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Comedy fans, including David Letterman, got a rare look at the unreleased documentary Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life at the 23rd annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival on Aug. 8. The screening of the film, which chronicled the comic’s beloved cornfield comedy shows during the pandemic, was followed by an even rarer audience talkback. Initially titled Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place, the doc originally premiered at a packed Radio City Music Hall in 2021 during the first live Tribeca Festival since the Covid-19 lockdown. Fallout over trans jokes from his controversial Netflix special The Closer reportedly derailed distribution. In response, Chappelle did a special tour featuring both the doc and a comedy show. The documentary remains unavailable to the general public.

Chapelle’s appearance was part of his philanthropic effort to raise money for his D.C. high school, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the latest...

In music, it’s an open secret that one’s look is as important as their sound, and Sly Stone was a cosmopolitan reflection of time and place who simultaneously transcended eras. The American icon died on Monday at 82, leaving behind a legacy of soaring musical achievements, struggle, and glittery Halston unitards and capes that still make today’s pop stars drool.

Sly and the Family Stone rose to the forefront during the tumultuous late Sixties, amid perilous Civil Rights demonstrations and protests against the Vietnam War, all while “Dance...

Rolling Stone is premiering the first collaboration between a seemingly unlikely but delightful pair of iconic artists: Afrobeat star Seun Kuti and Posdnuos of De La Soul linked up for “Stand Well Well (Grand Stand Version),” a cut from Kuti forthcoming deluxe edition of Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), out May 28. The new song reimagines a version from Kuti’s original album, which came out in October. The pair have long been mutual fans, they tell Rolling Stone.

“My tour manager and amazing friend, who has since passed on,...

With the loss of multi-talented instrumentalist Roy Ayers, who died on Wednesday at the age of 84, the hip-hop world is honoring one of its greatest inspirations and sample sources. Hip-hop production stalwarts such as J. Dilla, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Madlib, and others have sampled from his six-decade-spanning catalog of jazz and funk-laced compositions. The user-based platform WhoSampled tabulated that Roy Ayers has been sampled 964 times, with 85 covers and 54 remixes.

He’s been regarded as “The Godfather of Neo-Soul” for songs like “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” one...

Peter Shapiro, the concert promoter who organized the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well shows, spoke to Rolling Stone following the death of the band’s bassist, Phil Lesh.

In recent years, Lesh staged annual birthday concerts for himself at the Shapiro-owned Capitol Theatre venue in Port Chester, New York. Lesh’s five shows at the venue this March, marking his 84th birthday, were among his final live performances before his death on Oct. 25.

In a tribute given to Rolling Stone, Shapiro reminisced about meeting Lesh more than 20 years ago,...

In 2022, Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli resurrected their duo, Black Star, for their first album in 24 years, No Fear of Time. Now, the duo has announced the album is being released for the first time on vinyl and CD starting November 22nd via Rhymesayers.

Released in May 2022 exclusively on the podcast platform Luminary (and later made available via Bandcamp), No Fear of Time is a nine-song album featuring production from Madlib and guest appearances by Black Thought and Yummy Bingham. It was made “guerrilla-style,” recorded in secret over a four-year period with hotels and dressing rooms at Dave Chappelle shows serving as the studio space.

Come November, No Fear of Time will be available in physical formats for the first time on vinyl, CD, and cassette, along with a limited deluxe 2xLP that includes both the main version and the instrumentals. A portion of the proceeds will go to relief efforts in Congo,...

Talib Kweli and J. Rawls appeared on The Tonight Show to perform “Native Sons” with the help of house band the Roots. The song comes off the pair’s joint LP, The Confidence Of Knowing, out today.

Kweli and Rawls dropped “Native Sons” last month. The song pays homage to the Native Tongues collective, which featured the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Black Sheep, and Chi Ali.

“This one goes out to the legendary Native Tongues crew,” the rappers spit on the track before name-checking several members.

De La Soul have announced they are playing a pay-what-you-want concert at New York City’s Lincoln Center in January.

