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Doja Cat had a few things to get off her chest on Tuesday night. First the Grammy winner targeted her last two albums, categorizing them as nothing more than money makers. “Planet Her and Hot Pink were cash-grabs and yall fell for it,” she penned on Twitter. “Now I can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island […]
Billboard announced Thursday that “limited combinations of merchandise and physical albums” will count toward the Billboard 200 chart, starting later this year. Dubbed “fan packs,” these combinations are limited to merch paired with the physical copy of an album, as “each individual item must also be sold separately in the same web store.” Combining merch with […]
The almost impossible, arguably futile practice of writing about leaks was presented with a new challenge this week in the form of several Frank Ocean-related surfacings. The chatter comes at an interesting time for Ocean fans, who are still reeling from the coverage surrounding the revered artist’s divisive Coachella set. As previously reported, Ocean ultimately […]
AEG issued a cease-and-desist to a Los Angeles-based filmmaker after he created and shared a video of Frank Ocean’s entire Coachella headlining set. Variety reports that Brian Kinnes—who didn’t go to the music festival—sifted through hundreds of YouTube clips from fellow fans in order to create the film of the singer’s divisive 80-minute set. After uploading […]
Harry Styles made headlines this week after his simple gesture seemingly caused a fan to lose consciousness. The incident went down Thursday night during the farewell episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, which featured Styles as one of the final guests. Footage showed the Harry’s House singer making his grand entrance, as he stepped from […]
Jack Harlow has offered another critique of whiteness in hip-hop. The Kentucky-born rapper revisited the topic in “Common Ground,” the opening track of his newly released third studio album, Jackman. Harlow addresses the ways in which some white rap fans have become cultural tourists who embrace and appropriate the hip-hop lifestyle while cloaked in privilege. “The suburbs […]
The heirs of Ed Townsend—the songwriter and producer who co-wrote Marvin Gaye’s classic record “Let’s Get It On”—are suing Ed Sheeran for copyright infringement for allegedly copying core aspects of the R&B classic for his chart-topping track “Thinking Out Loud.” The Townsend estate, including his daughter, Kathryn Townsend Griffin, sister Helen McDonald, and the estate of his […]
Welcome to the Leslie era. Over the weekend, Lil Uzi Vert introduced their fans to a new apparent alter ego by the name of Leslie. In a short clip included as part of an Instagram carousel, captioned “Leslie was in Thailand,” they were seen enjoying some insect delicacies. The update also included a number of […]
Frank Ocean’s long-awaited Coachella headlining set finally went down on Sunday night, albeit not without a swarm of confusion surrounding it. First, fans who had long been planning to watch from home via the official festival livestream were given the bad news: Frank’s set would not be livestreamed. This alone spurred a range of reactions, […]
LeBron James never shies away from pledging his allegiance to the Future Hive, as the Los Angeles Lakers superstar has continually displayed his love for the Atlanta rapper’s music over the years. On the flip side, Future has drawn inspiration from having LeBron as one of his biggest fans. During a recent appearance on MSNBC’s nightly show The Beat with Ari […]
