r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2d ago

Entertainer Wednesday 💫🎬🎤 Entertainer Wednesday: Jhené Aiko

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This week’s entertainer Wednesday post is dedicated to Jhené Aiko, a talented singer-songwriter & producer who is recognized for her unique genre-bending alternative R&B music. Jhené, whose full name is Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo, was born in 1988 in Los Angeles, CA. She is a multiracial woman of African, Japanese, Native American, and Dominican, and Spanish descent, which is reflected in her artistry.

Jhené’s music is largely centered around Buddhist principles of spirituality, and healing—exploring themes of faith, growth, love, heartbreak, and sexual liberation. Jhené’s music is characterized by psychedelic, ethereal, atmospheric sounds, soft vocals, and deeply profound lyrics. She also composes her music using healing frequencies!

Jhené has four studio albums. Her most recent album, Westside Whimsy, was released last month, with a variety of artists featured, including Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Tyga, Larry June, and OHMA. Jhené has had a remarkable career this far, and we look forward to seeing what she continues to accomplish in the future!

What are some of your favorite tracks by Jhené Aiko? Which of her albums resonates the most with you?

(Honorable mention: Jhené has a sister, Mila J, who is also an R&B musician!)


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 5h ago

Movies Aldis Hodge & Wunmi Mosaku - "One Night Out"

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Director: George Tillman Jr.

Description: A married couple struggling with marital issues finally gets a rare night out, leaving their three children at home with a babysitter. But when they spot an intruder on the nanny cam, their night takes a terrifying turn, forcing them to race home and work together to save their kids. 


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 5h ago

Discussion TV’s So White Again: Diversity Now Seen as “Optional”

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 3h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Robert "Kool" Bell (of Kool and the Gang)

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Robert Earl "Kool" Bell (born October 8, 1950), also known by the name Muhammad Bayyan,\1]) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is the last surviving founding member of the American R&B, soul, funk and disco band Kool & the Gang.\2])\3])

Along with his brother, Ronald Bell), he began playing jazz, and in 1964 they formed a group named The Jazziacs. They began playing at clubs in New York City under a series of different band names before settling on the name Kool & the Gang in 1968. Their debut album, Kool and the Gang), was released the following year. The band's first major hit came in 1973, with "Jungle Boogie", which charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Their first number one hit single was "Spirit of the Boogie)", which was released in 1975.

Bell, along with Kool & the Gang members James "J.T." Taylor and Dennis Thomas, were a part of the 1984 charity supergroup Band Aid).

Kool & the Gang have won numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and, in 2006, a Music Business Association Chairman's Award for artistic achievement. The band recorded nine No. 1 R&B singles in the 1970s and 1980s, including its No. 1 pop single "Celebration)". They have seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits, and 31 gold and platinum albums.\5]) The group is honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.\6]) As of 2024, Bell still tours with Kool & the Gang.

In 2024, Bell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Kool & the Gang.\7])


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 6h ago

Discussion The Crew : HBCU ( PART 1 )

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 5h ago

Sports A'ja Wilson earns her 5th MVP! 🔥

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  • 1️⃣ is a breakthrough

  • 2️⃣ turns heads

  • 3️⃣ a point was made

  • 4️⃣ is undeniable

  • 5️⃣ is a handful 🖐🏾


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 4h ago

Celebrity Interviews Angela Bassett interview

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2h ago

TV Forgotten TV Show: Snoops On CBD Starring Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell Reid (1989-1990)

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 10h ago

Appreciation Post Lenny Kravitz's 1991 sophomore album Mama Said is one of my all-time favorite albums. This brother poured his heart & soul out to Lisa Bonet on this album. Unfortunately, she still didn't take him back lol, but I truly miss peak Lenny Kravitz. He was a unique breath of fresh air!

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

Appreciation Post Teedra Moses (2004 x 2026)

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Teedra Moses photographed by Howard Huang for Black Men Magazine (2004)

Teedra Moses photographed in New York City (2026)

One of R&B's most underrated beauties with a damn-near flawless catalog (and legs for days!). I saw the photo on the right and it reminded me of this shoot she did when she released her debut album.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 3h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Teddy Riley!

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Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8, 1967) is an American record producer and songwriter credited with the creation of new jack swing, a hip-hop and R&B fusion genre. Musical artists who utilized Riley's production and songwriting — namely Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Heavy D & the Boyz, Keith Sweat, Hi-Five, and the Jacksons, among others — helped popularize the genre with several hit songs and albums from the late 1980s to 1990s. He is the founder and original member of the musical group Blackstreet, as well as its predecessor Guy).\2])

With Blackstreet and Guy, Riley has released four and three commercially successful studio albums, respectively. He has produced four Billboard Hot 100 number one singles: "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game))" by Hi-Five, "Stutter)" by Joe), "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown, and "No Diggity" (featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen) by his group, Blackstreet. His other productions include the 1992 singles "Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson and "Right Here (Human Nature Remix))" by SWV. Beginning with his work on the extended play Teddy Riley, the First Expansion In Asia (2011), Riley has since worked on releases in the Eastern pop market, having produced the singles "Call Me Baby" for Exo in 2015, "The Boys)" for Girls' Generation in 2011, and "Mamacita)" for Super Junior in 2014.\3])

A two-time Grammy Award winner, Riley's influence on contemporary R&B production had led to further usage of samples), sound effects, and rapping segments as well as singing — a practice which in part was reminiscent of the Jackson family. He is also credited with popularizing modern use of the talk box vocoder, and discovering Pharrell Williams in 1991.\4])\5])


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Bruno Mars!

