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It’s a new month, and that means new movies on streaming. There are bountiful picks on everything from Netflix to Max to Prime Video to Apple TV+ this month, including a new horror-thriller starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, a bevy of romantic films for Valentine’s Day and some of the best films of the last few years newly added to your favorite streaming service.

Check out our picks for the best new movies streaming in February 2025 below.

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Happy Madison isn’t just for Adam Sandler comedies. Sometimes it’s responsible for Amy Schumer comedies too! In “Kinda Pregnant,” Schumer stars as “a woman who gets so jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy that she starts to wear a fake baby bump of her own,” according to Netflix. The movie was directed by Tyler Spindel, who happens...

One interesting phenomenon often overlooked in the careers of famous musicians like Britney Spears is that they might have achieved even greater success if they had not passed on songs that ultimately became major hits for other artists. Indeed, this is no random occurrence. Several top music stars have turned down songs that could have catapulted their careers or amplified their existing success. A notable example is Prince's decision not to fully release "Nothing Compares 2 U," a song he penned himself. Sinead O'Connor later recorded the track, transforming it into one of the most globally recognized songs ever.

Interestingly, Spears has been on the receiving end of this phenomenon. Notably, “I’m a Slave 4 U” - a standout track from her 2001 third studio album, Britney - was originally written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo for Janet Jackson. The song not only became one of the year’s biggest hits,...

When putting together the song, “Piece by Piece,” for the documentary about his life of the same name, Pharrell Williams saw it as a chance explore everything in his life that has led him to where he is right now. “It’s thinking about how everything collectively is your story. If you think about all of the crazy times that you have experienced in your life and all the fun times and all the sad times and all of the momentous time and all the times you were caught off guard by things that just blindsided you,” he tells Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above). He even traces it to the medium in which his story is told in the film. “They’re all piece by piece and it’s very interesting that it’s sort of synonymous with how the Lego world works.”

“Piece by Piece,...

Lego and documentary are not necessarily two words that you would find together in a pitch meeting for a film. But that’s exactly what director Morgan Neville heard when he was approached by Pharrell Williams to make Piece by Piece, and his response was an immediate yes. Not only was this a way to tell the story of an incredible artist, but diving into a new medium gave both Williams and Neville an opportunity to play in a new world outside of their comfort zones.

Told through Lego animation, Piece by Piece follows the life of Pharrell Williams with interviews from people and artists he worked with during his career. Although Williams was not excited about the prospect of telling his story to begin with, the use of LEGOs allowed him to see himself in a more objective way. This helped Williams come up with an original song for the film,...

“It’s happening,” goes a lyric sung over the opening titles of Piece By Piece. “Yes... It’s real.” Just to be sure, here is confirmation, early doors: yep, this is a real film. We’ve had Lego Movies about Batman, Ninjas, Scooby-Doo. But a music documentary Lego Movie? Made with the full participation of self-described “hybrid thinker” Pharrell Williams, Piece By Piece is a surprisingly sincere and serious film about a sincere and serious artist, some distance from the irony-led Lord & Miller Lego entries. It’s quite a handbrake turn for Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom), but it largely follows the standard talking-heads doc template very faithfully. Just in Lego.

The first act serves almost as a potted history of the vibrant ’90s hip-hop and R&b scene in Virginia: obsessed with music, Williams surrounded himself with other Virginian up-and-comers like Timbaland and Missy Elliott. Hilariously,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Piece by Piece.

The life and career of musician Pharrell Williams are portrayed in the new Lego movie Piece by Piece. After releasing in theaters on October 11, 2024, Piece by Piece earned a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 81% and an even more impressive audience score of 91%. Directed by Morgan Neville, Piece by Piece features appearances by all sorts of A-list musicians and singers such as Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Daft Punk, and Snoop Dogg. Piece by Piece finished fifth at the box office in its opening weekend debut and has gained a box office total of $8.1 million.

Piece by Piece chronicles the true story of Pharrell Williams, one of the most prolific and well-respected musicians working today. Pharrell rose to prominence after forming the R&b group The Neptunes with Chad Hugo and two others while in high school. Hugo and Pharrell collaborated with the rap group Clipse,...

