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Music Tank Calls Final Album "Bittersweet" As He Laments Over Artists Not Returning His Calls The R&B icon explains it's all about the "camaraderie" in the genre, adding, "doing this together is bigger than hoarding our own individual moments." By Erika Marie February 23, 2022
Random Roddy Ricch Reveals He Almost Called Himself "Lil Bird" Roddy Ricch nearly called himself "Lil Bird." By Alex Zidel December 22, 2021
Music Ed Sheeran Warns That "Baseless" Lawsuits Damage Songwriting Industry After winning the plagiarism lawsuit against him, the superstar singer-songwriter shared a video about how these sorts of lawsuits are damaging. By Erika Marie April 06, 2022
Music Fivio Foreign Shares Cover Art For "B.I.B.L.E" Fivio Foreign's debut album is due out on April 8th. By Aron A. March 29, 2022
Music Too Short Runs Through His Classics During Tiny Desk Concert With a live band behind him, Short Dog revisited some fan favorites in this enjoyable performance. By Erika Marie February 17, 2022
Music DaBaby Reacts To "Sneaky Link Anthem" Backlash: "It's Okay" The rapper's R&B-ish single wasn't received well by the public, but he's taking it in stride. By Erika Marie January 18, 2022
Pop Culture Freddie Gibbs Thinks Rap Is "All For The Bag" Says "I'm Going Back To R&B" Freddie Gibbs can't decide if he wants to save the rap game or leave it alone. By Taylor McCloud September 24, 2021
Pop Culture Ice Spice Performs At Rolling Loud New York, Twitter Reacts Social media users believe Ice wasn't appropriately trained before hitting the stage. By Lawrencia Grose September 24, 2022
Music Billie Eilish, Yung Bleu & ROSALÍA Hold Down Our "R&B Season" Playlist Some smooth R&B drops to get you through the week. By Aron A. January 24, 2021
Music Twitch Shamelessly Replaces Audio Of Metallica's BlizzCon Show To Avoid DMCA Twitch replaced the audio from Metallica's performance during BlizzCon 2021 with non-copyrighted music in order to avoid a DMCA strike. By Cole Blake February 20, 2021
Music 2Pac's Brother Theorizies He'd Be Critical Of The Grammys 2Pac Shakur's brother Mopreme opened up about how the late rapper might have reacted to the 2021 Grammy Awards. By Mitch Findlay March 17, 2021
Music Lil Uzi Vert Hints At Wanting A Verzuz Battle Lil Uzi Vert says he wants to battle, prompting fans to suggest artists he can face off against on Verzuz. By Alex Zidel November 24, 2020