Houston-hatched hitmaker J. White Did It is the craftsman responsible for some of female Rap’s biggest recent anthems including Cardi B‘s ‘Bodak Yellow’ and ‘I Like It’ as well as Megan Thee Stallion‘s ‘Savage.’

Beyond those commercial knockouts, he’s also won ample critical acclaim over his storied career including praise for Iggy Azalea‘s criminally underrated sophomore album, ‘In My Defense,’ and its singles ‘Started,’ ‘Sally Walker,’ and ‘F*ck It Up.’

The buying public may have slept on the ill-fated LP, but White is confident the bangers set to line her new project will wake them up.

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Missy Elliott has earned many an accolade over the course of her illustrious career and the latest is one of entertainment’s most prestigious.

For, the multi-dimensional star has just been announced as one of the chosen names to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

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For this generation of Urban music lovers, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Lil Uzi Vert are undoubtedly go-to fixtures.  What’s more, 2020 has easily been a standout year for both.

While the former earned his highest Hot 100 placement yet with the tune ‘Believe It (featuring Rihanna)‘ as well as his best first-week sales to date with its parent album, ‘PARTYMOBILE,’  the latter’s ‘Eternal Atake’ skyrocketed to the Billboard 200’s summit with not only his personal best but some of the 2020’s biggest first week figures (click here to read more).

To their respective horrors, however, those personal career triumphs were not enough to get them inducted into this year’s class of BET Awards nominees as revealed Monday (June 15).

It’s pretty safe to say they didn’t take the news lightly.

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Marques Houston saw his name atop atop the trending topics tally earlier this week thanks to Twitter sleuths who laid out a timeline of his dating history with 19-year-old fianceé, Miya.

Deducing (based on the evidence presented) the two began dating before her 18th birthday, the chatter around the betrothed blasted to viral levels – with some even using the findings to validate B2K star Raz B‘s once-shunned reports of sexual abuse at the hands of Houston and manager Chris Stokes.

Once the hoopla landed on the desk of the 38-year-old Houston, he took to Instagram to detail his love story with the teenager.

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Raven-Symone is a married woman.

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Shortly after thrilling fans with her Too $hort-sampled new single, ‘Tap In’ (as we reported here), Bay area rapstress Saweetie returned with the cut’s official music video.

Directed my Mike Ho, the 26-year-old may have taken her dance moves from the outdoor basketball court on ‘My Type’ to a more temperature controlled environment, but that doesn’t mean her footwork was any less scorching.

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K. Michelle sent fans into a frenzy with the announcement she had new music coming.

Hard at work on her long teased Country album, the award-winning singer-songwriter is now reporting another follow-up to her January-released fifth LP – ‘All Monsters are Human’ – will come in the form of an EP.

But, shortly after bragging about the studio time she’s locked down in Nashville to put the finishing touches on those projects, the 34-year-old launched into a tirade about former nemesis Tamar Braxton.

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Normani may be hard at work on her long-awaited album debut, but she’s remaining center-stage by of an exciting new partnership with Urban Decay. 

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Though enjoying the ongoing success of her FOX Soul-hosted talk show ‘One on One with Keyshia Cole,’ the ’11:11 Reset’ singer is ready to press the reset button on her music career as evidenced by a recently announced partnership with Primary Wave Music management.

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Less than two weeks separate us from the 2020 BET Awards!

Pressing forward unconventionally with its first ‘virtual showing’ on June 28, Urban entertainment’s biggest night is set to be hosted by actress-comic Amanda Seales and feature stage-blazing performances by the likes of Usher, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, and more (as we reported here).

As fans clamor over which of their favorite acts will take home the show’s coveted trophies (click here to see nominations), BET is saving for last its announcement of who will be the recipient of its prized Lifetime Achievement Award.  Already listing legendary acts like Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Patti Labelle, Prince, and Lionel Richie among its honorees, the 2020 trophy has been shrouded in mystery as to who will be its designated awardee.

As we await official word, we turn to you – That Grape Juice faithful – to ask:

Who should be the recipient of the 2020 BET Lifetime Achievement Award?

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Armed with a brigade of her biggest hits (i.e. ‘Free Yourself,’ ‘Hood Boy,’ ‘When I See You,’ ‘Lose To Win,’ and many more), Fantasia took to Charlotte’s Fillmore recently (June 12) to salute the #BlackLivesMatter movement and pay homage to those who have fallen at the hands of police brutality.

Hosting a virtual concert with proceeds going to families who have been affected by police violence, the event requested viewers contribute a minimum donation of $8.46 (in honor of the 8 minutes and 46 seconds former police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Black Minneapolis man George Floyd‘s neck leading to his death).

Showing out like only she can, did you miss the jam-packed event?  See Fannie crank out her greatest hits alongside some classic R&B favorites inside:

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J. Cole‘s first solo record of 2020 is coming in the form of a powerful protest tune, ‘Snow on Tha Bluff.’

Addressing police brutality and other racial injustices across the Kelvin ‘Wu10’ Wooten-production, Cole’s cut comes as a response to social activist NoName after she called out top-selling rappers who have largely remained silent on the latest racially-charged events.

“She mad at the celebrities, low key I be thinkin’ she talking about me,” he raps. “Now I ain’t no dummy to think I’m above criticism so when I see something that’s valid I listen / But shit, it’s something about the queen tone that’s bothering me.”

Later, he got Twitter fingers blazing after listeners got wind of the line that states:

“F–k is the point of you preaching your message to those that already believe what you believe?/” I’m on some ‘F–k a retweet,’ most people is sheep / You got all the answers but how you gon’ reach?”

Look inside to read his reaction to the criticism.

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