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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Denzel Washington's Rep Speaks Out After Heated Exchange at Cannes
Originally appeared on E! Online didn't let one bad moment steal his glory. Following a heated exchange with a photographer on the red carpet during the premiere of his latest film Highest 2 Lowest at the Cannes Film Festival May 19, the Oscar winner's rep confirmed that the moment didn't ruin his night. In fact, his rep told E! News in a statement May 20, 'It was a great evening.' Denzel, 70, was joined by director Spike Lee and costar as they walked the red carpet ahead of the film's premiere. Denzel began a conversation with A$AP before he was seen walking in the direction of a photographer who was trying to get his attention. The photographer appeared to grab Denzel's arm, prompting him to point directly in his face while saying, 'Stop it, stop it.' At one point, the Training Day star yanked his arm away from the photographer, who continued to smile, before walking back towards his cast members. More from E! Online Denzel Washington Gets Into Confrontation After Being Grabbed by Photographer at Cannes Hailey Bieber Details 'Scary' Bleeding Amid Baby Jack Bieber's Birth Dawn Richard Testifies Usher Witnessed Sean "Diddy" Combs Punch Cassie Ventura in Stomach Inside the theater, Denzel was celebrated for his role in the film—which reunited him with Spike for the first time in 20 years—and his storied career. Denzel was overcome with emotion as Spike—who previously worked with him on the films Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man—presented him with an honorary Palme d'Or. 'This is a total surprise for me, so I'm emotional. It's a great opportunity to collaborate with my brother once again, brother from another mother, and to be here once again in Cannes,' the Equalizer star told the crowd as he fought back tears. 'We're a very privileged group in this room that we get to make movies and wear tuxedos and nice clothes and dress up and get paid for it as well.' 'We're just blessed beyond measure,' he added. 'I'm blessed beyond measure. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you all.' Keep reading to see all the star sightings from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival… Angelina JolieRobert De Niro & Tiffany ChenEva LongoriaAlessandra AmbrosioJulia GarnerJuliette BinocheHeidi Klum & Tom KaulitzBella HadidJeremy StrongHalle BerryIrina ShaykAndie MacDowell
Black America Web
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Celebrating Fashion's Biggest Night: Rihanna, Spike Lee, Megan Thee Stallion & Many More In Attendance At A$AP Rocky's Met Gala After Party
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: The Hapa Blonde / Getty As the world knows, the 2025 Met Gala was held last night (May 5th)! Taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the night's theme was 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' spotlighting Black sartorial heritage and dandyism. The event was co-chaired by Pharrell Williams, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and A$AP Rocky. Throughout the night, blends of bold tailoring and cultural homage were showcased as the brightest stars in the world turned heads. The night included multiple iconic moments including Diana Ross making her historic return after two decades; Rihanna closing the red carpet in a custom Marc Jacobs ensemble, revealing her third pregnancy; Colman Domingo paying tribute to André Leon Talley and countless others. Once the hard work was finally over, it was time to wind down! One of the co-chairs of the annual event, A$AP Rocky, celebrated the night by throwing an after party with Ray Bans, who he happens to be a creative director for. The star-studded gathering was held at Jean's and was supported by Casamigos. The tequila flowed all night as fashion's biggest night was celebrated as guests sipped two specialty cocktails ( the iconic Jean's Paloma and the classic Casamigos Margarita). throughout the night while dancing to music. Casamigos also greeted attendees with mini bottles to take a welcome shot upon arrival. The party brought a star-studded crowd including Rihanna, Shaboozey, Saquon Barkley, Sabrina Carpenter, Tyla, Jenna Ortega, Heidi Klum, Spike Lee, Daniel Kaluuya, Megan Thee Stallion, Adrien Brody, Georgina Chapman, Maluma, Keke Palmer, PinkPantheress, Tracee Ellis Ross, T-Pain, Paolo Banchero, Samira Ahmed, Suni Lee, Jeremy Pope, Natasha Lyonne, Baz Luhrmann, Adut Akech, Denzel Dion, Rickey Thompson, Leonardo Maria del Vecchio, and many more. Check out some photos from A$AP's after party below! Congrats to him, all the other chairs, Anna Wintour and everyone who was involved in making it an unforgettable evening. Celebrating Fashion's Biggest Night: Rihanna, Spike Lee, Megan Thee Stallion & Many More In Attendance At A$AP Rocky's Met Gala After Party was originally published on Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty Source:Getty
The Age
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Despite big-time fans, Jessica Pratt guards her inner world
HIGHJACK is about right. If you search Jessica Pratt on your favourite music streaming service, that title by A$AP Rocky is instantly up in your face. It's a cool jam, even if Pratt's incongruously introspective vocal doesn't feature until two minutes in. Meanwhile, the superstar Harlem rapper's bitch-swipin' bravado offers, well, bracing contrast. 'I get what you're saying,' Pratt says. 'The last year has been a period in which a lot of unexpectedly interesting things have happened. And I think this [collaboration] just fits right into that … It was very surreal to be a part of it.' She's also thinking, no doubt, of Australian pop wunderkind Troye Sivan sampling one of her earliest songs, Back, Baby, for his own mega-streaming hit, Can't Go Back, Baby. Her part in that was more passive: a found object in the voracious churn of the modern pop machine, but the result is an odd twist in her digital footprint nonetheless. HIGHJACK was a real-time collaboration, even if it was made in a 'semi-remote' way fairly typical of today's recording studio assembly process. 'I worked with one of the producers that was working on the record in LA and A$AP was zooming in, but he was there for a few hours, so I didn't feel the remove that much. He was very engaged.' To say the least, 'they're pretty different', she concedes of the colliding worlds she's come to inhabit. 'The music that I make myself is something I treat very carefully, and it's very much born of my own inner world. I've guarded that pretty heavily and tried to do exactly what I wanted to do. 'But in terms of career trajectory and unforeseen events and collaborations and stuff like that ...' The opening line of her latest album, In the Pitch, finishes that thought rather well: 'Life is, it's never what you think it's for.' Softly spoken and thoughtful, the Californian singer-songwriter's conversation reflects the character of her albums. Her fourth dwells in its own echoing, nostalgic world vividly reminiscent, as she eloquently told The New York Times, of 'that micro era of '60s pop music where the production is atmospheric like a snow globe'. The sense of contemplative seclusion, a quiet place frozen in time, fits the image of the nascent artist growing up in Redding, a faded mining and timber town north of San Francisco. It was mostly her mother's recommendations ringing in her headphones – broad in scope, but not least Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Incredible String Band and T. Rex – that made her pick up a nylon-stringed guitar. TAKE 7: THE ANSWERS ACCORDING TO JESSICA PRATT Worst habit? Cleaning. Greatest fear? NASA G-Force training. The line that stayed with you? 'On high seas, you search of / the sickly sweet milk of selfish love,' from Guided By Voices' Kicker of Elves. Biggest regret? Not buying a Scott 4 LP [by Scott Walker] in 2008 for $40. Favourite book? I find picking favourites too difficult, but I recently read Dickens' Great Expectations and found myself deeply engrossed. The artwork/song you wish was yours? I can't think this way but why not Joni Mitchell's Jericho? If you could time travel, where would you choose to go? Innumerable places and time periods but I'd like to see the Earth in some prehistoric era. Lots of kids hook into their parents' music collections early on, of course. But the ones who grow up holding it dear into adulthood are exceptions to the general rule of teenaged autonomy and rebellion, I venture to suggest. 'I was just thinking about this yesterday,' Pratt says, 'because I have one older brother, and he loves music, but I don't think he got the obsessive gene ... [Music] isn't necessarily treated as this incredibly deep thing for him. 'My mother was a pretty obsessive person, and I am as well. I think I'm similar to her in a lot of ways, so maybe that was part of it. I think that she enjoyed having this resurrection of the experience of discovering music for the first time, via me. Like, going through your adolescent experience of exposure to music a second time.' Pratt's parents had split and her father moved to another state in search of job opportunities when she was five. He was an occasional, distant presence on the phone by the time her self-titled album was ready in 2012. 'He became more and more estranged over the years … so it was a sort of stagnated relationship,' she says. 'I was glad that we were able to reconnect before he passed [in 2020].' Sadly, her mother didn't get to hear much of what her old records had inspired. 'I think that she thought I was creative and talented and all the things that your mother would think about you,' Pratt says with a laugh. 'But there was an eerily timed crisscross between my first record coming out and her passing away. She had cancer, so she wasn't able to see it born into the world. 'I had recorded some things and put them on MySpace Music or something,' she recalls, dating her first modest forays to the mid-2010s. 'But it wasn't like, 'Oh, this is my album. Please listen to it'. I think that I was pretty secretive about that stuff.' By accident or design, she found her feet as a live performer far from home, in the underground surrounds of the fabled Café du Nord in San Francisco. Even then, she says: 'I wasn't trying to play shows with any real disciplined regularity … there were a few instances where I got booked in loud places, and I just tried to avoid those scenarios because it felt pretty pointless to me. 'I've never really been an incredibly ambitious person in terms of status and career heightening,' she concludes. 'I've always just thought about the music. I think that maybe what's happened is I've just been making music long enough … it's resulted in this new momentum that has shifted things slightly.' Whatever its impetus, the momentum has meant a lot more faces pressed up against her snow globe these days. One can only wonder a little guiltily how the escalating attention of a curious media messes with such a carefully nurtured process. 'It's fortunate that ... there's a little space in between,' she says. 'You have this creative process that is very involved, and fortunately, this sort of examination of that process doesn't take place until some time later. Not a million years later, but far enough away from the creative process that it doesn't affect it. Loading 'I don't necessarily think that examining and talking about your art is a strictly anti-creative thing, or something that will make you feel insecure. I try to see it as a thought-provoking sort of task.' OK then. It's one thing to make a modern album that sounds like it somehow happened in a magical place halfway between the Beach Boys' mid-1960s purple patch and the Walker Brothers greatest hits, but how do you make it echo like that when you take it on the road in 2025? 'We had to work at it,' she says. 'You're never going to recreate the exact atmosphere of a record. The best you can do is get pretty close. But we've managed to figure out a way to get within spitting distance of something.'
Sydney Morning Herald
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Despite big-time fans, Jessica Pratt guards her inner world
HIGHJACK is about right. If you search Jessica Pratt on your favourite music streaming service, that title by A$AP Rocky is instantly up in your face. It's a cool jam, even if Pratt's incongruously introspective vocal doesn't feature until two minutes in. Meanwhile, the superstar Harlem rapper's bitch-swipin' bravado offers, well, bracing contrast. 'I get what you're saying,' Pratt says. 'The last year has been a period in which a lot of unexpectedly interesting things have happened. And I think this [collaboration] just fits right into that … It was very surreal to be a part of it.' She's also thinking, no doubt, of Australian pop wunderkind Troye Sivan sampling one of her earliest songs, Back, Baby, for his own mega-streaming hit, Can't Go Back, Baby. Her part in that was more passive: a found object in the voracious churn of the modern pop machine, but the result is an odd twist in her digital footprint nonetheless. HIGHJACK was a real-time collaboration, even if it was made in a 'semi-remote' way fairly typical of today's recording studio assembly process. 'I worked with one of the producers that was working on the record in LA and A$AP was zooming in, but he was there for a few hours, so I didn't feel the remove that much. He was very engaged.' To say the least, 'they're pretty different', she concedes of the colliding worlds she's come to inhabit. 'The music that I make myself is something I treat very carefully, and it's very much born of my own inner world. I've guarded that pretty heavily and tried to do exactly what I wanted to do. 'But in terms of career trajectory and unforeseen events and collaborations and stuff like that ...' The opening line of her latest album, In the Pitch, finishes that thought rather well: 'Life is, it's never what you think it's for.' Softly spoken and thoughtful, the Californian singer-songwriter's conversation reflects the character of her albums. Her fourth dwells in its own echoing, nostalgic world vividly reminiscent, as she eloquently told The New York Times, of 'that micro era of '60s pop music where the production is atmospheric like a snow globe'. The sense of contemplative seclusion, a quiet place frozen in time, fits the image of the nascent artist growing up in Redding, a faded mining and timber town north of San Francisco. It was mostly her mother's recommendations ringing in her headphones – broad in scope, but not least Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Incredible String Band and T. Rex – that made her pick up a nylon-stringed guitar. TAKE 7: THE ANSWERS ACCORDING TO JESSICA PRATT Worst habit? Cleaning. Greatest fear? NASA G-Force training. The line that stayed with you? 'On high seas, you search of / the sickly sweet milk of selfish love,' from Guided By Voices' Kicker of Elves. Biggest regret? Not buying a Scott 4 LP [by Scott Walker] in 2008 for $40. Favourite book? I find picking favourites too difficult, but I recently read Dickens' Great Expectations and found myself deeply engrossed. The artwork/song you wish was yours? I can't think this way but why not Joni Mitchell's Jericho? If you could time travel, where would you choose to go? Innumerable places and time periods but I'd like to see the Earth in some prehistoric era. Lots of kids hook into their parents' music collections early on, of course. But the ones who grow up holding it dear into adulthood are exceptions to the general rule of teenaged autonomy and rebellion, I venture to suggest. 'I was just thinking about this yesterday,' Pratt says, 'because I have one older brother, and he loves music, but I don't think he got the obsessive gene ... [Music] isn't necessarily treated as this incredibly deep thing for him. 'My mother was a pretty obsessive person, and I am as well. I think I'm similar to her in a lot of ways, so maybe that was part of it. I think that she enjoyed having this resurrection of the experience of discovering music for the first time, via me. Like, going through your adolescent experience of exposure to music a second time.' Pratt's parents had split and her father moved to another state in search of job opportunities when she was five. He was an occasional, distant presence on the phone by the time her self-titled album was ready in 2012. 'He became more and more estranged over the years … so it was a sort of stagnated relationship,' she says. 'I was glad that we were able to reconnect before he passed [in 2020].' Sadly, her mother didn't get to hear much of what her old records had inspired. 'I think that she thought I was creative and talented and all the things that your mother would think about you,' Pratt says with a laugh. 'But there was an eerily timed crisscross between my first record coming out and her passing away. She had cancer, so she wasn't able to see it born into the world. 'I had recorded some things and put them on MySpace Music or something,' she recalls, dating her first modest forays to the mid-2010s. 'But it wasn't like, 'Oh, this is my album. Please listen to it'. I think that I was pretty secretive about that stuff.' By accident or design, she found her feet as a live performer far from home, in the underground surrounds of the fabled Café du Nord in San Francisco. Even then, she says: 'I wasn't trying to play shows with any real disciplined regularity … there were a few instances where I got booked in loud places, and I just tried to avoid those scenarios because it felt pretty pointless to me. 'I've never really been an incredibly ambitious person in terms of status and career heightening,' she concludes. 'I've always just thought about the music. I think that maybe what's happened is I've just been making music long enough … it's resulted in this new momentum that has shifted things slightly.' Whatever its impetus, the momentum has meant a lot more faces pressed up against her snow globe these days. One can only wonder a little guiltily how the escalating attention of a curious media messes with such a carefully nurtured process. 'It's fortunate that ... there's a little space in between,' she says. 'You have this creative process that is very involved, and fortunately, this sort of examination of that process doesn't take place until some time later. Not a million years later, but far enough away from the creative process that it doesn't affect it. Loading 'I don't necessarily think that examining and talking about your art is a strictly anti-creative thing, or something that will make you feel insecure. I try to see it as a thought-provoking sort of task.' OK then. It's one thing to make a modern album that sounds like it somehow happened in a magical place halfway between the Beach Boys' mid-1960s purple patch and the Walker Brothers greatest hits, but how do you make it echo like that when you take it on the road in 2025? 'We had to work at it,' she says. 'You're never going to recreate the exact atmosphere of a record. The best you can do is get pretty close. But we've managed to figure out a way to get within spitting distance of something.'
