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No drama: WILLOW (Smith) is winning musically, with a surprise SNL appearance and songs that seem eerily personal
(April 10, 2022). The much maligned Smith family has a bright spot: WILLOW. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith was a surprise guest on this weekend’s SNL…
Famous (or not so famous) firsts: These were the first Black women in music history to…
(April 8, 2022). In honor of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation as America’s first Black female Supreme Court Justice on Thursday, April 7, djrobblog is celebrating by honoring Black women…
The latest music trend: Artists’ new songs are struggling to overcome their old ones (they just won’t leave)
(April 3, 2022). Earlier this year, pop superstar The Weeknd released a new album Dawn FM (featuring his old-man persona on the album cover). It was to mark the end…
Will Smith’s resignation from The Academy caps a week of ironies and nuances as uncanny as the slap itself
(April 2, 2022). I wasn’t going to write about this past week’s slapping incident at the Oscars. But the list of ironies are too numerous to pass up. Plus, I’ve…
These 50 famous rappers have never had a No. 1 album…
(March 25, 2022). The first rap album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (which measures the best-selling and most consumed albums each week) happened in March 1987.…