There are 79 results

• 

  Anti-YouTube Movement of the Year: Long Songs

  December 17, 2012 – The received wisdom is that popular music is the province of short attention spans, which are only getting shorter: Listeners only care about callout hooks; albums are obsolete now that they're purchased one song at a time and played on shuffle; and we’re all channel-surfing from YouTube video to YouTube video. …
  Read on

• 

  Karen O, Arcade Fire, Beck, Fiona Apple, and Rick Ross Make Oscars Best Song Short List

  December 12, 2012 – Coming in at 75 songs and including such stinkers as Owl City's "When Can I See You Again?" (Wreck-It Ralph) and Holladay's "Never Had" (10 Years), the Oscars 2012 short list for "Best Original Song" isn't exactly the tidy thing one might hope for. Nevertheless, there are a handful of happy inclusions worth mentioning. …
  Read on

• 

  Rick Ross Blames Promoters, Not Gangs, for Canceled Tour

  December 11, 2012 – Last week, Rick Ross canceled his Maybach Music Group tour as news spread about public threats made against him by various local chapters of the Crips-affiliated Gangster Disciples crew. Due to his use of their founder's name, Larry Hoover, in his 2010 hit "B.M.F. …
  Read on

• 

  Who's the Bawse: Rick Ross Cancels Show After Death Threats From Gangster Disciples

  December 7, 2012 – It's not always good to be the king — or the Bawse, as it were. Do a quick YouTube search for the words "Rick Ross in trouble," and you'll come up with a long line of well-viewed videos featuring scary dudes in bandanas, the Gangster Disciples, explaining that until Ricky Rozay cuts them a check, he'll be banned from playing their respective states: Illinois, Colorado, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina to start. …
  Read on

• 

  Hear Rick Ross' Menacing Song for Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained' Soundtrack

  November 30, 2012 – In the newly released final trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Django Unchained, between gunshot after gunshot, there's the unmistakable roar of Rick Ross. The song is titled "100 Black Coffins," and its chanted title hook definitely suits the ultraviolent visuals, with Jamie Foxx playing a bounty hunter. …
  Read on

• 

  Jay-Z Verse Surfaces on Meek Mill's Rick Ross-Assisted 'Lay Up' Remix

  November 27, 2012 – It's no great leap from rap's NBA obsession to rap's sex obsession, though the latter, of course, is even more universally shared. In a coincidence, SPIN has looked recently at not only which NBA team's roster has the most shout-outs in rap songs, but also 40 NBA players and their pop-music alter egos. …
  Read on

• Meek Mill, 'Dreams & Nightmares' (Maybach Music/Warner Bros.)

  November 1, 2012 – Meek Mill raps as if he is typing in all caps: "I'M BRINGING TUPAC BACK! TUPAC BACK!" He tends to, if not necessarily screech at the top of his lungs, then at least yell loud enough to project an appealing bellicosity. He's not the first MC with a high-octane delivery — the underrated Ace Hood comes to mind, as well as Freeway, another Philadelphia rapper. …
  Read on

• 

  Meek Mill Lets His Rick Ross-Approved LP Speak for Itself

  October 24, 2012 – "Gangstas move in silence, nigga / and I don't talk a lot," spits Meek Mill midway through the title song on his Dreams and Nightmares album. As the Philadelphia-based arm of Rick Ross' expansive Maybach Music Group, sizable things are expected of Meek and his debut. …
  Read on

• 

  Rising Chicago Rapper Sasha Go Hard Lives Up to Her Name

  October 17, 2012 – Fresh off a trip to New York City, rising Chicago drill rapper Sasha Go Hard rang us up recently from her South Side home for a chat that was cut short when her mom interrupted the call. …
  Read on

• 

  No Trivia's Friday Five: Danny Brown Peps Up Purity Ring

  October 11, 2012 – Jacked up on too much coffee and a great new Kanye song, there's no way you're getting complete thoughts, here. Give Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire credit for working with Gucci Mane, who he's a lot like, really. Give him even more credit for recording a song called "Telephuck," with a soundwave that if you check it out in Soundcloud, looks LIKE A GIANT BONER. …
  Read on