Rihanna Says AMA Performance Will Be ‘A Challenge’.
Rihanna is set to prove she's the only girl in the world when she takes the stage at the American Music Awards on Sunday. The Loud singer will be the show's opening act and says that despite some recent big awards-show performances, à la this month's MTV Europe Music Awards, this one will be even more epic. |
Lil Wayne To Perform With Eminem On ‘Saturday Night Live’.
Music-wise, it's been a pretty stellar year for "Saturday Night Live," with memorable sets from Kanye West, Kings of Leon, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Arcade Fire.
But things will heat up even more in December, when the venerable weekend sketch show rounds out the year with a trio of heavy-hitting host/performer pairings.
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Drake Reveals Next Album To Be Called Take Care.
It's a long way from mixtape infamy to the cover of GQ magazine. But Drake has successfully made that transition, and in the 2010 "Men of the Year" issue of the venerable men's mag, Drizzy models some high-end Burberry and Billy Reid duds while dropping a bit of news about his next move.
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Dr. Dre, Eminem’s ‘I Need A Doctor’ Hits The Net.
Eminem turned to Dr. Dre to help him get out of his funk when the two hit the studio to work on the Detroit lyricist's post-hiatus comeback LP, Relapse. Now, it looks like the tables have turned.
On Dre's "I Need a Doctor" — the second leak in as many days from the producer's long-awaited Detox — Em lowers the boom on his mentor saying his "perfectionist" rep is leaving the legend stuck in the mud.
"It hurts when I see you struggle/ You come to me with ideas/ You say they're pieces, so I'm puzzled," Eminem raps over the Alex da Kid produced-number....
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Jay-Z’s ‘Decoded’: The Five Most Revealing Excerpts.
On Tuesday (November 16), Jay-Z released his book "Decoded," explaining the history behind some of his most infamous lines. A peek at the collection and selected a few topics and metaphors that surprised even us, so, the most avid of Hov followers:
Jay-Z on MC Hammer
Jay-Z on his assault charge And More
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Jay-Z Defends Kanye West On ‘Howard Stern Show’.
Jay-Z paid a visit to Howard Stern's Sirius satellite radio show on Monday morning (November 15), and despite his reputation for getting stars like David Arquette to spill the beans on their private lives, the King of All Media stuck mostly to business and stories from the rapper's book, "Decoded," which comes out on Tuesday.....
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Kanye West Is Not Performing On ‘Today’ ‘For Obvious Reasons’.
On Thursday morning, the "Today" show aired its much-discussed interview with Kanye West, that concluded with host Matt Lauer announcing that West would return to the show on November 26 for "a special live concert on the plaza."
And though, earlier in the week, West seemed to be announcing he'd take a break from Twitter when he wrote,....
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Is Kanye West Really Done With The Media After ‘Today’ Show Rant?
In the 14 months since his infamous run-in with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West has maintained a rather contentious relationship with the media, one that has gone from a self-imposed blackout to tentative courting to whatever it is that happened late Tuesday (November 9), when 'Ye took to Twitter ....
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Nicki Minaj On Fellow Female MCs: ‘Can’t We All Just Get Along?’.
"There are many female rappers that I get along with," she said. "There have so many female rappers that have congratulated me and given me genuine love, from Trina, who is my darling, to Missy Elliott to Queen Latifah to Foxy Brown to Remy Ma. It goes on and on, and that's what people don't understand.
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Kanye West Tweets Frustration Over ‘Today’ Show Appearance.
The last time Kanye West put out an album, he did almost no press, preferring to speak to his fans and followers through his blog and Twitter. But after taking time off following the 2009 Taylor Swift incident at the MTV Video Music Awards, the braggadocious MC has come back a seemingly chastened man, sitting down with a number of media outlets, owning up to some of his past mistakes and trying to keep his infamously healthy ego in check. |
