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2021 Ford Bronco Sport: Here’s How Much It Costs
The 2021 Ford Bronco Sport may play little brother to the Bronco, but the former model’s starting price of $28,155 comes in at just under $2,000 lower than its bigger, body-on-frame kin—and $2,175 more than the similarly sized and somewhat related Escape. No, the Bronco Sport is not the best off-road model in the Blue Oval’s line of vehicles, nor is it the best value. What Ford seems to position it as, though, is a jack-of-all-trades option that combines most of the aesthetic and some of the off-road capability of the Bronco with the comfort and manageable dimensions of the Escape. See all 29 photos Is it worth it? Well, we’ll have to get behind the wheel of the Bronco Sport to determine as much. Nevertheless, the compact crossover’s $28,155 price tag nets the...
Pleasure or Pain? The Choice Is Yours With This New Interactive Video From Bob Moses & Zhu
Pleasure and pain are both common side effects of desire, with this trifecta of emotions broken down in colorful contrast via “Desire,” a new collaborative single and video from Bob Moses and Zhu. The song is a darkly vibey homage to lust and love, with its video allowing viewers to choose their own adventure in amore by pushing “pleasure” and “pain” buttons. These buttons change the colors of the video from red to blue, turn beating hearts into burning fires, transform an embracing couple into a solo figure in free-fall, make images of Bob Moses appear and disappear throughout the animated cityscape and create other effects.The clip was directed by Owen Brown of the creative agency CTRL5. “Desire” is the title track and lead single fro...
Anita ‘Lady A’ White Makes Her Case as a Black Female Independent Artist: ‘Sometimes All We Have Is Our Name’
Anita “Lady A” White spelled out her stage name squabble with country trio Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, in an interview with ABC News Live Prime yesterday (July 14). “I have built this name for decades before they were born, and I’ve been building it,” the 61-year-old singer argued as part of her case during the TV segment. She later compared the “grind” of independent musicians to BIPOC, or Black, Indigenous people of color, saying “Sometimes all we have is our name. We don’t want to have that taken from us. Our culture gets taken, our music gets taken. This is more important for those that come behind me.” In June, the country trio (Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and David Haywood) announced on&n...
Tournament of Roses Parade Canceled for the First Time Since World War II
COVID-19 has been merciless in upsetting plans, showing no respect for tradition or history. You probably watched at least a few minutes of the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1. Even if you didn’t, it was nice to know it was there, with its colorful floats, snazzily-attired equestrians and high school marching bands—a pleasant tradition that dates back to Jan. 1, 1890. If it’s all kind of corny and old-fashioned, that’s part of its charm, as people ease into a new year. You’re going to have to ease into the new year on your own on Jan. 1, 2021. The Rose Parade –as most people call it–will not take place because of the COVID-19 pandemic, disappointed parade officials announced on July 15. It will be the first time the parade has not marched down Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, C...
Elon Musk Shares 3D Rendering of New Tesla Factory with “Rave Space on the Roof”
Following the news that his electric car and battery behemoth dethroned Toyota as the world’s largest automaker by market value, Tesla boss Elon Musk is planning to open the company’s brand new Giga Factory in Berlin, Germany. Musk posted a 3D render of the factory on Twitter this morning, July 15th, which shows a gargantuan, solar panel-lined roof atop a sprawling facility situated in a picturesque field in Berlin. Musk, who has also dabbled in electronic music production via an original song called “Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe,” also flung the dance music community headfirst into a fever pitch by writing that the rooftop may also moonlight as a “rave space.” Replying to a Twitter user asking for more information about the cave rendering, Musk w...
Megan Thee Stallion Recovering From Gunshot Wounds: ‘I’m Currently Focused On My Recovery’
Rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion, who police reportedly listed as a victim of a Sunday altercation, took to Instagram Wednesday to let fans know she’s recovering from gunshot wounds. TMZ reported on Monday that Megan was on the scene of an altercation, which involved gunshots inside an SUV outside of a Hollywood Hills home and with Tory Lanez was arrested on concealed weapons charges. Both Lanez and Megan, who TMZ reports had wounds on her foot, were seen on Kylie Jenner’s Instagram Live earlier in the night. After much speculation on social media as to what happened, Megan clarified what happened. “The narrative that is being reported about Sunday’s morning events are inaccurate and I’d like to set the record straight,” the Houston rapper wrote. “On Sunday morning, I ...
