OAKLAND, Calif. — Like many of today’s post-Y2K teenagers, Maia, a preternaturally composed and thoughtful young woman from the San Francisco Bay Area, can rattle off her old screen names and social media accounts as easily as her birth date.
Before the rising emo-rapper Lil Peep was pronounced dead from an overdose on a tour bus in Tucson, Arizona, almost two years ago, he was “stressed, overwhelmed, burnt out, exhausted and physically unwell,” according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES — Earlier this year, just as the North Carolina rapper DaBaby was hurtling into the hip-hop stratosphere with his hit single “Suge,” he was resting for a rare minute at home in Charlotte when he was awakened by a stream of calls and messages.
Meek Mill, the platinum-selling Philadelphia rapper, was granted a new trial and a new judge by a Pennsylvania appeals court Wednesday, after fighting a 2008 drug and gun conviction that his lawyers have argued should be overturned.
Taymor McIntyre, a Texas teenager best known as rapper Tay-K (or Tay-K 47), was found guilty of murder Friday for his role in a 2016 armed robbery that left one man dead and, in a controversial series of events, helped to kick-start Tay-K’s brief, viral rise in hip-hop.
(The Charts): Lil Nas X may be the current king of streaming thanks to his unstoppable single “Old Town Road,” but old-fashioned live rock ’n’ roll and vinyl sales combined to keep him from a No. 1 album.
Taylor Swift put typically opaque, backroom music-industry dealings and rivalries on full public display Sunday afternoon in a post on Tumblr in which she called out two executives involved in a major deal as manipulative and controlling.
The fact that “Uptown Funk,” one of the most successful and recognizable pop smashes of this century — with 3.5 billion views on YouTube, 14 weeks at No. 1 and a Grammy for record of the year — actually appeared under Ronson’s name on his 2015 album, “Uptown Special,” is but a trivia footnote. And he’s fine with that.
“The Beautiful Ones,” a memoir that Prince started not long before his death in 2016, will be released in October as a “newly envisioned” book featuring rare photographs and handwritten lyrics, publisher Random House announced Monday.
“Guava Island,” a new 55-minute film starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, was released as a limited-time free stream on Amazon overnight Saturday, during Glover’s headlining set as Childish Gambino at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
“Guava Island,” a new 55-minute film starring Donald Glover and Rihanna, was released as a limited-time free stream on Amazon overnight Saturday, during Glover’s headlining set as Childish Gambino at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
For 15 weeks since fall, the top spot on the Billboard singles chart was occupied by one of two Ariana Grande mega-smashes — “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings” — that drip with the mettle and coquettish swagger of a pop diva, while borrowing from hip-hop beats and cadences.
The mainstream arrival of a new 17-year-old pop star reached its final stage this week as Billie Eilish’s first album put up big numbers and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
Though far from a struggling musician, Nipsey Hussle, the Los Angeles rapper who was shot and killed Sunday, was not living the luxury fantasy of hip-hop superstardom.
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