Award-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya will not reprise his role as W’kabi in the upcoming Marvel film Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever.
Citing a Wednesday interview with the star for his role in Jordan Peele‘s Nope, Jacqueline Coley, of Rotten Tomatoes, tweeted the news.
“BREAKING NEWS: Fresh from my NOPE interview with Daniel Kaluuya he did not reprise his role in #BlackPanther2 due to his schedule conflicts w/ #NOPE! It’s official he’s not in #BlackPantherWakandaForever,” Coley wrote.
Kaluuya starred as W’Kabi, the leader of the Border Tribe of Wakanda and childhood best friend to King T’Challa, played by late actor Chadwick Boseman.
Kane Brown‘s wife, Katelyn Brown, launched her own wine brand in 2022 and the message behind it is rooted in family.
The company, Allen Rose, gets its name from the couples’ middle names, Allen (Kane) and Rose(Katelyn). “We have sat on this name for years knowing it would represent something special,” Katelyn says on the website.
She also honors their two daughters with a rosé named after eldest daughter Kingsley and a white wine for youngest daughter Kodi. The Kingsley Rosé features a fruity blend of strawberry, pomegranate and dragonfruit, and pairs nicely with a fish dish or refreshing salad, while the Kodi Pinot Gris blends pear and floral hibiscus with tropical notes of guava and passion fruit.
“Family & friends mean the most in our lives and coming from a family where sitting around a table with a glass of wine created some of the best memories and beautiful conversations, really encouraged me to create something special and delicious to continue those traditions,” Katelyn says of why she started the wine collection. “I cannot wait for you to try these wines, and let me know what memories and pairings you create.”
Back in April, at the 2022 CMT Music Awards, fans got the collaboration they never knew they needed when Jimmie Allen and Little Big Town shared the stage with R&B legend Monica for a rendition of her song “Pray.”
Now, Monica’s got a full-blown country album in the works, which she says she’s been working on with Brandi Carlile. The project, called Open Roads, might seem like a left turn for the singer — but it actually dates back to her decadeslong Dolly Parton fandom.
“My Dolly Parton obsession began — and it hasn’t ended — and what it was, was that my love for my family is really my connection to her,” Monica tells ET Online.
“I was in her park [Dollywood] at about 10 years old, and the lady working told me, ‘Well, I’m Dolly’s first cousin and she gives us a job, a car and an apartment. It’s amazing,’” the singer recounts. “So when I met her and I realized all of these people are related to her and she built all of this, it really helps her family and community, that’s when my love for her began in country music.”
Of course, Dolly is a dream collaborator for Monica’s album, but she’s not the only one: The singer also names Mickey Guyton and Chris Stapleton as people in the country genre who she’d love to work with.
Nick Cannon has been making the rounds, speaking openly on personal life topics during multiple podcast appearances and interview opportunities. For his latest sit-down chat, he told The Hot Tee Talk Show that if the opportunity presented itself, he’d for sure take another stab at a relationship with ex-wife Mariah Carey.
When asked if he’d “spin the block” with some of his former boos, he told the host he’d “of course” try again with the mother of his twins, Moroccan and Monroe.
“I truly respect the relationship that she’s been in for quite some time,” he said. “But that — come on, that’s my fantasy love. That’s somebody I will always love.”
Cannon gushed about his marriage with the Grammy-winning singer. “I will never have a love like I had with Mariah. And I appreciate that,” he said.
If Cannon were to try to rekindle, he’d want the relationship to be what it once was. “It was literally like a fairytale with Mariah. I’d rather it just be that way — I appreciate that fantasy because if I tried to go back and it wasn’t the same …”
The Wild ‘N Out host emphasized, “But if it could be the way that it was, I’m there!”
Cannon and Carey married in the Bahamas in 2008, welcomed twins in 2011 and were together for eight years. They divorced in 2016.
Sean Paul is back and is getting a little help from his friend Gwen Stefani in his new and nostalgic-themed music video, “Light My Fire.”
The clip dropped Wednesday, which sees the pair — and a bunch of women — hanging out at a house party. While Gwen is downstairs while everyone is grooving to the music, Sean is upstairs and flirting with a woman — who’s dressed in a glittery dress — who’s sitting in a bathtub.
Gwen has her hair twisted into a top knot with blond dreads spilling out from either side, and she’s dressed in the colors of the Jamaican flag.
The song’s third collaborator, Shenseea, then makes her dramatic entrance and the party steps on the gas — the drinks start pouring and people begin lighting up. The video ends with someone throwing meat on the grill as it erupts into flames.
“‘Light My Fire’ is an epic dream come [true],” Sean said of his new music video in a press release. “I’ve been a fan of Gwen Stefani forever and Shenseea — I am so proud of all she’s accomplished in such a short time.”
He continued, “‘Light My Fire’ is a big, bad lovers rock song and we had to represent it with a big, bad video. We went retro on the attire in the video, and basically getting ready to party and some lovers rocking. It’s a vibe we hope everyone gets when they listen to the track — feel good and party lovers rock style.”
“Light My Fire” can be heard off Sean’s new album, Scorcha, which is out now. You can also catch the trio performing the new song Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which begins airing at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
Meghan Trainor says she wrote “Bad for Me” after her therapist asked her to write a letter. Soon, she composed a new song about needing to establish a healthy distance from a toxic family member.
