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Canadian rap legend Kardinal Offishall announced today he’s joining Def Jam as their latest Global A&R, where he’ll be working alongside CEO Tunji Balogun and executive VP LaTrice Burnette. He revealed the news on his Instagram page. Kardinal’s role will allow him to scout and subsequently sign talent from all across the world. “I feel incredibly blessed […]
Damar Hamlin has been discharged from the hospital a week after the Buffalo Bills safety collapsed on the field after suffering a cardiac arrest. ESPN’s Adam Schefter confirmed that Hamlin is leaving his Cincinnati hospital and heading back to Buffalo just a few days after his breathing tube was removed and he began talking to his teammates again. […]
Rolling Loud—one of the finest hip-hop-led festivals going—is heading out to Thailand in April this year for the first time and they’ve just announced Travis Scott will headline the festival. It’s a time of huge growth for the festival, which just wrapped up its Miami edition; last year, they launched their first-ever Canadian edition and made […]
SZA’s long-awaited album SOS has remained at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for its fourth consecutive week, Billboard reports. SOS is the first album to spend its first four weeks in the No. 1 spot since Adele’s 30 stuck around for six weeks from Dec. 4, 2021 to Jan. 8, 2022. It’s also the first […]
At least 1,200 protesters were arrested in Brazil after they stormed government buildings in Brasília in support of former president Jair Bolsonaro, per The New York Times. On Sunday, thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former far-right president stormed the Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential offices in the country’s capital. The supporters of Bolsonaro, who is currently in Florida, […]
Penn Badgley returns as Joe Goldberg, new life in tow, in a just-released trailer for the upcoming fourth season of the Netflix hit You. While Joe, now in London, appears to still be wrestling with the persistently life-complicating demons of his past, he’s also experiencing a bit of a flip in that a wealthy-targeting killer […]
11-year-old Autistic boy Jude Kofie, who is a prodigious musical talent, was recently surprised with a $15,000 grand piano that was gifted to him by a stranger who heard him play. Per CBS News, Aurora, Colorado piano tuner Bill Magnusson was made aware of Jude’s talents after a local news story that went viral last year. He […]
Ron Jeremy is set to be declared incompetent to stand trial, per a new report. As first reported by the Los Angeles Times, the 69-year-old adult film star—who was initially charged with allegedly raping three women and sexually assaulting another woman in June 2020—has been determined to have “severe dementia.” The report cites an email […]
THE IMPACT… Raj Kapone: Any youth culture movement is gonna get eyed up by brands because it gives them direct access to the kids and what they want. The developing nature of the grime scene meant that anyone involved around the beginning was on the inside looking out, so, naturally, we were the ones […]
Ari Fletcher has expressed her frustration with G Herbo, who recently admitted to being unfaithful to his ex during their relationship. During a recent interview with Yung Miami on an episode of the City Girls’ podcast Caresha Please, Herbo was asked if he cheated on Fletcher with his current fiancée, Taina Williams. “Am I a cheater? Naw, I wouldn’t say I’m […]
