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What's Your Favorite Song on Beyoncé's 'The Lion King: The Gift' Deluxe Edition? Vote!

Beyoncé released the deluxe edition of her 2019 album The Lion King: The Gift on Friday (July 31). With three new songs including her Juneteenth anthem “Black Parade” and a Melo-X-assisted remix of “Find Your Way,” the deluxe LP celebrates pan-African identity while loosely telling the story of The Lion King across its 17 tracks. […]

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The 13 Best Things That Happened in Music This Week (July 27)

This week was all about badass women, as Tove Lo, Sophie Turner, Dua Lipa, Miranda Lambert, Zendaya, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, Beyonce and more made headlines. In events news, Lollapalooza and the GLAAD Media Awards both went virtual, and on the awards show side, nominations were announced for the Emmys and MTV VMAs. (Ariana […]

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Celebs Are Loving Beyoncé's 'Black Is King': 'Holy S–t'

Beyoncé unveiled her latest visual album, Black Is King, at 3:00 a.m. on Friday (July 31) and famous members of the Beyhive are buzzing over the much-hyped release. “Beyoncé, thats it send tweet,” wrote Zara Larsson on Twitter upon seeing the film, while Queen Bey’s proteges Chloe x Halle tweeted, “black is king really comes […]

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Lil Wayne Teams With Young Money’s Gudda Gudda & Jay Jones For 'Thug Life' Video: Watch

On Friday (July 31), Lil Wayne partnered up with his Young Money comrades Gudda Gudda and Jay Jones for the collective’s newest video “Thug Life.” Filmed at Wayne’s skate park, Weezy is in pure form, delivering high-octane raps at a frenetic pace. “I want my baby pictures on $100 bill/My lazy bit-hes teach my crazy […]

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5 Crowning Achievements in Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ Film

Early Friday morning (July 31), fans joyously unwrapped Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King on Disney+. Designed to be a re-imagination of the 2019 film The Lion King, Queen Bey looks to recreate the Black experience, mainly for young African American boys and girls on the project.  Studded with an army of talented dancers, actors […]

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Beyonce Unleashes 'Already' Video With Shatta Wale and Major Lazer: Watch

Beyonce‘s new visual album, Black Is King, arrived on Friday (July 31), along with a standalone video for “Already” with Shatta Wale and Major Lazer and a deluxe edition of The Lion King: The Gift, which added three new tracks and eliminated the audio snippets from the live action Lion King film. Major Lazer’s Diplo took to […]

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Drake Flexes Tupac-Inspired Jesus Pieces Worth $300,000 Each

The self-appointed 6 God Drake honored Tupac Shakur by showing off twin Jesus pieces featuring the late legend, and they have quite the hefty pricetag. Drake and Jason Arasheben, Jason of Beverly Hills’ founding designer, posted videos of the double diamond chains on their respective Instagram accounts Wednesday (July 29). According to Complex, each pendant’s estimated […]

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How to Watch Beyoncé's Visual Album 'Black Is King'

Beyoncé will give her fans the keys to the kingdom Friday (July 31) when she drops her highly anticipated Black Is King visual album that she wrote, executive produced, directed and stars in. Queen Bey invites “today’s young kings and queens in search of their own crowns” with a film set to The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack she […]

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Pregnant Nicki Minaj Reveals She Had the 'Worst Morning Sickness of All Time'

Just last week, Nicki Minaj revealed that she is pregnant with her first child. Now, the rapper is giving fans a look into her pregnancy thus far. Back in February, the then-secretly preggers Minaj flew down to Trinidad to honor her roots at the country’s annual Carnival festivities. In an Instagram post shared on Thursday […]

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Why Brandy 'Was a Little Hesitant' to Release Her New Album 'B7'

Over 20 years ago, a legion of Black girls marveled at Brandy’s curled microbraids cascading from her tiara as she played Disney’s first Black princess in the 1997 musical TV film Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Whitney Houston co-produced and starred as the Fairy Godmother. At the time, Brandy was just 18, but her career was […]