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In just a short while, Sza will take the stage with Kendrick Lamar during his Super Bowl Lix halftime show set at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The performance is another marker in the rapper’s latest victory lap, but Sza has been on one of her own since releasing Sos in 2023. In December 2024, the musician released Lana, an extended version of the record that added 15 more songs to the album. Now, she has deployed a double deluxe version with even more songs.

It includes new songs “Joni” featuring Don Toliver,...

Sza is ready to share the extended edition of Lana — for real this time. The musician previously announced the expanded version of the release, which itself functions as the deluxe edition of Sos, in late December with plans for an early January arrival. A series of delays followed, but the new songs are now expected to be released on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. Est.

The release date announcement arrived quietly. Sza updated her official website with timing details in lieu of a widespread social media blast. In the wake...

New year, same Sza. The musician shared a fiery teaser trailer on Monday morning previewing new music from the expanded edition of Lana, the already extended edition of Sos. The new version of the record, including more music and updated mixes, was scheduled to be released on Monday, Jan. 6, but has yet to arrive.

In the meantime, the song featured in the snippet posted to Sza’s official Instagram account teases a return to the trenches of the Idgaf war the singer-songwriter battled — and won — on Sos. “Look I might...

It was a clean sweep for Taylor Swift at the 2024 Gold Derby Music Awards. She came into our fourth annual event with nine nominations and walked away with nine victories including Artist of the Year for the fourth year in a row. Watch the announcement video above for winners in all categories, and scroll down for the complete list.

In the history of the GDMAs thus far, Swift is the only artist who has won Artist of the Year. She’s also the only artist who has won Record of the Year and Song of the Year. But her Album of the Year victory for “Midnights” is only her second in that race. She previously won in 2021 for “Folklore,” but Lana Del Rey claimed that honor in 2022 for “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” and Beyonce prevailed in 2023 for “Renaissance.”

Swift’s other victories included her third for Best Music Video...

Taylor Swift is the most nominated recording artist in the 4th Annual Gold Derby Music Awards nominations, but she’s not the most nominated individual. Scroll down to see the entire list of Gdma contenders, watch the nominations announcement above, and visit our predictions center now to start voting for the winners. You have until the end of the day on Friday, January 19, 2024, to get your votes in. Winners will be announced at a later date to be determined.

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Swift picked up an impressive nine nominations including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year (“Midnights“) and Record and Song of the Year (“Anti-Hero”). To date she has never lost the Artist of the Year category, and she previously won Album of the year for “Folklore” in 2021. She’s by...

The fundamental element of becoming a successful internet troll is being able to maintain the highest possible threshold for what it takes to tap out. It’s a game of getting the other person to hit the block button first. But that would never be Doja Cat, because frankly she could do the back and forth all day — and she has. After months of feuding with her own fans online, two opposing sides brawling in the trenches of the Idgaf war, the rapper is burning whatever white flag she could wave.

Over the course of four years and three albums, Atlanta singer-songwriter Summer Walker has developed an incredible talent for detailing the messy epiphanies of Black romance. The 27-year-old artist writes like a student of the late Betty Wright, Mary J. Blige, and K. Michelle, women who describe love with as much vigor as they do the fights and misunderstandings that tear two people apart. It came as a surprise, then, that Walker announced on one of her social media accounts prior to the release of her Clear 2: Soft Life,...

The average tweet from @DojaCat on Elon Musk’s bird app should be approached with caution.

On Thursday, the artist formerly known as Doja Cat announced her alleged new stage name, Emcee Flapchunks the Third, in a tweet.

“My stage name is no longer doja cat its Emcee Flapchunks the 3rd and youll address me as such,” Doja Cat declared. (We asked her rep if she was serious. We don’t think so, but we asked. We haven’t heard back.)

The singer followed up her name change announcement by writing,...

Sza will hit the road next year in support of her celebrated new album, Sos.

The R&b star’s first-ever arena tour will kick off Feb. 21 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, and wrap March 22 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. Omar Apollo will provide support throughout the 17-date North American trek.

Tickets for all shows will go on sale this Friday, Dec. 16, at 12 p.m. local time. Full details are available on Sza’s website.

Sza released Sos last Friday, Dec. 9, five years after the arrival of her celebrated 2017 debut,...

