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Denzel, Mary J., Jordan Peele And Movie ‘Get Out’ Among Nominated For 2018 Academy Awards
Grammy Awards To Air Sunday; JAY-Z Tops With 8 Nominations
JAY-Z , Kendrick Lamar and Bruno Mars are all nominated.
Music's biggest night is just around the corner. The 60th Grammy Awards, hosted by James Corden, will take place on Sunday, Jan. 28.
The star-studded lineup of performers will include Bruno Mars, Cardi B, SZA, Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee, Kendrick Lamar,
U2, Sam Smith and more. Jay-Z leads this year's Grammy nominations, with eight nods, one year after his wife, Beyonce, received nine
Graåmmy nominations. Dominating this year's biggest awards are also Child- ish Gambino, Kendrick
Lamar and Bruno Mars.
Denzel Washington and Daniel Kaluuya, Best Actor; Mary J. Blige and Octavia Spencer, Best Sup- porting Actress; Jordan Peele, Best Director and movie ‘Get Out’ Best Movie and Best Screenplay; Dee Rees’ ‘Mudbound’, Best Adapted Screenplay; Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stin- son for ‘Mighty River’ Best Original Song.
The nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards were announced early Tuesday morning, (Jan. 23). Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish along with Andy Serkis and Academy President John Bailey announced the nomi- nees at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Jimmy Kimmel will re- sume as host of the presti- gious ceremony airing live on ABC, Sunday, March 4.
Among the nominees for this year’s Oscars include:
Daniel Kaluuya for Best Actor for his role in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Kaluuya will go head-to-head with two-time Academy-Award winner Denzel Washing- ton for his portrayal in Roman J. Israel.
Mary J. Blige’s per- formance in Mudbound mer- ited the nine-time Grammy award winning musician a nomination for Best Support- ing Actress, up against Acad- emy-Award winner, Octavia Spencer.
Jordan Peele is nom- i nated for Best Director and his out-of-the-box horror movie ‘Get Out’ is nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay.
Dees Rees’ directed ‘Mud- bound’ is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq, and Taura Stin- son are nominated for Best Original Song. Blige helped write and sang the nomi- nated song ‘Mighty River’ for the movie Mudbound.
Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino Signs With RCA
Donald "Childish Gam- bino" Glover had some of his fans concerned they would not be getting a lot more music from the ATLien. Last June, he announced at the Governors Ball festival, "I’ll see you for the last Gam- bino album.”
The next Gambino LP will be delivered via RCA Records, according to Vari- ety.
“It was a necessary change of pace," stated Gambino. It appears the actor/rap- per/singer is planning to keep producing tunes for a while.
CG's "Awaken, My Love!" was released on Glass- note Records. The Funk- fused project earned the multi-talented star five
The Grammy nominee, Childish Gambino is making more moves in the record in- dustry.
Grammy nominations, in- cluding a nod for Album Of The Year.
Gambino is set to per- form at the 2018 Grammy ceremony on January 28.
Kanye And Kim Name Daughter Chicago
Kanye West’s daughter may only be a few days old, but some deals are already rolling in.
Kim and Kanye made headlines last week when they revealed the name of their newborn baby girl, Chicago.
The internet had a mixed reaction, but baby Chicago
Kanye and Kim named their new baby girl, born via Black surrogate, Chicago.
already seems to be benefit- ing from the name.
Members of the legendary rock band Chicago have of- fered the child a lifetime pass to all of their shows.
Kanye is a native of Chicago, and he and Kim are known for giving their chil- dren unique names —— North, Saint and now Chicago.
50 Cent Was Among First To Accept Bitcoin Before It Became Popular
Say and think what you want about 50 Cent, but the man has been a step ahead of many artists when it came to business deals.
While people are just now trying to get their hands on a piece of Bitcoin’s pie, Fif ap- parently took a chance on the cryptocurrency four years be- fore it was the popular thing to invest in.
According to a new report, the rapper was the first artist to accept Bitcoin as payment for his album, Animal Ambi- tion in 2014. At the time Bit- coin was reportedly valued at $662/1 bitcoin equivalent.
50 Cent was first artist to accept Bitcoin payment for his music back in 2014. He earned 700 bitcoins worth $400,000 back then. Now the bitcoins cash in is worth $7 to $8.5 mil- lion.
Fans could reportedly pur- chase the album for a fraction of a whole Bitcoin.
Following the release of Animal Ambition, 50 re- portedly raked in 700 bit- coins, which is equivalent to more than $400K. It seems as though 50 sat on the cryp- tocurrency until now, which was one smart move.
Bitcoin’s value has since fluctuated to between $10K and $12K, which means whenever 50 decides to cash those coins in, he will be walking away with anywhere between $7 to $8.5 million dollars.
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