The show will take place on January 17th, 2025 at the Wu Tsai Theater in David Geffen Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic. As of publishing, the on-sale date isn’t listed on the event page, but the suggested ticket price is $35.

It is worth noting, however, that the minimum ticket price for other events in Lincoln Center’s Choose-What-You-Pay series is $5. Upcoming shows include doom metal act Sunn O))), Portuguese singer Mariza, and organist Kali Malone.

De La Soul have continued as a duo with surviving members Posdnuos and Maseo following Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur’s sudden death in February 2023. Since then, they’ve been joined on stage by the likes of Pharoahe Monch and Talib Kweli.

Listen to Maseo discuss Trugoy’s death and their upcoming...

Perennial pioneers De La Soul will play a special show in New York City early next year where tickets will be available on a pay-what-you-want basis.

The gig will take place on Jan. 17, 2025, at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, located in NYC’s historic Lincoln Center performing arts complex (the Wu Tsai is typically home to the New York Philharmonic). An on-sale date for tickets hasn’t been announced yet, but the suggested price per ticket is $35.

The Choose-What-You-Pay ticketing model is an ongoing Lincoln Center series designed...

Angela Davis, American political activist, scholar, and author, presented Tribeca Festival’s fourth annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award to Rosario Dawson, Jesse Williams, Aloe Blacc, aja monet, Matt Post, Carmen Perez-Jordan, RodStarz and Sean Pica.

Named after the entertainer, actor, and civil rights leader, the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award recognizes individuals who have used storytelling and the arts to enact change in their communities.

The award ceremony took place following the World Premiere screening of documentary Following Harry, directed and edited by Susanne Rostock (Sing Your Song). The film was followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Davis, with the award winners and filmmakers.

Following Harry begins with Harry Belafonte at the age of 84, embarking on a deeply personal journey, disrupting injustice over the next ten years by passionately encouraging a diverse group of entertainers and activists to overcome soaring national unrest and anger...

It was just last week we were celebrating the 20th anniversary of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which catapulted Michel Gondry into the Hollywood system with the likes of Be Kind Rewind and The Green Hornet. After the failure of that superhero tentpole, he retreated back to France, directing a handful of smaller-scale features, the latest of which, The Book of Solutions, gets meta following a filmmaker struggling with the editing of his big-budget project. Gondry is now mounting his return to Hollywood, the details of which have now been unveiled.

Deadline reports he’s directing an untitled coming-of-age musical, which is loosely inspired by the upbringing of Pharrell Williams. Set to star Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, coming off her Oscar win for The Holdovers, the Universal-backed project is set in 1977 Virginia Beach. Previously going by the title Atlantis, named after the Atlantis Apartments area where Williams was raised,...

De La Soul’s Posdnuos and Maseo will dive into their own history on a special new five-part series, Art Official Intelligence Radio with De La Soul. The show premieres tomorrow, March 5, with new episodes airing Tuesdays and Thursdays on Apple Music 1 at 2 p.m. Et/11 a.m. Pt.

Art Official Intelligence Radio will feature Posdnuos and Maseo retracing their story, discussing the legacy and influence of De La Soul, honoring late bandmate Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, and sharing a mix of De La Soul rarities, demos, and hits during the “DemoListen” segment.

It’s almost ironic that one of the most pivotal award presentations in Grammy Awards history didn’t even happen on the main stage.

“You got robbed. I wanted you to win. You should have. It’s weird and it sucks that I robbed you,” Macklemore texted Kendrick Lamar, who was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2014 Grammy Awards. Drake, Jay-Z, and Kanye West were also nominated, but newcomers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were victorious with their debut album The Heist. The rapper sent the text a few minutes after the main show ended,...

Between Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Fantano, and many more, we’ve heard some pretty good Drake disses over the years. But now, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) is giving everyone a run for their money with a new diss of epic proportions. Evoking the literal collapse of modern civilization to drive his point home, the seasoned rapper said that Drizzy’s output is less “hip-hop” and more like shopping at Target.