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What to know about Rihanna's children, as singer announces pregnancy at Met Gala
What to know about Rihanna's children, as singer announces pregnancy at Met Gala Rihanna debuted a baby bump on the red carpet at the 2025 Met Gala, revealing to the world that she's expecting her third child with partner A$AP Rocky. (Getty Images) The 2025 Met Gala may have been packed with fashion-forward celebrities putting their spin on tailoring, but it was Rihanna's pregnancy news that became the biggest news story of the night. The 37-year-old singer used the prestigious red carpet event as an opportunity to let the world know that she's expecting her third child with her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky. A$AP confirmed the pregnancy news at the event, telling press: "It feels amazing. It's time that we show the people what we was cooking up. And I'm glad everybody's happy for us 'cause we definitely happy, you know." The couple tend to keep their private life relatively private, but have shared details about their children in the past. How many children does Rihanna have? Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, shares two children, both sons, with A$AP Rocky. The couple announced they were expecting their third child at New York's annual Met Gala on Monday evening. What are Rihanna's children's names? Rihanna and A$AP Rocky's first child, RZA Athelston Mayers, was born in May 2022. Their second son, Riot Rose Mayers, was born in August 2023. The name RZA — pronounced Rizza — is thought to be inspired by the stage name of the Wu-Tang Clan's leader. The couple didn't announce their first son's name until a year after his birth. Rihanna has previously been pictured wearing Wu-Tang clan t-shirts and A$AP confirmed the name connection on the tot's first birthday, writing on Instagram at the time: "WU TANG IZ 4 DA CHUREN 🤲" HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY TO MY 1st BORN. RZA" Like his parents, the couple's second child Riot has a name beginning with an 'R'. A$AP Rocky's birth name is Rakim Mayers. How old are Rihanna's children? RZA will turn three on 13 May this year. Their youngest son Riot will be two in August. Who are Rihanna and A$AP Rocky's children? Both RZA and Riot have made a a handful of public appearances. RZA featured on the cover of British Vogue with his mum at just nine months old. His younger brother Riot featured in a family photoshoot in September 2023, where he was pictured on Rocky's shoulders and holding Rihanna's hand. What have Rihanna and A$AP Rocky said about parenting? They may have two very talented musicians as parents but RZA and Riot still enjoy some of the same TV programmes as other children their age. Rocky told Billboard last year that kids' show Cocomelon was on on repeat in their house, adding that the programme's nursery rhyme jingles were "driving me nuts". In a 2023 interview, RiRi, who is from Barbados, said she loved having sons. "Having a house full of boys –I thought I was a girl mom, but I'm a boy mom. I love this. I love it," she told Entertainment Tonight. Rihanna has also said that she wants her children to stay connected to their ancestry, which is why they occasionally have they hair braided. Last year, she the told Vogue China: "This is a form of protection by our ancestors...[it] makes us realize where we've come from. This is our lost history. I immediately wanted my children to have their hair braided... it's something in our blood." A$AP Rocky confirmed the pregnancy news saying "It's time that we show the people what we was cooking up" (Associated Press) Who is Rihanna's partner? A$AP Rocky, 26, is a US rapper. While his real name is Rakim Mayers, he adopted his professional name from the A$AP Mob, a hip hop collective he joined in 2007. The star has been nominated for two Grammy awards and collaborated with artists including Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Mark Ronson and even Rod Stewart, who featured on his 2015 single Everyday. In February this year, Rocky was found not guilty in a gun assault trial after an altercation in 2021. Longtime friends Rihanna and Rocky made their relationship official in 2020 after months of rumours. Read more about the Met Gala:
