One week after being nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist, Ari Lennox is so frustrated with the music industry, she’s demanding “to be dropped from the labels.”

The “Got Me” singer is signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville label which is distributed by Interscope Records. She also tweeted, “I’m done and tired.” Both messages have since been deleted.

Her public frustration follows an update she provided last week saying she only “needed 4 more songs and the album done.” It’s been nearly three years since Lennox released her debut album, Shea Butter Baby, in 2019. Last week Ari also tweeted that she “would love to just fall in love, start a family and live a peaceful life. Maybe perform once a year.”

In November, she traveled to The Netherlands and was arrested at the Amsterdam airport for disturbing the public order. Lennox claimed that she was the victim of racial discrimination.

Ari is featured on Khalid‘s new mixtape, Scenic Drive, and she is scheduled to perform at the Coachella Festival in April.

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Céline Dion may have postponed the start of her Las Vegas residency and canceled her North American tour dates, but at least there’s one thing she can celebrate: Her eldest son René-Charles turns 21 today, and she’s posted a sweet tribute to him on Instagram.

Captioning a photo of herself holding René-Charles as a newborn as her late husband René Angélil looks on, Céline wrote, “21 years of dreams have already passed. We gave you life…thank you very much for giving us the wonderful gift of becoming your parents. Since that day, I’ve been thriving as I watch you grow.”

“Your intelligence, your generosity, your courage, and your great sensitivity never cease to move me,” she continued. “We guided you from our dreams, by holding your hand. Keep exploring and above all, listen to your heart, knowing that you are always carried by our love, so that now, your own dreams can come true.”

Céline concluded by writing, “Happy Birthday René-Charles! Have fun my darling… We adore you! T.V.E.C. – Dad, Mom, Nelson and Eddy.”

Nelson and Eddy are René-Charles’ brothers — Céline’s younger twin sons — while the letters “T.V.E.C” stands for the French phrase “Tout va être correct,” which means “Everything will be okay.”  Reportedly, Céline and her family started using the phrase in 1999, after Angélil, who died in 2016, beat cancer for the first time.

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While Avril Lavigne‘s been working with two of the most-tattooed guys around — Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly — she herself isn’t completely inked up.  She’s working on it, though, and she does have what she calls her “favorite word” tattooed on herself three times.

Speaking to Inked magazine, Avril explains that she got her first tattoo, the “Sk8er Boi” star, on her wrist around the time of her second album, but only after she asked her big brother if he was O.K. with it.  Then, over the next 15 years or so, she got several smaller tattoos.

“I always wanted the half-sleeve, but I was trying to be responsible,” she laughs. “It’s funny, I say that while I have ‘F***’ tattooed on me three times.”

For the record, she’s got “F*** you” on her middle finger, and “Motherf***ing Princess” — a lyric from her song “Girlfriend” — on another finger.  Plus, she’s got the word spelled out in block letters on her rib cage.

She adds with a laugh, “It’s my favorite word. Why the f*** not?”

For the record, Avril eventually did get her half-sleeve: A couple of years ago, she met with famed tattoo artist London Reese and asked him to connect her hodgepodge of tats into a music-themed half-sleeve featuring a microphone, roses and music notes.

Avril’s new album Love Sux, which will be released on Barker’s DTA Records label, is due out next month and features MGK, blackbear and Blink 182‘s Mark Hoppus.

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After a jury ordered YouTube blogger Tasha K to pay $1.25 million on Monday to Cardi B in a defamation lawsuit for posting false rumors, $1.5 million more in punitive damages was added Tuesday. Plus, Tasha was ordered to pay the “I Like it” rapper’s $1.3 million legal bill, according to Billboard.

Tasha K, born Latasha Kebe, now owes more than $4 million to Cardi. On Tuesday, she was ordered to pay $1 million in punitive damages, while her company Kebe Studios LLC must pay another $500,000.

As previously reported, on Monday a jury sided with the Grammy winner, who accused Tasha K of making false claims that Cardi was a prostitute, had contracted herpes, used drugs, and performed a sex act with a beer bottle, among other accusations.

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On Tuesday, Kenny Chesney unveiled the news that the light-hearted “Everyone She Knows” will be his next radio single, following the chart-topping “Knowing You.”

The song tells the tale of a free-spirited woman who’s uninterested in settling down in life as she watches those around her getting married and starting families, the lyrics referencing Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy Onassis as Kenny sings, “she’s stuck between 17/And everyone she knows.”  

“I think there’s nothing as awesome as a woman living life the way she wants to. To see someone so in love with life, so in love with the adventure, out there doing it? That’s an incredible thing,” Kenny reflects in a statement. “I know so many women who are their own compass…and this song is for them. Wherever you are, however you are, just love the adventure and don’t worry what people think.” 

“Everyone She Knows” marks the fifth single off Kenny’s 2020 album, Here and Now. It will officially be released to radio on February 14. 

The superstar is set to launch his Here and Now Tour in April visiting stadiums across the country, beginning on April 23 in Tampa, Florida and wrapping up with a two-night stay at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts on August 26 and 27. 

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Macklemore first opened up about his “painful” relapse when speaking last April on Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, but admits he didn’t intend to discuss it at first.  The “Thrift Shop” rapper said he felt inspired after hearing Shepard’s own story and hoped that he would help even more people by sharing his recent experience.

“I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t need to pretend like I’m some perfect dude in recovery.’ I am not at all, and there’s no shame,” he recalled to People.

Macklemore said of his relapse “It was really painful for myself and for the people who loved me. I stopped doing the work” and that the pandemic is what triggered it.  “When I have to be still and exist within my own head, that’s where my disease lives,” he explained.

Macklemore, 38, said his family stepped in when he needed them most and helped put him on the path to recovery.  The artist touched upon when his father put him in a treatment facility during his 2008 relapse and said, “Getting that help saved my life.”

The Grammy winner says that, while his family does play a role in keeping him accountable, the responsibility falls solely on him.  Macklemore and wife Tricia Davis share three children together, six-year-old Sloane, three-year-old Charlotte and Hugo, who is six months.

Although Macklemore says he wanted to get clean when expecting his first child, he notes, “That’s not how this disease works. My kids can’t keep me clean. I have to do the work.”

When talking about addiction and treatment, Macklemore stressed, “I hope that people will come out of the shadows, that the guilt and the shame of the disease of addiction lessen and we don’t feel like we need to hide anymore.”

If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service.

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