Watch Michelle Obama's SXSW Chat With Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Promoting Education for Girls

“This Is For My Girls” takes on an insurgent double meaning when FLOTUS drops it: a benefit song for her homegirls, featuring her homegirls—people like Missy, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland, Kelly Clarkson, Zendaya and Diane Warren (who wrote it, clearly)—it’s dropping today in tandem with her SXSW talk. It’s also meant…
Today Show Cut Off Janelle Monae While She Was Speaking About Police Brutality
During a Friday performance on the Today show, Janelle Monae was cut off as she was speaking about the Black Lives Matter movement. At the end of her performance of “Hell You Talmbou” — a protest song dedicated to the movement — Monae began to speak about police brutality: “God bless all the lives lost to police…
Beyond 'Trap Queen': Our Predictions for the Songs of the Summer
At the time of this writing, Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” is holding strong as the second most popular song in the country, having been on the Billboard Hot 100 for the past 17 weeks straight. There is little doubt that once summer hits in full force and more radio stations add it to rotation, it will supplant Wiz…
Janelle Monáe Body Rolls to 'Yoga,' Censors 'Areola' on Tonight Show
Janelle Monáe performed her stimulating dance single “Yoga” on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Monday night. The greatest thing about this performance is Monáe starting it off by declaring “Yoga” as the song of the summer.
Janelle Monáe Finds Her Flow in New Track 'Yoga'
"Yoga," a new single from Janelle Monáe featuring Jidenna, comes to us from Monáe's upcoming five-track Eephus EP.
These Celebs Went Christmas Ham on Instagram This Year
Another holiday, another reminder via Instagram that celebrities are kinda sorta not really just like us, but in some ways they are. Unlike Thanksgiving's embarrassment of riches, however, Christmas brought out some impulses of humility, with a lot of celebs showing off their families, their festivities, and their…
So, What's This 'Carefree Black Girl' Thing All About?
As a black woman from Northern California, seeing other artsy African American women with natural hair and easy smiles wasn’t uncommon for me. That is, until I moved to New York where people responded to my grin by saying ‘You’re not from here are you?’ It was then I realized there was something to this creative girl…