The comments came during Bey’s recent appearance on the fashion podcast The Cutting Room Floor when host, Recho Omondi, asked point-blank if he considered Drake “hip-hop.” After a pause — and a begrudging “Why are you doing this to me?” — Bey unleashed his opinion: “Drake is pop to me. In the sense, like, if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song… it feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping.

The 2024 BottleRock Napa Valley festival, which takes place May 24 to 26 in Napa Valley, California, will feature headlining sets by Pearl Jam, Ed Sheeran, Stevie Nicks, and Maná. The lineup also includes Kali Uchis, Megan Thee Stallion, Queens of the Stone Age, The Kid Laroi, Dominic Fike, St. Vincent, Norah Jones, The Offspring, My Morning Jacket, Nelly, T-Pain, Miike Snow, Oliver Tree, Bebe Rexha, and Cold War Kids. Three-day general admission tickets go on-sale January 9 for $456 a person on the festival’s website.

The first BottleRock festival took place in May...

BottleRock Napa Valley has revealed its 2024 lineup featuring headliners Pearl Jam, Stevie Nicks, Ed Sheeran, and Maná, along with other notable acts including Queens of the Stone Age, Megan Thee Stallion, Kali Uchis, My Morning Jacket, The Offspring, and St. Vincent.

The three-day music, food, and wine festival goes down May 24th-26th, 2024 at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa Valley, California.

The lineup also promises performances from Norah Jones, Miike Snow, Gogol Bordello, Dominic Fike, Nelly, T-Pain, Chevy Metal, Holly Humberstone, The Soul Rebels featuring Talib Kweli, Pete Yorn, Momma, Bully, Mondo Cozmo, Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters, Action Bronson, Bebe Rexha, Stephen Marley, The Beaches, Tower of Power, The Record Company, Royel Otis, and more.

Tickets to BottleRock Napa Valley 2024, including three-day Ga passes, are available beginning Tuesday, January 9th at 10:00 a.m. Pt.

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BottleRock Napa Reveals 2024 Lineup with Pearl Jam,...

A Grammy Salute To 50 Years Of Hip Hop is airing tonight!

The star-studded tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip hop will air Sunday, December 10, at 8:30 p.m. Et/8 p.m. Pt on CBS and stream live and on demand on Paramount+.

The two-hour live concert special will feature incredible performances from hip hop legends and Grammy-winning artists, and promises to showcase and celebrate the genre’s profound history and monumental cultural impact around the world.

The special taped November 8 at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles.

Keep reading to find out more…

A Grammy Salute To 50 Years Of Hip Hop Performers List:

2 Chainz

Akon

Arrested Development

Battlecat

Big Daddy Kane

Black Sheep

Black Thought

Blaqbonez

Boosie Badazz

Bun B

Chance The Rapper

Coi LeRay

Common

Cypress Hill

D-Nice

De La Soul

Digable Planets

DJ Diamond Kuts

DJ Greg Stree

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

DJ Quik...

Now, this is a story all about how the Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff will reunite for A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop.

The live concert special, airing Sunday, Dec. 10 at 8:30 pm Et/8 pm Pt on CBS and streaming on Paramount+, will feature an on-stage reunion between Will Smith and Jeffrey Allen Townes (aka DJ Jazzy Jeff), who collaborated musically on hits like “Summertime” and co-starred together in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

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Parents just don’t understand, and they haven’t been alone in trying to make sense of Will Smith’s angry assault on Chris Rock a year and a half ago at the Oscars. Perhaps to remind the world that he was once wholesome and didn’t have to cuss in his raps to sell records, he’s reuniting with his old compatriot DJ Jazzy Jeff for a surely noncontroversial performance at A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop.

The event, which Billboard reports will tape at YouTube Theater in Inglewood,...

The ever-ubiquitous judge Ken Jeong is setting his sights on yet another new venture: Daytime TV.

