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Nelly and Ashanti now grace our small screens as stars of a new reality series, We Belong Together. The show will give fans a glimpse of their everyday lives as a rekindled romance, a story Ashanti believes can inspire fans.

“I think people have seen us go through ups and downs, a lot of them,” she tells Forbes. “And just to have such an amazing, positive, fairy tale-esque ending, I think is an inspirational thing.”

Nelly says it’s a storyline that will also resonate with many people or simply be a way for invested fans to keep up.

“People probably see themselves in us somewhere at some point during a relationship. And being who we are career-wise, people are able to see a lot of it play out,” Nelly shares. “You got a chance to see us not only just grow in our careers but grow relationship-wise and grow as people. So, to be able to see that much of a person’s life, I think you feel invested.”

Nelly and Ashanti: We Belong Together is now streaming on Peacock.

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Maroon 5‘s new video for their single “All Night” features Adam Levine‘s wife Behati Prinsloo  fronting the band, while Adam is relegated to a sideman role and the rest of the guys stand behind her. Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine explains that the video is a takeoff of an iconic MTV video from 1986.

“It was kind of loosely inspired by ‘Addicted to Love‘ by Robert Palmer, except … y’know, Robert Palmer of course was surrounded by these beautiful women,” James tells ABC Audio. 

In the original video, Palmer, wearing a suit, sings in front of a band of models, all identically dressed in black dresses, with identical hairstyles and heavy glam makeup, playing white instruments. 

“We took Behati and we put her in front of the band and we put Adam on the saxophone,” James says. “So she gets to be the lead singer for the day. So it was really fun and we’re in these matching suits behind her. And in a lot of ways, it’s a very classic sort of ’80s MTV performance video.”

As for Behati’s skills as a frontwoman, James laughs, “I think she was born to do it!”

The original “Addicted to Love” video was so impactful that Palmer used the same concept for three more videos.  Plus, Shania Twain parodied it for her video for “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” and artists ranging from “Weird Al” Yankovic to Shakira to Paula Abdul all spoofed it. It was also parodied in the movie Love Actually.

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Much like time, Metallica marches on, and that doesn’t seem to be changing any time soon. At least, as long as Kirk Hammett has his way.

Speaking to Metal Hammer about the possibility of him hanging his guitar up, Hammett declares, “I don’t believe in retirement.”

“Retirement is something that’s been forced onto people; I don’t believe musicians are allowed to retire!” Hammett says. “This was the thinking of all musicians for the last century; because you’ve earned the right to be up there onstage, you have to fulfill that responsibility to the very end.”

“The goal was to die onstage!” he continues. “Playing music is a gift, a blessing and a privilege. I love what I do and it’s magic – it helps people. So I can’t walk away from that.”

Despite Hammett’s own feelings on retirement, he’ll help Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne say goodbye when Metallica performs at the massive Back to the Beginning concert on July 5.

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The 20th anniversary celebration of Keyshia Cole‘s debut album, The Way It Is, continues with the release of the album on vinyl. It’s been reissued as a two-LP limited-edition Rose Garden Pink Translucent vinyl, with the two-LP black vinyl also available. The limited-edition comes with “Love (Acapella)” as a bonus track as well as pictures from the original release. The 20th anniversary edition of The Way It Is, the first time the album has been on vinyl, can be purchased at keyshiacoleofficial.com.

Meek Mill has new music on the way, and he’s doing it as an independent artist. He shared on Raud’s Twitch stream what he enjoys about no longer being on a label. “I’m independent, so I had to learn this s*** on my own,” Meek said. “I was getting 13 percent for, like, 13 years. Now I’m getting 100 percent of this s***.”

French Montana walked out of the Sited with Rah Ali podcast after he was asked to comment on the status between Drake and Rick Ross. In the clip, he removes his headphones and says, “I’ll be right back. I think I double-parked my car outside. I’ll be right back.” He never returned.

Lil Tecca‘s new album Dopamine has topped Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It’s his first time leading the chart since 2019, when We Love You Tec was #1, and his sixth top-10 on the list. Dopamine is also #1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and #3 on the Billboard 200.

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My Morning Jacket will be playing their 2005 album Z in full on select dates of the band’s upcoming U.S. tour to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

The Z shows will take place Aug. 15 in Morrison, Colorado, Aug. 19 in Los Angeles, Oct. 16 in New York City, Oct. 26 in Chicago and Nov. 1 in Atlanta.

“It’s pretty wild to think about that,” says frontman Jim James of the Z anniversary. “To celebrate 2 decades of it being out in the ether, we’re excited to be turning 5 of our shows into special Z anniversary shows, where we’ll play that album (and some other songs, don’t worry) front to back.”

My Morning Jacket’s tour launches Aug. 5 in Bend, Oregon. The band will be supporting their new album, is, which dropped in March.

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When Gary Rossington, the last original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, passed away in 2023, the band decided to continue on, and it turns out, that could mean new music in the future.

