She fell back, she had a baby. She did the mother thing, the wife thing, all that… But now, Nicki Minaj is ready to put her foot on the music industry’s neck once again. 2022 saw her begin an impressive comeback to the rap game, and this New Music Friday (March 4), she dropped off her first single of the …
For nearly two decades, Sean Kingston has been building on his breakout success. The Jamaican-born singer is one of the most recognizable voices in the industry, and most recently, his megahit “Beautiful Girls” earned itself yet another accolade. Kingston learned this month that the track surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, making him one of an elite, select group of artists …
Fat Joe will be hosting the upcoming ceremony, taking place on Tuesday, October 4th. Earlier this month, it was announced that Fat Joe has been tapped to host the upcoming 2022 BET Hip Hop Awards. On Monday (September 12) the star-studded nominees’ list was confirmed, and as Complex notes, Drake came out on top this year with an impressive 14 nods thrown his way. Following behind the …
50 Cent says that former G-Unit artists would blame him for their shortcomings “all the time.” 50 Cent says that, as the head of G-Unit, artists would constantly blame him for their own career failures. Speaking candidly with Houston’s 97.9 The Box for a recent interview, the legendary New York rapper discussed his role as the head of the …
N.O.R.E. sparked a debate this week after criticizing artists who go to Ellen and David Letterman before hip-hop media platforms. N.O.R.E. took issue with the array of artists who are avoiding hip-hop media platforms in order to appear on mainstream outlets. N.O.R.E. issued a series of tweets where he said that he was disappointed that a lot of hip-hop’s biggest names would rather …
TikTok is launching a new music platform which will benefit artists. TikTok is launching SoundOn, a new music distribution platform aimed at “empowering” undiscovered artists by giving them the power to upload their music directly to TikTok and earn 100% of the royalties when their work is used. After the first year, this figure will drop down to 90%. In addition to collecting their …
Diddy has been taking hits over his early 2000s singing competition series, and one of the show’s singers has come forward. This week, music fans have been revisiting controversial moments in pop culture history. Yesterday (February 28), social media users rehashed Charlamagne Tha God and Kanye West’s classic 2013 interview, causing the radio host to become a trending topic as they criticized his …
JAY-Z topped the list of hip-hop’s highest-paid artists by reportedly making $470 million in 2021. JAY-Z remains on top of a list of hip-hop’s highest-earners from last year, as a new publication curated by former Forbes writer Zack O’Malley Greenburg revealed the ten biggest money-makers of the genre in 2021, placing the New York-born legend at the forefront. According to the list, which …
Young Dolph had always kept it real How does it feel when the world didn’t support an artist nor talk about him regardless of his music but chooses to throw a lot of praises on him when he passes on? It’s very unfortunate but this is the type of world we find ourselves. Everything is not balanced, we see …
Hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to watch YoungBoy. Fans didn’t think they would see much of NBA YoungBoy for some time, especially after his producer claimed that the rapper was taking a break from social media. YoungBoy continues to be hunkered down with his loved ones in Utah while on house arrest but that hasn’t stopped him …