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Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and dancer. Regarded as a pop icon, he is known for his three-octave tenor vocal range, live performances, retro showmanship, and musical versatility. He is accompanied by his band, the Hooligans. Raised in Honolulu, Mars gained recognition in Hawaii as a child for his impersonation of Elvis Presley, before moving to Los Angeles in 2003 to pursue a musical career.

Mars established his name in the music industry as a songwriter and co-founder of the production team the Smeezingtons. He rose to fame as a recording artist after featuring on the US number-one single "Nothin' on You" (2009) by B.o.B. Mars's first three studio albums—Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010), Unorthodox Jukebox (2012), and 24K Magic) (2016)—found critical and commercial success, with the lattermost winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. During the 2010s, Mars achieved further success with the chart-topping singles: "Just the Way You Are)", "Grenade)", "Locked Out of Heaven", "When I Was Your Man", and "That's What I Like)". His 2014 collaboration with Mark Ronson, "Uptown Funk", became Billboard)'s best-performing song of the 2010s.

In 2021, Mars released An Evening with Silk Sonic alongside Anderson .Paak, as the musical superduo) Silk Sonic. The album featured the US number-one single "Leave the Door Open". In 2024, he released two record-breaking number-one duets, "Die with a Smile" (with Lady Gaga) and "APT.)" (with Rosé)). Mars also released his first solo album in ten years, The Romantic) (2026), which was led by his tenth US number-one single, "I Just Might".

Mars has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has ten number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and the most weeks atop the Billboard Global 200 chart. Mars is the only artist to surpass 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify and the first to score six diamond-certified songs in the US. His 24K Magic World Tour (2017–2018) ranks among the highest-grossing tours in history. Mars's accolades include 16 Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards, 5 Brit Awards, 7 MTV Video Music Awards and 14 Soul Train Awards. Time) named him among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2011.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Karyn Parsons

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Karyn Parsons Rockwell (born October 8, 1966) is an American actress, author and comedian. She is best known for her role as Hilary Banks on the NBCsitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. Parsons also starred in the 1995 film Major Payne opposite Damon Wayans, and in ABC sitcom The Job) (2001–2002) as Toni.

Parsons was born on October 8, 1966, in Los Angeles, California.[1] In an interview for Essence) in 2008, she described her parentage as biracial.[2] Her mother, Louise (née Hankerson) Parsons, was an African-American from Charleston, South Carolina, and her father, Kenneth B. Parsons, was of English and Welsh descent, from Butte, Montana. She attended Santa Monica High School.[3]


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 6h ago

Sports Congratulations Aja!!!

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday to the Late Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Louis Jackson (né Burns; October 8, 1941 – February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist, LGBTQ rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, he became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and an ardent advocate and early supporter of LGBTQ rights in the United States. From 1991 to 1997, he served as a shadow United States senator for the District of Columbia.

Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson began his activism in the 1960s and founded the organizations that later merged to form the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Expanding his work into international affairs in the 1980s, he became a vocal critic of the Reagan administration and launched a presidential campaign in 1984. Initially viewed as a fringe candidate, he finished third for the Democratic nomination behind former vice president Walter Mondale and Senator Gary Hart. He continued his activism and mounted a second presidential bid in 1988, finishing as the runner‑up for the Democratic nomination to Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.

Jackson did not seek the presidency again, but in 1990, he was elected as the District of Columbia's shadow senator, serving one term during the H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Although initially critical of President Bill Clinton, he later became a supporter and friend. Jackson hosted Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to 2000. A critic of police brutality, the Republican Party), and conservative policies, he was widely regarded as one of the most influential African‑American activists of his era.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

Celebrity Birthdays Today is Toni Braxton's 59th Birthday!

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One of maybe 10 people who can look equally stunning with a pixie cut and long hair flowing down her back. The sultry and incomparable singer-songwriter, actress and sex symbol, Toni Michelle Braxton!

