The cast of Empire, Lee Daniels and The Weeknd appear in the August issue of vogue with model Jourdan Dunn. View images featuring original cast members Terrence Howard (Lucious), Taraji P. Henson (Cookie), Jussie Smollett (Jamal), Trai Byers (Andre), Byreshere Y. Gray (Hakeem), and Naomi Campbell (Camilla) shot by noted and famed fashion photographer Mario Testino. View a selection of images lifted from the shoot below.
Month: August 2015
Ciara delivers a classy clap back, responding to Future’s parenting criticism providing the facts. The Grammy-Award winning singer has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide in the last decade. Ciara’s latest project, “Jackie,” is her sixth studio album. Her new single, “Dance Like We’re Making Love,” has more than 20 million views online. Ciara joins “CBS This Morning” to talk about her new music, dating NFL star Russell Wilson and how things stand with her ex-fiancé, rapper Future. Watch the insightful short interview below.
Music: Vic Mensa – Heat It Up (Freestyle)
Wondaland go a step further creating a powerful anthem acknowledge Black lives matter. Janelle Monáe and her Wondaland Records affiliates join forces to pay tribute to the lives lost on the powerful “Hell You Talmbout.”
The percussion lead marching beat, see’s the Wondaland collective including Deep Cotton, St. Beauty, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, George 2.0, and Janelle call out the names of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Emmett Till and more. Listen to the track in full below.
Performance artist FKA twigs presents M3LL155X, an audio and visual EP experience. The official Press Release says “The videos for “Figure 8,” “I’m Your Doll”, “In Time,” and “Glass & Patron,” are directed by FKA twigs herself. According to a press release, the four pieces coalesce into a single work—a “statement conceptualizing the process of feeling pregnant with pain, birthing creativity and liberation.” Watch and stream “M3LL155X.” in full below.