Kendrick Lamar will headline a new festival from Global Citizen next month in Rwanda. The event, Move Afrika: Rwanda, is scheduled for December 6th at BK Arena in Kigali, the country's capital. It's part of a Global Citizen initiative to bring job opportunities to Africa by introducing a live music touring circuit to the continent. New countries will be added to the touring schedule each year, with the organization aiming for at least five by 2025. "Our goal with Move Afrika is to inspire local youth and artists to unlock their creativity," event organizers said of the inaugural festival. "We hope to curate an immersive experience that empowers various communities and cultures across Africa and around the world for a lifetime." The regional artists joining Kendrick on the December 6th lineup will be announced soon.
Mariah Carey released a video on social media yesterday that shows her frozen in a block of ice as a clock changes from October 31 to November 1. Assistants dressed in Halloween costumes start thawing the ice, which Carey breaks by singing a high note. Carey then celebrates as her blockbuster holiday hit "All I Want for Christmas is You" plays in the background. But not everyone is in the holiday spirit. Carey is again being sued over the song by Andy Stone and Troy Powers for at least $20 million in damages, insisting Carey copied their 1989 song of the same name. They claim the lyrical hook, melody, and overall feel is too similar, claiming Carey "palmed off these works with her incredulous origin story, as if those works were her own." Last year's suit came to nothing, and Carey hasn't commented. Her annual holiday season tour kicks off November 15th in California and concludes December 17th in New York City.
Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson doesn't want her hit show to "carry" the realities of gun violence. The Emmy Award-winning actress explained her reasoning during a recent interview with Glamour. "I just think about the day-to-day in a workplace comedy, and I don't think that that's the realistic day-to-day in the classroom. I say that knowing that school shootings happen all the time, every day or every week, unfortunately," she told the outlet. "But there are two different realities." Brunson continued, "There's the one present in the classroom where teachers are just trying to get through a lesson. And then there's the outside perspective of us engaging with teachers through the news." She added, "I don't want to open up my show to that political violence. I consider it that at this point — even the discourse of it is violent. And although I participate in it outside of my show, and I'm
On the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian revealed that her eldest daughter, North West, prefers to stay at her dad Kanye "Ye" West's place. While speaking with her sister Kourtney during Thursday's (November 2nd) episode, Kim shared that when North returns from her father's house, "She'll be like, 'Dad is the best. He has it all figured out. He doesn't have a nanny, he doesn't have a chef, he doesn't have security. He lives in an apartment.' And she'll start crying, 'Why don't you have an apartment? I can't believe we don't have an apartment.'" Kourtney said she relates to this, as the three kids she shares with Scott Disick react in a similar fashion. "They do that at Scott's too," Kourtney said. "'Dad has the best house, your house sucks. He has the best house. It's not super big, the vibe's better.' I feel like everything falls on the
JACOB ELORDI SAYS HE ATE ‘A POUND OF BACON A DAY' TO PREPARE FOR ELVIS ROLE IN ‘PRISCILLA:' Jacob Elordi revealed during Entertainment Weekly's Around the Table series that he consumed "a pound of bacon a day" to prepare for his role as Elvis Presley in Priscilla. "Priscilla told us that Elvis liked really burnt bacon," director Sofia Coppola said. "I averaged like a pound of bacon a day," Elordi said. The Euphoria actor added, "It's not that noticeable because I'm quite long, but I was the biggest I've ever been." CHECK OUT THE TRAILER FOR ‘THE FALL GUY:' According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures dropped the official trailer for The Fall Guy on Thursday (November 2nd). Ryan Gosling plays a stunt man in the film, who is hired to work for a filmmaker who also happens to be his ex, played by Emily Blunt. When the star of the film goes missing, Gosling's character go