The Weeknd & Drake Boycott 2023 Grammys, Refuse To Submit Albums For Award Consideration

Baseball buds — or frenemies? Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez began their careers as BFFs, but their relationship took a lot of twists and turns over the years.

Glamour honored Angela Bassett with for her work on stage and screen. Emmy-, Grammy-, and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, who presented Bassett with her honor, said it best: “An actor, executive producer, a mother, a friend, and on, and on, and on…Were you surprised that she was cast as head of the Bad Bitch Support Group on Black Lady Sketch Show, and as Ramonda in Wakanda Forever, queen of the most powerful nation in the world? I wasn’t!”“Think about the way she sits with strength, and truth, whether it is on the stage, screen, you cannot take her eyes off of her, can you?” McDonald continued. “I can think of no one more deserving of Glamour’s Lifetime Achievement Award than Angela Bassett, a woman who I deeply admire, revere and honor, for all the stories that she weaves, the barriers she has broken, and the inspiration and leadership that she provides in our industry and to the next generation of artists.”When Bassett accepted her award, she bowed to McDonald with gratitude as she received a standing ovation.

A day after releasing the audio for “Lift Me Up,” her new song from the soundtrack of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Rihanna has dropped the official music video, and you can watch it above now.The video is a fairly simple thing — Rihanna just went to a beach somewhere and had a camera crew capture her looking emotional against a sunset and twilight sky. It’s interspersed with footage from “Wakanda Forever,” which will of course be its own kind of emotional, since the context both in the story and in the real world is the tragic loss of Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer in 2020.The song is Rihanna’s first solo single since “Lemon” in 2017.Alongside Rihanna’s music, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” stars Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Leticia Wright as Shuri, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Florence Kasumba as Ayo, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Angela Bassett as Queen Ramonda and Martin Freeman as Everett Ross, all returning from “Black Panther.” Tenoch Huerta plays Namor, the king of Talokan, joined by Dominique Thorne as future Ironheart RiRi Williams, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena and Alex Livinalli. Ryan Coogler directed the film, which lands in theaters Nov.

Drumroll, please! Rihanna, ASAP Rocky, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o and more dazzled at the red carpet premiere of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

First off, when discussing “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” at this particular moment let’s remind everyone this is specifically a discussion about its context in the 2022-2023 awards season. It’s about the film’s chances at multiple Oscar nominations, SAG nominations, etc.

Stars, filmmakers and special guests hit the El Capitan Theatre on Wednesday night in Hollywood for the world premiere of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Disney begins overseas rollout of the highly anticipated sequel on November 9 and releases domestically November 11.

Bruno Mars, one half of the duo Silk Sonic has announced that he and Anderson .Paak are withdrawing from their album "An Evening With Silk Sonic" from Grammy's consideration.  The duo got four Grammy nomination in 2022, for their hit "Leave The Door Open." The song was nominated for record of the year, song of the year, best R&B performance and best R&B song." Silk Sonic won the Grammy for all four of the categories they were nominated for.  Bruno announced the duo's withdrawal from the 2023 ceremony in a statement via Rolling Stone. Bruno Mars announced that the duo Silk Sonic, made up of Mars and Anderson .Paak are withdrawing their album "An Evening With Silk Sonic" from consideration for the 2023 Grammy Awards.  ( 2022 John Esparaza/via Getty Images) "Andy and I, and everyone that worked on this project, won the moment the world responded to ‘Leave The Door Open,’ Mars said.

Drake becoming the first artist to reach 50billion streams on Spotify with a special kit dedicated to the rapper.It comes as part of the football club’s continued partnership with the streaming platform, which was announced in March this year. During the match, which will take place this Sunday (October 16) at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid, the FC Barcelona team will wear a special kit featuring the owl logo of Drake’s label, OVO Sound.Drake himself has announced the collaboration on his Instagram page, sharing an image of the shirt to his followers.

Grammys are in, with the first round voting for next year’s awards kicking off yesterday (October 13).There are a number of notable submissions and absentees from the 2023 submissions list, including six from Taylor Swift. Swift has put forward ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ for consideration in the Album of the Year and Best Country Album categories, eight years after the original ‘Red’ release lost in both at the 2014 awards.Her other submissions include ‘All Too Well (10 Minute Version)’ for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, ‘I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version)(From The Vault)’ for Best Country Song and Best Country Performance, and the Phoebe Bridgers-featuring ‘Nothing New (Taylor’s Version)(From The Vault)’ for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.Beyoncé has entered two dance/electronic category nominations for the first time.

GRAMMY next year, as Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have made the decision not to submit their album for awards consideration. «Andy and I, and everyone that worked on this project, won the moment the world responded to 'Leave the Door Open.' Everything else was just icing on the cake,» Mars says in a statement to ET. «We thank the GRAMMYs for allowing us to perform on their platform — not once, but twice — and awarding us at last year's ceremony. We’d be crazy to ask for anything more.»The duo performed «Leave the Door Open» at the 2021 GRAMMYs ceremony, going on to win Best R&B Performance, Song of the Year and Record of the Year for the track the following year.

Violent crime continues to ravage Philadelphia as shootings and homicides devastate area residents. Retired Philadelphia police officer Nick Gerace told "Fox & Friends First" where he is placing the blame. "This all extends to Larry Krasner, our failed, radical district attorney here in Philadelphia," he told Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus on Wednesday.

More than 28,000 fentanyl pills, 29 pounds of marijuana and 10 firearms were confiscated by police in Fort Worth, Texas. Officers arrested Melvin Kellough Jr. and Atomic Greene on Thursday in connection with an ongoing drug investigation.

With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever‘s nationwide release now just one month away, Disney and Marvel on Tuesday unveiled a new featurette on the making of the anticipated sequel, along with 12 new character posters, which you can view by clicking above.

Today Focus Features opens Tár, the strikingly original return of Todd Field, in four locations in NY and LA. The film premiered at Venice winning star Cate Blanchett Best Actress as musician and conductor Lydia Tár. Early this week, it seemed to mesmerize a sold-out Allice Tully Hall at the New York Film Festival.