News about Lupe Fiasco

Victoria Monét and her daughter, Hazel, who made history by being nominated for a Grammy Award in November, wore matching attire to the 2024 Grammy Awards. The 34-year-old singer and the little girl, two siblings, walked the red carpet together after arriving at the preview, which took place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The On My Mama actress wowed in a figure-hugging brown gown and a stunning diamond snake necklace. The two were joined by Monét's baby daddy John Gaines, who wore a sleek olive green suit and black loafers.

Lil' Kim suffered a major nip slip while on stage at the famed Hip Hop 50 Live festival at Yankee Stadium in New York on Friday. The Lady Marmalade rapper, 49, who was recently accused of airbrushing her photos, had the costume malfunction during her appearance at the 50th anniversary of hip hop. The singer wore a glittering, cropped top made of a chainmail fabric, and at one point, the fabric swayed to the side, prompting the brief incident.

After confirming that she is the father of her infant son, Jessie J took to Instagram on Monday to pay her respects to her boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman. The 35-year-old singer performed a video montage of photos of her and her significant other, 39, from their dating and pregnancy. The clip, which was set to Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco's Touch The Sky, featured the couple and several of Chanan cradling her baby bumps.

A chic eye for cinematic detail matched with an ear steeped in both recent and history sums up Brit Wesley Joseph, a West Midlands-born Brit Wesley Joseph. Curtis Mayfield and Smokey Robinson embraced everything from Lupe Fiasco to Madlib and Gorillaz, a surprising mix of influences that would lay the groundwork for his genre-blending alternative hip-hop sounds he's since coined. By the time Joseph turned 13, he was ripping beats from Bandcamp and YouTube to recording on his laptop. Joseph says, "Those days inspired me to learn how to use my voice." MTV News reports: "I've come to the point where the music that I wanted to make was ineffective or I couldn't arrange the songs the way I wanted to structure them." I only knew how to produce because of it.

Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of pop's most influential artists, hits, and cultural events that made 2013 a seminal year. MTV News is looking forward to see what lies ahead: These essays reveal how today's blueprint was developed a decade ago. We've arrived at our time machine. Audiences were taken aback when Kendrick Lamar's commentary on Big Sean's "Control" ten years ago, a track intended for the Detroit rapper's 2013 sophomore record Hall of Fame — stunned at Lamar's blend of lyrical bravado and exhilarating vigor. Just a year ago, Lamar's second studio album, Good Kid, m.A.D. City, established him as one of the most gifted emcees in the history of the genre. It was also his first major-label debut.