Music Quavo and Saweetie: Music’s Next King and Queen Quavo, one third of the mega-successful rap group, Migos, and Saweetie, the up and coming rapper who ruled summer 2019 with her hit, “My Type,” are making chess moves to become music’s next power couple. Their latest play arrives inside the August issue of GQ. The piece is titled By Cody • Jul 17, 2020 11:08 am
Top Reads Nick Cannon and anti-Semitism This one’s for the people who think PC and cancel culture only go one way. Late Tuesday, ViacomCBS cut ties with Nick Cannon after he made anti-Semitic statements on his podcast while interviewing Professor Griff, the former member of Public Enemy, who was kicked out of the rap group By Cody • Jul 15, 2020 10:06 am
Dumbass Chance The Rapper asks why people trust Biden over Kanye I don’t think Chance The Rapper woke on Monday morning with the intent to become a trending topic on Twitter, but after being roasted online for endorsing Kanye West for President, life had different plans. And yall out here tryna convince me to vote for Biden. Smfh https://t. By Cody • Jul 14, 2020 09:57 am
TV Updates What should Keke Palmer do next? Page Six is reporting Keke’s Palmer’s latest gig as co-host of Strahan, Sara & Keke has come to an end. Sources say ABC has no plans to resume production on the Good Morning America spinoff, after it was put on hiatus to make room for pandemic news programming By Cody • Jul 10, 2020 02:23 pm
Music Is Reese Witherspoon’s son the next Calvin Harris? There’s nothing quite like your first time. Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s son, Deacon, has released his debut single “Long Run”, featuring Scottish singer-songwriter, Nina Nesbitt. Knowing Reese, and taking one look at Deacon, I thought it would be a country/pop power duet — think Bebe Rexha/Florida By Cody • Jul 10, 2020 09:46 am
Top Reads Thandie Newton: A career shaped by pain When we analyze an actor’s career, we often look at what common threads can be found among the projects they’ve been a part of and what does it say about that artist. This week we learned that the common thread of Thandie Newton’s career is pain. E. By Cody • Jul 09, 2020 12:43 pm
Dumbass Terry Crews is Trash: An Update Yesterday, I wrote about Terry Crews’ commitment to fighting an imaginary threat to society known as “Black supremacy.” After submitting my piece, two things happened. Terry Crews started trending on Twitter after a late night interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, and a reader sent me this message: Hi Cody, By Cody • Jul 08, 2020 10:03 am
TV Live Blog I May Destroy You and the Nuance of Sex (This post contains spoilers.) “It’s wholesome, uncomfortable, hilarious but terribly sad and then awkward … I’ve never felt so many emotions at once! Absolutely fantastic. Michaela Coel bloody SMASHED it.” That how Adele described Michaela Coel’s new series, I May Destroy You in a rare Instagram post last By Cody • Jul 07, 2020 02:47 pm
Dumbass Terry Crews is (yet again) trash Terry Crews is busy hosting summer’s number one television series, America’s Got Talent, but in between live tweeting the show every Tuesday night, he’s made the fight against “Black supremacy” his cross to bear. Although nobody asked. At the beginning of June, Terry tweeted that defeating white By Cody • Jul 07, 2020 11:23 am
TV Updates For Your Consideration: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Looks like that Team Paxton vs. Team Ben cliffhanger won’t go answered. Mindy Kaling’s Netflix series, Never Have I Ever officially got the green light for season 2. It’s no surprise, considering the teen dramedy became the most streamed title in many countries around the world almost By Cody • Jul 03, 2020 11:24 am
Equality Issues Lil Nas X marks one year since coming out Remember last June, Lil Nas X was in the middle of a 19 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with his mega-smash “Old Town Road,” and on the very last day of Pride month he came out in a tweet? It was a cultural reset. By Cody • Jul 02, 2020 01:53 pm
Maple Leaf The Weeknd is a chatterbox? Many things come to mind when I think of The Weeknd: vocals… iconic hair… elusive… Canadian! I don’t, however, think of him as somebody who’d want to talk for hours. But apparently, I am mistaken. The singer recently spoke to Variety for a piece they called The Weeknd By Cody • Jul 02, 2020 09:21 am
Douchebags Don’t come for Marsai Martin Marsai Martin is exactly the presenter award show producers look for. At Sunday’s BET Awards she took whatever script was given to her and made it her own, mixing comedy with an important call to action, demanding #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor. She even threw in a few steps from the TikTok “Savage” By Cody • Jun 30, 2020 10:08 am
Music Summer Walker’s BET Awards Showstopper If you’re an R&B fan and you don’t know Summer Walker, download her 2019 album Over It, right now — and thank me later. Now that we have that sorted out, let me tell you about her BET Awards duet with Usher that proved to be the By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 11:38 am
Amazingness Queen Bey announces Black is King Last week I wrote about Beyoncé flexing her brilliance on the surprise Juneteenth song, “Black Parade”. Who knew that a such an important piece of her discography would set the stage for ‘something way bigger? After being honoured with the Humanitarian Award at Sunday’s BET Awards, Beyoncé used her By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 09:26 am
TV Updates THR’s TV Drama Actresses Roundtable 2020 Voting for this year’s Emmy nominees starts July 2nd and that means the stars are (virtually) out campaigning. One of the big stops is always The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable series; this year’s drama actress roundtable includes Janelle Monáe (Homecoming), Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show), Reese Witherspoon (The By Cody • Jun 26, 2020 01:15 pm
