Offset, Sexyy Red, Ludacris Among 2023 BET Hip-Hop Awards Performers

It’s been a half-century since DJ Kool Herc energized a West Bronx rec room and invented the most popular musical genre on the planet. Now the celebration is going primetime.

The 2023 BET Hip Hop Awards were broadcast on TV last night after being held in Atlanta on October 3. The show featured a number of impressive performances, including a tribute to a local Atlanta favorite, Jermaine Dupri’s So So Def Recordings.

Jaden Thompson The Spirit of Life Gala, hosted by the cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope, will honor hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Lyor Cohen with a one-time-only version of DJ Cassidy‘s “Pass the Mic Live!” at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 18.

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Shakira, who took home two prestigious awards: Latin Pop Artist of the Year, Solo, and Latin Pop Song of the Year for her collaboration with Bizarrap on “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53.”Over the years, she has evolved from her early days as a pop-rock sensation to becoming one of the most influential figures in the Latin music industry.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Yanet, lateish twenties, opens her eyes, looks in the mirror, takes in air, straightens two braids of hair, hold her head in her hands, purses her lips, is called for her stage test. She begins to sing. “People say I have to change, but I don’t care at all.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Record Store Day has announced a lineup of more than 170 exclusive titles for its annual Black Friday event this fall, with the “black” almost being a misnomer for this particular Nov. 24, 2023 rollout — given the amount of purple, gold, red, blue, green, marble, clear and splatter-colored vinyl variants on the list.

Will Smith has announced that he will be hosting a new podcast called Class Of ’88, exploring hip-hop music that was released in that year.The rapper-turned-actor will celebrate the year in rap alongside other hip-hop superstars of that era, including Queen Latifah, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels, Salt-N-Pepa, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Fab Five Freddy, Rakim, and DJ Red Alert.Per Billboard, Smith said: “Hip-hop has been a central part of my life for over four decades. I’m hyped to share my first-hand experiences and those of some of hip-hop’s greatest legends as we delve into the origins of one of the most influential genres of music in history.”Last Thursday (September 21), the trailer for Class Of ’88 was released, with Smith saying: “Today, hip-hop dominates pop culture, but it wasn’t always like that.

Sexyy Red has dropped a new single. "Shake Yo Dreads" follows the release of Young Nudy's remix of "Peaches & Eggplants" featuring the rapper and Latto as well as her own "Hellcats SRTs 2" with Lil Durk.

On Friday (September 22), Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was admitted to the hospital in critical condition, according to a report from AllHipHop on September 24. The 50-year-old rapper was diagnosed with an inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis in 2012; according to the report, surgery was required to repair a leaking artery.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Oxygen’s “911 Crisis Center” and A&E’s “Secrets of the Chippendales Murders” were among the winners Saturday night at the second annual Clue Awards, held at the CrimeCon event in Orlando, Fla. Hosted by ABC News legal analyst Matt Murphy, the event included presenters Nancy Grace, Kelly Siegler, Camille Vasquez and Paul Holes.

OK, here’s the situation: Will Smith is set to host a new Audible podcast about a landmark year in hip-hop.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Bonnie Raitt, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, the duo the War and Treaty and S.S. Goodman were among the winners as trophies were handed out at the 22nd annual Americana Honors & Awards show Wednesday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Raitt won the award for song of the year for her (literally) heart-rending number “Just Like That” — just like she did at the most recent Grammys, in a very rare example of overlap between the two shows.

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Sexyy Red was filming a music video.NBC6 reported that the shooting took place at a gas station near the Oakland Park Flea Market across from where where the rapper and a crowd of extras were gathered for filming.According to reports, one person was killed and another injured.In a statement on Instagram Stories, Sexyy Red confirmed that the shooting didn’t happen on her video set but opposite to where it was being filmed.“I send my condolences to the family of the man who lost his life and prayers up for the person who was wounded,” she wrote.“But I gotta address the rumors that it happened at my video shoot because shit is not true at all. To be clear it happened at a gas station across the street from my video set.

The 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards were a sensational event filled with music, excitement and well-deserved winners.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry closed out the 2023 Invictus Games with smiles on their faces and a Rita Ora performance!

the pioneers who launched the Bronx-born culture in the ‘70s and ’80s. And rightly so.However, one ’90s game-changer — the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy — has been strangely MIA from the festivities, such as the epic Hip Hop 50 concert, held at Yankee Stadium in August.

Sexyy Red is enjoying a breakout year, the kind where every move seems to propel an artist to an even higher level. Her Hood Hottest Princess project dropped in June and features both the viral "Pound Town" and "SkeeYee," which is climbing the Billboard Hot 100 right now.