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Once again, it’s time to celebrate last year’s biggest names and greatest achievements in Black culture. The 2023 BET Awards are a fun and upbeat party to recognize immense talent. Though the awards show is at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, viewers at home can tune in and be a part of the action. Prepare for incredible performances and much more excitement as BET honors the 50-year anniversary of hip-hop. The 2023 BET Awards air live on BET on Sunday, June 25 at 8 p.m. Et. You can watch BET with a 7-Day Free Trial of Philo. You can also watch with Sling TV, Directv Stream, Hulu Live TV, Fubo, or YouTube TV.

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This story was originally published September 15th in Rolling Stone Colombia.

It is a typically balmy Sunday in Cartagena, the historic resort city on Colombia’s Caribbean shore, and two members of Diamante Eléctrico, one of the country’s most successful rock bands, are performing a few songs for a handful of friends — on the 35th floor of an apartment building with a postcard-perfect vista of dramatically changing light. Bottles of beer and cans of Red Bull fill the living-room table as Juan Galeano and Daniel Álvarez sit across from each other,...

The biggest shock to come from this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” is that Chance The Rapper can apparently exist without his signature hat. He might even thrive without it, which is a fascinating reality to accept. The point is, with or without the hat, Chance The Rapper hosts the best episode of this season so far, the first one to maintain a consistently good quality from top to bottom as well as successfully use the host to their strengths. In fact, Chance The Rapper showed signs in this episode of being the next Justin Timberlake for “Saturday Night Live” in terms of his versatility, gameness, and general sense of humor as a host.

The second biggest shock is that, despite the opening monologue, the “Family Feud” sketch, and some Weekend Update, this year’s Thanksgiving episode is not tied down to the concept of being a Thanksgiving episode.

He was part of the pioneering hip hop collective Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, the first rappers to be inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. Now Kidd Creole is in jail for allegedly stabbing a homeless ex-con during a late night scuffle on the streets of Manhattan. His tumultuous life had taken him from thrilling crowds at Madison Square Garden to making ends meet by working odd jobs as a security guard and handyman, but few could have predicted his descent into murder.

Kidd Creole was born Nathaniel Glover Jr. on Feb. 19, 1960, and grew up in the south Bronx.

Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a fan-favorite but apparently, it’s also a Siri favorite too!

The internet has been obsessed with its most recent phenomenon: the discovery that Apple’s personal digital assistant is, in fact, an avid Queen fan. Social media users have stormed Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube after coming to the realization that telling Siri, “I see a little silhouette of a man,” will result in her becoming a virtual Freddie Mercury, rattling off the rest of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” lyrics.

Learned to tell Siri "I see a little silhouette of a man" today and it's changed...

Bethenny Frankel famously wasn’t invited to her Real Housewives of New York City costar Luann de Lesseps‘ New Year’s Eve Palm Beach nuptials. But the 46-year-old SkinnyGirl mogul still took a trip down south this weekend — ending 2016 with a family vacation in Cancun, Mexico.

With her 6-year-old daughter Bryn and boyfriend Dennis Shields by her side, Frankel documented much of the trip on social media — including their sunny beach day alongside Frankel’s Bff (and former maid of honor) Teri Gevinson.

“Feelin’ a little beachy today,” Frankel captioned an Instagram selfie of of her beach look.

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The Best Musical Moments of 2016The Best Musical Moments of 2016Adriana Floridia12/28/2016 4:41:00 PMThere's nothing quite as beautiful as when a film has an extraordinary musical moment. It's especially impressive in films that aren't musicals, as these moments are often risky, out-of-the-blue, and special moments that catch us off guard but add another dimension to the whole. Oftentimes musical moments become iconic: think Ferris Bueller singing in the parade, the cast of Magnolia mouthing to Aimee Mann's "Wise Up" or the spontaneous dance scene in The Breakfast Club. Countless moments like these have become stand-out aspects of the films in which they live, and 2016 was no exception. While many of the films on this list are music themed, just as many are not. Whether or not the film's plot or genre centered around music, all of these 2016 entries were the most memorable moments from their films. We compiled...

