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02 Jan 2025

Dr. Sasha J. Carr, Daughter of Longtime Springsteen Co-Manager Barbara Carr & Music Critic Dave Marsh, Dies at 55

Dr. Sasha J. Carr, a clinical psychologist who focused on family care for all ages, died in Norwalk, Conn., on Saturday (Dec. 28). She was 55. A cause of death has not been reported.

Dr. Carr was the daughter of Barbara Carr, longtime co-manager of Bruce Springsteen, and the stepdaughter of music critic and author Dave Marsh.

She was predeceased by her sister Kristen Ann Carr, who died in 1993 at age 21 of sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. The Kristen Ann Carr Fund, supported by major artists and executives, was established in her sister’s memory to advance sarcoma research and support families affected by cancer.

Dr. Carr was born in London, lived in New York City through her high school years and had been a longtime resident of Norwalk. In 2022, she relocated to Burlington, Vt. She attended The Chapin School in New York, received her undergraduate degree in 1992 from Brown University and was awarded a Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2006 from Rutgers University.

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While her parents have been prominent in the music industry, Dr. Carr’s career followed a different path. 

In Norwalk, she built a consulting practice, Off to Dreamland, and was a sought-after family sleep expert, dedicated to helping babies, children and families get the rest they need.

She was also a faculty member of the Family Sleep Institute. She published an illustrated children’s book, Putting Bungee to Bed, which empowered children to develop good sleep habits. Her passion for travel and adventure inspired her to help families in yet another way, by acting as a travel agent for kids-oriented vacations.

Dr. Carr’s career was focused on family care for all ages, and she was one of the first to address the unique and challenging role of caregivers with her book The Caregiver’s Essential Handbook: More than 1,200 Tips to Help You Care for and Comfort the Seniors in Your Life (McGraw-Hill, 2003). 

Dr. Carr was a devoted mother to her beloved son Weston Kristoff Carr, 13. She is survived by Weston; her mother Barbara Carr and stepfather Dave Marsh of Norwalk; her father Patrick Carr of Florida ; and many loving aunts, uncles and cousins. Sasha was predeceased by her sister, Kristen Ann. 

For those who wish to make a contribution in Dr. Carr’s memory, her family has requested donations be made to the Kristen Ann Carr Fund, for which Dr. Carr was a founding Board of Trustees member, or a charity of their choice.

02 Jan 2025

Tom Holland Explains One Reason You Never See Him Walking Red Carpets With Girlfriend Zendaya: ‘It’s Her Moment’

There is a very good reason you never seen Spider-Man star Tom Holland walking the red carpet with longtime girlfriend Zendaya. In a new cover story interview with Men’s Health the 28-year-old actor explained that for the same reason he can’t just drop in to see an afternoon matinee play without being swarmed by fans — or pulling attention from the actors on stage — he doesn’t want to distract from Z’s big day.

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“Because it’s not my moment, it’s her moment, and if we go together, it’s about us,” he told the magazine about why he tends to skip most non-mandatory public events and attends Zendaya’s premieres, but doesn’t do the step-and-repeat with her.

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Holland is re-emerging from a year-long break from acting and told the magazine that for the first time in nearly two decades he doesn’t have anything to promote (well, except for his new line of nonalcoholic beers, Bero). “It was just something I needed to do,” he said. “I had been acting flat out since I was 11.” The latter refers to his audition for Billy Elliot: The Musical in London, which was followed a few years later with a role in The Impossible with Naomi Watts, and then his first run at Spider-Man in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War.

In addition to the fourth Spider-Man film, he is also slated to join Matt Damon and Zendaya in the upcoming Christopher Nolan adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. The star who has gotten into killer shape for his Marvel films is notorious for his dedication and focus, as well as for his signature parlor trick: a backflip. But even as he hovers at the edge of 30, Holland said age feels like it’s starting to catch up to him.

While visiting Cornwall with Zendaya and his family recently a cousin asked him to bust out one of his flips. “So I went outside and I was getting ready, and I was thinking, I can do this. I can totally do this. I’ve done this thousands of times. And Z was there, and she was like, ‘Are you sure you can still do this?,’” he recalled. After assuring her he could, Holland said he bent down and landed a perfect one. Well, almost perfect. “I actually did land it, but I pulled every muscle in my stomach, because when you do a backflip, it’s all about extending up as much as you can and then tucking,” he said. “For weeks, I could not laugh because my stomach was so sore.”

The actor also revealed that his new go-to workout anthem is Linkin Park 2.0’s comeback single, “The Emptiness Machine,” his favorite movie is, no shame, Avatar, but said he will not share his patented euphemism for sex. “That’s my lady,” he said. “I’m not getting into that!”

02 Jan 2025

Lupe Fiasco to Serve as Rap Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute

Lupe Fiasco is adding to his educational résumé as he takes the next step in his teaching career. The Chicago rapper announced on Wednesday (Jan. 1) that he’ll be joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute as a visiting professor.

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Lupe will be teaching a rap course as part of the esteemed university’s new four-year hip-hop program launching at the Peabody Conservatory in 2025.

“Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the faculty at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute in Fall 2025 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor, teaching Rap as part of the groundbreaking new 4-year Hip Hop Degree Program led by the visionary Professor @wendelpatrickofficialmusic,” he wrote to Instagram.

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Lupe continued: “The @peabodyinstitute is one of the oldest music conservatories in America. World renowned for its rigorous training and for producing some of the world’s greatest musicians, and I’m honored to contribute to this legacy doing what I love most, Rap.”

Even with the new gig, the 42-year-old will still be teaching at MIT and continuing to pursue his fellowship at Yale University.

The Food & Liquor rapper also gave a shout-out to the program’s lead professor and director, Wendel Patrick. The four-year hip-hop bachelor program is seeking students in the turntablist, rapper, beatboxer, or producer disciplines looking to take their skills to the next level.

“Following the one-on-one studio model of a traditional conservatory education, you will develop your skills in lessons with a private instructor — turntable majors will study with a world-class turntablist; rap majors with a chart-topping emcee,” a description of the program reads. “And you’ll get to perform, with and for your colleagues, in an environment that encourages experimentation and authenticity.”

Students looking to enroll have limited time to apply, with the deadline coming up on Friday (Jan. 3) following a brief extension.

Find Lupe’s post about his next educational venture below.

02 Jan 2025

Lil Durk’s Murder-for-Hire Trial Pushed Back Until October

Lil Durk’s trial on federal murder-for-hire charges will be pushed back until October after both his lawyers and federal prosecutors agreed to a months-long delay.

The case against Durk — over an alleged plot to kill rival rapper Quando Rondo in a 2022 Los Angeles shooting that left another man dead — had been scheduled to go to trial next week because federal “speedy trial” rules require such cases to be quickly heard by a jury.

But in a motion on Tuesday (Dec. 31), both sides agreed to a request from Lil Durk (real name Durk Devontay Banks) and his co-defendants to postpone the courtroom showdown until Oct. 14 to give them more time to prepare for the trial — a request that prosecutors did not oppose.

“Due to the nature of the prosecution and the number of defendants, including the charges in the indictment and the voluminous discovery that will be produced to defendants, this case is so unusual and so complex that it is unreasonable to expect adequate preparation for pretrial proceedings or for the trial itself within the Speedy Trial Act time limits,” the parties told the judge in the new filing.

Durk was arrested in October on conspiracy, murder-for-hire and firearms charges for allegedly orchestrating the 2022 attack at a Los Angeles gas station, which left Rondo (Tyquian Bowman) unscathed but saw his friend Lul Pab (Saviay’a Robinson) killed in the crossfire. Durk allegedly ordered the shooting in retaliation for the 2020 killing of rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett), a close friend and frequent collaborator.

In charging documents, prosecutors claim that Durk’s “Only The Family” (“OTF”) crew was not merely a well-publicized group of Chicago rappers, but a “hybrid organization” that also functioned as a criminal gang to carry out violent acts “at the direction” of Durk, including the Rondo attack.

“Banks put a monetary bounty out for an individual with whom Banks was feuding named T.B.,” prosecutors wrote in the charges last month, referring to Rondo by his initials. “Banks ordered T.B.’s murder and the hitmen used Banks and OTF-related finances to carry out the murder.”

Among other evidence, prosecutors say the assailants booked flights to Los Angeles using a credit card connected to Durk. The feds say the card was issued under a bank account that listed Durk’s one-time manager as an owner, and that another credit card was issued under the same account to Durk’s father. Charging documents also cite a text allegedly sent by Durk to another co-conspirator in the lead-up to the shooting: “Don’t book no flights under no names involved wit me.”

