• Alicia Keys pays sultry homage to jazzy Jill Scott on new album

    Alicia Keys pays sultry homage to jazzy Jill Scott on new album

    Even 15-time Grammy winners can be fan-girls. Clearly, that is the case with Alicia Keys. Her seventh studio album, which dropped on Friday, may be titled simply “Alicia,” but there is another R&B queen who gets a song named after her on the LP: Jill Scott. A great Scott, she must be. “Jill Scott,” featuring …
  • Swizz Beatz thinks rappers should pay ‘taxes’ to hip-hop’s elder statesmen

    Swizz Beatz thinks rappers should pay ‘taxes’ to hip-hop’s elder statesmen

    Swizz Beatz wants today’s rap stars to pay “taxes” to the founders of hip-hop. “I want to raise a million dollars for each icon who started hip-hop from [DJ] Kool Herc,” as well as the likes of Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, he said. “We need to be paying taxes to the creators …
  • Alicia Keys gets a quarantine manicure from husband Swizz Beatz

    Alicia Keys gets a quarantine manicure from husband Swizz Beatz

    The couple that primps together, stays together. Despite beauty salons being shuttered amid the COVID-19 crisis, Alicia Keys got a manicure at home on Wednesday, courtesy of her husband Swizz Beatz. The 41-year-old hip-hop producer shared a video of himself filing the 39-year-old “Fallin’” singer’s fingernails, most of which were wrapped in aluminum foil. As …