The Music

Ledisi recently was a musical guest on “The Tonight Show,” and she sang “Bravo.” Take a look at her outstanding performance in the video below!

Long before “The Wire” and “LUTHER”  Idris Elba was an underground DJ back in the U.K.  Even though he’s now one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, his love for the wheels of steel hasn’t taken a back seat to his thriving acting career.  In a recent trip back home, Elba reunited with his DJ […]

Melanie Fiona is scheduled to release a lot of new music on February 7th with the release of The MF Life, but here’s her latest single “Wrong Side Of A Love Song.” It’s just as soulful as you would expect a Melanie Fiona song to be, and you can hear it in its entirety below. […]

Brandy recently reunited, in the studio, with Monica more than over 10 years– but that’s not the only collaboration we can expect from the songbird. Brandy revealed “Actually I might be doing a song that Drake wrote for the album this upcoming week.” She went on to say “I love Drake. I think Drake is […]

Nicki Minaj will be able to put her occasional fake British accent to good use on February 21st, because she’s been nominated for a 2012 Brit Award! She’s in the international field and here are all of the nominees in Nicki Minaj’s category: International Breakthrough Act Aloe Blacc Bon Iver Foster The People Lana Del […]

Chicago emcee, Add-2 has a video for his song “Cotton Fields.” The song deals with slavery, the civil rights movement and the struggles of Black people toady. Add-2 is 26-years-old and has worked with acts such as Kendrick Lamar and The Roots.

It’s a wrap for Beats By Dre and Monster, because the two companies will sever their relationship when their contract expires at the end of this year. Beats Electronics and Monster Cable Products say there aren’t any hard feelings about the split, but the word is, there is tension. According to reports, both sides think […]

Phonte Coleman of Little Brother and The Foreign Exchange drops some #newtigallo from his first solo project, Charity Starts At Home.  Kenneth Price is on the lens for “Dance In The Reign” and Swiff D is on the beats. (props to Okayplayer.com) What Do J.Cole, Pete Pablo and Little Brother Have In Common? “I do […]

Rappers say some crazy things. They’re easy to accept when they perform. But what if you knew the man behind the alias? Or simply put: Would you still think your favorite rhymer was as smooth or tough as he spit if you knew their birth name was cotton soft? Vibe came up with a top […]

If you’ve heard a recent song by Rick Ross or any of his Maybach Music artists like Wale or Meek Mill, you’ve heard the voice of an unidentified woman saying “Maybach Music” at the beginning of most of their songs. What does she look like? Who is she? We now know! Where Maybach Music Was […]

“Your momma don’t wear no draws,” Erykah Badu sings on a new song “A La Modeliste.” “We was there when she took ’em off.” The track by U.K. producer Mark Ronson, Badu along with rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and Trombone Shorty is a classic call and response cut created in New Orleans recently. […]

You don’t hire the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.Am for a ballad. So we’re guessing that Chris Brown’s first single “One for the Road” from his forthcoming album, Fortune, will be a club banger along the lines of, say, Usher’s “OMG”—which Will also produced. It should out within weeks. On news and radio website All Access’ […]