Music Does Tory Lanez mean it? Tory Lanez emerged from his troll/rapper cave last week to expose what seemed like colourism against dark skin models at his video shoot for “Good Love”, a Nafe Smallz song he is featured on. I actually think Lanez is talented, and makes great music, but it often gets overshadowed By Melayna • Jun 20, 2019 04:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Captain Marvel x3 Brie Larson also won an MTV Movie Award, for Best Fight in Captain Marvel. They singled out the “Carol vs. Minn-Erva” fight, which…was that the Nerf gun bit? I assume this is really for the whole third act of Captain Marvel, because Carol and Minn-Erva didn’t really throw By Sarah • Jun 18, 2019 02:23 pm
Music Taylor Isn’t Doing Her Homework Sometimes, even though I’m enjoying a song or a movie, I’ll get this unsettled feeling in my gut that tells me that something’s off. That perhaps I should be looking a little deeper or thinking a bit more critically about what I’m consuming. That gut feeling By Prem • Jun 18, 2019 10:16 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 18, 2019 Dear Gossips, Surviving R Kelly won Best Documentary at the MTV Movie & TV Awards broadcast last night. Survivors Asante McGee, Faith Rodgers, Lisa Van Allen, and Lizette Martinez were part of the team that took the stage to accept. R Kelly has been abusing women without consequence for over By Lainey • Jun 18, 2019 09:12 am
BFFs Taylor’s very gay video It’s Pride month – and Taylor Swift has just released the video to her latest single, “You Need To Calm Down”. As she promised on Instagram this weekend, a LOT of celebrities show up. A lot LGBTQ+ celebrities. Like Laverne Cox, and Ellen DeGeneres, getting a tattoo from Adam Lambert, By Lainey • Jun 17, 2019 09:32 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae: all she does is win If you haven’t seen this yet, your Friday is about to get better. At the Women in Film gala the other night, Issa Rae was presented with the inaugural Emerging Entrepreneur award. During her acceptance speech, instead of being humble, she was … I don’t want to say “not By Lainey • Jun 14, 2019 01:03 pm
TV Updates Lena Waithe's The Chi drama In the past few weeks, we have seen some serious drama unfold publicly from the set of the Lena Waithe Showtime drama ,The Chi. Suddenly one of the stars, Jason Mitchell was thrust into the spotlight in a negative way, getting dropped from not only The Chi but also the By Melayna • Jun 10, 2019 01:26 pm
Music Madonna at World Pride 2019 Madonna made the announcement yesterday that everyone had already predicted: she’ll be performing at Pride Island at the end of this month for New York City’s World Pride. She posted it in a fun Instagram story where she twirls around in a pride flag singing the intro to By Prem • Jun 04, 2019 10:20 am
Business of Hollywood Talk more about money! Award season roundtables are a cottage industry now, and with Emmy nominations looming, The Hollywood Reporter is back on their bullsh-t with a comedy ladies’ roundtable of hopeful nominees. The group includes Jane Fonda, Regina Hall, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Borstein, Tiffany Haddish, Maya Rudolph, and Natasha Lyonne. It’s a By Sarah • May 30, 2019 03:38 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Twitter comes for Future over Rolex Last week, baby Future celebrated his 5th birthday and was gifted a Rolex from his father, Atlanta rapper Future. Due to baby Future having three high profile parents (Ciara, Future, and stepfather NFL superstar Russell Wilson), imaginary parents, caregivers, and childhood psychology Twitter went in on Future. All of us By Melayna • May 29, 2019 11:09 am
Douchebags Miley raps about Nicki Nicki Minaj is in the news. Usually this makes me happy but Miley Cyrus has decided to speak on her to roll out three singles. On one called "Cattitude," Miley raps “I love you Nicki, but I listen to Cardi.” As fans, we can joke about the Nicki By Melayna • May 28, 2019 03:45 pm
Douchebags Natalie Never Dated Moby (Lainey: this piece was written by guest contributor Jessica Goldstein. Jessica is currently the Culture Editor for ThinkProgress and she’s written for Vulture and The Washington Post. That’s how I met Jessica – she wrote a profile on me and LaineyGossip.com for WaPo last year and I’m By Lainey • May 23, 2019 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ali, Randall, and Keanu! Keanu Reeves is currently king of the box office as John Wick 3 took down Avengers: Endgame last weekend with a $57 million opening take supported by strong reviews – Sarah loved it and called it the best of the franchise so far. Which is an achievement. How often is the By Lainey • May 23, 2019 10:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 23, 2019 Dear Gossips, Cannes 2019 isn’t over yet but the festival’s biggest story is and will likely continue to be Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood. So the Cannes love affair with QT continues. They adore him there and, apparently, since the reviews have been outstanding By Lainey • May 23, 2019 08:48 am
Dumbass Gucci F-cked Up…Again Let’s revisit the Gucci Ready-to-Wear collection from Fall 2018. Back in February of last year, Gucci presented their Fall 2018 collection from Alessandro Michele. The Fall 2018 collection was famous for some of its models who carried disembodied copies of their heads on the runway and were the inspiration By Prem • May 17, 2019 10:48 am
Music Lizzo’s Authentic Brand and her Cover in Essence Magazine Just under a month ago, I had the undeniable pleasure of seeing Lizzo live at Coachella. Yes, it was the performance where she stopped the music and whipped out her flute to back her own track after the audio cut out FOR THE SECOND TIME. Watching Lizzo perform is a By Prem • May 16, 2019 09:31 am