Interestingly, Piece By Piece has credited Pharell Williams with the creation of the McDonalds jingle. McDonalds iconic Im Lovin It jingle launched with a global campaign in 2003, and was the companys first attempt at marketing the same message internationally. Im Lovin It is McDonalds longest-running campaign to date, but the jingle wouldnt have reached its two-decade marker without certain musical powerhouses working behind the scenes.

The jingle has certainly left its mark on pop culture, with the five notes alone being synonymous with the fast food franchise. McDonald's cultural rebound was guided by their ability to merge advertising with entertainment, notably by having their Im Lovin It jingle released as a Justin Timberlake single before launching their campaign. Their marketing strategy clearly worked, but the creative credit for the tune has since been largely contested, with Piece by Piece's Pharell Williams story reviving the subject.

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The life and career of musician Pharrell Williams are portrayed in the new Lego movie Piece by Piece. After releasing in theaters on October 11, 2024, Piece by Piece earned a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 81%, matched with an even more impressive audience score of 91%. Directed by Morgan Neville, Piece by Piece features appearances by all sorts of A-list musicians and singers such as Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Daft Punk, and Snoop Dogg. Piece by Piece finished fifth at the box office in its opening weekend debut after Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Joker: Folie Deux.

Piece by Piece chronicles the true story of Pharrell Williams, one of the most prolific and well-respected musicians working today. Pharrell rose to prominence after forming the R&b group The Neptunes in high school with Chad Hugo and two others. Hugo and Pharrell collaborated with the rap group Clipse,...

Plot: The life of Pharrell Williams, as told through the lens of Lego animation.

Review: Let’s get one thing out of the way first – Morgan Neville’s Piece by Piece would be a conventional music documentary if not for the central conceit: the whole movie is animated in the style of The Lego Movie. It’s an interesting choice which gives Pharrell’s story a glossy twist and likely opens the film up to a much younger audience that would have initially seen a more conventional hip-hop documentary. Indeed, with its PG rating, this is a family-friendly take on the life of perhaps the most influential music producer of his time, although it can’t help but feel like total hagiography at times, with it free of even a whiff of controversy throughout.

To be sure, Pharrell’s rise and fall (and rise again) is free from too much rock star excess,...

As a music producer, singer-songwriter/rapper, and serial entrepreneur with a career spanning three decades and two centuries, Pharrell Williams's genre-redefining contributions to American pop culture can't be fully explored, evaluated, or even quantified in a standard ninety-minute documentary. The bio-doc based on his life and career, Piece by Piece, is everything but standard. Along with his childhood friend, frequent collaborator, and business partner, Chad Hugo, and their collaborative nom-de-duo, the Neptunes, Williams has produced or contributed music for artists ranging from Britney “Princess of Pop” Spears to Justin “Prince of Pop” Timberlake, rap legends Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, and Busta Rhymes, rock royalty Gwen Stefani, and the "Queen of Latin Music," Shakira. And that’s just a taste of Williams’ unmistakably singular contributions to and influence on the American...

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Here’s a challenge for even the most respected and revered documentarians: how do you make your film different than the usual profile/biography? Mind you, there have already been some exceptional showbiz docs this year with Super/Man and Faye. Not to mention the two-part four-hour look at Steve Martin made by this film’s director, Morgan Neville. Is there a fresh way to present the “talking heads” interviews, the “reanactments”, and the archival footage? How about animation, much like the recently lauded Flee? That’s a start, but should it be standard hand-drawn 2-D, or the molded CGI? Yes to the latter, but do it in the Lego brick style since Warner’s let their license lapse. This gives the title a double meaning as Neville examines the life and career of Pharrell Williams, step by step, or rather Piece By Piece.

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The following contains spoilers for Piece by Piece, now playing in theatersPiece by Piece has an impressive soundtrack that spans the length of Pharrell William's career. Animated in the style of The Lego Movie, Piece by Piece is a music documentary exploring the life of Pharrell as he went from a music-obsessed kid in Virginia Beach to one of the biggest producers and musicians of the 21st century. Piece by Piece boasts an impressive cast of talented musicians who discuss Pharrell's career and their connections to it.

