A couple of years ago, Residente engaged in a war of words with J Balvin. Admittedly, it wasn’t a fair fight, at least on those terms, with one of Spanish-language hip-hop’s most accomplished artists putting the popwise Colombian reggaetonero on the defensive. Lurking beneath this back-and-forth volley of since-deleted video …

Drake is continuing to stand by Tory Lanez amid the rapper’s attempt to appeal his sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, this time calling for Lanez’s freedom. On Monday, Drake posted a photo of the rapper, who is currently in prison for shooting Megan in 2020, with the caption, “3 …

Beyonce’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” has topped Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, the publication announced on Monday, marking the singer’s ninth time atop the chart as a solo artist and the 13th in total when including her songs with Destiny’s Child. “Texas Hold ‘Em” dethroned Jack Harlow’s “Lovin On Me,” which had …

A journalist is often waiting indeterminately for an interviewee to come on a Zoom call or enter a label office; you’re rarely in their living room waiting for them to come out of their bedroom. But here I am in French Montana’s Manhattan apartment after his assistant Kam invites me …

The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling that embryos created using in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) are legally equivalent to people has caused absolute chaos as healthcare providers try to figure out the implications of this new legal status quo. It’s potentially massive and unsettling, as John Oliver pointed out the core absurdity on …

At the turn of the millennium, the battle lines in the boy-band wars were fairly clear. You were either on Team Backstreet Boys or Team ‘NSync. Some fans took a Switzerland-like stance and professed equal love for both groups, but they were mostly full of shit. Everyone had a favorite. …

Jessie Murph just wants to work: “I’m in a state, right now, of just hustling,” she tells Rolling Stone on the latest episode of On Your Radar. “Any chance I get, I’m writing, any chance I get, I’m in the studio — it’s all I care about, it’s all I …

Sometimes when we are too close to ourselves and our situations, causing us to become narrow-minded, judgmental, accusatory and, frankly, not a team player with a win/win attitude. Even so, there are ways to go big picture by acknowledging what is going well, looking forward to a positive end result, …

We have some “Good News”: Something Corporate have announced their first tour in over 20 years. The announcement arrives after the SoCal pop-punk band reunited for a handful of shows last year, hitting the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas and a pair of New Year’s gigs in …

The first co-headlining tour from the National and the War on Drugs is heading to North America. The two bands will head out on the road for the 2024 Zen Diagram tour starting in September. The Zen Diagram kicks off on Sept. 12 in Gilford, New Hampshire, and will wrap …