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- Want to Give to Charity Every Time Beyoncé Posts on Instagram? There's an App for That - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Work, work, work: Beyoncé's labour of liberation - The Guardian
- Who has the most Instagram followers in the world? - Metro.co.uk
- Jay Z Scholarship Fund: $40K Watches for Celebrities, Billion Dollar Purse for Beyonce, Dismal Ratings from Charity Overseer - Showbiz411
- Blue Ivy Carter, seven, wins first Soul Train award for work on song with mom Beyonce and dad Jay-Z - Daily Mail
- Beyonce Shows Off Stunning Sequined Gown Ahead of Shawn Carter Foundation Gala - Billboard
- Blue Ivy Carter Wins Songwriter Award At Soul Train Music Awards - Hip-Hop Wired
| Posted: 19 Nov 2019 07:45 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]Want to Give to Charity Every Time Beyoncé Posts on Instagram? There's an App for That The Chronicle of Philanthropy  |
| Work, work, work: Beyoncé's labour of liberation - The Guardian Posted: 19 Nov 2019 02:01 AM PST By now, it's a cliche. "You have as many hours in a day as Beyoncé," the saying goes. You can find its words slapped on mugs, T-shirts and Instagram quotes or murmured into the bathroom mirror as a bleary-eyed morning affirmation. The backlash (largely led by white women) to this tongue-in-cheek attempt at self-motivation has already pointed out its blind spots around class. Of course, you, regular human with looming mounds of debt and bills, can't "maximise" your time like a pop star with entire creative and personal teams to eliminate her drudgery. That's obvious. But the sentiment – that Beyoncé would, at one point, have been a nobody just like you, with as much time to work with – still holds true. Like her or not, she leveraged a childhood work ethic into a career that spreads beyond her role as a performer. Yes, Beyoncé is a singer. Yes, she often co-writes. In addition, she is also an all-round entertainment mogul, directing documentaries and music visuals, executive-producing film soundtracks and commanding a wider, ephemeral level of cultural influence – not to mention moving into fashion. She isn't alone. Over the past decade, black labour in music has produced a new understanding of musicians as "curators" – a word that neatly describes the ways black artistry has evolved with the times. As music has become more visual and omnipresent, weaving itself into ads, apps and other art forms, the most impactful acts of the 2010s have found ways to integrate those outlets into their own output: they've become industries unto themselves. Music may be their anchor, but for everyone from Rihanna to Janelle Monáe to Kanye West, it's just one part of their contribution to culture. Working within the framework of an exploitative industry, these black musicians have created a space that allows for at least a semblance of autonomy.  In January 2010, Beyoncé announced a hiatus. She retired her Sasha Fierce alter ego and didn't release new recorded material until the following year. (For Beyoncé, a "hiatus" only lasts 18 months.) It marked the first time she had put an explicit homage to soul, classic R&B and more ambitious arrangements ahead of profit. She'd never sounded blacker. She also retired her father, Matthew Knowles, as her manager and took on that responsibility herself, via her company Parkwood Entertainment. "When I decided to manage myself, it was important that I didn't go to some big management company," she said in 2013. "I felt like I wanted to follow the footsteps of Madonna, and be a powerhouse and have my own empire and show other women when you get to this point in your career, you don't have to go sign with someone else and share your money and your success – you do it yourself." You can almost follow a direct line from this moment to her current work, which is increasingly pro-black, self-examining and intimate. Her quest for self-affirmation played out publicly when she came forward in 2015 as one of the artist-owners of streaming service Tidal, along with husband Jay-Z and just about every A-list musician around at the time. With more economic freedom came the ability to do as she pleases: that much was obvious from her heavily autobiographical self-titled album, surprise-released in 2013, then Lemonade in 2016. This transition reverberates in the work of peers who've followed in her wake. On opposite sides of the pond, London rapper Little Simz and Afro-futuristic artist Janelle Monáe embody the importance of owning the means of production. Simz self-released her first mixtape in 2010, aged 16, on label Age 101 – a place for her and the rest of her Space Age rap collective to share their work. By 2013, Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar had taken notice. Since then, Simz has branched off into comics, curated a genre-hopping festival Welcome to Wonderland: The Experience and returned to acting (see her now in the Netflix revival of Top Boy). She's navigated the industry as both an eternal outsider and one of Britain's most talented rappers, which seemed to frustrate her at first. The business caught up eventually – a Mercury shortlisting here, some Radio 1 airplay there – though these days she appears less bothered about external validation, perhaps having realised that the industry needs her more than vice versa.  