• Sam Smith Slams Fellow Pop Stars in 'V Magazine' Interview with Chaka Khan [PHOTO]

    Sam Smith may be one of the biggest names in pop coming in to 2015, but don't assume that the "I'm Not The Only One" singer is necessarily a fan of all of his contemporaries. In a new interview with Chaka Khan in "The Music Issue" of V Magazine, Smith calls out his fellow pop stars for not always being wholly graceful in the midst of their success.

  • Eric Church Loves Taylor Swift's '1989' Album: 'I Think the Record Is Brilliant'

    There is no doubt that Taylor Swift's multi-platinum 2014 album "1989" riled up country fans. The all-pop record was Swift's first complete step out of the country world, and few Nashville stars lent their support during her big move.But do not count Eric Church as one of the haters. The 37-year-old "Talladega" singer told nola.com that he loves Swift's new stuff."From Taylor's standpoint, I think the record is brilliant," he said. "I own the record. You know what I love about it? It's creative. It's what she wanted to do."What she'll do next, I have no idea. And that's what I think is cool about it. I have no clue where she's heading. That's the exciting part. When you do something like that, it kind of shakes everything up so much — no pun intended — that you're intrigued. That's exciting to me."

  • Eminem Criticized on Young Zee's 'Dear Shady' [WATCH]

    Eminem recently released his new album "Shady XV" and, as a reaction, Young Zee has responded with a track of his own titled "Dear Shady."In the track, Young Zee questions Eminem and vocalizes that he was distressed he was not included in some of Eminem's recent music ventures.On Eminem's song "Fine Line," he shouts out Young Zee and The Outsidaz, saying, "Zee, you always supported me / You vouched, I will never forget that and / How you guys accepted me for me and Pace / I love you too, you slept on my couch."Zee's music video accompanying his track starts off with dated footage of the Outsidaz and Eminem doing an interview, where Eminem says, "I met Zee in New Jersey. I came out like a month later. Met Zee. Met the rest of the Outsidaz. Got down with the crew. You know what I'm saying? And the rest is history. It's like a whole family thing."After the interview clip, the track starts and Zee gets into airing his grievances with Eminem, stating that he felt left out and that Em did not truly have his back when he was arrested or when his house unfortunately burnt down.The lyrics read: "Let me ask you / Why you ain't come to my avenue / When you grabbed dudes for your rap crew / I paid mad dues ... Anyhow, my house burnt down/ I'm in Jersey now / You ain't care, you ain't even come around / I got locked up for selling quarter pounds down Bordentown / You could have looked out, you could have came and bailed me out."

  • Aesop Rock Releases Two-Track EP Titled 'The Cat Food'

    Aesop Rock is the latest to get a release out on the 2015 board with his new "Cat Food" EP.A quick two tracks, "Cat Food" and "Bug Zapper" further support the notion that quality is always better than quantity, as both tracks are polished and exciting creations from the Rhymesayers artist.The two songs were originally released as a 7-inch vinyl and are now available in a digital format via Rhymesayer's SoundCloud.The "Cat Food" EP is the first new solo material the artist has put out in some time, mainly focusing on making music for other artists. The tracks on "The Cat Food" EP are also available in an instrumental-only version, which most fans can always appreciate.November saw the release of Aesop's Hail Mary Mallon project with the album "Bestiary."Aesop Rock also was featured on Busdriver's "Ego Death" alongside Danny Brown.Aesop Rock produced "Bug Zapper" and called in the likes of Blockhead to produce "Cat Food."

  • Young Buck Releases Yet Another New Music Video This Week [WATCH]

    Young Buck is having quite a busy week releasing his second music video for the track “On Tha Way.”“On Tha Way” was produced by Bandplay and features visuals of Young Buck surrounded by peers doing his thing rapping late into the night. The track is an announcement and confirmation that as he is busy with work and filling his day with “all-day trapping, selling juices, sipping lean and selling loosies” he is surely “on tha way” and anticipating having a big year in 2015.Earlier this week saw a music video for “New Year’s Cake," and one cannot help but wonder if Young Buck will keep up this momentum or not.G-Unit’s release "The Beauty of Independence" EP had fans of Young Buck hungry for more and Young Buck is certainly delivering.The new video for “On Tha Way” saw mixed opinions from commenters on YouTube, with comments reading like “First song in a awhile that I don’t like from him. The hook is quite annoying. You can do better man” to “Young Buck is coming! Streets are in danger!!!” to “sounds like he’s been hanging out with Wacka Flocka too much.”

  • Chuck D Discusses Why Hip-Hop Benefits from and Welcomes Haters

    Chuck D of Public Enemy shared his opinion of haters and the role strict critics play in hip-hop in a recent interview with "Real Hip-Hop."Chuck D's new solo album "The Black in Man," his third solo release, came out in August and the title was inspired by Johnny Cash's identity as "The Man in Black."His earlier two releases are "The Autobiography of Mistachuck" (1996) and 2010's "Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin'." The 2010 release was in a digital-only format, which Chuck D says was ahead of the times by being available online only, in that "it wasn't an understood format" the way it is today.Chuck D spoke in the interview about how Public Enemy's production team, Bomb Squad, was not making music to appeal to the masses or for people's approval."We dared to make records that people would hate. We would twist it until they ended up loving it," he says. "We never really looked to see if anybody would love our s--t. We ain't never make a move for popular things — at least that's the Public Enemy program."Chuck D reflected on the Ice Cube track "The N---a You Love to Hate" that followed in the footsteps of the mantra Public Enemy was creating.

  • Rage Against The Machine Violating Arizona Ethnic Studies School Ban, According To State Superintendent

    Rage Against The Machine are not too popular with Arizona's outgoing superintendant of public education, John Huppenthal. For his last day of work, Huppenthal targeted one school district for what he perceived to be violating the state's ban on ethnic studies according to Rolling Stone. This "notice of noncompliance" sent to district superintendent, Dr. H.T. Sanchez, according to the Arizona Daily Star, highlighted two music-related violations, an Introduction To Hip-hop, written by KRS One in an English class taught from an African-American perspective and the use of Rage Against The Machine's "Take The Power Back" in a Mexican-American history course. As one might expect, Tom Morello was not too pleased with the decision.

  • Lil Wayne Shares New Freestyle Teaser Over iLoveMakonnen's 'Tuesday'

    Leave it to the likes of Lil Wayne to get fans hooked after a 15-second long video.The new video surfaced today and subtly features ILOVEMAKONNEN’s “Tuesday” beat, with Lil Wayne freestyling over it. The song is unreleased at this time and Lil Wayne’s teaser video was the first preview fans have had as of now.
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