On Thursday, around 9 p.m. Pacific Time, Sza’s highly-anticipated sophomore album Sos appeared on streaming services, exactly five years and six months from the day her deeply beloved debut, Ctrl, was released. Jay Versace, who produced two songs on the new album — including the first and titular track, a bold declaration of her extraordinary talent and tested temper — spent the hours before the release walking the streets of Pasadena, where he lives.

“I don’t know why I do that,” Jay Versace says. “But I literally was walking all over,...

[December 9, 2022] – Top Dawg Entertainment’s Grammy award-winning, chart-topping, and multi-platinum selling recording artist Sza releases her long-awaited new album, Sos, via Tde/RCA Records.To accompany the release, Sza premieres the Bradley Calder-directed video for “Nobody Gets Me,” one of the many standout songs on the album.

Sos includes features by Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers and Ol’ Dirty Bastard; with production by Ctrl hit-making collaborators ThankGod4Cody and Carter Lang, alongside Jeff Bhasker, Rob Bisel, Benny Blanco, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Emile Haynie, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Jay Versace, and more.

Sza. Sos Album Ciover. Photo credit: Daniel Sannwald

Check out the complete track list below and stay tuned for more exciting news from Sza.

Sos tracklist:

01 Sos

02 Kill Bill

03 Seek & Destroy

04 Low

05 Love Language

06 Blind

07 Used feat. Don Toliver

08 Snooze

09 Notice Me

10 Gone Girl

11 Smoking on my Ex Pack

12 Ghost in the Machine feat. Phoebe Bridgers

13 F2F

14 Nobody...

Sza is back with a brand new album, Sos, and fans are already celebrating.

Kicking off with the title track, the album features 23 songs including collaborations with fellow artists such as Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver and Travis Scott.

Sos is Sza’s long-awaited second studio album, following 2018’s debut Ctrl.

The artist has been busy dropping huge singles including “Kiss Me More” with Doja Cat, as well as her collaboration with Kendrick Lamar for the Black Panther soundtrack, “All The Stars”.

The new record features recent singles such as “Good Days” and “Shirt”, as well as a number of previously unheard releases.

Since the release, fans have been sharing their thoughts on the new album, and it’s safe to say they’re very happy.

Sza did her thing on Sos man pic.twitter.com/DbsuCmzdff

— Word on the Street Chile (@WordOnTheStreez) December 8, 2022

“I’m beyond moved,” said a crying Lizzo in an Instagram live,...

New York, NY – December 6, 2022 – Top Dawg Entertainment’s Grammy award-winning, chart-topping, and multi-platinum selling recording artist Sza is confirmed to release her highly-anticipated new album, Sos, on December 9 via Tde/RCA Records.

Fans can catch an early preview of the Benny Blanco and Carter Lang-produced track “Nobody Gets Me” ahead of the official album release this Friday.

The genre-defying artist revealed the Sos release date during her performance of “Shirt” this weekend on Saturday Night Live. Marking her second appearance on SNL, Sza also performed “Blind” and appeared in the “Big Boys” music video parody alongside host Keke Palmer and several cast members.

“Shirt,” “Blind,” and previously released “I Hate U,” round out the 23-track magnum opus which explores such themes as lost, distress, mystery, confusion, reflection, and transition. Sos includes features by Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Phoebe Bridgers andOl’ Dirty Bastard; with production by Ctrl hitmaking collaborators ThankGod4Cody andCarter Lang,...

Add swag to the list of Daddy Yankee’s farewell gifts for fans.

Today, the reggaeton legend debuted collaborative pieces with menswear brand Psycho Bunny as part of its charitable clothing capsule Color Outside the Lines (Cotl). The collection sees Daddy Yankee and other celebrities designing custom patches for a limited-edition collection of tees, hoodies, sweatpants, hats, and jackets. El Jefe’s six patches, seen throughout the collection, include a torch that represents his accomplishment of sharing reggaeton with the world and a goat to symbolize his status as the G.

Flatbush Zombies’ Meechy Darko has teamed up with Freddie Gibbs and DJ/producer A-Trak for a new song, “On God,” off his upcoming solo debut, Gothic Luxury.

