Pusha T recently talked to Rolling Stone about his love of the Notorious B.I.G.’s music. Find his tribute and much more in our new special collectors edition on the 100 greatest hip-hop songs of all time. I believe the Notorious B.I.G. was the greatest rapper who’s ever lived. I remember in ’94,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Pusha […]

Missy Elliott will make a “surprise appearance” during Katy Perry’s Super Bowl XLIX halftime show performance, according to The Associated Press, citing an anonymous “person familiar with the plans.” (Consider the surprise ruined.) The rapper made a cameo on a remix of Perry’s 2011 single “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” though it’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: Missy Elliott […]

After tackling the world of music, nightclubs, basketball team ownership and athlete representation, Jay Z has now set his sights on entering the gauntlet of high-quality streaming music. The New York Times reports that Jay Z has put in a million offer for Aspiro, a Swedish company that controls high-quality streaming…… Source: RollingStone Link: Jay Z Enters […]

For the first time ever, Rolling Stone is opening up our vast archive of award-winning music, political and cultural reporting — dating back five decades, to our 1967 launch — online for free. In collaboration with Google Play, articles by notable writers including Hunter S. Thompson, Cameron Crowe and Matt Taibbi…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rolling Stone […]

With eight total nominations, including one for top prize Entertainer of the Year, Miranda Lambert leads all nominees at this year’s 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The nominations where announced Friday morning via Twitter. Dierks Bentley, whose album Riser was both a commercial and critical success, follows his former…… Source: RollingStone Link: Miranda […]

Big Sean is set to release his third album Dark Sky Paradise on February 24th, and following “I Don’t Fuck with You,” his biggest solo single to date, comes “Blessings” featuring Drake and an uncredited Kanye West. The Boi-1da and Vinylz-produced finds Big Sean rifling off the reasons he’s blessed over an unsteady…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Kanye […]

US rap star Jay Z will make a -million foray into the music streaming business by taking over the Norwegian service Wimp, its shareholders confirmed Friday. The platinum-selling artist and record producer Jay Z used his controlling stake in Project Panther Bidco to launch the 464-million-kronor (-million, 49-million-euro) bid for Aspiro, the Swedish-listed company behind […]

Björk’s latest album, Vulnicura, was such a personal experience that she compared it to opening herself up — literally — in a new interview with The New York Times. “You feel like you’re having open-heart surgery, with knives sticking in, so that everything is out, and you have this urgency…… Source: RollingStone Link: Bjork Likens […]

Marion “Suge” Knight was charged with murder and held on million bail after the controversial founder of Death Row Records was involved in a fatal hit-and-run Thursday afternoon, according to CBS Los Angeles. Knight surrendered to authorities early Friday morning and was interviewed by police for three hours, according to the Los Angeles Times……. Source: RollingStone Link: Suge Knight […]

Suge Knight was allegedly behind the wheel of a fatal hit-and-run accident this afternoon in Compton, California that left one person dead and another man injured. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department released a statement confirming that an accident had occurred, with The Hollywood Reporter adding that the incident took place after…… Source: RollingStone Link: Suge Knight […]