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Everybody needs a pair of denim chaps, just ask Beyoncé.

The next drop of the singer’s popular Adidas x Ivy Park collection will celebrate the often overlooked history of Black cowboys and cowgirls and their continued influence and impact on American rodeo.

Called Ivy Park Rodeo, the collection is extensive — 58 women’s and unisex apparel pieces, five shoes and 13 accessories — all designed as reimagined and modernized takes on classic Western wear, and features Houston rappers Tobe Nwigwe and Monaleo, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, and actor and real-life cowboy Glynn Turman in the glossy campaign.

The Ivy Park Rodeo collection is heavily rooted in denim and will offer up dark washes with distinct monograms and purple glow cow prints accented with utilitarian-inspired zips and snap fasteners. There will be a denim body suit, a wide-leg snap pant, tracksuit, bucket hat and, yes, chaps.

Fabrics will include 100 percent 16.5-ounce blue twill denim, 99 percent cotton/1 percent elastane 10.8-ounce denim and 100 percent cotton 13 –ounce cow-print cotton twill denim.

Fresh off of a swimsuit collection, Adidas and Ivy Park have revealed a new capsule themed on denim. The effort was introduced with a campaign featuring Emmy-Award wining actor Glynn Turman, who is also an accomplished horseman who has successfully competed in multiple rodeos.

While there aren’t a lot of details on what’s in the upcoming drop, the visual shows Turman and a female model wearing a denim jacket and jeans detailed with Adidas’ trademark three white stripes on he arm and leg plus a logo-covered denim shirt. Preview images also show a denim bucket cap, among others.

Check out the campaign below.

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Beyoncé‘s IVY PARK has once again teamed up with adidas on a new sneaker. Following last year’s Supersleek 72, the duo has decided to supersize the silhouette.

Officially dubbed the Super Super Sleek, the footwear style arrives in white and beige iterations. Both pairs feature a base crafted from leather and twill material, while the tongues come in a larger dimension. Elsewhere, the sole unit boasts an exaggerated, chunky design made of translucent rubber. Rounding out the pairs is the IVY PARK key tag, which can be attached to any part of the shoe.

Take a closer look at IVY PARK x adidas’s Super Super Sleek below. The collaborative silhouette will release on August 20 for $140 USD via the adidas website.

The new adidas x IVY PARK "FLEX PARK" collection is out now on adidas.com!

Producer KDDO revealed that he recently recorded a song with Beyonce that hasn't been released yet!

The 21st annual BET awards returned Sunday night, hosted from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, where a live audience attended for the first time since the pandemic began. Beyonce was nominated in two categories and took home one award for her collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion.

Viewer's Choice Award
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion – Wap
Chris Brown & Young Thug – Go Crazy
DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch – Rockstar
DJ Khaled ft. Drake – Popstar
Drake ft. Lil Durk – Laugh Now Cry Later
Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage (Remix) (WINNER)
Silk Sonic – Leave The Door Open

The 2021 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards brought together the urban music community on ASCAP’s socials for a virtual celebration on June 22. Beyonce won with one song:

Winning R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap Song
"Playing Games"
Writers: Aubrey “Boobie” Robinson, Beyoncé, CAM GRIFFIN*, Kelly Rowland, LaShawn “Big Shiz” Daniels, LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett, Roark Bailey, Summer Walker
Publishers: Beyoncé Publishing, CAMERON GRIFFIN, Kelendria Music Publishing, LVRN PUBLISHING, Sony Music Publishing, SUNDAEMORNINGLLC, Warner Chappell Music

The Beyhive now has something to wear to the beach.

The uber-popular Ivy Park collection, created by Beyoncé in 2016 and a partnership with Adidas since 2020, is dropping a Flex Park swimwear capsule next month that is designed to celebrate “the empowered spirit of confident self-expression and individuality — positively and boldly.”

And even though Beyoncé hasn’t donned a bikini to market this particular collection, the brand has lined up other high-powered faces to front the campaign: beauty entrepreneur and fashion influencer Kristen Noel Crawley along with actor Quincy Brown and body-positive influencer Tabria Majors. Beyoncé did tease the collection with a short video on the Ivy Park Instagram account Thursday, which began with waves crashing and the tag line, “How Do You Flex?” The previous day, Ivy Park’s Instagram posted a photo of a set of weights under fluorescent lighting in an ’80s-inspired room with wood-paneled walls and tan carpeting that featured the same tag line, “How Do You Flex?”

