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Legendary rapper and producer Sean Combs has officially changed his middle name to “Love.” The 51-year-old first announced the decision back in 2017, when he tweeted “I decided to change my name again! My new name is LOVE aka Brother Love,” along with the hashtag “TakeDat.” “I’m just not who I am before, I’m something…

Denmark’s Roskilde Festival has been cancelled for the second consecutive year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The organizers said they were forced to postpone the music festival, which was scheduled to start on July 26, to 2022 after receiving an official statement about this summer’s restrictions. Artists such as The Strokes, Tyler, The Creator, DaBaby,…

The Weeknd has insisted that he will not submit music for Grammy Awards nomination despite the Recording Academy scrapping its controversial nomination review committees. As per the reforms in the nomination process for the 2022 Grammy Awards, nominations in most categories will be decided by a majority vote of Academy voting members. While recognizing the…

Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s all-genre 200 chart, earning the rapper his first chart topper on the list. The 22-track album, which dropped on April 23 via CMG/N-Less/Interscope, earned 110,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 29, according to MRC Data. Moneybagg had previously…

Dick clark productions and NBC have announced that multi-platinum recording artist, actor and Hal David Starlight Award winner Nick Jonas will host the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. The co-founder of the three-time Billboard Music Award-winning trio Jonas Brothers, Nick currently serves as a coach on the music competition series “The Voice.” Nick shared the news…

Rapper Cardi B says Chloe Bailey’s cover of “Be Careful” has left her “blushing.” Chloe of Choloe X Halle shared another cover this weekend, delivering a rendition of Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy track “Be Careful.” Cardi, who saw the cover, tweeted, “This is soo beautiful got me smiling from ear to ear and blushing…

Kelly Rowland recently revealed that Beyoncé and Michelle Williams, her Destiny’s Child bandmates, watched on Zoom as she gave birth to her second son Noah in January. “They were able to see Noah come into the world. It was beautiful,” Rowland told the People (The TV Show!) host Kay Adams. Rowland said Beyoncé and Williams…

Twenty One Pilots released the song “Choker” and an accompanying video on Friday (April 30). The song is from the band’s upcoming sixth album, Scaled And Icy, due out on May 21 via Fueled By Ramen. The video shows frontman Tyler Joseph stepping into a mysterious toy store and Josh Dun showing off his magical…

Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival is set to take place this November after last year’s edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival is now planned to take place on November 5 and 6 at NRG Park. Scott is set to headline the festival and is expected to release his latest studio album, Utopia,…

Multiple arrests have been made in connection with the abduction of Lady Gaga’s dogs and the shooting of her dogwalker. The incident happened on February 24, when Gaga’s dogwalker, Ryan Fischer, was walking her three dogs at about 9:40 p.m. in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Fischer was confronted by two men who struggled with him before…