L il Yachty and Tierra Whack are two of the more inventive artists in hip-hop today — two wildly original talents who have charted their own paths without following anyone else’s trends. If you’re going to compare them to anyone, though, it might as well be each other. Both started …
Read More »Trap God, Grammy King: Gucci Mane and Jon Batiste Tell All
O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came …
Read More »Listen to a Playlist of Songs by Musicians on Musicians Artists
We’ve compiled the eclectic mix of hip-hop, Latin pop, R&B, Afrobeats, and K-pop music of the artists featured in the fifth installment of our Musicians on Musicians series into a mega playlist on iHeart. From the song that changed Omar Apollo’s life to Latto’s own track that Snoop Dogg requested …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians First Live Event Taps Tierra Whack & Lil Yachty and Jon Batiste & Gucci Mane
Musicians on Musicians, the Rolling Stone franchise that pairs artists from across genres and regions for in-depth conversations about life, music and everything in between, is moving from the page to the stage. On Nov. 10, the first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event will take place at New York’s St. …
Read More »Victoria Monét and Kelly Rowland Have a Lot More in Common Than They Realized
A small room at the top of Hollywood’s historic Paramount Recording Studios is serving as a salon for Victoria Monét as she and a stylist put the finishing touches on her hair. She’s preparing to sit down with Kelly Rowland, and she’s pretty nervous. Meeting a role model can do …
Read More »'Be the Biggest Kid in the Room': Latto & Snoop Dogg on the Secrets to Extreme Charisma
L atto and Snoop Dogg are preparing for their Musicians on Musicians cover shoot at Hollywood’s historic United Recording studios, when Snoop shouts out a song he’d like cued up: “Can we turn on that ‘Rip me out the plastic, I’m actin’ brand-new?’” Latto lets out a yelp like she …
Read More »Becky G and Thalía: 'I'm Going to Tell You I Love You'
T he first order of business when Thalía and Becky G meet up at New York’s Power Station is what music the two pop stars are going to play in the background of their photo shoot. Quickly, the room decides on Bad Bunny, and within minutes, “Tití Me Preguntó” is …
Read More »Lindsey Buckingham Wrote a Song That Changed Omar Apollo's Life
I didn’t bring my stilts,” dad-jokes Lindsey Buckingham as he eyes Omar Apollo, all six feet five of him. Apollo lets out a chuckle as he leans against the recording console, where Buckingham’s band, Fleetwood Mac, happened to have made Tusk 45 years ago. Buckingham, a 74-year-old guitar hero, might …
Read More »Can Big Boi and J.I.D See the Future of Southern Rap?
A tlanta’s storied Stankonia Studios feel like the site of a family reunion as J.I.D walks in with a grin and daps up Big Boi with Stevie Wonder’s “As” spilling from the speakers. Both are soft-spoken, and you can barely hear what they say to each other as they exchange …
Read More »Grimes and Aespa Go Deep on AI, Avatars, and the Art of the Music Video
G rimes is a self-taught, self-produced artist who released her first album on a small indie label more than a decade ago. Aespa is a girl group formed during the pandemic by one of K-pop’s leading labels, composed of four extremely hardworking women — Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning — …
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