Lupe Fiasco & Kaelin Ellis Release Ringle ‘SHOES’ ft. 50 aka Virgil Abloh
Source: Mark Sagliocco / Getty One of Rap’s most slept on wordsmiths is linking with younger talent. Lupe Fiasco is prepping a new release manned by Kaelin Ellis. The Chicago MC and the Orlando producer have announced their collaborative EP HOUSE, out on July 24th. The announcement comes with the first single from the EP “SHOES” featuring Virgil Abloh. The HOUSE EP came together by chance — on May 5th, Lupe was tagged on Twitter in the replies of a Tweet from Kaelin Ellis, a young producer who had been posting clips of himself creating beats in lockdown. Reading “Get this to @LupeFiasco somehow,” Lupe listened, liked the beat, screen recorded Kaelin’s video, dropped it in GarageBand, freestyled over the beat, exported it in Quicktime, then Tweeted the song jus...
Bun B Shares Story About JAY-Z Giving Him The Boot From The Set of Beyoncé’s Video
Source: Rick Kern / Getty JAY-Z don’t play when it comes to his lady Bey. Speaking with Sama’an Ashrawi of The Nostalgia Mixtape podcast, the Trill OG, Bun B shared a hilarious story pretty much detailing how protective Jigga is of his wife, Beyoncé. The “Draped Up” crafter told the tale of the time JAY-Z had him removed from Bey’s set for the video of her single “Check On It,” which featured a tantalizing dance scene. HOV wasn’t feeling the idea of men being around, including his Big Pimpin co-collaborator watching his wife. Per The Nostalgia Mixtape: “We’re on the set, and we’re filming the video, and if you look at the video, there’s a lot of kind of skimpy outfits. Queenie [Bun B’s wife] is there also, so it’s not like I’m there salivating over another woman. “ “But we’re like, ‘Whoa, ...
Megan Thee Stallion Sets The Record Straight, Reveals She Was Shot Before Tory Lanez Arrest
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz When news dropped that Tory Lanez was arrested on a weapons charge and Megan Thee Stallion, it was all jokes, but it turns out that night was dangerously serious for the “Hot Girl.” In a lengthy Instagram post, Megan Thee Stallion set the record straight about what happened the night Tory Lanez got pinched, and she was allegedly hurt. TMZ initially reported that Megan was considered a “victim,” which is still accurate and that she cut her foot on pieces of glass on the floor of the vehicle she and Tory were in. [embedded content] Well come to find out it wasn’t glass, Megan suffered “gunshot wounds” and she revealed that she was never arrested as some have been claiming. “On Sunday morning, I suffered gunshot wounds as a result of a crime that was co...
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Viola Davis Stuns On ‘Vanity Fair’; Shot By A Black Photographer [Photos]
Source: THE VIEW – Viola Davis is the guest, Monday, October 2, 2017 on ABC’s “The View.” “The View” airs Monday-Friday (11:00 am-12:00 pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images) VIOLA DAVIS Black excellence comes in many forms but it is a tough task to out glow a queen. One of our brightest stars is once again changing the narrative of how we are perceived. Viola Davis is gracing the cover of Vanity Fair. The July/August edition features her in all her glory wearing a dark blue number dress with her back exposed. To add to the Black Girl Magic she is wearing her hair out naturally in grand fashion. Additionally the visuals were captured by Black photographer and artist Dario Calmese, a first in the publication’s 125-year history. This feature no...
Trapt’s New Album Sells 600 Copies First Week, Band Says Not So Fast
Nu-metal outfit Trapt — which have been extremely active on Twitter in recent months — couldn’t put their albums sales where their tweets are. The group only sold 600 copies of their new album in its first week, according to SoundScan data, but the group insists there’s roughly 3,400 additional copies trapped somewhere else (get it?). The new record, Shadow Work, officially dropped on July 3 — although The PRP reported it was available to stream in June — and “Headstrong” singer Chris Taylor Brown isn’t convinced the recently reported numbers are correct. “We sold almost 4k albums from July 3 to July 9,” Brown wrote on the band’s Twitter account Wednesday. “Not bad for a band that did everything ourselves and got zero word said about it on any DSPs??????? We’re hap...
Gang of Four Share 14 Live Show Tracks in New Archival Playlist
Gang of Four have released a number of the best live performances in a specially curated playlist on Spotify called Matador Picks: Gang of Four (Live). Part of a new archival project with Matador Records, the 14 tracks are from shows that took place from London and Amsterdam to New York and New Orleans between 1979 and 1984 — when the band was at the peak of their popularity. Fans will also be able to stream the Leeds, UK, band’s first three albums — Entertainment! (1979), Solid Gold (1981), and Songs of the Free (1982). In February, founding member Andy Gill died, which sparked an outpouring of emotions from the music community. Following Gill’s passing, the surviving members paid tribute to him by releasing This Heaven Gives Me a Migraine, which includes songs Gill worked on during his f...
