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The Roots and Live Nation Urban have announced the stacked lineup for the 2023 edition of the Roots Picnic festival. Diddy, Lil Uzi Vert, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Dave Chappelle, Ari Lennox, City Girls, Lucky Daye, GloRilla, Little Brother, DVSN, and many more are set to hit the stage. The two-day event will be going down in Philadelphia at The Mann in Fairmount Park on Saturday and Sunday, June […]
Dave Chappelle took a break from peddling transphobia over the weekend to pass off dunking on fired Twitter employees and those less privileged than him as “comedy,” all while a crowd hurled boos at Elon Musk. In footage from a stand-up show that’s been making the rounds, Chappelle is seen welcoming Musk to the stage. […]
Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue on Saturday Night Live has been accused of normalizing anti-Semitism. After the episode aired this weekend, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized NBC for platforming Chappelle, who used his monologue to address Kanye West and Kyrie Irving’s recent anti-Semitism. “We shouldn’t expect Dave Chappelle to serve as society’s moral compass, but disturbing to […]
Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend, marking his third appearance since he made his first trip to the late-night sketch comedy series in 2016. Chappelle opened the show with a monologue that touched on the recent controversies surrounding Kanye West and Kyrie Irving. “Kanye got in so much trouble Kyrie got in trouble. Kyrie Irving […]
Black Star made another career milestone on SNL. Earlier this year, the duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey released their second album No Fear of Time on Luminary, which was their first piece of new music in 24 years after their seminal album Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star in 1998. Talib and […]
Dave Chappelle is hosting SNL tonight, regardless of the news cycle. After the announcement that Chappelle would be hosting SNL for the third time with Black Star as his musical guest, a report circulated that SNL writers were staging a boycott ahead of the live episode. However, a rep for Chappelle told CNN in a […]
Ahead of their performance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, Black Star have shared the music video for their Madlib-produced track “So Be It.” The black-and-white video for the track shows the two reuniting for a recent string of concerts in support of their second album No Fear of Time, which they finally shared after over two […]
Fat Joe is getting the full theatrical treatment. On Friday, the Terror Squad rapper announced he will hit the stage for one-man show based on his upcoming memoir The Book of Jose. The stand-up event will include unfiltered, never-before-heard anecdotes about Joe’s life and career, such as his prison stint nearly a decade ago and the time he […]
The episode of Drink Champs featuring Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, collectively known as Black Star, as well as Dave Chappelle, has finally arrived. According to Page Six, the Drink Champs website teased the arrival of the episode in late May, but it was ultimately shelved at the request of the comedian and his team. Black Star stopped by […]
Kevin Hart took to Instagram earlier today to reflect on his show Saturday night with Chris Rock at Madison Square Garden in New York City, calling it “by far the best moment of my career.” Hart reached that conclusion after Dave Chappelle showed up unannounced to open for the two stand-up legends. According to Deadline, the audience was surprised to see […]
