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The BET Awards have kicked off once again to remind us that—while keeping up with award winners is a must—there’s nowhere else you’ll be seeing Griselda and Migos on the same stage.  As winners collect their trophies throughout the big night, honoring some of hip-hop and R&B’s brightest stars, all eyes will still be glued […]

H.E.R. shut down a troll who claimed that the Grammy Award-winning singer has no hit songs. “You have no hits,” the Twitter user wrote. H.E.R. came with receipts, firing back “thanks for asking” and posting images of her records that became RIAA platinum and gold-certified in 2020 and 2021, among them her 2018 collaboration with Khalid, “This Way” and her 2019 song […]

Things are heating up in music as we get deeper into the summer. This week, Tyler, the Creator dropped “Lumberjack,” a hard-hitting track from his forthcoming album Call Me If You Get Lost. Vince Staples has returned with his new record “Law of Averages.” And Don Toliver linked up with Kali Uchis for their hazy […]

Fresh off being enlisted to put together a special Dunbar Hotel-honoring performance for Amazon’s Prime Day Show special, H.E.R. has released her new full-length album Back of My Mind. The new album, the Grammy and Oscar winner’s first full-length since the 2019 compilation I Used to Know Her, arrives exactly one week after the reflective […]

It’s hard to imagine, but apparently H.E.R., Kehlani, and Zendaya were almost in a band together. In a virtual interview with Carlos Watson, H.E.R. casually disclosed this information while speaking on musicians she had met while growing up in the Cali music scene. “Dylan Wiggins, who is D’Wayne Wiggins’s son from Tony! Toni! Toné! – we used to be […]

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 […]

Following a premiere earlier this month as part of the mid-pandemic 2021 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah—starring Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield—is out today in select theaters and on HBO Max. Accompanying the film’s multi-platform release is the arrival of Judas and the Black Messiah: The Inspired […]

Barack Obama took to social media Saturday to share his favorite tracks of 2020. The the 30-song list includes a diverse mix of chart-toppers hits and indie cuts, and covers a wide range of genres, including everything from rap and R&B to rock and reggaeton to country and pop. Obama admitted to his followers that the well-rounded list was curated with the […]

Roots Picnic 2020 is taking place on the virtual stage. Earlier this month, organizers announced the in-person event had been postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Though this was disappointing news, many were pleased to hear that the festival had pivoted to a virtual experience that would also serve as a voter registration drive. Former first lady Michelle Obama was […]

H.E.R. is back with the official video for “Slide” featuring YG. Directed by Mike Ho, the video serves as a love letter to the Bay Area, where the singer-songwriter was born and raised. We see shots of H.E.R.’s hometown of Vallejo, the West Oakland Station, the iconic Grand Lake Theater, as well as a nod to the […]