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Jeezy has said he’s finally at a peaceful place in his life following his tumultuous divorce from Jeannie Mai last year. Sitting down with The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (June 11), Jeezy said despite the bitter divorce he was embroiled in for most of 2024, his 2025 has been filled with nothing but peace.
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“Peace, yeah, peace man,” Jeezy said when asked where things currently stand with Mai. “I’m all about understanding. I’m all about what’s best for everybody, the greater good. I’m just telling you, I tell myself this every day: ‘Man, this is amazing.’ I don’t got no enemies, I don’t go no issues. I don’t want no enemies, I don’t want no issues. I just want peace, I just want joy, I just want freedom. I love my freedom, I love it.”
He went on to say that he can move “independently” now, including coming to The Breakfast Club whenever he wants.
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“I ain’t gotta check in, I ain’t gotta talk to no label, I don’t gotta do nothing,” Jeezy continued. “Shout out to Def Jam, love y’all. But it’s just like, freedom and ownership is everything, especially when you’re talking art, you’re talking culture, you’re talking your mind. I work hard my whole life, this is the season of me. I’m putting myself first at all costs. My peace is everything.”
The former couple’s divorce was finalized last summer and was anything but amicable. Allegations of domestic abuse were hurled around last April, which Jeezy denied.
“It’s disheartening to witness the manipulation and deceit at play and at this time my main concern is being an active father to our daughter as I continue to fight for court mandated joint custody,” Jeezy wrote on social media at the time about the child the pair share, three-year-old Monaco Mai Jenkins. “Rest assured, the truth will prevail through the proper legal channels.”
JoJo Siwa definitely has some complicated feelings about Miley Cyrus joking about her sexuality. The Dance Moms alum opened up about feeling judged by one of her idols in a post on Thursday (June 12).
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Sharing a throwback photo on Instagram of herself from her fifth birthday party — which was Miley-themed — Siwa wrote that the “Flowers” singer “is my day 1.” “I wasn’t sure how I felt about things for a couple of days,” she continued. “I don’t believe what Miley said at world pride was ill intended, honestly I think it was meant to be a joke, but just not very good one haha. Not what the world, or myself needs to hear any day of the week.”
The post comes five days after Cyrus — who identifies as pansexual and is in a relationship with musician Maxx Morando — quipped in a video that played during the WorldPride festival in Washington, “Alright, I’m going back in to get some more pretzels and find JoJo Siwa and bring her back out.”
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The clip was filmed inside a closet, implying that the Hannah Montana star was jokingly trying to say that Siwa no longer identifies as part of the LGBTQ community. In fact, the So You Think You Can Dance veteran still identifies as queer, despite what many on the internet have been saying about her new romance with Celebrity Big Brother costar Chris Hughes, before which Siwa had mostly publicly dated women as well as nonbinary partner Kath Ebbs.
But even though she felt hurt by Cyrus’ comment in the moment, Siwa says that everything is good between them. “I messaged miley light heartedly about it and she replied and said ‘All love. Always,’” wrote Siwa, also sharing a photo she snapped with MC at a past event. “Honestly the most beautiful thing I’ve learned in the last 5 years is that love is a gorgeous rainbow.”
“Don’t question yourself, don’t second guess yourself, just love,” Siwa added. “People judge no matter what, and it can be very hard, especially when it comes from someone you love, and look up to… but if you feel happy and content with yourself, that’s most important. You get one life… hold onto it, make it yours, find your happy, and love.”
The situation comes shortly after the internet went haywire over the “Karma” singer confirming her relationship with Hughes. “It’s not platonic anymore,” she told The Guardian on June 1.
Drama has also surrounded the timing of Siwa’s breakup from Ebbs — who said that her now-ex dumped them at the Big Brother wrap party — but the YouTuber shared her side of the story in a recent interview on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast.
“I had all these realizations in my life, things that I wasn’t happy [with], and things that I was being OK with that I should never have been OK with,” she said. “I’m not happy, so I need to handle things, and I did very quickly once I got out of the [Big Brother] house. Over a little bit of time, I realized that I started to feel something for Christopher that I never intended to, but I couldn’t not feel. And I’m a very, very lucky girl because he was feeling the same thing.”
Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter VI week has been filled with surprises. After enlisting Nicki Minaj for the “Banned From NO (Remix),” Weezy returned 24 hours later on Thursday (June 12) to clash with Lil Baby and Future on “Momma Don’t Worry.”
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Future handles chorus duties on the somber track, which finds the trio calming their mothers’ worries, assuring them at their turbulent upbringings prepared them for the callousness of life.
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“Momma, don’t worry, I got my pistol/ I’m gettin’ my dollars, you birthed a real n—a/ Told my daddy, ‘Don’t be sorry, I’m not gon’ blame you’/ If it weren’t for struggle, my dreams, they wouldn’t came true,” Future raps.
Baby takes the baton and continues with the same theme, speaking directly to his mother. “Told Momma, ‘Don’t worry, you know you raised a hard body’/ Granny called the other day, said, ‘Don’t scratch ’cause God got you,’” he asserts.