Durk has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to the charges. In addition to the star himself, prosecutors have also charged those who they say actually carried out the attack, including alleged OTF members Kavon London Grant, Deandre Dontrell Wilson and Asa Houston, as well as Keith Jones and David Brian Lindsey, two other alleged Chicago gang members.

With the rapper seeking release on pre-trial bond, prosecutors unsealed new documents in December linking him to another shooting that left Stephon Mack, an alleged Chicago gang leader, dead in 2022. The feds argued that the earlier slaying had also been an act of revenge by Durk, ordered after the star’s brother was killed by a member of Mack’s gang.

Following those revelations, a federal magistrate judge denied Durk’s motion to be released on bond at a December hearing, leaving him in jail until his eventual trial. He’s currently being housed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, a federal prison frequently used to house defendants before and during trial.

In some cases, denial of bond might prompt defense attorneys to force prosecutors to stick to the speedy trial schedule and quickly present the case to a jury. But in Tuesday’s order, attorneys for Durk and the other defendants said the complexity of the Rondo shooting case would require more time to adequately prepare a defense — and that  “the government does not object to the continuance.”

“Defense counsel represent that failure to grant the continuance would deny them reasonable time necessary for effective preparation,” the judge wrote, adding that defense lawyers needed plenty of time to “conduct and complete an independent investigation of the case” and “complete additional legal research” ahead of trial.

02 Jan 2025

SZA Had Time For Trolls Complaining About Her BBL: “Y’all Say Weird Sh*t”

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SZA doesn’t deny she got upgrades, but she is not here for folks wishing she didn’t get work done in the first place.

Monday, the singer had time for body-shaming trolls who wanted to focus more on her weight than the success of her latest album, SOS Deluxe: LANA.

A video from one of her fan pages showing the “Kill Bill” singer during the 2020 quarantine, with the caption “I miss this era so much,” sparked a discussion of the singer’s weight change.

Most of the comments were positive, but the negative always seems to stick out more when it comes to these celebs. One comment, “aka before she got big and bbl culture like,” really got her attention, explaining that negative comments like that one are the reason she got work done on her body in the first place.

“Yall say weird s–t like this and wonder why I’m different and don’t feel comfortable w yall anymore . Lol,” SZA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

She further clarified that “I’m different” refers to her social media behavior and interaction with her fans and not changing her appearance.

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The 35-year-old also revealed that she wasn’t happy in the 2020 video, revealing the year was tough on her following her grandmother’s passing, sending her into depression, and her not eating and working out too much.

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SZA Has Always Kept It Real About Her BBL

SZA has never been one trying to beat the bbl allegations and proudly flaunts her killer curves in her music videos and posts on social media. She did admit to getting a Brazilian butt lift in 2022 after trying to see results the old-fashioned way, but the gym didn’t work.

In an interview with British Vogue, she said she was “so mad” that she “did that s—t.”

“I gained all this weight from being immobile while recovering and trying to preserve the fat. It was just so stupid,” she continued, “But who gives a f—k? You got a BBL, you realize you didn’t need the s–t. It doesn’t matter.”

As long as SZA’s happy, we’re happy.

02 Jan 2025

Ariana Grande Thinks Glinda & Elphaba Are ‘In Love With Each Other’ in ‘Wicked’

Ariana Grande is opening up further about Glinda’s sexual orientation after saying in November that her Wicked character “might be a little in the closet.”

In a Variety cover story published Thursday (Jan. 2), the singer-actress was asked to elaborate on her thoughts about Glinda’s possible queerness in relation to Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, with whom the “Good Witch” nurtures an intense, passionate love-hate relationship. The two women’s dynamic is only ever referred to as a friendship in the original Broadway musical, but in Grande’s eyes, it might be something more.

“I think she’s a person who loves so much, and I do think that it goes beyond gender,” the R.E.M. Beauty founder told the publication of Glinda. “I also think that the ways in which she loves Elphaba so much, and that forgiveness and that unconditional love that they share — I think they’re in love with each other.”

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“I know, yes, it’s platonic …,” she amended before cutting herself off, not wanting to reveal too much ahead of Jon M. Chu’s second Wicked film. “But we’ll talk about it more in depth in movie two.”

Author Gregory Maguire, who penned the bestselling novel on which the Broadway show is based, also shared his thoughts on the sexual tension in the book between the two characters in a December interview. “That was intentional, and it was modest and restrained and refined in such a way that one could imagine that one of those two young women had felt more than the other and had not wanted to say it,” he told Them. “Or perhaps because a novelist can’t write every scene, perhaps when the lights were out and the novelist was out having a smoke in the back alley, the girls had sex in the bed on the way to the Emerald City. I wanted to propose this possibility, but I did not want to make a declarative statement about.”

Grande’s new interview comes over a month after the first Wicked hit theaters Nov. 22, 2024, quickly becoming the top-grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical ever. Its sequel, Wicked: For Good, will arrive almost exactly a year later in the fall of 2025.

Grande previously spoke about her character’s sexuality in a November interview with Gay Times, candidly telling the outlet, “Maybe Glinda might be a little in the closet.”

“You never know! Give it a little time!” she’d added. “I mean, it is just a true love. And I think that transcends sexuality, it’s just kind of a deep safety within each other.”

The “We Can’t Be Friends” musician’s co-leading lady agreed at the time. “I think Elphie … she goes wherever the wind goes,” Erivo told the publication. “I think she loves Glinda, I think she loves love. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with celebrating the deep connection that both of them have … it’s a relationship, it is true love.”

See Grande, Erivo and Chu on the cover of Variety below.

02 Jan 2025

Jelly Roll Pays Tribute to Toby Keith on New Year’s Eve With Another Emotional ‘Should’ve Been a Cowboy’ Cover

Jelly Roll celebrated the end of the year with another homage of one of his musical heroes. During the Nashville’s Big Bash New Year’s Eve special on Tuesday night (Dec. 31), the singer performed Toby Keith’s 1993 debut single, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” as part of a five-song set that also included his own hits “I Am Not Okay,” “Need a Favor,” “Son of a Sinner” and “Liar.”

“I would like to dedicate this newt song to one of the greatest country music superstars that ever lived,” Jelly told fans. “In his memory, God rest your soul Big Dog Daddy, Toby Keith baby!”

Jelly has performed “Cowboy” live a number of times since Keith died in February 2024 at age 62 from stomach cancer. He rolled out the cover for the first time at the Stagecoach Festival in April, when he was joined by T-Pain for a run through the song; the pair also dropped a recorded version of the track for Amazon Music.

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“I had been covering ‘Should’ve Been a Cowboy’ for about a year now at most of my shows, just kind of honoring Toby as he was getting sick before he passed away,” Jelly Roll, 40, told Variety at the time, noting that he got the blessing to release his version from Keith son, Stelen, who saw a video of Jelly’s version and called it one of the best he’d ever seen. “Then I really started chewing on, man, what better place to honor Toby than Stagecoach? Plus, Toby Keith was one of the artists that from afar, even though he would never have known it, encouraged me to do country music.” Funds raised from the cover were earmarked for the Toby Keith Foundations, which aids pediatric cancer patients.

Jelly Roll was also part of an all-star celebration of Keith’s life at Bridgestone Arena on July 29 taped for the NBC TV special Toby Keith: American Icon, which also featured Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood and many more.

02 Jan 2025

Will ‘A Complete Unknown’ Spur a Bob Dylan-Led Biopic Boom?

Classic rock is still big — it’s the pictures that are getting smaller.

The definitive modern pop music documentary was Beatles Anthology, the 1995 multi-night television project released with three CD sets of band outtakes and a coffee table book. More recent years brought Ron Howard’s 2016 documentary about the band’s touring years, Peter Jackson’s 2021 series about the making of Let It Be, and the self-explanatory Beatles ’64. In 2027, the Beatles’ Apple Corps will release four more films, one about each individual member of the band.

Bob Dylan, like the Beatles, has always loomed too large for one movie. Don’t Look Back, arguably the most powerful rock documentary ever made, followed Dylan’s 1965 tour of the U.K. Martin Scorsese’s 2005 No Direction Home chronicled the first five years of his career. Then the director made another documentary, this one full of fictional elements and in-jokes, just about Dylan’s 1975-’76 Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

Now James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, which opened Christmas Day in the U.S., offers a fictionalized take on the first chapter of Dylan’s career, from 1961 through the 1965 concert at which he “went electric.” Timothée Chalamet stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Elle Fanning as a character based on Suze Rotolo (the woman pictured on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan). It’s a fantastic film, and the performances are incredible — Chalamet captures Dylan’s lost-boy charisma, and Norton channels Seeger’s inflexible idealism perfectly. The movie, based on author Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric!, took in more than $23 million during its first week in theaters, and reviews have been almost universally favorable.

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The story of the movie is anything but unknown, and there’s not much suspense in it — Dylan grows up fast in the Greenwich Village folk scene, then plays an electric rock set at the Newport Folk Festival, upsetting much of the audience. Dylan’s early career now has the quality of myth, so even the most casual rock fan knows where the story is going — the joy is in seeing it get there in the hands of such talented storytellers. How surprising was Dylan’s decision to play with a rock band, given that the half-electric album Bringing It All Back Home had been out for three months and the single “Like A Rolling Stone” came out five days before the show? Were people booing because Dylan went electric, because the volume obscured his voice, or because his new songs weren’t political? Wald’s excellent book gets at the truth behind the myth — the movie just retells it.

And why not? Stories become myths partly because they’re compelling, and A Complete Unknown evokes nothing so much as a superhero origin story — except that in Dylan’s case, so much of his origin involves making up his actual origin as he went along. In the movie, by the time people realize that this brash young Jewish kid from Minnesota didn’t really work in a traveling circus, he had managed to acquire his own mystique. (In real life, it was a bit more complicated.) As with comic book movies, this leaves plenty of room for sequels, and jokes about this have already been made.

Now’s the time: Chalamet captures Dylan so well that I hope someone signs him up for a sequel based on Dylan’s 1965 tour with the Band, ending with his 1966 motorcycle crash. After that, there’s a domestic drama to be made about Dylan’s retreat into family life in Woodstock, ending with his divorce and Blood on the Tracks. That’s only the first decade and a half of Dylan’s career — there’s another movie to be made about Dylan’s born-again period, when he again offered new music to fans who didn’t receive it well. And what about a comeback story on the making of Oh Mercy or Time Out of Mind?

Dylan’s career lends itself to a certain kind of expansive storytelling, partly because he’s changed so much. (Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There had six different actors essentially playing six different Dylans.) But it’s also worth asking if Dylan is pointing the way forward for music films, as he did with Don’t Look Back. Think about it. Walk the Line told the Johnny Cash story in a way that ends in the late ‘60s, but Cash went on to decline in the ‘80s and came back in the ‘90s, with some of his best work, on the “American Recordings” albums. Isn’t that story worth its own movie? Straight Outta Compton tells the N.W.A. story, but the group’s members went on to have compelling careers that are worth their own stories.

Film executives might suggest that the big stories have already been done, but these days aren’t big stories just foundations for a franchise? Seeing a hero become himself is just the beginning — the best stories are often about what happens next. That’s certainly true in Dylan’s case, and I think it’s true of other artists, to one extent or another. That’s the idea behind the forthcoming Paul McCartney documentary Man on the Run, which tells his story after the Beatles broke up. I hope a Dylan movie sequel follows.

02 Jan 2025

Here’s Every Artist Who Earned Their First Hot 100 Entry in 2024

In the 2024 calendar year, 761 songs by a total of 404 different artists appeared on the Billboard Hot 100.

Of those 404 artists, 120 appeared on the chart for the first time in 2024. Billboard has been celebrating these Hot 100 first-timers throughout the year, highlighting their first chart appearances and sharing their reactions to the news. As 2024 draws to a close, let’s look back at each act to debut on the ranking for the first time and the songs that helped them become Hot 100-charting hitmakers.

Notably, of the eight acts nominated for best new artist at the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards in February, two hit the Hot 100 for the first time this year: Chappell Roan with “Good Luck, Babe!” in April, and Shaboozey with his featured turns on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii” and “Sweet * Honey * Buckiin” from her album Cowboy Carter, also in April. “Good Luck, Babe!” reached No. 4 on the chart in September, and Roan landed six additional songs on the chart this year: “Red Wine Supernova,” “Hot to Go!,” “Pink Pony Club,” “Casual,” “Femininomenon” and “My Kink Is Karma.” Shaboozey, of course, later charted with his breakthrough smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which spent a record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1, and then with “Good News.”

As for the other best new artist nominees: Benson Boone first charted in 2021 with “Ghost Town,” but his song “Beautiful Things” became his biggest hit to date this year, reaching No. 2; Sabrina Carpenter first charted in 2021 with “Skin,” but earned her first three top 10s this year with “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste”; Doechii arrived on the Hot 100 in 2023 with “What It Is (Block Boy)”; Raye debuted in December 2022 with “Escapism”; and Teddy Swims arrived in August 2023 with “Lose Control,” which topped the chart this March and finished as Billboard’s No. 1 Hot 100 song of the year. (Khruangbin hasn’t yet appeared on the Hot 100.)

