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Courtesy of Live Nation Janet Jackson‘s Together Again Tour will see a set from Lil’ Kim, who’ll appear as a special guest on the outing. The rapper will fill in for supporting act Ludacris on May 18, when the track stops in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The show begins at 7:45 p.m. ET. The Together Again Tour, which celebrates Janet’s 50th anniversary in entertainment, as […]

Stewart Cook/CBS Future is teaming up with producer Zaytoven for the third installment of their Beast Mode mixtape series. According to the latter, the project is set to release on Friday. “In order for somebody to go beast mode, you know, like the rose that grew from concrete. Going from nothing to something,” Zaytoven says in a trailer, which includes clips […]

Paras Griffin/Getty Images Boosie Badazz has revealed that his eight-year battle with kidney cancer is now over.  “Stayed up all night praying for these results #cancerfree,” he wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday. “God great but he test your faith all the time.” “I was ready to see my cancer doctor/surgeon today but I was told he passed […]

Fox Beat Shazam, the Fox music game show that was hosted by Jamie Foxx and his daughter Corinne, will reportedly continue without the Oscar-winning actor, following his “medical complication” last month. Foxx, 55, has been hospitalized since the mysterious health situation sidelined him from the Netflix action comedy Back in Action, but TMZ is reporting […]

Courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Months after making history as the first female hip-hop artist nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Missy Elliott has been announced as part of this year’s 2023 class. The rapper will be inducted in the HOF’s performer category, which honors artists whose music impacted and influenced […]

Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Amazon Music A$AP Rocky has issued an apology to the woman he used as leverage to jump over a gate on Met Gala day.  The rapper had walked through a crowd on his way to his hotel and up to a gate, which he eventually hopped over. Amid the jump, however, he mushed the face […]

Allison Holker is sharing an update on what life has been like since the death of her husband, Stephen “tWitch” Boss, nearly five months ago. “It’s been really hard because I can’t understand what was happening in that moment [he died],” Holker said in an interview with People, published Tuesday. Boss, a beloved hip-hop dancer […]

Manny Hernandez/Getty Images Shaquille O’Neal teams up with Blackway on his new single “King Talk,” his official rap return since dropping songs in the ’90s. Speaking to People, he says the song, released in time to celebrate the NBA Playoffs, is “the type of record that gets me hyped like I’m walking out for Game 7 of the finals.” It […]

Jason Mendez/Getty Images Vic Mensa once leaned on drugs for creativity, but it could have resulted in a self-inflicted death. In his new Spin Magazine cover story, he discusses how his drug use affected his life. “The first drug I really felt dependent on was mushrooms,” Vic Mensa said. “I started doing them abusively. Probably 100 times a year when I was like […]