Drake's "Views" is sitting pretty at the top of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for a fifth consecutive week. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Drake tops album charts for fifth week running

New York’s Governors Ball canceled the entirety of their Sunday slate, including a headlining set by Kanye West, “due to severe weather and a high likelihood of lightning in the area.” “The safety of fans, artists and crew always comes first,” festival organizers wrote in a statement Sunday. Death Cab for Cutie, Bat… Source: RollingStone Link: Governors […]

Muhammad Ali’s cocksure braggadocio and countless quotable rhymes influenced a generation of rappers, who have both referenced the boxer in their own lines and acknowledged him as a pioneer in the development of hip-hop. After dedicating Saturday’s North Carolina show to Ali, who died Friday at the age of 74, Rakim spoke about… Source: RollingStone Link: Rakim: […]

Bob Dylan, a longtime admirer of Muhammad Ali and the sport of boxing, has penned a tribute to the legendary fighter. “If the measure of greatness is to gladden the heart of every human being on the face of the earth, then he truly was the greatest,” Dylan wrote of… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob Dylan […]

Paul Simon’s tour in support of new LP Stranger to Stranger rolled into Berkeley, California Friday, the same night Muhammad Ali died at the age of 74. As the boxer’s death happened while the singer was onstage, it was Simon who informed the audience of Ali’s passing while performing, fittingly,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Paul […]

“This Saturday…I’m going off…I am the DJ for the first hour,” Drake wrote on Instagram this week of the upcoming episode of his OVO Radio show. The rapper delivered Saturday by premiering three new tracks: His own “4PM in Calabasas,” a Gucci Mane collaboration titled “Back on Road” and Justin Bieber’s remix of… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Drake's […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah music producer who was ordered to 55 years behind bars for bringing guns to marijuana deals has been set free, after 12 years in prison and national outcry over the mandatory minimum sentencing laws that forced a federal judge to impose the lengthy term. Source: Yahoo Music Link: […]

Freddie Gibbs was arrested Thursday night in Toulouse, France on charges stemming from an alleged rape that occurred in Austria in August 2015. The Shadow of a Doubt rapper was scheduled to perform at Toulouse’s Le Rex Friday night when he was detained, forcing the cancellation of the concert. A European warrant… Source: RollingStone Link: Freddie […]

Tributes continue to pour in for boxing legend Muhammad Ali from everyone from fellow athletes to politicians like Barack Obama to artists like Paul McCartney. Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello also remembered the boxing legend following Ali’s death Friday at the age of 74 by sharing an anecdote about his brief encounter with… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom Morello […]

Paul McCartney, who first met Muhammad Ali alongside the Beatles in February 1964, penned a tribute to the legendary boxer who died Friday at the age of 74. “Dear Muhammad Ali. I loved that man,” the bassist wrote on his site. “He was great from the first day we met him in… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul […]