Summer Walker usually turns heads on social media but in a recent clip, the Over It singer had fans wondering if she had done something to her face. Despite her showing off her best assets in the Instagram video, fans looked at her nose and believed that she had done something to her face. One commenter […]
The Rock’s got moves like Breezy — well, sort of. Having some fun during what looked like a workout routine on Thursday (May 14), Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tried his hand at a Chris Brown number from a recent show to the I Heart Memphis’ “track Hit The Quan.” Clear impressed, Brown shared a side-by-side […]
As drive-in concerts have become an appetizing alternative to waiting for live music to return, Keith Urban proved that you can even stage a good old-fashioned secret show at a drive-in. And we’re okay with not being on the guest list for this one — Urban performed exclusively for over 200 medical workers from Nashville’s […]
Mike Hadreas didn’t listen to show tunes before he became stuck at home. Lately, though, the musician has started his days quarantining in Los Angeles by listening to Sinead O’Connor’s cover of “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” from the musical Evita. “There’s something satisfying to it to me right now, because I’m stuck here but […]
El-P, our resident rap doomsayer, warned us that everything was going to shit long before it got there. As a solo artist, a producer, a member of the rap groups Company Flow and now Run the Jewels, and the former head of the venerable hip-hop label Def Jux, El-P, born Jaime Meline, built a sturdy […]
From her 2014 debut mixtape, Cloud 19, to her just-released sophomore effort It Was Good Until It Wasn’t, Kehlani‘s consistent growth has been tangible. Her lyrical content has gotten stronger as her accolades simultaneously mount up. Of course, fame has its downsides, too. Coming into stardom while still learning and growing on a personal level […]
Seven years before the app TikTok came onto the scene, an unknown, Auto-Tuned, instantly likable pop singer who then went by Ke$ha gave us a hit called “TiK ToK.” As Ke$ha became Kesha, the inspirational, fun-loving pop star, TikTok became a Gen-Z phenomenon, reviving old songs and launching new ones with bite-sized challenges. Now, “TiK […]
Every pop musician worth their salt these days has a TikTok challenge for a song. (And some others make one anyway.) For Bad Bunny, that’s the Abuela Challenge, which became popular when quarantine began in March: Fans play his Missy Elliott–sampling banger “Safaera” for their Spanish-speaking grandmothers and watch for their reactions to his raunchy […]
We’re committed to keeping our readers informed. We’ve removed our paywall from essential coronavirus news stories. Become a subscriber to support our journalists. now. Just off Columbus Avenue, a self-appointed DJ pulled up to an extra-wide sidewalk and greeted the weekend by blasting salsa from his car stereo. A small crowd gathered to dance at a […]
Hip-hop lost a visionary thinker and a lifelong tastemaker over the weekend in the late Andre Harrell, founder of the seminal hip-hop label Uptown Records, home to a number of the architects of the new-jack-swing revolution of the ’80s and ’90s and an integral stepping stone for black music icons like Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs, […]
Charli XCX is levitating a couple of feet over a DJ booth. “My fans like pop music and poppers. Guess they really know what’s uppppp!” she drawls like an automaton with vocal fry. Air horns pierce through the torchlit rave dungeon. As she reaches the chorus of a new demo she’s calling “Gen- eration,” the […]
Houston, TX – YoungBoy Never Broke Again‘s sold-out show at Houston’s Revention Music Center on March 6 was one of the city’s last concerts before the pandemic. Just hours after Austin’s SXSW was canceled — soon to be followed by festivals and concerts nationwide — the 20-year-old rapper turned up on stage with around 700 […]
For over a decade, Hayley Williams sold gale-force emotional reckoning as the lead singer of Paramore, one of the most successful bands on the forefront of the mainstream emo revolution of the middle aughts. Hard-charging riffs carried her sweeping vocals and incisive lyrics across the country, building the band’s profile through endless touring. Paramore stayed […]
Pioneering, flamboyant, eccentric — Little Richard was all these things, and then some. And just as his anarchic performances suggested, the late legend was just as wild away from the piano, living a life full of sex, drugs, spirituality, generosity, sex, bravado, kindness, and some more sex. The immediate outpouring following his May 9 death […]
As the planet reels in anxiety and grief, Matty Healy sounds surprisingly calm, almost as if he’d expected this, or certainly hadn’t been entirely surprised by it. “It is a very, very odd time,” he says over the phone from the recording studio in the English countryside where he’s been quarantining with the drummer-producer George […]
