Have many artists will choose to be independent after looking at the way Frank Ocean exited his deal with Def Jam by giving them the less lucrative Endless album and selling the Blonde album independently by brokering an exclusive deal with Apple? And how many artists will think about being independent since Universal has banned  exclusive deals after Frank Ocean’s Blonde?

[youtube id=”bh23bl9qpG4″] Is Tyler Perry’s Too Close To Home a replication of Shonda Rhimes’s Scandal?

Where is Young Thug aka Jeffery taking hip-hop with his non-belief in gender and androgynous fashion?

Will Apple buy Tidal?

Why didn’t Chaka Khan and D’Angleo participate in BET’s Prince tribute?

Why does Nicki Minaj keep winning the Best Female Rapper category at the BET Awards every single year for the past seven years when there are other female rappers?

Why did The Internet receive a nomination but didn’t get to perform at the BET Awards?

How will Shonda Rhimes respond to the people who want Jesse Williams fired from his Grey’s Anatomy role because of his BET Awards speech?

Fans of Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal TV shows are aware of the rare usage of Prince music in two recent episodes after his April 21st passing. Rhimes spoke with Rolling Stone about the process of getting Prince songs for the show, her lifelong admiration for him and last seeing him at The White House. Prince performed for a small audience in the White House one particular night was joined onstage by Stevie Wonder. Rhimes was one of the lucky attendees of the show and she talks about having used Prince’s “Controversy” single for an earlier episode of Scandal and receiving his approval and him calling himself a gladiator like one of the characters working alongside Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope. Read the whole interview with Rhimes here.

What did the James Bond author, Anthony Horowitz mean when he said Idris Elba was “Too street” to play Bond?

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Does Taylor Swift’s video for “Wildest Dreams” romanticize colonial Africa?

Why were all of Viola Davis’s characters prior to her role as Annalise Keating on How To Get Away With Murder not allowed to be sexualized?