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Death Row/Aftermath/Interscope Records Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre have been hustling since they worked on Snoop’s 1994 album, Doggystyle, but they’ve teamed up for their latest album, Missionary. In an interview with Complex, they chalked the release up to timing and the desire to bring Dre’s unique sound back into music. “We always fill the […]

Legacy/Columbia Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 again, and that puts her within striking distance of breaking her own record. The song has now been #1 on that chart for a total of 16 weeks. That matches the record she set in 1996 with “One Sweet Day,” […]

Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Chris Brown hosted his Breezy Bowl in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday and Sunday, performing sold-out shows at the FNB stadium, which drew more than 90,000 attendees each night. He took the stage with 18 dancers for songs including “Sensational” featuring Davido, “Yo (Excuse Me Miss),” “Residuals,” “Under The Influence” and “Run It!” […]

Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures Will Smith is not getting jiggy with the memes connecting him to Diddy‘s freak-offs. During a performance in San Diego Friday, he took some time in his set to clarify he’s never participated or witnessed the alleged sex trafficking that was involved in the alleged drug-fueled orgies. […]

Ethan Miller/Getty Images via ABC Drake donated $10,000 toward the prize money for a contest looking for his doppelgänger. The Casuals Cakery bakery in Toronto hosted the event on Saturday. It shared a screenshot capturing the moment Drake offered up the prize money. “I’m adding 10 bands to the look alike contest. As the main prize,” he […]

Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images Doechii is an animated rapper who makes use of dynamics, different flows and sound changes in her music, and she explains why in a conversation with Brittany Howard for Rolling Stone‘s latest Musicians on Musicians series. “There’s so many different emotions that I feel like you don’t have to emote in one […]

ABC/John Argueta 2024, naming Tyla as #1. She jumps up from being #14 last year, thanks to her hit single “Water” and its 51-week run on the weekly U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, as well as her self-titled album having 10 of 14 songs reach the chart. “Water” is the #1 track on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs year-end […]

Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Mariah Carey‘s festive hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” appears to be the gift that keeps on giving. The song has garnered over 2 billion streams on Spotify, an accomplishment Mariah says is “beyond incredible.” “I’m honored to have ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ be […]

© Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. @basquiatofficial @artestarnyc The Weeknd has pulled off a marketing coup with his new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow. He’s partnered with the estate of the late, acclaimed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Weeknd X Basquiat collection, which includes vinyls, autographed CDs and a box including a T-shirt and […]

DMX was a man of God, a side of him displayed in his second posthumous project, Let Us Pray: Chapter X. Produced by gospel’s own Warryn Campbell, it features eight tracks: four songs of DMX’s prayers on Warryn’s beats and their respective instrumentals. Killer Mike, MaryMary, Lecrae, Snoop Dogg, Terrace Martin, Lena Bird-Myles and RoyzNoyzOrchestra appear on the […]