Monáe, meanwhile, co-founded the Wondaland Arts Society – which is a film and TV production company, a record label and an organising core for activism – in Atlanta. When she moved there from Kansas City in 2001, her art-pop sound and left-field approach soon piqued the interest of Outkast's Big Boi. He introduced her to fellow polymath Sean Combs, who signed her in 2006. As a producer, social justice activist and actor (Moonlight, Hidden Figures) she chooses to uplift black people while acknowledging our complexities. Her 2018 album Dirty Computer confronted questions of gender, sensuality and desire; she can model in a Cover Girl campaign, lead a Black Lives Matter march and be CEO of a record label – all roles that show dark-skinned black women they're more than a worn-out stereotype. Her work functions like a mirror held up to black women, offering them representation in ways that white gatekeepers wouldn't instinctively understand. This decade, I watched black musicians defy other traditional gatekeepers in the hard-to-crack world of fashion. Like Beyoncé, Rihanna entered music as a teen, signing to Def Jam at 17. Now, she's scaled unprecedented levels by becoming the first black woman to head up a luxury fashion brand, with Fenty in partnership with French company LVMH. At the start of the decade, few would have seen her evolution coming. During her Loud era, all shrill EDM production and flame-red hair, she felt easy to dismiss as a pop-machine puppet, singing words written by other people. Now she's a savvy businesswoman, equally at home with music as with philanthropy, acting, design and beauty. Her line Fenty Beauty has shaken the cosmetics industry to its core, forcing a diversity of makeup shades into the market – as her competitors scramble to react – a sign of what will become a norm. Her Savage x Fenty line does the same for lingerie, essentially ringing the death knell for the Victoria's Secret catwalk show by employing a diverse cast of models, as she did at New York fashion week in September. This matters on two levels. Rihanna's success in fashion and beauty moves her away from seeming like a product that belongs to her record label. She becomes a person and force of her own – Fenty, after all, is her real-life surname. And by steering all these seemingly disparate parts into one brand, she is creating a new set of norms for black art. Plenty of her peers have seen how investing in and executing a broader vision can support, rather than distract from, their music. Consider the likes of Tyler, the Creator, Solange, Kanye West, Dev Hynes, Frank Ocean and Donald Glover, and you realise how their multifaceted work shaped some of the most important western pop culture of the decade. Our notions of what counts as "black art" no longer need to be defined by the global north's white mainstream. Since the 80s, black genres from hip-hop and house to R&B have led countercultures. But those genres used to be put into neat boxes – "black culture", to be consumed in specific ways and places, without needing to care about the experiences behind the work. Now, black music soundtracks global teendom. Now, Kanye West can endure being laughed out of fashion circles before turning Yeezy into a billion-dollar company. West brought a certain kind of self-conscious tastefulness to his work as a designer, continuing to kick back against convention just as he had as a middle-class art-school kid during his mid-2000s backpack-rap era. (Hardly the usual "thug life" backstory easier to sell to white consumers.) Glover, meanwhile, can rap (and sing) as Childish Gambino, and also create and executive produce a TV show as lush as Atlanta. Solange can create performance art, with installations for New York's Guggenheim and LA's Hammer Museum and London's Tate Modern. Once you realise you're more than a preconceived notion of a black artist, or of black industry, entire worlds open up.  These musicians' stories are aligned in a quest for true independence. Such a thing can't exist within the parameters of a business designed for profit – historically, recording contracts let labels exploit artists. Yet this type of multifaceted black labour rebukes the idea that you're only worth the figure on your first contract. Frank Ocean's Endless album/livestream, a quick way out of his Def Jam contract before he released Blonde, brought these delicate chess moves to life. One of the most boring critiques of Beyoncé is that she's just a cog in a corporate machine. But the fact that any of these artists turn their talent into products doesn't negate their overall value. Black children are always taught that we have to work twice as hard to gain half as much recognition. These displays of black labour, of a relentless drive to excel in various ways and a refusal to be defined by one skill, push that adage to an extreme. These polymaths show that you can eschew one neat categorisation and do so on your own terms. Black American fans of Beyoncé would have recognised the cultural references others missed in Homecoming, her 2018 Coachella festival performance, an ode to historically black American universities. Later, it was turned into a Netflix special produced by – you guessed it – Parkwood Entertainment. The decade in Beyoncé drew to a close with her executive-producing 2019's pan-African Lion King reboot soundtrack, The Gift, in addition to voicing Nala in the film. The idea of performers "just sticking to the music" is all but dead. In the next decade, it may well become the norm for black artists to explore other creative avenues without being mocked or cut down. As pop music shifts away from English as lingua franca, new global acts could begin to dominate in spaces previously only held by this crop of multitalented public figures. Seen at a glance, they can inadvertently make hard work appear effortless, and as though you're failing if you're not squeezing as much productivity out of every day as Beyoncé. But that misses the point. These artists have poured buckets of themselves into these accomplishments, and have done so while working in an industry still mired in institutional racism, sexism and one that treats duty of care as an afterthought. They made the choice to seek self-determination – sometimes at a high cost. What you do with your 24 hours is up to you.  |
