• Kid Ink Shares New Track "Ready 4 War" [LISTEN]

    Los Angeles rapper Kid Ink has shared a new track titled "Ready 4 War," which you can check out below. The track features some anthemic, EDM-inspired production from Kane Beatz and J Mike, and when coupled with Ink's half sung/half rapped chorus hook, the whole thing sounds like it could have been included on Kanye West's arena-sized Graduation album. According to the track's Soundcloud page, this song was actually recorded a few years ago, not long after he signed his record deal. "Still my s**t tho!," he writes.

  • Kid Ink Shares New Track "Blunted" From Upcoming Album 'Full Speed' [LISTEN]

    Los Angeles rapper Kid Ink has shared another new track from his upcoming album Full Speed titled "Blunted," which you can check out below. The track features some trippy electronic production, which is pretty appropriate for a song that's all about getting high. Fans of Wiz Khalifa will probably dig this a lot, though Kid Ink isn't nearly as laidback as Wiz.

  • Beyoncé, Pharrell, Kendrick Lamar Among Music Nominees For 2015 NAACP Image Awards [FULL LIST]

    The NAACP has announced the nominees for the 2015 Image Awards, which honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature. Among the music category nominees are Beyoncé, who nabbed four nominations including Outstanding Female Artist for Beyoncé Platinum Edition and Outstanding Song For "Pretty Hurts;" Pharrell, who's up for four awards including Outstanding Male Artists and Outstanding Album for G I R L; and Kendrick Lamar, who is up for three awards including Outstanding Male Artist.

  • Kanye West To Receive Visionary Award, Usher To Receive Musical Arts Award At 2015 BET Honors

    Although he's been telling us this all along, Kanye West's genius is officially getting the recognition it deserves. Yeezus will receive the Visionary Award next month at the 2015 BET Honors. According to Billboard, Ye will be one of five luminaries, including Usher, actress Phylicia Rashad, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and John W. Thompson, honored at the eighth annual ceremony hosted by Wayne Brady.

  • VH1's Stephanie Moseley Killed by Husband Earl Hayes in Murder-Suicide After Rumored Affair with Trey Songz

    Such a sad story coming out of L.A. with it being confirmed that Stephanie Moseley has been shot and killed by her husband, Earl Hayes, in a murder/suicide altercation. Moseley is known for her role on VH1's "Hit the Floor" and she is extremely popular in the dance world as she had toured with the likes of Usher, Chris Brown and a number of other popular artists. Champion fighter, Floyd Mayweather was actually on FaceTime with Hayes, trying to calm him down, when Hayes killed Moseley and then turned the gun on himself.

  • Lady Gaga, "The Boss," Usher Perform for Sting, Al Green at '14's Kennedy Center Honors

    Sting, Al Green and Tom Hanks were among some of the artists who received recognition at last night's Kennedy Center Honors ceremony Dec. 7. The 2014 class also included ballerina Patricia McBride and comedian Lily Tomlin. Earth, Wind & Fire, Jennifer Hudson, Usher and Mavis Staples performed a few of Green's hits, while Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen celebrated Sting. According to "USA Today's" coverage, Stephen Colbert opened the show by taking a respectful jab at politics and pop culture, which he is always ready to do. "Tonight, Washington puts the arts above politics, because no matter what party you belong to, everyone wants a selfie with Tom Hanks," he said.

  • Usher New Song "Cuz We Can" Leaks Online [LISTEN]

    Though Usher's upcoming album UR isn't going to be released any time soon, a new song from the R&B superstar titled "Cuz We Can" has leaked online, which you can check out below. It's not clear when this song was recorded, or how it will be officially released, if it was intended for release at all, though its sparkling electronic production suggests that this is a recent production.

  • The Longest Streaks in Hot 100 History: Featuring Plenty of Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey and Black Eyed Peas

    On this date during 1994, Boyz II Men stuck around for a 14th week atop the Billboard Hot 100 with its hit "I'll Make Love To You." That tally left it in a tie with Whitney Houston and "I Will Always Love You" for the most weeks on top of the Hot 100. As album sales have grown less important to the industry and single sales have become more relevant, that record has since changed hands. Check out the Top 13 songs in terms of weeks at no. 1 (mind you, there are quite a few ties...we ranked ties according to age of the song, not by how much we personally enjoyed it).

