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Lil Baby will be honored with the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at the second annual Music in Action Awards Gala.

The event, hosted by the Black Music Action Coalition, will be held September 22 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, according to Variety.

BMAC is celebrating artists, executives, businesses, entrepreneurs, activists and companies that have utilized their platforms to effect social change over the past year.

Lil Baby is being recognized for fighting for racial and social justice inside and outside of the music industry.

The Grammy winner recently hosted his third-annual Back to School Fest for over 3,000 children in Atlanta.

“The Bigger Picture” rapper also established the $150,000 My Turn scholarship program for students at his former high school in the A-T-L.

Last year, the Weeknd and H.E.R. received the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award.

Lil Baby is featured on DJ Khaled’s new God Did album and will release his third album, It’s Only Me, on October 14.

His 2018 collabo with Gunna, “Drip Too Hard,” was certified Diamond this week

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Oprah Winfrey is paying tribute to the late Sidney Poitier as the producer of the new documentary Sidney, which premiered September 10 at the Toronto Film Festival.

Winfrey was a close friend of the iconic actor who became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 for his role in Lilies of the Field.

“I learned from watching him, Maya Angelou, and Quincy Jones what it means to be a real star. The bigger the star, the more humble you are with everyone else,” Oprah told BET.

“I’ve seen nothing but humility in his personal and professional life. I’ve learned to ground myself with everything around me because he was my counsel, friend and advisor,” she added. “He was a steady force of humility and integrity.”

Working with director Reginald Hudlin, the 19-time Emmy winner says her goal for the documentary is for the public “to see the best of what it means to be a real man and what the measure of a man is.”

“To this day, Poitier’s daughters still see him as a dad because he had great stories to tell them and gathered them as a family unit,” Oprah continued. “Reginald and I wanted audiences to see their hope and possibility through the light of Sidney Poitier’s magnificent life.”

Sidney features interviews with Denzel Washington, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee, Morgan Freeman and many more.

The documentary will be shown in select theaters and will debut on Apple TV+ Friday, September 23.

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Nas turned 49 years old Wednesday, and on Tuesday, he celebrated onstage in Newark, New Jersey, with Busta Rhymes and Wu-Tang Clan.

As they performed on the NY State of Mind Tour at the Prudential Center, the crowd wished the Illmatic rapper a happy birthday as he was hugged by Busta and Ghostface Killah, according to Hip Hop DX.

Nas thanked all the artists who were onstage with him, including RZA, Method Man, Raekwon, GZA, Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa, before performing his 2002 hit “One Mic.”

The Grammy-winning rapper began his birthday celebration on Monday with a party at Cote Steakhouse in New York City. Nas posted a series of Instagram photos from the event, and several stars gave him birthday love in the comments, including Swizz Beatz, Fat Joe and Nia Long.

The NY State of Mind Tour continues Friday in Bristow, Virginia, and runs through October 4 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

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Alicia Keys made husband Swizz Beatz’s 44th birthday on Tuesday very special with an indoor party and a nighttime beach celebration.

“Happy born day my KING!!!!@therealswizzz. The most incredible mind, man, and soul,” the 15-time Grammy winner captioned a series of Instagram photos from the festivities.

“I celebrate your life!! I can’t get enough of you!! I just want to kiss u forever! Here’s to the best years ahead of us,” Alicia added.

Swizz also posted several pics, including a childhood photo with the comment, “44 years of the Zone and I didn’t even start yet. Blessings and love to everyone.” He added a highlight video showing him enjoying champagne while flying on a private jet. Beatz wrote, “Thank you my love and friends.” The clip ended with the caption, “The sky is not the limit. it’s just the view.”

The couple celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary on July 31. Alicia and Swizz have two sons together, Egypt Daoud, 11, and Genesis Ali Dean, 7.

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Mariah Carey celebrates the 25th anniversary of Butterfly on Friday and is releasing a special anniversary edition of the album to mark the milestone.

Mariah told Variety what the album symbolizes. “I didn’t have a thing with butterflies when I was a kid … It is just something that happened,” she said. “When I made that album, I was leaving a point in my life that was extremely stifling and I had to go through an actual metamorphosis to become a grown woman who was strong enough to get out of that situation. It was me breaking through, to become free enough to fly.”

The Grammy winner divorced Columbia Records executive Tommy Mattola during that time of “metamorphosis.” She hinted he was a key player in making her continually churn out pop music. Mariah also said she kept seeing butterflies at the time and adopted them as her symbol of power.

“It was then and there I was able to gain my freedom. There’s no price you can put on that. There is nothing more valuable than freedom,” she expressed.

Butterfly was Mariah’s entry into R&B and hip-hop and — as she says — proof of her liberation. “You can hear a sense of emancipation there before I ever did The Emancipation of Mimi,” she dished in reference to her 2005 studio album. “This album, Butterfly, consists of slivers of my life back then.”

Butterfly 25 arrives Friday and includes a cover of Prince‘s “The Beautiful Ones.” Mariah said Prince was instrumental in releasing Butterfly because her label wanted her to stay pop.

“He defended me to record executives who didn’t understand my decision to make an album like that. The execs didn’t understand me veering from a successful formula. But Prince understood,” she said.

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