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Juice WRLD, a young rapper from Chicago who was just starting to make his mark in the music industry, died Sunday at age 21. The hip-hop star, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, had recently signed with Interscope Records. He released his album "Death Race for Love" in March 2019, which made it to No. 1 on the Billboard…

Uninterrupted, the athlete-focused entertainment brand created by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, is expanding outside the U.S. for the first time, teaming with Grammy-winning rapper, uber-sports fan and Toronto native Drake to launch Uninterrupted Canada. The new venture will be led by CEO Scott Moore, most…

Drake made good on his promise to release new music in celebration of his hometown Toronto Raptors' first NBA title, after the team beat Oakland’s Golden State Warriors. The tracks called "Omertà" and "Money in the Grave" dropped early Saturday morning. In "Omertà," an Italian code of silence, Drake raps about LeBron…

The Toronto Raptors' historic victory the 2019 NBA Finals is such a big deal that superfan Drake is dropping not one, but two new tunes today in celebration- and ABC might be grooving along. After a six-game series that has been consistently down double digits from recent years, the defeat of the Golden State Warriors…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has picked up a Drake-exec produced feature documentary about U.S. military veterans and Mexican drug cartels from eOne, David Ayer's and Chris Long's Cedar Park. Ready for War examines the cause and effect of deporting U.S. military veterans and their forced recruitment by Mexican drug cartels. It…

This is America by Childish Gambino, an incendiary song of social commentary, won the prestigious Record of the Year category at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Earlier tonight This Is America became the first hip-hop composition to win in the song of the year category. Childish…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Matthew Budman has launched Forest Hill Entertainment and has signed a first look deal to develop projects with Drake and Future the Prince. Budman spent the past eight years as a producer at Annapurna on tastemaker films that included American Hustle and Zero Dark Thirty. Sumaiya Kaveh, also a…

Entertainment One is teaming with David Ayer’s and Chris Long’s Cedar Park and Prettybird on Ready for War, a four-part documentary limited series that examines the cause and effect of deporting U.S. military veterans and their forced recruitment by Mexican drug cartels. Created by director Andrew Renzi and Nick Boak…

The twin brothers who built a sports media brand around coverage of high school athletes added some big-name players to their investment roster: NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade, Grammy-winning recording artist Drake and Otter Media. Together with backing from NBA standouts LeBron James and Kevin Durant, brothers Brandon and…

HBO has picked up to series its drama pilot Euphoria, a teen drama starring Zendaya and written by The Wizard of Lies scribe Sam Levinson, with Drake and Future the Prince joining as executive producers. Euphoria, based on the Israeli series from HOT, follows a group of high school students as they navigate drugs…

British drama series Top Boy is getting a new season on Netflix. Created and written by Ronan Bennett, the series chronicling two drug dealers at an East London housing estate will return for a third chapter in 2019 as a Netflix original. Top Boy aired for two seasons on broadcast in the UK before ending in 2013. Both…

 NBC's Saturday Night Live with host and musical guest Drake drew a 3.9 rating in the metered-market households and a 1.8/9 in adults 18-49 in the markets with local people meters, down a bit from last week’s 4.1 rating and 1/9 in the demo with host Brie Larson and musical guest Alicia Keys. NBC notes that SNL…