At the end of one of the most thrilling Billboard chart races we’ve had since “Old Town Road,” Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj’s “Say So” remix earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, beating out Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” remix with Beyoncé. “Say So” leaped from its No. 6 spot. (Both Bey […]
Part rapper, part singer, and part heir to the throne of BET Uncut, Ontario hip-hop star Tory Lanez has carved out a unique path to fame that began as an overactive youth bouncing between family in Montreal, Toronto, New York, and Atlanta, then broke big thanks in part to Chixtape, a mixtape series on the […]
RealStreetRadio – This week in Hip Hop, Tekashi 6ix9ine made a viral return to Instagram Live and premiered his new single and video, “GOOBA.” Also, T.I., Snoop Dogg, Meek Mill and others demanded justice for 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was gunned down by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael back in February. Finally, DMX said he […]
Lil Wayne‘s Young Money Radio program on Apple Music has already nabbed some major guests from the likes of Shaq, Kevin Durant, Drake, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and more. On the show’s latest episode, Tunechi decided to bring another legend on to discuss the songwriting process and more: Eminem. During their 15-minute chat, the two make an […]
Andre Harrell, the innovative music exec who founded Uptown Records and discovered a young Sean “Diddy” Combs, has died. He was 59. The news of Harrell’s death was announced during DJ D-Nice’s nightly Club Quarantine Instagram Live mix. The cause of Harrell’s death is currently unknown. Harrell’s vision helped bring the sounds of New Jack Swing […]
The 6ix9ine saga jumped through the looking glass last fall when he escaped federal racketeering and firearm charges by pleading guilty and appearing as the star witness for the prosecution during the trial against the Nine Trey Bloods — the set he shouted out throughout his meteoric rise to rap stardom, fueled by the thunderous […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine has returned with his first single and video — “GOOBA” — since being released from prison last month. Last week, the polarizing rapper announced something big was happening on Friday (May 8) and evidently, this is it. Prior to the video drop, 6ix9ine showed off a huge ad for the single in Times […]
Ariana Grande subtly (and philanthropically) confirmed her relationship with Dalton Gomez in the music video for “Stuck With U,” her coronavirus relief song with Justin Bieber. And if you’re thinking “Dalton Gomez? Who?” That’s exactly what she wants. At the end of the music video, which featured sweet clips of fans, the Biebers, and other […]
Earlier this March, Kehlani was scheduled to meet with her record label. She was preparing to put out her second album — her first since having a baby and a return to her R&B roots. There was a plan to open on Justin Bieber’s Changes tour, along with a number of dreamy solo dates. Executives […]
E-40 has put out an incredible amount of music over the last decade, dropping 19 full-length albums since 2010. The Bay Area Hip Hop legend is dialing it back a bit though with the release of The Curb Commentator Channel 1 EP. The veteran MC’s new project only contains five songs, making the project more […]
Atlanta, GA – 2 Chainz has reportedly reopened his Atlanta-based restaurants, while the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation predicts a 140 percent increase in coronavirus deaths in Georgia by August. Gov. Brian Kemp allowed for restaurants to resume their dine-in service on April 27 and, despite initially postponing the reopening, 2 Chainz fully opened both […]
When I speak with Caleb Landry Jones about his debut album, The Mother Stone, he’s talking on his flip phone from his family home in Texas. He doesn’t use folksy turns of phrase or an overabundance of y’alls, but the Texas in his voice sneaks up when gerunds cut off at just the ’n’ and […]
Willie D was once again a guest on VladTV where he was asked about a cartoon made about Chamillionaire’s contentious interaction with NBA legend Michael Jordan in 2009. After showing a clip of the cartoon, the Geto Boys MC weighed in on the alleged incident. “The thing is, I’m nowhere on his success level in terms […]
DMX wants to continue his battles with JAY-Z with a clash in Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz series. During an appearance on the Drink Champs podcast, N.O.R.E. spoke to X about participating in the popular Instagram Live phenomenon. When questioned about a potential opponent, the Ruff Ryders veteran had a simple answer. “Jay,” he said. […]
When Hayley Williams started the pop-punk group Paramore at 15, all she wanted was to be in a band with her best guy friends. And for a while, that’s what she did. But as she grew into an icon for emo kids, touring worldwide and releasing platinum albums with her band, Paramore was disintegrating. The […]