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Pop megastar Beyoncé is planning to release the audio from her feminist, Pro-Black Lives Matter film Lemonade on all streaming services this month.

Budweiser will not be sponsoring rapper Jay-Z’s “Made In America” music festival this year, despite previously being a major sponsor, instead opting to spend money sponsoring country music events.

Jay-Z’s Spotify and Apple Music competitor Tidal is reportedly “months behind” on payments to record labels.

Jay-Z’s Spotify rival Tidal has been accused of falsifying streaming numbers for the music of prominent artists on the platform, including Beyoncé and Kanye West.

Rapper Nicki Minaj went off on a profanity-laced tangent targeting Melania Trump during a concert in New York Saturday night, telling attendees to “pray to God we don’t stuck with a motherf*cking Melania” Trump as First Lady.

Tidal, the music streaming service owned by the rapper Jay-Z, posted massive losses of $28 million last year and struggled to make payments on time.

Rapper T.I. has released a politically charged song titled “War Zone,” that’s chock-full of Black Lives Matter-inspired themes and racial rhetoric.

Fox Searchlight released the latest promotional poster for its upcoming slave drama The Birth of a Nation on Friday that features the movie’s main character, slave rebellion leader Nat Turner (as played by Nate Parker), being hung with a noose fashioned from an American flag.

The reigning pop queen and her superstar rap mogul husband topped Forbes’ list of the highest-paid celebrity couples of 2016 with a combined $107.5 million in earnings over the past year, the outlet reported Monday.

Jay-Z released his first new music in three years late Thursday night with the anti-police brutality anthem “Spiritual,” just after the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, Texas Thursday night and the police-involved shooting deaths of two African-American men earlier in the week.

Controversial rapper Kanye West premiered a shocking new music video for his song “Famous” on Friday night in Los Angeles, which featured a nude Donald Trump, Bruce Jenner, Bill Cosby, and Taylor Swift, among others.

Pop superstar Beyoncé’s sixth studio album, Lemonade, was released Saturday on her and husband Jay-Z’s music streaming service Tidal — as well as in the form of a full-length visual presentation on HBO. The 12 song offering is a 45 minute medley of themes that include black nationalist feminism, infidelity, and, of course, love.

Beyoncé says her Super Bowl performance, which saw the singer and her backup dancers praising the anti-police Black Panther Party and won admiration from Malcolm X’s daughter, was not “anti-police” and was simply “powerful art” that was “misunderstood.”

Jay-Z’s streaming music service Tidal will donate $1.5 million raised at a charity concert last year to Black Lives Matter and other social justice organizations.

Usher, Nas and Bibi Bourelly have dropped a highly interactive video for their new song “Chains.”

Prince had some words of warning for those trying to break into the music business during a meeting with a small group of journalists this weekend.

Apple’s new streaming service, Apple Music, has reportedly drawn 11 million trial subscribers one month after its launch.

Madonna’s “Rebel Heart” tour doesn’t kick off until September, but the singer gave fans a behind-the-scenes look at her rehearsals on Monday with a pair of videos posted online.

A nationally recognized black scholar is now criticizing Jay Z’s May 16 freestyle rap performance at Terminal 5 in New York City for its racial context.

In March, the Jay Z-helmed music streaming service Tidal launched alongside some of the industry’s wealthiest stars at an event that quickly turned off scores of potential subscribers.

Last month, Jay-Z and a handful of some of the biggest names in music teamed up to launch Tidal, a new artist-owned streaming music service that would compete with household names like Pandora and Spotify. The concept seemed promising; a new

A couple of days after Rihanna premiered her new single “American Oxygen” at the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis, the music video for the song debuted.

Rihanna headlined the March Madness Music Festival in Indianapolis on Saturday, where she debuted her long-awaited new song “American Oxygen” and unloaded with both barrels on Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

Rapper and businessman Jay Z was joined by some of music’s biggest stars on Monday for the official re-launch of TIDAL, the first-ever artist owned streaming service, which plans to compete with bigs Pandora and Spotify. Jay Z recently acquired