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The rapper also took to the stage for "Should've Wore a Bonnet," with all three tracks from his new album, American Dream 21 Savage debuted as Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest first with a performance of his new single, “Redrum.” The violin-intro track comes from his third solo album, American Dream, which came out last month and topped the Billboard 200 Albums chart upon its release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOhMc1y-10 The Atlanta rapper–Rolling Stone‘s cover artist in…

Burna Boy will be the first Afrobeats performer ever to play the Grammys at Sunday night’s ceremony — and he’ll be joined onstage by Brandy and 21 Savage, executive producer Raj Kapoor tells Rolling Stone Music Now. The collaboration will also mark 21 Savage’s Grammy performance debut, while Brandy hasn’t sung on the show since the Nineties. “It’s gonna be huge,” says Kapoor. “It’s gonna get everybody on their feet.” In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Kapoor breaks down what to expect from the…

For many decades, going as far back as the 1940s, artists from the world of R&B couldn’t really claim mainstream success until they’d crossed over to Top 40 radio and the pop charts. This century, it often feels more like the pop world is crossing over to R&B. The genre has never been more successful, relevant, or ambitious. Many of this century’s epochal blockbuster albums are R&B records: from Usher’s 10-times platinum Confessions, to Beyonce’s Lemonade, to Mariah Carey’s The…

The year of 1998 belonged to R&B singer Monica.  She not only topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a whopping 13 weeks with “The Boy Is Mine,” her duet with Brandy, she launched another hit with “The First Night,” which logged five weeks on top of the pop charts. No other artist in that year spent more weeks at No. 1 than Monica. Both songs appeared on her sophomore album, The Boy Is Mine, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Not only did Monica dominate 1998 — her success…

Musicians and entertainers flocked to the Beverly Hilton on Friday night to give their A-list peers their flowers at the second annual Femme it Forward Give Her FlowHERS Gala in Los Angeles. This year the organization — which recognizes leaders in music for their artistry and mentorship of the next generation of trailblazers — honored SZA, Brandy, Teyana Taylor, Flo Milli, Jordyn and Jodie Woods, and Monaleo. “I want to say thank you to God and thank you to my mama for birthing an icon and always seeing…

On their first day working together last year at Malibu’s storied Shangri-La recording studio, Brandy Clark and her producer, Brandi Carlile, turned their attention to a heartbreaker of an acoustic ballad then titled “If You Don’t Love Me Anymore.”Clark’s tune runs down the narrator’s planned self-care regimen in the event that she’s jilted — she’ll fly first-class to Paris, she’ll take trippy drugs, she’ll start doing yoga — though it ends with the gutting admission that none of it is likely to heal the wound: “I’ll…

Brandy Norwood is reprising her history-making role as Cinderella in the musical Descendants: Rise of Red. News of the singer/actress’ filming was confirmed via footage from the Disney+ movie’s Instagram.   Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella was released in 1997 and featured Brandy in the title role, Paolo Montalban as Prince Charming, the iconic Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother, and Whoopi Goldberg. Houston also executive produced the project.   Footage from Descendants showed Brandy as…

Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake tweet created in her name — Growing concerns over impact of medical misinformation on public health — When Dr. Natalia Solenkova woke up Monday morning … Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News: A doctor says she faced a wave of anti-vaccine harassment after Twitter ignored her pleas to stop the spread of an image of a fake…

R&B star Brandy has reached a settlement with her former housekeeper, who alleged age discrimination and more when she sued the singer-actor for more than $250,000 in March. Now the housekeeper’s attorneys want to get paid too. News of the “Moesha” star’s $40,000 settlement with Maria Elizabeth Castaneda, a.k.a. Elizabeth Juarez, came via documents the former housekeeper’s attorneys filed Friday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Kevin A. Lipeles and Thomas H. Schelly of the Lipeles Law Firm in El Segundo…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBrandy will be slipping into those glass slippers once more, this time for the forthcoming Descendant sequel. The singer’s reprisal of her role as Cinderella comes 25 years after she first made history as the first Black actor ever to portray the iconic Disney princess. Her original performance was in Walt Disney Television’s 1997 iteration of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s beloved…