Month: April 2022

Kris Jenner took the stand on the third day of Blac Chyna's defamation trial against the Kardashians. She claimed that Kylie Jenner and Tyga alleged to her that Blac Chyna threatened Kylie's life. "You'd have to ask Kylie or Tyga," about the details, she told the court. Loading Something is loading. Kris Jenner took the stand on the third day of Blac Chyna's $108 million defamation lawsuit against the Kardashian-Jenner family and told the courtroom that she discus...

Hip Hop has been waiting on pins and needles for the arrival of Pusha T's latest and finally, it has hit streaming services. The build-up to the release of It's Almost Dry has been quite the rollout as Pusha went on a full publicity tour to speak about his new record. The 12-track project features looks from Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Lil Uzi Vert, Don Toliver, Labrinth, Malice, Kid Cudi, and Kanye West.  The latter two artists appear on a track together, and their collaboration comes following their controversial fallout after West insulted Cudi online. Cudi has recently come forward to say that he approved the feature for Pusha, but told fans that his friendship with West is no more and there wouldn't be any other collaborations in the future. Meanwhile, Pusha T spoke with Rolling Stone...

Brian Tyree Henry in AtlantaPhoto: Rob Youngson/FX Atlanta is in the midst of a European rap tour, not to mention an extended existential question about whether the events depicted in the show are actually taking part in its characters’ previously established reality. In other words, it’s not even within glancing distance of your standard sitcom. But even if you’ve never seen the show or don’t consider the 30-minute-drama-with-laughs your thing, “White Fashion” is a great piece of standalone television about modern pop culture, a sharp and occasionally savage takedown of cultural co-opters and what you might call the social-justice-industrial complex. It’s a deep and thorough excoriation of empty signifiers and how big money tends to end up solving problems for about the same percentag...

VENICE — It’s a bit lost now in the brain fog of time, but in March 2020 one of the first memes of the coronavirus pandemic arose from the waters of this Most Serene Republic. Some fraudster posted a picture of dolphins supposedly swimming in the Bacino di San Marco, and swans cruising down an unpolluted blue Grand Canal. The humans were gone, and Venice was a natural paradise! The city Henry James called his “repository of consolations” had been compressed to shareable size: an aquatic utopia, to be beheld on a touch-screen, as the virus scythed its way toward us. The dolphins were a hoax. But the sense that humanity is the enemy of life and beauty: that part may be right, to judge from the heaving, confounding, chockablock preview days of the 2022 Venice Biennale. The world’s oldest an...