Jeong is developing with Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury (Sherri) a syndicated talk show on track for a 2024 premiere, according to our sister site The Hollywood Reporter. In addition to hosting, Jeong will serve as an executive producer.

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If you enjoyed the tribute performance celebrating 50 years of hip hop at the 2023 Grammy Awards, you’re going to love this upcoming special. CBS and The Recording Academy have announced that A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop, a live concert special honoring hip hop legends, will air on Sunday, December 10 at 8:30/7:30c (8 p.m. Pt) on CBS. It will also be available to stream on Paramount+, live (via the feed of their local CBS affiliate) and on demand for those who subscribe to Paramount+ with Showtime and on demand the next day for those with Paramount+ Essential. The special will tape on November 8 at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. Taking the stage at the special tribute concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop is a star-studded lineup of hip hop legends and Grammy-winning artists, including Black Thought, Bun B, Common, De La Soul,...

It’s been a half-century since DJ Kool Herc energized a West Bronx rec room and invented the most popular musical genre on the planet. Now the celebration is going primetime.

The Recording Academy said today that it will honor the legends of the game with A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip Hop, a concert special that will air in December on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

The two-hour program will showcase and celebrate the genre’s profound history and monumental cultural impact around the world. Among the first announced performers are Black Thought, Bun B, Common, De La Soul, Jermaine Dupri, J.J. Fad, Talib Kweli, The Lady Of Rage, LL Cool J, Mc Sha-Rock, Monie Love, The Pharcyde, Queen Latifah, Questlove, Rakim, Remy Ma, Uncle Luke and Yo-Yo, with many more promised to be added.

Related: Aafca Celebrates Hip-Hop’s 50th With Screening Series Dedicated to Hip-Hop Films...

Over on the official Consequence Discord server, there’s a lively community of pop-culture obsessives having all sorts of conversations. There are channels for music and film/TV fans to swap opinions abut the latest news, share their latest concert experiences, and handed out recommendations. There’s also a place where fans get to take part in events with some of their favorite artists, live on Discord; the next such exclusive experience is taking place Wednesday, September 30th at 1:30 p.m. Et, as drumming great Daru Jones is set to enter the chat!

A two-time Grammy Award winner, Jones is perhaps most recognizable as being Jack White’s man behind the kit. He’s played on each of White’s solo records, and is typically the rhythm leader at his live shows. But Jones’ resume is long outside of his collaborations with the guitarist; he’s played with Pete Rock,...

During our two-hour Zoom call, Cleveland rapper/producer Kipp Stone tells me that his zest for writing started with stories about a character he deemed the “Cleverland Hero.”

“It’s a shoebox under my bed [with] a bunch of stories,” he says while lounging in a chair in his home. “[They] would later turn into album ideas and stuff like that. I had a character called The Cleverland Hero and he was a musician on a mission to become the coldest. On his journey, he met a whole bunch of people. He...

Louis Cato, who took over from Jon Batiste as bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is getting to drop his sophomore record.

Cato is releasing Reflections on August 11.

Cato has been with the CBS late-night show since its inception and took over from Batiste at the start of its eighth season, after filling in last summer.

Colbert called him “very humble”.

“He’s a musical genius. He can play basically every instrument over there. Give him an afternoon, he’ll learn how to play Mozart on a shoehorn,” the late-night host.

Reflections, which features the eponymous title track (see below), was recorded at Sugar Mountain Studios in Brooklyn, New York and was engineered by Jack DeBoe, who produced the record with Cato.

Cato studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and has played with the likes of John Legend, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Jack White and Bobby McFerrin.

More than one year after its release, Black Star have made their long-awaited comeback album, No Fear of Time, available outside of the Luminary podcast network.

Originally released in May 2022 as a Luminary exclusive, No Fear of Time marked the first proper full-length from the duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (f.k.a. Mos Def) in 24 years. It was produced entirely by their frequent collaborator Madlib.

Stream it below or purchase a digital copy via Bandcamp.