Hip-hop heroes the Sugarhill Gang helped celebrate Conan O'Brien's return to New York City with a performance of "Rapper's Delight" on Conan Monday.

On the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater, original members Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright and Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien cruised through portions of their original verses with breathless ease (the group, reasonably, did not perform the full version of the song, with Wonder Mike unfortunately nixing the "Food just ain't no good" verse).

Meanwhile, new member Henry "Hen Dogg" Williams – in for late co-founder Henry "Big Bank Hank...

Louis C.K., Tracy Morgan and Ryan Reynolds are booked for TBS late-night show Conan’s first trip to New York City since 2011. The week of shows airing October 31-November 3 also includes comedian Rory Scovel and rap group the Sugarhill Gang. Taped at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, the week of episodes will kick off Conan’s seventh year on TBS. Here is the preliminary schedule for Conan in NYC, with additional guests and musical performances to be announced soon: Monday, Oct…...

Oscar Isaac can now add "viral sensation" to his already impressive résumé. The internet already went wild for the scene in the 2015 film Ex Machina where Isaac's character Nathan busts some moves to Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night" with his "girlfriend" Kyoko. As if that clip wasn't mesmerizing enough already, Twitter user @oscardances discovered that Isaac's dance fits perfectly to any song from The Bee Gee's "Staying Alive" to Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." The account takes song requests then brings them to life, and almost every resulting video is perfection. oops i did it again - britney spears pic.

Oscar Isaac can now add "viral sensation" to his already impressive résumé. The internet already went wild for the scene in the 2015 film Ex Machina where Isaac's character Nathan busts some moves to Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night" with his "girlfriend" Kyoko. As if that clip wasn't mesmerizing enough already, Twitter user @oscardances discovered that Isaac's dance fits perfectly to any song from The Bee Gee's "Staying Alive" to Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." The account takes song requests then brings them to life, and almost every resulting video is perfection. oops i did it again - britney spears pic.

Nothing much happens, but that’s the point in this beautifully observed exploration of what it’s like to be young and male

In his Before Sunrise movies, Richard Linklater got audiences to hang out with people who were talkative, idle, interested in sex and clever. In Everybody Wants Some!!, he gets you to hang out with people who are talkative, idle, interested in sex and, erm, not quite as clever as all that. Yet it is a deceptively subtle comedy, and also a challengingly and almost provokingly unironic film intensifying and cartoonifying what it is like to be young and male, but quite without the obviously readable drama and poignancy of his earlier film Boyhood, that now legendary real-time movie tracking a young man’s growing pains.

A bunch of corn-fed sports jocks are on baseball scholarships at a Texas college some time in the 1980s, macho, sex-obsessed and as innocent as children.

It's hard to tell if the above clip is evidence that proves Hugh is or is not familiar with Drake's "Hotline Bling," but the good news is he and George definitely know their Sugarhill Gang. (Also, if you're ever in a dire situation, you can officially count on these guys to save you with the power of hip-hop, very big words, and very tiny dick jokes.)...

What was supposed to be a E.R. reunion for George Clooney turned into the ultimate medical drama mashup with House's Hugh Laurie!

The Hail, Caesar! actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to promote his latest Coen Brothers collaboration.

Before the show, Kimmel had teased the "E.R. reunion of your dreams," but sadly Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle and Eriq La Salle were nowhere to be found.

Instead, Dr. Douglas Ross a.k.a. Clooney was teamed up with Dr. Gregory House (cane and accent included!) for double the medical talents in a hilarious sketch.

The late-night host played the...

[Embedcode {}] What was supposed to be a E.R. reunion for George Clooney turned into the ultimate medical drama mashup with House's Hugh Laurie! The Hail, Caesar! actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to promote his latest Coen Brothers collaboration. Before the show, Kimmel had teased the "E.R. reunion of your dreams," but sadly Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle and Eriq La Salle were nowhere to be found. Instead, Dr. Douglas Ross a.k.a. Clooney was teamed up with Dr. Gregory House (cane and accent included!) for double the medical talents in a hilarious sketch. The late-night host played the...

