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United Talent Agency (UTA) is expanding the company’s communications department with the addition of Gabe Tesoriero and Kate Cafaro, the agency announced on Wednesday.

Based in New York and Los Angeles respectively, Tesoriero and Cafaro will both serve as Vice President of Corporate Communications, with Tesoriero leading communications for UTA’s global Music division and Cafaro heading up communications for the agency’s Filmed Entertainment division. Both will report to Senior Vice President, Claudia Russo and Cassandra Bujarski, who joined the agency in February as Chief Communications Officer.

Previously, Tesoriero served as EVP of Media & Brand Strategy for Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Group and spent over ten years overseeing the company’s communications practice. Throughout his career, he has executed strategic media campaigns for the biggest names in music, including Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Pusha T, Big Sean, Jhené Aiko, Jeezy, Nas, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz,...

United Talent Agency is expanding the company’s communications department with the addition of Gabe Tesoriero and Kate Cafaro.

Based in New York and Los Angeles, respectively, Tesoriero and Cafaro will both serve as Vice President of Corporate Communications, with Tesoriero leading communications for UTA’s global Music division and Cafaro heading up communications for the agency’s Filmed Entertainment division.

Both will report to Senior Vice President, Claudia Russo and Cassandra Bujarski, the latter of whom joined the agency in February as Chief Communications Officer.

Previously, Tesoriero served as EVP of Media & Brand Strategy for Def Jam Recordings/Universal Music Group and spent over ten years overseeing the company’s communications practice. Throughout his career, he has executed strategic media campaigns for the biggest names in music, including Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Pusha T, Big Sean, Jhené Aiko, Jeezy, Nas, Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, The Roots,...

When Ozzy Osbourne brought Metallica on tour in 1986, he noticed his young opening act blasting Black Sabbath in their dressing room and covering his old band’s songs in soundchecks. Osbourne’s first assumption, he said later, was that Metallica were mocking him. He was stunned to learn they were actually displaying their hero worship, and trying to coax him onstage with them.

As discussed in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Osbourne — who died July 22 at the age of 76 — could be touchingly insecure for a beloved and wildly influential metal legend.

Trigger Warning: This article contains minor references to themes of adult content which some readers might find unsettling.

The fire surrounding Diddy‘s alleged romantic involvement with Daphne Joy is getting stronger. While the latest reports accused Joy of being a s-x worker for Sean Combs, the two are said to have initially sparked romance rumors while hanging out on a private jet and at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas (via The US Sun).

Now reports are revealing how Combs had an affair with Joy, who is the baby mama of 50 Cent‘s second child, Sire Jackson. Per @onlydubsX on X,

Rick Ross says he used to go Fishing with 50 Cent’s youngest son “Bruce Lee Roy” while his mom was at Diddy’S Star Island mansion getting Clapped, right after old pics of 50 with Tia Kemp and his kids resurface

As explosive as these claims are,...

With strong albums from veterans Alex G, Japanese Breakfast, and Car Seat Headrest, and killer debuts from newcomers like Lifeguard, 2025 has been packed with great indie rock. In the latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we look back at the year in indie so far, with Simon Vozick-Levinson joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.)

Alex G technically just departed the world...

Morgan Wallen has dropped a remix of his single, “Miami,” featuring Lil Wayne and Rick Ross.

“Miami” was originally released as part of Wallen’s recent LP, I’m the Problem, and incorporates elements of Keith Whitley’s 1985 hit “Miami, My Amy.” The song was produced by Charlie Handsome, with the remix featuring new verses from Weezy and Ross.

Wallen teased the idea of adding a rapper onto the song during an interview in April. “It seemed like it could use a rapper on there,” he said of the track.