Black Star teased their sophomore album for years; back in 2019, Kweli even said the record was finished. Last year, the duo launched their podcast The Midnight Miracle with their good friend Dave Chappelle. An episode called “Bugs Bunny Mathematicx” took the role of “audio liner notes to introduce the album,” as the podcast’s hosts discussed No Fear of Time more in-depth.

“About three-four years ago I was visiting Yasiin in Europe...

Talib Kweli and Madlib dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for the late-night debut of “Air Quotes,” one of the standout tracks from the rapper-producer team’s recently released collaborative album, Liberation 2.

“Air Quotes” notably features the first collaboration between Kweli and his daughter, Diani, who provides vocals on the track. Both Diani and Kweli’s son, Amani, accompanied their father for the late-night performance. Watch the replay below.

Liberation 2 was also preceded by the album cut “Best Year Ever” before its arrival exclusively on the Luminary podcast network in early March. The long-awaited LP, which follows the duo’s first titular installment from 2007, also boasts a loaded roster of contributors including Q-Tip, Roc Marciano, Westside Gunn, and Mac Miller, posthumously.

Meanwhile, aside from the momentous reunion between Talib Kweli and Madlib, Fallon also recently hosted the hip-hop greats De La Soul, who performed “Stakes Is High” with...

When it comes to saying yes or no to new opportunities, Dave Chappelle leans on the late Maya Angelou.

On the latest episode of The Midnight Miracle, the stand-up star covers a lot of conversational ground with his Luminary podcast co-hosts Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), including topics like the merits of awards, the role of money in an artist’s life, Kevin Hart’s ambitious stand-up goals and his own exit from the critically acclaimed Comedy Central series Chappelle’s Show.

Angelou’s name came up during the chat about awards when Chappelle paraphrased Angelou’s much-repeated quote that goes like this: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” He called the metric “almost singular” and said it’s always his go-to.

“There’s two things that I...

Los Angeles, Jan 25 (Ians) Comedian Dave Chappelle released the second episode of his ‘The Midnight Miracle’ podcast with co-hosts Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey and confronted the backlash that has surrounded him for years regarding jokes that many perceive as being ‘anti-trans’.

Last July, Minneapolis’ First Avenue club cancelled a Chappelle comedy show due to the backlash.

The venue apologised to the community for booking Chappelle and vowed to keep the club a “safe space”, reports ‘Variety’.

“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” he said on the podcast.

“This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”

Chappelle ended up playing Minneapolis at a different venue, the Varsity Theatre, which attracted large groups of protesters.

Comedian Dave Chappelle released the second episode of his ‘The Midnight Miracle’ podcast with co-hosts Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey and confronted the backlash that has surrounded him for years regarding jokes that many perceive as being ‘anti-trans’.

Last July, Minneapolis’ First Avenue club cancelled a Chappelle comedy show due to the backlash.

The venue apologised to the community for booking Chappelle and vowed to keep the club a “safe space”, reports ‘Variety’.

“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” he said on the podcast.

“This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”

Chappelle ended up playing Minneapolis at a different venue, the Varsity Theatre, which attracted large groups of protesters.

Dave Chappelle released the second episode of his “The Midnight Miracle” podcast with co-hosts Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey and confronted the backlash that has surrounded him for years regarding jokes that many perceive as being anti-trans. Last July, Minneapolis’ First Avenue club cancelled a Chappelle comedy show due to the backlash. The venue apologized to the community for booking Chappelle and vowed to keep the club a “safe space.”

“I guess apparently they had made a pledge to the public at large that they would make their club a safe space for all people, and that they would ban anything they deemed transphobic,” Chappelle said on the podcast. “This is a wild stance for an artistic venue to take, especially one that’s historically a punk rock venue.”

Chappelle ended up playing Minneapolis at a different venue, the Varsity Theater, which attracted large groups of protesters.

“These were grown...

Hosted by Chance the Rapper and his close friend and collaborator Vic Mensa, the inaugural Black Star Line Festival — a week of talks, parties, skating, and music in Accra, Ghana — was dreamt of and designed to catalyze physical connectivity, understanding, and eventually, radical movement-making among Black people globally.

