LeToya Luckett continues to flex her acting muscles ahead of the release of new album ‘Back 2 Life’ (due May 12th).
Case in point ‘Used To.’
The cinematic clip picks up after the visual for the LP’s title track, which was released in January.
Clocking in at over 10-minutes, Ms. Luckett certainly is proving generous with her output this era – holding true to her promise of delivering a video series to support her project.
Check out the vid, which co-stars Thomas Q. Jones, below…
On all fronts, the ‘Basketball Wives‘ empire sits a few notches beneath Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives‘ franchise.
So, with hopes of securing more eyes and higher approval ratings, its producers have placed key players from its cancelled Miami show in its Los Angeles mix.
One of these players is Tami Roman, who stepped into support ‘Basketball Wives LA‘ following the departure of its star Draya Michele.
How Roman feels about all of this?
Watch her discussion with ‘The Breakfast Club‘ to find out!
The reworked ‘Wives’ will return to VH1 on April 17th armed with fan favourites Malaysia Pargo and Brandi Maxiell as well as Roman, Jackie Christie, Evelyn Lozada, Shaunie O’Neal and Keonna Green.
Welcome to The Stream Scene, the TGJ party thrown to celebrate streaming gains made by some of the brightest stars in the Popverse.
Who made their way into the club this time around? Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar, Aston Merrygold and Beyonce.
Lamar’s new album ‘DAMN‘ is already on its way to casting a creative shadow of Drake’s hit-stained set ‘Views’.
How so?
The set, which is fronted by the single ‘Humble’, has already been streamed 50 million times and will cross the 200 million mark by the end of the week, making Lamar the first act to do so in the same space of time since Drake.
How much the album is expected to move in pure sales by the end of its first week? Between 275-300k.
Elsewhere, streams and pure sales have lifted Beyonce‘s ‘Hold Up’ to enviable new heights!
Streams garnered by her 2016 release ‘Hold Up’ recently swam past the 90 million spins point recently and, as of today, now sit at the 91,488,539 point.
Pure sales of the song’s parent album ‘Lemonade’ have been just as stellar.
By the end of 2016, the album had moved 1.5 million copies in the United States alone before streaming data pushed its to number over the 2.1 million mark!
Of course, the album’s unique rollout has seen fans opt to purchase the set as a whole instead of picking up its songs individually resulting in a less than stellar run on the Billboard Hot 100 but an epic one on the Billboard 200 where it peaked at #1.
Joining the club this week is the British vocalist Aston Merrygold, formerly of the Urban Pop group JLS.
His new single ‘Precious‘ impacted the net last week and cruises past the 20,000 spins landmark before the unveiling of his first solo studio set and the live shows he has launched to support it.
How ‘Precious’ is faring so far?
Since its arrival on April 12th, it’s been watched for a total of 744 hours and picked up 406 shares.
Will his forthcoming live shows help to push these numbers to higher ground?
Weigh in below!
Last, and never least, is Lady Gaga.
Back in February, the Pop diva rocked the NFL’s Super Bowl Halftime Show with a tame and restrained live serving out of her discography.
How the world responded? Positively.
Proving that the general public is still very much interested in her live shows, her Super Bowl online viewing figure was recently flung into new heights after it was watched 29 million times!
29,598,336 to be exact.
This news will undoubtedly give her diehard fans cause to celebrate after they pushed her new single ‘The Cure’ to #1 on iTunes USA!
Nicki Minaj has offered comfort and prayers to the families of those affected by yesterday’s horrific Facebook Live slaying.
What happened?
A man based in Cleveland, Ohio shocked viewers on his Facebook Live session by stepping out of his car after spotting an elderly man walking on the street. Then, in a bid to punish his lover for leaving him, shot the man dead.
Season 9 of ‘The Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ has reached its climax, but the fireworks continue during its four-part reunion.
Following an explosive first installment, the second part promises more, more, and well…more.
The gathering sees Kandi‘s feud with Porsha and Phaedra reach boiling point, while Kenya comes under scrutiny for her suspect relationships. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Check out a sneak peek of the second part below…
Easter united friends and family across the globe – including Destiny’s Child sisters Beyonce and Kelly Rowland.
The bandmates, along with their respective families, marked the occasion together.
Bey’s mom Tina Knowles Lawson shared the shot above, as well as various clips.
It marks the latest sighting of Mrs Carter, who is heavily pregnant with twins.
Peep footage below, which includes brief appearances from Jay Z, Kelly‘s husband and son Titan, Tina’s bae Richard Lawson, and more…
Eccentric singer/actress Janelle Monae serves as one of five beautiful covergirls for Marie Claire’s May 2017 issue dedicated to female empowerment.
Hitting newsstands April 18, Monae – alongside Aja Naomi King, Emily Ratajkowski, Zoey Deutch, and Alexandra Daddario – struck their fiercest poses inside the pages of the mag that crowned them the ‘fresh faces of 2017.’
Each lending her thoughts on how ‘The Future is Female,’ tuck in to not only see more pics from the shoot, but see the behind the scenes footage as well:
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon continue to serve as a shining example of commendable co-parents.
The pair went their separate ways in 2015 after five years of marriage. Yet, in the time since, they’ve made a point to spend time as a unit with their adorable twins Monroe and Moroccan.
Easter 2017 is one of such occasions.