Produced by Jay Versace and Dot Da Genius, “On God” begins with a grandiose flourish but settles into a groove that’s still propulsive, but also subtle and unsettling in its own ways. Meechy Darko and Freddie Gibbs trade sprawling, heavy, and brutally honest verses on the five-minute track, while A-Trak arrives at the end to show off his signature scratching skills.

Along with dropping “On God,...

Exclusive: UTA said Wednesday that it has hired Mahzad Babayan and Scarlett Perlman as agents in the company’s Digital Talent division, where they will be tasked with generating opportunities for the agency’s roster of digital content creators that has grown to more than 130. The duo will be based in Los Angeles and report to UTA partner and Head of Digital Talent Ali Berman.

Babayan and Perlman had been at Fullscreen, where Babayan was VP Talent Management and Partnerships and Perlman was a senior talent manager. There they brokered deals within the lifestyle, beauty, music, publishing, podcasting and sports spaces for clients including Yoatzi Castro, Brandon Armstrong (Bdotdot5), MissDarcei, Hannah Jarrah, Alannized, Mango Street and Nick Digiovanni, who we hear will also be making the move.

“Mahzad and Scarlett are deeply experienced in the digital talent landscape, and both are well-respected within the entertainment and media industries,” said Berman.

In 2020, disbelief is rare: Once-in-a-lifetime pandemics have a way of making even the most outlandish news seem unimpressive. Yet when Westside Gunn — a Buffalo rapper who channels 90s New York hip-hop of yore — released the tracklist for his latest album, Pray For Paris, fans were bewildered. In the production credits, alongside some of the most in-demand names names in hip-hop (DJ Premier, Alchemist, Tyler, The Creator) was a man named Jay Versace.

If you don’t know the 22-year-old’s name, you’ve likely seen his face. In 2014, his cherubic cheeks,...

MTV has spun off its popular Guy Code and Girl Code television franchise into a new gender-neutral iteration aimed at teens, bowing exclusively today on Snapchat.

Guy Code, in which famous male figures share their thoughts about an unspoken code of conduct that exists among men, debuted on MTV2 in 2011, and spawned the Girl Code spin-off series in 2013 with the same premise. Both shows are no longer on television, though Snapchat revived Girl Code for its Discover section in July 2017.

On a new spin-off dubbed Teen Code -- which was announced in early 2018, but finally arrives today -- an illustrious fleet social influencers will share their own life advice, personal anecdotes, and fun facts about life as teenagers, per MTV. The eight-episode series will feature appearances from Liza Koshy, Jay Versace, Eva Gutowski, Emma Chamberlain, Jordyn Jones, and more. Through commentary, animation, and sketches, each episode will focus on one...

Former CAA and digital industry executives Stephanie Piza and Carla Vionette Santiago are making moves and championing the need for diverse and underrepresented voices in the industry with the newly launched Uncmmn, a talent management and entertainment partnerships firm set to amplify diverse stories and deliver clients with the tools to reach audiences in an authentic voice. The firm is the first management company of its kind to give shine to diverse and disruptive talent of the changing landscape of Hollywood.

Piza will lead the charge on Uncmmn’s Talent team where she will explore verticals such as endorsements, licensing, consumer products, live events, television, film, publishing, music, production and voiceover for her clients all while maintaining and expanding their online voices to build and execute a holistic strategy for all talent clients. Santiago will head the Partnerships team and will curate and design entertainment experiences in the TV, film...

Former CAA executives Stephanie Piza and Carla Vionette Santiago announced the launch of Uncmmn, their new talent management and entertainment partnerships firm, on Tuesday.

Uncmmn will aim to amplify diverse stories and deliver clients with the tools to reach audiences in an authentic voice.

“As the meaning of celebrity changes, influencers and content creators have the opportunity to define culture and the new Hollywood. Uncmmn is committed to developing its clients and presenting opportunities that challenge the current landscape of entertainment to stay ahead of the curve in a competitive market,” Piza said in a statement. “Understanding our client’s tone, personality and cultural background as well as the commitment to their long-term success is what will make Uncmmn stand out from traditional talent management firms. We present opportunities to our clients that strategically align with their brand both on and offline.”

Uncmmn is an independent venture, with Charles D. King...

