{"id":2433329,"date":"2026-05-26T21:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2433329"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:02:50","slug":"queen-latifah-shares-plan-to-release-new-music-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/queen-latifah-shares-plan-to-release-new-music-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah shares plan to release new music: &#8216;It&#8217;s time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Queen Latifah attends the 52nd American Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 25, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy\/FilmMagic)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queen Latifah was introduced to the world through music, but it&#8217;s been years since she released a project. With her upcoming Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame induction, she says she new music may finally be on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to drop some music,&#8221; she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/queen-latifah-new-music-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-exclusive-11983386\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:told\u00a0People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;told&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">told\u00a0<em>People<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;You know, I got all this music at home, and I forget y&#8217;all haven&#8217;t heard it. I need to let somebody else hear it other than my friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queen&#8217;s last project was 2009&#8217;s <em>Persona<\/em>, but she says she feels &#8220;so close to&#8221; music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I do enough things that allow me to get out there and sing or rap or do shows so that people can remember,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Lest they forget how I got into this game. Let me show you right quick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I keep it in my back pocket at all times,&#8221; she told <em>People<\/em>. &#8220;But yeah, I guess it has been a minute, so probably will drop some new music this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s time,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Get ready for the many genres that it will come out in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Queen will be inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll of Hame on Nov. 14 alongside fellow honorees\u00a0like the late Luther Vandross, MC Lyte, Celia Cruz and Sade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really almost odd to be inducted with people who are such influences and such heroes in my mind, but such a huge, huge honor to be in anything that&#8217;s a class with them,&#8221; she told <em>People<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The RRHOF ceremony will be available to watch in December on ABC and Disney+.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Disney is the parent company of ABC and ABC News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Latifah attends the 52nd American Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 25, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Bryan Steffy\/FilmMagic) Queen Latifah was introduced to the world through music, but it&#8217;s been years since she released a project. 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