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After getting their hides peeled by high-profile critics for the past week, elite Italian fashion designer Gucci, finally broke its silence on the expensive sweater line that resembles blackface. Gucci’s creative director claims that the $900 sweater was meant to pay homage to a deceased entertainment icon and was not intended to resemble blackface or…

The Backpack Kid, Russell Horning, 17, became an internet sensation in 2016 after recording himself doing a dance that would become known as the “floss” dance. The dance craze became a staple for kids and teens who would perform it and post their clips on social media. However, The Backpack Kid’s star power reached a new level…

Tiffany Haddish would love to host the Oscars — but only if she gets paid for it. The Girls Trip star hilariously stole the show when she and Maya Rudolph presented the Academy Awards for Documentary Short and Live-Action Short on Sunday, March 4, 2018, and she’d love to return in a bigger role in…

“American Idol” locks in their judging panel. In case you missed it, singer Lionel Richie recently took to social media where he revealed that he’d joined forces with Katy Perry as a panelist on the hit singing competition series, even sharing his official “Idol” portrait. “HELLO @AmericanIdol! Excited to announce that I will be on…

Katy Perry has been announced as the host of the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). The “Swish Swish” singer, who is nominated for five of the iconic Moonman statuettes at the upcoming ceremony, will front the annual extravaganza and also take to the stage at the Forum in California to perform on August 27.…

Katy Perry has typically been seen as the epitome of today’s happy-go-lucky, bubblegum pop landscape and most people just associate her with being a fun-loving girl. However, there is a real woman behind the pop persona and this weekend Perry showed that vulnerable side when she opened up during an on-air therapy session and talked…

On May 20, 2017, Katy Perry performed her newest single “Bon Appétit” on “Saturday Night Live.” It was a pretty typical routine — nothing particularly surprising for an SNL performance from one of pop’s biggest singers. That was for the first two and a half minutes at least – after that it got weird. Here’s…

White culture vultures have plundered the treasure trove of Black music for decades in order to ignite their careers, undergo an image transformation or to resuscitate careers on a downward spiral. Social media has provided Blacks with a platform to articulate their age-old resentment and disgust for Caucasian pop stars who exploit the hip-hop genre for…

Pop singer Katy Perry’s image has taken a lot of hits lately due to multiple miscues and miscalculations, including the time she threw unnecessary shade at President Obama and set Twitter afire. Perry, 32, is now being pummeled into oblivion after she began dancing on “Saturday Night Live” shortly after bringing up Migos to perform…

Katy Perry is seeking cover right now with all the incoming verbal missiles exploding around her after she made an “off-color” joke about former President Barack Obama. Perry has been courting trouble with her recent culture-appropriating behavior of rocking cornrows and gold teeth. Now she’s crossed the line, according to social media. The “Firework” singer raised…

Adele’s music simmers with sincerity, a sort of lived-in pain and hope that resonates deeply with many listeners. She’s been able to turn her heartache into gripping art in a way that feels more mature than contemporaries like Taylor Swift — and more timeless. But regardless of how you may love Adele’s music, make no mistake — Adele is definitely benefiting from White privilege.

Sometimes when you have to go, you just have to go and for rap star Wiz Khalifa, that means even if it’s behind a neighborhood bar at 2:30 a.m. On Saturday night (Oct. 10), the “We Dem Boyz” rapper was given a citation for public urination after being found relieving himself behind The Flats bar in Pittsburgh,…

Patterson, New Jersey, rapper Fetty Wap can now boast that he’s accomplished something no rapper has in almost half a decade. With his latest single, “My Way” making its way into the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, the rapper born Willie Maxwell is now the first male rapper to have two singles in the…

And with one humble tweet, the Nicki Minaj vs. Taylor Swift war of 2015 has come to an end. On Thursday morning, Swift acknowledged via a tweet that she jumped the gun in assuming Minaj’s tweets about being snubbed for the VMA Video of the Year award were somehow slights against her. “I thought I…

Nicki Minaj’s critique of the MTV VMAs and the racism in the music industry got hijacked by Taylor Swift when the young pop star accused Minaj of “pitting women against each other.” But after mistakenly inserting herself into Minaj’s battle, Swift got a taste of her own medicine recently when Katy Perry bashed her for…

Earlier this week, TLC announced that they were funding their fifth and final album through Kickstarter and they asked their fans to help pay for the album so they could keep creative control. After seeing a wave of support from their loyal fan base, TLC has now gotten some support from pop queen Katy Perry.…

British soul crooner Sam Smith is not impressed with the humility of some of his contemporary pop star counterparts. In a recent interview for V magazine the “Stay With Me” singer told legendary diva Chaka Khan that there are more than a few music stars of today that could use an attitude adjustment. “Even when you…

Fans of NBC’s “The Voice” will no doubt remember Michelle Chamuel, the bespectacled versatile powerhouse vocalist from season four of the hit show. Her rendition of Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl” during the blind audition segment garnered three of the show’s four judges (Adam Levine, Shakira, and Usher) to turn their chairs for her and plead their…

Serena Williams has won three matches already in pursuit of her third-straight US Open title, which would be her 18th Grand Slam title overall. She is motivated by many things and has always been a fashionista in the tennis world, wearing countless stylish ensembles. Williams wore a leopard print outfit in her win Saturday against fellow…

From gowns dipped in Swarovski crystals to a tribute to Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears, celebrities arrived in their best and worst red carpet attire as they arrived at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. Check out the highlights and misses below. Who was your favorite?