Black Entertainment Television (Bet) will celebrate the year’s biggest viral moments on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and beyond during the Viacom-owned network's second annual Bet Social Awards.

The live, one-hour event will be hosted by stand-up comedian Jess Hilarious, who counts 4.1 million followers on Instagram, and DC Young Fly -- a rapper and Vine-turned-YouTube star. The awards will take place at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta on March 3, and awards will be handed out in a total of four categories: ’Issa Wave’ (highlighting new music artists), ‘Lmao!’ (comedy), ‘Social Hustle’ (creators who have turned their social presence into full-fledged careers), and ‘Best Celeb Follow’ (honoring celebrities from traditional entertainment).

Additionally, activist Shaun King will receive the ‘Social Movement’ award for the way in which he has elevated the social landscape, Bet says, and harnessed his platform to help change laws, oust corrupt politicians, and elect promising new ones. Other...

For Beautycon 2018, YouTube creator Connor Franta stepped over to the other side of the camera.

Franta, who has over 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube where he posts a new video every week, photographed this year’s Beautycon in Los Angeles for Paper. He captured a number of attendees at the event, including YouTube creator Jay Versace, Jonathan Van Ness from Queer Eye, Instagram star Jordyn Woods, and makeup artist Daniel Ruiz Smith.

Franta isn’t new to photography. He’s been documenting his life via Instagram—where he has over 5.1 million followers—for years, and he spoke to Fast Company in 2015 about how to take the perfect photo for the social media platform. “When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it,” Franta told Fast Company. “I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo–symmetry, or color,...

NewFronts newcomer Viacom officially unveiled today Viacom Digital Studios -- a nascent online division from the noted television conglomerate staffed by a number of AwesomenessTV veterans.

Viacom Digital Studios will be responsible for an all-new slate from Viacom’s noted TV brands, including Bet, Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon.. Upcoming shows -- featuring bold-faced influencers like Liza Koshy, JoJo Siwa, Jay Versace, Akilah Hughes, and De’arra And Ken -- will air on the aforementioned networks’ platforms as well as Snapchat and Twitter.

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Jay Versace, a 19-year-old multi-hyphenate artist who first rose to fame on Vine and now headlines a flourishing YouTube channel, has signed with top talent agency UTA for representation in all areas.

The New Jersey native, who counts 5 million followers across all of his social platforms, previously starred in a Fullscreen series titled Jay Versace Is Stuck In The 90s, in which he gets stuck in the past and must return to the present using only 90s-era technology. He also appeared in season two of AwesomenessTV’s The Commute. Versace is currently developing a series alongside digital studio Portal A tentatively titled My Wizard & Me, in which he and a "magical ancestor” will sample Los Angeles’ most elusive hotspots.

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Flip Management, the digital talent management firm launched by industry stalwart Lisa Filipelli, has announced the hire of Stephanie Piza.

Piza, who has been named talent manager at Flip, will be based out of the company’s Los Angeles headquarters and work closely with Filipelli on representation of vlogger-actors Kian Lawley and Jc Caylen. Piza’s portfolio also includes Vine phemon-turned-YouTube star Jay Versace and Elisa Johnson -- who is the daughter of Magic Johnson and whose fashion-forward Instagram posts have helped her amass roughly 330,000 followers. At launch, Flip’s client roster included Tyler Oakley, Ingrid Nilsen, Heart Defensor, and more.

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Fullscreen’s just-announced fall slate comprises five original series starring a slew of YouTube notables, including Jay Versace, Scotty Sire, Elton Castee, Jaclyn Glenn, and Alyx Weiss.

The new shows -- which Fullscreen’s Svp of programming, Scott Reich, said showcase “strong personalities, unique storytelling, and boundary-pushing creativity” -- will seek to entice more subscribers to the company’s eponymous streaming service, which launched last April and is priced at $5.99 per month.

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Fullscreen has unveiled its fall original programming slate, which includes four new series, including Jay Versace Is Stuck in the 90s starring Versace, along with previously announced Alive in Denver starring Nathan Kress (iCarly) and Danielle Campbell (The Originals) set to premiere later this year. “Building on the momentum from a strong first half of the year, we are thrilled with our new slate of shows featuring more strong personalities, unique storytelling and…...