Tag: Beyonce

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton declared August 8th as a statewide “Beyoncé and Jay-Z Day” in anticipation of the megastar couple’s concert in Minneapolis.

On this week’s Did She Say That, Sonnie Johnson breaks down the divide in the country and lets the resistance movement know they better get on board before there is another economic downturn

Rapper Jay-Z appears to have publicly admitted that he rejected the NFL’s offer to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. Except, he didn’t do it in a press conference, he did it in a song.

Hip-hop mega-couple Jay-Z and Beyoncé released a politically charged album over the weekend, in which the pair take turns torching President Donald Trump’s tweets, the NFL’s anthem fiasco, music streaming giant Spotify, the Grammys, and the police.

Ohio State’s Nick Bosa will in all likelihood be the #1 pick in the NFL draft next year. However, thanks to a few tweets, Bosa may find himself as Public Enemy #1 of the left right now.

Jay-Z’s Spotify rival Tidal has been accused of falsifying streaming numbers for the music of prominent artists on the platform, including Beyoncé and Kanye West.

The pastor of Grace Cathedral, a San Francisco progressive Episcopal church, has held the first-ever “Beyoncé Mass,” featuring songs by the pop artist and a sermon on “Beyoncé and the Hebrew Bible.”

A professor at Indiana University dedicated an entire academic journal article to examining Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s marital analingus.

Beyoncé headlined the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday and delivered a virtuosa performance that has critics raving.

Last week, the NFL announced that they would not run an ad from a veterans group called, AMVETS. The advertisement, which was slated to run in the program for Super Bowl LII, included the hashtag, “PleaseStand.”

ESPN has begun a subtle, yet obvious campaign to get rock singer and well-known conservative Kid Rock, fired as the National Hockey League’s All-Star Game performer.

Two University of London professors are warning that Beyonce’s brand of veganism promotes “discrimination and inequality.”

The 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will see some of music’s biggest stars, including Beyoncé, Eminem, and The Weekend, headline the two-weekend event this April in Indio, California.

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren is no stranger to getting savaged by liberal social media types. Last month, she provoked Kaepernick fans by posting a pic of Colin Kaepernick kneeling in the back of a landing craft, as American soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy.

At the rate in which Colin Kaepernick is accepting social justice awards, he might soon have to hire a social justice award speechwriter. Though, while it’s become a matter of routine to see America’s most famous jock-protester on the stage accepting an award, on Tuesday night he had to share the stage with someone a lot more famous than him.

Stevie Wonder kicked off Tuesday night’s star-studded hurricane relief telethon with a shot at people who believe there is “no such thing” as global warming.

Beyonce, Blake Shelton, Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey will headline a one-hour benefit telethon to benefit Hurricane Harvey victims that will be simulcast next week on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CMT.

The size of the Instagram hack reached over 6 million users, as hackers are doing a brisk business charging $10 per individual for contact information on a searchable data base.

Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock has donated $1 million to help assist the victims struggling to recover from the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Several celebrities have donated large sums of money, while other have used their platforms to promote charities assisting in recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

Jay Z’s much-hyped thirteenth studio album, 4:44, was released Friday night, and one track in particular is making waves online — the third track on the album, “Smile,” in which the rapper’s mother, Gloria Carter, comes out as lesbian.

Jay Z, whose wife Beyonce is expecting twins soon, was absent from the 2017 Songwriters Hall of Fame, where he was inducted by a charismatic longtime fan: former U.S. President Barack Obama.

Actors, musicians and other celebrities including Madonna, Beyoncé, Salma Hayek and John Legend have joined together to sign an open letter honoring International Women’s Day on Wednesday, and to warn that recent U.S. government appointments have put decades of progress for women “at risk.”

Beyoncé has canceled her scheduled headlining appearance at the Coachella music festival this year after her doctor advised her to maintain a less strenuous schedule while she is pregnant with twins.

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana weighed in on Adele’s sweep of the Grammy Awards earlier this week, telling the Associated Press in Australia on Tuesday that Beyoncé should not have won the night’s most prestigious prizes because “she’s not a singer.”

Those who dislike partisan politics at star-studded awards show have been warned in advance of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, as producer Ken Ehrlich has made it clear that music’s biggest night will encourage politically-active artists to express themselves in any way they choose.

The 59th Annual Grammy Awards will feature its first-ever male and transgender “trophy girls” tasked with presenting music’s top honors onstage.

Beyonce Knowles is facing a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the estate of late New Orleans rapper Messy Mya, who claims the pop megastar sampled his voice without permission on her hit song “Formation.”

Every entertainer likes to be subversive — to push the envelope and surprise their audience. At a time when Hollywood has made itself insufferable with its increasingly hysterical political commentary, Lady Gaga shocked the world simply by entertaining it.

Rapper-turned-film producer Jay Z praised the left-wing Women’s March on Washington, telling an audience at the Sundance Film Festival that the anti-Trump protests are evidence of the left’s “power” in America.

Marvel Comics is paying tribute to Beyoncé by using imagery from the singer’s anti-police music video “Formation” for the newest issue of the America Chavez series.

Pop mega-star Beyoncé encouraged her 64 million fans on Facebook to turn out and support the Women’s March on Washington to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are set to host a final, star-studded party at the White House on Friday featuring the couple’s closest celebrities friends and faithful donors.

NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce is one of the headliners of the 2017 Coachella music festival — a first for the pop star.

Pop superstar Beyoncé Knowles has been named 2016’s most charitable celebrity for her work in support of the social justice movement Black Lives Matter.