Hip-hop is no longer solely youth culture; it’s just culture, with cross-generational scenes full of artists intent on capturing their era’s zeitgeist. But Raekwon The Chef’s latest solo album, The Emperor’s New Clothes, was unquestionably tailored for the 35-and-up hip-hop heads who descended upon Madison Square Garden to see the Wu-Tang Clan’s possible final hometown show last week. There are no stunt features or out-of-touch Gen Z reaches here, just a 17-track dose of raw, New York City hip-hop.

As I noted in my show review,...

In between standing on business in paparazzi clashes and dodging endless rumors about his personal life, it turns out Justin Bieber was busy in the studio, making a genuinely interesting album. Swag is full of well-chosen collaborators — Gunna, Sexyy Red, Cash Cobain, Lil B, Dijon — confessional lyrics, and even surprisingly self-aware skits recorded with Druski.

In the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, we break down the last few years of Bieber’s life and career, with Jeff Ihaza (who wrote a smart piece on Bieber’s...

Sabrina Carpenter is as good as any current pop star at cultivating controversy and attention — the latest evidence was the now-subsided furor over her absurd Man’s Best Friend album cover, which seems to take cues from Spinal Tap’s Smell the Glove. “She’s leaning into it and laughing about it at the same time,” says Angie Martoccio, who profiled Carpenter for her recent Rolling Stone cover story — which revealed that image aside, the singer’s true obsession is music.

“I wasn’t aware that she was a full-on music nerd,...

Social media fans are viciously roasting Drake for his seemingly fake six-pack abs.

In a shirtless mirror selfie Drake posted on Saturday, the singer showed off a set of extremely chiseled abs that many viewers have clocked as the result of plastic surgery.

In the photo, Drake blocks his face with his phone and shows off a large array of liquor bottles on the bar in front of him. He additionally posted a short clip of himself jogging shirtless through the park, and captioned the post, “I’m wide awake for the nights that separate the type who get to it ’til they get it right from the type who just…type.”

Despite Drake’s confident poses and caption, the comments were quickly overflowing with quips about his suspiciously toned muscles, with one person joking, “Ordered abs from temu n forgot to add shoulders n [triceps] lol.” Another posited, “Arm definition surgery is next month?...

What if Bruce Springsteen had followed up his synth-and-drum-machine-driven 1994 hit “Streets of Philadelphia” with a whole album largely in that vein? What if he’d dropped an album of Great American Songbook-style ballads instead of 2017’s Western Stars? Springsteen’s just-released boxed set Tracks II: The Lost Albums is packed with seven albums’ worth of alternate realities and musical surprises, offering a reminder of just how much he’s capable of outside of his stadium-shaking work with the E Street Band.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now,...

Santa Fe Klan is bringing Saweetie to his barrio. On Friday, the Mexican star released his new single, “Locos,” which features a sexy verse from the Bay Area rap queen.

“I really loved working with Saweetie—she’s super cool, great vibe… I feel like we connected, and honestly, I don’t think it’ll be the last time we record together,” Santa Fe Klan tells Rolling Stone. “I’d love to do more tracks with her and with other artists from over there too. I’m super motivated about everything that’s coming…...

The prosecution is about to wrap up its case during the ongoing trial against P Diddy at the Manhattan Federal Court. During the court proceedings, many celebrities were mentioned by name. However, Cassie Ventura, Kid Cudi, and Dawn Richard were the only celebrities who testified in court. Nicole Blank Becker, who represented R. Kelly, explained why the prosecution did not bring more celebrities to the stand.

Diddy is facing five counts of serious charges, including one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of s*x trafficking, and two counts of transportation to engage in pr*stitution. If charged, the hip-hop mogul is looking at life in prison.

Why were celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio & Usher not called to testify in P Diddy’s trial? Diddy in a still from Black-ish | Credits: ABC

In the trial against P Diddy, Cassie Ventura and Kid Cudi appear to be the only star witnesses until now.

There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “Both chroniclers of the American dream in California. Both from pretty much the same era. Both of them also started out very young as musical prodigies, who figured out early that they needed to be in charge of their music.”

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&b playlists,...

