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Here’s the March 10 edition of New Music Friday: Jim Jones, Back in My Prime — Exclusively produced by Hitmaka, the album includes lead single “I Am” with Stefflon Don, “Seen The Money” and “Stay.” Blxst, Just for Clarity 2 — the singer’s back with part two of his 2021 project. He tapped Roddy Ricch, Terrance Martin, Mustard and Larry June to join him. Conway the Machine & Jae Skeese, Pain Provided Profit — Conway teamed up with Jae […]

Sonja Flemming/CBS SZA‘s rapping on SOS songs “Forgiveless” and “Smoking On My Ex Pack” is apparently a tease for what she can really do. In an interview with Rap Radar Podcast, Top Dawg Entertainment President Terrence “Punch” Henderson revealed SZA, born Solána Imani Rowe, has a short project filled with nothing but rap songs.  “She’s always bended the genre, so it wasn’t nothing […]

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for NARAS India.Arie‘s explaining her decision to put her music back on Spotify. The singer left the platform last year because it hosts Joe Rogan‘s podcast, despite his “language around race,” and because of its treatment of all, but especially Black, artists. Speaking to Billboard, India said she pulled her music off Spotify in protest and “in the […]

Kirill Bichutsky/Courtesy of Netflix (NOTE LANGUAGE) During Chris Rock‘s widely hyped live special, Selective Outrage, he flubbed a joke in the heat of the moment — but Netflix has now apparently edited it out. The bit came in the closing minutes of the stand-up, which was filmed live from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre March 4, when […]

Jamie Nelson Megan Thee Stallion is scheduled to headline the Outside Lands festival in May, but first she’ll make her return with a hometown performance. Rolling Stone reports the rapper, who has been out the spotlight since winning her assault case against Tory Lanez, will headline the AT&T Block Party at Houston’s Discovery Green park on March 31. “There’s no […]

Peacock Snoop Dogg‘s Death Row catalog is back on all streaming services by popular demand. Death Row first teased the music’s return Thursday, writing, “We heard you. The time has come.” The label also revealed the music would drop at 9 p.m. PT, and delivered on its promise. “We back,” Snoop wrote following the release, alongside a screenshot of the different […]

Kelsey McNeal In the new Hulu series Unprisoned, Kerry Washington plays Paige, a relationship therapist and single mom whose life is upended when her father returns from a 16-year prison stint. The show is inspired by creator Tracy McMillan‘s life, but Kerry says she and Delroy Lindo, who plays her father, Edwin, found a way to make the characters their own. “One thing I […]

Warner Bros. Discovery (NOTE LANGUAGE) Once again, James Gunn has clapped back against a troll who took issue with one of his Instagram posts. On Monday, Gunn happily touted his Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji‘s role as the High Evolutionary in Gunn’s upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. However, somebody snarked of the character, “Damnit…another […]

Frank Micelotta/Hulu Unprisoned, a new series about a relationship therapist and single mother whose life changes when her father’s released from prison, comes out on Hulu Friday. The show features Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo in the starring roles of Paige and Edwin, but also vital to the series are characters played by Jordyn McIntosh, Faly Rakotohavana and Marque Richardson. Faly takes on the […]