Jessica Simpson opens up about her toughest struggles in her new memoir Open Book. Through excerpts in People, the singer revealed her history of anxiety and emotional pain stemming from sexual abuse she suffered as a young girl. As she grew up, she says she used pills and alcohol to numb the pain, starting around […]
RealStreetRadio Premiere – Boston Hip Hop stalwart Slaine is back with a new video for “Do Wha You Love” featuring Cyrus DeShield, which serves as the album closer on his latest LP One Day. Directed by SandoFilms, the visual tackles Slaine’s journey to sobriety, beginning with several people revealing how long they’ve been sober. Slaine — who’s […]
Dave East’s contribution to #TheBoxChallenge isn’t getting a warm reception. After the star of Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga previewed his remix of Roddy Ricch’s hit single “The Box” on social media, the Harlem-bred MC was bombarded with negative reactions. Twitter users posted a variety of videos and gifs to detail their disdain for East’s […]
Back in 2008, Rush delighted one of their all-time biggest fanboys, Stephen Colbert, by stopping by The Colbert Report for their first American television interview in decades. It is … an incredible five minutes of increasingly silly questions, and the chat (paired with the subsequent performance of “Tom Sawyer”) was one of the first things […]
Lizzo continues to rack up those career milestones. Just ahead of the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards — where’s she nominated in eight major categories — the pop powerhouse has unveiled her first Rolling Stone cover. The cover shot features Lizzo surrounded by two half-naked men kneeling at her feet holding bouquets of lilies as they look up […]
Compared to 2018’s Kamikaze, Eminem went relatively light on people throughout the surprise album Music To Be Murdered By. But there were still a few artists who got caught in Shady’s lyrical crosshairs, including Machine Gun Kelly and Joe Budden. And although it’s minimal, Em also sends a tiny shot in Trippie Redd’s direction on the […]
The frontwoman of Paramore is striking out on her own for a bit. The band had a four-year gap between their self-titled hit album and 2017’s After Laughter, and now Hayley Williams is releasing solo material for the first time. “Simmer” is her first single, and she’s dropped it with an accompanying music video in […]
Tired: Taylor Swift doing whatever the hell she was doing with digital fur technology in Cats. Wired: Taylor Swift pouring her heart out while wearing feline backpacks in Miss Americana. In the trailer for Swift’s upcoming Netflix documentary, which was unexpectedly revealed during her public feud with Scooter Braun, the songstress gives us a very […]
Myke Bogan has released a new video for his song “Backwoods” track off last year’s Cult Beauty album. The visual’s arrival coincides with the announcement of his Owls Casket Kush weed strain bred by Bula Buds, which has its farm featured in the video. “An owl represents the deep connection that you share with wisdom, […]
According to the late Mac Miller’s Circles producer Jon Brion, the posthumously released project was actually album No. 2 of a trilogy. During a recent chat with The New York Times, the storied musician explained their creation process and the deflating feeling of never finishing their studio work. “[Mac] had this whole aquatic theme that […]
Los Angeles, CA – The 2020 Grammy Awards will include a special tribute to the late Nipsey Hussle. On Tuesday (January 21), Grammys’ executive producer Ken Ehrlich revealed the tribute will entail performances by several of Nipsey’s close friends and collaborators, including YG, Meek Mill, Roddy Rich, DJ Khaled, John Legend and Kirk Franklin. “An activist, […]
Yelawolf was recently caught in Royce Da 5’9’s crosshairs on the song “Overcomer,” which finds the Slaughterhouse MC calling the Alabama-born rapper a “punk ass” and “pundit vulture.” Royce followed up with a few other insults Instagram after Yelawolf responded to the diss in a since-deleted Instagram post. View this post on Instagram I can […]
David Olney, a singer-songwriter who’s been prevalent in the folk and Americana music communities since the 1970s, died on Saturday evening during his set at Florida’s 30A Songwriters Festival. He was 71. Per Variety, Olney was in the middle of performing the third song in his set when he apologized to the audience, ceased movement, […]
15x-Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys has announced her next album — the simply titled ALICIA. The veteran singer/pianist and upcoming host of the 2020 Grammy Awards announced the news Instagram with a photo of the album’s cover art. In the caption, she revealed the project will arrive on March 20. View this post on Instagram #ALICIA […]
I’ve got to be honest. When I first heard Tarriona “Tank” Ball sing with Tank and the Bangas on their 2017 NPR Tiny Desk concert, I had no idea what this girl was talking about. “Would have been fish / Would have been meat / Would have been eggs / Would have been fruit,” begins […]