Swedish pop star Zara Larsson’s next album, Midnight Sun, due Sept. 26, will include the confessional track “Ambition,” which she describes as her most honest song — complete with lyrics about comparing herself to other performers as she stares at her phone late at night. “That’s the thing with ambition,” she sings. “Everything’s a competition.”

“ When you’re super-ambitious, I think that’s the blessing and the curse,” she says in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “You can have so many amazing things happening to you,...

P Diddy’s trial is ongoing at the Manhattan Federal Court, where Cassie Ventura, Dawn Richard, and several others have taken the stand against him. Ventura’s former boyfriend, Kid Cudi, had to testify for the prosecution. It is now reported that other famous celebrities with ties to Diddy and Ventura are lawyering up to avoid testifying in the trial.

Diddy is facing five counts of serious charges, including one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of s*x trafficking, and two counts of transportation to engage in pr*stitution. If charged, the hip-hop mogul is looking at life in prison.

Celebrities do not want to testify in P Diddy’s trial Diddy in a still from Black-ish | Credits: ABC

In the trial against P Diddy, Cassie Ventura and Kid Cudi appear to be the only star witnesses until now. Ventura took the stand on the second day of trial...

To get her music back, first Taylor Swift had to re-record it. After a consortium led by Scooter Braun bought the rights to the masters for her first six albums in 2019, much to Swift’s displeasure, she hatched a simple, if wildly labor-intensive plan: Make new Taylor’s Versions of her catalog available, and then ask her massive fanbase to stream them instead of the originals.

No one had ever tried anything like it before, but fans complied by the millions. The strategy worked exactly as intended, devaluing the masters...

“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” Bruce Springsteen declared from a Manchester, U.K. stage May 14. At the kick-off show of his newly rechristened Land of Hope and Dreams Tour with the E Street Band, Springsteen framed his criticism of Donald Trump in patriotism: “The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its faults, is...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ heavily pregnant ex-girlfriend for a decade, Cassie Ventura, stepped down from the her arduous week on the witness stand at a lower Manhattan federal courthouse on Friday afternoon, having recounting in often harrowing detail the alleged coercive control, manipulation, blackmail, drug use and unwanted sex with male prostitutes that she says he forced her into for his sexual pleasure. Yet despite the darkness — now very public knowledge — in their relationship, toward the end of her sensational, sad and, at times, salacious testimony, Ventura told Combs’ attorney when asked point blank that, despite the violence and many allegations she detailed this week, she does not have animosity toward Combs.

“I don’t hate him,” Ventura told attorney Anna Estevao. When asked on the stand if she still has love left for the beleaguered rap and fashion mogul, she replied, “I have love for the past, and what it was.

A former adult star named Jonathan Oddi, who got into trouble with the police in 2018, provided information regarding Diddy’s case, which also involved well-known rappers DJ Khaled and Rick Ross. Born Sean Combs, the disgraced rapper faces allegations of assault, s*x trafficking, and racketeering, and he is currently on trial.

Oddi claimed that he signed a non-disclosure agreement with Diddy and was used as a “s*x slave.” He also revealed that he engaged in intimate acts with Cassie Ventura at the rapper’s whim, which the singer confirmed.

Jonathan Oddi makes shocking revelations about Diddy, DJ Khaled, and Rick Ross P Diddy | Credits: Revolt TV/YouTube

Speaking with the authorities, Jonathan Oddi admitted that he was part of Diddy’s freak-offs, and more shockingly, he was allegedly used by the rapper to fulfill his fantasies while conducting business. The adult star claimed (via Youtube):

I had...

Screaming, crying, canceled fest: Travis Kelce’s Kelce Jam is a no-go for this year. On Wednesday, the Kansas City Chiefs player announced that his annual music festival would be taking a break before returning in 2026.

“Kelce Jam is planning ahead for 2026,” the festival announced Wednesday on social media. “Although we’ll miss being with you this year, we’re taking this time to gear up for an even bigger, better, and more unforgettable experience next summer. Stay tuned for exciting updates and announcements.”

