Republican Mitt Romney wants the Confederate Flag in South Carolina’s Capitol removed, as he believes it is a “symbol of racial hatred,” especially after the Charleston church shooting. Read more here. [Daily Mail] Russell Simmons is confident that Kim Kardashian would make a better president than Donald Trump. He tweeted to his followers: “Kim K being better president than […]

  Chris Brown wins big at this year’s Soul Train Awards. The R&B singer led with 7 nominations and went home with the awards for Best Collaboration and Best Hip-Hop Song of The Year for “Loyal.” Check out a full recap of the show and photos here —> [Rap-Up] Taylor Swift is having the best week ever. […]

As a part of the BET experience, Future brought his Honest tour to L.A. last night and he even gave the crowd an added bonus – the Young Money experience. The “Move That Dope” hit-maker brought out Lil Wayne to help him out for his popular songs “Karate Chop” and “Love Me,” and the crowd definitely went wild. [Rap-Up] […]

Sheezus, what’s up with Lily Allen? Yesterday, the British singer put up a strange video on Instagram. The clip featured the singer dancing to Drake’s “Started From the Bottom,” topless, while wearing some granny underwear. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? We’re not sure. The caption on the IG post was “Cool Mom…” so that doesn’t really […]

Headlines this past weekend might have been dominated by KimYe’s Italian wedding, but there was a lot going on outside of that! BBC Radio 1 had their annual “Big Weekend” at Glasgow Green, and tons of stars took the stage to put on some epic performances including Rita Ora, Pharrell, Katy Perry, Lorde, Lily Allen, […]

Lily Allen had her fans raising their eyebrows when she revealed that her next album is going to be called Sheezus, a title obviously inspired by Ye’s Yeezus. The “Smile” singer was recently featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine‘s June 2014 issue, where she goes into detail about her album’s title and being inspired by Kanye West. Apparently, the album is very much a tribute […]

So odd, yet so fascinating. Guess who loves Beyonce? UK singer/songwriter Lily Allen. Lily loves the Queen so much, that she dressed up like Beyonce in her “Drunk In Love” video, lip-synced, got a hot guy to throw buckets of water on her, and surfboarded, of course. Lily definitely channeled her inner ‘Yonce and the […]

Roots frontman/hip-hop enthusiast, Questlove, wrote about the current state of hip-hop and his take on its domination on black music as a whole. Quest also points out that the lack of successful black musicians in other genres has led the public to label “the two biggest stars,” Beyonce and Rihanna, as hip-hop artists because of […]