Speaking with Billboard, she and song collaborator Teddy Swims explained why this song is indicative of a shift in how the younger generations discuss mental health.
“I think this generation is the first people that are really starting to dissect and understand that there are issues, mentally, that people are facing and that it’s okay to discuss and deal with those things,” said Teddy as Meghan nodded in agreement.
He continued, “I’m sure that all our parents and parents’ parents had just as bad trauma and issues as we do and it just wasn’t normalized to speak about it.”
Meghan also revealed why Teddy was the perfect person to join her on this vulnerable track. “I was a super fan of Teddy’s and I didn’t know him at the time, so when I wrote the song, I was listening to it with my husband Daryl [Sabara] in bed… And he sat up and was like, ‘This is your Teddy Swims song.’ And I was like, ‘This is my Teddy Swims song!'” she explained.
The Grammy winner got in touch with the singer, and as Teddy revealed, they were in the studio “two or three days later” to work on “Bad for Me.”
The song has debuted on Billboard‘s Adult Pop Airplay chart and has currently entered the top 40 — an accomplishment both happily celebrated.
Dream Theater‘s John Petrucci has announced his first-ever solo headlining tour.
The guitarist will be supporting his 2020 solo album, Terminal Velocity, which notably features ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, marking the former bandmates’ first collaboration since Portnoy left the prog-metal outfit in 2010.
Portnoy will also be playing drums on the tour, which so far only includes three dates: October 7 in Boston, October 13 in New York City and October 15 in Washington, D.C. A press release assures that more stops will be announced.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 15. For more info, visit JohnPetrucci.com.
Dream Theater, meanwhile, released their latest album, A View from the Top of the World, last October.
Pro baller LeBron James had some clarifying to do after recently commenting on WNBA star Brittney Griner‘s detainment in Russia.
In the trailer for the latest episode of his HBO show, The Shop, James said that if he were in Griner’s unfortunate position, he’s not sure he’d be willing to return to a country that has yet to come to his rescue.
“Over 110 days, now how could she feel like America has her back?” James said in the short clip. “I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even want to go back to America?'”
His comments were met with backlash from some social media users who viewed his thoughts as disrespectful.
James took to Twitter Wednesday to issue clarification.
“My comments on ‘The Shop’ regarding Brittney Griner wasn’t knocking our beautiful country,” he wrote. “I was simply saying how she’s probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions, thoughts, etc inside that cage she’s been in for over 100+ days!”
He added, “Long story short #BringHerHome.”
As previously reported, Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard spoke to the media about Griner’s continued detainment, comparing her situation to that of James, a male sports player.
“If it was LeBron[James], he’d be home, right?” Nygaard asked, according to USA Today. “It’s a statement about the value of women. It’s a statement about the value of a Black person. It’s a statement about the value of a gay person … We know it, and so that’s what hurts a little more.”
Griner has been held in Russia since Feb. 17, when she was detained at Sheremetyevo International Airport for her possession of vape cartridges containing hashish oil, which is illegal in the country. She pleaded guilty to drug charges in court, saying that the vape cartridges were in her luggage unintentionally.
Oasis‘ 1997 album Be Here Now is being reissued in celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary.
The set will be available with remastered audio on vinyl and cassette on August 19, two days before the album’s original release date.
Coming off the star-making success of 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, Be Here Now was among the most anticipated new albums of the ’90s. In Oasis’ native U.K., it holds the record for the most copies sold in the first seven days of any album’s release.
Despite its initial success, Be Here Now is a polarizing record among fans and critics and is now often seen as the end marker of the phenomenon that Oasis and Britpop had become in the ’90s. It also marked the final Oasis album to include founding members Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan.
Be Here Now was previously reissued in 2016 with a newly remixed version of the single “D’You Know What I Mean?” by Noel Gallagher. Along with the news of the 25th-anniversary reissue, a new lyric video for the Noel mix has been released, which you can watch now on YouTube.
A limited-edition 17-CD Grateful Dead box set featuring six full previously unreleased concert performances that the band played at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden during the early 1980s will be issued on September 23.
In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden ’81, ’82, ’83 features audio of shows that took place March 9 and 10, 1981; September 20 and 21, 1982; and October 11 and 12, 1983.
The collection features a custom box and includes liner notes by acclaimed music journalist David Fricke, who writes about The Grateful Dead’s deep connection to and history with New York City.
In addition to versions of classics like “Uncle John’s Band,” “Fire on the Mountain” and “Truckin’,” the shows featured The Dead performing several songs that would eventually appear on their 1987 album In the Dark, including the hit “Touch of Grey.”
“These performances … are six of the best the Dead played at the Garden, any of which could have been released on their own,” Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux says. “We’re thrilled, though, to allow these six complementary shows to be housed together, each one its own story, its own event.”
Only 12,500 copies of the 17-CD box set, each individually numbered, will be available. You can preorder copies now exclusively from Dead.net. High-res digital versions also are being sold at the website.
In advance of In and Out of the Garden, a performance of “Feel Like a Stranger” from the March 9, 1981, show has been made available digitally and an animated companion video has debuted on The Dead’s official YouTube channel.
Also on September 23, the March 9, 1981, concert will be released individually as a three-CD set, digitally at Dead.net and via traditional retail outlets.