Tommy Richman made a historic first entry on the chart this year with “Million Dollar Baby” when it debuted at No. 2. Since the Hot 100 began in 1958, only five other acts have debuted in the top two with no prior history on the chart: Lauryn Hill, Fantasia, Baauer, Zayn and Oliver Anthony Music. (Hill and Zayn previously charted with Fugees and One Direction, respectively. Fantasia won Season 3 of American Idol. So only Richman, Baauer and Oliver Anthony Music debuted in the top two with no significant previous audience awareness.)

Other notable artists who first reached the Hot 100 this year include Djo, aka actor Joe Keery of Stranger Things, who debuted with his viral hit “End of Beginning”; Sophie Ellis-Bextor, whose 2001 song “Murder on the Dancefloor” received newfound popularity after its appearance in the film Saltburn; YG Marley, who debuted with “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” helping him become the sixth member of the legendary Marley family to chart a song on the Hot 100; and Pabllo Vittar, who joined RuPaul as the only drag queens to ever to debut on the chart.

Proving that age is just a number, two artists over the age of 80 earned their first Hot 100 entries this year. Ariana Grande’s grandmother, Marjorie Grande, was credited as a featured act on her granddaughter’s song “Ordinary Things” (under the name Nonna). At 98 years old, she became the senior-most artist ever to appear on the Hot 100. She surpassed Fred Stobaugh, who charted at 96 years old with “Oh Sweet Lorraine” in 2013. Plus, Linda Martell charted for the first time at age 82 thanks to her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii.” In 1969, the country music pioneer became the first Black woman to ever play the Grand Ole Opry.

Plus, the children of two superstars also charted on the Hot 100 for the first time this year: North West, the eldest child of Ye (formerly Kanye West) and Kim Kardashian, charted her first song in February at age 10, with her featured appearance on Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Talking.” Two months later, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Rumi became the youngest female artist to ever chart on the Hot 100, at just 6 years old. She debuted with her guest appearance on Beyoncé’s “Protector.” She surpassed her sister, Blue Ivy Carter, who was 7 years old when she first charted in 2019 (on “Brown Skin Girl”).

In chronological order below is a roundup of every artist who earned a first Hot 100 hit in 2024, encompassing the charts dated Jan. 6-Dec. 28.

02 Jan 2025

Doechii Spoofs Classic Sitcoms In Star-Studded ‘Denial Is a River’ Music Video: Watch

2025 may only be two days old, but Doechii is already hitting the ground running.

On Thursday (Jan. 2), the ascendant Tampa rapper released the highly anticipated music video for “Denial Is a River,” a standout cut from her breakout mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. Co-directed by Carlos Acosta and James Mackel, the “Denial” clip finds Doechii calling on classic Black sitcoms such as Family Matters — the trailer used the show’s beloved “As Days Go By” theme song — to recount the tumultuous last few years of her life and career.

The video — which follows Doechii as the star of her own autobiographical sitcom — includes appearances by actor-comedians Zack Fox and Rickey Thompson; Grammy-nominated TDE artists ScHoolboy Q and SiR; Billboard-charting artists Teezo Touchdown, Earl Sweatshirt and Baby Tate; and DJ Miss Milan. A few days ago, Doechii teased the “Denial” music video with a pair of skits drawing on soap operas and telenovelas that arrived amidst a string of performances at NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Camp Flog Gnaw.

In addition to the new music video, Doechii will host a live stream titled “Denial Is a Stream,” which will kick off at 6 p.m. ET on Jan. 2 via her YouTube channel. The stream marks another buzzy promotional spot for “Denial Is a River,” following a Genius Open Mic performance alongside seven-time Emmy-nominated actress-producer Issa Rae.

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After scoring her first Billboard Hot 100 hit in 2023 with the Kodak Black-assisted “What It Is (Block Boy)” (No. 29), Doechii released Alligator Bites Never Heal on Aug. 30. Since its release, the project — her first through Top Dawg Entertainment — has reached No. 82 on the Billboard 200 and landed on several Billboard staff year-end lists.

Doechii is looking to take home up to three Grammys when the ceremony airs Feb. 2; she’s nominated for best new artist, best rap album and best rap performance (“Nissan Altima”). Kaytranada‘s remix of her “Alter Ego,” a standalone 2024 single featuring JT, earned him a nomination for best remixed recording.

Watch Doechii’s “Denial Is a River” music video below.