Missy Elliott “got hits, hits, hits like a tennis racket,” but it isn’t every day we get to hear her illustrious voice on a record or see her animated style immortalized in a video.
Last week, however, the rap icon made a surprise appearance at KCON 2013, a K-Pop music festival held in Los Angeles, alongside K-Pop staple G-Dragon, a member of Big Bang, and gifted fans with new bars and a refreshing performance. Read More
Power 105.1 dubs The Breakfast Club “the world’s most dangerous morning show,” when in actuality, it’s the most incompetent, yet entertaining, radio show for urban pop culture.
Wendy Williams’ former sidekick, the woman who uses “the blogs” to opine and that other guy are equivalent to Love & Hip Hop characters—their asinine and ignorant behavior is absolved because they’re just “being real.”
Occasionally, a great interview seeps through the cracks (see: 50 Cent’s and Aunt Deb’s), but mostly, it’s ignorant hilarity (see: Webbie’s) or bootlicking fests (see: Jay Z’s). Read More
If you need help understanding what Miley Cyrus failed to execute at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, Oxford Dictionary is tacking a technical definition to the ambiguous art-form known as “twerking.”
Morgan Freeman and his new teeth immortalized the word by reciting its dictionary definition in his god-like voice on HLN’s Morning Express. “To dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance,” he read.
“Twerk” was added to Oxford’s online dictionaries and will likely make its debut in print versions soon. Read More
Fraudulent K. West appeared on his baby mama’s pimp’s talk show, Kris, to unveil a photo of his 2-month-old daughter, North West. While there, he also exposed his new, Donald Glover-sounding speaking voice. Read More
In rappers Kendrick Lamar didn’t mention news, Lil’ Wayne has apologized for being a sucky emcee.
Lil’ Wayne is undoubtedly one of the most commercially successful rappers of all time. This year, however, saw the once-lauded rapper wander to the wasteland like dozens of other “has-beens” before him.
The New Orleans native’s commercial viability couldn’t convince the BET and MTV Video Music Awards committees that his subpar rhymes deserved recognition, which prompted him to apologize to his fans for being a terrible rapper. Read More
Based god, we have a problem. One of the most distinctive and preserved voices in music history is struggling to find that record worthy of her immaculate instrument.
Season 3 of WeTV’s hit reality show, Braxton Family Values, saw Toni Braxton reveal her lack of passion for music. She (quasi-)retired yet still attended studio sessions with Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, producer and writer of some of her biggest hits.
Evidently the sessions went well; Toni and Babyface are releasing an album of duets titled Love, Marriage and Divorce, due out on December 3rd via Motown Records. The first offering from the set is “Hurt You,” a mid-tempo ballad where the “Give U My Heart” duo apologize for their scandalous ways. Read More
Last night, Big Sean set the internet on fire by releasing scrapped Hall of Fame track “Control (HOF)” to the masses. It featured a verse by Kendrick Lamar where the Compton rapper crowned himself the King of New York and challenged his peers to basically make better music (otherwise feel the wrath of a lyrical assassin).
The challenge was rather cold-blooded, though.
The guy that bodied Jay Z on the remix of “Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe” and A$AP Rocky and Drake on “Fuckin’ Problems” had this to say about his peers. Read More
G.O.O.D. Music, TDE and Roc Nation collide.
“Control (HOF)” is a track that didn’t make the final cut of Big Sean’s Hall of Fame, which hits stores on August 27th. Read More