👑🔥 KINGS & QUEENS! DC was the place to be thisweekend, and WE WERE IN THE BUILDING! From the No Limit x Cash Money takeoverto Teddy Riley's EPIC New Jack Swing birthday celebration, we've got therecaps, the surprises and some TEA you don't want to miss! 👀☕ Plus, majormusic news, TV drama and a whole lot of nostalgia! Let's get it POPPING!

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🔥 NO LIMIT x CASH MONEY TOUR: Nichelle recaps Master P, Birdman and thelegendary crews taking over Capital One Arena!

🎤 TEDDY RILEY'S 60TH BIRTHDAY BASH: JoJo recaps 40 years of New JackSwing at MGM National Harbor! Guy 2.0, BLACKstreet, Raheem DeVaughn, an MJtribute, surprise performances, Teddy's BIG tour announcement + the online Guy2.0 debate!

📻 RAHEEM DeVAUGHN: The Love King moves from WHUR to Majic 102.3/92.7with The Garden of Love!

🎭 MARVIN GAYE MUSICAL: The production celebrating DC's own Marvin Gayeis coming to the Warner Theatre!

🍗 AROUND THE DMV: Bojangles returns to Upper Marlboro, The Sandlotexpands to Downtown Largo + Howard Homecoming festivities!

🏆 WE'RE OFFICIALLY AWARD NOMINATED! JoJo Crews, The Prince of PopCulture Podcast and GreeneHouse Media receive multiple Washington Informer Bestof the DMV nominations! Voting is open daily through November 8!

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😂 DRUSKI'S BIG YEAR: SNL hosting buzz, New Year's Rockin' Eve, TIME100Next + MORE!

🎶 B2K RETURNS: Eclipse, their first studio album in over 20 years, is onthe way!

💎 JANET JACKSON: Is the long-awaited Black Diamond album FINALLYcoming?!

📺 GREATEST BLACK TV THEME SONGS: We're debating the Top 15! Martin,Moesha, Living Single, Good Times, A Different World, The Fresh Prince + MORE!Who deserves No. 1?!

📺 WHAT WE WATCHING!?

🌸 RHOP SEASON 11: Our premiere reactions! Are the ladies bringing it?!

🎤 WILL SMITH & DJ JAZZY JEFF: Their early rise is being developedinto the scripted series 215!

🎬 SET IT OFF SEQUEL TEA: Did Jada Pinkett Smith's decision to pass on asequel stop the entire project?! We're revisiting the story!

⚖️ALL'S FAIR: Season 2 news + Robyn Givens joins the cast!

👀 REAL HOUSEWIVES: Bravo is eyeing new cities! Where should thefranchise go next?!

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👑🔥 KINGS & QUEENS—TIME TO GET IT POPPING! We’re officially in SPOOKY SEASON; our 2nd annual Halloween episode is coming, and we’ve FINALLY locked in our new official show closer! 💣💥 But before we drop that bomb, we’ve got A LOT to get into—from major R&B losses and Chris Brown family drama to physical media making a comeback, the TRL reunion, A Different World getting renewed, and a Ponderosa conversation that gets DEEP!

📍 DOWN IN THE DMV🏆THANK YOU to everyone who rallied behind us for the Washington Informer’s Best of DMV nominations! We had just hours to campaign, and y’all SHOWED UP!🎺Missy Elliott is bringing her inaugural HBCU Band Battle to Norfolk State as part of Missy Elliott Day weekend!🔥PLUS: The No Limit x Cash Money Tour hits Capital One Arena + Teddy Riley brings his New Jack Swing Birthday Bash featuring Guy 2.0 to MGM!

☕CUP O’ JO🕊️We send love to Trina Braxton following the death of her husband, VonScales, at 58. Toni, Towanda, Tamar, Tamika Scott + more have shared tributes.🕊️We also remember R&B legend Freddie Jackson, who passed just hours after celebrating his 70th birthday.👀Chris Brown baby mama drama! Diamond Brown makes serious allegations about their co-parenting relationship, Chris and his team push back, and the mothers of his other children publicly come to his defense.💿CDs are making a COMEBACK! Sales are up, Gen Z is collecting, and physical media is having a full-circle moment. Are we tired of renting our music and movies from streaming services?!🎶NEW MUSIC! We review Tank’s Experience, Victoria Monét’s Frequency of Love + Quavo’s QRÖMELIFE with Pharrell.📺TRL IS BACK?! The reunion officially taped from the iconic Times Square studio with Carson Daly, Nick & Vanessa Lachey, Mýa, *NSYNC, MichelleWilliams, Ashanti, Nelly, JoJo, Christina Milian + MORE!