Taking to social media, Mimi shared a shot of the Carey-Cannon family coloring their eggs. The snap comes a week after news hit that she and dancer Bryan Tanaka have parted after five months “together.”
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Kudos to she and Nick for doing well by their kids. Maturity at its finest.
During Destiny’s Child run, the many line-up’s have blessed the masses with many a classic gem. This week’s From The Vault hailed by many as their defining song. Today we salute ‘Say My Name.’
Rumor has it the ladies hated the song in its initial form, saying that there was too much happening on the track. It was only after reworking by its producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins that track evolved into a favorite of theirs.
Penned by the group’s original lineup, the song was serviced as the third offering from their sophomore set ‘The Writing’s On The Wall.’ After hitting #1 in the U.S. and Australia and scoring Top 5 placing in the U.K. and Canada, ‘Say My Name’ was considered a pivotal moment for R&B music and turned the band into a household name.
But with all this success came a dose of drama…
The music video for ‘Say My Name’ featured the second incarnation of Destiny’s Child, which saw Michelle Williams and Farrah Franklin replacing LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson.
According to Luckett and Roberson – who had asked for separate management because of perceived favoritism from manager and Beyonce’s dad, Mathew Knowles, they didn’t know they were out of the group. Not until ‘Say My Name’s simultaneous premiere on MTV and BET in February 2000. A press release announcing the lineup change sealed their fate.
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Directed by Joseph Kahn, it presented the four members in color-coded moving sets. In most of the clip, the girls can be seen posing instead of dancing as a result of having no time to learn the song’s choreography.
Looking back, it’s nothing short of miraculous DC came out of this scotfree as it remains one of the most soap-opera like dramas Pop culture has witnessed. Talk about being a survivor. Still, one thing must be said about Destiny’s Child: no matter who was in the group, talent has always been its defining feature. It’s no surprise, then, why they would go on to become one of the most iconic acts of all time.
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off in California yesterday ushering in a buffet of stars.
Struggling to keep with up the stream of snaps flowing in from its sun-kissed location?
Fret not, for we’ve got you covered!
Solange, Katy Perry Branden Miller, The Weeknd and more below…
The actor/singer Tyrese has apologised to the world after it slammed his latest verbal assault on women.
Often criticised for overlooking problems created by men when sharing his thoughts on relationships, the gifted star took to social media hours ago to ask for forgiveness when his latest remarks threatened to derail his brand and promotion for his new ‘Fast & Furious‘ movie venture.
Because I’m gonna tell you all right now, and this might be harsh. Sluts, skeezers, hoes, tramps and overly aggressive promiscuous women, they are never without a man because they don’t have no standards. They ready to have sex with any and everything that want to have sex with them. But when you are single, and you actually love yourself, you know your value and your self worth you hold out until God sends you whats yours.
So sometimes they be talking mess to women that are single but I have a respect for them because if you’re single and you might say, “I’ve been single for a couple years,” what ever the case may be, you actually holding out because you have your value. You have women that are active out in these streets, they going to lunches and dinners every night. Private planes, mega yachts, it’s cracking. They’re never without. However, it comes with a cost, you gonna put a lot of miles on yourself down there, come on.
How he feels about it all now?
For the record, I’m far from a misogynist, a male chauvinist, or flat out mean. My intentions were there, but my delivery f—ing horrible. And clearly all the way off. And for that I sincerely apologize to all of the ladies. Please accept this as my sincere apology for my poor choice of words — s— gets real when it goes from a social media dragging to my own wife giving me the side eye and coming at me. Even she’s not happy with the way I’ve conducted myself. I apologize as a man first for the things that I’ve recently said about choices women have the right to make, for the terms that I’ve used, and the way I’ve come across. I was raised to think and feel certain ways, and I’m learning new things that combat those messages,” he added. “I am not perfect or all-knowing, nor am I the one to claim to be. I’ve learned things through experience which I share, and through these last couple of weeks, I’ve learned a lot through this well-deserved internet dragging. This is about a man owning up to his actions, taking responsibility, recognizing how to do better, and actually doing better. Ladies you deserve better.
Just hours after releasing surprise new single ‘The Cure,’ Lady Gaga has found herself in a position to which she has become accustomed – #1.
The Pop force has stormed to the top of the US iTunes tally with the track, which has received a potently positive response since being debuted live at Coachella.
Produced by Nick Monson, the rousing production also sits atop of the pack on UK iTunes. In doing so, it dethrones the seemingly unshakable Harry Styles in the process.
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The arrival and early success of ‘Cure’ is fascinating.
Indeed, not only was it totally unexpected, it re-writes the usual “what is the next single from the album” narrative.
Gaga is still in-cycle for her ‘Joanne’ LP and sets sail on a tour to support the set in August, and yet ‘The Cure’ is not featured on the project.
Could it be a re-release track? A standalone track to plug the tour? Or the launch of something different?
The latter doesn’t seem far-fetched. After all, Gaga mastered this with ‘The Fame’ and ‘Fame Monster’ mixed, meshed eras almost a decade ago.
Whatever the case, we’re buzzed.
‘The Cure’ is the most mainstream, Pop-pleasing song she’s released in years and should go someway in satisfying all corners of the public.
It sounds like a smash in waiting. It’ll be interesting to see whether its success sustains.
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