Weezy joins the mix and addresses the lack of a relationship with his father, who was absent from his life following a divorce from Wayne’s mom. “Told my daddy, ‘I don’t blame you, neither claim you’/ You was never in the picture, somebody framed you/ Mom’s bought my first pistol, brought me to the range too,” he spews.
Lil Baby and Weezy have teamed up for tracks like “Forever” in the past, while the New Orleans rap legend has an extensive history with Future, uniting with him on songs including “Love Me,” “After That,” “Oxy” and the “Karate Chop (Remix).”
Tha Carter VI arrived on Friday (June 6) featuring assists from Kodak Black, MGK, Bono, BigXthaPlug, Jelly Roll and Big Sean.
Listen to “Momma Don’t Worry” below.
On June 12, 2010, Miranda Lambert’s “The House That Built Me” started a four-week reign on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, becoming her first of five career No. 1s to date.
The ballad was co-authored by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin and co-produced by Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke. It was released from Lambert’s LP Revolution, which debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, marking her third of seven straight career-opening, and total, No. 1s.
The nostalgic composition finds Lambert looking back on her childhood home and its legacy. Among other reflections in it, she sings, “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.”
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The song earned Lambert the Grammy Award for best female country vocal performance in 2011.
Revolution also yielded Lambert’s second Hot Country Songs leader, “Heart Like Mine,” for a week in May 2011, and the No. 2-peaking lead single “White Liar.” She has subsequently led with “Over You” (one week, May 2012); “We Were Us,” with Keith Urban (three weeks, November-December 2013); and “Somethin’ Bad,” with Carrie Underwood (one, July 2014).
Lambert was born in Longview, TX, on Nov. 10, 1983, and came to prominence after finishing third on the USA Network’s talent show Nashville Star in 2003. Shortly after, she inked her first major-label deal, with Epic Records.
On Country Airplay, Lamber has banked seven chart-toppers, mostly “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home),” with Elle King, in April 2022. It became her 18th and most recent top 10 on the multimetric Hot Country Songs chart.
Lambert, who won the Country Music Association’s female vocalist of the year trophy seven times between 2010 and 2017, signed to Big Loud in partnership with Republic Records in April 2024. She released her latest album, Postcards From Texas, last September. It opened at its No. 8 high on Top Country Albums, becoming her 10th top 10.
Drake has no plans on checking out Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s Grand National Tour stop in Toronto tonight (June 12). Instead, he’ll be doing a livestream with Kai Cenat where they’ll be finally picking winners from the “Somebody Loves Me” music video treatment challenge they announced in May where 20 creators will be given $15,000 […]
For a lot of people — Sabrina Carpenter included — the online drama surrounding her supposed part in Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Drivers License” love triangle drama feels like a lifetime ago.
But in 2021, the debacle was pretty much all anyone could talk about, with the internet casting the “Espresso” singer in the “other woman” archetype after actor Joshua Bassett reportedly broke up with his High School Musical: The Musical: The Series castmate to start dating Carpenter. It all stemmed from lyrics on Rodrigo’s Billboard Hot 100-topping debut single, on which she sings, “You’re probably with that blonde girl, who always made me doubt.”
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Years later, the Girl Meets World alum is far better known for her own chart-toppers such as “Please Please Please” following the success of her breakthrough 2024 album Short n’ Sweet, and Carpenter and Rodrigo have even been spotted looking friendly at events in the years since the drama unfolded. But in her Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (June 12), the two-time Grammy winner shared what being the target of so many rumors taught her.
“All I knew was that it wasn’t going to stop me from doing what I loved, ever,” she told the publication. “That’s kind of how I’ve always felt. Sometimes, it’s about how you are able to be resilient. What that era taught me was to just trust myself, and trust that everything is going to work out the way it’s supposed to, and trust that relationships are put into your life for a reason. You might not see that in the moment, but you see it later.”
Noting that she “didn’t really intentionally” try to change public opinion of her post-“Drivers License,” Carpenter revealed whether or not she ever ruminates on that time period. “I don’t think about it, ever,” she deadpanned.
The “Taste” artist, who earlier in the story revealed that she sometimes wears a brown wig to disguise herself in public, jokingly added, “I’ve tried being brunette, and it didn’t look good on me, so this is what it is.”
It’s not the first time Carpenter has addressed what happened in 2021. She dropped the singles “Skin” and “Because I Liked a Boy” as presumed responses to feeling misunderstood by the public amid the criticism. She also told Billboard in October of that year, “It’s such a waste of time, because you’ll never know the truth.”
“That’s part of the fun of it, I guess,” she added at the time. “But at the same time, there are real people. I will say, that’s the hardest thing — trying to be truthful to yourself, make art that feels real and exciting, but then also knowing that [you’re writing] about humans going through what we’re all going through on a daily basis.”
The Rolling Stone interview comes just one day after Carpenter announced her new album, Man’s Best Friend, which follows the release of lead single “Manchild” earlier this month. The LP will drop Aug. 29, almost exactly one year after she released Short n’ Sweet.
