Adrian Younge has quietly become one of the most acclaimed artists in contemporary music. The producer-arranger has released acclaimed projects with The Delfonics (Adrian Younge
DJ Premier spoke to ROLLING OUT about the approach he took with recording the album, and revealed that he takes a more meticulous path to album-making than many of today’s producers
Beyoncé fans are buzzing after a photo hit the Web yesterday that many are claiming is a pic of the tracklist for an upcoming Beyonce album.
Last night in Norcross, Georgia, at Tree Sound Studios, general manager Mali put together an awesome Halloween party to celebrate the release of Future’s new
Hip-hop superstar Snoop Dogg has confirmed that he and hitmaking producer Pharrell are working on a collaborative album.
Meek Mill’s sophomore album, Dreams Worth More Than Money, was initially expected to be released last week, but the rapper’s incarceration led to the original
Tank has enjoyed a pretty strong career. The R&B singer is a long way from his roots hawking tickets at Union Station in Washington, D.C. 17
If you can’t wait a whole week for the August 19th release of Wiz Khalifa’s third studio album Blacc Hollywood, the Pittsburgh rapper’s latest opus is now streaming on the Web.
Busta Rhymes stated that he was no longer on Cash Money Records, and shared exactly why he and the label had to part ways. Busta explained that his leaving Cash Money and his previous departure from Aftermath Entertainment were not acrimonious at all.
The fall of Robin Thicke has been tragic theater. Seven years ago, Thicke was a rising star in the world of urban contemporary music. After
Sebastian Mikael is watching a lifelong dream unfold. Citing artists ranging from Marvin Gaye to Bebe Winans to R. Kelly and Ne-Yo as inspiration, the young R&B star knew that he wanted to sing and write songs–but coming from Sweden, he had to forge his own path. But he knew this was going to be his journey when he was just a sophomore in high school.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting Wu-Tang Clan’s reunion album A Better Tomorrow ever since the project was announced last year. But the album has been the subject of much controversy within the group, and in an interview with VladTV, while discussing Wu’s ambitious Once Upon A Time In Shaolin project, RZA explained that Wu notable Raekwon has distanced himself from …Tomorrow.
Earl Sweatshirt claimed several months ago that his planned collaborative album with fellow Odd Future cohort Tyler, the Creator was still planned for release. The
Sexy singer Shakira returns on her latest, self-titled album–her first since becoming a mother last year. Though she’s not quite the pop culture ingenue she was when she emerged in the late 90s/early 2000s, the booty-shaking beauty is still quite the compelling artist. So it’s a shame that so much of what makes Shakira Shakira gets lost on Shakira.
August Alsina isn’t the stereotypical contemporary R&B star. The New Orleans native doesn’t just sing about romantic love and loss, he sings story songs about his hardscrabble upbringing and the street lifestyle he’s seen in his city. And for the 21-year old Def Jam artist, he’s happy to do something that sets him apart from the pack of current R&B mainstays.
With OutKast‘s Big Boi making headlines by joining a new high-powered management firm, his partner Andre 3000 seems to also be making some new, attention-grabbing
Last week, singer T-Pain shared details regarding his supposed fallout with Cash Money Records and how it affected his anticipated project with label superstar Lil Wayne. Aside from Wayne’s incarceration at the time (due to a weapons conviction in New York City) and T-Pain’s own excessive lifestyle indulgences, apparently a “miscommunication” between Cash Money labelheads Birdman and Ronald “Slim” Williams and T-Pain’s own management team stalled the project.
Schoolboy Q may be experiencing success with his major label debut album, Oxymoron, but the Los Angeles native revealed his mixed feelings about that success in a recent interview. Q spoke to CBS Local affiliate WZMX Hot 93.7. Q says that his popularity is booming, so much so that he’s even been offered his own line of bucket hats (those hats have become a bit of a trademark for Q), but he expressed reluctance with making any more “big money” deals too soon.
Young Money: Rise of an Empire is the second official studio compilation from the YMCMB roster following 2013’s Rich Gang. This set features the expected
“Alternative hip-hop” is a term that sometimes elicits groans and eye-rolls from the artists and fans typically associated with it. That’s completely understandable. No one