Befitting the film's focus on Pharrell and the music industry, Piece by Piece is packed to the brim with music. This ranges from the tracks Pharrell starred in to the ones he was primarily a producer, as well as some of the music that inspired him in the first place. The film even comes with some new original tracks, which help flesh out...

As far as imagination goes, Piece by Piece is visually and creatively spectacular. It marries documentary filmmaking which is very traditional here with a remarkable Lego animation style. When I saw this was a documentary about Pharrell Williams, I was initially surprised. Turning the renowned producers life story into a Lego animated film was ambitious, to say the least. But director Morgan Neville, the team of animators, and writers Neville, Oscar Vazquez, Aaron Wickenden, and Jason Zeldes do a phenomenal job creating something fun with the pieces of Williams life, even if some of those pieces dont all work.

Piece by Piece

Director Morgan NevilleRelease Date October 11, 2024Studio(s) I Am Other, Tremolo Productions, The Lego GroupDistributor(s) Focus FeaturesCast Timbaland, Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Morgan Neville, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Pharrell WilliamsRating PGRuntime 94 MinutesGenres Biography, Animation, Musical Piece By Piece Employs Color & An Energetic Animation Style...

Breaking into the music business, crafting insanely addictive earworm hits, recognizing genre boundaries, starting a streetwear fashion line, wearing properly sized ranger hats — Pharrell Williams has never done anything by the book. The kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, had always felt like someone who saw (and heard) the world differently than his peers. As a youngster growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, that “he’s so… unusual” tag marked him as a bit of a misfit. By the time Pharrell started creating oft-kilter beats as half of the molten-hot...

The Lego Movie, the 2014 cartoon from Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, challenged a lot of preconceptions about what a movie based on a toy line could be—and, as such, became a text of permission for plenty of middling-to-bad ideas. At the center of these new misconceptions was the idea...

If you’re sick of formulaic musical biopics — which is to say, almost all musical biopics — Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece” is a breath of fresh air. Pharrell Williams, an artist with more #1 hits than Will Riker and Jack Ransom in a bar fight, has a story to tell about his childhood, his career, and his creative process, and it’s not your typical rags to riches tale.

“Piece by Piece” is an animated documentary, which is not a brand-new concept but it hasn’t been done to death either. Morgan Neville, who won an Oscar for the music documentary “20 Feet from Stardom,” sat Pharrell Williams and his friends, family and artistic collaborators down for extended interviews, and then animated their story using the same style as the various “Lego Movies” everyone loves so much. It’s a charming approach, even if it’s also a huge commercial for toys.

The animated documentary Piece by Piece stars Pharrell Williams and some of music's biggest stars as themselves. Animated in the style of Lego toys and following the style of The Lego Movie, Piece by Piece is a bio-pic documentary that explores the life of Pharrell Williams. The narrative is a largely straight-forward approach to his story, staring in his youth growing up in public assisted housing and building to his massive success in the music industry.

Directed by Academy Award-winning documentarian Morgan Neville, the Lego-themed Piece by Piece embraces the fun of the film's presentation by leaning into the trademark sense of goofy excitement that usually comes associated with Lego. The film recreates several hit music videos from over the course of Williams' career, using the music to chart his development into a popular producer as well as the challenges he faced in his personal life. To flesh out the cast,...

Piece by Piece is a highly ambitious and creative collaboration between songwriter, producer, and artist Pharrell Williams and Lego. The rollout for the film a biopic about Pharrell, his love for music, and his journey to creative fulfillment promises to be as innovative and original as its subject, with the interactive Piece by Piece Generator allowing fans to scan themselves and customize their own Lego minifigure.

The Piece By Piece Minifigure Generator invites fans to embark on their own creative journey, allowing them to build and customize their very own digital Lego minifigures to resemble whoever they want to bepiece by piece, explains the press release from Lego. With a commitment to inclusivity, the generator boasts an impressive array of options including seven skin tones, over 60 hairstyles, and more than 90 outfit choices, including exclusive pieces from Pharrells renowned fashion brand, Billionaire Boys Club. The Minifig Generator also includes 60 facial expressions...

