Mixtape Mixup
It’s settled: Rick Ross and 2 Chainz will go head-to-head in the next Verzuz battle on Thursday, Aug. 6. The VerzuzTV Instagram account announced the latest pairing Tuesday (July 28) with a sleek black-and-red poster of a two-seater Verzuz-branded sports car. But mega hip-hop producer and Verzuz co-starter Timbaland is already asking frequent viewers and music lovers […]
"I'm just a girl from the hood who loves music." This time last year, Caroline “Baroline” Diaz was beginning her sixth month as senior director of A&R at Interscope Records. She was also collaborating with the label’s newest hitmaker, DaBaby, whose Baby on Baby debut had landed at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 earlier […]
After scoring both a No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart and a No.2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart earlier this year — and with another, more official LP supposedly still on the way this summer — Drake took a quick detour earlier this month with his longtime collaborator DJ Khaled, and […]
Cardi B is a golden hour goddess in her latest Instagram post, in which she’s rocking head-to-toe Louis Vuitton. “I’m on my way,” she captioned the series of snaps, before tagging tailor and creative director Baba Jagne, who converted an LV skirt into Cardi’s top. But the designer top, skirt and purse weren’t enough. The […]
The band believes Juice WRLD’s "Lucid Dreams" contains "melodic elements" of one of their songs but felt uncomfortable suing the late rapper's mother. Yellowcard have dismissed their lawsuit against late rapper Juice WRLD (a.k.a. Jarad Higgins) over his 2018 hit “Lucid Dreams.” The pop-rock band filed a federal copyright infringement case against Higgins last October alleging that he […]
A new Nicki Minaj track is about to drop! Days after announcing her pregnancy, the rapper confirmed that she’s on the verge of releasing a collaboration with A$AP Ferg. Titled “Move Ya Hips,” conversation around the single was first brought up on social media by none other than A$AP Rocky. “SUMBODY TELL @ASAPferg 2 DROP […]
The Rolling Loud Festival will now make its European debut in July 2021 when it touches down in Portugal at Praia da Rocha Beach in Portimão, organizers announced on Tuesday (July 28). The inaugural overseas edition was originally set to take place in July 2020, but has been rescheduled to July 6-8, 2021 due to […]
Wiley was temporarily banned from Twitter and is now being investigated by police after he posted antisemitic comments on Twitter and Instagram last week, The Guardian reports. The Grime artist has also been dropped by his management company. His manager, John Woolf took to Twitter the day after Wiley’s racist tirade to announce “@A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. There is […]
Cam’ron has come to JAY-Z’s defense after comedian Faizon Love accused Hov of “fake dope-dealing” in a recent episode of the Hip-Hop Uncensored podcast. JAY-Z’s oeuvre engages heavily with his drug-dealing past and he rose to prominence thanks in part to an unflinching depiction of selling cocaine in his youth. Faizon, however, recently suggested that JAY had embellished his history. “I like Jay-Z. […]
Plus: The Chicks’ ‘Gaslighter’ debuts at No. 3 and Jhené Aiko’s ‘Chilombo’ surges 43-6 after reissue. Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die holds atop the Billboard 200 albums chart for a second week, as the set earned 162,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 23 (down 67 percent), according to Nielsen […]