RealStreetRadio Premiere – Sun God comes from Hip Hop royalty. As the son of Ghostface Killah, the Staten Island native witnessed first-hand the hard work and dedication it takes to succeed in the music industry. Now, he’s continuing the Wu-Tang Clan lineage and applying that same work ethic to his own career. While he’s also […]
Early Wednesday morning, on February 19, up-and-coming Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed at the home he was renting in the Hollywood Hills. Real name Bashar Barakah Jackson, Pop Smoke was on the forefront of Brooklynâs exploding drill movement, paving the way with hits like âWelcome to the Partyâ and âDior.â His second […]
Fancy going down a rabbit hole? Child star turned Rilo Kiley front woman turned solo storyteller extraordinaire Jenny Lewis stopped by those remarkably small tables and chairs at NPRâs Tiny Desk Concert. Lewis invited the entire audience to sing along to the first track, âRabbit Hole,â from her recent album On the Line. âThat songâs […]
Lil Uzi Vert dropped the follow-up to âFutsal Shuffle 2020â on Sunday, and this new single is designed to take you back, way back, all the way back to 1999, when your favorite â90s boy band hit was born. (Or depending on your age, when your child or parentâs favorite â90s boy band hit was […]
Days after Flavor Flav attempted to stop the Bernie Sanders campaign from advertising a Public Enemy performance at the Senatorâs Sunday night rally, the group has reportedly dismissed the long-time member and hypeman. âPublic Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,â the group said in a statement Sunday, as reported […]
As always, Drake remains full of surprises, dropping two songs and a double video for his new tracks, âWhen to Say Whenâ and âChicago Freestyle,â on Saturday night. Not as surprising? The actual songs, which are as quintessentially Drake as always. While the rapper might namecheck the Windy City in one of the titles, the […]
Get ready to ride âtil you canât no more. While just last week Megan Thee Stallion was hoping to release her upcoming album Suga on May 2, allegedly her attempt to renegotiate her contract with one of her two labels has resulted in a freeze on her planned release, putting your Hot Girl Summer plans […]
Megan Thee Stallion has started using #FREEMEG and #FREETHEESTALLION hashtags on social media due to a dispute with her label 1501 Certified Entertainment. According to Hot Girl Meg, the company is preventing her from putting out new music after she attempted to renegotiate her contract. “When I signed, I didn’t really know what was in […]
The Oscars were still so white for 2020âs slate of nominees, with the most glaring omission arguably being Jennifer Lopezâs work as a prolific stripper (and foxy scammer) in the female gaze-y Hustlers. Likely being that she had a performance of a lifetime to prepare for in the weeks following the nominee announcement, J.Lo never […]
New Orleans, LA – New Orleans bounce artist Vockah Redu has launched a GoFundMe after he was robbed in his hometown. According to the GoFundMe description, the window of his vehicle was smashed in and the thieves made off with a beat machine, theremin and stage case. “Until it’s replaced, I won’t be able to […]
Kanye West, as you may have heard, semi-recently rebranded as a sort of pastor. He stages a weekly Sunday Service for groups of select churchgoers, for example Justin Bieber and Brad Pitt and the people of Coachella. This being fashion month, and West being a very fashion guy, he brought the experience to Paris, holding a surprise Sunday Service early […]
The eternally hip frontman of the Cars, Ric Ocasek, died at the age of 75 last year, with his body being discovered in his Manhattan home by his wife of several decades, the Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova. The couple had announced in 2017 that they were separating, and began divorce proceedings in the weeks leading […]
To all the punks who are reading this but didnât bother seeing David Byrne and his monochromatic pals in American Utopia: Well, lucky you, because American Utopia is actually coming back in a few months. But thatâs not the point. We donât want to reward your procrastination. But we guess we have to, anyway, because […]
Having a quiet night in listening to Glass Houses? Hoping to one day prove your undivided loyalty to Sir William Joel, the titular Piano Man? Well, he just jacked up his home security system thanks to a recent burglary hit (a few motorcycles were vandalized, nothing serious), and heâs really hoping to test it out. […]
Mobile, AL – Since its inception nearly a decade ago, Think It’s A Game Records (TIG) has consistently illuminated polarizing southern rap talents â most notably kickstarting the careers of YFN Lucci and Rich Homie Quan. Now, with a loaded roster of young blood and the same tenacity for beaconing from the south, TIG has […]
