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Beyoncé Up For Seven Awards At The BET Awards 2017

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The BET Awards, which will be held for this present year June 25 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, discharged the designations Monday (May 15). Maybe one of the greatest storylines of the night will be the Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma quarrel.

In spite of the fact that Remy Ma as of late guaranteed that the “dust has settled,” she will go up against the authoritative champion for the title of Best Female Hip Hop Artist. Nicki Minaj has won the honor each year since 2010. Prior to her run, the Terror Squad vet did make a case for the title. Other ladies incorporated into the class this year are Missy Elliott, Young M.A, and Cardi B.

Beyoncé drives all chosen people with seven gestures. Queen Bey is up for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and twice for Best Collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for “Freedom” and DJ Khaled’s “Shinning” with her better half Jay Z. She’s likewise designated for Video of the Year for “Sorry,” which gave her a gesture for Video Director of the Year close by Kahlil Joseph. Her widely praised LEMONADE collection is up for Album of the Year.

Chance The Rapper is up for four honors, including Album of the Year for “Coloring Book”, and Best New Artist where he’ll go up against Cardi B, Young M.A, Khalid, and 21 Savage.
Migos gets, that is correct, a trio of selections. Quavo, Takeoff and Offset are up for Best Group and their raving success “Bad and Boujee” with Lil Uzi Vert is in the running for Best Collaboration and Video of the Year.

List of the nominees are as follow >>:
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Chris Cornell, Soundgarden Frontman Dies At 52

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American musician, singer and songwriter Chris Cornell passed away unexpectedly at the age of 52. The Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman was found dead early this morning from a “possible suicide”.

Cornell is widely regarded as one of the architects of the grunge movement of the 90s. He’s been voted one of the “Best Singers Of All Time” by Rolling Stone, and one of the “Greatest Voices in Music” by MTV. He formed Soundgarden in 1984 together with original members Kim Thayil and Hiro Yamamoto who left and replaced on the bass by Jason Everman until the band got settled with Ben Shepherd. With the band, Cornell achieve worldwide commercial and critical success with their breakthrough fourth album ‘Superunknown’, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 1995.
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Review: Chainsmokers’ Memories Do Not Open Tour

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Last year was a career highlight for The Chainsmokers. After building a fan base and mainstream pop success with “#Selfie” and “Roses”, the duo hit it big with “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Closer”, a one-two punch at the charts that brought the duo worldwide success and a Grammy Award. So it’s only expected that this tour will follow through. Based on the reception of the crowd last night, the timing is just right.

The Chainsmokers, an EDM-pop duo consisting of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, performed their chart hits Tuesday night in front of the loud crowd, albeit predominantly teenage girls, amid elaborate lighting and stage production at the BOK Center in Tulsa, OK.

It was a very tight show full of flames, pyrotechnics, giant screens, rising stage, and multiple set designs. They seamlessly mixed live band performance with the club atmosphere of the stage. There is always something happening to entertain a generally young hype-active crowd, and kept their energy high throughout the night. I admit some of their cheesy choreography were out of left field boy-band moments. But there is no deep existential meaning to it: you come to their show to enjoy their music, leave your snotty attitude at the door, have fun and that’s what they delivered.

The show was complex with various stage changes, but well executed down to the tee, leaving little impromptu and audience interaction. The artists felt bigger than life and distant even from the front row. Towards the end of the show Andrew did run across down the stage to hi-five the fans. He also played multiple instruments throughout the night, suggesting he might be more than just the vocals of the act. He filled in for Chris Martin for “Something Just Like This”. Martin will probably show up in a few venues, but Tulsa wasn’t as lucky. It was also Alex Pall’s birthday (24th, according to Taggard, jokingly). With the sold out show in Tulsa and the upcoming Billboard Music Awards, for which they are the top nominee, the duo has plenty to celebrate.

After seeing the show, there is no denying that the Chainsmokers is at the top of their game. It was a big, entertaining and spectacular show fitting for the hot artist of the moment, and crowd reciprocated in kind. They successfully crossed over from their EDM roots to mainstream pop, a tricky formula to get right. As with many artists who break out into music stardom, they received somewhat of a post-Closer backlash after their debut album received mixed to negative reviews. But last night, that didn’t seem to matter.
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The Chainsmokers is currently on a North American tour in support of their album, “Memories…Do Not Open”. American DJ Whethan opened the show followed by special guest “Kiiara” and featured Emily Warren on vocals throughout the night.
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Review: Mary J Blige Dons Her Face In Strength Of A Woman

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There isn’t a devoted Hip Hop fan alive who doesn’t recollect the standout guest vocals from Mary J. Blige on Method Man’s 1995 raving success “I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need To Get By.” The unquestionable demeanor of cool she oozed as she sang close by one of Wu-Tang Clan’s most scandalous individuals was extraordinary.

Twenty-three years later, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has a reiteration of exemplary collections under her belt, including “What’s The 411”, “My Life”, “Share My World” and “Mary”. Each venture played like a profoundly enthusiastic, sonic journal she used to cleanse each crude feeling she was encountering. From substance mishandle and sadness to a string of failed relationships, her life conditions gave enough fuel to maintain her genuinely reliable artistic yield.

While she may have subdued her drug addiction and liquor abuse, the Bronx local’s thirteenth studio collection, “Strength of a Woman”, discovers her handling a well-known subject — the disintegration of another relationship. This time, be that as it may, the stakes are significantly higher.

