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‘The Chi’ Will Return For A Seventh Season
The decision is a no-brainer following the success of season six of The Chi, which became the streamer's most-viewed season ever, increasing nearly 25 percent from season five.
Lena Waithe To Produce ‘Verzuz’ Doc, Swizz And Timbaland On Board
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Triller / Triller The Hip-Hop community is about get a deeper appreciation for Verzuz. Lena Waithe is set to produce a documentary on the battle platform that provided us so much fun during quarantine. As per Complex the Chicago, Illinois native has secured the opportunity of a lifetime. According to the report her company Hillman Grad Productions has been contracted to produce a documentary project on Verzuz in conjunction with Amazon Studios. Titled Gifted & Black the feature film will explore the traditions of Black music from a wide array of angles. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic and the recent racial reckoning, Gifted & Black frames those traditions in the context of the collective resiliency fundamental to the Black ...
Lena Waithe Is Looking For The Next Lil Nas X For Her Record Label
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amy Sussman / Getty Lena Waithe wants to extend her winning streak to the music industry. In a recent interview she made it clear she wants to bring back real artistry with her record label. The screenwriter and actress recently conducted an interview with Rolling Stone where she detailed her latest endeavors. The feature is centered around Chicago, Illinois native’s goals to write a new narrative regarding the Black experience through sound. She has recently launched her own music label Hillman Grad Productions. In the Q&A she details that her mission with the new project is to “develop the next generation of underrepresented artists”. “It’s important for artist storytelling to be brought back,” she explained. “That’s going to take time, energy, and ...
Master of None Releases Season 3 Trailer Focused on Lena Waithe’s Denise: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-26T20:03:47+00:00“>April 26, 2021 | 4:03pm ET Aziz who? Master of None, the Emmy Award-winning show created by Aziz Ansari, has shared a new teaser trailer for the upcoming Season 3. Surprisingly, Ansari himself is nowhere to be seen, as the series turns its attention to Lena Waithe‘s character Denise. Season 2 appeared on Netflix four years ago, and at the time Ansari sounded pessimistic about a follow-up. “I’ve got to become a different guy before I write a third season,” he told Vulture. “I don’t have anything else to say about being a young guy being single in New York eating food around town all the time.” But rather than becoming a totally new person, he has inste...
Them: Covenant Explores the Horror of Suburban White Supremacy: Review
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T18:16:56+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 2:16pm ET The Pitch: Henry Emory (Ashley Thomas) wants a piece of the American Dream. After a brutal tragedy, he and his wife Lucky (Deborah Ayorinde) move their two daughters Ruby (Shahadi Wright Joseph) and Gracie (Melody Hurd) across the country for a fresh start. But the promise of this dream hides a cruel and violent foundation of racism, and the Emory family faces resistance immediately upon arrival at their new home in an all-white LA suburb. Led by housewife Betty Wendell (Alison Pill), the neighbors embark on a vicious campaign of harassment to drive the Emory’s out. But there are malevolent forces working from within the house as well ...
Amazon’s ‘Them’ Trailer Sees Racists Turn To Dark Forces To Harass A Black Family
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Amazon Studios / Amazon Ever since Jordan Peele blew up the spot with cult classic horror movies like Get Out and Us, the culture has had an appetite for Black-influenced horror stories as they’re more relatable and ultimately more entertaining than anything we’ve experienced in decades. Amazon must’ve got the memo because this April Amazon Prime will be premiering a new terror anthology, Them, which is 10-episode series centered around a Black family who move to an all-white neighborhood in North Carolina during The Great Migration of the 1950’s. Seemingly normal at first, the Black family of four finds themselves not just dealing with everyday racism in the south, but supernatural racism in the Tar Heel State. Y’all know when white folk turn...
Lena Waithe Announces New Hillman Grad Productions Imprint Under Def Jam Recordings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Liliane Lathan / Getty Lena Waithe has conquered television and film. Now the Black creative has her sights set on the music industry. The writer, producer, and actor announced on Instagram her new partnership with Def Jam Records. She is on a mission to “develop the next generation of underrepresented artists” with her new imprint Hillman Grad Productions. In a statement revealing her latest move, Waithe basically described how her pivot into the music industry should be a seamless one becuase both music and storytelling are closely associated. “Music and storytelling have always gone hand in hand.” Waithe states. “And I think that’s because musicians are the storytellers we love the most. They can take complex emotions and simplify it in four minutes, t...
It’s A Wrap: Alana Mayo Files For Divorce From Lena Waithe
Source: David Crotty / Getty Lena Waithe’s shaky marriage to Alana Mayo is officially a wrap. The Blast reports that Mayo has filed for divorce from Lena Waithe, filing the necessary paperwork sometime last week. The couple’s marriage got off to a rocky start almost immediately and announced they were splitting just 2 months after they tied the knot back in January 2020. They were only married for a year. The couple released a joint statement via People magazine confirming their split, stating: “After careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways. We have nothing but support for one another and ask that you respect our privacy during this time.” The jig was up for the couple after Love B. Scott spilled some hot piping tea claiming that Lena Waithe stepped out ...
Nigerian doctor named one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the world
TIME named Nigerian physician Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The full list and related tributes are available now at time.com/time100, and Mr Funsho’s TIME100 profile is available here. The list, now in its seventeenth year, recognizes the activism, innovation and achievement of the world’s most influential individuals. Mr Funsho, a cardiologist based in Lagos, Nigeria, is the first Rotary member to receive this honour for the organisation’s work to eradicate polio, having played an essential role in ensuring Africa’s certification as wild polio-free in August of 2020. “I’m honored to be recognized by TIME for my part in ensuring that no child in Africa will ever again be paralyzed by wild polio, a disease that once disabl...
