Apple has acquired a Spike Jonze-directed documentary called Beastie Boys Story, which will dive into the lives of Ad-Rock, Mike D and the late MCA. The film is set to premiere around the 26th anniversary of Beastie Boys’ No. 1 Billboard 200 album, 1994’s Ill Communication, and again reunites the surviving Beasties with Jonze who famously directed the motley trio’s “Sabotage” […]
Los Angeles, CA – Run-DMC and Aerosmith will be teaming up once again. According to Variety, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are reuniting for a performance at the 2020 Grammy Awards on January 26. The iconic groups famously collaborated on a remake of Aerosmith’s 1975 single “Walk This Way” for Run-DMC’s 1986 album […]
Machine Gun Kelly is venturing outside of Hip Hop for his next album, which now has a title. In a brief clip from an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the Interscope Records rapper said his upcoming pop-punk LP will be called Tickets For My Downfall. “the untitled pop punk album has a name,” he […]
This essay originally ran in November 2017 around the release of Lady Bird. We’re running it again today in light of Dave Matthews Band’s controversial exclusion in the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class, despite having won the Fan Vote by over 1 million votes. In the year 2000, it was certainly lost […]
Cleveland, OH – The 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced. The Notorious B.I.G. and Whitney Houston are among the select few who will be inducted into the famous Rock Hall on May 2 at Cleveland’s Public Auditorium. Additional inductees include Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails and T. Rex. […]
Much to the delight of beef enthusiasts everywhere, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been a reliable source of drama, both petty and perhaps justified, over the past few years. Steve Miller’s speech outburst in 2016? Iconique. Mark Knopfler’s continued insistence that Dire Straits’ 2018 induction never happened? Inspiring. A lot of inductees […]
Ahh, remember two days ago? The Academy Award nominations had just been announced, providing us all with the perfect opportunity to get upset. Some people huffed. Others puffed! It was a glorious time, but the news cycle moves quickly, and so the outrage subsided. Until now! Enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, another […]
The Dave Matthews Band will not be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. This piece of news, announced on Wednesday morning with the full list of inductees, might not shock you. After all, there’s a long list of worthy acts who have been snubbed by the institution, and many of […]
Justin Beiber’s new single “YUMMY” seemed to go down a little more like medicine, with many criticizing its simplicity and, let’s be honest, sorta gross lyrics. So last weekend, to a bit of surprise, he posted instructions to fans for how to increase streams and iTunes purchases of the song. (The Instagram post has since […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Las Vegas, NV – The night Tupac Shakur was fatally shot at a Las Vegas intersection, he was riding in a black BMW 750Li — and now, that car is up for sale. According to the Celebrity Cars Las Vegas website, the 1996 luxury vehicle is available for a cool $1.75 million. “This is the […]
Celebrity typically comes with an unhealthy amount of scrutiny and Boosie Badazz’s moves are no exception. After he was spotted wearing a Kappa Alpha Psi shirt at a recent Houston Rockets game, members of the historically black fraternity slammed the Baton Rouge rapper. Boosie’s Instagram comment section was quickly filled with fraternity brothers and sorority sisters […]
New York, NY – Moneybagg Yo let the cat out of the bag on Wednesday (January 8) when he confirmed his break-up with Megan Thee Stallion and his new relationship with G Herbo‘s baby mother Ari Fletcher. Moneybagg paid a visit to TT Torrez at Hot 97 in New York City and revealed the news. […]
How many of us woke up on January 1 empty-handed, robbed yet again of a chance to luxuriate in Rihanna’s elusive new album? Oh, that’s right — all 7.8 billion of us. It’s a new decade and the same old story: Artists will do as artists do, which in the ’20s, just as it was […]
Pete Rock is a Hip Hop veteran and more than qualified to speak on the culture — that’s just a fact. On Thursday (January 9), the celebrated producer hit up Instagram to share the clip of Tory Lanez explaining how “rap is in a horrible place,” a sentiment Rock clearly cosigns. In the caption, Rock […]
A$AP Rocky said he felt the ramifications of his 2015 Black Lives Matter comments while sitting in a Swedish jail last year. In an interview with YouTuber Kerwin Frost, Rocky learned from his friends that many in the Black community were still mad over his comments and rejoicing in his jail time. “I thought I […]
Surprise! Your favorite K-Pop boy band is fresh off a brief period of “rest and relaxation” and ready to serve up some new music. BTS sent their loyal ARMY spiraling on Twitter with the announcement of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, which arrives February 21 Big Hit Entertainment. Superfans salivating over the […]
Seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Antonio Brown was released by the New England Patriots in September amid allegations of sexual and personal misconduct. As he waits to see where his future in professional football will go, Brown has been keeping busy with his free time by trying his hand at a possible rap career. On Monday (January […]
Faith Evans isn’t supporting Lifetime’s upcoming documentary Biggie & Faith Evans despite participating in it. Ahead of the doc’s premiere, The Notorious B.I.G.’s widow criticized the project in an interview with Page Six. “I feel upset that I’m attached to it,” she said. “I was told that it would be a positive piece with a […]
RealStreetRadio – 2019 in Hip Hop was defined by a takeover of women in rap who essentially dominated the music airwaves — from Megan Thee Stallion and Rapsody to Kash Doll. Women really ran it in 2019 and 2020 looks even more promising for the ladies. Unfortunately, Hip Hop also mourned the tragic deaths of […]
The surviving members of the Beastie Boys — Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond — have been more visible in recent years thanks in part to the roughly 600-page Beastie Boys Book and subsequent book tour. Luckily for their fans, it looks like 2020 will entail more Beasties mania. Longtime collaborator Spike Jonze, who […]
Denver, CO – Walking into the RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, Colorado, the energy is electric. In the middle of a crowded room stands Thomas “Detour” Evans, visual artist extraordinaire. He’s pointing to his expansive works displayed throughout the building and explaining where the idea for The 5 Pointers band came from, the focal […]
It’s a new year which means there’s a new Coachella lineup to obsess over. The massive music festival is back the weekends of April 10th and 17th at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California and the lineup, once again, does not disappoint. 2020’s Coachella headliners include Rage Against the Machine, Stormi’s dad and JACKBOYS […]
Miami, FL – DaBaby found himself in handcuffs for the second time in less than two weeks. After being arrested for marijuana possession in Charlotte on December 23, RealStreetRadio’s 2019 Rapper of the Year was detained by police in Miami on Thursday (January 2). According to ABC Miami’s Ian Margol and CBS Miami’s Rudabeh Shahbazi, […]