Pharrell Williams has released an upbeat new song, “Piece by Piece.” The track features the Princess Anne High School Fabulous Marching Cavaliers and will appear in Morgan Neville’s animated biopic Piece by Piece, in theaters Oct. 11.

The film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, tells the story of Williams’ life and musical career using Lego bricks. It features the voice of Williams alongside those of Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta Rhymes, Jay Z, and Snoop Dogg.

“What we made is not like any other movie,...

“You take it apart, then you put it back together piece by piece.” That, in a nutshell, is why Pharrell Williams was inspired to do his biopic completely in the animated world of Lego.

Turning the standard music-oriented documentary life story on its head, Williams enlisted Oscar and Grammy-winning documentarian Morgan Neville to direct and conceive a format that would bring the uber-creative life of Williams to a happy place cinematically. Surprisingly, it brings a freshness and originality to a docu format that makes it feel all new again.

In a way that actually is standard in biopics, the basic bricks of Williams’ life are told in linear fashion with the first part taking place as he was growing up in the projects of Virginia Beach. A little bit of an outcast, not quite blending in with other kids, but finally finding his mojo,...

Addressing a packed house at Telluride Film Festival’s flagship Herzog Theater, “Piece by Piece” director Morgan Neville described his Pharrell Williams’ documentary as an “ode to the power of magical thinking.” Told entirely through the unique framing device of LEGOs, Williams’ life story makes an effective case for the American Dream. The elements are all there: teenage Williams is a dreamer with a unique musical gift that comes at the expense of his schoolwork. Raw talent never being enough, some lucky breaks and long hours spent hustling are critical additional ingredients to getting Williams out of the projects of Virginia Beach and into a life of luxury — a life in which sharing studio space with Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake is the norm.

“Piece by Piece” is at its best in this opening act where a young Williams finds his creative voice and races to share it with the world.

Documentarian Morgan Neville unveils the building blocks of Pharrell Williams’ vibrant world in Piece by Piece. Neville crafted two moving music documentaries previously in 20 Feet From Stardom and Won’t You Be My Neighbor, shining light on unconventional performers and society’s often overlooked. For his profile of multifaceted artist Pharrell Williams, Neville pioneers a fresh approach—constructing the biography employing the animated charm of Lego.

The film follows Williams from his childhood in Virginia Beach to his ascendance in the music industry. Designed with Lego’s iconic plastic bricks, Neville fashioned ingenious set pieces, bringing Pharrell’s journey to life. If anyone’s story suits such whimsical translation, it’s Williams—a shapeshifter among creative types, forever challenging expectations. Piece by piece peeks within his synesthesia too—how music elicits vivid colors for Williams.

Through playful animation, Neville presents a performer who refused limitation. But beyond surface optics, do...

In Piece By Piece, Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet from Stardom) tries to upend the conventions of the celebrity documentary using Lego animation. Yes, you read that correctly: Lego.

Premiering at Telluride before its October 11 theatrical release by Focus Features, Piece By Piece tells the life story of multihyphenate Pharrell Williams through elaborately designed set pieces composed of animations of the popular plastic building blocks. If there is anyone for whom this wouldn’t be a completely strange and off-kilter idea, it’s Williams, whose career has been defined by a buoyant irreverence. Starting with his childhood in Virginia Beach and delving into his wildly successful music career, Piece By Piece reveals, in sweet and inspiring terms, how the producer turned rapper turned singer turned fashion icon has never been one to be boxed in.

But while inventive, Neville’s doc can’t quite avoid the trappings of the celebrity-produced biopic,...

Hip-hop duo Clipse are set to cement their reunion with a new album coming sometime in the “next year” produced entirely by Pharrell Williams.

Shortly after their new song titled “Birds Don’t Sing” was played in the background at Louis Vuitton’s Spring 2025 Menswear show on Tuesday (June 18th), brothers Pusha T and Malice (who has officially dropped the “No” from his name) spoke with Vulture about their first album in 15 years.

“The next year is going to be filled with appearances, touring, and a rap album of the year,” Push pronounced, before describing the project as “curated,” “a high taste-level piece of work,” and the “supreme maturation of a rap duo.”

He continued, “You can only have that level of taste when you have the fundamentals down to a science.” Malice added, “It’s what rap should look like if you’re real about your craft, real about your experience,...

