Twenty years ago this month, *NSYNC released their history-making second album No Strings Attached. On its cover Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Lance Bass appeared as five puppets on strings, but at the time, the group was at the peak of its cultural control. They shifted 2.4 million copies of the […]
Itâs easy to forget sometimes, after four decades of hits on the country charts and a dozen roles in TV westerns, that there was once a time when Kenny Rogers, who died Friday at age 81, was seen as an unusual prospect around Nashville. The Texas performer came to country the long way, after years […]
A growing number of artists are using Instagram Live to connect with their fans and peers as the coronavirus pandemic continues its global rampage. Boogie Down Productions DJ D-Nice ignited a viral dance party over the weekend with over 100,000 people. Presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Rihanna, Drake, […]
Some feuds were built to stand the test of time. David and Goliath. Oli de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. And, obviously, Kanye West and Taylor Swift. In news that feels like it belongs in 2015, more footage of the infamous phone call between West and Swift has apparently leaked on YouTube. According to The Independent, […]
Lana Del Rey and her cop boyfriend Sean âSticksâ Larkin are officially no more. The Live PD star confirmed in a New York Times profile (what a cursed phrase that is) that he broke up with the singer-songwriter, after they started spending time together late last summer. âRight now, weâre just friends,â he told the […]
Brooklyn, NY – King Von was the newest addition to Lil Durk‘s Only The Family record label in 2018 when King Von proved his innocence and beat a murder charge that could’ve put him away for life. After seeing how close he was to losing it all, King Von made it his mission to leave […]
Billie Eilish built a blockbuster in a bedroom, so it makes sense sheâd record a Bond song on a tour bus. âWe recorded the vocals in a bunk in the dark on the bus in a basement in Texas,â she recalls of the creation of âNo Time to Die,â her song for the James Bond […]
Speaking to Bill Adler is a gift. As the founding VP of publicity at Def Jam Recordings, his vast breadth of Hip Hop knowledge is staggering. From tales about traveling to Europe with Run-DMC to his mind-blowing collection of Hip Hop memorabilia, Adler is the real deal. His dedication to the culture stretches back decades. After […]
When he first emerged from the depths of the internet, Jay Electronica seemed to be a project about ambition. The enigmatic New Orleans rapperâs origin story, as told in a little late-2000s sketch called âDeparture,â takes place in the aftermath of a friendâs murder. He recounts: âLast night, I was across the tracks With Freddie […]
Mandy Moore is in the midst of staging her comeback into the music world, parlaying her occasional musical dabblings on This Is Us into a revival of her IRL music career. Last year, she debuted her first new song in years, âWhen I Wasnât Watching,â and on Thursday she performed it on The Tonight Show […]
With New York becoming the latest place to ban large gatherings (of more than 500, in the stateâs case) and Live Nation and AEG â the two biggest live entertainment companies â pausing its international and domestic arena tours through at least March, concerts are looking to become significantly rarer in the coming days due […]
A lot of rappers say they love anime, but Lil Uzi Vert is the rare artist who deserves a series of his own. The Philly star is short in stature with a massive personality, a shit talker whoâs also in touch with his feelings, a sharp dresser with a flair for colorful hair. Like a […]
The Weeknd showed up to Saturday Night Live in full costume, but it wasnât funny business. It was very serious world-building business. The singer debuted his new single âScared to Liveâ with Oneohtrix Point Never on SNL sporting a red suit, wingback shoes, black gloves, and a very realistic, bandaged bloody nose. Itâs his new […]
Itâs the year 2020 and the prodigal Dixie Chicks have finally returned, no thanks to George W. Bush and his ilk. Their new Jack Antonoff-produced single and music video, âGaslighter,â dropped today, ahead of the May release of Gaslighter, the first new Chicks album in 14 years. Naturally, we have a landslide of feelings about […]
Dave Burd is Ăber-confident. And not like his satirical rapper alter ego Lil Dicky, whose constant garish flexing and bravado are so blatant it borders on the absurd. No, Burd is simply self-assured to an extreme degree. âThese guys would be crazy not to green-light this,â the curly âfroed rapper, who turns 32 later this […]
