Despite setbacks, Keke Palmer continues her bid for the princess R&B crown.
The ‘Scream Queens’ actress previously released her ‘Waiting to Exhale’ album via Soundcloud, but the debut project failed intrigue the ears of music lovers due to its kids bop skew and undeveloped vocals.
Eager to launch a functioning music career, the 23-year-old has released a 5-track EP named ‘Lauren.’ It’s aim? To open the gates of vulnerability.
Taking its title from the Chicago-native’s first name, ‘Lauren’ aims to introduce the masses to the multi-faceted star’s charismatic personality and her journey of self-discovery.
Taking her cue from various artist who have released projects this year, Palmer accompanies the EP with a 16-minute visual that paints the mood of each track.
After fending off some racists traditional country fans for their fearless leader, Beyonce, they zeroed in on country star Kenny Chesneyfor looking visibly displeased during the Queen Bey’s performance. Once done with him the fan group turned their sights to ‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dashfor slamming Beyonce’s mom, Tina Lawson.
Now, ‘American Idol’ finalist La’Porsha Renae is seeking treatment from bee stings as the #Beyhive have locked in on her for damning Bey’s country showing.
As emails published by Wikileaks continue to cast a confusing shadow over Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, the artist Azealia Banks has urged African-American voters to ask themselves on question.
T.I. has been one of the names notable for their efforts in raising awareness of racial injustice.
Hence, it’s little surprise that the King of the South is none-too-impressed with Lil Wayne‘s recent comments regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.
As reported, Weezy publicly disassociated himself from the initiative – declaring that he could not relate because he was rich, addding that he believed racism was no longer a reality. He cited the diverse nature of his audience as his rationale.
Solange has been receiving rave reviews for her new album ‘A Seat At The Table,’ yet her journey to emancipation started five years ago.
This week’s From The Vault journeys back to 2008, a time when the rising star released her first single in 5 years.
Today’s pick is retro number ‘I Decided’.
Serviced as the first single from Solo’s sophomore set ‘Sol-Angel And The Hadley St. Dreams,’ the track was produced by the mighty Neptunes and sampled the iconic handclaps from The Supremes’ ‘Where Did Our Love Go.’
In the US, the cut performed moderately well on the Billboard Hot Hip-Hop/R&B peaking at #44.
For its European incarnation, the throwback cut received a sonic facelift by British DJs The Freemasons which allowed it to access the UK and France’s Top 30 as well as Ireland’s Top 50.
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Acclaimed director and family friend Melina Matsoukas directed the cut’s video which retraced different eras in Pop culture. Travelling through time, the talented songbird can be seen as part of a Supremes-like ensemble performing during the Civil Right Movement era, as a Disco queen on Soul Train, an 80’s popstar in the MTV generation, and finally romancing a love interest in the future.
With its vivid vibrancy and use of pop art, the visual shared similarities with Rihanna’s ‘Rude Boy’ which was released a year later and was also directed by Matsoukas.
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We’ve long been rooting for Ms. Knowles – ever since ‘Hadley St. Dreams’ days. As such, we couldn’t be more amped about seeing her finally getting the recognition she deserves. What’s interesting with ‘A Seat At The Table’ is that its material isn’t far removed from what Solange has been servicing already for years.
Hopefully, the buzz surrounding the project won’t be temporary and will only allow Knowles to expand the conversation with her newly recruited supporters.
In there here and now, though, congrats to Solange for breaking through. At long last.
Still flying high on the critical acclaim of her tertiary opus, ‘A Seat at the Table,’ soulful songbird Solange delivered her debut performance on ‘SNL’ tonight (as previously announced here).
Showing off her oft-praised pipes, the singer/songwriter unveiled the first televised showing of hit songs ‘Cranes in the Sky’ & ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ – both found on ‘Table’ (which hit #1 the week of its release).
Keen to judge how the youngest of the Knowles clan fared on the sketch comedy show? Her performance awaits you below:
If you thought all this CMA mess was keeping the #Beyhive too busy to detect other infractions against their pop icon leader, Beyonce, you – much like ‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dash – thought wrong.
That’s right, the FOX news puppet got her strings and her wig tugged at after she took to Twitter yesterday to diss Bey’s mom, Tina Lawson, for comments the fashion designer made about the hit 90’s film on social media. Taking direct offense to said comments, Dash dashed to her oft-controversial blog to “clap back.” The move set off a bevy of Beyhive stings, many of which are still happening right now.
Blac Chyna‘s career title may be ambiguous, but her feelings for Wendy Williams aren’t.
The reality staple has taken offence at some of the comments the former shock-jock made about her relationship with Rob Kardashian.
Since the onset of their “romance,” Williams has shadily cheered Chyna on for playing the Kardashian clan at their own game. Namely, getting pregnant, cashing in, and upping her profile.
Well, it appears Wendy’s latest comments were the last straw.
After a series of delays, Alicia Keys finally unleashed her sixth album ‘HERE’ yesterday.
It’s been a rocky road for the former chart-force. Indeed, despite routinely rocking the album tally with previous efforts, recent times have seen her struggle to jump start this campaign.
“Lead” single ‘In Common’ failed to chart on the Hot 100 earlier this year and a proper follow-up has yet to materialise; the latter being surprising given that the song has been relegated to an international bonus track on ‘HERE.’
Still, on the merit of her name, Keys has remained in the spotlight – appearing as a coach on ‘The Voice’ and booking a number of promotional spots.
How has all of this impacted the performance of the LP?
Country star Kenny Chesney may have the #1 album in the U.S. right now, but for the last three days he’s also been #1 on another tally: the Beyhive hitlist.
Indeed, during Beyonce‘s controversy inciting performance with the Dixie Chicks at this year’s CMAs the camera panned to Chesney in the audience who seemed visibly uncomfortable. The look of displeasure on his face during the ‘Daddy Lessons’ showing not only became the subject of many-a-meme, but also the catalyst for a brutal Twitter attack filled with death threats, attacks on his sexuality, personal life, and so much more.
Once the onslaught of insults reached a feverish pitch, Chesney took to social media to offer an official statement. Read it below:
