• Chance The Rapper Talks Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, New Album 'Surf,' The Chicago Hip-Hop Community & More In The Fader Cover Story

    Chance the Rapper's upcoming album with his band The Social Experiment, titled Surf, was slated for release in 2014, though it never ended up coming out. Save for a censored tracklist posted to Instagram and an interview with Billboard three months ago, the Chicago rapper has remained mostly silent about the new project until yesterday, when he unveiled a teaser video starring supermodel Cara Delevingne. Now he and his band are featured on the latest cover of The Fader. In their cover story, Chance clarifies that Surf is not a Chance the Rapper album, rather it's a Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment project. Chance is just another member of the four-member group. The rapper also dishes on his come-up, why he hasn't signed with a label, the Chicago hip-hop community, and his band's approach to making music, among other topics. Here some things we learned:

  • Ariana Grande's "Problem" Given Bluesy Cover from "Take Me to Church" Singer Hozier

    Last year, there were two songs that rocked the Billboard charts in 2014 that could seemingly have nothing in common: Hozier's "Take Me to Church" and Ariana Grande's "Problem." But, in the world of the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, nothing is safe. Ahead of his first Grammys as a nominee, today (Jan. 30), Irish crooner Hozier did what seemed impossible: rocked out to Grande's breakout My Everything single.

  • Katy Perry Talks Rumored Taylor Swift Beef, John Mayer Relationship, Childhood, Lenny Kravitz & More Ahead Of Super Bowl Halftime Performance

    With the Super Bowl just days away, Katy Perry graces the cover of Billboard magazine ahead of her halftime performance. When she takes the stage at the University of Phoenix stadium on Sunday, she will perform for 12-and-a-half minutes for an audience of about 100 million TV viewers and 63,400 attendees. The cover story follows Perry through rehearsals, where she dishes on her childhood, her home life, her relationship with John Mayer, her rumored beef with Taylor Swift, and her thoughts on all things Super Bowl XLIX-related, among other topics. Here's what we learned:

  • Kidz Bop Meghan Trainor "All About That Bass" Cover Misheard Lyrics Sound Like A Different Kind of Booty

    Oh, Kidz Bop. You try and make a slightly naughty song more palatable for a young audience, and then you just end up talking about anal sex. This week, the family-friendly Kidz Bop Kidz cover of Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" from the recently released Kidz Bop 27 was making its way around online, and instead of bringing "booty back," it sounds like there's something else happening in verse No. 2.

  • 7 Songs You Didn't Know Jeff Lynne Helped Write: Sam Smith, George Harrison and...The Pussycat Dolls?

    Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" was one of the biggest songs of 2014 and this week's big news was that Tom Petty would receive a songwriting credit for the song due to its similarities to his own "I Won't Back Down," a coincidence that Petty referred to as a "musical accident no more no less." Although Petty has appeared in all of the headlines, an equal amount of the songwriting credit was also awarded to Jeff Lynne, the frontman for the Electric Light Orchestra, who has been behind the scenes on many a track. Check out a list of Lynne's other surprise songwriting credits, not counting work with band's he's a part of, including the Traveling Wilburys.

  • WATCH: Carrie Underwood "Little Toy Guns" Music Video from 'Greatest Hits: Decade #1'

    Everyone has had those fantasies as a kid, in the midst of a parental argument, of running away and making everything better. And now, in the gorgeous new music video for Carrie Underwood's "Little Toy Guns," those have been brought to life. Today (Jan. 30), the top-earning American Idol alumna released the new music video for her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 single "Little Toy Guns," featuring stunning imagery and a plot filled with escapism.

  • Iggy Azalea Blasts Steve Madden for Bizarre Shoe Campaign with Pool Toys, "Unintentional Crotch Shots"

    Things got a little tense between Iggy Azalea and her shoe collaborator Steve Madden last night (Jan. 30). Ahead of the launch of their fashion line this spring, some images surfaced from Steve Madden's planned ad campaign, and the "Beg For It" rapper was unhappy with the results. So she took to her favorite form of communication, Twitter, to lash out at the company, before recanting her comments and posting a loving Instagram message.

  • Suge Knight Arrested, Charged in Fatal Hit-and-Run Incident That Left One Dead and Two Injured

    Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight has been arrested and charged with murder following a hit-and-run incident that occurred Thursday (Jan. 29), The Hollywood Reporter notes. Knight allegedly got into an altercation near the site of a promotional shoot for the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton before the homicide happened. According to witnesses, Knight began arguing with two men when he pulled up to the scene in a red pick-up truck. When the fight began to get more serious, Knight reportedly backed into a victim, who died, and hit two others, who suffered non life-threatening injuries.
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