[Embedcode {}] What was supposed to be a E.R. reunion for George Clooney turned into the ultimate medical drama mashup with House's Hugh Laurie! The Hail, Caesar! actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to promote his latest Coen Brothers collaboration. Before the show, Kimmel had teased the "E.R. reunion of your dreams," but sadly Julianna Margulies, Noah Wyle and Eriq La Salle were nowhere to be found. Instead, Dr. Douglas Ross a.k.a. Clooney was teamed up with Dr. Gregory House (cane and accent included!) for double the medical talents in a hilarious sketch. The late-night host played the...

The actress who provided one of the most memorable scenes from one of Adam Sandler.s best films has sadly passed away. Ellen Albertini Dow, perhaps best known as The Rapping Granny in The Wedding Singer, died on Monday at the amazing age of 101, capping off one of the most unique careers in the biz. Most fans simply knew Ellen Albertini Dow for that memorable role as the jovial geriatric, Rosie who, in 1998.s The Wedding Singer took the stage and rolled through rhymes with her rendition of The Sugarhill Gang.s seminal hit, "Rapper.s Delight." However, reported details of her career truly showed one of the most unique paths to Hollywood, possibly ever. Hailing from Pennsylvania, Albertini Dow, born November 16, 1913, began her career studying acting in New York and Paris before moving to Los Angeles to teach drama. She would eventually end up at Pierce College teaching drama,...

Veteran actress Ellen Albertini Dow has died at the age of 101.

Dow was perhaps best known for her scene-stealing moment in Adam Sandler's The Wedding Singer, in which she performed The Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight'.

Her longtime agent Juliet Green confirmed Dow's passing on Monday (May 4) to Deadline.

Dow did not begin her movie career until she was in her 70s, having previously studied acting in New York and working with mimes Marcel Marceau and Jacques LeCog in Paris.

She later went on to teach drama at Los Angeles City College, before moving to Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley and teaching theatre with her husband Eugene.

Her first role was in the 1986 version of The Twilight Zone, and soon landed parts in various films and TV shows, including My Blue Heaven, Sister Act, Moonlighting, The Golden Girls, The Wonder Years and Seinfeld.

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Ellen Albertini Dow, the scene-stealing actress who blossomed on both the big and small screens late in life and gave a memorable rapping performance in "The Wedding Singer," has died. She was 101.

Albertini Dow's incredible life began in Pennsylvania in 1913, and she studied acting and mime alongside industry legends including Martha Graham and Marcel Marceau. She and her husband, Eugene Dow, started the theater program at Pierce College in California, where she taught until she retired in 1985.

But Albertini Dow didn't stop there. She started taking acting classes at the American Film Institute and began a career in her 70s, scoring roles in television series including the 1980s reboot of "The Twilight Zone." She went on to appear on television numerous times throughout the next few decades of her life, including guest spots on series such as "Moonlighting," "Murphy Brown," "The Golden Girls," "The Wonder Years," "Star Trek: The Next Generation,...

Ellen Albertini Dow, the actress best known for her role as the rapping granny in 1998's The Wedding Singer, passed away on Monday at the age of 101, her agent confirmed to Deadline. Ellen's hilarious rendition of "Rapper's Delight" was featured on the movie's soundtrack, made the Billboard Top 5, and went double platinum. But while she seemed like a seasoned pro, Ellen actually didn't start acting until the 1980s, when she was in her 70s. Despite her late start, she experienced an expansive career that included roles in The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Wonder Girls, The Golden Girls, Wedding Crashers, and Sister Act. Ellen most recently voiced a character on Family Guy and was last seen on screen in 2013 in New Girl. Watch a clip from her memorable performance of the Sugarhill Gang song below.

Ellen Albertini Dow passed away on Monday at age 101, Deadline reports. The actress, who appeared in everything from Sister Act to Family Guy, will likely be best remembered as the "rapping granny" from The Wedding Singer, famous for a scene in which she raps the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." She also appeared in Wedding Crashers as the foulmouthed homophobic grandma who made everyone extremely uncomfortable at dinner. Dow most recently guest-starred on New Girl in 2013. Here she is, in all her Og glory, getting down to "Rapper's Delight":...

