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On Monday Hasbro, as in the toymaker Hasbro, said it was selling the music business of Entertainment One for $385 million cash to investment firm Blackstone, according to Deadline. Hasbro’s brands include: My Little Pony, Transformers, Monopoly, Peppa Pig, and lots of other stuff. Well, actually that would be the broad way of putting it. More precisely, Hasbro will sell eOne […]
The phrase “these trying times” has been so over-used it’s passed right through meaninglessness and into self-parody—a stock phrase that now feels too crass to even to slap onto the bottom of a low-effort marketing campaign. The sad and frustrating truth, however, is that it remains true, which is of course something you can say about most […]
Grimes defended Elon Musk, a.k.a. her boyfriend and the father of her child, after some TikTok users took it upon themselves to question why she was in a relationship with him. As reported by Us Magazine, the completely normal questions for strangers to ask came Sunday after the 33-year-old singer put up a video of herself learning […]
Last week, emerging singer Rmarni released her first ever single, “So High”, a hazy but buoyant piece of R&B for the poolside, and today she returns with the track’s visuals. The song came about after a chance meeting with John Legend and Rihanna producer Circa ’95 in Los Angeles and is supposedly the first of many. To […]
If you’re even remotely familiar with the state of Georgia, then you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the infamous Fulton County Jail. Earlier this year, for example, a report from regional news outlet WSB-TV found that the facility was over capacity by an estimated 400 inmates, resulting in conditions described by one Atlanta councilman […]
An official teaser for Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Questlove’s documentary on 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, which was also known as the Black Woodstock, has been released. Searchlight Pictures and Hulu also announced that the doc will hit both movie theaters and the streaming platform on July 2. It will stream internationally on […]
Glenn Close might not have won Best Supporting Actress at the 93rd Oscars for her role as Bonnie “Mamaw” Vance in Hillbilly Elegy but she did win audiences over with her seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of movie soundtrack history. Close showed off said knowledge when Questlove played Experience Unlimited’s 1988 track “Da Butt” from the soundtrack for Spike Lee’s film School Daze […]
It seems like DJ Khaled’s next album Khaled Khaled is going to be rife with bangers. The DJ and producer revealed on Instagram that he was in “album mode” on Friday when he didn’t pick up a FaceTime call from Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. Khaled posted a screenshot of Timberlake and Bieber, writing, “I’m […]
Hip-hop was served another blow earlier this week when Shock G passed away at the age of 57. Artists, musicians, friends, and collaborators took to the internet to mourn the Digital Underground co-founder’s death. On Friday, an unpublished essay of Shock G’s found its way to Twitter. In the tweet, writer Rob Tannenbaum explains that while […]
H.E.R. and Chris Brown came together to create their new sultry duet, “Come Through,” on Friday. Both of the artists have been teasing this single for quite a while. In fact, Breezy went as far as to declare “Come Through” the “song of the summer” to his Instagram followers. Although it’s still early, the single […]
