[youtube id=”JnY7lG63dCQ”] Nile Rodgers was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame last night. Pharrell presented the award to him and gave an introduction where he described Rodgers has having been in the studio with him “spiritually for more than 25 years.” Pharrell and Rodgers worked together on Daft Punk’s massively popular “Get Lucky.” Watch Rodgers’s acceptance speech below.

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Pharrell Williams’s childhood will be the inspiration for the Fox musical Atlantis. Michael Mayer will direct the project that is being called a Romeo and Juliet type of story. Williams and Mimi Valdes will produce Atlantis under the I Am Other umbrella and Gil Netter is producing the musical for Netter Productions.

Williams is having success as a producer and songwriter for the Oscar-nominated Hidden Figures. He just produced the Roxanne Shante biopic Roxanne Roxanne that premiered at Sundance in January. His hit song “Happy” from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack also received an Oscar nomination.

Williams grew up in Virgina Beach, Virginia and it was there in the ’90’s when he formed The Neptunes with Chad Hugo while attending Princess Anne High School. Teddy Riley discovered them after they entered a talent show at their school.

Pharrell was on the Ellen show yesterday to promote the movie Hidden Figures and he also addressed the Kim Burrell controversy. Burrell’s sermon about “perverted homosexuals” went viral last week and since then she was uninvited to Ellen, her radio was canceled and she was nixed from appearing at the Trailblazers Of Gospel Music Awards. Pharrell had already denounced Burrell’s views on his Twitter timeline and he reiterated those thoughts on Ellen. “Runnin'” is one of the songs he composed for the Hidden Figures soundtrack and he performed it live on the show.

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[youtube id=”h1GQJDaz8-M”] Pharrell and Kim Burrell perform “I See A Victory” from the Hidden Figures soundtrack on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Pharrell produced and composed the music for the film starring Taraji P. Henson about mathematician Katherine Johnson and her colleagues. Their work on the Apollo 11 flight to the moon was never known by the public. The film will have a limited release on Christmas day and a wide release January 6th.