Nearly 10 months after Nipsey Hussle’s March 31 shooting death, his final album Victory Lap has reportedly been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The Grammy Award-nominated project was initially released last February and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, selling roughly 53,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. Following […]
The 17-year-old concertgoer who YG booted off stage during San Antonio’s Mala Luna Music Festival for not yelling “Fuck Trump” is speaking out. Austin Joyner addressed the October 2019 incident Twitter on Friday night (January 10) and included a letter he wrote directly to the Compton-bred rapper. In his post, he accused YG of putting a […]
Miami, FL – Trick Daddy was reportedly arrested on Saturday morning (January 11) in Miami-Dade, Florida after what sounds like a wild night at the club. According to the Miami Herald, an officer responded to a report of a driver of a dark colored Range Rover was hitting signs and running red lights around 3:20 […]
One caused her pain, but enough about Grammys executive producer Ken Ehrlich. Last year was last year, and based Ariana Grande’s social media accounts on Saturday, there’s no hard feelings between her and the Grammys. Or at least, if there are, they’re not hard enough to keep her from taking the awards show’s stage later […]
Los Angeles, CA – Smokepurpp recently stopped by the RealStreetRadio offices in Hollywood to talk about his career, which has evolved from uploading tracks on Soundcloud to working with Gucci Mane and Kanye West. During the conversation, Purpp revealed he removed a Kanye verse from his new album Deadstar 2 because he knew the song […]
50 Cent is evidently pleased Oprah Winfery is no longer executive producing a forthcoming documentary about Russell Simmons. On Friday (January 10), only hours after the news broke Winfrey had stepped away, the Power mogul headed to Instagram to express his gratitude toward the talk show queen. “Alright, alright, alright Oprah we love you, thank […]
And the ants are marching … to victory! Dave Matthews Band have scored themselves a formidable win in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s fan vote, clinching the top spot with just over 1 million votes. (The final day of voting was Friday, January 10.) The band is followed by Pat Benatar, the Doobie […]
While some will always see reggae artist Shaggy as merely the genius insisting it wasn’t him having sex butt-naked on the bathroom floor in front of your very eyes (it was some sort of infidelity optical illusion!), the Jamaican musician is, in fact, a critically-acclaimed two-time Grammy Award winner for Best Reggae Album thanks to […]
Neil Peart, the idiosyncratic drummer and lyricist of prog-rock band Rush, has died at age 67, according to family spokesperson Elliot Mintz. Peart died in Santa Monica, California, on Tuesday, after a battle with brain cancer. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Peart joined bandmates Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson in 1974. On albums like Fly by […]
New York, NY – During his time on a recent episode of Drink Champs, Memphis Bleek described his part in the infamous Nas and JAY-Z beef and recalled feeling like he could take on Nas in the booth. “I was on fire at that time! Feeling myself, nuts hangin’ in the hood,” he recalled. Besides being […]
Los Angeles, CA – Mally Mall has found himself on the wrong side of the law once again. According to TMZ, the veteran producer has been accused of drugging and raping 26-year-old fitness and clothing model Quashay Davis. She says she met up with Mally at his Los Angeles home last January to discuss her fitness […]
Rumors of an upcoming Eminem album have been swirling for months — and it turns out there’s a good reason for that. According to producer S1, Slim Shady has indeed been cooking up lots of new material in the studio. During a recent interview with HHNM, the seasoned beatsmith talked about some of his upcoming […]
Detroit, Mi – As fans of bubbling Detroit rapper Ty Farris will attest to, his No Cosign Just Cocaine series has undoubtedly become his calling card. Currently No. 1 on Bandcamp in the underground Hip Hop category, the third (and likely not final) installment of the series carries the torch with the same endurance as Rocky […]
People typically love a good diss track and over the years, there have been plenty to keep Hip Hop fans entertained — from Drake vs. Pusha T and Machine Gun Kelly vs. Eminem to, more recently, Nick Cannon vs. Eminem. Now, it looks like Drake wants to go to war with Kanye West. On his […]
The path to Selena Gomez’s third album has been beset on all sides by hardships. Gomez has fought a battle with lupus that led to intensive therapy, kidney transplant surgery, and cruel internet speculation about fluctuations in her weight. There were makeups and breakups with high-profile exes Justin Bieber and the Weeknd, whose Purpose and […]
