Beyoncé's Career to Be Studied in New Yale University Course
Beyoncé will have Ivy League students saying her name next semester the chart topper's history-making career will be studied at Yale University in 2025. Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Music at the famed university, will be teaching a class inspired by the evolution of Beyoncé's career  including her sound, fashion, and use of visual media.

The class, titled "Beyoncé Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics through Music," will be offered next semester and will trace "the relationship between Beyoncé’s artistic genius and Black intellectual practice." Per Professor Brooks, who spoke with the Yale Daily News ahead of the course's offering, the singer's career trajectory is "just so ripe at this moment in time." Yale isn't the first school to offer a course in the singer ... with Arizona State, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Michigan, among others all offering classes about Bey in the last decade.


Drake Gave Young Thug $1M After Release, Says Akademiks
Speaking on his livestream, the controversial online personality said: “Y’all want to hear this play I heard? Watch, he gon’ hit me up, like, ‘Yo, how you heard?’ ‘Cause he ain’t tell me. That’s my mans. When Thug gets let out of jail, the talk is this. They say two hours afterward, Drake flew to Thug and allegedly gave him a mil.”

He added that the information did not come from the 6 God himself: “Drake didn’t tell me this. Drake gon’ hit me up and be, like, ‘Who told you this?’” Neither Drake nor Thugger have commented on the report of the Canadian’s generosity.

 

Lil Wayne To Be Weekly Guest On Pro Football Show ‘NFL Game Day Morning’
Lil Wayne may not be performing at the Super Bowl, but the NFL Network just announced that he’ll be deeply involved in the league in another way: as a guest commentator on the NFL Network.

On Monday (November 11), the league shared a statement announcing that Mr. Sports Sports Sports will be a weekly guest on the network’s show NFL GameDay Morning beginning on Sunday (November 17). He will show up every Sunday for the rest of the season, talking football with Rich Eisen, Kurt Warner, Steve Mariucci and Gerald McCoy.
The show airs at 9 AM ET.