Gunna is stepping into his next era in music. With a new single, “Bittersweet,” out, Gunna spoke to GQ, detailing his next album will be “more mature.” “It’s not expected, and it’s needed,” Gunna said. “It’s like something that the world don’t know they need yet.” Gunna is again hitting the road, this time with special guest Flo Milli in …

DDG is discussing why he and Halle Bailey kept their pregnancy a secret. Speaking with Hollywood Unlocked, DDG revealed the decision was to push away “negative vibes.” “I think it was more so people was already giving us negative vibes, so it’s like why let ‘em know then make her pregnancy stressful?” View this post on Instagram A post shared …

NBA Youngboy’s baby mother, Arcola, hit Instagram and stated she was locked in the trunk of a car after being kidnapped. Dropping a video on her IG story, Arcola said, “Oh my God, you guys save me. I am locked inside a trunk.” Hours later, Arcola returned to Instagram, writing, “I’m okay. I am okay; it’s really me. The people …

From her beginnings as an outspoken queen of neo-soul to her later politically-charged salvos at the vanguard of contemporary R&B, Erykah Badu’s multi-hued, occasionally controversial career has never been less than captivating. Fusing jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop in equal measure, here are the 20 best Erykah Badu songs, revealing the depths of her brilliance. Listen to the best Erykah …

In terms of their UK audience, the Beach Boys’ 20/20 album was the gift that kept on giving. Released in early 1969, it had been introduced the previous summer by “Do It Again,” which married modern production with nostalgic lyrics and, while it peaked at No.20 in the US, went all the way to No.1 across the Atlantic. That was …

To honor the memory of the Man In Black, born on February 26, 1932, a collection of 20 things you never knew about Johnny Cash, one of the true titans of country music. Johnny’s mother bought him a guitar for his tenth birthday The day after the funeral of Johnny’s older brother Jack, the Cash family were back in the …

If there’s one stretch that gets precious little love in Johnny Cash’s career, it’s the Mercury albums during the late 80s and early 90s. This period came just before his American Recordings comeback with Rick Rubin. And some believe his time with Mercury was a misguided stretch into commercial territory. But that view doesn’t hold up when you listen to …

Three years into the seventh decade of Blue Note Records – the famed jazz label – signed an artist who proved to be both controversial and brilliant. But the question that everyone asked at the time was… is it jazz? Norah Jones comes from formidable musical stock. Her father is the acclaimed sitar player Ravi Shankar, her mother the acclaimed …

Initially, it appeared the clue was in the title. Pieced together from outtakes and hastily recorded tracks conceived by two (or occasionally three) members of the already defunct Sex Pistols, The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle seemed potentially dubious. Plus, it was the brainchild of the group’s manager, Malcolm McLaren, whose primary motivation in compiling the album was to soundtrack the film …

i like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it may not be the snappiest of phrases, but in 2016 it was on everyone’s lips when The 1975 chose it as the title of their zeitgeist-surfing second album. Topping the charts in both the UK and the US, i like it when you sleep… …