In this day and age of album delays and pushbacks, J. Cole recently bucked the trend and pushed up the release date for his sophomore album Born Sinner to go head to head with Kanye West‘s sixth solo album Yeezus. Wasting no time the North Carolina raised Roc Nation signed rapper hits the promo trail [...]
May 22, 2013
Verse
Hip Hop, TV
With Disney’s recent acquisition of LucasFilm the Star Wars universe has been given a new lease of life, and now the first animated collaboration between the two has been revealed. Named Star Wars Rebels, the animated series will bridge Episode III (Revenge of the Sith) and Episode IV (A New Hope) and will debut in [...]
May 21, 2013
Seán J. Grannum
Geek, TV
Another new week, another new action packed episode of our favourite piece of ratchet-piece theatre aka Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. Back for a second season, the popular VH1 ‘reality’ series/docu-soap opera continues chronicling the love, life and drama of Stevie J, Joseline Hernandez, Scrappy, K. Michelle and more. Watch episode 5 below in full… Synopsis: Joseline takes [...]
BBC One has tweeted the first official image from the third season of Luther, all the while confirming that the show will return this summer. Ever faithful to his fans, actor and DJ Idris Elba has kept fans up-to-date on progress through social networks, releasing images from on set and revealing that the main antagonist [...]
May 20, 2013
Seán J. Grannum
TV
Last night the 2013 BillBoard Music Awards took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and was packed with several performance highlights. Chris Brown gave a performance of his current single “Fine China,” with a rendition riddled with bum notes but high in energy and action; including a dubious fight-dance break. Nicki Minaj left [...]
May 20, 2013
M. Gosho Oakes
Awards, Hip Hop, Music, Soul/R&B/Alt, TV
While in New York getting ready to perform at the Great GoogaMooga festival, De La Soul took themselves to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform their classic “Jenifa Taught Me” alongside fellow Hip-Hop greats and Fallon’s house band The Roots. As well as performing “Jenifa Taught Me” the Hip-Hop heavyweights also took to the [...]
May 19, 2013
Nura Abdela
Hip Hop, Music, TV
The heavily anticipated film Anchorman: The Legend Continues has already garnered a long list of celebrity cameos – but there’s always room for one more. Rapper and former child star Drake was seen on set of the film using his old acting chops for an on screen cameo in the upcoming sequel. The Degrassi actor-turned-hitmaker [...]
May 19, 2013
Nura Abdela
Film
Kanye West hit the Saturday Night Live stage moments ago to unveil new music from his forthcoming album Yeezus. After unveiling another new track “New Slaves” in a unique manner, by beaming the visual across the side of buildings in 66 places across the globe, Mr West gave fans a performance of a yet unnamed [...]
May 19, 2013
Verse
Hip Hop, TV
Scarlett Johansson is set to make her directorial debut with a feature film adaptation of Truman Capote’s long-lost first novel Summer Crossing. [...]
May 18, 2013
Seán J. Grannum
Film, Film & TV
Mariah Carey took time out from her judging duties to perform a medley of her biggest hits last night on the American Idol Finale. The Diva kicked of her performance with the 1990 hit “Vision of Love” followed by “Make it Happen” before transitioning into the fan favourites “Hero”, “My All” and “We Belong Together”. [...]
May 17, 2013
MelShay
Soul/R&B/Alt, TV