• Fetty Wap Joins Rich The Kid On New Track "Keep It 100" [LISTEN]

    Rich The Kid has been pushing out music continually ahead of his new mixtape Flexin On Purpose, and has enlisted Fetty Wap for his new Zaytoven-produced song "Keep It 100," following the New Jersey rapper's smash hit "Trap Queen" and recently released track "Show You."

  • Stephen Hawking Theorizes About Zayn Malik's One Direction Departure, Says "There Could Be A Parallel Universe" In Which He Stayed In The Group

    Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is a pretty smart man. So when he talks about something significant, like One Direction losing Zayn Malik, you listen! While giving a lecture at Sydney Opera House, according to NME, one audience member asked him "What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?" The renowned scientist gave a comforting answer after joking, "Finally, a question about something important."

  • Grooveshark Could be Fined $730 Million for Universal Music Group Lawsuit Damages

    It's been five years since the Universal Music Group first brought its legal team against Grooveshark, a music streaming site. Now it looks like the defendant will pay a dramatic amount, approaching a billion dollars in fines. Universal had looked to make an example out of the relatively small site, claiming that it would unleash "legal jihad" on the company, and it looks as if they aim to follow through.

  • Grimes Defends Tidal: "This Kind Of Thing Is So Important, Especially For Indie Music"

    If you have paid attention to the music industry over the past few weeks, you would have seen the big hoopla about Jay Z's new music streaming service TIDAL. It has faced a wall of criticism from fans, artists and professional skeptics who question whether or not its message of "TIDAL For All" is actually meant to benefit every artist or just a few millionaire artists who were there to launch the product at the March 30 press conference. Today, Jay Z took the time to outline some TIDAL facts on Twitter, including saying that the company pays out 75 percent of its revenue to artists, writers and producers, higher than the 70 perfect that Spotify pays out in royalties, which largely lines the pockets of labels and distributors.

  • Snoop Dogg Details Pharrell, Stevie Wonder Collaboration On 'Bush'

    Fans are counting down the days until Snoop Dogg releases his new Pharrell-produced album Bush. One of the more anticipated collaborations on the LP features the legend Stevie Wonder and at a recent album recent listening event in Los Angeles, the Snoop shared the story of how he was able to get Stevie on the track. During a session where he and Pharrell were recording one of the tracks, it was decided that they could use some Stevie Wonder on the track after working with Charlie Wilson on most of the LP. The Doggfather explained exactly how he was able to get a hold of Mr. Wonder and get him in the studio to record on the album, much to the apparent surprise and amazement of Pharrell (via Hip Hop DX).
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