“We can’t wait to celebrate with you soon,...

This past year has been wild when it comes to the Diddy headlines, allegations, lawsuits, and one jaw-dropping reveal after another. Now, with his trial officially begun, things are heating up fast. And just when people think they have heard it all, boom, something even more shocking drops.

Day 3 of the trial just got wrapped up, and let’s just say it did not disappoint. Cassie Ventura, whose name has been at the center of a lot of this, has confirmed something big, the alleged involvement of Jonathan Oddi.

His name might not have made headlines before, but this mention changes the game entirely. As Oddi’s alleged involvement adds a whole new layer to the already tangled web of accusations and connections surrounding Diddy.

So, who is this guy, what’s he got to do with all this, and why does it matter now? Here’s everything one needs to know!

Though it’s been over a year since Kendrick and Drake’s Great Rap War, the remnants are everywhere, including in the 2025 BET Awards nominations.

Lamar leads the pack with 10 nominations including Album of the Year for Gnx, Video of the Year for “Not Like Us,” Viewer’s Choice Award nominations for “Not Like Us,” “Luther,” featuring Sza, and “Like That” with Future & Metro Boomin, and Best Male Hip Hop Artist. Drake ties for the second most nominated artist this year, alongside a couple people in the beef’s orbit.

This year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will induct acts including Soundgarden, Outkast, and the White Stripes — but some huge names from the ballot didn’t make it, most notably Mariah Carey (for the third time!), Oasis, and Phish.

Carey is an undisputed pop legend; Oasis recorded some of the greatest songs of the Nineties and are about to embark on the most-anticipated reunion tour in years; Phish are, well, Phish, a band that’s created a universe of its own, playing arenas decades into their career. So what happened?...

Hardcore Wicked fans have a lot of unshakable opinions, including the widespread belief that the Wizard’s big moment in the first act, the talky “A Sentimental Man,” is the Broadway show’s single worst song. But when Jeff Goldblum stepped in as the Wizard for director Jon M. Chu’s blockbuster film version, he managed to salvage the song in fans’ eyes, playing up the character’s toxic blend of smarm and charisma. “I’ve had a lot of positive anecdotal response like that,” Goldblum says in the new...

How did Jeff Goldblum get one of the world’s biggest pop stars to sing on his new jazz album? As he explains on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Ariana Grande’s lovely take on “I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do)” on Goldblum’s Still Blooming, recorded with his band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, came down to sheer proximity and an unexpected musical kinship. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play below.

Chappell Roan has taken the title of “The Giver” to heart, gracing fans with album-level promo (Billboards! A secret phone number! An instantly controversial Call Her Daddy interview!) for the Shania-esque stand-alone single. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down Roan’s strategy, even as they try to figure out whether a new album will be out this year — and if the fan-favorite ballad “The Subway” will be her next single. Spanos points out that...

On “Tantrum,” one of the most visceral moments from Will Smith’s new album, Based on a True Story, the 56-year-old growls, “Oh, y’all forgot I ain’t new with the pen/First hip-hop Grammy, I’ll do it again.” With an album as trite as this one, that’s hard to imagine, but that sort of flex is true to the spirit of the genre he’s helped mold and the type of shit-talking he’s absolutely earned the right to.

For long after the Oscars in 2022, where...

Atlanta rapper Young Scooter was killed on his 39th birthday while fleeing police on Friday.

According to NBC Atlanta, police responded to a call of a weapons disturbance at a residence in Atlanta. Upon their arrival, Young Scooter (born Kenneth Bailey) allegedly took off on foot, jumping over two fences. At some point, he injured his leg and was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Atlanta police said no officers fired their weapons during the pursuit of Bailey. It’s believed he may have injured his femoral artery, but an exact cause of death is under investigation.

