While quarantine snacking has added a few extra pounds to the scale for a lot of people, Action Bronson has managed to do the opposite. The Lamb Over Rice rapper sat shirtless in his home as he spoke to TMZ over video chat on Wednesday (May 13), showing off what he says is a 50-pound […]
Seven years before the app TikTok came onto the scene, an unknown, Auto-Tuned, instantly likable pop singer who then went by Ke$ha gave us a hit called âTiK ToK.â As Ke$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, âTiK […]
Swizz Beatz loosely threw the idea around of contributing $1 million each to Hip Hop founders such as Kool Herc and Sugar Hill Gang while speaking to Joe Budden for Beatzâs Zone Radio earlier this week. Now, he’s doubling down and is clearly serious about making it happen. During an Instagram Live conversation with LL Cool […]
Music by the late rapper Pop Smoke will live on in a posthumous album coming out June 12. The Brooklyn artistâs manager Steven Victor posted an album cover and release date on Instagram Thursday afternoon. No official title has been announced. This is the rapperâs first album after breakout mixtapes Meet the Woo and Meet […]
Young Buck is officially out of Tennesseeâs Cheatham County Jail where he’s been since last December. The former G-Unit member made his return with an Instagram post on Wednesday (May 13). “#Emancipation = The Fact Or Process Of Being Set Free From Legal,Social,Or Political Restrictions ; Liberation,” he wrote in the caption. “NOW LETS GET […]
As musicians have set weekly or daily appointments for livestream performances to satisfy fans, BTS ARMY has had to settle for bits of content: a performance on James Corden here, some concert recordings from the vault there. Now, the superstar K-pop seven-piece has announced its first live concert from quarantine â but youâll have to […]
Leave it to talk show host Wendy Williams to say what everyone else is likely thinking. During Wednesday’s (May 13) episode of Wendy @ Home, Williams condemned Future for having yet another child, this time with baby mama number six (seven, eight?) Eliza Seraphin. She believes any woman who would have sex with the 36-year-old […]
Every pop musician worth their salt these days has a TikTok challenge for a song. (And some others make one anyway.) For Bad Bunny, thatâs the Abuela Challenge, which became popular when quarantine began in March: Fans play his Missy Elliottâsampling banger âSafaeraâ for their Spanish-speaking grandmothers and watch for their reactions to his raunchy […]
Tekashi, Tekashi, Tekashi â that’s the only name that seems to be popping up since the polarizing rapper made his return on Friday (May 8) with “GOOBA.” The 24-year-old Brooklyn native knows it too. “GOOBA” broke a YouTube record for most streams within a 24-hour period and his Instagram Live session reeled in a record-breaking […]
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If you thought Axl Rose was gonna stop publicly taunting Steve Mnuchin and the Trump Administration, then you were sorely mistaken. After prompting the Treasury Secretary to confuse the U.S. and Liberia last week, Rose and his bandmates have simply refused to take their foot off of the White Houseâs proverbial neck. Guns Nâ Roses […]
Beckett Cypher, Melissa Etheridgeâs son with former partner Julie Cypher, has died of causes related to opioid addiction. He was 21. Etheridgeâs team announced Cypherâs death on Wednesday evening her official Twitter account. âWeâre sad to inform you that Melissaâs son Beckett passed away and there will not be a Concerts From Home show today,â […]
The ridiculousness on Blueface’s Instagram is grabbing more attention than his actual music these days. In his latest social media shenanigans, the West Coast rapper filmed his baby mama raging outside of his home and breaking one of his windows. Blueface posted multiple clips of her wild outburst on Instagram Stories. In a portion of […]
Future has joined in on the whirlwind of antics that have surrounded Tekashi 6ix9ine since his release from prison. In a tweet shared on Wednesday (May 13), the “Life Is Good” rapper praised Rich The Kid â without naming him out loud â after Rich was spotted on set of a music video in New […]
New York City, NY – After a lengthy hiatus following 2009âs Perkinsâ 14, award-winning filmmaker Craig Singer is releasing his new horror film 6:45 this fall. A gripping psychological thriller that loosely follows the concept of Groundhog Day, the movie features an eclectic cast, including Hip Hop star Remy Ma. “It was fun,” Remy says of […]