Rest in peace, rapping granny! Fans of 1998's Adam Sandler classic The Wedding Singer may not recognize the name Ellen Albertini Dow, but they'll surely smile when seeing her face. After all, the actress played the hilarious granny who delivered a spot-on rap to The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper’s Delight" in the film with Sandler and Drew Barrymore. She was 101 years old. Dow, whose acting career didn’t begin until she was in her 70s, died Monday, May 4, her agent confirmed to Deadline. Honing her acting [...]...

Nile Rodgers knows how to work a crowd. The iconic songwriter-producer-guitarist transformed Jimmy Kimmel Live! into a disco on Tuesday with a boisterous performance of the new Chic single, "I'll Be There." Backed by trumpet blasts and a funky rhythm section, Rodgers used his distinctive rhythm guitar to anchor the exuberant song. "I'll Be There" climaxes with a nimble bass solo and spacey vocoder lines.

The band also dusted off their trademark 1979 single, "Good Times," for a crazy web performance. After riding out the iconic groove, Rodgers led the band...

‘Tis the season for awards, and while voters are busy weighing the merits of top Oscar contenders, the industry’s intangibles have fallen by the wayside. The year in film is comprised of so many movie moments and overlooked details that go unrecognized by Hollywood, so here’s a list of superlatives and unconventional awards that serve as an alternative to the prim-and-proper Oscars. There’s even more ground to cover than last year, so let’s get started …

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Best Animal Title: Gold: “Birdman” Silver: “The Dog” Bronze: “Foxcatcher” Honorable Mention: “Big Bad Wolves”

Best Movie Set Primarily in One Location: “Locke,...

Chris Rock’s Top Five hits theatres this Friday and it’s as much a film about the history of hip hop as it is about the nature of comedy.

The film made a huge splash at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival for netting a $12.5-million distribution rights deal with Paramount, a pact that was largely floated by electric audience response. What helped evoke that response was the natural dialogue.

Top Five is very much a movie about people hanging around, talking nonsense. However, in between old stories and filthy jokes, one current – or one question, rather – runs through the entire film and helps give the film its title: Who are your all-time Hip Hop Top Five?

This is not a “top five” in the Nick Hornby sense, as in: “What are your top five hip hop songs about New York?” Instead, it’s a basketball question that...

The first night of Dancing With the Stars' season 19 finals began Monday night, and the competition was the toughest it has ever been. With four couples who all know their way around a dance floor like nobody's business, it was clear from the first moment that no matter who went home, it was going to be disappointing.

The stars got the chance to show off their skills with two different dances. The first was a routine that they performed earlier in the season, but didn't necessarily get perfect. Each star also had one of the four judges to advise them on how to improve their routine. It was really a night of dancing redemption.

Photos: The Complete (Until Tuesday Night) List of Dancing with the Stars Winners

The second dance would be a freestyle, which allowed the couples to choreograph any type of dance they wanted, and each of the stars brought their very best to...

We have no doubt Sugarhill Gang rapper Big Bank Hank is still shocking the house for the young ladies. Only difference is ... he's got God on the ones and twos now. Our man Hank died at the age of 57, but "Rapper's Delight" lives on -- because he can rock a party 'til the early light! Read more...

The music industry is mourning the loss of a pioneer in the rap community. Big Bank Hank, who was a member of the Sugarhill Gang rap group, passed away Tuesday morning in New Jersey after a long battle of cancer. He was 57. The group's manager confirmed the death to Rolling Stone and said his bandmates Wonder Mike and Master Gee were informed of the news. Hank, who was born Henry Jackson, is well-known for his single "Rapper's Delight." The multiplatinum hit was one of the first rap songs played on the radio and became the first hip-hop single to become a Top 40 Billboard chart hit. The 1979 classic tune has lived on thanks to memorable renditions from Brian Williams and Ellen...

