Tag: Music

Michael Jackson was married twice but never to Beyoncé. According to his former bodyguard Matt Fiddes, Jackson had a crush on Beyoncé and would have married her if he could have.

Actor Brandon L. Smith stars as Pharus in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy at Actor's Express in Atlanta. Smith never felt the need to come out to his family, simply existing as his authentic self. He found the role particularly meaningful, stating it represents the fullness of who he is as a Black queer man. The gospel music and Negro spirituals throughout the show feel like honoring ancestors. Director Amanda Washington describes the music as a warm blanket, speaking to contemporary civil rights issues and how communities break free from constraints.

Black artists have spent generations creating valuable music catalogs, but ownership has often been complicated. T-Pain recently sold his publishing catalog and master rights to HarbourView Equity Partners for an estimated $100 million. He explained that streaming devalued music from a dollar per song to fractions of a cent per play without artist consent, so selling secured his family's future. This trend includes Tina Turner, Future, and Dr. Dre selling catalogs for substantial sums. While selling represents a personal business decision, the broader conversation should focus on ensuring artists have knowledge and power to control their created work and benefit from their legacy.

She's rockin' yellow, and her breakout song was also yellow. Love & Hip-Hop: New York was her entrance into superstardom and today she performs internationally. If you wanted to, you could untie the bikini babe in question.

Sean Diddy Combs paid between seven to eight million dollars to his high-powered legal team over nearly two years of his federal criminal case. His attorneys included Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Brian Steel, and Nicole Westmoreland, dating back to his September 2024 arrest. For most people this would be staggering, but Diddy reportedly has hundreds of millions in the bank.

Here's Rihanna just twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerking all over A$AP Rocky while partying in her home country of Barbados! The Grammy winner bent over and got low as she moved up on her man as they celebrated at what appeared to be a nightclub Tuesday night.