Public EnemyRadio â P.E. mastermind Chuck D, DJ Lord, Jahi and the S1Ws â is performing at a Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles on Sunday (March 1), but evidently that didn’t sit well with Flavor Flav. On Friday (February 28), Flav’s team blasted the notion and insisted the Flavor Of Love reality TV star doesn’t […]
New York, NY – Eminem’s #GodzillaChallenge has rap hopefuls and established MCs giving it their all. Bizzy Bone tried it (and kind of missed point), while countless aspiring rappers sent in their entries in an attempt to beat â or at least come close to â the 224 words Em spits in 31 seconds on […]
Surely you remember the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It happened only a few weeks ago and arguably clinched the win for butts that evening. Many viewers heartily enjoyed the spectacle, a sexy sprint through Jennifer Lopezâs and Shakiraâs greatest hits. There was athletic dancing, there was a pointed message of support for Puerto Rico, and […]
AndrĂ© 3000 was spotted several times around the country playing a flute last year. One lucky fan snapped a photo of him playing it at an airport, while another caught him wandering around in Philly putting musical notes into the air and taking photos with his fans. During a recent interview with Complex, Madlib â […]
Forget celebrities reacting to Eminem at the Oscars. Try Nicki reacting to drag queens on RuPaulâs Drag Race. Televisionâs greatest drag-based reality competition series had its Season 12 premiere last night, and in proud Drag Race tradition, it invited an A-list royal to be the first guest judge of the season. Nicki Minaj, she of […]
The calendar gods have gifted you with an extra day this Leap Year, and now you can spend it enjoying Bad Bunnyâs new album YHLQMDLG. The title stands for the phrase âYo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana,â which roughly translates to, as the rapper told Jimmy Fallon while visiting the Tonight Show Thursday […]
Four months after filing a lawsuit rejecting their claim on her number-one hit song âTruth Hurts,â producers Justin Raisen, Jeremiah Raisen and Justin âYvesâ Rothman have filed a lawsuit claiming they once helped co-create a Lizzo song called âHealthyâ that they allege is, well, maybe not 100% that song, but similar enough to âTruth Hurtsâ […]
Atlanta, GA – Lil Baby has reloaded and dropped his sophomore album My Turn and relinked with Gunna in the video for the LP’s lead single “Heatin’ Up” on Friday (February 28). In the Jon J.-directed visual, the frequent Atlanta-based collaborators who have created hits such as “Drip Too Hard,” “Ready” and “Deep End” display how they’ve […]
The aftershock brought forth by Lil Nas X continues to permeate the culture. Up next, the mysterious RMR has made a serious social media indent with his debut single ‘Rascal,’ which has amassed 15,000 views on YouTube with nearly new 1,000 subscribers within its first 24 hours of existence. His Instagram, in all its three-post […]
Atlanta, GA – Physical fitness expert and one-half of dead prez Stic released his third solo album Workout II on Friday (February 28). It’s the follow-up to his 2011 album that burgeoned his own lifestyle music subgenre called “Fit Hop” which focuses on his passion for healthy living and exercise. âItâs all about putting in the […]
Whether its a street race, a heist, the big basketball game, or just a presidential run, rapper Roddy Ricch just canât stop winning in the new video for his viral hit âThe Box,â which comes from his debut album Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial. Co-created with Christian Breslauer, the visual follows Ricchâs unstoppable success […]
Tee Grizzley wasn’t expecting to find out Royce Da 5’9 discouraged Eminem from collaborating with him on Shady’s recent Music To Be Murdered By album â but that’s exactly what happened. During an interview with The Breakfast Club, Nickle Nine revealed he told Em not to put Tee on the album because they didn’t want […]
Kelly âHas the Rangeâ Clarkson is back at it again with another perfect Kellyoke cover on The Kelly Clarkson Show. This time, itâs a silky-smooth rendition of Whitney Houstonâs âRun to You,â proving once and for all that we donât need a posthumous Whitney Houston hologram; just a generous touring package for Clarkson. Clarkson gets […]
Shakespeare said âAll the worldâs a stage,â but admittedly some of us have dirty bathroom mirrors and others have NCAA gymnastics routines. Nia Dennis, a junior at UCLA, just went viral for her BeyoncĂ© Homecoming-inspired floor routine and she deserves every like and retweet. In between gravity-defying jumps and tumbling passes, Dennis flips her hair, […]
Houston, TX – An army of ambitious rappers have tackled Eminem’s #GodzillaChallenge in hopes of beating, or at least coming close to, the 224 words Shady spits in 31 seconds on the Music To Be Murdered By single “Godzilla” featuring the late Juice Wrld. Now, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony OG Bizzy Bone is throwing his hat in the […]