Austin, TX – The surviving members of the Beastie Boys — Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horvitz — have been forced to pull of Austin’s annual South By Southwest music festival due to the coronavirus. The two Hip Hop pioneers were scheduled to participate in the film portion of the event to discuss […]
Dua Lipa has predicted the latest trend: canceling group-fitness classes over coronavirus concerns and getting well fit in the comfort of your own apartment/quarantine chamber. That has to be the reason why she released the “Let’s Get Physical Work Out Video” today, after already releasing a somewhat less interactive music video for her single, “Physical” […]
Record Store Day falls on April 18 this year and Eminem is ready for it. On Thursday (March 5), the Hip Hop giant fired off a tweet announcing “exclusive wax” for the annual event was on its way. “Exclusive wax for @recordstoreday 4/18 – Hi My Name Is / Bad Guys Always Die ft @drdre […]
RealStreetRadio Premiere – Vanderslice has recruited Windy City spitter Vic Spencer for “Cold Winter,” the first leak from Slice’s forthcoming Trendsetter EP. In addition to Spencer, the seven-track project boasts contributions from Ty Farris, G Perico, Daniel Son and Capo as well. “Cold Winter” is currently available on all digital platforms and serves as an […]
After all of the years and all the drama, Lil Uzi Vert's sophomore studio album Eternal Atake is finally here and it even came a couple of weeks early. The 18 track project only has one feature, Syd. Check it out. Uzi's debut album Luv Is Rage 2 did 135K first week. What do you think Eternal Atake […]
Grafh has linked up with DJ Green Lantern to drop The Oracle 3 mixtape. The duo’s project arrives 12 years after the previous entry in the series. The 15-track tape features collaborations with Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher, Bun B, Royce Da 5’9, KXNG Crooked, Rittz, JAG, Hopsin and Dope Gang Porter. Production is […]
Florida-based rapper $NOT has dropped his first album titled – Tragedy +. The 300 Entertainment signee’s new LP arrives fresh off the end of his North American tour with Jasiah. The up-and-coming artist’s debut project features 12 tracks, including his breakthrough single “GOSHA” produced by YZ. Wifisfuneral, a fellow member of the Florida Hip Hop […]
King Von, who is signed to Lil Durk’s Only The Family imprint, has released a new album titled LeVon James. The Chicago-bred rapper’s latest work is executive produced by Chopsquad DJ. The 16-track LP features collaborations with Durk, G Herbo, Tee Grizzley, NLE Choppa, YNW Melly, Yungeen Ace and Booka600. related news King Von Shares […]
The Demi Lovato Come Back Tour continues. After over a year out of the limelight due to a relapse in July of 2018, Demi Lovato has spent 2020 reclaiming her space as one of pop music’s most talented vocalists. It began with an emotionally devastating and vocally flawless performance of her ballad “Anyone” at the […]
R. Kelly faces new legal troubles in Chicago, as authorities have ” very recently seized” over 100 electronic devices belonging to the disgraced R&B artist from a storage unit in suburban Chicago. Rolling Stone reports that on Thursday R. Kelly returned to court and plead not guilty to a revised 13 counts of federal charges […]
KXNG Crooked has unleashed a new batch of lyrical fireworks in the form of The Sixteen Chapel EP. The project kicks off Crook’s 2020 campaign after he spent last year churning out tracks every week as part of his Hip Hop Weekly series. The West Coast rapper’s latest project is comprised of five songs. The […]
DJ Kay Slay has dropped a new EP titled Living Legend. The project is the follow-up to 2019’s Hip Hop Frontline album. Like his past releases, the veteran DJ has recruited a stacked lineup of MCs for the EP. Guests include Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Bun B, Queen Latifah, The LOX, DJ Paul, Juicy J, Big […]
CJ Fly has released his debut album RUDEBWOY. Statik Selektah handles all of the production on the Pro Era member’s first solo LP. The Brooklyn-bred MC’s new project features 13 tracks. Guests include Conway The Machine and CJ’s fellow members of Pro Era. related news #DXCLUSIVE: CJ Fly Readies ‘RUDEBWOY’ Debut Album Release With ‘Grew […]
Megan Thee Stallion’s victorious legal battle against her record label 1501 Certified Entertainment continues to build an after story in wake of the verdict on Thursday (March 5). After Rap-A-Lot Records founder J. Prince dismissed his name being included in the suit as “lies and stupidity,” Hot Girl Meg proceeded to defend her honor to […]
Katy Perry dropped the music video for her ballad “Never Worn White” at midnight on Thursday, and used it to reveal that she and fiancé Orlando Bloom are pregnant with their first child. Perry’s fans are obviously very excited about both the baby and the new single, and Perry called into SiriusXM Hits 1 to […]
