Gamma CEO and last year’s Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players’ Executive of the Year Larry Jackson sat down with Joe Buddenfor a one-on-one interview that launched June 6. Jackson, who was once Apple Music’s global creative director, had an interesting thought to share about Drake’s streaming numbers. About an hour into the interview, Budden asks whether or…

PHILADELPHIA — Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia. The entertainment mogul’s Roc Nation announced it is funding a campaign this month to drum up support for the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success, a statewide legislative proposal to spend taxpayer money on private school scholarships for low-income…

Nigerian rapper and singer Skales has tackled Afrobeats star Wizkid over his controversial claim that “hip-hop is dead.” Skales stated that the genre is not dead, but rather that the excitement has moved somewhere and that nothing is meant to last forever. “Everybody has their opinion. Wizkid has his own opinion so that [‘hip-hop is…

Ayra Starr has made history as the first Nigerian female artist to grace the U.S. Billboard 200 Album chart.                       The singer achieved the feat with her sophomore album, ‘The Year I Turned 21’ which debuted at No. 195 on Monday. The album is also…

Music sensation Davido is reportedly planning to marry his wife Chef Chioma in a traditional wedding on June 25, 2024. Stella Dimokokorkus, a renowned news blogger, broke the news on her Instagram page on Tuesday, revealing that the couple who recently welcomed twin children will have a legitimate ceremony rather than a private wedding they had…

Canadian singer Celine Dion has shared that she hid her struggle with Stiff Person Syndrome for 17 years before revealing it to the public. In an interview with Hoda Kotb on the Today Show this week, Dion revealed that she was secretly battling the illness while managing her late husband, Rene Angelil’s cancer battle and…