TikTok kids and Barbz alike, eat your heart out. This week we’ve been blessed with a new golden age of all-stars collaborating with young upstarts on remixes of their songs, and at midnight Friday, Doja Cat dropped a remix of her danceable single “Say So,” now featuring 100% more Nicki Minaj. Doja announced the new […]
Drizzy fans, start hitting that “Toosie Slide.” On Thursday, Drake announced on his Instagram that his 6th studio album is dropping sometime this summer. If that timing sounds a little vague and you can’t wait ‘til then, don’t worry, Drake has also dropped his latest surprise mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, tonight at midnight. Drake […]
Drizzy fans, start hitting that “Toosie Slide.” On Thursday, Drake announced on his Instagram that his 6th studio album is dropping sometime this summer. If that timing sounds a little vague and you can’t wait ‘til then, don’t worry, Drake has also dropped his latest surprise mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, tonight at midnight. Drake […]
Multi-platinum selling producer Sha Money XL has dropped his debut album Chain On The Bike Vol. 1. The G-Unit co-founder’s nine-track LP features him collaborating with a mix of established rappers and emerging talent. “Working with raw energy oftentimes delivers my best work,” he said in a press release. “With Chain On The Bike, I […]
Dee-1 has dropped a new solo project titled Timeless ahead of his upcoming collaborative album with Murs. The 10-track release serves as the follow-up to the New Orleans-bred MC’s God & Girls LP from 2019. “My decision got made long ago to be a timeless artist, creating timeless music that has a timeless impact,” he […]
Lil Baby has added six songs to his sophomore album My Turn for a new deluxe edition. The original version of the LP featured 20 tracks and was released in February Quality Control Music/Motown Records. My Turn was already the highest-charting album of Lil Baby’s career. The LP debuted at No. 1, becoming his first project to […]
Mozzy is back with a new solo album titled Beyond Bulletproof. The project is his first studio LP since 2018’s Gangland Landlord and the follow-up to 2019’s Internal Affairs mixtape. The Sacramento-bred MC’s 13-track album features collaborations with G Herbo, Polo G, King Von, Celly Ru, E Mozzy and Eric Bellinger, among others. Production is […]
Drizzy fans, start hitting that “Toosie Slide.” On Thursday, Drake announced on his Instagram that his 6th studio album is dropping sometime this summer. If that timing sounds a little vague and you can’t wait till then, don’t worry, Drake is dropping his latest mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, tonight at midnight. Drake worked with […]
Drake has announced he’s dropping a new project called Dark Lane Demo Tapes at midnight EST on Friday (May 1). The 6 God made the big reveal Instagram on Thursday (April 30). At the same time, the multiplatinum-selling artist confirmed his sixth studio album would arrive this summer. “My brothers @oliverelkhatib @ovonoel put together alot […]
Young Thug is turning his pain into lessons for his fans. Joining Offset and friends Rich The Kid and Saint Jhn for a mini virtual concert to raise profits for the Atlanta Community Food Bank on Wednesday (April 30), Thugger revealed a really harrowing health scare that he’d previously gone through. The emotion was palpable […]
It's officially Drizzy season. Drake has dropped the surprise mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes, his first full project since his 2018 album Scorpion. The 14 track tape, which Drake's describes "as some leaks and some joints from SoundCloud and some new vibe", features Giveon, Young Thug, Future, Fivio Foreign, Sosa Geek, and Playboi Carti. That's […]
R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Thursday to his new Brooklyn federal-court indictment, which includes allegations that he knowingly exposed two people to herpes during sex. Kelly’s arraignment took place telephone conference, as coronavirus concerns have prompted many court proceedings across the U.S. to be held remotely. Kelly called into the proceeding from the Chicago federal […]
Shortly after Tekashi 6ix9ine was granted a “compassionate release” from prison, his legal team promised their client wouldn’t go back to his trolling ways — but evidently, the polarizing rapper can’t help himself. On Thursday (April 30), the 23-year-old Brooklynite snuck into The Shade Room’s comment section to diss 50 Cent. Underneath a video titled “50 […]
For a brief moment in time, it looked like an Instagram Live battle between 50 Cent and Ja Rule could happen. The Murder Inc. boss told Fat Joe he was down and hype around the possibility started to swell. But Fiddy soon made it clear he wasn’t into the idea with a series of memes […]