Atlanta, GA – The A3C Festival & Conference and iHipHop Distribution have reconvened for the ninth installment of their annual compilation series. Simply titled A3C Volume 9, the project will also commemorate A3C’s 15-year anniversary as a festival rooted in showcasing emerging artists from across the country. To kick off the annual series, the masterminds behind A3C Volume 9 […]
There’s no such thing as too much information on Selena Gomez’s new album, Rare. It’s been nearly five years since her last album, Revival, and frankly, we have a lot to catch up on. In the last half-decade, Gomez has gotten back together with Justin Bieber, dated the Weeknd, battled with her mental and physical […]
Rapsody has resurfaced with a new video for “Afeni” featuring Grammy Award-winning R&B singer PJ Morton, one of 16 tracks on the women-empowering EVE. The song, which is named after Tupac Shakur’s mother Afeni, begins with a video clip of ‘Pac spitting part of “Keep Ya Head Up” acapella style at Marcus Garvey School in […]
Nelly fans are probably going to want to saddle up and book their ticket to Bonnaroo. The 2000s rap staple will be performing his entire debut album Country Grammar at the four-day music festival in June. Comprised of hits such as “Country Grammar (Hot Shit),” “E.I.,” “Ride Wit Me” and “Batter Up,” Country Grammar was released 20 […]
Fame, at least lasting fame — the your-work-goes-down-in-history kind, often accompanied by fat royalty payments — is a club that thinks of itself as an unbiased meritocracy, blind to everything but aesthetic innovation and popular success. It’s never quite worked out that way. When we look at the past, we still see generations of great […]
If anyone’s looking for a particularly devastating song to do for karaoke in front of an ex, I recommend Halsey’s latest single. In “You should be sad,” she sings “I’m so glad I never, ever had a baby with you/Cuz you can’t love someone unless there’s something in it for you.” Damn! Halsey made yeehaw […]
Ozzy Osbourne’s collaboration-heavy new album, Ordinary Man, features some semi-likely collaborators. Post Malone, Slash, the drummer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers that looks like Will Ferrell. But on the title track, Ozzy is sharing the mic with none other than Sir Elton John. Whodathunkit? In the 70’s, these two working together would most likely […]
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is just adding superwoman after superwoman to the team. Normani and Megan Thee Stallion dropped the first single off the film’s soundtrack, concurrently with the release of all the other artists who will appear on the album. Besides Normani and Megan, we’ll have Doja Cat, Saweetie, […]
Superfly’s Director X has provided us with another music video where Drake meets the masses. Only this time, he’s one of them. The video for “Life is Good” shows Future and featured performer Drake trying out menial labor for a change. If you’ve ever wondered what Future and Drake would look like as -Garbage Men–Apple […]
Selena Gomez has returned effulgent on RARE, her new all-caps declaration of self-love. On tracks like “Lose You to Love Me” and “Look at her Now,” Gomez has been opening up about how life and love in the spotlight has negatively affected her sense of worth. The album was announced in November, and the title […]
Unsurprisingly, the drama continues to unfold for disgraced R&B artist R. Kelly, as earlier on Wednesday the police were called to his condo in Chicago’s Trump Tower to break up a fight between his former girlfriends, 22-year-old Azriel Clary and 23-year-old Joycelyn Savage. The fight between the women, who once sat side-by-side defending R. Kelly, […]
Uncle Murda has dropped a second volume of Don’t Come Outside. The first entry in the series was released when the Brooklyn-bred rapper used Lenny Grant as his stage name in 2017. Don’t Come Outside Vol. 2 includes 12 tracks. Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Jadakiss, Styles P, Tory Lanez and Dave East are […]
OG Maco is back with a new album titled Maco Got That Flame. The Atlanta-bred rapper’s latest release is executive produced by LORDFUBU, who’s known for his work with A$AP Ant and Divine Council. Maco Got That Flame is the follow-up to last year’s Legends Live Forever project with Kino Beats. D4L member 2$ Fabo […]
Quando Rondo has dropped his major label debut QPac. The Atlantic Records artist’s album serves as the follow-up to 2019’s From The Neighborhood To The Stage mixtape. The Georgia native’s latest project is comprised of 18 tracks. Guests include 2 Chainz, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Lil Durk, Polo G and Luh Kel. View Rondo’s […]
Mick Jenkins has started off his 2020 campaign by dropping a new solo release titled The Circus. The Cinematic Music Group artist’s seven-track set is his first project since the Pieces Of A Man album, which dropped in October 2018. The Chicago-based MC’s EP-sized project includes production by Black Milk, Hit-Boy, Bizness Boi, DJ FU, […]