A number of celebs will walk the red carpet at the 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival presented by BET Networks in support of the 59 films (including 17 world premieres) that will be featured. Nelson George, Chris Rock and filmmaker Allen Hughes (Menace II Society, Book of Eli) among other notables will kick off Urbanworld […]
The 15th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival (www.urbanworld.org), presented by BET Networks has added Mario Van Peebles’ All Things Fall Apart to its lineup. The film, starring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson in a transformative role as a star college football player, joins a diverse slate of nearly 60 films that will be featured at the New […]
Chris Rock recently stated that “I wanted to do something in New York,” right across the bridge from the New Jersey home he shares with his wife, Malaak, and daughters, Lola, 9, and Zahra, 7. USA Today reports that despite being the family man, the title of the new Broadway play that marks comedian and […]
Chris Rock‘s two-minute skit at the end of Kanye West‘s “Blame Game” is easily one of our favorite moments on West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album. Rock says that the hilarious bit, known unofficially as “Yeezy Taught Me,” invigorated him.
Chris Rock is taking his talents to Broadway with a starring role in The Motherf**ker With The Hat. Rock describes the play in an interview with Vibe as “The Honeymooners on drugs.”
Before Barack Obama became the first African-American President (sorry, Bill Clinton does NOT count) the only time we saw a Commander-in-Chief of color was in the movies. Sometimes the portrayals were dignified (Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact) other times they were not (Terry Crews in Idiocracy), but nine times out of ten the world was […]
On the Valentines Day episode of Chris Rock‘s HBO talk show in 1997, D’Angelo performed with an all-star band including Raphael Saadiq, ?uestlove of The Roots, Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest and the late Chalmers “Spanky” Alford. The quintet, which was unofficially known as Linwood Rose, performed D’Angelo’s hit single “Lady.”
Fresh off of his guest spot on Kanye West’s forthcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Chris Rock will be popping up on Busta Rhymes’ forthcoming album.
Sesame Street's "I Love My Hair" creator Joseph Mazzarino, spoke with CNN about how his adopted daughter from Ethiopia inspired the clip.
Andre Harrell celebrated his 50th birthday over the weekend at The Derby in NYC.
There is a brilliant moment in Chris Rock’s “Never Scared” when he concedes that he can’t defend certain elements of rap music.
