From their style of dress to their visual aesthetic, Ishmael, a former member ofDigable Planets, may come off as plainweirdto those who are only into the scam-raps and crypto-flexing found in today’s chart-topping songs. But this duo is progressive AF, layin...
Several winning songs and artists also jumped up on the Billboard Hot 100. The chart's Top 10 is almost entirely dominated by GRAMMY winners and performers, helmed by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars' "Die With a Smile," which returns to the No. 1 spot for a fifth week. Though the pair ...
There’s no photos or idles, no songs or hymnals, it is what it is. I like the clarity.” Dropping Out of College SZA: “After high school, I went to three separate colleges. My freshman year I got high and failed out, I was just high everyday. I never had that much weed in...
There’s no photos or idles, no songs or hymnals, it is what it is. I like the clarity.” Dropping Out of College SZA: “After high school, I went to three separate colleges. My freshman year I got high and failed out, I was just high everyday. I never had that much weed in...
Before we get into any of that conversation, I think we need to share some definitions. So help me explain to the audience a few words. When artists make a song, there’s ways they can use material from other songs. Right. The simplest one I think we’re all kind of familiar with ...
Try to define 24-year-old Australian-Zimbabwean musician Tkay Maidza's songs by a single genre and you may come up at a loss for words. But then again, so does she, telling us that her music is simply “alternative of anything.” “It's alternative pop, alternative, rap, alternative...
as a DJ for their live performances after he first rose to fame as a radio host on the station 99 Jamz in the 1990s. Khaled’s debut studio album, Listennn… the Album, earned gold certification when it was released in 2006 after he was given production credits on the band’s songs....
Patel: Alessia Cara is a clear Grammys fave — a young woman with a throaty, emphatic warble that’s super effective on big choruses — but in this moment she feels like more of the same to me, blending into the glut of radio pop. SZA is the clear star of the group. She’s got...
“Mac’s been careful with his money, he don’t have to work anymore, but I said, ‘It’s time you sling those golf clubs in the closet, drag your git-tar out, and let’s write some songs.’ I said, ‘I’m gonna come up there, and we’re going to write like we’re ...
Theme" on his 2002 album,The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse. Since then, the lovebirds — who married in 2008 but haven't publicly declared when they first became an item — have duetted on 13 more songs as well as a collaborative album, ...