Drake’s ICEMAN Locks a Third Straight Week at No. 1 as the A$AP Rocky Shots Keep Talking
Drake is not letting go of the top spot. Drake's ICEMAN just locked in a third straight week at No....
Ken Jones Ran Into Burning Buildings for 17 Years, Blue Shield Denied the Care That Could Have Saved Him
Ken Jones spent 17 years running toward the danger everyone else was running from. When the danger finally came for...
The Knicks Watch Parties in the Boroughs Are the Move for Game 3, Far From the Trump Lockdown
The Knicks watch parties in the boroughs are where you want to be for Game 3. With Trump heading to...
Akademiks Interviewed Daphne Joy and Walked Away Admitting She Almost Got Him
DJ Akademiks finally landed his Daphne Joy interview, and the wildest part was not the conversation itself. It was the...
Trump Is Coming to NBA Finals Game 3 and the Garden Is Now a Security Checkpoint
The Knicks are back in the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden for the first time since 1999, sitting on...
Bob Johnson Is Back at BET, but Black Ownership Is Not
Bob Johnson returns to BET, and for anyone who watched a Black man build a cable channel out of nothing...
That’s Baller: Taylor Swift Just Hit $2 Billion And Every Single Dollar Came From Music
When Forbes published its 2026 Iconoclast 50 list on June 4, it dropped a figure that reframes an entire era...
Ballerific Music: New Music Drops To Start Your Weekend From Lizzo, Bryson Tiller, Shaboozey, And More
This week’s New Music Friday proves that reinvention is the real theme, with Lizzo, Bryson Tiller, and Shaboozey each stepping...
Marc Lamont Hill Hints a New Jay-Z Album Is on the Way
The conversation around Jay-Z has not slowed down since he walked onto the Roots Picnic stage, and now it has...
This Will Smith vs Denzel Debate Just Got Reignited and It’s Getting Ugly
The Will Smith versus Denzel Washington debate is older than some of the people arguing about it, and every couple...
Carnegie Hall Becomes a Wealth Summit as Power Network Returns with Big Daddy Kane and Ghostface Killah
On Friday, June 19 at 8 PM, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and Perelman Stage will host a night where hip...
The Betting Site Snitched: How Kalshi Handed George Santos to the Feds
George Santos is back under federal investigation, and the easy version of this story writes itself. The man who lied...
Caller ID Is Losing The Fight Against AI Scammers, So Google Is Rolling Out A New Defense
Caller ID is no longer the comfort signal it used to be. That is the pressure behind Google’s new fake...
Peabo Bryson Dies At 75, Leaving Fans Mourning The Voice Behind Disney’s Biggest Love Songs
Peabo Bryson, the smooth powerhouse voice behind some of Disney’s most unforgettable love songs, has died at 75. His death...
The Bag Index: How Ryan Coogler Got Hollywood to Hand Him the Building
Welcome to The Bag Index. This is Baller Alert's new ongoing series tracking the biggest deals signed by Black talent,...
Lizzo Cranked “Sexy Lady” Live With UCB on Noochie’s Front Porch
Lizzo took "Sexy Lady" home. Days before her new album lands, she pulled up to Noochie's Live From The Front...
From Tupac To Queen Latifah: How Rappers Took Over Hollywood And Became Some Of The Best Actors On Screen
Hip-hop has always been about more than music. It's storytelling, performance, and presence, and for some of the culture's biggest...
Black Girls In Media Draws 300+ To Dallas Summit As Industry Bosses Share Blueprints For Wealth, Influence, And Ownership
Black Girls In Media brought its fourth annual Lights, Camera, Influence Summit to Dallas on May 3, drawing more than...
YouTube’s AI Crackdown Has Begun — And Creators May Not Control The Labels On Their Own Videos
YouTube is done waiting for creators to be honest about AI — starting this month, the platform is flagging synthetic...
Beyond the Beltway: The Non DC Artists Who Tapped Into Go Go (And Why Lizzo Just Joined The List)
Go-go is DC’s. That’s never been up for debate. Born in the mid 1970s out of Chuck Brown’s refusal to...