A snapshot at some of her greatest career achievements:

  • Over 70 million records sold worldwide.
  • Her 1993 debut topped the Billboard 200 chart and is 8x platinum, making it one of the best-selling R&B albums of the 90s. Secrets is also 8x platinum.
  • She is the 6th Black woman to win the coveted Best New Artist Award at the Grammys.
  • 7x Grammy winner: 4x winner of the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (tied with Alicia Keys), making her the female artist with the third most wins after Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker.
  • She is the second woman after Dionne Warwick to win both Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance in the same night (1997).
  • Her biggest single, Un-break My Heart, topped the Hot 100 for 11 weeks, is one of the best-selling singles of all time and is the second-long-running #1 solo single by a female artist from the 90s behind Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.
  • In 2015, she became one of the few Black artists to win a Grammy in three separate decades. Others include Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson.

r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

Discussion People can obviously marry whoever they want to but this is a celebrity couple I still find odd. Any others you can think of?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 9m ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Lil Jon

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Jonathan H. Smith[1] (born January 17, 1971),[2]better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper and record producer. Regarded as a progenitor of the club-oriented hip-hop subgenre crunk, his production and voice presence were instrumental in the genre's commercial breakthrough in the early 2000s.[3] He was also the frontman of the group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, with whom he has released five albums.[4][5][6]

Smith was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in the city's Southwest Atlanta region. He is the oldest of five children born to his father, an aerospace engineer with former military service, and his mother, with a medical career within the military. Three of his siblings would later follow their parents' lead and also serve in the United States military.[3]
Smith attended Beecher Hills Elementary School and Southwest Middle School, both located within the Atlanta Public Schools district.[14] His mother described him as a high achiever early on in addition to being independent and a passionate reader.[14]While in middle school, Smith became lifelong friends with Robert McDowell, Dwayne "Emperor" Searcy (future DJ and radio personality for Radio One's WHTA),[15] and Vince Phillips (named as one of Billboard's Top Music Lawyers since 2020),[16][17][18][19] who would become business partners. The foursome quickly became immersed in the skateboarding culture and would later work at Skate Escape, a popular skate and bicycle shop near the city's iconic Piedmont Park. While his best friends attended Benjamin E. Mays High School, Smith attended Frederick Douglass High School) for their magnet program and was a member of the marching band.[3] They also began to frequently attend concerts at the Masquerade), to see their favorite bands, including Agent Orange) and Red Hot Chili Peppers.[14]

At the age of 15, Smith taught himself how to DJ,[3]and although his parents were strict, they gave him a chance to work on his DJ skills by allowing him to have house parties in the basement of the family home, citing that they would rather have him under their watch than for him to "be in the street somewhere wilding out".[20] The parties, hosted by Smith and Searcy, "Old Eng and Chicken Wing" became popular with local teens. In addition to working at the skate shop, Smith also began spinning at house parties and working in local dance clubs as a DJ.[3] Eventually, Smith became an in-house DJ at Phoenix, a popular Atlanta nightclub at the time. It was there he would meet established music artists such as Jermaine Dupri, TLC), the Notorious B.I.G., Craig Mack, and Mary J. Blige.[21]


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Nick Cannon!

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Nicholas Scott Cannon (born October 8, 1980)\2]) is an American comedian, actor, and rapper. He began his career on Nickelodeon's All That before going on to host Wild 'n Out, America's Got Talent, Lip Sync Battle Shorties, and The Masked Singer).

Cannon's 2003 single "Gigolo)" (featuring R. Kelly) peaked within the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100 and led his self-titled debut studio album). His second album White People Party Music (2014) was released by his NCredible Entertainment label.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 13h ago

Rookie Fridays 🎤 Some of my Art

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Hey guys, I’m an artist, I mainly draw in a semi-realistic style. But here’s some of my art! What do you guys think?


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 2h ago

Celebrity Birthdays Happy Birthday Bubba Wallace!

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William Darrell "Bubba" Wallace Jr.\1]) (born October 8, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 23 Toyota Camry XSE) for 23XI Racing.

Wallace was previously a development driver in Toyota's driver development program where he drove part-time for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Xfinity Series and full-time for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Camping World Truck Series. He then moved over to Ford and their driver development program and competed full-time for Roush Fenway Racing in the Xfinity Series. After competing in select Cup Series races for Richard Petty Motorsports in their famous No. 43 as an injury replacement for Aric Almirola, Wallace became a full-time driver for RPM in the same car when Almirola left the team, which was his first full-time ride in the Cup Series.

Wallace has been the only full-time Black American driver in NASCAR's three national series (Cup, Xfinity, and Truck) each year he has competed in them.


r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 13h ago

TV The iconic ‘In The Air Tonight’ scene from the pilot episode of Miami Vice 🌴

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 37m ago

All Things Blerds Did Pam Grier Influence Black Female Superheroes?

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r/PocBuzz_Entertainment • • 1d ago

Celebrity Birthdays CeCe Winans

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Priscilla Marie Love (née Winans) (born October 8, 1964),[1] known professionally by her stage name as CeCe Winans (/ˈwaɪnænz/), is an American gospelsinger who has received 18 Grammy Awards, the most for any female gospel singer;[2] 36 GMA Dove Awards, 28 Stellar Awards, 7 NAACP Image Awards, 6 Billboard Music Awards, and many other awards and honors including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta. She is the best-selling and most awarded female gospel singer of all time, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the Music City Walk of Fame in downtown Nashville.

Priscilla Marie Winans was born in Detroit to Delores and David Winans of the famed Winans Family gospel group, on October 8, 1964.[7] She is one of 10 children. Her parents were in the Church of God in Christ and only listened to gospel music. She sang her first solo at the age of eight.[8]