This week, the good vibes actually began on Saturday evening (April 18), as the massive Lady Gaga-curated One World: Together at Home special took over the four major broadcast networks. Mother Monster continued to dominate the week when she unveiled the track list for her upcoming album Chromatica, featuring some exciting A-listers. Plus, a few […]
Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, Lecrae, Karen Clark Sheard and Fred Hammond are among the artists lending their voices to the cause. To benefit COVID-19 relief efforts, songwriter-producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins has joined forces with gospel supergroup The Good News on “Come Together.” Major proceeds from the uplifting single, released today (April 24) through RCA Inspiration, […]
Big Freedia, Jordin Sparks, Boyz II Men and Naughty By Nature are invited. We’re all stuck at home, but New Kids on the Block are here to make sure that at least we can dance and have some fun. The man band released an upbeat bop on Friday morning (April 24), “House Party,” and they’ve […]
Six years have slipped by since Kem released his last album, Promise to Love. So what has Motown’s “grown and sexy” R&B statesman been up to during his long break? Marriage and diaper duty. “I’ve been settling into this new season of my life,” Kem tells Billboard. “I’m a newlywed and we’ve had two children, […]
Less than six months after his untimely passing, Juice WRLD’s posthumous release “Righteous” has dropped. On the anthemic “Righteous,” we hear the rising star rhyme on addition, glamour and spiraling mental health. On it, he raps: “All white Gucci suit, I’m feeling righteous/ I know that the truth is hard to digest/ Five or six […]
UPDATE: The song is out now. Stream it below. Travis Scott kicked off his Fortnite headlining in-game concert series called “Astronomical” on Thursday (April 23), and the new experience did not disappoint, as the rapper announced a new collaboration with Kid Cudi. “The Scotts” arrived on on Friday (April 24), and fans got to hear a teaser […]
Hip-hop’s New Yorkers came together through their screens on Thursday night (April 23) for a coronavirus relief benefit concert to help the heavily impacted state where the genre was born. The Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) curated the “Hip-Hop Loves NY” event, hosted by Video Music Box host and co-creator Ralph McDaniels, and featured a number of […]
On Monday night (Apr. 20), legendary R&B writer, producer and performer Teddy Riley engaged in the most-watched (and also most-delayed) Instagram Live battle yet put on by the Verzuz team of Swizz Beatz and Timbaland — facing off with fellow decades-spanning great Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. Over 500k watched simultaneously at the event’s peak, with Riley […]
Hip-hop heavyweights will (remotely) come together Thursday (April 23) for a coronavirus relief benefit concert to help out the heavily impacted state where the genre was born. The Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) curated the event that media outlet Mass Appeal will present this evening from 6 to 9 p.m. ET. Nas, Ice-T, Wu-Tang Clan, Chuck […]
Kierra Sheard preached the good word during her Billboard Live At-Home concert on Thursday (April 23) and also raised money for Ronald McDonald House Charities Detroit, which provides resources for families of locally hospitalized children. The Detroit-born gospel singer started and later ended her half-hour livestream with an encore of “It Keeps Happening.” “It’s a declarative […]