BET Awards show honors Busta Rhymes, hip-hopโs 50 years and pays tribute to Takeoff and Tina Turner
The 2023 BET Awards are celebrating 50 years of hip-hop with tributes to the genreโs earliest voices, late legends, and new talent during a performance-packed show that consistently felt like a party.
Jay-Z's Roc Nation forms book publisher with Random House
NEW YORK โ A decade after publishing his memoir โDecoded,โ Jay-Z is forming a more lasting partnership with the book industry. Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by the rapper, is starting an imprint with Random House called Roc Lit 101. In a joint announcement Tuesday, Random House and Roc Nation promised โbooks at the dynamic intersection of entertainment and genre-defying literature." Future releases will include a book by Meek Mill on โcriminal justice and survival,โ memoirs by rappers Yo Gotti and Fat Joe and fantasy fiction from rapper Lil Uzi Vert, along with everything from cookbooks to children's stories. Roc Lit 101 will be led by Chris Jackson, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Random House imprint One World and a recent recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Center for Fiction; and Jana Fleishman, executive vice president of Roc Nation.