OT Genasis is back at it this time parodying Vanessa Carlton’s Grammy-nominated single “A Thousand Miles.” On Thursday (January 9) OT Genasis unleashed his new single “Tonight” with a hilarious video on YouTube. The video shows Genasis inside a penthouse hitting the keys of a grand piano as he gives deep, over the shoulder looks […]
Last week, Justin Bieber was roundly mocked for sharing a graphic on his Instagram page that instructed fans on how to game streaming numbers in an effort to get his new (uh) ode to marital relations, “Yummy,” to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It included tips like “Create a playlist with ‘Yummy’ on […]
RealStreetRadio – This week in Hip Hop, Drake and Future released the video for their much-anticipated “Life Is Good” single. Also, Lil Fizz and Apryl Jones reportedly broke up while French Montana continued his 50 Cent feud with papers allegedly proving his rival’s a snitch. Drake & Future Release “Life Is Good” Video View this […]
Shaggy turned down a chance to be on Rihanna’s next album for a not-so-obvious reason. The dancehall artist opted not to appear on the pop superstar’s upcoming LP because he had to audition for a spot. “They approached me for the Rihanna project, yeah,” Shaggy told the Daily Star. “There’s a lot of great people […]
Key Glock is capping off the first month of 2020 with some new music. The Young Dolph protégé is scheduled to drop a new solo project titled Yellow Tape on January 31. The upcoming release will be the Memphis-bred rapper’s first solo effort since 2018’s Glockoma mixtape. More recently, the Paper Route EMPIRE artist teamed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Redman still has fans waiting on his much-anticipated Muddy Waters Too LP, but the veteran MC is providing listeners with some new music to enjoy in 2020. Funk Doc has dropped a surprise EP titled 3 Joints to get the year rolling. Reggie Noble’s latest solo work comes after he teamed up with EDM producer […]
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, […]
Reggaeton phenom J. Balvin gave us the second in his “Colores” series of singles with “Morado.” If you can’t tell from the Prince-level violet that permeates the video, morado means “purple” in Spanish. Balvin sits atop a purple and gold throne (with purple ottoman,” kicks it with purple lawn ornaments in front of a CGI-enhanced […]
New Orleans, LA – 5th Ward Weebie, a prominent member of the New Orleans bounce scene, has died at the age of 42. The late rapper, whose real name was Jerome Cosey, passed away on Thursday (January 9) after being admitted to the hospital earlier in the week. According to fellow bounce artist and friend […]
Mac Miller’s family announced a posthumous album titled Circles was on its way earlier this week. Now, they’ve shared a video for “Good News,” a six-minute exploration of themes and images prevalent throughout the late musician’s career. Directed by Eric Tilford and Anthony Gaddis, the video begins with Miller in the studio. He opens a door and […]
“Good News,” the nearly six-minute single from Mac Miller’s first posthumous album, Circles, is a trippy, technicolor journey. The song and accompanying video, which arrives nearly a week before the album’s release on January 17, is a confessional exploration of themes present throughout Miller’s career. He lays down lyrics about fatigue and dreaming as images […]