Boosie Badazz will soon be bringing his antics to reality television. In a recent interview with Vlad TV, the outspoken Baton Rouge rapper revealed he already has a show about his life in the can â an it’s going to be a really good one. “I got the best reality show you ever seen,” Boosie […]
The mother of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s daughter Sara Molina has been an ongoing part of his saga since the beginning. After going on Instagram Live earlier this month and claiming 6ix9ine raped and abused her, she later insisted he’s a “marked man.” But evidently two can play at this game. On Wednesday (May 12), DJ Akademiks […]
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 â80s and â90s and an integral stepping stone for black music icons like Sean âPuff Daddyâ Combs, […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine is back like he never left. The controversial rap figure made his grand return on Friday (May 8) with a video for “GOOBA” and set a new YouTube record for the most streams in 24 hours, smashing a record previously held by Eminem. But evidently, he wasn’t done there. According to a press […]
Even Chrissy Lampkin had to laugh at a meme poking fun at her and longtime boyfriend Jim Jones’ delay to walk down the aisle. The meme joked the COVID-19 lockdown will be in effect until Jones finally marries her. After it went viral earlier this week, Lampkin shared it to her page on Tuesday (May […]
Todayâs distraction from the worldâs impending doom came in the form of Entertainment Weeklyâs Pride Month issue, which has a cover that can generously be described as âsocially-distanced.â Rather than staging a photo shoot (which can still be done), the magazine ordered an illustration of a party featuring 18 past and present LGBTQ stars. And […]
While Rihanna has spent the pandemic saving the world, Ariana Grande is spending it like the rest of us â waiting for a new Rihanna album. âIâm really glad that sheâs putting in so much effort. It means a lot,â Grande told Zane Lowe of the wait for R9, in an interview promoting her Justin […]
Everyday Struggle co-host DJ Akademiks has been riding for Tekashi 6ix9ine since “GUMMO” exploded in 2017. Their close relationship put him at the center of controversy following 6ix9ine’s November 2018 arrest when Aks was accused of being a “snitch” in the now infamous racketeering case. Days after 6ix9ine was taken into custody, Aks denied any […]
Young Buck has been sitting behind bars at Tennessee’s Cheatham County Jail since last December. The former G-Unit member was taken into custody as a “fugitive from justice” due to an outstanding child abandonment warrant. Now, AllHipHop reports he’s filed for bankruptcy in what could be an effort to evade a sizable debt to his […]
With this yearâs Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony postponed until November due to the coronavirus pandemic (Cleveland in the late fall, what a treat), the powers that be decided to tide us over with some rock history in the meantime. As alerted to us by Consequence of Sound, over the past few […]
As the Verzuz platform heats up on Instagram Live, Swizz Beatz is brainstorming with his peers to come up with the next potential battle. During a recent Live conversation with Joe Budden for Beatzâs Zone Radio, the veteran producer threw around the idea of pitting Rakim against Big Daddy Kane in a “verses only” battle. […]
Charli XCX is levitating a couple of feet over a DJ booth. âMy fans like pop music and poppers. Guess they really know whatâs uppppp!â 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 sheâs calling âGen- eration,â the […]
Following a very busy Motherâs Day, Future kept the ball rolling with a surprise announcement today that his new album, High Off Life, will drop this Friday, May 15. The album, which was originally titled Life Is Good after his chart-topping single with Drake, will feature Travis Scott, DaBaby, Young Thug, Meek Mill, NBA YoungBoy, […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine attempted to donate $200,000 to the No Kid Hungry nonprofit but was politely shut down. In a statement to RealStreetRadio, No Kid Hungryâs director of strategic communications Laura Washburn explained, “Our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values.” Well, apparently 6ix9ine can’t wrap his around […]
Common will be taking his talents to the small screen amid the quarantine. The Chicago-bred rapper/actor will appear on the latest mini-episode of the Fraggle Rock: Rock On!, which is streaming for free on Apple TV+. And there are no worries about Common potentially exposing himself to COVID-19 on set either. All of the mini-episodes […]