Russell Simmons visited Hot 97’s The Morning Show yesterday to promote his new energy drink and touched on the recent mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina during the sit-down. Asked about what he and other celebrities can do in response to tragedies like this and more general injustices, Simmons offered, “You do the best you can.” “Each of […]
Killer Mike took to Twitter yesterday shortly after a racially-motivated mass murder tore through a church in Charleston, South Carolina and wondered what would have happened had the victims been armed. Doubling down on an “arm the people” politics that he’s long put forth, Mike Tweeted, “I wish those folks in that church had been armed.” The […]
Jay Z seemed to cement his narrative with a single line almost exactly ten years ago. Quoting it has long since been passe and yet he’ll likely never utter another as relevant to his second-act: “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business man,” he raps on the remix to Kanye West’s “Diamonds From Sierra Leone.” In the same verse […]
So this Janet Jackson album is really happening. Like, we-just-got-a-teaser-of-a-new-song happening. In May, Jackson hinted at the album with a short video aptly titled “Announcement” which you can watch at the bottom of this post. Now, we just got what is likely the first snippet from Conversations In A Cafe, the title of the still-mysterious project tentatively due […]
Madonna seems to be betting it all on her latest video, “Bitch I’m Madonna.” The decades-long pop star has been in headlines unfavorably in 2015 after planting a cringe-worthy kiss on Drake at Coachella earlier this year and then embarrassingly falling off a stage during a performance at the Brit Awards in March. (Thankfully, for us at least, […]
Riley Curry took center stage alongside her dad and league MVP Steph Curry last night as the Warriors ended a 40-year drought to win the NBA Championship. Riley set the Internet ablaze throughout the playoffs after a particularly memorable press conference cameo left just about everyone clamoring for more of the two-year old’s on-camera shenanigans over the last […]
On the heels of a four-game suspension that will take effect in the beginning of the 2016 season, Tom Brady doesn’t look like he could care any less about the fiasco in a new series of videos that show him turning up to Migos and Fetty Wap at the team’s Super Bowl ring ceremony last night. Brady wasn’t alone and some of […]
Famed “The American Dream” wrestler Dusty Rhodes has passed away at the age of 69, according to a recent press release from the WWE. Rhodes, whose given name was Virgil Runnels Jr., was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996 after winning the National Wrestling Alliance’s World Heavyweight Championship three times throughout his career. The longtime […]
Kim Kardashian has come a long way. These days she’s “breaking the Internet” with nude photo spreads, sparking legitimate cultural dialogue with her book of selfies, and setting tabloids ablaze with more (and more) baby rumors. Back in 2006 though, Kim was a lot like us commoners getting our MySpace on in the mid-aughts. Now, thanks to US […]
Ornette Coleman, the legendary alto saxophonist and famed “free jazz” innovator, died at the age of 85 in Manhattan this morning, according to The New York Times. The jazz player and composer suffered from a cardiac arrest. Coleman leaves behind a rarely-paralleled legacy in jazz music as one of the main figures responsible for upheaving tradition in the […]
Legendary British actor Sir Christopher Lee passed away at the age of 93 on Sunday following a hospital visit for heart failure, according to The Guardian. Lee is best known among younger fans for playing characters like Saruman the White throughout the The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Count Dooku in 2005’s Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of […]
Pumpkinhead, a veteran of Brooklyn’s underground hip-hop scene, has been reported dead at 39 years old. Commonly known as PH, Pumpkinhead’s given name was Robert Alan Diaz and the emcee appeared prominently on albums from the likes of Immortal Technique and Jean Grae. Pumpkinhead, whose stage name nods to an iconic late ’80s horror film, got his start in the music […]