• Curren$y Shares "Life 2 Die For" After 'Pilot Talk 3' Release [LISTEN]

    New Orleans rapper Curren$y -- born Shante Scott Franklin -- has shared a new track, "Life 2 Die For," featuring the production work of Purpdogg. "Life 2 Die For" comes on the heels of the release of Curren$y's highly anticipated LP 'Pilot Talk 3,' the third edition of his celebrated album series 'Pilot Talk.' The new single is presumably a leftover from the album, but was too good to leave gathering dust in a hard drive, so they released it.
  • Flying Lotus To Interview Kendrick Lamar About New Album 'To Pimp A Butterfly' During BBC Radio 1 Residency Tonight (April 9)

    Throughout his current residency with BBC Radio 1, Flying Lotus has not only gifted listeners with new music, including songs from Joey Bada$ and Thundercat, and old gems, such as Herbie Hancock classics, but he's also provided some interesting exchanges with other artists. Following interviews with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood and Hancock, FlyLo will be sitting down for a conversation with his frequent collaborator Kendrick Lamar, the DJ/producer revealed on Instagram this morning.
  • AC/DC 'Excited' About Playing Coachella, Paul McCartney Offers Advice

    AC/DC will be on hand this weekend to give festival-goers at Coachella a classic rock fix. The band will perform during the Friday night headline slot, following acts like Alabama Shakes, DJ Snake and Lil B -- Steely Dan will also be there to represent. In a recent interview with 'The Los Angeles Times,' frontman Brian Johnson talked about begin "excited" to perform for a younger audience and what advice Paul McCartney had to offer them.
  • Tyler, The Creator Shares "F--king Young" Video Following New Album 'Cherry Bomb' Announcement [WATCH]

    Tyler, the Creator announced his new album Cherry Bomb this morning and shared two new songs. Now he's dropped a video for "F**king Young," which features most of the Odd Future crew. The six-and-a-half-minute clip, which Tyler directed himself under his Wolf Haley moniker, opens with him standing on a roof and acting like a righteous dude as his crew tries to convince him that jumping off the roof into the pool isn't safe. When he emerges from the pool after jumping in, he looks up and falls in love with the girl standing there.
  • Duke's Mike Krzyzewski Likes Meek Mill: Coach Says He Listens 'All the Time'

    Duke University head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has a knack for winning. He also has a pretty decent taste in music as well. The coach, who just won his fifth NCAA Championship with the Blue Devils, recently revealed that he is a fan of Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill, 'XXL' noted. "I really like Meek Mill. I play it all the time," a tweet attributed to Coach K from Duke basketball's official Twitter account reads.
  • 'The Voice' Season 8 Recap & Review: Top 12 Revealed in Slaughterhouse Live Playoffs Elimination

    On Wednesday night (April 8), it was finally time for The Voice season eight to trim the fat. After four hours of live performances earlier in the week, it was time to cut 40 percent of the remaining contestants, leaving America with its final top 12. It was a slaughterhouse, but for the most part, the right decisions were made by Pharrell, Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine and American voters.
  • Wale, Ludacris and Kendrick Lamar Keep Hip-Hop in Top Three Spots of Billboard Albums Chart

    Wale, Ludacris and Kendrick Lamar helped ensure that hip-hop took the top three spots on the Album Sales Chart for the second week in a row. Wale, who was also no. 1 on the Billboard 200, sold 90,500 copies of his new record The Album About Nothing. Ludacris got a boost from the strict album sales format of this chart (he placed no. 3 due to stream numbers helping the Furious 7 soundtrack on the 200) and placed no. 2 with Ludaversal, selling 59,000 copies of his new album. Kendrick Lamar was at no. 1 for two weeks with To Pimp A Butterfly but he'll settle for no. 3 this week after selling another 52,500 copies.