Month: May 2023

Nicolas Cage remains one of Hollywood’s most popular actors and continues to take on interesting projects. A production that’s yet to see the light of day, however, is Face/Off 2, which fans have been anxiously awaiting for some time now. The movie is reportedly in development, but there’s been no indication as to when it
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This article contains spoilers up to and including Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies Season 1 Episode 6. If Niamh Wilson carries herself like a showbiz veteran, it’s because she is. The Canadian wunderkind has been working in the entertainment industry since age five. Wilson is currently lighting up our screens as rival-turned-romantic interest to
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LaTocha Scott’s solo career began at an early age. Growing up, she had a church choir director, Mary Sims, affectionately known as Sister Sims, encourage those talents. “She put me on the program and gave me a song called ‘I Made a Vow,’” LaTocha tells Rated R&B, seated in front of a piano, dressed in
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Canadian rapper Drake, who is of African and Jewish ancestry, has revealed that his father’s DNA reflects that his dad is mostly Nigerian. Dennis Graham, the Champagne Papi’s father, has posted his Ancestry.com results. Daddy Drake’s results are 30 percent Nigerian, 28 percent Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu peoples, 11 percent from the Ivory Coast
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It’s been five years since Philadelphia duo Drones for Queens released anything—a split with Abacus—and seven since their only other full-length, Unwavering Servant, but they’re back in peak form on new album Scraps of Mercy. Recorded from July 2022 to March 2023, the album features drummer Evan Madden (Wild Beyond, ex-Woe, ex-Woods of Ypres) and brother Shane on guitar,
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On May 8, 2009, Dolly Parton gave the University of Tennessee, Knoxville graduating class a commencement speech to remember. The country icon’s address mixed self-deprecating humor, anecdotes from her own life and inspirational encouragement. “Do not confuse dreams with wishes,” she said at one point to the 12,000-strong crowd. “There is a difference. Dreams are
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Reggie Becton doesn’t just endure uncomfortable situations; he thrives in them. “I’m really big on discomfort and how it allows you to push past your own limitations,” Becton tells Rated R&B on a sunny April afternoon over Zoom. He’s reminiscing on his bold decision to relocate from Prince George’s County, Maryland, to Los Angeles, California,
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French death metallurgists, Liquid Flesh, make their return later this month in a follow-up to their 2020 effort, Chair Liquide. The trio’s newest album, Dolores, follows a conceptual story of the titular character on hallucinogens and what unfolds is a trippy and tumultuous story laden with putrid, plodding death metal. The track, as the band later describes,
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