Pharrell Williams has always done things differently in his music and his fashion, so why would his movie be different?

The singer-producer-designer is doing a biopic about his life. Focus Features just released the trailer for it. But it’s not your average musician biopic of the kind “Walk Hard” parodied. No, Williams is telling his life story through Legos. The movie is called “Piece by Piece,” but a more descriptive title would be “The Lego Pharrell Movie.”

The film follows Williams’ artistic journey, from growing up in Virginia Beach to the peak of the music industry, but tells it in an unconventional way, with impressionistic animation that combines psychedelia and Legos. The film is directed by Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville in his feature debut.

Williams and Neville hope the film resonates not just with fans of Williams’ music, but anyone seeking inspiration. “We wanted it...

Lawyers who represent Pink filed legal paperwork against Pharrell Williams on Thursday, claiming he should not be allowed to register a trademark for his P.Inc. business since it’s too much like, well, “Pink.” The singer, whose real name is Alecia Moore, applied for the “Pink” trademark in 1999 and officially registered it two years later, according to the paperwork which her lawyers filed on behalf of her Lefty Paw Print, LLC business.

“[Williams’] P.Inc Mark is similar to the Pink Marks in sight, sound, meaning and commercial impression,” the filing claims.

P!Nk and Pharrell Williams are entangled in a legal dispute over the trademark of the term “P.Inc.”

Lawyers for P!Nk are seeking to block Williams’ attempt to trademark “P.Inc,” saying that it’s “likely to cause confusion, mistake and/or deception” among consumers (via Billboard).

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In his trademark application, Williams said he intended to use “P.Inc” for “promotional marketing services in the field of music.”

Aside from P!Nk, Victoria’s Secret has also filed opposition to Williams’ trademark, saying it was “highly similar” to the fashion brand’s own Pink line.

Williams is also in a legal battle with his longtime producing partner, Chad Hugo, after allegedly attempting to trademark the name of their project “The Neptunes” without Hugo’s involvement. Williams contends that application was to “make sure a third party doesn’t get a hold of the trademark,...

Chad Hugo accused his longtime friend and production partner Pharrell Williams of “fraudulently” trying to gain sole control over the trademarks tied to their production and songwriting work as the Neptunes.

As Billboard reports, Hugo’s lawyer filed a legal action in a federal tribunal last week accusing Pharrell and his company, Pw IP Holdings LLC, of trying to register three separate trademarks for the Neptunes without involving Hugo — an alleged violation of the duo’s longstanding agreement to share everything equally.

“Throughout their over thirty year history, [Hugo] and Williams agreed to,...

Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are battling out.

The producers who formed the songwriting duo The Neptunes are in a legal dispute over the group’s name, after Chad accused Pharrell of “fraudulently” seeking sole control over the trademarks, via Billboard.

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The Neptunes crafted songs for everyone from Nelly to Gwen Stefani to Justin Timberlake in the early ’00s. The duo have been friends since childhood, and were just inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022.

Attorneys for Chad accused Pharrell and his company of attempting to register trademarks for The Neptunes name, which they say violates their longstanding agreement to split everything equally.

“Throughout their over thirty year history, [Hugo] and Williams agreed to, and in fact, have divided all assets,” wrote Chad‘s attorney Kenneth D. Freundlich, a prominent music industry litigator. “By ignoring and excluding [Hugo] from the any and all...

It was just last week we were celebrating the 20th anniversary of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which catapulted Michel Gondry into the Hollywood system with the likes of Be Kind Rewind and The Green Hornet. After the failure of that superhero tentpole, he retreated back to France, directing a handful of smaller-scale features, the latest of which, The Book of Solutions, gets meta following a filmmaker struggling with the editing of his big-budget project. Gondry is now mounting his return to Hollywood, the details of which have now been unveiled.

Deadline reports he’s directing an untitled coming-of-age musical, which is loosely inspired by the upbringing of Pharrell Williams. Set to star Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, coming off her Oscar win for The Holdovers, the Universal-backed project is set in 1977 Virginia Beach. Previously going by the title Atlantis, named after the Atlantis Apartments area where Williams was raised,...

