On Tuesday (Aug. 4), Glen Hansard was gracefully remembered through the music he spent a lifetime creating at his Dublin funeral.

Family, friends and fellow musicians gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to celebrate the life of the beloved Irish singer-songwriter, who died July 29 at age 56 following a motorcycle accident. Among those paying tribute were U2‘s Bono and The Edge, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, Hozier, Imelda May, Jake Clemons of the E Street Band and Liam Ó Maonlaí of Hothouse Flowers, all of whom joined mourners in honoring Hansard’s enduring legacy.

Bono shared a heartfelt statement during the ceremony, mulling over Hansard’s remarkable ability to make everyone feel like a close friend.

“People on the green outside, best friends. People tuning in, best friends. Even people who haven’t met him, best friends,” Bono said. “Everyone who met him, they just remember the day they met him.”

The U2 frontman shared a voicemail from Patti Smith that included a lullaby she recorded for Hansard’s loved ones. He also delivered a spoken tribute inspired by U2’s song “Beautiful Day,” accompanied by The Edge, reworking portions of the lyrics in honor of Hansard.

Vedder later took the stage to perform Hansard’s “The Song of Good Hope,” a fitting tribute from a longtime friend and collaborator. The Pearl Jam frontman was joined by Hansard’s Once collaborator Markéta Irglová during the performance, one of several musical moments that showcased the songwriter’s deep and sentimental influence across generations of artists.

Hansard’s brother, Richie Hansard, also delivered an emotional eulogy recalling the musician’s outlook on grief.

“Glen said once that when you lose someone, you don’t really lose them,” he told attendees. “If you have the strength and the will, you will gain them back and you inherit the best parts of them. And we have. We have inherited all the magical, colorful words, hugs, talks, madness, sadness, insightful, manic beauty that a brother, an uncle, a husband and a father could ever give. Thank you, Glen. Thank you, brother.”

The service concluded with a rendition of Bob Dylan‘s “Forever Young,” featuring Bono, Vedder, The Edge, Liam Ó Maonlaí and a choir of musicians assembled around the altar in a final farewell.

Hansard first rose to prominence as frontman of The Frames before earning worldwide acclaim alongside Irglová in The Swell Season. The pair won the Academy Award for best original song in 2008 for “Falling Slowly” from the film Once, which later inspired the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical of the same name. Over the course of his career, Hansard also released five solo studio albums and became known for his annual Christmas Eve busking performances in Dublin benefiting people experiencing homelessness.

Watch the moving musical tribute below.

The Backstreet Boys knew exactly what a momentous occasion it was when Kevin Richardson and Snoop Dogg crossed paths at Sunday’s Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie red-carpet premiere.

On Tuesday (Aug. 4), the BSB social accounts shared two photos of the encounter — one of the pair embracing and the other of them shaking hands — with the caption “It finally happened… iykyk.”

The inside-joke caption is in reference to viral memes dating back to 2024 suggesting that Richardson — a founding member of the boy band — “looks like a white Snoop Dogg,” with three side-by-side sets of photos as evidence. Some fans said the comparisons go back even further, recalling that BSB’s Nick Carter and Brian Littrell told Richardson he resembled Snoop when the similarly lanky boy bander sported cornrow braids during the group’s Black & Blue Tour in 2001. (You can read all about Kevin’s full hair-volution here.)

The comments section under the new photos of Kevin and Calvin (Snoop’s real name is Calvin Broadus) didn’t disappoint, with *NSYNC’s Lance Bass sharing four clapping emojis on Instagram and Muni Long commenting on Threads, “So ya’ll was separated at birth or what?”

It took Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie — the upcoming sequel to 2023’s Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie — to bring these two look-alike music stars together. Snoop voices the character of Dave in the Aug. 16 movie, while the Backstreet Boys recorded the new song “Bottle Up” for the film.

Richardson and the Backstreet Boys are still in the midst of their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, with dates set through Aug. 29, while Snoop is currently getting the biopic treatment, with a Universal Pictures film about his life set to hit U.S. theaters next year, on Aug. 6, 2027.

You’d be surprised by how much 50 Cent was making per episode during his time playing the role Kanan Stark on his hit series Power.

The Queens mogul recently sat down with GQ to talk about his most iconic films and spoke on his friction with writer and showrunner Courtney Kemp Agboh and the show’s lead Omari Hardwick while also revealing that he took quite the pay cut to play the notorious character. 50 began talking about how his name being attached to the show and his executive producer status made things “awkward” for Kemp and Hardwick once the series started to take off in popularity.

“When people have success for the first time in their career, sometimes they need it to be all theirs, right?” he explained. “So the difficult thing is if they have their success for the first time, and it’s a 50 Cent show. It is a 50 Cent show, like publicly people look at it like it’s ‘presented by 50 Cent.’ The story is from Southside, Jamaica, Queens — everything is 50 Cent tied to the show. The music that’s playing is 50 Cent.”

He added: “It got awkward for the writer, for the showrunner because she felt like it was registering as a 50 Cent show instead of her show, and that turned into … it got weird with her behaviors and the things that were going on behind the scenes with her, and then it also was friction between her and Omari because he was feeling like he was the lead and the star of the show, so she was having a problem with anybody that was leading the show because she felt like it was her show.”

50 Cent then talked about how much he was making per episode while also wearing many hats like executive producer and music supervisor. “I took a pay cut to be there the entire time that I was on that show,” he said, after admitting he had no issues about his character being famously killed off. “I was being paid, in the very beginning, $17,000 per episode while executive producing the show, being the music supervisor pretty much, doing the theme song, doing all the promotion and publicity. It wasn’t until the third season that they would accept the show on Good Morning America without me being there. I’m technically the star of Power until I introduced everybody to it, and then Omari Hardwick turned into the star of Power.”

In other 50 Cent news, he recently teased a collaboration between himself, his mentor Eminem and the late 2Pac for the official soundtrack of his upcoming role as Balrog in the newest iteration of Street Fighter, which is coming to theaters on Oct. 16.

You can watch the full interview below.