Before reminding ‘VERZUZ’ viewers she truly is the baddest b*tch via her epic showdown with fellow femcee Eve (June 16), Trina surprised fans with new song, ‘Receipts.’
Produced by Hitmaka, the braggadocious bop sees the 42-year-old reaffirm her status as one of female Rap’s leading ladies.
“B*tches mad ’cause I brag, but I’m the baddest that these ni**as ever had—that’s facts,” she decrees before continuing, “I’m the mother to the game, time to get these hoes some sitters.”
If ever you needed receipts that this award-winning rapstress is showing no signs of slowing after her 20+year career, it awaits inside:
All roads lead to this Friday for H.E.R., whose debut album ‘Back of my Mind’ will finally be unleashed.
Bucking the established trends attached to launching a new act, the immensely gifted star (who had been signed and honing her talent since her teens) built her buzz by way of EPs.
It proved a wise approach because it netted her multiple GRAMMYs, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. All before her full-length project arrived.
With so much success already tallied, excitement is sky-high for her incoming musical chapter.
Prior to its release, the set’s tracklist has been unveiled.
The rapper has unleashed his brand new single ‘LUMBERJACK,’ which premiered alongside its Wolf Haley-directed video.
A colorful affair, the characteristically quirky clip serves as the premiere offering from the follow-up to Tyler’s 2019 album ‘Igor’ – which nabbed him the GRAMMY Award for Best Rap Album.
With the Oscar buzz surrounding Aretha Franklin biopic ‘Respect’ already at high volume, lead Jennifer Hudson just upped the ante with the announcement of on original song.
When the line-up for new show ‘BET Presents The Encore’ was unveiled, one of the names most buzzed-about was Kiely Williams.
The 3LW star may have hung up her mic many moons ago, but she’s maintained an arguable omnipresence in the mediascape by way of headlines involving her past bandmates and that “broken promithes” meme.
Williams also notably appeared in the highly viral clip from the show’s unaired pilot episode. Taped many years ago, it saw her lock horns with momentary Destiny’s Child member Farrah Franklin. Upon its unearthing last year, the clip created an immediate hunger for more, leading to the show eventually landing at BET.
Armed with this momentum, she makes clear that she still has a lot to offer the music industry…albeit with a twist.
Viewers of the show will have seen that while castmates such as Aubrey O’Day, Shamari DeVoe, and Nivea are uniting to form a supergroup, Williams elected to take a different role – creative director.
With that decision already causing friction (the type that makes for TV gold), That Grape Juice‘s Chet Kincaid caught up with Williams and Pamela Long of Total to discuss the show and more.
During the candid chat, the 34-year-old explained that she found the public scrutiny hard and insisted that she is “memed and mocked for a lisp I don’t have.”
She also expanded on her pivot into creative direction and why it’s her true calling.
Watch above and be sure to tune into ‘BET Presents The Encore’ Wednesdays at 10/9c on BET.
Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and JAY-Z were among the stars that aligned to celebrate June Ambrose – one of Hollywood’s most luminous stylists and designers.
The revered fashion figure celebrated her 50th birthday at an elegant event, which saw her showered with love from many of her longtime clients, family, and friends.
Tinashe may easily rank among the most highly regarded stage performers to have debuted in the last 10 years, but – as she evidences in a new behind the scenes clip – making it look easy ain’t easy.
Hot on the promo trail for her latest single, ‘Pasadena’ (the first lift from her forthcoming studio album ‘333’), the 28-year-old invites fans on the other side of the camera to see how the magic from the tune’s official music video came to be.
Rocking a Janet Jackson‘Rhythm Nation’ t-shirt while showing off some fancy footwork alongside her choreographer and team of dancers, look inside to see how Sweet T prepped the sweet moves that line her latest Micaiah Carter-directed music video. (more…)
In a world where music consumption is dominated by digital downloads and streaming, many once thought traditional radio was a dying format – until Dua Lipa‘s 2020 hit ‘Levitating,’ that is.
Thanks to an unprecedented resurgence on the platform, the Koz-produced cut – once written off after its initial failure at launch – has literally rewritten the rules on how long a song’s lifeline can be extended due to radio success.
Now, for the first time in its enduring tenure, ‘Levitating’ has been lifted to the apex of the format’s tally.