Pharrell Williams is bringing his life story to the big screen through Lego animation in an unconventional biopic titled Piece by Piece. Directed by Morgan Neville, the film captures the magic and brilliance of Williams' creative genius. Williams' career spans music, film, and fashion, earning him numerous awards and international recognition.

Pharrell Williams is bringing his life to the big screen through an unconventional biopic titled Piece by Piece. Rather than the typical documentary style biopics audiences are accustomed to seeing, the talented multi-hyphenate will tell his story through Lego animation. The Focus Features film, which lands in theaters on October 11, is described as "an unparalleled motion picture experience that captures the magic and brilliance of Pharrell Williams’ creative genius, one Lego brick at a time."

Williams shared news of the upcoming film via his Instagram:

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Phoenix are keeping their collaboration kick going with a remix of their Alpha Zulu cut “All Eyes on Me” that features unlikely guest Pusha T. Check out the track below.

In addition to Pusha’s verses, the “All Eyes on Me” remix features vocals from Benee and production from Chad Hugo. The band shared their emphatic (and very French) gratitude in a press release: “A huge thank you to le Roi Pusha-t — most played artist in our backstage; to Chad Hugo, who always showed up when we were playing in Virginia, it’s about time we worked together! And to Benee, who worked at light speed to make this happen and added some magic. Merci!!!”

As random of a team-up as it may seem, it is fun to hear Pusha spit over Phoenix’s disco-punk instrumental, before Benne closes out the song with a mellow final verse. The track comes...

Phoenix has dropped a new iteration of their song “All Eyes on Me” featuring Pusha T, the Neptunes’ Chad Hugo, and New Zealand singer Benee.

“A huge thank you to le Roi Pusha-t — most played artist in our backstage,” Phoenix said in a statement. “To Chad Hugo, who always showed up when we were playing in Virginia, it’s about time we worked together! And to Benee, who worked at light speed to make this happen and added some magic. Merci!!!”

Pusha T previously teamed up with Phoenix on stage...

Clarence Avant, who was dubbed the “Godfather of Black Music,” died Sunday in Los Angeles, his family has confirmed. He was 92.

A statement provided by his family including son-in-law Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-ceo, announced Avant’s passing “with a heavy heart,” and said he had “passed away gently.”

“Through his revolutionary business leadership, Clarence became affectionately known as ‘the Black Godfather’ in the worlds of music, entertainment, politics, and sports,” the statement said. “Top artists and executives like Quincy Jones, JayZ, Whitney Houston, Pharrell Williams, Lionel Richie, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Sean Combs, L.A. Reid, Suzanne de Passe, Kenny ‘Baby Face’ Edmonds, Jon Platt, Irving Azoff, Snoop Dogg Reginald Hudland, Benny Medina and Queen Latifah all credit Avant for his inspiration and guidance.”

The news comes almost two years after the shooting death of his wife, Jackie Avant, during a break-in at the family’s Beverly Hills home...

Kelis is sharing her gratitude after a close call on an icy road.

In a video the “Milkshake” singer shared on Instagram, she’s seen standing on a darkened road, bundled up in winter gear.

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As she explained in the caption, she was driving to the Big Bear ski resort in California with her kids, “but we almost went off a cliff” during a snowstorm.

In the video, she reveals she’s waiting for a tow truck to rescue her vehicle, which was stuck in the snow.

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“We’ve been outside for a while, but we had all this snowboarding gear,” she said.

“So God is good. And I figured if you’re going to be in the situation, you...

Bad Bunny leads the 2022 Latin Grammy Award nominations with 10 bids including Album of the Year (“Un Verano Sin Ti“) and Record of the Year (“Ojitos Lindos”), but can he finally win top honors from the academy? Scroll down for the complete list of contenders in all categories.

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The Latin Recording Academy has been somewhat ambivalent about Bad Bunny, judging from his track record over the years. He has won four times, but only in urban genre categories. He lost his three previous Album of the Year bids (for “Yhlqmdlg” and “Oasis” in 2020 and “El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo” in 2021) and his previous Record of the Year nom (for “Vete” in 2020). However, Bad Bunny has emerged as the biggest crossover Latin star in the world. “Un Verano Sin Ti” has topped the all-genre, all-language Billboard 200 albums chart for 11 weeks, which is more than any album in six years.