  • Stream Usher's 'Clueless' without Buying Honey Nut Cheerios [LISTEN]

    As we reported earlier, Usher has released the single "Clueless" in a campaign with Honey Nut Cheerios and Walmart, where a few select fans would find the song stashed away at the bottom of a Honey Nut Cheerios box at one of the many thousands of Walmarts across the United States. Inevitably, someone was going to get lucky and happen across "Clueless" as they were pouring out a bowl of heart-healthy breakfast. The next step, as you might expect, in the Internet age would be to upload "Clueless" onto the Web so everyone can hear it without having to dig through thousands of Cheerios boxes. We have saved you the trouble and brought you the audio sans cereal.

  • Justin Bieber Worked with Skrillex, Diplo on New Album [LISTEN]

    EDM kings Skrillex and Diplo reportedly worked with Justin Bieber, producing a new album by the pop star and giving it an electronic makeover. DJ SKEE broke the news on his Weekend Update show for Dash Radio, saying some disc jockeys sat in on an exclusive listening event of the album. "It's supposed to be really, really dope, crossing over a few different formats," SKEE says in the video below, via YourEDM. "They're saying a lot of people who aren't feeling Bieber or wouldn't necessarily like that record are going to be caught off guard by that. So, shout out to Skrillex and Diplo for just killing the game." The two artists, known as Jack U, have been talking about their collaborations with other acts lately, saying that they have been in the studio with Usher, Madonna, Nicki Minaj and A$AP Ferg, who have all hit the duo up for collaboration. The two are also getting ready for their New Year's Eve extravaganza at Madison Square Garden.

  • Drake, P. Reign Join T.I. at Toronto Concert: Drizzy Performs 3 Tracks [WATCH]

    Drake and P. Reign joined T.I. onstage in their hometown of Toronto last night, Nov. 17, as part of the "Dead and Gone" rapper's Paperwork Tour. Drizzy praised his friend at the gig before performing "Tuesday," "0 to 100" and "6 God." "I would not be where I am in my career without this man right here," Drake said about T.I., "MTV News" noted. "This man gave me one of the most important talks of my life at one of the most important times of my life and his life. Those are words that I'll never forget." The crowd erupts in the video below when Drake steps out onstage. The trio's energy was pretty contagious, and some photos from the event show just how good of friends they all are.

  • Ne-Yo's Voice Gives Woman Seizures, Forces Her to Get Operation

    We all have songs or particular artists who get on our nerves whenever they come on the radio, but nobody can really claim that hearing a particular artist is actually life-threatening, can they? Actually, someone can: Zoe Fennessy of Retford, United Kingdom, who suffers from epileptic seizures whenever she hears a song by R&B singer Ne-Yo. Because of this, she had to undergo an operation. Fennessy has been suffering from seizures since 2006, and was officially diagnosed with epilepsy in 2008, but in 2011 she suffered from her first "musicogenic seizure" after hearing Pitbull's song "Give Me Everything," which features Ne-Yo. "It took me a while to realize that they were being triggered by his songs," Fennessy told "SWNS," "and I think it wasn't until I had heard it for about the 15th time that it finally twigged what was going on."

  • Usher, Nick Jonas, Jeff Daniels Play 'Pyramid' with Jimmy Fallon on 'Tonight Show' [WATCH]

    The star-studded lineup of Usher, Nick Jonas and Jeff Daniels stopped by "The Tonight Show" last night, Nov. 10, to play the old TV game show classic "Pyramid" with Jimmy Fallon. The "Yeah" singer teamed up the "Dumb and Dumber To" star while Jonas joined Fallon. Here is what we learned from the bout in the video below: 1. Daniels cannot dance (2:20). 2. Jonas does not know a single gangster film because, as Fallon says, "He's 15 years old" (3:20). 3. Fallon picked some bad lines to reference "Goodfellas" (3:48). 4. Jonas takes a canteen to work (6:12). 5. Daniels does not know much about R&B/soul music, which is probably a good thing since he cannot dance (7:19).
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