‘SNOWFALL’ ACTOR DAMSON IDRIS EXPLAINS WHY HE WAS INSIDE SAWEETIE’S HOUSE Aside from starring in the latest season of Snowfall, actor Damson Idris has also spent this past year learning piano, at least that’s what he said last November when he shared a video of Saweetie playing Beethoven’s “Für Elise” to his Instagram Story. “@saweetie […]
TECH N9NE REACTS TO BEING A ‘HIGHEST PAID RAPPER’ ALONGSIDE JAY-Z DIDDY & KANYE WEST Former Forbes contributor and longtime “Hip Hop Cash Kings”curator Zack O’Malley Greenburg independently unveiled his list of 2021’s top-earning rappers on Monday (February 28). JAY-Z led the pack at $470 million, Kanye West settled in at No. 2 with $250 […]
THE BEST NEW HIP HOP MIXTAPES & EPS OF 2022 …(SO FAR) With so much uncertainty in the world, music fans are in search of a simpler time. Almost nothing brings back early 2000s nostalgia like the idea of mixtapes. The distinction between albums, mixtapes and EPs seems to get blurred more and with each […]
‘MAKING THE BAND’ RAPPER PREDICTS GRIM FUTURE FOR DIDDY ‘YOUR LEGACY IS FUCKED’ Making The Band aired for three seasons on MTV in the early 2000s, becoming a pop culture phenomenon in the process. Helmed by Bad Boy Records mogul Diddy, the music competition show spawned the artists O-Town, Da Band, Danity Kane, Day26 and […]
CHANCE THE RAPPER TEASES 2022 RETURN WITH DJ KHALED VIC MENSA & SMINO’S HELP Chance The Rapper last full-length project arrived in 2019 with The Big Day, an album that underwhelmed large parts of his fanbase while leading to his not-so-amicable split with his former manager Pat Corcoran, with whom he’s currently locked in a […]
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl Says He’sBasically ‘Deaf’ & Has Been ‘Reading Lips’For 20 Years Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, 53, has seemingly rocked too hard. He confessed that he’s basically “deaf” and has been for the past 20 years. “I haven’t had them tested in a long time — I mean, I know what they’re […]
KANYE WEST’S ‘DONDA 2’ FEATURES XXXTENTACION TRAVIS SCOTT ALICIA KEYS PUSHA T MARILYN MANSON SOULJA BOY & MORE Kanye West held the Donda 2 listening event at Miami’s LoanDepot Park on Tuesday night (February 22). After over two hours of playing nothing but a heartbeat, the main attraction began with a burning replica of his […]
DJ JAZZY JEFF SAYS WILL SMITH’S NEW ‘BEL-AIR’ MIGHT BE HIS ‘FAVORITE SHOW EVER’ The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premiered in 1991 with Will Smith in the lead role and DJ Jazzy Jeff his ever-faithful sidekick “Jazz.” The beloved sitcom ran for six seasons, seamlessly blending Hip Hop with comedy until the Banks family was […]
CARDI B FLEXES $1M-A-SHOW FEE AFTER TWITTER TROLLS TAKE HER THERE Cardi B was forced to put a Twitter troll in their place on Monday (February 21) after they questioned her relevency. “Over a M wit 1 album BIG SUPERSTAR are you dumb?” she wrote. “Waiting on my agent got like 3 overseas one for […]
LIL BABY CONFIRMS NEW MUSIC ON THE WAY EVEN AS ‘MY TURN’ REMAINS ON BILLBOARD 200 Lil Baby confirmed on Twitter on Monday (February 21) that both new music and a new album are nearing completion, even while his blockbuster sophomore effort My Turn remains comfortably on the Billboard 200. “Album Almost Done,” Baby tweeted […]