Bad Bunny’s major year continues: The Puerto Rican artist received the most nominations for the 23rd Annual Latin Grammy Awards, which the Latin Recording Academy announced on Tuesday morning.

Bad Bunny secured nods in several major categories: His song with Bomba Estereo, “Ojitos Lindos,” is nominated for Record of the Year, and his latest album, Un Verano Sin Ti, is nominated for Album of the Year and Best Urban Music Album. He competes with himself in a few categories: “Titi Me Pregunto” and the Aventura collaboration “Volvi” are up for Best Urban Fusion Performance,...

Right from the start, In Search of… stood out. I discovered N.E.R.D.’s 2002 debut at a Best Buy on the rim of Houston’s I-10 loop, sitting at the front of the store on a blue kiosk marked 6.99. I was a first-year high school English teacher, struggling to pull together all the things expected of me. There was this unfussy album cover staring at me, with a twenty-something Black guy on a battered-looking couch in a nondescript apartment playing a video game in his house clothes, blankly staring at an off-screen TV,...

Lyrics from two songs on Beyoncé’s new album Renaissance were updated as a result of discussions on social media. A verse on “Heated” was altered after activists noted it contained language that has been described as ableist. Then, the singer Kelis shared a series of Instagram posts expressing frustration that her hit “Milkshake” was sampled on the album without her knowledge, describing it as “theft.” Both instances raise questions about the increasing malleability of music as a digital product.

Already, albums from major musicians are often updated with deluxe editions featuring added songs.

Beyoncé is continuing to respond to feedback: the singer removed the "Milkshake" riff interpolated on "Energy," off her new "Renaissance" album, following complaints from the song's original performer, Kelis. In a series of videos leading up to this decision, Kelis said she was not previously notified about the sample and expressed her frustrations with music-industry contracts, issues of ownership, and her splintered relationship with former collaborators Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes.

As it currently stands, the sample can no longer be heard on streaming platforms, and Williams and Hugo have been removed from the song credits available on Beyoncé's website. This also comes shortly after Beyoncé scrapped an ableist slur, the word "spaz," from the song "Heated."

The issue first began on July 25, days before the release of "Renaissance," when fans got hold of a list of the artists sampled on the album. A Kelis fan page shared said list,...

Beyoncé has removed the usage of “Milkshake” from her new song “Energy” after Kelis tore into the singer for featuring the hit 2003 song, proclaiming it an act of “thievery.”

It’s been an unexpectedly rocky release week for Beyoncé, who despite receiving rave reviews for her disco-dance album Renaissance, has had a series of blips and post-release modifications to songs.

Days before its drop last Friday, the album leaked online — a rare hiccup for the famously buttoned-up artist. Then on Monday, Beyoncé announced she would be removing the word “spaz...

Hours before Beyoncé’s much-anticipated seventh studio album Renaissance dropped at midnight on Friday, R&b singer Kelis was fuming.

In the weeks leading up to the release, Beyoncé had been teasing fans with tidbits of information about the dance record. First with the single “Break My Soul,” followed by the tracklist and later, the collaborators, producers, and various samplings from artists including disco queen Donna Summer, Robin S., and Kelis.

But according to Kelis, she was never given a heads up that Beyoncé would be using one of her tracks,...

Late Thursday evening, Lil Nas X took the stage at the Marquis Marriott Hotel in New York City as the youngest honoree of the night as he accepted the Hal David Starlight Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The honor, presented to young songwriters impacting the music industry through original songs, was presented to the 23-year-old artist two-and-a-half hours into the 51st annual induction ceremony. The night may have been dragging on with back-to-back 10-plus minute speeches punctuated with equally long performances, but Lil Nas X wouldn’t keep the audience for long.

Like most weeks for Pharrell Williams, this one is packed. On Thursday, he and Neptunes co-producer Chad Hugo will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. This weekend, he’ll host the latest edition of his Something in the Water Festival. And then there’s his most philanthropic latest venture, announced today: helping underprivileged kids avoid low-paying jobs.

