Jharrel Jerome isn’t hiding behind self-doubt anymore. It might be hard to believe the 26-year-old — the youngest to ever win an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie — is anything less than confident, given the praise he’s earned for his buzzy onscreen performances, which …
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Starz’s Power Universe has been responsible for a lot of great things over the years: iconic characters, explosive spinoffs (and a prequel), and one of the most captivating franchises in television history. Perhaps the best of them all is the friendship it birthed between two of its biggest stars: Michael …
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Dalvin AdamsDalvin Adams Keke Palmer is in a vulnerable place right now. She has been since dropping her revealing “Big Boss” visual album back in May, which marked her first studio release in almost a decade. She had a lot to get off her chest then and even today, as …
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Ice Spice may be a budding rap star growing towards worldwide fame, but she never forgets her Bronx, NY, roots, where her parents raised her. Spice (her real name is Isis Naija Gaston) was born on Jan. 1, 2000, to her parents, Charina Almanzar and Joseph Gaston — who she’s …
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Amanda Scott is quite familiar with the art of pivoting, considering how much her life has changed over the past year. Back in August 2022, the “Sweet Life: Los Angeles” star happily celebrated the return of her Issa Rae-produced reality series — which followed an ambitious group of Black 20-somethings …
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Four years ago — before Flyana Boss were running across our TikTok FYPs with their viral hit “You Wish” and rapping about “sugar, spice, Kanekalon, and cinnamon” — the formidable duo were just two ordinary besties living in Los Angeles. But Bobbi LaNea and Folayan, hailing from Detroit and Dallas, …
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OK, let’s be honest — did we really expect the MTV VMAs, of all award shows, to deliver the best hip-hop 50 tribute of the year? The “all-star finale performance” MTV touted ahead of the Sept. 12 event included Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, DMC (of Run-D.M.C.), Doug …
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In our Q&A series POPSUGAR Crush, we get to know some of our favorite celebs’ more intimate details — from their first celebrity crush to their best love advice. This month, we’re crushing on “The Chi” star Jacob Latimore. For the last five-plus years, “The Chi” has been a mainstay …
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Spooky season is almost here, and so is Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween. On Aug. 31, the network unveiled its 2023 lineup of Halloween classics, consisting of spellbinding favorites like “Halloweentown,” “Hocus Pocus,” “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and the 2003 version of “The Haunted Mansion,” just in time …
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Author Raquel Cepeda once said, “The role of hip-hop journalists is to document hip-hop with integrity.” Fifty years ago, that esteemed role did not yet exist, for the culture was too young and too niche to find its way into literary archives and journalistic coverage. But seeing how far hip-hop …
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Welcome to Victoria Monét’s Jaguar universe. It took some time to get to what she calls her “level-up” era, but the whiz songwriter-turned-superstar-soloist is finally ready to unleash her long-awaited album “Jaguar II.” Monét’s new LP, the second and final installment in her series, releases on Aug. 25, a little …
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Fifty years ago, the sisterhood of hip-hop did not yet exist. The genre was still an infant, and women were fighting to have their voices heard among the founding fathers, so competition between them was more encouraged than comradeship. Yet, five decades later, emerging artist Maiya the Don finds herself …
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