Kanye West Has Decided Not to Perform at Rolling Loud Miami — UPDATE

UPDATE (July 24): After planning a performance Sunday at Rolling Loud Miami, Kanye West has decided not to hit the stage at the festival after all, Billboard has learned. West’s decision not to perform follows a social media report that he has pushed back the release of his 10th studio album, Donda, to August after the project didn’t materialize on Friday as planned.

Previously: This Sunday, Kanye West will take center stage at Rolling Loud Miami, a source close to the situation tells Billboard. 

On Tuesday, long-term collaborator Consequence went on social media and posted a sketch of Kanye’s possible stage design for his performance at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami this weekend. “DONDA Experience Rolling Loud Miami, FL 07.25.21 Via KW Summer ’21,” read the now-deleted caption from Cons.

The drawing featured a pyramid design, which could allude to West’s stage setup. Sunday’s concert will also mark West’s first festival appearance since 2019’s Sunday Service at Coachella. 

West’s 10th studio album DONDA was officially announced Tuesday during Game 6 of the NBA Finals. He previewed a snippet of his new song “No Child Left Behind” through a Beats by Dre commercial that he scored and edited himself and starred American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson.

On Thursday, West will have his album listening at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium ahead of Donda’s Friday release. Last weekend, West previewed his project in Las Vegas after attending a Big3 basketball game. Tickets for Atlanta’s listening session is currently available on Ticketmaster.

Billboard reached out to the reps of Rolling Loud for comment. Check out Consequence’s deleted post below and in any case, buy Rolling Loud tickets here.

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Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck Kiss in Steamy New Instagram Photo

Bennifer 2.0 has officially been confirmed with a kiss shared on Jennifer Lopez’s own Instagram account.

“5 2 … what it do,” Lopez captioned a series of new photos shared on social media on Saturday (July 24), her 52nd birthday. The first three photos, which show the “Cambia el Paso” singer rocking a fierce look in a bikini on a boat, are captivating enough, but the final photo is the one that will get people talking this weekend.

In the last picture, J. Lo and Affleck passionately lock lips, with Affleck’s arms around Lopez.

The couple were recently spotted together on Leah Remini’s birthday slideshow on Instagram, which appeared to confirm their rumored relationship. But the PDA posted on Lopez’s own Instagram account seems to seals the deal.

The “Bennifer 2.0″ romance speculation started back in April, just weeks after Lopez and Alex Rodriguez called off their engagement. Lopez and Affleck, who were engaged in 2002 and split in 2004, have since been spotted together in various locations.

Swipe through the photos on J. Lo’s latest Instagram post to see the steamy kiss she had with Affleck while celebrating her birthday. Plus, watch a newly posted video clip of what 52 looks like on Lopez.

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Camila Cabello Responds to Backlash Over Dancer in ‘Don’t Go Yet’ Performance

Camila Cabello’s new single “Don’t Go Yet” made its live debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Friday night (July 23).

Joining Cabello onstage for the song were a number of dancers, all dressed in ’80s costumes, reflecting the theme of the new track’s music video.

On Saturday (July 24), Cabello’s name trended on Twitter with comments about the performance — including criticism from people offended by her performing with a white dancer whose skin appeared much darker in his stage makeup. Some Twitter users expressed that they felt the dancer performed in blackface.

In response to the tweets, Cabello said that the intention was for the dancer to look like a character with a bad fake tan.

On Saturday afternoon Cabello shared an iPhone Notes app statement that said: “hey! so this dude was just supposed to be a white man with a terrible spray tan. we purposefully tried to pull together a multicultural group of performers, the expectation was not that everyone in the performance needed to be Latin. There are white people, African American people, latin people, etc. and so the point wasn’t to try to make everyone look Latin either. There are a lot of people in the performance who are not.”

“The point was to try to make each person look like an over the top 80’s character just like in the video, including a white dude with a terrible orange spray tan,” Cabello wrote. Billboard reached out to a representative for Cabello for further comment.

The singer’s tweet also included a screenshot of the dancer’s Instagram Story, where he posted a selfie with the caption “In case you missed my spray tan last night on @jimmyfallon with @camila_cabello.”

In another tweet, Cabello shared a clip of the Fallon performance and said, “on my team we try to create a culture of kindness, joy, & love & you could feel that this week. none of this could be possible without the dream team that makes it happen & the fans that continue to support.”

“Don’t Go Yet” premiered on Friday. It’s her first new music since the release of her sophomore album, 2019’s Romance.

See Cabello’s note and watch the “Don’t Go Yet” performance below.

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Prosecutors Air More Claims in R. Kelly Case, One Involving an Underage Boy

Federal prosecutors in R. Kelly’s sex trafficking case say he had sexual contact with an underage boy in addition to girls, and the government wants jurors in his upcoming sex trafficking trial to hear those claims.

Prosecutors aired a wide-ranging raft of additional allegations — but not new charges — against the R&B star in a court filing Friday (July 23). Jury selection is due to start Aug. 9 in a New York federal court for Kelly, who denies ever abusing anyone.

A message was sent Saturday to his lawyers about the additional allegations.

The Grammy Award-winning singer is charged with leading what prosecutors call a criminal enterprise of managers, bodyguards and other employees who allegedly helped him recruit women and girls for sex and pornography and to exercise a lot of control over them.

The charges involve six different women and girls, who aren’t named in court filings.

Now, prosecutors would also like jurors to hear about more than a dozen other people whom the government alleges that Kelly sexually or physically abused, threatened or otherwise mistreated.

Among them, the government says, was a 17-year-old boy and aspiring musician whom Kelly met at a McDonald’s in December 2006 and later invited to his Chicago studio. After asking the boy what he would do to make it in the music business, Kelly propositioned and had sexual contact with him while he was still underage, according to prosecutors’ court filing.

And when Kelly was about to go on trial on child pornography charges in Chicago in 2008, the same youth told the singer he had access to a juror, and Kelly asked him to contact the juror and vouch he was a “good guy,” prosecutors wrote.

The filing doesn’t say whether the youth did so. Kelly was acquitted in that case.

The boy also introduced Kelly to a 16- or 17-year-old male friend, with whom prosecutors say the singer began a sexual relationship several years later. Kelly also filmed the two youths in sexual encounters with other people, including some of Kelly’s girlfriends, according to the filing.

Prosecutors wrote that the accounts of the boys and others would help show that the actual charges “were not isolated events and were part of a larger pattern.”

The multiplatinum-selling singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, is known for work including the 1996 hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and the cult classic “Trapped in the Closet,” a multi-part tale of sexual betrayal and intrigue.

Kelly’s sex life has drawn scrutiny since the 1990s, and he currently is also facing sex-related charges in Illinois and Minnesota. He has pleaded not guilty.

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How to Watch Rolling Loud Miami 2021 Live

Rolling Loud Miami is back, and you can see all the action live from the comfort of your home.

The three-day festival returns to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium with mega performances by Post Malone, A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, Roddy Ricch, Lil Baby, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, and Lil Uzi Vert. After previewing his yet-released 10th studio album Donda in Atlanta on Thursday, Kanye West will also be on the bill.

Below, find the artist breakdown by stage, and then find each stage’s livestream. Also, check out 5 things to look forward to at this year’s festival, straight from co-founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif.

Here’s a day-by-day breakdown of the Rolling Loud stages:

Ciroc Stage

AudioMack stage

Monster Energy Stage

Best of Rolling Loud Miami 2021 (with interviews and performances)

Stick with Billboard all weekend for coverage on the ground from the festival.

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