| Who has the most Instagram followers in the world? - Metro.co.uk Posted: 19 Nov 2019 07:05 AM PST  The title of most-followed Instagram account is a coveted one and one that has not fluctuated too much over the years. Instagram was first launched in 2010 and allows users to share and edit both photos and videos. It quickly grew to be one of the most popular social media apps with it now boasting one billion active users. Not too surprisingly, its own profile claims the accolade of the most popular account with some 317 million following the main Instagram account. In second place, with a whopping 190 million followers, is Juventus footballer Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo is followed closely by singer Ariana Grande who has an impressive 167 million followers. The fourth and fifth most-followed accounts are wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne Johnson with 162 million followers, and singer Selena Gomez with 162 million. Selena was once the most-followed person on the social media app, however was first overtaken by Ronaldo last September, and Ariana and The Rock earlier this year. Instagram has shared some 6,124 posts many as part of its various photo-series highlighting the platform's most interesting people. Ronaldo has posted around 2,695 photos, many of those showcasing his career achievements. Advertisement Advertisement He's also shared a glimpse into his personal life with pictures of his partner, children and family. At the time of writing, Grande has uploaded roughly 4,400 snaps, many of which are black and white selfies and behind the scenes shots from concerts. She very often teases new songs and music videos to her Instagram followers. The Rock, who has 4,600 posts, often shares insights into his workouts as well as motivational videos. The wrestler only cemented his spot in the top five this year, having sat in seventh place this time last year, However he's slowly climbed the ranks surpassing Kim Kardashian and Beyonce this year; an impressive feat. While Selena doesn't post as frequently, with 1,549 pictures in total, she often shares candid photos with family and friends, as well as adorable throwbacks from her childhood. Top 30 most-followed Instagram accountsMORE: There's an app which 'lets you stalk people on Instagram' and Facebook isn't happy about it MORE: Instagram is removing likes from more people's accounts and yours could be next Advertisement Advertisement  |
| Posted: 19 Nov 2019 11:08 AM PST  Jay Z and Beyonce really whooped it up this past weekend at a benefit for his Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund. Meek Mill and other stars received VIP Invites that included $40,000 gold watches and bottles of expensive booze. Beyonce, it was reported, sported a "billion dollar" purse. But what is the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund? It's just another bloated celebrity charity that's not doing much good except serving as a phony calling card for its namesake. Charity Navigator gives the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund just two out of four stars. It has a very dismal 77 score out of 100 overall for financial maintenance, accountability and transparency. It's the kind of foundation that pays over $200,000 in salaries but only has $700,000 in assets. Among other things, they offer a $15,000 scholarship to the very posh Riverdale Country Day School in Fieldston, the Bronx. Tuition at the school is $54,000 a year. But it sounds good, doesn't it? In 2017,The Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund reported $750,677 in revenue, and just about the same amount in expenses. That's an improvement on 2016, when revenue less expenses came to MINUS $448,597. And still, with that increased revenue in 2017, grants (scholarships) went down, from $556,117 to $465,290. (And only about half that amount– $200,000– is delineated in their annual Form 990 for the IRS. Salaries were equal to half that amount: $233,125. Net assets at the end of 2017 were just $142,022. But Jay Z is considered "the first billionaire of rap." He could be underwriting whole classes of college students, particularly at all black colleges. Instead, the Shawn Carter Fund gave just 14 scholarships away in 2017, not one more than $32,000, and most averaged $5,000. Howard University received a paltry $11,500. So back to the watches: according to the NY Post, both Meek Mill and Swizz Beatz advertised about getting their gold Rolexes, priced at $40,000. I'm a little surprised by Swizz Beatz, who knows that money could be going to student scholarships. He and Alicia Keys could afford a hundred of those watches. He wrote on Instagram: "Hov is on another level with the invite game…it came with a Daytona Rolex and a bottle of Ace…" Meek Mill wrote: "Hov sent these as vip passes smh this rich s—t getting out of control lol," adding, "I'm not joking lol." But still the two day party went on at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida.  |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2019 05:37 PM PST Given her parentage, it's not surprising she's starting young. On Sunday evening, at the tender age of seven, Blue Ivy Carter won her very first Soul Train award, announced on Sunday evening during the awards show held in Las Vegas. The daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z wracked up the honor for her contribution to her famous mom's hit, Brown Skin Girl.  Glitter girls: Beyonce and her daughter Blue Ivy, dazzled at The Lion King premiere in LA July. Now the seven-year-old has won a Soul Train award for her work on mom's hit Brown Skin Girl The music tribute to women of color is Blue Ivy's first songwriting credit, according to host channel BET. She also sings on the track. The youngster shares the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award with her mom and dad and ten others, according to the Associated Press.  Credit where it's due: The seven-year-old is the first person listed on the cover art for the hit along with Beyonce, Saint Jhn and WizKid  Another honor: Jay-Z accepts the President's Award onstage at the 50th NAACP Image Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 30, in Hollywood The song beat five rivals including Hard Place, written by H.E.R., David Harris, Sam Ashworth & Ruby Amanfu; Juice, by Theron Thomas, Sam Sumser, Sean Small, Eric Frederic and Melissa Jefferson (aka Lizzo);. Other contestants were Make It Better, written by Brandon Anderson, William Smokey Robinson, Alaina Chenevert, Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Daniel Manman and Farid Nassar. No Guidance, by Chris Brown, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Josha Lewis, Michee Lebrun, Nija Charles, Teddy Walton, Noah Shebib & Tyler Bryant; and Talk, by Howard Lawrence, Guy Lawrence & Khalid rounded out the category.  Power couple: Jay-Z looked smart in a white tux while Beyonce was every inch the star in her glittering dark red gown with a hip-high split in this Instagram portrait they shared    Congratulatory tweets: Hundreds rolled in for Blue Ivy's incredible achievement on Sunday Twitter users applauded the youngster for her breakthrough. Keyonce (@heyitzkennedi) tweeted: 'Blue ivy just won her first award at the Soul Train Awards. A 7-year old really doing that,' she ended incredulously. Tap Dancing ni**rbear added: 'Congrats to Beyonce and Blue Ivy for winning a Soul Train Award.' Meanwhile, Beyonce and Jay Z are also parents to two-year-old twins Sir and Rumi. But they enjoyed a child-free day on Monday, on board a luxury yacht in the calm waters off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Beyonce showcased her enviable hour-glass physique in a two-piece for a double date with her mom, Tina Knowles, and her stepdad, Richard Lawson.  Chilled out: Beyonce looked lovely in a burnt orange top and matching skirt while walking alongside her husband at a dock in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday
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| Beyonce Shows Off Stunning Sequined Gown Ahead of Shawn Carter Foundation Gala - Billboard Posted: 16 Nov 2019 03:18 PM PST Beyoncé sparkled in the elegant dress she wore to an event during the weekend of the Shawn Carter Foundation Gala in Hollywood, Fla. The superstar posted a series of photos of herself on Instagram on Saturday (Nov. 16) decked out in a curve-hugging, sequinned gown, which she paired with a just as shiny clutch. Beyoncé wore her hair down in curls, and she accessorized the look with a pair of dangling earrings. The inaugural Shawn Carter Foundation Gala, hosted by Jay-Z and taking place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, is set to feature a performance by Alicia Keys Saturday night. All proceeds generated over the weekend's events will benefit the Shawn Carter Foundation's scholarship fund, college prep workshops and bus tours, study abroad opportunities and community goodwill programs for those in need. See Beyoncé's ensemble below.  |
| Blue Ivy Carter Wins Songwriter Award At Soul Train Music Awards - Hip-Hop Wired Posted: 19 Nov 2019 09:11 AM PST  Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty It looks like Jay-Z and Beyoncé aren't the only award winners in the Carter household. On Sunday (Nov.17) Jay-Z and Beyoncé's 7-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, took home the prestigious Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award at the 2019 Soul Train Awards for her contribution to the melanin love song, "Brown Skin Girl." "Brown Skin Girl" was released in July as part of "The Lion King: The Gift" soundtrack and features Blue Ivy's vocals at the beginning and end of the track, along with Nigerian singer Wizkid and Guyanese artist Saint Jhn. The celebratory hit went viral over the summer after Black women and girls of ever hue uploaded videos of themselves embracing their brown skin-many of which were posted to both Beyoncé and her mom, Tina Knowles-Lawson's Instagram accounts. Of course Blue Ivy didn't win alone; Beyoncé, Jay-Z, St. Jhn and other co-writers shared the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award win with the young singer. Other nominees for the award were Khalid ("Talk"), Anderson. Paak ("Make It Better"), and H.E.R. ("Hard Place"), Lizzo ("Juice") and Chris Brown/Drake ("No Guidance"). Previous recipients of the award include Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Tamar Braxton, Andra Day and Blue Ivy's aunt Solange.  |
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