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Roots Picnic, The Roots and Live Nation Urban Roots Picnic has announced its third annual Roots Picnic Con, taking place at Punchline Philly on May 30, the day before the actual festival. It’s a free event for the community, offering a day of education via conversations and panels covering music education, financial literacy, tech, health and wellness and […]

This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing. Dawn Richard ended her testimony at Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial Monday, after a defense attorney argued she testified because he ruined her music career by dismantling Danity Kane and Diddy Dirty Money, music groups […]

This story may contain accounts and descriptions of actual or alleged events that some readers may find disturbing. Danity Kane and Diddy – Dirty Money member Dawn Richard has returned to the witness stand to continue her testimony from last week in the trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Dawn Richard testified that, before a festival […]

YG is entering a new era of maturation, as heard in his new song “2004.” He uses his platform as a rapper to open up about an experience he’s learned is quite common for men in the Black community: being a victim of sexual abuse. YG tells ABC News Live he was sexually assaulted by a […]

7 Wallace La di da Di. Slick Rick likes to party, but he apparently also likes to make some music. Twenty-six years after releasing his last album, The Ruler will make his return with Victory, a visual album set to arrive on June 13. Slick worked on the album for four years, writing and recording it […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC The Weeknd sat for his first-ever interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night and credited Tom Cruise‘s appearance on the show back in 2015 with boosting his career. Cruise took part in the ongoing “Lip-Sync Battle” segment of the program, performing Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” and calling the singer “enormously talented.” “It […]

Parkwood Entertainment Reports of severe weather threatened Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter stop at Chicago’s Soldier Field Thursday evening, but it certainly didn’t stop the show.  Soldier Field first announced the nearly two-hour delay in a statement to ABC, and Live Nation followed with one on social media. “Due to weather in the area, the COWBOY CARTER TOUR show at […]

disturbing. The defense cross-examination of Cassie Ventura in Sean Combs‘ sex trafficking and racketeering trial continued Thursday afternoon. The defense continued their strategy of showing messages in an attempt to highlight what the defense contends is Ventura’s willingness, eagerness and agency to participate in “freak off” sex sessions, seeking to bolster Combs’ assertion that he did not commit sex […]