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NPG Records/Paisley Park Enterprises/Sony Music Entertainment The 20th anniversary celebration of Prince’s 28th studio album, Musicology, continues with the digital release of “Magnificent,” which originally came out as a virtual B-side to the album’s title track. This is the first time the song has ever been released to streaming services; it was sourced from master tapes discovered in […]

From a lead single to the fourth iteration of an album series, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Tems, “Love Me Jeje” — Featuring an interpolation of Seyi Sodimu‘s song of the same name, the song’s the lead single off Tems’ debut album, Born In the Wild, due out in […]

Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage If you’re a fan of SZA‘s acting in the “Kill Bill” video, you’ll see more of her skills pretty soon. Deadline reports the singer has secured her first feature acting gig, a role opposite Keke Palmer. The pair will star in an untitled buddy comedy film that will be produced by Issa Rae and her Hoorae company, Sara […]

From a lead single to the fourth iteration of an album series, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest and greatest in music. Tems, “Love Me Jeje” — Featuring an interpolation of Seyi Sodimu‘s song of the same name, the song’s the lead single off Tems’ debut album, Born In the Wild, due out in […]

Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images The Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash Festival is coming back for its sixth year, with a lineup filled with stars ready to hit the stage. The three-day event is taking place June 14-16 at the Seatgeek Stadium in Chicago, with headliners Travis Scott, Playboi Carti and Chief Keef. The performance will […]

Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Fantasia Barrino says she’d love to replace Katy Perry as a judge on American Idol. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight released Thursday, April 25, Fantasia said she wasn’t aware Katy was exiting the singing competition show at the end of this season, but she would be up to replace […]

Hugo Comte Normani’s new single, “1:59,” is finally here. The singer dropped the sultry track, featuring Gunna, as the first taste of her debut album, Dopamine, which comes out June 14. “When I get you alone/boy what you gon’ do with it?” she sings on the chorus. “Don’t talk too much, just do this sh**/Boy, […]

ABC Audio When Tank released R&B Money in 2022, it was accompanied by the news that it’d be his final album. Fans dealing with that reality are now in for some good news: he’s “all the way back.” “You know what? I was really gone. I really had my heart set on [retiring],” Tank tells ABC Audio — […]

Keeley Parenteau Chance the Rapper is out with a new video for “Buried Alive,” which he directed himself. The song, from his album Star Line Gallery, sees him discuss “themes of self-discovery, resilience and the relentless pursuit of freedom,” reflected in the visual as Chance breaks free from a box he’s trapped in. With his newfound freedom, […]

ABC/Art Streiber H.E.R. is continuing her acting career with a role that unites her with her The Color Purple producers. The Hollywood Reporter reports she’s teaming up with Oprah Winfrey and Scott Sanders for a majorettes-inspired film, set at a fictional historically Black college in Atlanta. The story’s about an introverted ballet dancer from LA who goes against her parents’ […]