The band recently announced a new label deal with Frontiers SRL and in a new interview with Classic Rock magazine, frontman Johnny Van Zant suggests a new album isn’t out of the question. He says that in 2020 they put out a new song “The Last of the Street Survivors,” and there had been plans for more.

“We were headed to doing a new studio album, and then Gary’s health got really bad,” he says. “There are other songs written with Gary before he died that we could record. We will leave that door open for the future.”

He notes that it’s all a matter of if they have the time, sharing, “For me, Skynyrd always made great records, but it was a live band, and that’s still true today.”

“When I first joined [in 1987] we were all still into drinking and having a party on stage – just like the audience – but nowadays we soak that music up,” he says. “It’s become more of a spiritual thing, and we never, ever phone it in. That’s something I’m very proud of.”

Lynyrd Skynyrd will release the live album and DVD, Celebrating 50 Years – Live at the Ryman, on Friday. It’s a recording of the band’s historic 50th anniversary concerts, which took place in November 2022. They were the band’s last shows with Rossington before his death.

Skynyrd’s next concert is happening Friday in Barcelona, Spain. They return to the U.S. for shows starting Aug. 1 in Saratoga, California. A complete list of dates can be found at LynyrdSkynryd.com

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Ariana Grande was “crying” on Thursday — her 32nd birthday — over a video some of her fan accounts put together: a compilation of clips of Ari as a little girl, along with a photo montage of fans, set to her song “Twilight Zone.”  She commented on the post, “oh my heart i am crying no[w] you beautiful beings ! ! ! thank you soo much for taking the time to make this, for your love and for being such a beautiful part of my life … you all are a tremendous gift and i will love you always, always, always.”

More videos have surfaced of the night Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce spent together at a bar in Nashville, where Travis co-hosted his annual Tight End University summit for NFL tight ends. In a TikTok, the couple can be seen dancing to a remix of Taylor’s hit “Shake It Off,” singing the song’s lyrics to each other while Taylor runs her fingers through Travis’ hair. The following night, Taylor sang the same song during a Tight Ends & Friends charity concert; the NFL has posted a few pictures of the moment, with Travis commenting “Turn me up Tay Tay!!!”

The Weeknd has set a new record: He’s now the male solo artist who’s played the most dates at LA’s SoFi Stadium, with seven sold-out dates on his current After Hours Til Dawn tour.

BLACKPINK has released a trailer for their upcoming Deadline World Tour. It starts with ROSÉ at a phone booth in the middle of the desert, followed by the entire group driving down a desert highway in a pink convertible. There are also quick shots focusing on each member. Then we see the convertible broken down, and the group attempting to flag down a truck to pick them up. The tour starts July 5.

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T-Pain has expressed his gratitude for those who’ve supported him throughout his musical career, but he has no desire to make a new album. Speaking on the Crash Dummies podcast, he shared he simply doesn’t want to do a press run where he’d be “convincing people that my album is good.”

“To put all this work in for months on hand and then have somebody judge everything you’ve done in a year in one day in a Friday is crazy,” T-Pain explained. “To have everybody say, ‘Yeah all that s*** you did? Didn’t do as much as this other person so f*** you. You suck, your album sucks.’ Because not enough people bought your s*** in a week.”

He added that an artist’s album “could be shut down by one meme” despite years of hard work and noted, “I’m not willing to put my mental health at risk for that.”

Elsewhere in the chat, he shared that he was actually inspired by an interview Drake did where he implied he would gracefully exit the music industry. He then criticized Drake for not following through on what he’d previously said.

“One thing I learned from Drake, but one thing he hasn’t followed his own words. Drake said, ‘I wanna be one of them people that gracefully bow out and not get kicked out,’” said T-Pain.

“Like, when he said that ‘I wanna gracefully bow out and not get kicked out,’ I was like, ‘You know what? I’m out this b****.’ I’m out this motherf*****. I’m not trying to impress y’all n*****…I did everything that I’m trying to do. I changed the game. I made a sound. What else?” he continued. “Drake is like, ‘No, listen, OK, I got another one…OK, real quick, just one more. Let me try one more.’”

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It appears as though Adam Levine may be giving up the spotlight — temporarily.

On Instagram Wednesday, he wrote, “Maroon 5 has a new front WOMAN…,” and revealed that the video for their new song “All Night” would be arriving at midnight Friday.

The post features clips of Adam playing the saxophone on the set of the video as the rest of the band members play in the background. The person with the microphone, however, is a brunette woman in a skintight red dress, red heels and a red hat. Since the woman’s face is obscured, you can’t tell who it is.

However, considering that Adam’s wife Behati Prinsloo just happens to be a beautiful model who’s already appeared in two previous Maroon 5 videos — “Girls Like You” and “Middle Ground” — it’s possible that she’s the mystery singer.

Even though Adam is shown playing the sax in the video, the part on the song was actually played by his father, Fred Levine.

“All Night” is from Maroon 5’s upcoming album Love Is Like, which is due out on Aug. 15.

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