📺 WHAT WE WATCHING!?🎓A DIFFERENT WORLD RENEWED! Netflix officially orders Season 2 after this sequel series’ strong debut—and Lisa Bonet’s rare public appearance has fans wondering if Denise Huxtable could eventually make her way back to Hillman! 👀💈Barbershop is becoming a TV series on Prime Video—but Ice Cube makes it VERY clear he has ZERO involvement. Are we here for it?🚘Fast & Furious is expanding to television with a new live-actionPeacock series executive produced by Vin Diesel.🌸RHOP IS BACK! Season 11 premieres this weekend with Karen, Gizelle, Ashley, Wendy, Stacey, and Tia, plus Monique and Robyn returning as friends!

🗣️ THE PONDEROSA: DA’VINCHI BACKLASHBMF star Da’Vinchi has lost more than 200K followers followingcontroversial comments touching on Black Americans, foreign-born Blackcommunities, interracial dating, American culture and the lasting impact ofslavery.

We unpack the backlash AND the bigger conversation: Where does some of the tension between Black Americans and African, Caribbean and other Black immigrant communities come from? How do history, culture, dating and stereotypes factor into it? And where is the line between challenging your community and disrespecting it?

This one is DEFINITELY going to have the comments talking! 👀🔥

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S2E28:Brandy & Usher’s R&B Reunion Weekend, Remy Ma DRAGS Papoose, Ray J SaysChris Brown > Usher, VMAs Recap, TRL Returns! + A Different World Hits #1 toRave Reviews & Jasmine Guy Responds to Ageism & More!

👑🔥 KINGS & QUEENS—TIME TO GET IT POPPING! We’re back foranother Friday Jr. Happy Hour, fresh off another BIG week! From celebratingBlack culture at NMAAHC’s 10th anniversary festivities and another FOX 5 visitto an R&B reunion weekend, Remy Ma’s new music, A Different Worldtaking over Netflix and a Ponderosa conversation we NEED to have—we’ve got ALOT to dish on!

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💜 We recap the National Museumof African American History & Culture’s 10th anniversary weekend,including Violet Vibes at The Anthem with Sway, Heather B, Rapsody, Noochie’sFront Porch, Ari Lennox, Sugar Bear, Ms. Kim + more!
🎬 The night also featured anincredible Waiting to Exhale 30th Anniversary tribute with TamarBraxton, Deborah Cox, Melanie Fiona, Alex Vaughn, The Amours + more before TheRoots closed it out!
📺 PLUS: Another trip to FOX 5DC, where the building was PACKED with talent including Rapsody, ToneStith, Yasmine Elhady + more! Pasted text

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🔥 Brandy + Usher reunite TWICEin one weekend! Kehlani brings them both out in L.A., then Brandy pops upagain during the Usher x Chris Brown Tour—with Kanye West joining thesurprises!
👀 Ray J says Chris Brown is“50x better” than Usher while also opening up about his serious healthissues—and Brandy shows her little brother some love.
💔 Remy Ma drops her firstproject in nine years, Alimony, and those Papoose jabs are NOTsubtle! We get into the music, visuals, their back-and-forth and where theirdivorce stands.
🕊️ We remember beloved DMV radioand television legend Angela Stribling, who passed away at 58 afterprivately battling brain cancer.
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📺 WHAT WE WATCHING!?
🏆 We get into the 2026 MTVVMAs and some of the biggest moments from the night.
👹 Gremlins 3 is officiallyhappening!
👑 Casting is underway for theupcoming Queen Latifah biopic.
🎓 And A Different Worldhas taken over Netflix! The continuation hit No. 1, the response hasbeen overwhelmingly positive, and Cornell Young IV is emerging as abreakout star—with another Netflix opportunity already lined up. We also getinto Maleah Joi Moon’s growing résumé and all that chemistry fans are talkingabout! 👀 Pasted text

🗣️ THE PONDEROSA: WHY ARE WE SO OBSESSED WITH WOMEN AGING?
After Jasmine Guy addressed criticism about her appearance in ADifferent World, we’re talking AGEISM and the impossible expectationsplaced on women to somehow look the same forever.

Have filters,fillers, Botox, surgery and celebrity culture completely distorted our idea ofwhat natural aging looks like? And why are men often celebrated for gettingolder while women are picked apart for doing the exact same thing?

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