Good morning, and Happy Wednesday everyone! Check HERE to see who is celebrating a birthday today in the celebrity world.
Celebrity Birthdays: May 26, 2015
Happy Tuesday readers! Click the link below to see what celebrities are celebrating their birthdays today!
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: MAY 25, 2015
Happy Memorial day to everyone. We got a pretty lengthy list of birthdays today. Join us in extending birthday shouts to:
Actress Octavia Spencer, who we all know from a variety of roles, most notably The Help, for which she won an Academy Award. She was also in a variety of other films, including Beauty Shop, Coach Carter, Big Momma's House, Legally Blonde 2, Bad Santa, and so many others. We also send birthday shouts to Singer & Rapper Rasheeda who is also known for being a part of Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta, NFL Wide Receiver Mario Manningham, Actress Octavia Spencer, Lil' Buck, former football player Shawne Merriman, Eric Young of the NY Mets, retired NBA payer Kendall Gill, NBA player Derrick Williams, rapper Daz Dillinger, and rapper JT Money.
The Week in Review....
Greetings fellow readers!
It’s been quite a productive week in urban entertainment!
This past week saw the release of several new albums and one hell of a soundtrack, if we do say so ourselves! The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the highly successful franchise The Fast & The Furious hit stores and digital download formats on March 17! The soundtrack features a variety of artists who are all popular in hip-hop & R&B, including T.I., Iggy Azalea, Walé, Rich Homie Quan, Flo Rida, Wiz Khalifa, and so many others.
Also releasing this past week on March 16 was Kendrick Lamar! Lamar has made a hugely successful name for himself in hip-hop, and fans have been anticipating this release for some time now.
The album, To Pimp a Butterfly, has already broken record on Spotify with 9.6 million streams happening on the day of release. This is monumental, not only for someone in hip-hop, but urban music in general. It does, however, show that music is still very much alive! The album features guest appearances from Bilal, Anna Wise, Snoop Dogg, George Clinton, James Fauntleroy, & Thundercat.
Other artists having released albums this week include Webbie and Da Mafia Six!
A number of celebrities were celebrating birthdays this past week. Those celebrating this week included #NaimLynn, #JabariParker, #HowardScott, #Rockwell, #SlyStone, #TerenceTrentDArby, #WillIAm, #YoungBuck, #DannyBrown, #FlavaFlav, #JheneAiko, #JonicaBooth, #Murs, #OzzieNewsome, #RodneyPeete, #SierraMcClain, #TimHardaway, #TyrelWilliams, #CynthiaMcKinney, #MyrlieEversWilliams, #NatKingCole, #RobKardashian, #SeanPrice, #TamarBraxton, #AdamLevine, #GeoffreyOwens, #IreneCara, #QueenLatifah, #VanessaWilliams, #AhmadBradshaw, #BarryCofield, #BunB, #DeaundreBonds, #EJManuel, #PhillipBolden, #RuthPointer, #ShawnBunch, #ThomasDecoud, #BiancaLawson, #CedricYarbrough, #JamalCrawford, #SpikeLee, #Touré, #ZonniquePullins, #VanessaBellCalloway, #MannieFresh, #DiggySimmons, DJPremier, #MsMelodie-RIP, #YandySmith, #YoungNoble, #MomsMabley-RIP, & #SabrinaLaBeauf!
Top Stories of the week included:
- A Night at the Improv with Jay Phillips
- Comedian Gary Owen to Return to Cleveland to Headline Cleveland Improv
- Come Along As We Catch Up with Local Comic Book Artist Damion Kendrick
- R&B Artist Ameriie Back With New Single, Out Loud
- New Video: Snoop Dogg: Peaches N Cream
- Jill Scott Returns with New Single & Video, You Don’t Know
- Steve Harvey to Speak at 20th Annual Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Summit
- Russell Simmons Presents The Scenario…A New Musical
Stay tuned for much more to come next week!