Flex Park, which marks the first foray into swimwear for the Adidas x Ivy Park collaboration, will boast a bright neon color palette — solar orange and screaming orange — with contrasting white stripes and accents, including the Ivy Park monogram. Key items include one- and two-piece bathing suits and beach-ready cover-ups for women as well as a men’s matching shirt and shirt set, a slide, a unisex bucket hat and tote bag. Other accessories include a towel and water bottle.

HOW DO YOU FLEX?
JULY 22 adidas.com
JULY 23 select stores globally

#adidasxIVYPARK coming soon.
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The Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame—a new endeavor started by the Georgia Entertainment Caucus and the Black American Music Association—inducted its first honorees with plaques displayed outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Beyoncé, OutKast, Missy Elliott, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Sean Combs, Usher, Shirley Caesar, and Kirk Franklin are members of the inaugural class.

A few artists were on hand at yesterday’s ceremony at the stadium. Beyoncé’s induction was accepted by Michael Mauldin, former president of Columbia Records.

With almost no tours having been undertaken in the past year, the Pollstar Awards pivoted in two different directions for the 31st annual edition of the show held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel ballroom. One shift in focus was to deliver awards to the top touring artists of the last decade, instead of the year, in different genres. Another was to give out possibly one-time-only awards that were specific to 2020-21, but focus on artists and execs who were innovators, either in finding different ways to perform live or who made a difference philanthropically.

Beyonce won as the top touring artist of the decade. Rob Light, CAA’s head of music, accepted on her behalf and read a statement from the singer in which she wrote, “2020 has taught all of us that the touring community needs to be cherished and is the backbone of our industry.” Beyond thanking a list of cohorts that included Jay-Z, “my ride-or-die,” she gave a shout-out to her ticket-buying fans: “You sing all the choruses, you go hard on the choreo, and I see you every night.”

The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards celebrated the biggest and best in music over the last year across genres on Friday.

Out of two nominations, Megan Thee Stallion's "Savage" (Remix) featuring Beyoncé won in one category:

Best Collaboration:
"Go Crazy" - Chris Brown & Young Thug
"Holy" - Justin Bieber featuring Chance the Rapper
"I Hope" - Gabby Barrett featuring Charlie Puth
"Mood" - 24kGoldn featuring iann dior
"Savage" (Remix) - Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé - WINNER

Congratulations!

The 21st BET Awards 2021 nominees list was unveiled this week, with two nominations for Beyonce:

Best Female R&B / Pop Artist
Beyoncé
H.E.R.
Jazmine Sullivan
Jhené Aiko
Summer Walker
SZA

Viewer's Choice Award
Cardi B ft. Megan Thee Stallion – Wap
Chris Brown & Young Thug – Go Crazy
DaBaby ft. Roddy Ricch – Rockstar
DJ Khaled ft. Drake – Popstar
Drake ft. Lil Durk – Laugh Now Cry Later
Lil Baby – The Bigger Picture
Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé – Savage (Remix)
Silk Sonic – Leave The Door Open

Voting for the Viewer’s Choice Award begins on June 7. The BET Awards 2021 will air live on Sunday, June 27 on BET at 8 PM ET/ PT.

If anyone is going to have a firm grasp on Beyoncé's next creative offering, it's going to be her mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson.

During her appearance Sunday at the Billboard Music Awards, where she presented Trae the Truth with the Change Maker Award, Knowles-Lawson revealed in a backstage interview that daughters Beyoncé and Solange both have new projects up their sleeves.

"My daughter is busy working on something exciting as usual," said Knowles-Lawson in the interview. "Both of my daughters are—all three of my daughters."

Knowles-Lawson also expressed how grateful she was for the extra time spent with her grandchildren—including Blue Ivy, Sir, and Rumi Carter—during quarantine.

"I've been able to spend so much time with my grandchildren," said Knowles-Lawson. "I'm so spoiled because I see them almost every day. That's been a great thing about this."

We're so glad to share with you this inaugural quarterly newsletter. There's so much taking place in the world right now, it is important that good news becomes part of the narrative. We are living through a pandemic that has taken so many of our loved ones, drawing us to a communal grief. We came together and spoke out against injustices, facing the truth to change systemic racism. We are innovative and powerful, celebrating music, art and creativity. Through it all we are working on changing the world and making it better – and THAT's GOOD NEWS!

