As anyone with a pulse should have expected, NBC’s The Wiz Live! was a huge hit. According to Nielsen, 11M viewers watched the live cast and it also was a massive hit on Twitter, too.
You can consider Kendrick Lamar an A-list artist at this point. Today (Feb. 18), it was announced that the Compton rapper and Mary J. Blige will be headlining the 2015 Essence Festival.
OG music and marketing exec Steve Stoute got married to Lauren Branche on Sunday (Sept. 6). The wedding went down in Tarrytown, NY and was attended by Jay Z, Beyonce, LeBron James, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, among others, and included a performance from Maxwell.
Budweiser’s Made In America Festival in Philadelphia is around the corner, but there is another show that will serve as a prelude. Mary J. Blige kicked off the summer by rocking Liberty Island in NYC and on August 15, E-40 will be performing at Crissy Field in San Francisco.
At the close of last week, Lil Mama made a worldwide impression with her return to the music game, “Sausage.” Although it quickly amassed a couple of million views on YouTube, the overall reaction (on social media) was that the majority seemed to hate it…because it was Lil Mama. Despite, the “fake hate,” it appears […]
NBC is wasting no time finalizing the casting jobs for this holiday season’s The Wiz Live! David Alan Grier was just named as the Cowardly Lion and 18-year-old Shanice Williams has just been handpicked to serve as the show’s maraschino cherry by playing lead character, Dorothy.
In Living Color alumnus David Alan Grier will play the role of the Cowardly Lion in NBC‘s upcoming musical, The Wiz Live. The veteran actor, who is currently a co-star in an upcoming NBC series, joins Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige and Stephanie Mills in a star-studded cast.
Netflix’s upcoming Nina Simone documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone?, is supposed to be the one to watch and several artists are recording cover songs of the late jazz legend’s discography. One of those artists just so happens to be Ms. Lauryn Hill as the degree of separation between the two are next to nothing.
NBC’s The Wiz Live! is gearing up to be quite an event. Featuring a bevy of known stars alongside a handful of newcomers, the live production of the beloved play has added actor/rapper Common, R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo, and actor Elijah Kelley to its growing cast
An impromptu European vacation has the allowed Mary J. Blige, the undisputed Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, to infuse a new sound into her artistic DNA to birth The London Sessions.
Workplace romances aren’t particularly new, but these 15 celebs who smashed their employees still made some serious headlines.
Last January, R&B megastar Mary J. Blige‘s father was stabbed by a woman reported as his ex-girlfriend after a dispute in Battle Creek, Mich. After a series of conflicts with the woman, justice was served Tuesday as a judge sentenced the attacker to 365 days in prison.
