As Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce celebrate their nuptials over Fourth of July weekend, the couple made sure that several different charities have cause to celebrate as well.

In light of the Thursday (July 2) news that the pop star and Kansas City Chiefs tight end had contributed $26 million to a slew of charities across the United States, many of those organizations have shared public messages of thanks. One of them, the Grammy Museum Foundation, posted a statement praising the soon-to-be-newlyweds for their “transformative gift” that will “help expand our mission of bringing music education to students across the country,” while New York Cares said it was “enchanted” by their generosity and added, “Thank you for making our mission a part of your love story.”

“We’d like to send a heartfelt thank you to @taylorswift and @killatrav for their very generous donation to our food bank just prior to their big wedding day,” wrote Harvesters in Kansas City. “The two of them have incredibly big hearts and have shown up to support not only us but many charities over the years. We feel so lucky that they make the conscious effort to invest in hunger relief and the beautiful community we call Kansas City!”

Those are just three of more than a dozen thank-you notes released by charities Swift and Kelce selected to benefit from their pre-wedding donation. The 14-time Grammy winner’s rep announced the act of goodwill earlier on Thursday, sending a list of the organizations who received parts of the sum. Notably, all of the cities featured have personal significance to the couple, from Reading, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland — where Swift and the football player are from, respectively — to Nashville and Kansas City, where they started their careers.

The pair also donated to a number of causes based in NYC, where they are set to celebrate their wedding on Friday at Madison Square Garden.

See some of the posts from charities thanking Swift and Kelce below.

50 Cent has responded to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently telling Complex that he would invite the rapper to a dream dinner party at Gracie Mansion and the supposed beef between the two has been “one-sided.”

“I would throw in 50 Cent, so that we could have a conversation around tax policy,” he told the outlet after naming former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia as one of his guests. “My tax policies are not his favorites, but Get Rich or Die Tryin’ is still one of my favorites of all time.”

He added: “It’s a one-sided beef, yeah. I think we’re always gonna have a disagreement on that tax policy. I wanna increase tax on the wealthiest; he does not want that to happen. But I will still appreciate the song ‘Many Men,’ for whatever our disagreements are.”

The Queens entertainment mogul then took to Instagram and told the mayor to focus on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce upcoming wedding at Madison Square Garden instead of on him. “Man focus on the wedding of the century, Taylor and Travis down at the Garden,” 50 wrote in a post earlier Thursday (June 2). “We don’t have beef, I just think some of these ideas are radical. Stay away from the taxes. OK!”

50 has voiced his displeasure with Mamdani’s “tax the rich” rhetoric and policy agenda since his mayoral run began to catch steam. He offered the then-Democratic mayoral nominee $258,750 and a first-class ticket to leave the city in a since-deleted post. He also posted a tombstone that read, “RIP NYC: FOUNDED 1624 – DIED 2025,” after Mamdani won the election back in November.

It’s the start of something new: After going viral for her essay about leaving a group of allegedly “toxic” moms, Ashley Tisdale has teamed up with Netflix to transform her experience into a series.

The High School Musical alum announced the news Thursday (July 2) on Instagram, sharing screenshots of Deadline‘s exclusive report about the project. With Tisdale expected to star, Toxic Moms will feature a script written by Sabrina Jalees. Ali Wong is also involved and will possibly direct.

“Toxic Moms is a dark half-hour comedy following a sleep-deprived new mom who’s drawn into a clique of cool, wealthy mothers,” the publication described the show. “But when the group reveals its darker side, the series asks: in the isolation of motherhood, how far would you go to taste community?”

In her caption, Tisdale wrote, “I guess we all can be a little toxic.”

The development comes just six months after the singer-actress first published her essay titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group” on The Cut. In it, she recalled feeling repeatedly “left out” by her former group of mom friends, comparing the experience to being “back in high school.”

“I knew that I had to speak up for myself, just like I would want my daughters to do,” Tisdale wrote. “So that’s exactly what I texted to the group after being left out from yet another group hang: ‘This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.’”

