better than 42”), the automotive media treats it as the de facto company line. Musk’s latest eye-opening Tesla-related tweet was sent in reply to a reaction to the new Model S‘s yoke-style steering wheel: Yep, the refreshed Tesla Model S and Model X lack physical controls for operating each vehicles’ direct-drive transmissions. Instead, per Musk, the function now lives within the models’ touchscreens. That said, users may never need to fiddle with the on-screen buttons to switch between reverse and drive, as Musk ...
Joey Jay Is Bumping Lady Gaga, Pabllo Vittar & More For Her ‘Drag Race’ Elimination Playlist
Even if she didn’t walk away with the crown, Jay can confidently walk away with the title of trade of the season, from queens and fans alike. As silly as that title may be, Jay says she’s actually been quite touched being referred to as “trade,” considering that she doesn’t necessarily fit the hyper-masculine standard for the term. “I will disagree that I am trade, but I will take it,” she explains. “I just think it’s showing like we’re growing as a community, that you don’t have to be like a 300 lb. macho-man who played some football to be considered very attractive.” At the end of the day, Jay may be disappointed that she couldn’t go further, but says the fact that she was able to represent a very different sty...
State of Mine’s Garth Brooks Cover ‘Rolls’ to No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs
The track is the first cover to top Hot Hard Rock Songs dating to the tally’s June 2020 inception. Covers have been more common, however, atop Hard Rock Digital Song Sales, where Trans-Siberian Orchestra‘s “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24,” first recorded by TSO members in the band Savatage, led over the 2020-21 holiday season. Before that, Nickelback‘s take on The Charlie Daniels Band‘s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” reigned last August. Similarly, Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers‘ update of Goo Goo Dolls‘ “Iris” topped Rock Digital Song Sales in November 2020. Brooks’ original “Thunder,” which he co-wrote with Pat Alger and released on his second LP, 1990’s No Fences, ruled Hot Country So...
