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Justin Bieber is taking break from the Justice Tour to focus on his health.  Bieber took to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday to announce the news. A month ago the pop star resumed touring after revealing in June that he had been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. In his announcement on IG, Bieber mentioned the illness as the reason […]

YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s prolific run continues, as the Baton Rouge rapper returns with his new project Realer 2. A sequel to his 2018 mixtape Realer, the 15-track effort is out now exclusively on YouTube. Realer 2 comes on the heels of the recently released single “Purge Me,” which YoungBoy dropped over the weekend before announcing […]

Brendan Fraser’s body-transforming turn in A24’s Darren Aronofsky film The Whale garnered huge praise at the Venice Film Festival, and his fellow The Mummy Returns actor Dwayne Johnson—who himself was unsettlingly transformed into a scorpi-human in that one—joined in the celebration on Twitter. Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh posted a video on Sunday, since viewed 16 million times, showing a […]

Gucci has joined forces with Billie Eilish for its new 2022 eyewear campaign. The fashion house announced the launch alongside a video directed by Harley Weir, which finds Eilish modeling the line while driving a retro car around the Hollywood Hills. The clip features the 20-year-old hitmaker donning caravan sunglasses in black acetate with a gold-toned Gucci script logo, while […]

Juul has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle an investigation by dozens of states into the company’s marketing of its e-cigarette products, which have been blamed for an increase in vaping among teenagers across the U.S.  As reported by the Associated Press, Juul has agreed to pay $438.5 million in a settlement following a two-year investigation […]

Joyner Lucas paid a visit to Hot 97 this week to drop an impressive freestyle for Funk Flex. The session was inspired by Joyner’s 2015 track “Backwords,” which featured the Worcester, Massachusetts rapper spitting his bars in forward and reverse. In the same vein, Lucas delivered a “backwards” freestyle for Funk Flex—who previously challenged Joyner to […]

Chris Rock isn’t buying Will Smith’s recent apology video, which saw the King Richard star discuss the infamous Oscars slap incident for the first time since sharing his initial apology statement back in March. According to Deadline, Rock addressed Will’s apology video, which the actor posted on YouTube in July, during a performance alongside Dave Chappelle at London’s O2 Arena on […]

HDBeenDope has formally joined the Roc Nation family. Tuesday, the Brooklyn artist officially announced his signing to Roc Nation, saying in a statement that “serendipity” played a pivotal role on his path to signing with Jay-Z. “I’m a writer and artist from Brooklyn signed to Hov. Those of you who love hip-hop like I do […]

Top Gun: Maverick—which has now been in theaters for over three months—continued its box office dominance over the weekend, all while simultaneously doing the same on VOD. Indeed, per the latest Box Office Mojo update, the Tom Cruise-led critical and commercial juggernaut is now the fifth-highest grossing film in domestic box office history at more […]

Clark Yarbrough, a senior defensive lineman at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas, has died following a “sudden collapse.” Yarbrough was 21 years old. Ouachita Baptist University, home to the Tigers, a Division II football program, took to Twitter on Sunday to announce the tragic news. “Today the Ouachita community mourns the loss of senior Clark Yarbrough, […]