The essay might have come and gone if it hadn’t been for internet sleuths who quickly determined that the friend group Tisdale was referencing included Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor and other recognizable women. The Lizzy McGuire alum’s husband, Matthew Koma, stirred the pot by posting a satirical version of the article on his Instagram Story — “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers,” his faux headline read — after which Duff addressed the drama on Call Her Daddy.

“I don’t really think people had to connect very many dots, do you?” she said on Call Her Daddy in February. “It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of, like, six women and all of their lives … the timing felt not great, and I felt used.”

In May, Moore also weighed in. “I’m someone who is really scared by confrontation, but also when it’s important, I am a huge proponent [of] having a conversation if my feelings are hurt,” she said on Andy Cohen Live. “Face-to-face. It’s not always the most comfortable of situations, but I think that’s where I sort of differed in feeling like I wouldn’t have handled the situation this way.”

Beyond Toxic Moms, Tisdale is also working on a new comedy, You’re Only Young Twice, with CBS. She last dropped an album, Lemons, in 2019.

A federal judge is refusing to decide whether reggaeton duo Steely & Clevie invented the genre’s signature dembow rhythm, ruling that only a jury can make that conclusion in a sprawling copyright lawsuit targeting Bad Bunny, Karol G and more than a hundred other artists.

Judge André Birotte Jr. dropped a long-awaited summary judgment ruling on Thursday (July 2) in the long-running case alleging that nearly 2,000 tracks by more than 150 artists copied Steely & Clevie’s 1989 song “Fish Market.” In this first phase of the litigation, Cleveland “Clevie” Browne and the heirs of Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson asked the judge to determine that “Fish Market” was indeed the original, copyrightable source of dembow — the boom-ch-boom-chick percussion that’s now a hallmark of reggaeton.

Lawyers representing the many defendants — including Pitbull, Drake, Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi and Justin Bieber, plus units of all three major music companies — countered that Steely & Clevie have no valid copyright claim because this sonic element “exists in countless prior works and musical genres,” including the centuries-old habanera rhythm.

Thursday’s ruling, first obtained and reported by Billboard, essentially kicks the can down the road on the dispute. Judge Birotte said both sides have built credible cases that conflict directly with each other, meaning a jury trial is the only proper method to decide whether “Fish Market” is copyrightable as the origin of dembow.

“The evidentiary record presents competing, facially credible expert opinions regarding what elements exist in the claimed works, how those elements function musically, whether they are commonplace or original, and whether they form a coherent and protectable selection and arrangement,” wrote the judge. “Virtually none of these facts fall into the undisputed category that the court may consider on a motion for summary judgment. Put simply, plaintiffs’ experts advance one account of the relevant musical features and their significance, while defendants’ experts offer a fundamentally different interpretation of those same features. These are classic disputes of fact, not law.”

Now, the lawsuit will head to a second phase of discovery on the question of infringement — that is, whether there’s evidence that more than 150 defendants in the case had access to “Fish Market” and did indeed copy it for the various songs at issue, including chart-toppers like “Despacito”, “Tití Me Preguntó” and “Dame Tu Cosita.” Further briefing and a potential jury trial will follow unless the many litigants can all agree on a settlement.

A lawyer for Steely & Clevie, Stephen Doniger, told Billboard in a Thursday statement, “We are pleased that the court largely rejected the defendants’ arguments but disappointed that it did not grant our client’s affirmative summary judgment motion.”

“It is hard to imagine how any jury could find the Dem Bow Riddim to be anything other than an original and protectable work given the undisputed evidence that it is made up of seven discrete elements combined in a way that no one has found in any work predating our clients’ ‘Fish Market,’” added Doniger. “That said, we have little doubt that a jury will see through [the defendants’] arguments and we look forward to the next steps in this case.” 

The legal team representing the majority of defendants in the case did not immediately return a request for comment.

