Black Entertainment | Black News | Urban News | Hip Hop News | Black Entertainment
During a recent visit to New York’s Power 105.1 FM, Philadelphia singer/songwriter Jade Alston broke out her guitar and gave an impromptu interpretation of Drake’s “Girl Love Beyonce” complete with rearranged lyrics and an interpolation of Destiny’s Child “Say My Name” and Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love”. Alston, a huge Beyonce fan, took the time [...]
*Will.i.am says Google’s attempt at sharing music is wack. The artist, who serves as the creative director at Intel, says the new music service has some issues and isn’t really a great model. Called the Google Play Music All Access, it’s a paid subscription to music-streaming, something like Spotify. “Honestly, I don’t really know what [...]
*Eminem’s song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper’s songs. Eight Mile Style filed a federal lawsuit in Detroit on Monday alleging that a 30-second Facebook ad broadcast online last month copied music from Eminem’s 2000 song “Under the Influence,” reports Billboard. The Detroit Free [...]
*Love permeated the air at the SESAC17th annual pop awards at New York’s prestigious New York Public Library where SESAC, the nation’s fastest growing performing rights organization, held its 17th annual pop awards on Monday, May 13, 2013 and Rico Love captured top honors taking home both Songwriter of the Year for the third consecutive [...]
*Fox has confirmed that former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland and Latin singer Paulina Rubio will be the new “X Factor” judges for season three, joining executive producer-judge Simon Cowell and his fellow lone surviving panelist from last season, pop singer Demi Lovato. “It’s taken more than a decade but I’m delighted to finally be [...]
*Giancarlo Esposito understands that some of his diehard fans — who have shown support ever since his breakout role as Buggin’ Out in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing,” may not be checking for him in his current gig on NBC’s “Revolution.” The freshman drama had decent enough ratings for NBC to renew it for [...]
*The queen of Pop … though many wouldn’t agree with that title, Janet Jackson, has remerged after getting married to her rich beau and allegedly converting to Islam. The entertainer is recently celebrated her 20th anniversary of album “janet.” Her groundbreaking fifth album has sold over 7 million copies and spawned six Hot 100 singles. [...]
*It was a bittersweet night for the Biebs at the Billboard Music Awards. Justin Bieber got lots of love from the trade magazine itself, earning two trophies on Sunday, including the evening’s final Milestone Award – beating out Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift. However, he got considerably less love from Billboard’s live audience, where boos [...]
*Prince, sporting an afro straight from his “For You” era, closed out the 2013 Billboard Music Awards on ABC last night (May 19) in royal fashion and as only he could – accepting the trade magazine’s Icon award with a performance, not a speech. His Royal Badness, 54, rocked a ’60s look Woodstock look, complete [...]
*Miguel appeared to nearly decapitate a woman at the Billboard Music Awards last night (May 19) when he jumped into the crowd while attempting a James Brown split. Performing the hit song “Adorn” from his album “Kaleidoscope Dream” in the first half of the show, the singer was trying to jump from one platform to [...]
*A Richmond, Va. area man was charged on Sunday with aggravated assault and public intoxication after throwing a bottle at reggae singer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert during a concert Saturday, reported The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Toots and his band Toots and the Maytals were performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival when William C. [...]
*Word has it that Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio are set to join Demi Lovato and Simon Cowell on season three of “The X Factor,” replacing exiting judges L.A. Reid and Britney Spears. With auditions slated to kick off Tuesday in Charleston, North Carolina, Simon is expected to make an announcement sometime today, reports MTV [...]
*Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 the curtains will rise at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles for the highly anticipated stage play “My Brother Marvin” written by renown director and producer Angela Dunlap, and inspired entirely by Zeola Gaye, sister to the late music icon Marvin Gaye.Once more Zeola Gaye gave a candid interview to The [...]
*Robin Thicke somehow gets away with his raunchy sexy lyrics and sometimes edgy music videos, probably because he makes it sound so smooth and easy to receive. His recent, unrated version of “Blurred Lines,” which premiered in April, has some folks talking, though. The video went viral on YouTube, receiving one million hits before it [...]
*It’s been five years since R&B’s disappearing act Mario has dropped an album. But he’s back and ready to breathe new life into the genre, the singer says. Mario’s new single, “Somebody Else,” features hip-hop enigma Nicki Minaj. He accompanied the release of the record with a personal note to fans. “Nothing can explain the [...]
 |
|
Recent Comments