It’s an unusually short break between albums nowadays, but as Carpenter pointed out in the cover story, her idols — from Dolly Parton to Linda Rondstadt — used to do the same thing back in the day. “They would release a 10-song album every year,” she said. “I’m like, ‘When did we stop doing that?’ Writers write, they make music, and they release music.”
“If I really wanted to, I could have stretched out Short n’ Sweet much, much longer,” Carpenter added. “But I’m at that point in my life where I’m like, ‘Wait a second, there’s no rules.’ If I’m inspired to write and make something new, I would rather do that. Why would I wait three years just for the sake of waiting three years? It’s all about what feels right. I’m learning to listen to that a lot more, instead of what is perceived as the right or wrong move.”
Love is in the air, and wedding bells are in the future. Dua Lipa has revealed that she’s engaged to Callum Turner.
Engagement rumors began to heat up around Christmas time last year when the British pop star was seen sporting a dazzling rock around her finger, but Dua Lipa confirmed that the Fantastic Beasts actor put a ring on it in an interview with British Vogue published on Thursday (June 12).
“Yeah, we’re engaged. It’s very exciting,” Dua said. “This decision to grow old together, to see a life and just, I don’t know, be best friends forever – it’s a really special feeling.”
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Turner got some help from the singer’s closest friends, as well as Dua’s sister, Rina, with designing the custom ring. “I’m obsessed with it,” Dua gushed about the diamond. “It’s so me. It’s nice to know the person that you’re going to spend the rest of your life with knows you very well.”
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For now, there’s no rush for wedding plans with the Grammy-winning star currently on a world tour and Turner shooting for a movie.
“I want to finish my tour, Callum’s shooting, so we’re just enjoying this period,” she explained. “I’ve never been someone who’s really thought about a wedding, or dreamt about what kind of bride I would be. All of a sudden, I’m like: ‘Oh, what would I wear?’”
Dua and Turner were first publicly linked in January 2024 when the couple was spotted together at an afterparty for the Masters of the Air premiere. The singer says they actually first met at The River Cafe in London after being introduced by the restaurant’s co-founder. Lipa explained that they had so many friends in common, and about a year later, they ran into one another at another restaurant, this time in Los Angeles.
By chance, they both had been reading the same book, Trust by Hernan Diaz, which made Dua feel they were “1,000 percent” destined to eventually be together.
Dua Lipa continues her Radical Optimism Tour with shows in Belgium before returning to London next week, when she’ll take over Wembley Stadium.
Just hours after BTS’ Jung Kook was officially discharged from his mandatory military service, a Chinese woman was taken into custody for allegedly attempting to break into the singer’s residence in Seoul. According to authorities at the Yongsan Police Station, the suspect — a Chinese national in her 30s — went to Jung Kook’s home […]
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The academy is combining two categories, best recording package and best boxed or special limited edition package into one category, best recording package. Boxed sets were split off into a separate category in 1995.
It is also reviving an old category, best album cover. The Grammy Award for best album cover dates back to the first Grammy Awards in 1959. (The first winner: Frank Sinatra, for serving as art director on his own album, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely.) From 1962 to 1965 it was separated into classical and non-classical categories. From 1966 to 1968 it was separated into graphic arts and photography categories. In 1974, the name of the award was changed to best album package. It was changed again in 1994 to best recording package.
The rule for Best Recording Package: “An art director’s award – for albums or singles. This category recognizes excellence in the field of art and packaging for albums or singles. Physical product in any configuration (standard, special edition, limited edition, or boxed sets), of any genre of music, released for the first time during the eligibility year (even if recordings were previously released) is eligible provided the packaging is predominantly new.
“The elements judged in this category include the package design, photography and/or graphic art of the entire package as well as any materials included. If the album art/packaging has been previously released, or is being reissued with only minimal new design elements, it is not eligible.
“An entry in this category is eligible if the physical product release during the applicable eligibility period either meets the general distribution requirement or was made available for purchase solely via the applicable artist’s website or such artist’s record company’s website, so long as the release meets all other eligibility requirements, is sold as a stand-alone product, and the sales link is available to all consumers (e.g., fan club-only releases or releases through a subscription series are not eligible).
The rule for Best Album Cover: “An art director’s award – for albums only. This category recognizes excellence in cover art for albums of recordings in any genre of music, released for the first time during the eligibility year (even if recordings were previously released).
“The elements judged in this category include the creativity, design, illustration, photography, and/or graphic art of the album cover.
“The album cover must be predominantly new: If the album cover art has been previously released, or the recording is being reissued with only minimal new cover art, is not eligible.
“Eligible album covers can be from digital-only or streaming-only full-length releases as well as albums that have physical configurations. Submission of an album cover in this category would not disqualify the physical package of the same release from being submitted in best recording package. Eligible entries for this category require a high-resolution digital file of the album cover be uploaded with the entry.”
In addition, the Package Craft Committee is changing from three regional committees to one national committee.
