Disney/Stewart Cook Among the festivities going down over Super Bowl weekend is the 26th annual Super Bowl Soulful Celebration, taking place on Saturday. The concert, deemed “the ONLY inspirational music event sanctioned by the NFL for Super Bowl weekend,” brings together NFL stars and music artists for an evening of joy and praise. This year’s lineup…
Photo by Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images Friday would have been the 51st birthday of J Dilla, known for producing songs for De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Common and more, but now it’s also J Dilla Day in Detroit. “Words cannot describe how grateful we are for this declaration,” his daughter Ja’Mya Yancey said at…
Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage Among the projects announced as part of the Record Store Day lineup Thursday is a new album by Wu-Tang Clan and Mathematics. Mathematics, who produced the entire record, explained the inspiration for the title, Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: From The Wu-Tang, the Saga Continues Collection. “Well, the album has a certain…
H.E.R. plays instruments on a rerecording of Bruce Springsteen‘s “Born to Run,” featured in a Super Bowl ad for Dove. “Partnering with Dove on this project means the world to me,” she says. “I hope this movement inspires young girls to continue to love what they see in the mirror, stay in sports, and believe…
Dave Free Kendrick Lamar‘s latest album, GNX, is now on vinyl. Ahead of his highly anticipated Super Bowl performance Sunday, the album, which he surprised fans with in November, is now available in a variety of formats. Fans can choose between a 180g black or white vinyl, only available on K. Dot’s store; an indie-exclusive in…
Theo Wargo/WireImage Looks like we won’t be seeing that long-in-the-works Prince docuseries. A post on Prince’s Instagram account has confirmed that the planned six-part series has been canceled. “The Prince estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,” read…
1501 Certified Entertainment / 300 Entertainment Albums by Wu-Tang Clan, Megan Thee Stallion and Snoop Dogg are part of the lineup for Record Store Day 2025. Available on April 12 will be copies of Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman: Wu-Tang and The Saga Continues Collection by Wu Tang and producer Mathematics. It’s their first new album in…
Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for EBONY Audible released Usher‘s episode of Words + Music Thursday. In The Last Showman, Usher delves into his life and career, discussing how he developed his onstage presence when he was 12 years old. “I was a defiant artist, man. You know? My mother, she signed me up for talent shows around town and…
Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images All eyes will be on Kendrick Lamar when he takes the field for his Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, but in an interview with Apple Music, he admits the Super Bowl stage was not something he had his sights set on. “I wasn’t thinking about no Super Bowl … we was thinking the…
Paramount Pictures Rihanna is, as she describes it, in her “blue era,” playing Smurfette, the self-described “coolest Smurf in the village” in the new live-action/animated movie Smurfs. In a newly released trailer for this iteration of the beloved franchise film, Papa Smurf, played by John Goodman, is kidnapped by the evil wizards Razamel and Gargamel,…
