Rapper Talib Kweli Becomes First Major Artist to Launch Album Via Patreon

Congratulations to Taylor Swift is officially the female solo artist with the most Official Irish Albums Chart Number 1s of the millennium.

Peter White Television EditorDime Davis, director of HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, has become the first Black woman to secure an Emmy nod for directing a variety series.Debbie Allen was nominated in 1989 for directing ABC’s The Debbie Allen Special when the category was known as Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program, but Davis becomes the first Black Woman for series directing.

coronavirus in the UK. It is understood the animal had become unwell with Covid-19 after its owners had tested positive with the virus earlier this year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTaylor Swift surprise-announced that she will be releasing her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” at midnight tonight — July 24th.In a social media posts, Swift explained that the album is the result of many of her plans for 2020  — including a short stadium tour supporting her 2019 album “Lover”  — were scrapped due to the pandemic.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticEXCLUSIVE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s well-reviewed indie First Cow becomes the first physical 2020 DVD screener sent to all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and now holds that singular distinction that I chronicle every year here on Deadline.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMegan Thee Stallion has issued another statement around the incident last weekend in which she says she “suffered gunshot wounds as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me.”“Black women are so unprotected & we hold so many things in to protect the feelings of others w/o considering our own,” she wrote on Twitter.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJesus and Mary Chain, Royal Trux and Spacemen 3 aren’t evoked by many albums these days, but they’re present in glorious splendor on “Flower of Devotion,” the third full-length from Chicago trio Dehd.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCharli XCX is releasing a documentary film called “6ft Apart,” based on the recording of her quarantine album, “How I’m Feeling Now,” which was released in May. The album, the first to be made in quarantine by a major artist.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJoan Jett has released her cover of T. Rex’s 1971 classic “Jeepster,” the latest track from the forthcoming tribute album “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T.

Talib Kweli has announced that he is funding his next album through crowdfunding site Patreon. Fans who contribute $5-25 a month through his profile on the site will get a look into his creative process over the next year, and early previews of tracks that will appear on the finished record.“I am considered an underground rapper”, says Kweli.

Talib Kweli has announced his new solo album ‘Cultural Currency’, which will be available to listen to as an exclusive on the independent subscription service Patreon.Marking his first solo album since 2017’s ‘Radio Silence’, the unique roll-out for ‘Cultural Currency’ will see Patreon subscribers on certain pricing tiers gain exclusive access to a new Kweli track from the album every month for 12 months.Kweli hasn’t announced a tracklist, credits or a full release date for ‘Cultural Currency’

Greg Evans, Dino-Ray Ramos Refresh for updates Friends, colleagues and castmates today mourned the loss of Glee actress Naya Rivera, whose body was identified by the Ventura County Sheriff after she went missing and apparently drowned during a swim at Lake Piro north of Los Angeles.Rivera’s Glee co-stars Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch took to social media to pay tribute to her. Colfer said, “Her beauty and talent were otherworldly” on Instagram while Lynch tweeted “Rest sweet, Naya.

Juice WRLD’s music, even though he’s no longer with us. It’s easy to force comparisons between other emo, sad-boy rappers, but when Jarad Higgins dropped tracks, they stood out further than anyone else.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAtlanta rapper Lil Marlo has died, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed to NBC News. While no cause of death had been confirmed, TMZ, which first reported the news, cites a police source as saying the MC, whose real name was Rudolph Johnson, was shot while driving.

Naya Rivera is confirmed to be the missing woman involved in a swimming accident at Lake Piru in California.

Talib Kweli, one half of rap duo Black Star alongside Mos Def/Yasiin Bey, has suggested that the new Black Star album may never see the light of day.In a series of frustrated Tweets yesterday (July 8), Kweli mentions the album release was hindered by “interlopers and culture vultures”. He also notes the record had “been done for over a year” and that he “paid for the whole album” himself.Too many interlopers and culture vultures in the way.