Pharrell Williams‘ foray into the film industry has proven to be effective.

Since penning ‘Happy,’ the infectious theme song set to the animated film ‘Despicable Me 2,‘ the super producer has found himself in the comfortable seat as a household name.

But throughout his quarter century career, Pharrell’s personal life and upbringing in Virginia Beach has always been a mystery of some sort.

That’s all set to change soon, though. Because the 43 year-old has reunited with FOX, the studio he worked with on the Oscar-nominated ‘Hidden Figures,‘ for a film based on his childhood.

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John Legend is hitting the road.

The Grammy and Oscar winner is bringing his latest album ‘Darkness and Light’ to audiences across the globe.

Aptly, the trek has been christened the ‘Darkness & Light Tour.’

Released last December, the set yielded moderate hit ‘Love Me Now’ and upcoming single ‘Surefire.’

Since the LP’s roll-out,  Legend more omnipresent than ever. Indeed, there’s been the high profile performances, lucrative synch deals for a number of songs from the project, and a sizeable role in box office blockbuster ‘La La Land.’

He also recently teamed with Ariana Grande for a remake of the ‘Beauty & The Beast’ theme song.

In an industry less defined by the charts than before, he continues to prove that success is relative and winning comes in many flavours.

Anyway, enough of our rambling. Initial dates await below…

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Last month, R&B group Cherish re-emerged to present the news of new music, and now, as promised, the ladies return with their new single ‘Self Destruction.’

Rising to prominence during Atlanta’s snap music era (see Dem Franchize Boys, D4L, and Soulja Boy) the former quartet found success with ‘Do It To It‘ from its parent album ‘Unappreciated.‘ Success which privileged the ladies an impressive #4 spot on the Billboard 200.

Now, with their ’06 run in the rearview, the group are back as a duo to push ‘Destruction,’ a follow up single to ‘One Time,’ released earlier this month.

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Disney doesn’t believe Will Smith is worth the $20 million he asked to be paid to play in their forthcoming ‘Dumbo‘ movie.

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The Real Housewives Of Atlanta is back for its 9th season. And despite almost a decade on-air, the Bravo smash is losing none of its sassy steam.

Already delivering on its promise of shady twists and turns, the latest outing of the ensemble title is proving a must-see.

Want to know what Phaedra, Kenya, Kandi, Cynthia, Porsha, and Sheree will be serving up on episode 19 / season 9?

Watch a sneak peek below to find out out below…

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With over 10 million albums sold worldwide En Vogue stands as one of the highest-selling acts to impact Pop and R&B.

This year, they are to impact the United Kingdom with a brand new live show set to lead the way for their long-awaited new album.

What they had to say about it all when we caught up with them recently?

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‘Blues Brothers‘ is to be rebooted and Rihanna, should its producer have his way, will lead the way.

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It looks like her music career isn’t the only thing Letoya Luckett is bringing ‘Back To Life.’

In addition to scoring a recurring role on FOX’s hit show, ‘Rosewood,’ Luckett has reportedly joined the all-star cast of USA Network’s ‘Unsolved’ – a scripted series based on the murder investigations of late rap icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.

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From “Harajuku Barbie” to “Harajuku Bondage,” Nicki Minaj leaves little to the imagination in her recently revealed dominatrix-inspired ninja costume, one of many she’ll don in David Guetta‘s ‘Light My Body Up’ visual.

As the Lil Wayne-assisted song, unveiled March 22nd, continues to light up streaming and digital download charts, Minaj thought to turn the heat up on anticipation for its accompanying music video by taking to Instagram to show off some wardrobes from the set.

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As the April 22nd premiere date of HBO’s biographical film ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ draws nearer you can expect to see its stars, media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Renee Elise Goldsberry, hitting the promo trail in its support.

Their first stop comes inside and a-front April 2017’s ‘Essence’ magazine.

There, the beauties not only light up the pages of the mag in their pristine white ensembles, but they also take viewers behind the scenes to dish on the film and its historical significance.

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Nabbing 2016’s best-selling release in the form of his blockbuster LP, ‘Views,’ was quite the double edged sword for rapper Drake.  On one hand, the Grammy-nominated set laid claim to the impressive title by beating out some of music’s biggest names (Beyonce, Rihanna, Kanye West, etc), but on the other hand the pressure was on its successor to match or surpass its impressive stats.

Now, after a full tracking week of his latest effort – ‘More Life’ – it appears the challenge was met head on.

As we reported here, the playlist was predicted to be greeted with sales equivalence of no less than 500k – a feat achieved by unprecedented streams.  In fact, reports have it the 6 God’s latest effort has been streamed over 380 million times worldwide (yes, that’s 50 million more than the record-setting ‘Views’).  With streaming and impressive sales together, ‘More’ has not only secured the rapper the best first week sales of the year, but his “playlist album” is the second best-selling project released this year overall.

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Trey Songz felt the sting of Nicki Minaj’s swarm of fans after critiquing the rapper in a recent interview.

Speaking on The Breakfast Club, the R&B playboy implied that Minaj’s guest feature on his song ‘Bottoms Up’ helped propel her career to new levels (and heights ironically higher than his).

He also took aim at Onika for coming at him after Remy Ma suggested he bedded her in the diss track heard around the world – ’Shether.’

Now, the head Barbz in charge is biting back. Albeit subtlety.

See what we mean below…

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