For the last episode of Will Smith’s Snapchat show Will At Home, the blockbuster movie star rounded up The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast — DJ Jazzy Jeff, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Alfonso Ribeiro, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Joseph Marcell — to play catch up. The two-part finale featured a tribute to the late James Avery who […]
Shortly after the drama between Kehlani and Kamaiyah started to unfold, Keyshia Cole hopped in the mix and revealed she had her own issues with the While We Wait singer. While speaking to Hollywood Unlocked, Cole explained where they stand — and apparently they aren’t cool. “We didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things […]
Veteran Hip Hop artist/dancer Steve “Stezo” Williams has reportedly died. Legendary New York City promotor Van Silk tells RealStreetRadio Stezo’s fiancée confirmed the news on Thursday (April 30) morning and noted the Connecticut native was suffering from heart issues. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 51. Stezo made his debut as […]
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The return of The Dixie Chicks continues to be one of the few good things in the world, even when the songs are so, so sad. Martie Erwin Maguire, Emily Strayer, and Natalie Maines’s latest, “Julianna Calm Down,” off their postponed album, Gaslighter, speaks directly to women in harmful relationships. “Julianna, calm down / You […]
Macomb County, MI – A 26-year-old man by the name of Matthew David Hughes reportedly broke into Eminem’s Michigan home on April 6, using a paving stone to smash out a kitchen window. TMZ reports the break-in occurred around 4 a.m. local time while Em’s security team slept. As a result, Shady came face-to-face with Hughes […]
After a successful theatrical run that earned a 92 percent Rotton Tomatoes score and the Best Film nab at the 2020 NME Awards, British rapper and filmmaker Rapman’s Blue Story is slated to help cure coronavirus boredom when it hits digital platforms on May 5. To coronate the rollout, RealStreetRadio is premiering a brand new […]
Whatever good things you’ve found around your house during quarantine, it’s got nothing on a good old rock demo. While Noel Gallagher unearthed a demo of a never-released Oasis song, “Don’t Stop,” during his quarantine cleaning, Thom Yorke of Radiohead took this time alone to finish up a demo of his own, for a song […]
The return of The Dixie Chicks continues to be one of the few good things in the world, even when the songs are so, so sad. Martie Erwin Maguire, Emily Strayer, and Natalie Maines’s latest, “Julianna Come Home,” off their postponed album, Gaslighter, speaks directly to women in harmful relationships. “Julianna, calm down / You […]
For years, CDs have arrived each week by the dozen, their styles, careers, and time periods all competing for my attention. I would get to them all eventually, I told myself — when I was idled or sick or housebound. But in these past weeks, I’ve found I have no appetite for exploration, no urge […]
Kelly Clarkson covering Madonna should be no surprise — she auditioned for American Idol with “Express Yourself,” after all. But for Kelly to take on one of Madonna’s biggest vocal numbers, and perform it while we’re all bored out of our minds in quarantine? She saw us in a crisis and was on her way. […]
This is something new. The “Savage” challenge, part two, featuring the Queen Bey. And this time, we gonna get funky. Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” remix already has the world twerking in the mirror, but in case you need some more intricate dance moves, Keara Wilson, the creator of the original “Savage” dance, has […]
New York, NY – In today’s Hip Hop space, it’s not unusual for a rapper to be an actor, artist, and activist all at the same time — and it’s thanks to this environment that the actor Titus Makin is able to pursue a musical career under the Butterfly Ali moniker. But he insists that, […]
Both critically and commercially, the 80s and 90s were an unparalleled sweet spot for New York Hip Hop. As the rest of the world caught up, the Big Apple spent much of the 2000s stuck in an identity crisis with radio stations riding the southern wave heavy and many new artists unable to break out […]
RealStreetRadio Premiere – A 41-year-old New Jersey firefighter is tapping into his love for Wu-Tang Clan in an effort to relieve some of the COVID-19 stress in his community. Michael Sarno, who’s also an EMT and Afghanistan combat veteran, took it upon himself to remake the Wu’s 1992 classic “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthin To Fuck […]
“Deepfakes” crafted with artificial intelligence are throwing a wrinkle into the murky world of copyright law. JAY-Z and Roc Nation filed a takedown request against YouTube channel Vocal Synthesis for impersonating Hov’s likeness with AI-generated deepfakes. The creator of the channel trained text-to-speech program Tacotron 2 to mimic Hov’s voice and eventually attracted the attention of the […]