“I think this is kind of what they call a pilot in TV, where this is an example of what it could be like yearly or biyearly to have something that we all just go to that’s free, that you bring your kids to,...

Exclusive: Oliver Trevena (Plane) will exec produce and star in the dramatic thriller Social Capital, from writer-director Emilio Mauro.

The upcoming film follows an ensemble of distinct characters making their way through a seemingly normal office workday that begins to unwind as they are pushed closer and closer to the brink under mounting pressure. Trevena plays Scott, who’s constantly in mental distress — toeing the line between angry and manic. Deep down, however, he’s a man trying to find his strength and purpose, while keeping it all together after his relationships, both personal and professional, start to unwind.

Mauro is producing Social Capital, with Trevena being joined as an exec producer by David Womark and Alecia Jean Lebeda. The actor — who can currently be seen starring alongside Gerard Butler, Mike Colter and more in the Lionsgate action-thriller Plane — is this month filming a role alongside Harvey Keitel and Olga Kurylenko...

What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for music—’66, ’77, ’88, ’99 were four of the coolest music years ever. (’11 and ’55 were bangers, too. Y2K wasn’t so hot, but at least it had a kick-ass Madonna album.) 2022 felt more like Neil Young’s 22 than Taylor Swift’s, but...

Warner Music Group announced Monday that it has partnered with Roku to launch three, genre-based Fast channels, exclusively on The Roku Channel, the platform’s free streaming service.

The new channels – Wmx Pop, Wmx Rock, and Wmx Hip-Hop – are free to stream on The Roku Channel, through the service’s Live TV Guide.

Each of the channels will feature music videos and concerts from Warner Music’s catalog of artists as well as original programming from the company’s media brands, including Uproxx, HipHopDX, Songkick, Cover Nation, The Pit and Lasso Nation.

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The Fast channels will also premiere new, exclusive series, like “Iconic Records: Life After Death,” a new show about the world’s most iconic albums. The first installment will cover Notorious B.I.G’s “Life After Death,” which is hosted and executive-produced by radio personality Angie Martinez.

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On Air Fest, a cultural experience for audio creatives and listeners organized by work x work, which produces the festival, has unveiled the initial list of headliners for its 2023 flagship festival, set for Feb. 23-25.

The seventh annual festival, which will take place at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn, will feature an immersive walk-through podcast experience, On Air: The Podcast Experience, from the world of My Favorite Murder and the Exactly Right Network, On Being Project, The Heart and more.

It will also include a series of “sonic dinners” pairing audio and culinary arts, and three days of onstage talks and live tapings. The live events will feature On Being with Krista Tippett, People’s Party with Talib Kweli, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso and a brand-new miniseries from The Heart, among others.

“Podcasting is a medium that should be unbound. The artists...

“Walk soft and carry a cro magnum,” Yasiin Bey rapped in “So Be It” — a bar that captured the vibe and vitriol of Black Star’s ferocious Saturday Night Live debut.

Rap duo Talib Kweli and Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) received a hero’s welcome in Studio 8H. Dave Chappelle, who co-hosts The Midnight Miracle podcast with both Kweli and Bey, introduced “Brooklyn’s finest rappers” with love and extreme pride.

Black Star performed two new songs, “The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing” and “So Be It,...

Dave Chappelle will be returning to Rockefeller Center’s Studio 8H this weekend to host “Saturday Night Live”, marking the comedian’s third time as host.

In a trio of new promos, Chappelle is joined by “SNL” cast member Ego Nwodim and the episode’s musical guest, rap duo Black Star.

In the first promo, Nwodim attempts to “tag along” with Chappelle for Thanksgiving with his family, while the second promo finds Chappelle making a declaration.

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“Hi, I’m Dave Chappelle and this week I’ll be hosting ‘SNL’ with musical guests Black Star, on an episode that’s so Black it’s gonna be on BET,” Chappelle quipped in what appeared to be an ad-libbed take, cracking up Nwodim and Black Star’s Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli.

