On this date in 2006, Dana Owens, who is best known to the Hip Hop world as Queen Latifah, received a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame, becoming the very first Hip Hop artist to receive the prestigious honor. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Recognized for her contribution to the film world, Latifah’s […]
Queen Latifah’s upcoming drama series reboot, The Equalizer, is premiering right after the Super Bowl. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Following its premiere, it will air on Sundays regularly beginning on February 14th, 2021. You might remember Denzel Washington portrayed the mysterious former special-ops agent using his special skill set to help those in need. But […]
n a recent Fat Joe Instagram Live Stream with Treach from Naughty By Nature, Treach speaks about the times that Queen Latifah would swing on grown men! Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Joe even tells his own Latifah story about how the award-winning rapper/actress chased him with a knife!
Jill Scott is set to portray the Gospel queen, Mahalia Jackson, in an upcoming biopic executive produced by Jamie Foxx and Queen Latifah. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
For fans of Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer films, Queen Latifah is stepping into a reboot of the role for television. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
Harvard University will honor Queen Latifah for her contributions to black history and culture. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The telecast wrapped with Wyclef […]
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?) Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information This week, ABC unveiled […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information On each episode of this new series put emphasis on a trailblazing song that was critical to the transformation of American music […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Latifah’s company, BlueSugar Corporation is working […]
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”. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information His co-star, Omar Epps(Higher Learning, In Too Deep), plays a local […]
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. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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 […]
Words by: Kevin Keise Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information 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. […]