Armed with their black boller hats, dookie rope chains and adidas tracksuits, Run-DMC started breaking down barriers since exploding on the scene with their 1984 self-titled debut, in the process becoming the first Hip Hop group to ever earn a gold record. With the release of 1985’s King Of Rock, Rev Run, DMC and Jam […]
Reflection Music Group artist Parris Chariz is all about individuality and expressing himself and his wacky “Smooth Operator” video is living proof. The bubbling Christian rapper linked with RealStreetRadio to premiere the clip, which goes the distance of showing an MC not taking themselves too seriously. “I wanted to do a song and video to […]
When the High Fidelity reboot was in preproduction â before ZoĂ« Kravitz had even signed on to play Rob, a role made famous by John Cusack in the 2000 movie â music supervisors Manish Raval, Alison Rosenfeld, and Tom Wolfe of Aperture started making playlists. The producers made their own mixes, as did Kravitz once […]
Best Coastâs last album, 2015âs California Nights, was the ultimate Best Coast album: crisp, guitar-driven music about love and getting high in California. But when a journalist recently asked front woman Bethany Cosentino how many songs on her bandâs new album, Always Tomorrow, were about California, she recalls having to break the news that, this […]
Lord Jamar has been one of Eminem’s most outspoken critics for years â typically from DJ Vlad’s couch. Par for the course, the Brand Nubian MC has weighed in on Em’s recent comments on Hip Hop culture. During an interview with KXNG Crooked, Em was asked if he believes he’s a “guest in the house of […]
New York, NY – As a member of the Diplomats, Jim Jones became a household name in the early 2000s. He carved out a successful solo career following Dipset’s reign at the top but took some time to grow his business ventures like his Vampire Life clothing line, his CAPO-Saucey Farm and Extracts collaboration, and his […]
The average Hip Hop fan is aware Eminem rarely does interviews. But typically during album mode, he sits down with a couple of trusted friends to discuss his career and a bevy of other topics. In the wake of his 11th studio album, Music To By Murdered By, Shady spoke with longtime friend and collaborator […]
When ZoĂ« Kravitz got involved with the Hulu adaptation of High Fidelity and decided to play the role of romantically challenged record shop owner Rob, she reached out to the man who invented him: Nick Hornby. Kravitz and the showâs creators and showrunners, Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka, were already in the midst of developing […]
Neil Young is now officially an American citizen, and you know what that means: He has the God-given rights to bear arms, have a fair trial by jury, and write scathing open letters to his leaders in the Helvetica font. He chose to do the latter this week about Donald Trump, a man he has […]
While it’s been nearly two years since Pusha T revealed Drake’s “secret son” on the “The Story Of Adidon” diss track, the subject is still fodder for Hip Hop enthusiasts. Snoop Dogg and Michael Rapaport recently sat down together for an episode of GGN Double G News where the topic reared its head once again. Snoop […]
JoJo Hailey’s contributions to R&B are permanently etched in music history thanks to his inimitable work with Jodeci and K-Ci & JoJo throughout the 1990s. Collectively, they’ve sold millions of albums worldwide and songs such as K-Ci & JoJo’s “All My Life” and Jodeci’s “Come & Talk To Me” are bona fide R&B staples. Over the […]
Pop Smoke wasn’t pleased with some shots photographer Paris Marley captured of him at a recent meet-and-greet event in Virginia. On Thursday (February 13), Marley shared a screenshot of a Twitter exchange he had with the 20-year-old Brooklyn rapper in which Pop Smoke berates him for sharing some photos he found less than flattering. “Yo […]
New York, NY – Three years after Tyra Banks asked Dave East why wasn’t a male model, the Harlem-bred rapper took a stab at the gig. The Def Jam artist tried out modeling at the 2020 New York Fashion Week on Tuesday (February 11). East hit the runway as part of a fashion show for […]
50 Cent was one of the many who weighed in on Gayle King’s controversial interview with WNBA legend Lisa Leslie. During their conversation, King brought up Kobe Bryant’s 2003 sexual assault case and asked Leslie if it made his legacy more “complicated” for her. A clip of the interview, which King insisted was taken “out […]
TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins’ life has been one filled with overcoming insurmountable odds and finding blessings in unexpected places. Watkins was diagnosed with sickle cell disease at the age of seven and spent much of her childhood in and out of hospitals due to episodes with the potentially fatal condition. She was told she wouldn’t […]