In 2013 the Philanthropic arm of Parkwood Entertainment was launched to inspire people everywhere to be kind, to be generous and to be GOOD. It seemed simple then – which was our intent to make BEING GOOD easy, as such something everyone could do. So, we set out on the Mrs. Carter World Tour with an idea, a few #BeyGOOD branded t-shirts and the single hope to make real lasting impact. To our surprise and delight, the simple message quickly became a global movement. And eight years later, we've met some of the bravest souls, kind hearts and absolutely brilliant minds, with some of the most fascinating stories, far too inspiring NOT to share.

We've curated this space for you to journey with us to the many places visited and for you to meet some of the faces of change, hope, inspiration and social impact. From St. Damien's Pediatric Hospital in Haiti to the Global Citizen stage in Hamburg, Germany and Johannesburg, South Africa, Hurricane Harvey survivors in Houston, Texas to young warriors battling physical illnesses and defying the odds. BeyGOOD was present at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, then on to Brazil, Australia, London and showing support for 900 plus small businesses here in the US, along with mental health support, both as a response to the deficiencies caused by the pandemic.

MTV announced the nominations for the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Friday, with "Brown Skin Girl" up for one award:

Best Musical Moment (Presented by Sonic Drive In)
Black Is King, “Brown Skin Girl”
The Kissing Booth 2, "Lost in the Wild" (Elle & Marco's Dance Competition Performance)
Love & Monsters, "Stand by Me" (Mav1s & Joel watch the Sky Jellies)
To All The Boys: Always and Forever, "Beginning Middle End" (Peter & Lara Jean's Song)
Bridgerton, "Wildest Dreams" (Daphne & Simon's Honeymoon Phase)
Cobra Kai, "I Wanna Rock" (Miguel & Johnny at a Dee Snider Concert)
Julie and the Phantoms, "Edge of Great"
WandaVision, "Agatha All Along”

Fan voting for best musical moment will open May 11 on MTV’s Instagram Stories and close May 14. The award will be presented live from the Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday, May 16, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Today, the Black American Music Association (BAMA) and Georgia Entertainment Caucus (GEC) announced the names of the twelve inaugural inductees for the new Atlanta landmark, The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.

Amongst the honorees are Beyoncé (Mainstream Female), Usher (Mainstream Male), Missy Elliot (Hip Hop Female), Outkast (Hip Hop Male), Michael Jackson (Legacy Artists), Sean Love Combs (Mainstream Mogul), Shirley Caesar (Gospel Female), and Kirk Franklin (Gospel Male).

The Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame was announced back in February along with its chosen foundational inductees, Quincy Jones, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding, and was designed “to honor iconic individuals and organizations that have impacted Black culture and community alongside those who continue to lead us into the future,” in time for Black Music Month in June.

It’s being installed in the historic downtown Atlanta area on the sidewalks of Martin Luther King Jr. and Northside and will be unveiled at a formal induction ceremony on June 17.

“Our first round of inductees includes many of my colleagues, and I am excited to celebrate their vast contributions to the preservation of Black Music and Entertainment,” stated one of GEC’s founders, Catherine Brewton. “The BMEWOF crown jewel of excellence emblems— designed by renowned artist D.L. Warfield and created in collaboration with sculptor and historian Ed Dwight—will be housed in front of the Mercedes Benz Dome, one of Atlanta’s most historic landmarks.”

ASCAP rolled out the virtual red carpet at the 2021 ASCAP Pop Music Awards, honoring the songwriters, producers and publishers of the biggest hits of 2020. Beyonce won with two songs:

Winning Songwriters & Publishers

"Savage (Remix)"
Writers: Beyoncé, Brittany "Starrah" Hazzard, Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter
Publishers: Carter Boys Music, Concord Music Publishing, Oakland 13 Music, People Over Planes, Sony Music Publishing, These Are Songs of Pulse, Warner Chappell Music

"Playing Games"
Writers: Aubrey “Boobie” Robinson, Beyoncé, CAM GRIFFIN*, Kelly Rowland, LaShawn “Big Shiz” Daniels, LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett, Roark Bailey, Summer Walker
Publishers: Beyoncé Publishing, CAMERON GRIFFIN, Kelendria Music Publishing, LVRN PUBLISHING, Sony Music Publishing, SUNDAEMORNINGLLC, Warner Chappell Music