The scenario: your stepfather won’t stop playing Mannheim Steamroller because it’s so festive but also “experimental” and “cool.” The solution: convince him to let you play these “alternative” Christmas jams by making him think you’re letting him in on a secret that will make him even “cooler.”
Five years ago, I was an editor at Vibe, and I got an assignment to interview Usher. It was my second time profiling him for a cover story, but this setting would be more intimate than the previous one—instead of meeting in a hotel conference room, we’d talk at an outdoor bar at the Sunset Marquis in Hollywood, just…
On Thursday night, Rihanna threw her 2nd Annual Diamond Ball gala at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, to support her Clara Lionel Foundation. From Zendaya to Kylie Jenner—and even Tyga—nearly everyone cleaned up nicely for the queen. Still, no ANTI album anywhere in sight.
The only thing we know for sure about ANTI, Rihanna’s hypothetical eighth LP, is that it has very nice album art. As Jezebel reported earlier this year, rumors of its actual release date have been swirling for what feels like forever, but it wasn’t until the cover art was revealed in October that ANTImania hit its…
Tuesday night’s Daily Show was set to feature Chris Brown as the guest, according to a schedule posted online last week. Instead, Nick Cannon appeared, with little indication as to why the change was made. Except, uh, we can guess why the change was made.
For a brief day and a half the world thought it had rid itself of the romance between a grown man who pronounces his name like a baby and a teen with a mansion. We were not so lucky.
In the months (now more than a year) leading up to her eighth album, Rihanna has managed to twist everyone’s psyche in anticipation of its release. The latest word is that ANTI—a title she announced in October with a formal art unveiling—is coming out in December. Perhaps it is.
Rihanna, who’s been serving as a guest advisor on The Voice this season, helped one of the contestants out by guiding her on how to sing Amy Winehouse’s tortured classic “Back to Black.”
Remember when Solange attacked Jay Z in the elevator after the Met Ball and everyone thought that it was over Jay’s alleged relationship with Rihanna?
It’s your wedding day and you want to stand out. You’ve seen the dresses your friends have been wearing and you’re not impressed. You need something new. Something exciting. Something fierce and fashion-forward. What you need, according to the designers that make the gowns, is a dress that’s barely there. Like the one…
Our dear friend Rihanna is on the cover of T Magazine’s “The Greats” issue and inside the magazine, she’s being interviewed by renaissance woman and queen of quirk, Miranda July. The interview is very...Miranda July-y.
For a while now, we’ve been casually referring to Rihanna’s forthcoming eighth album as R8 (due to Rihanna mysteriously using R8 in promo). Now there’s a real title and artwork, as revealed by Rih on Wednesday at the MAMA Gallery in Los Angeles.
A Parisian clothing brand that allegedly sold merchandise bearing the images and names of Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West, Rihanna and Pharrell Williams is now being sued by the artists. ElevenParis, which launched in 2003, has been accused of selling clothing featuring phrases such as “Kanye is my Homie” and “Pharrell is…
Rihanna is on the cover of November’s Vanity Fair, and is the subject of a wonderful profile inside. In it, she discusses her upcoming album, her business, her sex life, and—most surprisingly—her thoughts on Rachel Dolezal, the woman who made headlines this summer for identifying as black, despite...well, you remember.
Rihanna looks lovely at Christian Dior’s Spring-Summer 2016 ready-t0-wear collection, presented during Paris Fashion Week. The full look—a prim pink coupled with knee-high black boots with lucite heels—was spot on. Plus, those flowers:
Shade Court is in session and I hope everyone is feeling good and woke up this morning with the spirit of justice pulsing through your veins.
In the past few days, some of the smaller, less reputable celebrity gossip sites have reported that Miley Cyrus and Dane Cook—in a coupling straight out of the fiery pits of hell—have been “hooking up.” Well, bad news for people who don’t like furiously scowling at their computers—it looks like the rumors (if some of…
Rihanna and her “try me” face are covering the inaugural issue of NME’s new free weekly magazine, wherein she explains what’s holding up her long-awaited eighth album.
Rihanna and Travis Scott appear to be a couple. They were photographed at NY Fashion Week hooking up at after parties and making Justin Timberlake very uncomfortable. TMZ very nicely points out that the pair was “grinding and dry humping each other as if no one was watching.” What is new love for if not to make those…
Who knows what this look was about, at Rihanna’s fashion week party Thursday night at the New York Edition, but one can only assume it was some dirty boy talking greasy to a woman way out of his league (and in front of her grandfather, no less). The thirst surrounding her, from cell phone pics to everyone trying to…