“Just kidding,” he added, “it’s gonna be right here on NBC — see you Saturday.

Dave Chappelle is going for the post-election hat trick.

In what appears to have become a tradition, the comedian is set to host “Saturday Night Live” yet again after Tuesday’s U.S. mid-term election, following his previous hosting gigs on Nov. 7, 2020, and Nov. 12, 2016 — both of those being the first episodes following the presidential election.

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“SNL” confirmed Saturday that Chappelle will host the Nov. 12 episode, which will air four days after America goes to the polls.

Black Star — the hip-hop duo of Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey, a.k.a. Mos Def — will join Chappelle as musical guest.

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As he did after the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Dave Chappelle has once again been tasked with hosting Saturday Night Live for their first post-Election Day episode, this time for the 2022 midterms.

Chappelle will bring along Black Star — the duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli — as musical guest; the renowned hip-hop duo reunited earlier this year for their long-anticipated second album No Fear of Time, their first LP in 24 years.

No Fear of Time was released through Luminary, where the duo host The Midnight Miracle podcast along with Dave Chappelle,...

Dave Chappelle is heading back to Studio 8H.

The comedian is set to preside over the Nov. 12 episode of Saturday Night Live, marking his third stint as host (following previous turns in Seasons 42 and 46).

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Academy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste is leaving ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ after seven seasons, Colbert announced Thursday night on the show.

He’s exiting to “pursue personal and professional interests”. Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer, will take over on a permanent basis and Colbert’s band, which previously had been called “Stay Human” under Batiste’s direction, will be renamed ‘The Late Show Band’, reports ‘Variety’.

Cato will take over permanently when the show returns for its eighth season on Tuesday, September 6.

“Louis has done a great job this summer, and he is very humble, so he won’t say this. But I will. He’s a musical genius,” Colbert said.

“He can play basically every instrument over there. Give him an afternoon, he’ll learn how to play Mozart on a shoehorn.”

Cato, has been with “The Late Show” since its relaunch under Colbert.

Stephen Colbert announced on tonight’s The Late Show that Academy Award and Grammy winner Jon Batiste is departing after seven seasons to pursue personal and professional interests.

“We’ve been so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for the past seven years. And will we miss him here? ‘Yeaaa!’ But we’re happy for you, Jon, and I can’t wait to have you back on as guest with your next hit record,” Colbert said.

Batiste has been the Late Show bandleader since Colbert took over as host in 2015. His music career has been on a roll in the last two years as he won an Oscar in 2020 for his Soul score and won five Grammys this year, including Album of the Year.

Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer, will take over on a permanent basis with when The Late Show...

Academy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste is leaving “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after seven seasons, Colbert announced Thursday night on the show. He’s exiting to “pursue personal and professional interests.” Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer, will take over on a permanent basis — and the Colbert’s band, which previously had been called “Stay Human” under Batiste’s direction, will be renamed “The Late Show Band.”

Cato will take over permanently when the show returns for its eighth season on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

“Louis has done a great job this summer, and he is very humble, so he won’t say this. But I will. He’s a musical genius,” Colbert said. “He can play basically every instrument over there. Give him an afternoon, he’ll learn how to play Mozart on a shoehorn.”

Cato, has been with “The Late Show” since its relaunch under Colbert.

After 7 seasons, huge changes have come to “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”

On Thursday’s episode of the show, Colbert announced that Grammy-winning songwriter and musician Jon Batiste is exiting the show and will be replaced as Band Leader by longtime “The Late Show” band member Louis Cato.

“We’ve been so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for the past seven years. And will we miss him here? ‘Yeaaa!’ But we’re happy for you, Jon, and I can’t wait to have you back on as guest with your next hit record,” Colbert said.

Batiste has been on hiatus from “The Late Show” all summer and in his place, Cato has served as interim band leader. “Louis has done a great job this summer, and he is very humble, so he won’t say this. But I will. He’s a musical genius.

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