Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland has domestic violence charges, stemming from an alleged 2020 incident, dropped Justin Roiland, co-creator and voice actor on Adult Swim show Rick and Morty, has had his domestic violence charges dropped. Just months after Adult Swim and Hulu announced that the 43-year-old had been dropped from their companies, Roiland went to social media on Wednesday (March 22) with a statement. justice pic.twitter.com/1q9M4GA6MV — Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) March 22, 2023 “I have always known that these claims were false — and I never had any doubt that th ..read more

Rapper Afroman is being sued by several members of Adams County Sheriff’s Office after they raided his house last year. “Because I Got High” rapper Afroman faces a lawsuit from Cincinnati, Ohio law enforcement who raided his house last year. According to FOX 19, four deputies, two sergeants and a detective in the Adams County Sheriff’s Office claim that the rapper, legal name Joseph Foreman, invaded their privacy. During the 2022 raid, Foreman recorded footage of the group, obtaining images of their faces that he used in music videos, social media posts and merchandise without their conse ..read more

We spoke to director Alain Gomis about his stunning new Thelonious Monk documentary, Rewind & Play. If you want an example of how the strange and unpredictable pathways of culture and its history are recorded and shaped, you could do worse than Thelonious Monk’s trip to Europe in 1969. The now legendary tour — amongst the thinning ranks of historical jazz nerds and obsessives — was regarded as a triumph for Monk. Fifteen years from his first, disappointing visit to the continent, his audience had finally caught up to his art, and he spent months that autumn and winter overseas as a grand e ..read more

Oscar-winning actress and comedian Mo’Nique will star in an upcoming Netflix stand-up special, which premieres on April 4. Nine months after mending her differences with Netflix, Mo’Nique is coming to the streamer with a new comedy special. On Thursday (March 23), a 90-second trailer for the actress and comedian’s upcoming stand-up, My Name Is Mo’Nique, premiered. The pre-recorded event is a continuation of Mo’Nique, legal name Mo’Nique Hicks, returning to screens after being “blackballed” in a 13-year feud with filmmaker Lee Daniels and talk show host, multimedia producer and entrepreneu ..read more

Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free will produce an upcoming live-action comedy with South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. pgLang co-founders Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free are bringing their multidimensional visions to the screen. A currently-untitled film they’re set to produce will  be directed by South Park co-creator Trey Parker, with Vernon Chatman as the scriptwriter. According to Above the Line, “Chatman’s script finds the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man who is interning as a slave reenactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfrien ..read more

2Pac and Afeni Shakur-focused FX docuseries Dear Mama premieres on April 21. The five-part event is directed by Allen Hughes. 2Pac and Afeni Shakur five-part docuseries Dear Mama has an official trailer. After being teased last year, a two-minute clip was released on Wednesday (March 22), with archival footage of the mother and son discussing their relationship and political ties. “My mother taught me to analyze society and not be quiet,” he says in the clip during a 1988 interview. “If there’s something on my mind, speak it. Because – I gotta reiterate it – my mother was a Black Panther and s ..read more

Swarm co-creator Janine Nabers told Vulture that Beyoncé has possibly watched the show, which was partially influenced by her. Swarm co-creator Janine Nabers guesses that Beyoncé might have watched the controversial show. In a recent interview with Vulture, Nabers detailed how she and fellow Swarm creator Donald Glover were able to get the Amazon Prime series off the ground. In the show, protagonist Andrea “Dre” Green (Dominique Fishback) has an obsession over her favorite singer, Ni’Jah (Ni’Rine S. Brown), which turns deadly obsessive. “The legal stuff we did was very calculated, purposeful ..read more

During Adam Sandler’s acceptance of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Chris Rock rifted on the potential arrest of Donald Trump. Chris Rock has some Selective Outrage for twice-impeached former President Donald Trump. As actor and comedian Adam Sandler accepted the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Sunday (March 19), Rock joked about Trump’s potential arrest. The 4th United States President is alleged to have offered adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money in 2016 as means of preventing her from revealing their 2006 adulterous af ..read more

Music legend Sly Stone has announced a new memoir co-authored by Ben Greenman, titled Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). The story of funkateer Sly Stone is coming to a bookstore near you. On Wednesday (March 22), the Sly and the Family Stone frontman announced that his upcoming memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), will release on October 17. The memoir, co-authored by novelist and music journalist Ben Greenman, will arrive via AUWA Books, Questlove‘s new publishing imprint of MCD/FSG. Questlove, who also wrote the book’s foreword, has worked frequently with Greenman, who has ..read more

LaKeith Smith, an Alabama man who was 15 when a police officer shot and killed his friend, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Nearly five years after being sentenced to 65 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, LaKeith Smith has received a resentence. On Tuesday (March 21), the now-24-year-old Alabama man was sentenced to 30 years in prison, a reduction from the time that he originally received. When Smith was 15, a police officer shot and killed his friend A’Donte Washington, 16, after the two burglarized homes in Millbrook. Under Alabama’s accomplice liability law, Smith ..read more