The dembow case is a big deal because of its sheer scope, with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential damages at stake. Experts have also warned that it could have an immensely disruptive impact on reggaeton — a booming genre that has risen alongside Bad Bunny from the clubs of Puerto Rico to the stages of the Grammys and the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Back in 2023, Duke University law professor Jennifer Jenkins told Billboard that a win for Steely & Clevie “would confer a monopoly over an entire genre, something unprecedented in music copyright litigation.”

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Since its release in June 2025, KPop Demon Hunters has been a gigantic pop-culture phenomenon that’s still resinating with audiences one year later. In fact, the movie has inspired a wide range of toys, merch and apparel, board games and even an upcoming 4K Blu-ray release from the Criterion Collection. And now, there’s a new book that shows off the artwork from the Academy Award-winning film.

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Michael Rubin hosted his fifth annual White Party at the Fanatics CEO’s estate in Southampton, N.Y., on Wednesday (July 1), and the bash was a star-studded affair with dignitaries from across Hollywood, music and sports connecting. 

The celebrity guest list included Jay-Z, Cardi B, Travis Scott, Tate McRae, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Shaboozey, Ciara, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Ice Spice, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, DJ Khaled, Lil Baby, Meek Mill, The Chainsmokers, French Montana and Fat Joe.

There were performances from Lil Wayne, who ghosted a concert in Maine on Tuesday (June 30) and later apologized; Snoop Dogg and Cardi B. It was a poetic close to the night, which ended with a fireworks celebration over the Atlantic Ocean while Alicia Keys performed “Empire State of Mind.”

Plenty of iconic athletes headed to the Hamptons as well, with Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Davante Adams, Klay Thompson, Alex Rodriguez and Puka Nacua in attendance. 

The White Party is typically scheduled surrounding July 4 and celebrating America, but Rubin said the party’s date this year was considered in part to not have guests decide between his event and attending Taylor Swift’s wedding in NYC, which is slated for July 3 at Madison Square Garden.

“We were debating the dates. We were certainly aware of that date, but we didn’t change it because of that date,” Rubin, who shared photos of the event on his Instagram, told People. “But we were aware of that date and we didn’t want to have people have to choose. People come to the White Party no matter when we do it.”

Rubin’s White Party continues to bring star power to the Hamptons, and remains one of the premier July 4 parties when it comes to celebrity attendance. 

As for Jay-Z, he’s gearing up to return to the stage in NYC, where he’ll headline Yankee Stadium for a trifecta of shows on July 10 through July 12, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Reasonable Doubt as well as 25 years of The Blueprint.

Pretty Lights has announced his first new album in 13 years, the 45-song A Trip Thru Time Fantastic. The project is the artist’s fifth studio album and first since 2013’s A Color Map of the Sun.

The project’s 45 songs are divided into nine sections, called “constellations” by the producer born Derrick Vincent Smith. The first three constellations, encompassing 15 songs, are not on DSPs but are available to stream and download for free via the Pretty Lights website.

“I said i didn’t want to focus on albums after ACMOTS over 10 years ago & shifted my energy towards living creative systems & conscious cohesion via the soundship space system and the swirlbridge,” Smith wrote on social media on July 1 when announcing the album. ” So much music was made over those years with my bestest friends, for the purpose of swirling and experimenting with journeys into expressive flow state transmissions & reaching new depths of connection with our beloved cosmic caravan, the PLF [Pretty Lights Family].

“In the last 9 years of timeline weavery,” the statement continues. “I built a home with the love of my life, found a spiritual path, reunited with my eternal soul brother Michal Menert, formed an AV ensemble to power a traveling laboratory, and been blessed with the most beautiful experience of my life… meeting my son Ayahn. The time has come to release our musical swirl fodder in the form of the next PL album. A galaxy of 45 songs in 9 constellations before my 45th birthday.” 

The project comes in tandem with a seven city summer and fall tour that includes dates Ohio’s Secret Dreams Music Festival, Pretty Lights’ own Yahn Dawn festival, happening for the second time this September in Buena Vista, Colo. and Florida’s Hulaween in October.