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Ice Spice closed out 2023 with four Hot 100 singles, with her favorite being “Princess Diana.” Speaking to Billboard for a feature highlighting her as this year’s Women In Music Hitmaker, she explained, “I felt like ‘Princess Diana’ was already my best song on [Like…?], but then it didn’t chart or anything until Nicki [Minaj] got […]

Steve Jennings/Getty Images Earth, Wind & Fire has won a lawsuit they brought against a cover band that they claimed was infringing on their trademark.  Back in March 2023, Earth, Wind & Fire LLP, the rights holders of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group’s trademark, sued Substantial Music Group and Stellar Communications over their Earth, […]

Billboard When Tems makes music, she doesn’t “really think about where it’s going to end up.” “I just leave it all in the studio,” she says in a feature honoring her as Billboard‘s 2024 Women In Music Breakthrough artist. It’s the approach she’s taking on her debut album, which she says “is 1,000% coming out this year.” […]

Photo by Prince Williams/WireImage The members of Outkast united last weekend, hanging out Saturday in Atlanta, where André 3000 made a stop as part of the tour supporting his instrumental woodwinds album, New Blue Sun. He and Big Boi hung out backstage at the Center Stage and posed for photos later shared on the latter’s Instagram page. “Antwan & Andre. Flutie […]

Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas and son (L) Tron Austin (Marcus Ingram/Getty Images for Screen Gems) TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is officially a grandma. Her son, Tron Austin, welcomed a baby girl with wife Jeong Ah Wang on Saturday, March 2. “On this day March 2nd, 2024 at 1:59pm 6.173 LBS/2.8kg an angel from heaven was born […]

Eric Mccandless/ABC RuPaul is opening up like never before in new memoir, The House of Hidden Meanings, detailing his life journey from growing up in a tense household to his rocky and yet rewarding road to fame. Speaking to Good Morning America in a sit-down interview with Robin Roberts that aired on Monday, the star and creator […]

Saturday, March 2, was officially Burna Boy Day in Boston. The city made the official declaration ahead of the Nigerian superstar’s performance at TD Garden that night. “For too long, mainstream narratives have marginalized African voices and overlooked the richness of the continent’s cultural heritage,” a proclamation from Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune reads. […]

Abe Rasheed When Abe Rasheed stepped in to head up the urban space at the legendary MNRK [Monarch] Music Group, his mission was to innovate, cultivate and help the label maintain its spot in today’s ever-changing musical landscape.  One of the ways he’s achieved his goals so far, he says, is by ramping up the R&B landscape […]

Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images She performed briefly at the Super Bowl in 2023, but Rihanna did her first full-fledged concert in eight years in India on March 1 — for what was reportedly a hefty fee. The U.K. paper The Independent reports that Rih performed for 40 minutes for 1,200 guests as […]

Starz March 1 marks the start of another month, but also the return of BMF, which recounts the rise and fall of brothers and drug lords Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and Terry “Southwest Tee” Flenory and their Black Mafia Family drug trafficking and money laundering organization. The show stars Da’Vinchi in the role of Terry, who says his […]