Moonchild taking over the world, one festival at a time
Apple’s list of top 100 albums has caused a stir on social media with many unsettled by the ranking
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé opened last weekend around the world and grossed $27 million at the global box office. We sent two Mail & Guardian writers to watch it
Jobs ads for journalists to cover celebrities have stirred up a Beyhive
of controversy
Objects to for your self-care rituals and glow up era
As sales of Kanye West’s Yeezy brand and Beyonce’s Ivy Park plummet, we ask if fashion collaborations are still desirable or have become a liability
The singer surpassing classical conductor Georg Solti’s long-standing record of 31 lifetime trophies
A year after the death of the king of caftans, we remember the first black man to be a creative director at Vogue magazine
Hakuna Matata may be the motto, but the iconic Disney film is full of life lessons
Beyoncé’s album is a disco dazzle made for the dance floor
With a music career spanning 30 years, the Texas-born artist has made us cry, dance and fall in love
Will Beyoncé be featuring her billionaire husband on her new album, Renaissance? We don’t know – yet – but here’s our top five collabos with Jay Z
Beyonce takes no sit-down interviews and responds to no one on social media. The goal? To have us focus on the music, which we should all do
Queen B fans are used to her usual surprise album drops at midnight, but this time the announcement has us looking back at her body of work
From Grammys to sold-out concerts, the West African music phenomenon is going mainstream
Cinema struggles to tell stories that reflect a contemporary Africa and remains hamstrung by self-serving voices
South Africa’s newest stars have turned to the internet and cultivated cult followings to launch themselves onto the global music scene
Burna Boy’s fifth studio album, ‘Twice as Tall’, extends beyond the hype to reveal the Afrobeats star’s vulnerability
A multimedia care package of reading material, series, movies and music to indulge in if you’re ghosted
Analysis: from Lana Del Rey and Weyes Blood to the 1975 and Matmos, pop stars are showing it’s a wild time to be alive to observe the end of the world
As a kid in Soweto, he never dreamed he’d help the world fall in love with life in Africa; as a veteran musician his pride is undiminished
‘I wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to see Beyoncé and Jay Z in South Africa’
The festival is aimed at addressing social ills Sunday’s concert had the makings of a charismatic church crusade
‘To be clear, ending extreme poverty by 2030 is not a farcical or fantastical aim,’ writes Kweku Mandela
Global Citizen says it hopes that the run-up to the festival would raise commitments of $1 billion to help the world’s poorest
To counter the lack of Pan-African art, the Carters move in opposition to the frozen stillness that the artworks embody at Musée du Louvre.
In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches.
The album came out late on Saturday exclusively on Jay-Z’s fledgling Tidal streaming service
The H&M child model, who is black and in an offensive hoodie, is just one example of racism and harassment.
As Jay-Z repents for his blunders, JZ dusts off his shoulders and remains blissfully unbothered.
‘Is Katy Perry complicit in creating an image that glamorises abusive threads of behaviour towards women?’
South Africa lost some more moral ground last weekend.