ATLANTA — The rapper Yak Gotti got into a fight with another inmate in Fulton County jail on October 8, sheriff’s office officials confirmed Friday afternoon. Yak Gotti – real name Deamonte Kendrick – emerged from the fray relatively unscathed, his mother Tasha Kendrick said. “He beat that boy’s ass,” …
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Hotties need time off, too. Megan Thee Stallion is poised to experience a career highlight this weekend when she hosts (and performs on) Saturday Night Live, but she’s also dealing with some major material losses after her house was broken into Thursday night. On Friday, following a TMZ report that …
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Beck has dropped off the Arcade Fire’s upcoming North American tour, where the singer was to serve as opening act, amid accusations of sexual misconduct against the band’s frontman Win Butler. Ticket buyers were informed of the change via email Friday, “Beck is unfortunately no longer able to join Arcade …
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Well-travelled singer-songwriter Bartees Strange hit up CBS Mornings this weekend to perform three tracks off Farm to Table for their “Saturday Sessions.” Strange and his band delivered opening track “Heavy Heart,” “Escape This Circus” and “Mulholland Drive” from his acclaimed new album, as well as sat down with an interview …
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“Nobody wants to die, but they know they’re gonna have to,” Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan howls in the band’s first new music since 2019’s Feral Roots. “Nobody Wants to Die” arrives with a cinematic video directed by Éli Sokhn that lives up to the song’s title, a blood-and-bombs tale …
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Darlene Love was scrolling through Facebook earlier this year when she came across an interview with 23-year-old Fifties pop throwback singer Chris Ruggiero citing her as one of his favorite vocalists. “Very few people his age talk about our music,” says Love, 81. “I found it just mind-blowing.” The Facebook …
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Bruce Springsteen has shared the video for his cover of the 1985 Commodores hit “Nightshift,” which will appear on his upcoming soul covers LP Only the Strong Survive, out November 11. Commodores wrote the song a few years after parting ways with Lionel Richie to honor the memories of Marvin …
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This story was originally published in the Dec. 4, 1986 issue of Rolling Stone. Eyeing a gold Jacuzzi in his $750-a-night suite at the Stouffer airport hotel in Los Angeles, Run, the deffest rapper in the world, exclaims, “Me go to Michael Jackson‘s for dinner? I just don’t know if …
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Blink-182 have shared their first new song with Tom DeLonge in a decade, “Edging.” The song features DeLonge and Mark Hoppus trading off lead vocals like they did on classic tunes like “Stay Together For The Kids” and “Pathetic.” “I know there’s a special place in hell,” Hoppus sings. “That …
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Another day, another Twitter tiff between rappers. This time, the fracas is between Nicki Minaj, the ever-polarizing rap icon seeking more Grammy gold with “Super Freaky Girl,” and Latto, the buzzing Atlanta MC whose “Big Energy” hit is one of the biggest songs of 2022. The drama started with Nicki …
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