Los Angeles, CA – Former Top Dawg Entertainment President Dave Free’s next venture since leaving the label in 2019 has been revealed — and it’s a collaboration with his longtime homie, Kendrick Lamar. View this post on Instagram pg-lang.com A post shared by pgLang (@pg.lang) on Mar 5, 2020 at 8:48am PST On Thursday (March […]
Our most beloved talented musicians are positively obsessed with stringing fans along by releasing every imaginable type of project but new music. The latest to do so? Kendrick Lamar. And his nonmusic passion? It isn’t menswear. It isn’t a fragrance, or a memoir, or making a feature-length kung-fu film. It’s … global, multilingual, creative media […]
Atlanta, GA – Lil Baby returned to Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday (March 4) where he donated $150,000 for the newly established My Turn Scholarship fund. With the help of Amazon Music’s Rap Rotation, Quality Control Music, Wolfpack Global and Motown Records, the scholarship will be awarded annually to a […]
Miami, FL – It’s been nearly three months since Nick Cannon and Eminem engaged in a mostly one-sided beef. But naturally, it’s still a topic of conversation whenever the Wild ‘N Out host sits down for an interview. During a recent conversation with Miami’s 99 Jamz radio, Cannon suggested the situation was too much for […]
Megan Thee Stallion took to ESPN, a natural platform for any rising musical artist, to chat about her faith in the Houston Rockets’ postseason performance. But for those abreast of her recent record-label drama, the ESPN talk-show appearance was also a sly takedown of 1501 Certified Entertainment label CEO Carl Crawford, a former MLB star, […]
Houston, TX – J. Prince was among the defendants named in Megan Thee Stallion’s recent lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment. The statuesque rapper claimed she was in a bunk contract and once she tried to renegotiate, she said they decided to prevent her from releasing new music on Friday (March 6) as she’d planned. Now, the Rap-A-Lot […]
New York, NY – 50 Cent appeared to get the last laugh after NYPD Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez — the cop who allegedly told his fellow officers to shoot the Power exec “on sight” — was demoted. Fiddy headed to Instagram on Wednesday (March 4) to gloat about the news. “Remember this guy Commanding officer […]
We can never hold that much of a grudge against the pop savant who gifted our planet with “Oblivion” and Art Angels, but Grimes’s relationship with billionaire industrialist–mad scientist Elon Musk has certainly alienated some of her fans. The very online singer-producer-dater-of-Musk knows this and addresses the political dissonance of her relationship in a recent […]
RealStreetRadio Premiere – As “Tick Tok” inched toward 100,000 streams, two of the masterminds behind the song — Bay Area artists Tree Thomas and IAMSU! — decided to make a video for the Hefnagwap-produced track. The result is a collection of random fan videos made with the TikTok app that are interspersed throughout the visual as […]
De La Soul and Tommy Boy Records had a very public dispute over contract negotiations last year. In a recent interview with Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Posdnuos hinted a reconciliation with their original label was possibly in the works, but he didn’t outline the details of what that means. “(Tommy Boy) sort of came back to […]
New York, NY – Royce Da 5’9 caught a lot of people off guard when he publicly dissed Yelawolf on The Allegory single “Overcomer” last month. The song — which found the Motor City MC calling Yelawolf a “vulture” and “punk ass” — led to a brief e-battle between Nickle Nine and the Alabama-bred rapper, […]
Demi Lovato cried seeing her 27th birthday cake and it wasn’t just because cake is a heavenly food. The singer and Quibi host revealed on The Ellen Show that her previous management team would “control” her diet so much that she was never allowed to have things like birthday cake. Their control, which included removing […]
Washington, D.C.’s own LB199X closed out 2019 by dropping his COLOR US EP. A few months after its release, the Guin Records artist revisits the project with a video for the Ayaana Nash-assisted cut “Sorry.” “‘Sorry’ represents who I’m becoming as a writer, creator, musician and artist,” LB199X tells RealStreetRadio. “‘Sorry’ is a statement to […]
Young Dolph has made it quite clear he’s ending his career as an artist after clearing out his Instagram account and hinting at hanging up his trapper microphone. “I’m done doing music so I can go kick it with my son,” Dolph told Complex on Wednesday (March 4). Thursday (March 5) also marks the Memphis […]
Miami, FL – DaBaby has cleared one hurdle in the case of an alleged beatdown and robbery of a concert promoter. According to TMZ, the Miami State Attorney’s Office is dropping the battery charge against the Interscope Records artist and 2019 RealStreetRadio Rapper of the Year. The charge was dropped after promoter Kenneth Carey’s friend, […]