Young Scooter was a childhood friend of Future and was one of the first rappers signed to his Freebandz record label in 2012. His breakthrough release came in 2013 with the mixtape Street Lottery, leading to collaborations with Rick Ross, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Yg, and more. In 2018, he achieved his...

Metallica’s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon.

“As long as we have our health and our mind, I think we can just keep on going,” says Hammett, whose new coffee-table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, dives into his world-class arsenal of vintage guitars. “Sometimes I forget how old I am,...

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many personal demons, and artists who just ran out of songwriting steam a little too soon. Or maybe it all comes down to bad judgment.

In any case, Rolling Stone‘s Andy Greene recently found 50 examples of classic albums with at least one bad song, and he goes through his entire list with host Brian Hiatt on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now.

Producer/songwriter Andrew Watt went from the pop world to finding himself in the studio with his rock heroes, from the Rolling Stones to Pearl Jam — and now he’s back at the center of pop as executive producer of Lady Gaga’s upcoming album Mayhem. His career is reaching new heights at the moment, with a Grammy win for the Stones’ Hackney Diamonds, an Oscar nomination for a track with Elton John and Brandi Carlile (who have a Watt-produced dual album on the way), and a long run...

Kanye West only had great things to say about Drake until they started feuding in 2018. Things quickly went south as Ye, who called Drake “the greatest of all time”, accused the Canadian rapper of threatening and bullying him. West was only one of the many rappers who initially loved Drake but went on to turn their backs against him.

Kendrick Lamar and Drake collaborated on several projects before Lamar distanced himself from the rapper in 2013. When he was featured in Future and Metro Boomin’s Like That in 2024, Lamar never thought he would dive into a full diss track back-and-forth with Drake. The Toronto-based rapper responded with Push Ups and Taylor Made Freestyle.

Drake in the music video of Hotline Bling | Credits: Cash Money/Young Money/Republic

Lamar then dropped Euphoria and 6:16 in LA. Drake then dropped Family Matters, to which Lamar came up with Meet the Grahams...

It would be amazing to see Drake rebound with a banger of an album after getting ethered for a year straight by an objectively better rapper, Kendrick Lamar. Too bad that’s not what has happened with the artist’s latest offering, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.

Drizzy’s new Valentine’s Day record recasts the Toronto rapper as a lover, not a fighter. Notably, on a track titled “Gimme A Hug,” he declares the feud with Lamar over (“Fuck a rap beef, I’m tryna get the party lit”), even though that’s not really how these things work.

PartyNextDoor, Ovo stalwart and generally unremarkable, plays second fiddle on this long, bloated, 21-song snoozer. In Drake’s world, it’s quantity over quality. You don’t have to make great music; you just have to make a lot of music. It makes you wonder what was left on the cutting...

Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched in history, with more than 133 million people tuning in — and it also may have been the most uncompromising. In a slot that every previous artist has reserved mostly for greatest hits, Lamar only played bits of two older songs, focusing instead on his excellent new album, Gnx, and his Drake-eviscerating smash, “Not Like Us.”

On the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to break down the...

Rapper Snoop Dogg has responded to haters after fierce backlash over his performance at Donald Trump’s inauguration ball.

“For all the hate, I’m going to answer with love,” Snoop said in a recent Instagram video, smoking and listening to The Winans’ “Ain’t No Need To Worry” in his car. “Y’all can’t hate enough. I love too much. Get your life right. Stop worrying about mine. I’m cool, I’m together. Still a black man. Still 100% black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”

Snoop Dogg performed at the Crypto Ball, held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium two days before Trump’s inauguration. The celebration was attended by Trump boosters and cryptocurrency market leaders. Alongside Snoop Dogg, rappers Soulja Boy and Rick Ross also performed. However, the ire was directed at Snoop, who has been vocally critical of Trump.

Snoop...