Joe Budden was an outspoken critic of Eminem’s 2017 effort Revival and consequently, Slim Shady blatantly dissed the former Slaughterhouse MC on the 2018 follow-up Kamikaze. On Friday (January 17), Em blindsided his fans once again with another surprise album called Music To Be Murdered By. During episode #314 of The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal, the […]
She didn’t get an Oscar nomination for the Cats song, but Taylor Swift is not giving up on that Best Original Song award. Taylor Swift’s upcoming Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, chronicles her pivot to politics and shows Swift writing “an anthem for millennials who might have come away disillusioned with the political process,” Variety reports, […]
Following a series of health scares and tour cancellations in 2019, Ozzy Osbourne revealed in a new interview with Good Morning America that he’s suffering from Parkinson’s disease. In addition to PRKN 2, which Osbourne says he was diagnosed with last February, he also dealt with a fall that severely impaired his mobility. “It’s been […]
Manchester, UK – An Eminem album wouldn’t be complete with a little controversy. Shortly after Slim Shady surprised his fans with Music To Be Murdered By, his 11th studio album, Twitter lit up with reactions to the song “Unaccommodating,” which includes the line, “I’m contemplating yelling ‘bombs away’ on the game/Like I’m outside of an Ariana […]
Eminem’s surprise album Music To Be Murdered By is expected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 next week and in the process, make Billboard history. According to HITS Daily Double, Shady’s 11th studio effort is projected to move between 300,000 and 325,000 album-equivalent units. If the project does indeed top the Billboard 200, […]
The Brooklyn Hip Hop scene got a little more unified as Casanova and Pop Smoke put an end to their beef. After tensions between the two began to publicly surface in recent weeks, Casanova revealed he’s on good terms with Pop on Sunday (January 19). The Roc Nation artist posted a photo of his friendly […]
Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia have delivered their first album No Requests. The New York City-bred radio legends both curated and executive produced the project for 10x-Grammy Award winning pianist Eddie Palmeiri and his label Uprising Music. Comprised of 10 tracks, the multi-dimensional project fuses jazz, Latin, Go Go, instrumental Hip Hop and other various flavors […]
Royce Da 5’9 is firing on all cylinders. In addition to delivering the “Overcomer” single featuring Westside Gunn on Thursday (January 16), he also contributed to three songs on Eminem’s surprise album Music To Be Murdered By — “Yah Yah” featuring Black Thought, Q-Tip and Denaun Porter, “You Gon’ Learn” with White Gold and “I […]
RealStreetRadio Premiere – Organized Konfusion MC Pharoahe Monch and the Pharcyde’s Slimkid3 are marveling at Gangstagrass’ new mixtape, My Brother, Where You At? The eight-track project reimagines several Hip Hop classics, putting a bluegrass spin on them — from Pharcyde’s “Passin Me By” to Pharoahe Monch’s “Simon Says.” The members of the group bring an […]
One question has been on Mac Miller and Ariana Grande fans’ minds since his final album, Circles, dropped last night: Is that Ariana Grande on the song “I Can See”? Followed closely by, “Should we or should we not be crying right now?” Fans are convinced that Ariana Grande harmonizes alongside Mac Miller on his […]
Buffalo’s Che Noir has linked up with Planet Asia and Street Justice for a collaborative track titled “Crown.” The 38 Spesh-produced song serves as the first single off her Juno album, which is due out later this year. “When I first heard the beat, I wrote the verse in like an hour,” Che tells RealStreetRadio. […]
Multi-platinum selling producer Sonny Digital has linked up with Travis Porter’s Black Boe, formerly known as Quez, for a new EP titled Black Goat 2. The collaborative release is a sequel to the duo’s previous team-up Black Goat, which dropped in 2017. The eight-song EP features contributions from Skooly and Rich Kidz. Check out Sonny […]
Royce Da 5’9 doesn’t mince words on his new single “Overcomer” featuring Westside Gunn. The Slaughterhouse vet unleashed the track on Thursday (January 16) and puts Yelawolf firmly in his crosshairs. Although he doesn’t explain where the vitriol comes from, it’s clear something went down behind the scenes. In the process, he takes a shot […]
San Francisco, CA – Bay Area rapper Larry June has tripled-down on the videos and shared yet another wholistically dope visual to personify his Out The Trunk mixtape track “Organic Fatherhood.” June enters 2020 with the moment of a run yielding six mixtapes in 2019, and continues to apply pressure with a barrage of music […]
2 Chainz is evidently starting off 2020 with a new do. On Wednesday night (January 15), the platinum-selling rapper posted a photo to his Instagram account showing his signature dreadlocks laying on the floor. “This my second cut of the year,” he wrote in the caption. It’s unclear if he cut them all off or it’s […]