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Global music icon Janet Jackson – this years BBMA’s Icon Award Recipient – graces the latest cover of Billboard magazine. She opens up to Billboard on new music, motherhood, Michael Jackson and her return. Here’s the interview in part. On her creative process as she prepares new music: “The truth is that I don’t try…

In the latest issue of Billboard magazine, which features Christina Aguilera on the cover, legendary and Grammy Award-winning rapper Big Boi shares his views on Trump and the L.A. Reid accusation. Big Boi on Donald Trump If Donald Trump can be the president, anybody can be. So, shit, Oprah Winfrey, King T’Challa from Black Panther,…

Pop-sensation Christina Aguilera opens up on why she didn’t get into the business to be a TV host, how motherhood will affect her next tour and how she is a huge fan of Kanye West. In a cover story interview with Billboard magazine, the Liberation singer opens up about “The Voice,” Kanye West and what…

Rihanna has become the first female artist to surpass two billion streams on Apple Music. The “Diamonds” hitmaker made history over the weekend as she broke the record on the online service, and she appeared delighted with the news as she took to social media to celebrate her success. Alongside an amusing video meme of…

“Bodak Yellow” video director Picture Perfect says Cardi B was almost mauled by a cheetah while shooting the music video. The 25-year-old rapper shot the music video for her debut single in Dubai and it depicts her as a queen with a throne and a cheetah but things almost went terribly wrong. Picture Perfect told…

Rita Ora admits she went through a “roller-coaster of emotions” after going her separate ways from Roc Nation and found it difficult to release music for some time. The “Anywhere” singer split from her record label and admits it left her struggling to put out new music. “I had a bit of an issue, publicly,…

Snoop Dogg wants to record gospel music next year. The 46-year-old star has already covered the genres rap, hip-hop, and reggae and is planning to try something new in 2018. He told Billboard, “I have always wanted to try Gospel. This may surprise some people but all I gotta say is get ready for some good…

Singer Normani Kordei of Fifth Harmony claims the band’s third album “means more” than their two previous albums, Reflection and 7/27. The 21-year-old star features in the chart-topping band alongside Ally Brooke, Dinah Jane and Laure Jauregui. She explained: “We co-wrote more than half of our album. So it means more.” She explained, “We co-wrote…

Kanye West‘s The Life of Pablo has gone platinum, making it the first streaming-only LP in history to reach the milestone. The “Famous” rapper’s seventh studio album has been certified by the RIAA following its release last February. In total, the record has been streamed over three billion times. It comes after it became the first…

Rolling out had a chance to take a sneak peek and eavesdrop on the multi-Grammy Award-winning songwriter Sean Garrett and learn about the motivation behind his success. Garrett was preparing for his cable television interview with host Armani Iman and she was able to get some juicy information. The humble Garrett expressed how blessed he is to have…

Nick Cannon has admitted Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is “amazing” but insists he has “no right” to speak about their rumored relationship. The “America’s Got Talent” host — who has 5-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with estranged wife Mariah Carey — has been romantically linked with the TLC singer in recent weeks, and though he admitted she is…

Timbaland’s camp has finally responded to news reports that the superstar producer refused to perform at a recent benefit event for the Flint, Michigan water crisis because he was given the wrong brand of champagne. A number of outlets reported that Tim reneged on his scheduled 30 minute set at Bleu nightclub in Detroit on…

Despite a minor glitch in the roll out of its release, there looks to be no stopping Rihanna’s latest album, ANTI. The Barbadian bad gal’s long-awaited eighth album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after only 15 hours of being available to fans. Released exclusively for the first week through Jay Z’s…

For most of the week, the internet has been overloaded with an assortment of commentary from fans and naysayers alike amid a flurry of rumors that Beyoncé had plans to write and star in a film about Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman. Baartman, a South African woman who appeared in traveling freak shows of the 1800s under…

When I read the Billboard Greatest R&B Artists list, I was kind of stunned at how oddly bad it was. Not even bad in that impossible-to-please music nerd sense. Not even bad in that “They were obviously going for a younger demographic with this” sense. It was just bad.

For the second consecutive week, Toronto-based singer-songwriter The Weeknd has the No. 1 album in the U.S., according to Billboard. Though Beauty Behind The Madness was not the top selling album of the week, Billboard’s formula of factoring album streams and individual track sales in addition to traditional album sales still put it ahead of the…

Congratulations are in order for Atlanta rapper Future. With an estimated 147,000 copies sold in it’s first week, his latest album, Dirty Sprite 2, is officially the number one album in the country. This feat marks quite an accomplishment for the “Move That Dope” rapper having caught his fans off guard by announcing his plans on July…

Score another one for legendary gospel artist Richard Smallwood. The Grammy Award winning artist’s 15th album, Anthology Live, recently debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Albums chart. The 2-CD project was recorded in front of a packed house at Upper Marlboro, Maryland’s Evangel Cathedral. It features Smallwood’s 20-person ensemble group, Vision, as well as…

The reunion tour and possible new album of legendary Houston rap group The Geto Boys is on hold indefinitely as one of it’s members recuperates after a sudden trip to the hospital. A rep for the group confirmed to Billboard magazine that Brad “Scarface” Jordan was taken to the hospital shortly after the group had…

Producer Scott Storch, who got his start with The Roots and made a name for himself working closely with Dr. Dre before going on to produce for the likes of Beyoncé, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake, among others, is in deep financial trouble and has reportedly filed for bankruptcy. According to TMZ, Storch, 41, has…