Since Kendrick Lamar took aim at Drake with his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in the spring of 2024, the Compton and Canadian rappers have traded dozens of dark verses (and counting) in a beef unlike any before it. Since then, there have been accusations of domestic abuse and sexual misconduct lobbed back and forth, a massive victory lap of a concert in Los Angeles, legal filings made, and more. While the pair’s War of Words hit its biggest crescendo in May with Kendrick Lamar’s...

They say in this business, you never really know who’s got your back until you’re in the fire. And when the heat came down on Diddy, the world watched closely. Arrested on charges that have rocked the music world, Sean Combs found himself in the middle of a storm, with his empire seemingly teetering on the edge.

But while some of his closest peers remained silent, two voices rose in his defense: Kanye West and Suge Knight. Both men have never been shy about their opinions, and in this case, they didn’t hold back.

Diddy in a still from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Credits: FX

The music mogul’s arrest on charges of s*x trafficking and racketeering raised eyebrows from all corners. In times like these, we all get a little too comfortable with keeping quiet, don’t we? It’s easy to turn the other cheek,...

DJ Khaled is officially in album mode. Today the Miami producer released a seven-minute trailer for Aalam of God, his 14th studio album. The post’s lengthy caption reads, “This not my last album this my black album *Jay Voice*,” referring to Jay-Z’s classic 2005 album. He also reveals that the album title translates to “the word of God” in Arabic (his son’s name is also Aalam).

He reveals two possible collaborators in the caption, first noting, “Fyi… Drakes Back To Work… So Am I! This The One Withdrakes.

Famed rapper 50 Cent fuelled new controversy after uploading a cryptic post on social media and seemingly calling Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory a “rat”. His comment sparked discussions within the hip-hop online community, with some fans wondering about the future of Starz’s hit series Bmf, which starred Demetrius Flenory Jr.

50 Cent / Credits: On Air with Ryan Seacrest

Involved in the heated issue is former Bmf associate Tammy Cowins, who was once a business partner and close friend of Big Meech. The rumour is that her relationship with him has took a major turn, which led to speculations about conflict within the organization.

50 Cent sparks feud with Big Meech, shows support for Tammy Cowins

Amid the rumored beef, Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson seemingly displayed support for his co-producer and friend Tammy Cowins following his recent Instagram post. He uploaded a photo of a rat with a side note: “I think I’m Big Meech!

In the beginning, R.E.M. would play anywhere that would have them, from pizza parlors to gay bars to frat parties. For all the arty elusiveness of their early music, the band that would end up setting the template for the Nineties alt-rock boom was hungrier and more strategic than it might have seemed — which is just one of many revelations in Peter Ames Carlin’s illuminating new book, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography.

In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Carlin...

Snoop Dogg is seemingly addressing the criticism he received after performing at an event in honor of Donald Trump’s inauguration ahead of his second term as president.

Once a critic of Trump, The Voice coach disappointed many long-time fans when he was announced as one of the performers at the Crypto Ball.

“It’s Sunday I got gospel in my heart,” the rapper said in a video he shared on Instagram after broadcasting live. “For all the hate I’m going to answer with love, I love too much.”

He continued, “Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m together. Still a Black man. Still 100 percent Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”

The “Drop It Like It’s Hot” was not the only rapper celebrating Trump’s return to the White House with Rick Ross and Soulja Boy...

Snoop Dogg appears to have responded to the backlash from his appearance at Donald Trump’s Crypto Ball inauguration event.

In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Snoop addressed the criticism while sitting in his car and taking a hit from a blunt. “For all the hate, I’m going to answer with love,” he said. “Get your life right, stop worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m together. Still a Black man. Still 100% Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”

Also over the weekend, Snoop spoke about dealing with negativity on the R&b Money Podcast: “You ‘gon deal with hate when you get to the top, no matter who you are… Me, personally, I answer it with success and love. That’s my answer to any hate and negativity that comes my way, ’cause it’s the strongest force that can beat it.

