Jill Scott is set to portray the Gospel queen, Mahalia Jackson, in an upcoming biopic executive produced by Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah. The movie is based on the novel Mahalia Jackson by Darlene Donloe. Gospel wasn’t popular during a certain era and has evolved over the years. Jackson came from poverty in New Orleans to becoming […]
For fans of Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer films, Queen Latifah is stepping into a reboot of the role for television. As a bit of back story, the original The Equalizer was Edward Woodward in a television series on CBS that ran from 1985-1989, Shadow and Act reports. The series transitioned into a film in 2014 […]
Harvard University will honor Queen Latifah for her contributions to black history and culture. Billboard reports Latifah will be awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal and six other recipients at a ceremony on October 22. Additional honorees named by the Cambridge, Mass., school’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research include poet and educator […]
New Jersey Hip-Hop was front and center to conclude this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Taking over New York’s neighbor for the first time, the VMAs took time to honor those from Jersey by bringing those born in the state to close out the show. The telecast wrapped with Wyclef Jean, Naughty by Nature, Queen […]
So far, 2019 has been one of the hottest years on record in many parts of the world, so it’s fitting that mermaids (specifically Little Mermaid remakes) are all the rage this summer. (After all, who wouldn’t want to live under the sea right about now?) This week, ABC unveiled more info about their own […]
Angie Martinez aka “The Voice of New York” will be hosting a new show titled Untold Stories Of Hip Hop will premiere this fall on the WE tv network. According to reports, Martinez is set to sit down with Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, Nelly, A$AP Rocky, DJ Khaled, Wyclef Jean, Ja […]
Legendary lyricists Black Thought and super-producer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots are executive producers of a six-part docuseries entitled Hip-Hop: The Songs That Shook America on AMC. On each episode of this new series put emphasis on a trailblazing song that was critical to the transformation of American music and popular culture. The artists […]
This week it was reported by The New York Times that YouTube and Universal Music Group would be joining to give some of our favorite classic music videos the remastering treatment. With a time span that goes from the ’80s all the way to the 2000s when things began to change for the better, it […]
Will Smith and Queen Latifah are reportedly teaming up to produce a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet for Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter says the movie is described as a twist to the William Shakespeare classic set against “the urban rhythms of New York.” The story follows “a young waitress from the streets of Brooklyn and an […]
Salt-N-Pepa are one of the most acclaimed and successful acts in the history of Hip-Hop. Since their debut in 1985, they have been making their voices heard as leading ladies in the male-dominated genre of rap music. With classic songs like “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Express Yourself,” “Shoop,” and “Whatta Man,” and many […]
On this date 49 years ago, Hip-Hop’s first matriarch was born in Newark, New Jersey. Born Dana Owens, Queen Latifah grew from an affluent and promising basketball player from Irvington, New Jersey into one of the most iconic figures in the world’s most transformative sub-culture known as Hip Hop. Whether it’s hitting the booth over […]
Fox’s musical drama STAR makes its mid-season return on Wednesday, March 13. The popular show, created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy (The duo also are the brains behind Empire, FOX’s highest-rated drama), made its debut on December 14, 2016. The show is centered on a trio of talented young singers who are navigating the […]
Queen Latifah made it clear that she is standing by Jussie Smollett’s side until there’s solid proof that he staged the attack against himself. Smollett was charged with filing a false police report last week and slammed by the Chicago Police Department for using “the pain and anger of racism to promote his career.” However, […]
Legendary MC and renowned actress, Queen Latifah does not plan on leaving her hometown of Newark, New Jersey hanging. According to NJ.com, the All Hail the Queen artist is currently planning a $14 million dollar project that includes building affordable housing units in Newark. Latifah’s company, BlueSugar Corporation is working with GonSosa Development on the […]
On this date in 1992, Paramount Pictures presented the highly anticipated hood flick Juice, which stars a still rising rap star by the name of Tupac Shakur, who plays a crooked crime from Uptown by the name of “Bishop”. His co-star, Omar Epps(Higher Learning, In Too Deep), plays a local DJ with industry potential named […]
On this date in 1989, Dana Owens aka Queen Latifah dropped her first full-length studio album All Hail The Queen on the now-defunct Tommy Boy Records. As the first artist on N.J. based Flavor Unit collective, Latifah filled a void for female emcees with her regal appearance and her commanding rhyme style, which at that […]
Words by: Kevin Keise Thanks to the variety of post-Thanksgiving discounts, holiday shopping has become a time of ultimately saving with the deals happening on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. So in a giving effort, many well-known stars celebrated a new holiday that’s not so well-known. It’s called Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday, which is only […]
As this year’s highly contentious midterm elections play an important role in determining the course of politics on state, local, and federal levels, many celebrities are campaigning for their favorite candidates and many are encouraging their fans to also engage in the democratic process by casting their vote- regardless of political party or affiliation. Long […]
Queen Latifah and her rumored girlfriend, Eboni Nichols, have allegedly been dating since 2013, with the paparazzi catching photographs of the couple together at a few events. RadarOnline is currently reporting that the Oscar-nominated actress and the Hollywood choreographer are prepared to extend their family, as Nichols has been spotted with a full baby bump […]
When it comes to royalty among ladies in Hip-Hop there is no name bigger than Queen Latifah. A couple weeks after Nicki Minaj and Cardi B almost threw hands, the Queen visited Live with Kelly and Ryan and expressed the two superstars need to put their issues behind them. “I have a lot of respect […]