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Katy Perry is under major scrutiny but not for the reasons you may expect. According to TMZ, Perry’s latest shoe design could be yanked from the shelves because they resemble blackface. https://twitter.com/mevpromotions/status/1094992516821196803 Based on the pictures above, both shoes have two eyes, a nose and red lips on them, giving the illusion that the shoe has […]

Text DFW to 24042 to join 97.9 The Beat’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). Follow The Beat On Twitter: This is a very bizarre story, that unfortunately highlights a double standard in America. Denton, Texas (about 48 minutes outside of Dallas) police recently pulled over a White male on a DWI suspicion. Things […]

Today for Black History Month 2019, we are highlighting the music business entrepreneurs behind the label Quality Control– Coach K and Pee. Birth Date: Kevin “Coach K” Lee (September 12, 1970 ), Pierre “Pee” Thomas (June 7, 1981) Hometown: Kevin “Coach K” Lee (Indianapolis, IN),  Pierre “Pee” Thomas (Atlanta, GA) Fun Facts:  Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight sparked Coach […]

Rap’s Cinderella Cardi B beat out a tough Best Rap Album crowd to take home the gramophone on Sunday night and in the process, she made a little bit of history too. With her win, Cardi B is the first solo female rapper to ever take home the crown of Best Rap Album. The only other woman […]

Travis Scott may have gone home empty-handed at the 2019 Grammy Awards but he made damn sure to turn that stage out. Performing with Earth, Wind And Fire and James Blake, Scott began singing on the stairs for the back half of “Stop Trying To Be God” from Astroworld before setting up his own version of Thunderdome for the Swae Lee […]

Drake had his own moment at the Grammys tonight. After he and producer Cardo took home the award for Best Rap Song, Drizzy decided to let the audience inside the Staples Center know that it wasn’t all about the award, especially if you’re an artist. He definitely didn’t expect to win the award for Best Rap […]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtuR7w1oFNN/ What in the world is what most people were thinking when they saw Cardi B hit the red carpet at the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards.  But to all of the fashion enthusiast around the world, we grasped our pearls and praised Cardi for stunting on everyone once again Get Breaking News & Exclusive Contest […]

Well, the first unexpected beef of 2019 has arrived in the form of Chris Brown vs. Offset. Why you ask? Well, it first started over those 21 Savage memes that began surfacing on Sunday after the “a lot” rapper was arrested by ICE and the enforcement agency revealed that he was British. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtcRdl1BILl/?utm_source=ig_embed Offset commented […]

Ariana Grande is speaking out after Grammys producer Ken Ehrlic said the she wasn’t performing because she “felt it was too late for her to pull something together.” Grande made her feeling known on Twitter, calling Ehrlich out by name and making it cleared she could have performed if her “creativity and self expression” hadn’t been stifled. […]

Today for Black History Month 2019, we are highlighting the mogul Sean Combs. Birth Date: November 4, 1969 Hometown: New York City, New York Fun Facts:  Sean goes by many names such as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and simply Diddy Sean is an entrepreneur, producer, and artist that started Bad Boy Entertainment in 1993 Sean is also known […]