Big Bank Hank, one of the three members of the pioneering hip-hop group The Sugarhill Gang, has died of cancer. He was 57. Hank, whose real name was Henry Jackson, helped the hip-hop genre to burst through into mainstream music with the band's 1979 hit, "Rapper's Delight." The rapper died Tuesday, and the other two members of the group, Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien and Michael "Wonder Mike" Wright, were notified that morning, according to Rolling Stone. "So sad to hear about our brothers passing," his bandmates said in a statement to the magazine. "The three of us created musical history together with the release of 'Rapper's Delight.

Big Bank Hank, a member of the Sugarhill Gang, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, after losing his battle to cancer, his manager David Mallie confirmed to CNN. He was 57. The rapper, whose real name was Henry Jackson, passed away early Tuesday morning in Englewood, N.J. Big Bank Hank was one of three members of the Sugarhill Gang, which made hip-hop mainstream in 1979 with their hit "Rapper's Delight." The song itself was the first rap ever to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart. Jackson's most [...]...

Big Bank Hank -- the Sugarhill Gang rapper best known as "the grandmaster with 3 MCs that shock the house for the young ladies" -- died early Tuesday morning ... TMZ has learned.Hank -- born Henry Jackson -- had been suffering from cancer. We're told he passed away in the greater NYC area around 2 Am. Hank was one third of the famous Sugarhill Gang ... which had the first mainstream rap hit "Rappers Delight" in 1979.His group...

Sylvia Robinson, a singer, songwriter and record producer, who formed the pioneering hip-hop group Sugarhill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording with them, died at 75 years old, in September 2011, of congestive heart failure, after being in a coma. She built a successful career as an R&B singer before she and her husband, Joe Robinson, formed Sugar Hill Records in the 1970's, and went on to nurse a musical genre that came to dominate mainstream music.  In the late 1960s, Ms. Robinson became one of the few women to produce records in any genre when she and her husband founded All Platinum Records. She played an important role in the...

Producer Paula Wagner has acquired film rights to the life story of Sylvia Robinson, the influential rap pioneer and producer known as the "Mother of Hip-Hop." Robinson was co-founder of Sugar Hill Records, which burst onto the music scene in 1979 with "Rapper’s Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. Robinson produced and co-wrote that song, which was widely credited as the first hit to push hip-hop into the mainstream. She was also a driving force behind other breakthrough tracks such as "The Message," by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Robinson died of heart failure

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Life is different when your dad is Will Smith. For instance, if your dad showed up to a pool party where you were working, took off his shirt, and began rapping about his old coworkers, you would likely be very embarrassed. But for Trey Smith, eldest son of Will, that exact scenario did not cause him to storm away ashamed, or even unfriend his father in protest. Instead, he seemed to dig it. Trey, who spins under the name DJ AcE, was working an event at The Palms alongside his father's former partner DJ Jazzy Jeff. Undoubtedly remembering his own time working with Jeff,...

Will Smith hit Las Vegas on Friday for a "Summertime" surprise. The actor stopped by the Palms Pool and Dayclub to join his longtime friend and collaborator DJ Jazzy Jeff for a performance of their 1991 anthem. "You all know how to party down here!" he told the crowd, noting that he hadn't seen Jeff in seven months. "We haven't been onstage in forever!" After removing his shirt midsong, Smith then proceeded to "jump on it" with the crowd during Sugarhill Gang's "Apache." Watch the performance clips below, via TMZ. Email: Ashley.Lee@THR.com Twitter: @cashleelee

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This is how you do a party Big Willie style.

At 45 years old Will Smith can still get jiggy with the best of them.

The actor reverted back to his Fresh Prince ways at a Las Vegas pool party, shedding his shirt and breaking into The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "Jump On It" dance done to the song by The Sugarhill Gang.

This magical '90s throwback moment was captured on video and posted to Instagram on Friday.

Will has plenty to dance about. Martin Lawrence confirmed that a Bad Boys 3 is in the works during an appearance on Conan earlier this week.

News: There's Going to be a Bad Boys 3!

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Most bands have to work for years to get their work recognised, often having several flop singles or even albums before they make it big. Bands like Biffy Clyro, Sonic Youth, The National and the Flaming Lips (to name a few) languished in obscurity for years before becoming household names and bringing alternative music to the mainstream. However, some bands strike gold on their very first single.

From that very first note we know that they’re going to go down as legends of the industry to be remembered for years to come. Whether they are rock, pop, rap or any other genre, there are a few acts who have exploded onto the scene with one killer song that elevated them to superstar status overnight; for example Sex Pistols, Ramones and The Clash were flying the flag for the punk rock movement of the 1970s right out the gate,...

For a generation of kids, Saturday morning at 11am was appointment-television time. You put away your cereal bowl and switched from cartoons or pro-wrestling to a channel a little further down the dial. After a minute or two, you'd finally see that signature animated train — a funky, pulsing engine grooving down inner-city elevated tracks (and later, around the world), puffing out rainbow-colored smoke. Then a high-pitched voice screamed out the words you'd waited all week to hear: "It's the Sooooouuullll Traaaaaiiiiiinnnn!"

12 Mind-Blowing 'Soul Train' Performances

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[Youtube "jidziKYG9jk"] Jimmy Fallon knows the Internet. And he knows that it's only got one rule: When something works, do it again and again. So when the Web blew up at Fallon's supercut of Brian Williams rapping Warren G's "Regulate" last year, Fallon made his newscaster colleague try his hand at "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. Now, he's done it again, editing together dozens of clips of Williams to make it look as though the authoritative journalist is rapping along to Snoop Dogg's 1994 hit "Gin and Juice." Just one question: When did Brian Williams ever say "bitches"? Watch the clip above!

[Youtube "jidziKYG9jk"] Jimmy Fallon knows the Internet. And he knows that it's only got one rule: When something works, do it again and again. So when the Web blew up at Fallon's supercut of Brian Williams rapping Warren G's "Regulate" last year, Fallon made his newscaster colleague try his hand at "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang. Now, he's done it again, editing together dozens of clips of Williams to make it look as though the authoritative journalist is rapping along to Snoop Dogg's 1994 hit "Gin and Juice." Just one question: When did Brian Williams ever say "bitches"? Watch the clip above!

You’ll learn many things on most episodes of the weekly trivia radio program “Ask Me Another,” but the big takeaway from this weekend’s installment is that you shouldn’t boast about your “Rapper’s Delight” karaoke skills if Hannibal Buress is standing next to you. In this exclusive clip from the NPR/Wnyc show’s latest episode, available today via podcast download and airing over the weekend on NPR stations, the comedian and Broad City scene-stealer takes part in a $100,000 Pyramid–style quiz in which he must describe well-known rap songs to an audience member without quoting lyrics or name-checking the artists. It’s like the charades of rap! When the audience member, an affable schoolteacher named Brent, says his go-to karaoke tune is “Rapper’s Delight” and busts out the opening lines, Buress jokes that the start of the Sugarhill Gang song is easy, but going deep...

It's been a while since I posted such a peculiar, off-world news piece, but having seen Evian's new advert - and with Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 just weeks away from its global release - I thought this was needed.

In recent years the Evian brand, owned by the French Multinational group Danone, has become synonymous with dancing babies. In 2009, the company launched the first of what was to become a series of funky, baby-infused dance commercials..and what better way to start than with The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight :

Since then, Evian has invested much time and effort into their 'Baby and Me' advertising campaign, with each ad featuring a new and exciting dance-theme whilst harking back to its origins. However, in their latest post Evian has...quite simply...outdone themselves.

Combining Spidey's limberness and ability to sling, the 1:19 advert features the...

In real life, Fred Armisen is a musician, a bandeader on Late Night With Seth Meyers and a man of impressively varied music taste. But on his IFC comedy series, Portlandia, he's absolutely clueless when it comes to hip-hop history. In this sketch from Thursday's episode, partner-in-crime Carrie Brownstein wants Armisen to join her at a hip hop show, so she – quite hilariously – schools her friend on the genre's major movements.

61 Reasons to Love 2014: 'Portlandia' Season Four

Brownstein means business, so she starts at the very beginning – late-Seventies New York City.

Earlier in the week, Jimmy Fallon teased that he had a new Brian Williams rap video saved for his first week on The Tonight Show. Wednesday night, he debuted the video in question, which featured the familiar formula of clips of Wiliams reporting the news spliced together to make it seem like he's rapping. Video: Inside Jimmy Fallon's Star-Filled 'Tonight Show' Debut This time, Williams performed the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," and he was joined by two special guests: Lester Holt, who "rapped" a few lines, and Kathie Lee Gifford, who also chimed in on the mashup. Fallon

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Is there anything Brian Williams can't do? The NBC Nightly News anchor (sort of) performed The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 classic "Rapper's Delight" on Wednesday's The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Dozens of old news clips were pieced together to make it appear that Williams was actually rapping. Weekend anchor Lester Holt was prominently featured in the music video, and Today's fourth hour co-host Kathie Lee Gifford also made a cameo. No word yet what Williams, 54, thinks of Jimmy Fallon's Lol-worthy video, but it's likely he got a kick out of it. After all, the journalist once hosted Saturday Night Live and has parodied himself on 30 Rock. Before the "Rapper's...

Keith Urban learned how a few encouraging words he spoke backstage after an awards show inspired a contestant who auditioned for American Idol on Wednesday.

Casey Thrasher, 22, a father of two young children from Tuscaloosa, Ala., recalled his unexpected yet inspirational meeting with Urban after the CMAs in 2012.

"You were humble enough to come over and speak to me. You said, 'I believe in you, brother,'" Thrasher said, before launching, appropriately enough, into an emotional performance of "Believe" by Brooks & Dunn.

"I love you. Not 100 percent perfect … but you had so much feeling," said Jennifer Lopez, while Harry Connick Jr. added,...

Keith Urban learned how a few encouraging words he spoke backstage after an awards show inspired a contestant who auditioned for American Idol on Wednesday. Casey Thrasher, 22, a father of two young children from Tuscaloosa, Ala., recalled his unexpected yet inspirational meeting with Urban after the CMAs in 2012. "You were humble enough to come over and speak to me. You said, 'I believe in you, brother,'" Thrasher said, before launching, appropriately enough, into an emotional performance of "Believe" by Brooks & Dunn. "I love you. Not 100 percent perfect … but you had so much feeling," said Jennifer Lopez, while Harry Connick Jr. added,...

Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 single “Rapper’s Delight,” the first hip-hop song widely heard outside of the Bronx, was pretty funny. The many boasts and anecdotes unleashed during its fourteen-plus minutes are highlighted by a comical quandry: What do you do when you don’t like your friend’s mom’s cooking? The widespread popularity of the humorous song may explain why hip-hop, a musically polyglot art form that arose from Bronx block parties in the seventies, was initially thought of by mass audiences in the eighties as a fairly benign, generally funny novelty. Not surprisingly, hip-hop videos of the era tended to employ slapstick, clowning, and other jokey tropes that even the basest mid-century Catskills comedian would pass up. But as the genre matured into the nineties and beyond, hip-hop videos could get away with being more nuanced. While many videos that used humor were still as outright goofy and...

There are few actresses who seem like they could excel at anything, and Sandra Bullock is one of them. So when the Gravity star appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show and rapped part of Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," it didn't come as much of a surprise - just another reason to love her. But Miss Congeniality is not the only star in Tinseltown to boast some serious rhyme-spitting skills. Anne Hathaway, Gwyneth Paltrow and Rebel Wilson have all proved they're no wallflower behind the mic. Which of America's Sweethearts is also America's Sickest Emcee? Watch the video above and tell us in the comments.

Who knew Sandra Bullock could rap? During a recent visit to Jonathan Ross' U.K. talk show, the Gravity star's interview quickly turned into a rapping session when she started busting rhymes from The Sugarhill Gang song "Rapper's Delight." "I learned the words because I liked this guy in high school," Bullock explained before her rap performance. "I was like, 'Next time I go to that dance, I'm going to know every word. I'm going to make sure he sees me lip-syncing it and I'm going to catch his eye and I'm gonna like say the words. And he's going to like me.' And sadly it worked." Bullock then said, "Give me some beats, yo," before rapping...