‘Power’ fans rejoice!

As mere days separate us from the season 5 premiere of ‘STARZ’ the flagship series (July 1), its star – Omari Hardwick – is blazing the promo trail in its support.

Gearing up anticipation for one of the season’s already most highly anticipated TV shows, Hardwick hit the pages of ‘Ebony’ magazine to serve as its July/August 2018 cover star. Dishing on the series, his humanitarian efforts, and so much more, tuck in to see the finished products from the sizzing shoot:

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If Camila Cabello haters thought the massive success of ‘Havana’ was a fluke, they’ll be disappointed to know her slayage has continued well beyond the 5x platinum Pharrell Williams-penned cut.

Its follow-up, ‘Never Be the Same,’ may have seen its fortune stalled due to its predecessor’s enduring domination over the Hot 100, but it – like ‘Havana’ – eventually made its way to the tally’s top 10.  Now, thanks to a handsome mix of sales and streaming, the tune’s been handed a new certification honor.

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Unlike the gems from their most recent respective releases, ‘Lemonade’ and ‘4:44,’ the fans of Beyonce and Jay Z may have not exactly gone apesh*t over the album cuts from their first joint effort, ‘Everything is Love,’ but they sure do have their eyes and ears on the set’s lead single ‘Apesh*t.’  

Not only coming as the week’s highest debut of any artist, the tune also ranks as the highest charting song from the ‘Everything is Love’ album (to date).  The rest of its content debuted in the lower third of the Hot 100, with four of them even taking to the Bubbling Under Charts – “713” (#3), “Heard About Us” (#10), “Black Effect” (#20) and “Lovehappy” (#21).

While theories on piracy, the ineffectiveness of streaming exclusivity, and even ‘surprise album fatigue’ puzzle fans on the uncharacteristic commercial response to the project, one release that certainly isn’t experiencing any of this is the late XXXTentacion’s ‘Sad!’  While it’s certainly characteristic of the sales and streams of an artist to dramatically increase following news of his or her death, the response to the rapper’s passing has blown that out of the water.

Having already broken Taylor Swift’s major 1-day streaming record (click here to read more), the John Cunningham-produced hit has now jumped from #52 to #1 on the Hot 100:

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Lisa Stansfield has some interesting thoughts on promiscuity and prostitution within the music industry and the part she feels they play in upholding structural sexual abuse.

Will you agree the Blue-Eyed Soul diva’s thoughts and feelings?

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It would appear that ‘Braxton Family Values’ is serving up drama on and off screen – and the latter is casting doubt over the show’s future.

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The superstar sportsman Lewis Hamilton speeds to the cover of ‘Gentleman’s Quarterly‘ this month following his creative contributions to Christina Aguilera’s new album ‘Liberation.’

Keen to carve out a lane for himself the musically, the A lister used the mag’s pages to flex in fits crafted by Tommy Hilfiger.

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In breaking news, it has been announced that Joe Jackson – the patriarch of the iconic Jackson Family – has died aged 89.

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Mo’Nique has had it up to here with the Hollywood’s games and is ready to fight the foolery and combat the clownery.

How she hopes to prove that she was treated unfairly by Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry? By leaking audio from a phone conversation in which the latter admits…to everything.

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There’s a baby on board for LeToya Luckett!

The Destiny’s Child alum turned solo star and actress has announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Tommicus Walker.

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After churning out colossal hits such as ‘Waterfalls’ and ‘No Scrubs,’ TLC brought their recording to career to an end last year with the release of their self-titled “last” studio album.

The subject of much debate (after being funded by fans), the set didn’t yield the sales hoped and disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived.

Still, with a legacy as profound as TLC’s, the reality is that there’ll always be an audience keen to see them in action. A fact band-member T-Boz is looking to capitalize on…in Las Vegas.

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Acts as iconic as Prince are once in a lifetime, hence it’s little surprise that the legend’s music is proving a hot commodity two years after his sudden death.

As the posthumous success of Michael Jackson has proven, catalogue material is big business; in many cases, a billion dollar business.

Prince’s Estate have clearly clocked this and have struck a lucrative new deal with Sony Music – who’ve now snagged the distribution rights to a whopping 35 albums.

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September 14th 2018.

Sliding into action on the date above is ‘The Predator‘, the latest chapter of the ‘Predator’ series brought to fans by Shane Black!

Leading the Sci-Fi release?

Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Augusto Aguilera, Jake Busey and Yvonne Strahovski.

Intrigued?

Trailer below…

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