As Williams sees it, Something in the Water isn’t just another music festival. It’s definitely that, of course: The lineup for the three-day event this Friday through Sunday in Washington,...

As soon as Moneybagg Yo’s latest song opens with a four-count, you know it’s a Neptunes-produced track. The duo of Pharrell and Chad Hugo have a storied list of past collaborations, ranging from Britney Spears to Sza, and the way their sound merges with the Memphis rapper’s on “Certified Neptunes,” you’ll hope it’s not the last time these artists work together.

The track takes on an eerie outer space vibe that’s reminiscent of the Pharrell-produced Lil Uzi Vert track “Neon Guts,” yet darker and fitting for Moneybagg’s approach,...

As Emmy voting draws to a close, the 2020 music nominations span rookies to regulars. Martin Phipps landed his sixth nomination overall for the dramatic score to Netflix’s “The Crown.” Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and his scoring partner Atticus Ross nabbed a nomination for their first series, HBO’s “Watchmen.” Emmy fave “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” grabbed another music supervision nom, while composers Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore landed their first for music and lyrics.

There is a wealth of music nominated across different sounds and genres. Variety breaks it all down in the annual Emmy chart.

Music Composition for a Series

"The Crown" (Netflix)

Composer: Martin Phipps

Pedigree: Six previous nominations

“Aberfan”

Vibe: Solo horn for a grieving Elizabeth; choir for mourning Welsh village

"Euphoria" (HBO)

Composer: Labrinth

Pedigree: First nomination (two this year)

“’03 Bonnie and Clyde”

Vibe: Contemporary sounds complement teen sex-and-drugs drama

"The Mandalorian" (Disney Plus...

Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams reunite on “Entrepreneur,” which the pair released Thursday at midnight. The song is accompanied by a new music video that spotlights black men and women, including Tyler, the Creator and Issa Rae, who have started their own businesses.

“Entrepreneur” is “all about how tough it is to be an entrepreneur in our country to begin with,” Pharrell told Time. “Especially as someone of color, there [are] a lot of systemic disadvantages and purposeful blockages. How can you get a fire started, or even the hope of an ember to start a fire,...

Emmys’ song category (officially original music and lyrics) embraces a wide spectrum of tunes, from amusing late-night trifles to powerful concluding anthems. This year the Television Academy’s voting members chose seven worthy songs penned by Oscar winners, Grammy winners and more.

The Black Godfather

(Netflix)

When Clarence Avant’s daughter, Nicole, asked songwriter Pharrell Williams to consider writing an end-title song for the documentary about the music executive’s life, he confesses, “I thought I knew this man’s legacy. I had no idea his fingerprint was on so many things we all benefit from.” So, with fellow songwriter Chad Hugo, he penned “Letter to My Godfather,” drawing inspiration from many musical genres, “to reflect his eclectic reach in terms of business and influence.” The lyrics — “he’s our chandelier, to bring the light” — were Williams’ metaphor for Avant’s ability to throw open the doors to “these often...

Trent Reznor, Pharrell and the RZA are among a handful of musicians to score Emmy nominations this year for their work on various television programs.

Reznor and his long-time musical partner Atticus Ross picked up their first two Emmy nominations for their work on Watchmen, the hit miniseries that led all nominees this year with 26. Reznor and Ross’ score for the show is up for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series/Movie, while their classic jazz pastiche, “The Way It Used To Be,” earned a look for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.

This year’s Emmy nominees in the seven music categories include such familiar scoring names as Ludwig Göransson, Pinar Toprak, Nicholas Britell, Mark Isham and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross as well as figures from the pop world like Pharrell Williams, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, Ingrid Michaelson, Sheila E and the RZA.

Labrinth joined Reznor and Ross in being nominated in both song and score categories. The latter Nine Inch Nails members (and Oscar winners for “The Social Network”) are up for scoring “Watchmen” as well as contributing an original 1940s-themed song (“The Way It Used to Be”) to the HBO limited series. Labrinth’s two noms are for Showtime’s “Euphoria,” which earned him both a series dramatic score nomination and a song nod (“All for Us”).

Nathan Barr has the most nominations in the music categories, with three. He’s up against himself in the main title theme category,...