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Big Winners At MTV Movie & TV Awards:

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With a new brand name comes new categories added this year, including including best host, best reality competition, tearjerker, next generation, trending, best musical moment and best American story.

But it was the first category of the night that drew lots of attention. “Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon presented the first gender-less “best actor in a movie,” which went to “Beauty and the Beast” star Emma Watson. The Shrine Auditorium on May 7, 2017 in Los Angeles. The category is the first in history of putting both male and female actors competing in the same category.

Stranger Things won two prize, one for Show of the Year, and another for star Millie Bobby Brown, who was named best actor in a show.

The cast of Fast & Furious was also honored with the MTV Generation Awards, and Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson and Jordana Brewster were there to accept the award for their highly successful franchise. “In 2002, I was standing on this stage and MTV had given Paul Walker and I an award for Best Duo, and now 15 years later, I’m with my whole family and you’re giving us the Generation Award,” Diesel said.

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Jay Z & J. Cole Headline 2017 Made In America Music Festival

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Despite the fact that “Made in America” won’t discover its approach to Los Angeles again at any point in the near future, the music celebration headed by Budweiser has turned into a custom in Philadelphia.

What’s more, that proceeds again this year as Made in America 2017 reported its official lineup for the festival, which will run September 2 and 3 which happens at Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, PA and for the individuals who can’t go, TIDAL will live stream the celebration on TIDAL.com.

The current year’s show will profit both the ACLU of Pennsylvania and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. An essential objective of this music festival is to positively affect the communities included.
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‘Dark Tower” Gets Two New Posters Ahead of Trailer Release

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The trailer for one of our most anticipated movies this summer, the adaptation of Stephen King’s sci-fi Western horror film ‘The Dark Tower’, is just around the corner. But before that, Columbia Pictures released two new posters (below). Following that creatively provocative one-sheet teaser we saw more than a month ago, these posters show more of what our main characters will look like, but equally intriguing nonetheless.

The posters feature Matthew McConaughey’s sorcerer villain Walter/Man in Black, and Idris Elba’s gunslinger Roland Deschain. We will see more of how these characters interact with the release of the trailer tomorrow. Anticipation is running high for this adaptation especially after that other Stephen King movie ‘It’ smashed online views records.

Here’s the film’s synopsis to those unfamiliar:

Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last Gunslinger, is locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim (Matthew McConaughey), also known as the Man in Black. The Gunslinger must prevent the Man in Black from toppling the Dark Tower, the key that holds the universe together. With the fate of worlds at stake, two men collide in the ultimate battle between good and evil.

The Dark Tower will be in theaters everywhere August 4th, 2017.

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Snoop Dogg’s “Neva Left” Official Cover Art Released

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Subsequent to declaring another album was underway earlier this month, Snoop Dogg is back with the official cover art for his fifteenth studio album, “Neva Left”, which fills in as the follow-up to 2016’s “Coolaid”. The matchless Doggfather took to Instagram to share the cover art and furthermore the album is to be released on May 19. With the expectation just building all the more every week, the veteran rapper proceeded and debuted the official album cover for his new venture on his Facebook page.

Snoop fused a return photograph of him taken by amazing photography Chi Modu, who has taken shots of notable hip-hop stars since the 1990s. In the cover art for Neva Left, Modu’s exemplary photograph indicates Snoop remaining under an expressway 187 sign in California in 1993, where the words “Neva Left” are written on the post in white paint.

While disclosing the photograph to XXL, Modu expressed, “That is my photograph taken of Snoop in 1993 when we were taking a shot at pictures for his album Doggystyle. We needed to take it at the highway 187 sign as a result of his verse in “Deep Cover”. The photo shows a youthful Snoop Dogg, brandishing his previous jheri curl hairdo that ended up noticeably well-known amid his introductory album years.
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2017 Coachella Weekend 2 Review

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We’re back at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Expressions Celebration for a moment few days of music, daylight and the majority of the Coachella vibes. Things commenced Friday, April 21, with a ton of warmth.

That is correct, the Empire Polo Club in Indio was hot, and for the most part on account of the huge shining circle in the sky. Saturday and Sunday will be considerably more sultry, with temperatures anticipated that would hit triple digits.

Be that as it may, the groups kept it way cool. Tennis had a marvelous set ahead of schedule in the Mojave Tent and Tacocat even conveyed a bubble machine out to the Sonora organize!
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Nelly Furtado-“The Ride” Album Review

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With 2006’s gleaming, Timbaland-created Loose, Nelly Furtado went from hippie-ish vocalist of “I’m Like a Bird” to a startling pop star with numerous Main 10 hits. The vocalist, in any case, has been experiencing a melodic identity crisis from that point onward, she overlooked subsequent meet-ups wavering between her people history and her pop achievement. The sixth album, “The Ride”, accomplishes balance.

Taking signals from recent partner Dev Hynes, an artist who makes enthusiastic synth-pop, Furtado’s first album on her label finds a home in crunchy outside the box driven tunes that superbly fit her innovative verses. Opening track “Cold Hard Truth” is one of her finest in years, an infectious single with one of the collection’s heaviest beats. The appealing “Paris Sun” conveys a menacingly sexy synth reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer” however with a milder touch.

The Ride’s essential blemish is obvious in its insignificant titles. A lot of the record, especially the ballads, falls into the lyricist’s trap of taking an arrogance and composing each and every piece of subtext out of it.

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