Following the death of music manager Brandon Blackstock last month at age 48, his former stepmother Reba McEntire offered a family update on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet.

McEntire was married to Brandon’s dad, Starstruck co-founder Narvel Blackstock, for 26 years and is the mother of Brandon’s half-brother Shelby. When Brandon married Kelly Clarkson in 2013, McEntire all of a sudden became family with Clarkson, a singer she had performed with before the marital connection. (Reba and Narvel divorced in 2015, while Kelly and Brandon ended their marriage in 2022.) Before his death, Brandon Blackstock had four children: Savannah and Seth from a previous marriage and River Rose and Remy with Clarkson.

At Sunday’s Emmys, an Entertainment Tonight reporter asked McEntire how the whole family is holding up following Brandon’s death.

“Well, we miss him. We miss him every minute,” McEntire said. “The kids are doing well. They’re all bonding together and hanging out with each other and taking it one day at a time. We know God’s got this.”

The reporter also asked how Reba’s son is doing, to which she replied: “Shelby’s doing great, thank you for asking.”

Brandon Blackstock died on Aug. 7 after battling cancer for three years.

Also on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet, McEntire revealed that she’s engaged to her Happy’s Place co-star Rex Linn after dating for five years. McEntire was previously married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987 and to Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015.

When E! News asked her last year if she would consider getting married a third time for Linn, Reba said: “If that’s something he feels totally strong about, that’s fine with me. He’s never been married before. So, if he wants to experience that, I’m OK with that.”

Nick Cannon now believes deciding to have 12 children was a response to trauma.

While sitting down with The Breakfast Club, Cannon spoke on his mental health journey and admitted that he was dealing with trauma after going through his divorce with Mariah Carey. And when he was asked by co-host Charlamagne Tha God if the Wild-N-Out creator thought having 12 kids with six different women was a response to his trauma, he said yes.

“I’m learning that now, and it wasn’t like I was acting out,” Cannon said. “It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process, because I could do it, because I had the money, because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move. Opposed to doing a mature thing and saying, ‘Hey, well, it probably makes more sense to do this.’ And then, obviously, life happens as well. So it wasn’t like, ‘Well, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more about, like, ‘Yo, I’mma just live life and have fun and whatever happens, happens, I can handle it.’”

He added: “Being almost 45 now, I can sit back and be like, ‘If I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work, things might’ve been a little different in certain scenarios.’”

Co-host Loren Lorosa then asked if he still would have had 12 kids, to which Nick responded that he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know … I’ve always said this: Every child that I had was made out of love and they was strong relationships,” he answered. “If I would’ve did the work and the healing after getting divorced, I probably would’ve took my time in a lot of other scenarios. And for whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times. It was like, ‘Oh, I’mma figure it out over here. I’mma figure it out over here,’ opposed to like leaving trauma every step of the way, instead of fixing it from its origin and then being able to present itself. But concepts like monogamy, I still feel the same way.”

Back in 2022, Nick Cannon revealed that he practices consensual non-monogamy, and in 2024, he said that he had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.

You can watch the full episode below.

Frank Sinatra’s classic 1955 Capitol Records album In the Wee Small Hours will be reissued in Blue Note’s Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Series on Nov. 14, marking the album’s 70th anniversary. The album, which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984, has been called Sinatra’s “melancholy masterpiece.” One of the first concept albums, it was an obvious inspiration for such subsequent moody collections as Linda Ronstadt’s What’s New, a surprise hit in 1983.

Produced by Voyle Gilmore, and featuring arrangements by Nelson Riddle, In the Wee Small Hours was Sinatra’s third studio album for Capitol Records, following Songs for Young Lovers (which was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2002), and Swing Easy!, both from 1954.

Sinatra conceived of In the Wee Small Hours as a full-length album, rather than a collection of singles. It was issued as two 10-inch LP discs, but also as one 12-inch record LP, one of the first in the pop field. The success of the album helped popularize the 12-inch LP in popular music. The 10-inch format soon fell into obsolescence.

The LP reached No. 2 on a Billboard chart that predated the arrival the following spring of the Billboard 200.  The album reinforced Sinatra’s career resurgence following his signing to Capitol Records in 1953 and his Oscar win in March 1954 for his supporting role in From Here to Eternity, that year’s best picture winner.

Produced for release by Joe Harley, the new Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at Record Technology Inc. (RTI), and comes packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket featuring session photos by William Claxton and Ken Veeder, as well as an essay by Rita Kirwan.

Sinatra would successfully continue recording concept albums with such subsequent releases as Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956), Where Are You? (1957), Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958) and No One Cares (1959).

Sinatra, widely acknowledged as the GOAT of traditional pop singers, was the first artist to win the Grammy for album of the year three times. He was just the second artist (following Bing Crosby) to receive a Grammy lifetime achievement award. He received that accolade in 1965, the year he turned 50. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. He died in 1998 at age 82.

Here’s the full track listing for In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning:

Side 1

1. “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” (Dave Mann-Bob Hilliard)

2. “Mood Indigo” (Duke Ellington-Irving Mills-Barney Bigard)

3. “Glad to Be Unhappy” (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

4. “I Get Along Without You Very Well” (Hoagy Carmichael)

5. “Deep in a Dream” (Jimmy Van Heusen-Eddie DeLange)

6. “I See Your Face Before Me” (Arthur Schwartz-Howard Dietz)

7. “Can’t We Be Friends?” (Kay Swift-Paul James)

8. “When Your Lover Has Gone” (E.A. Swan)

Side 2

1. “What Is This Thing Called Love?” (Cole Porter )

2. “Last Night When We Were Young” (Harold Arlen-E.Y. Harburg)

3. “I’ll Be Around” (Alec Wilder)

4. “Ill Wind” (Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler)

5. “It Never Entered My Mind” (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

6. “Dancing on the Ceiling” (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

7. “I’ll Never Be the Same” (Matty Malneck-Frank Signorelli- Gus Kahn)

8. “This Love of Mine” (Sol Parker-Henry Sanicola-Frank Sinatra)

Cardi B isn’t the only one behind the drama.

Before her sophomore album Am I the Drama? drops at the end of the week, the rapper asked on Instagram “WHO ELSE IS THE DRAMA?” before revealing on Monday (Sept. 15) the LP’s eight featured artists: Cash Cobain, Janet Jackson, Kehlani, Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, Selena Gomez, Summer Walker and Tyla.

Since Cardi already confirmed (and defended her decision to include) her and Meg’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash “WAP” would be on Am I the Drama?, it’s no surprise to see the Htown Hottie’s name on the list. Cardi had also previously tapped Kehlani on “Ring” from her 2018 debut album Invasion of Privacy. Lizzo featured Cardi on her 2021 single “Rumors,” which reached No. 4 on the Hot 100. And Walker included “Bitter – Narration by Cardi B” on her Billboard 200-topping sophomore album Still Over It, which also featured Cardi’s extended version of Walker and SZA’s “No Love” single. Cardi and Gomez have also previously collaborated on DJ Snake‘s 2018 smash “Taki Taki,” also featuring Ozuna.

In July 2024, the Bronx native teased a song meant for her second album that samples Jackson’s “Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun)” from her 1986 album Control.

Am I the Drama? drops Friday, Sept. 19 via Atlantic Records. Outside of her chart-topping hits “WAP” and “Up,” Cardi has released two more singles ahead of her long-awaited full-length project: the Hot 100 top 10 “Outside” and the Jay Z-sampling “Imaginary Playerz.”

See Cardi’s announcement below.

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