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Amid continued discussions surrounding post-release lyrical and compositional tweaks to what will surely go down as one of the biggest and most acclaimed albums of the year (i.e. Beyoncé’s Renaissance), Monica Lewinsky has entered the conversation. On Monday, Lewinsky tweeted out a Variety article focused on a lyric from the album some had considered to […]

While Stranger Things remains an indisputably massive property for Netflix, with its upcoming final season sure to extend that dominance, the latest batch of the Duffer Brothers’ supersized-blockbuster has been determined to have fallen short of the initial viewership numbers needed to best a certain Squid Game record. Per Variety, the split-release strategy for Stranger […]

With the fourth and final season of Atlanta set to premiere on Sept. 15, Donald and Stephen Glover appeared at the show’s TCA Press Tour on Tuesday, where the pair discussed the criticism from people in the Black community who believe the FX series is “only for white people.” “To be real, if you’re online, everybody’s gonna have […]

A mother in New Jersey has accused a Chuck E. Cheese employee of racial discrimination. Natyana Muhammad took to her Twitter account @belllahijabi to call out a worker wearing a mascot suit for snubbing her excited 2-year-old daughter, who is Black. A video shows the girl being passed over by the mascot as he gives out several high fives to a group of […]

An interpolation of “Milkshake” has been removed from Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance after Kelis spoke out about not being contacted during the writing process. The original version of “Energy” featured Beyoncé singing a variation of the iconic “la-la, la-la, la” that Kelis croons on the pre-chorus of her 2003 Neptunes-produced hit. As reported by Rolling Stone, Apple Music and Tidal have since […]

Batgirl, the DC film that was scheduled to be released on HBO Max later this year, has been shelved.  The Wrap reports Warner Bros. Discovery will no longer be releasing the Leslie Grace-starring feature, which was directed by Bad Boys for Life filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who also just turned in excellent work on Ms. Marvel. The announcement […]

Dev Patel helped break up a knife fight in Australia on Monday night. 7News reports the 32-year-old intervened when a physical altercation erupted between a man and woman at a convenience store in Adelaide. The incident resulted in the woman stabbing the man, who is expected to survive. Patel stepped in to de-escalate the situation, and footage of the Slumdog Millionaire star speaking with law […]

Over a month after releasing his 11th No. 1 album Honestly, Nevermind, Drake returns with a music video for one of the standout tracks, “Sticky.” The Theo Skudra-directed visual includes footage of Drake in the woods and partying on a boat, with a big spotlight for the Virgil Abloh-designed off-road Maybach. In a shoutout to the incarcerated Young Thug, Gunna, and […]

Chris Rock’s Everybody Hates Chris will be reimagined as an animated series to be released via Paramount+ and Comedy Central. Announced Tuesday, Everybody Still Hates Chris is billed as a “reimagined animated version” of the Tyler James Williams-starring original, which aired for four seasons starting in 2005. “Chris Rock is one of the most gifted comedians […]

California has become the latest state to declare a state of emergency in response to the monkeypox outbreak.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the declaration on Monday as the state recently eclipsed 800 monkeypox cases, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The declaration will allow California to deploy personnel from the Emergency Medical Services […]