Now that the box-office success of A Complete Unknown has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of turning at least a few Gen-z viewers into Bob Dylan stans, Hollywood’s biopic wave is about to turn into a tsunami. Next up is the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White, and four separate Beatles movies from director Sam Mendes. (To hear the whole episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below).

In the new...

Rap superstar Snoop Dogg took to the stage at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, as cryptocurrency executives celebrated the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. The entertainment lineup featured rappers Rick Ross and Soulja Boy as well. (Credit: Rob Smith/@robsmithonline via Storyful)

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Rapper-turned-mogul Snoop Dogg is feeling the heat for performing at the Crypto Ball, an event in Washington D.C. preceding Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

When video surfaced of the rapper performing at the Friday night event, held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium and hosted by former PayPal COO David Sacks, fans expressed anger and shock online. The Shade Room posted a video of Snoop — along with Rick Ross and Soulja Boy — on stage performing, and the comments section was filled with outrage over The Voice judge’s decision. “This is culturally embarrassing and disrespectful asf,” one reaction read. “Not a check in the world worth selling my soul to the Devil…” another commenter remarked.

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon covered the performance on his live stream, Lemon Live at 5, wondering aloud whether Snoop and other Black hip hop artists are “sellouts [or] grifters who only care about a dollar?...

Snoop Dogg is one of several stars that are providing entertainment in the leadup to Donald Trump‘s inauguration.

The 78-year-old president elect will be sworn back into office on Monday (January 20) with a ceremony in Washington, DC.

There are multiple events taking place around the city this weekend, and the “Drop It Like It’s Hot” rapper took the stage at one after previously being outspoken about his dislike of Donald.

Keep reading to find out more…

On Friday night (January 17), Snoop performed at the Crypto Ball, which took place in DC. Fox News reported that he acted as DJ during the event but also performed some of his own music.

Other attendees included rapper Rick Ross.

Snoop has dissed Donald over the years. In 2016, he slammed the politician and fellow rapper Kanye West as racist. The following year, he pulled a gun on Donald lookalike, who was wearing a clown mask,...

Singer Nelly is preparing for his extensive global 2025 tour, set to start in Spring.

The tour specifically celebrates the 25th anniversary of Nelly’s debut studio album, Country Grammar, released in 2000. Slated to kick off in Auckland, New Zealand, the 56-date tour will visit Australia, Canada and Europe before concluding in North Little Rock, Arizona, on September 19.

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Throughout the performances, Nelly will be accompanied by supporting artists and collaborators, such as Fabolous, Jermaine Dupre, Chingy, Ja Rule and Eve. He has hinted that more guests will be revealed later.

Nelly revealed the tour in a statement, saying, “Yo, ‘Where Da Party At Tour’ we are taking this tour worldwide — I got my folks with me Ja Rule, Jermaine Dupri, Eve, the St. Lunatics, and Fabulous — so you know it’s all 2025… Lets Gooooo..!!! Da Party At…!!”

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Marcus J. Moore, author of 2020’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America, initially assumed it was too late to follow it with a book about one of his favorite hip-hop groups of all time, De La Soul. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, well, clearly I can’t do that, because there’s already been a book written,'” he says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “And then much to my surprise, there wasn’t one.” (To hear the whole episode,...

WAGs To Riches Image! ( Photo Credit – Netflix )

Netflix is back with another reality show that promises glitz, glamor, and drama. WAGs to Riches features the wives and girlfriends of sportsmen and musicians as they balance “the challenges of fame and relationships with their ambition.” The official description claims that dating men in the public eye ties these women together. Here’s which women will be flaunting their lifestyles, romance, careers, and drama in the series.

WAGs To Riches: Cast Of Netflix’s Newest Reality Series Real estate companies and NFL wives

First on the list is Sharelle Rosado, known as the queen bee. She used to be engaged to former NFL star Chad Johnson but has a career that easily overshadows her personal life. She’s the founder of Allure Realty and has worked as a military veteran and an army paratrooper. She is also a Selling Tampa alum.