• Fabolous Releases Video for 'Lituation' After Announcing 'The Young OG Project' Release Date [WATCH]

    Fabolous kicked off December with some good news. He signed a deal with Roc Nation and announced the release date for his forthcoming album "The Young OG Project." The New York rapper just offered up the first glimpse of the project with a video for a track called "Lituation."In the visual directed by Gerald Victor, Fab creates the film "King of New York" as he takes on the role of Christopher Walken. Things get pretty heavy after Fab catches a body. He is forced to dip off with a bad yellow bone riding shotgun."You can come into a situation and it can be [calm] and you can turn it up and get it a little lit," Fab told MTV when asked to explain the song's title. "It's a very aggressive New York street record and I wanted to start with that just to get the feel, and get you there first, [then] the rest of the album will take you different places."

  • J. Cole's '2014 Forest Hills Drive' Set To Be Third Consecutive No. 1

    Even with very little promotion around the album, J Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive has been the talk of the music industry over the past couple weeks. How Cole is able to authentically reconnect with his childhood and tell a nostalgic story of his past has resonated with fans new and old for what could be his greatest work to date. That critical acclaim and buzz is translating into sales, according to a report from Billboard. According to industry forecasters, Cole could sell over 300,000 copies of 2014 Forest Hills Drive in the first week. This would catapult him to the top of the overall album charts.

  • deadmau5 Returns Disposable Camera Sent By Fan With Amazing Pictures

    Deadmau5 can be a bit of a Grinch sometimes, but when it comes to his fans he is always Santa Claus. In strange turn of events a fan decided to do something creative and bold and send deadmau5 a disposable camera to see what would happen. Deadmau5 posted the new address for his compound outside of Toronto a little while back and has probably been receiving loads of fan mail, but this was an opportunity he could not pass up on.

  • Justin Timberlake and Garth Brooks: Pop Star Covers 'Friends in Low Places' at Recent Show [WATCH]

    Justin Timberlake continued to remind fans that he is a huge Garth Brooks supporter when he played the country star's 1990 hit "Friends in Low Places." Apparently, all of Timberlake's fans know the tune as they sang it in unison at the singer's show last week in Oklahoma City. Prior to his performance, Timberlake attended the Brooks concert in St. Louis and had a wonderful time. He even took a picture with his hero.As "Taste of Country" noted, Timberlake told the crowd about going to the Brooks show before launching into the country hit. The former 'N SYNC leader's voice brings a smooth, soul vibe to the song, but Timberlake lets the frenzied audience take over for the chorus. Check it out in the fan-shot footage below.J. Tim — just go with it — and and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, are reportedly expecting their first child. A friend told "Us Weekly" in November that there was a little Timberlake on the way, but representatives have not confirmed the rumors.Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" was one of the best-selling albums last year, beating out Eminem and Luke Bryan.

  • Simon Cowell Denies 'X Factor' and Sony Conspired to Have Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" Released Early

    Music labels are the evil empire, or so musicians tell us all the time. Do this, do that...but how far would a label go to force their signees' hands? Would they collaborate in a conspiracy with a major television program? Simon Cowell says "no" but that's exactly what some are alleging what happened when X Factor contestant Fleur East performed Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" last weekend.

  • J. Cole Doesn't Disappoint With New Album '2014 Forest Hills Drive,' May Have Biggest Hip-Hop Sales Week [ROUND-UP REVIEW]

    Last month, J. Cole officially announced the iTunes preorder for his "2014 Forest Hills Drive" album and fans had been anticipating its release ever since. The album ended up leaking before its official release and fans contemplated whether or not to listen early. Buzz surrounding a track called "Fire Squad," where Cole calls out Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Macklemore and Iggy Azalea for appropriating black culture, made the album hard to resist. Whether fans decided to take a listen early or wait for the official drop, all can agree the North Carolina rapper did not disappoint. It has been reported that the album may have the biggest hip-hop sales week of the year.

  • Diddy Called Out Drake For Stealing '0 to 100/The Catch' Beat Months Ago [WATCH]

    The feud between Diddy and Drake that bubbled over into a physical altercation early Monday morning apparently has been brewing for some time now. A new video has surfaced, obtained by TMZ, of Diddy as a concert calling out Drake for stealing the beat for "1 to 100/The Catch" from him (via Complex). The song, which has been nominated for two Grammys, "Best Rap Song" and "Best Rap Performance," has been at the center of the feud between the two.

  • Luke Bryan Top Jukebox Artist of 2014 According to TouchTunes; AC/DC, Eric Church and Lynyrd Skynyrd Right Behind

    The bar crowd has spoken: Luke Bryan is the undisputed jukebox champion of 2014. TouchTunes, which supplies establishments with digital music machines, announced its most-played artists and songs recently, and the Crash My Party singer is at the top on the list. As Billboard points out, it makes complete sense with tunes like "Play It Again" and "Drink a Beer." AC/DC, Eric Church and Lynyrd Skynyrd were right behind Bryan.

  • Gorgon City Reveals 2015 North American Live Tour Details [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Part of the new wave of UK house and garage exports going global, Kye Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott, known professionally as Gorgon City, are coming back to the United States. They teased a small North American tour a short while ago and now have revealed the details for where they will be touching down. They will begin their tour in New York City on February 17 at an undisclosed location, but since it is a live tour, it will probably be some place with a stage where they can set up their gear like a Music Hall of Williamsburg, Terminal 5 or Webster Hall. They will then hit three more United States hotspots, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, before circling back to the East Coast for two chows in Canada in Montreal and Toronto on February 25 and 26, respectively.

  • Wiz Khalifa Shares New Track 'Simple Conversation' Featuring Bankroll, Reese [LISTEN]

    Wiz Khalifa has dropped a new track through his Soundcloud called "Simple Conversation," which you can check out below. The Sledgren and Rick P-produced track features some sinister low end rumbling with electronic beats skittering across the top, while Bankroll and Reese stop by to lay down some verses. The whole thing is more intense and energetic than anything else we've heard from Wiz this year.
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