After Kendrick Lamar stole the show on  Big Sean 's "Control," it's good to see that Sean is returning the the focus ba...

Earl Sweatshirt  was the sole rap feature on  Frank Ocean 's debut album channel ORANGE, and the favor's been returned as the sin...

A Pharrell/Neptunes beat gets an automatic listen from me any time of the day, and when I'm in Turn down FOR WHAT?! mode a  2 Chainz ...

I'll tell anyone who's willing to listen about duo CharlieRED, but my word of mouth can't compare to the following they'r...

Last night's Billboard Music Awards were full of noteworthy moments, but  Miguel  found a way to become the most talked about musicia...

Shortly after debuting his new song " New Slaves " on the buildings of 66 cities worldwide, Kanye West  took to SNL to deliver ...

Miguel 's album Kaleidoscope Dream  may have been " overshadowed " by Frank Ocean, but it looks like he's doing more th...

J. Cole  is one of those artists you can always depend on. Even if he's dropping a record made for radio or the club, there will alwa...

There aren't many musicians in the industry right now one can trust to honorably cover a Jimi Hendrix classic, but  Janelle Monae  an...

Black Hippy headlined this year's Paid Dues Festival as  Kendrick Lamar ,  Ab-Soul ,  ScHoolboy Q , and  Jay Rock  performed a handfu...

Hip Hop artists have been getting a lot of late night show love, and we score another victory as  Killer Mike  and  El-P  got to share &q...

Photo Courtesy of Spin.com ScHoolboy Q  had the SXSW Fader Fort jumping all on his own, but to make things even groovier, he brought out...

Justin Timberlake  might as well be an honorary SNL cast member as he took to the legendary sketch comedy show for the fifth time to host...

Last Thursday, Solange Knowles brought new material from her  True  EP   live to the Masquerade in Atlanta, and surprised everyone by bri...

Jermaine Dupri played a very important role in  Usher 's career, and the R&B vet paid homage to his mentor and producer as he j...

I'm still slapping myself for not going to the So So Def 20th reunion concert because it's all the city's been talking about ...

Photo: Getty Images Alicia Keys  has justifiably been the recipient of a lot of Twitter slander lately due to her vocal performances of ...

Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Frank Ocean  had quite the showing for his first Grammys as he took home 2 awards--Best Urban Contem...

Rihanna  not only looked great when performing Unapologetic  favorite "Stay" with Mikky Ekko at last night's Grammy Awards...

Before announcing the winner of Best Country Solo Performance,  Miguel  and  Wiz Khalifa  brought love into the aisles with a quick perfo...