Ed Sheeran has hopped on a remix of Fireboy DML’s hit “Peru,” which the Nigerian singer released this past summer. The pair also shared the new video for their remix on Christmas Eve. Sheeran previously teased the collaboration in an interview with Elton John (via NME), revealing that after hearing …
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The rapper Drakeo the Ruler, born Darrell Wayne Caldwell, had a wide, ready smile and was said by friends and family to have had a good heart. The 28-year-old musician, who was fatally stabbed last Saturday in Los Angeles, often rapped about the grisly realities of life in America’s inner …
Read More »'500 Greatest Albums' Podcast: How Shakira Reshaped Latin Pop
With more than 80 million records sold worldwide, Shakira is the best-selling female Latin artist ever. She’s been nominated for six Grammys and has won 11 Latin Grammys, giving her a Guinness World Record. By nearly all accounts, she’s one of the biggest stars on the planet. But within her …
Read More »Juice WRLD's Second Posthumous Album Sounds like It Could've Been Recorded Yesterday
When Juice WRLD passed away in 2019 at 21, it seemed like the entire music industry was shaken up. Everyone from Hot 97 host Peter Rosenberg to Vince Staples to Drake shared their fond memories and condolences. Chance the Rapper posted on his Instagram, shortly after the Chicago native’s death, …
Read More »Surprise! 'Spider Man: No Way Home' Is a Supercharged, Cracked-Mirror MCU Buddy Comedy
When we last left Peter Parker, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, he’d just watched footage of his battle in London with Quentin Beck, a.k.a. the charlatan savior Mysterio, being broadcast throughout the greater Manhattan area. Then J. Jonah Jameson, a man who never met a webslinger he didn’t want to string …
Read More »The Old Kanye, and a Renewed Drake, Share the Stage in Los Angeles
Like gladiators in ancient Rome, rappers Drake and Kanye West entered the Los Angeles Coliseum last night with the energy of two people about to enter a fateful battle. The pair, who spent the majority of 2021 in acrimonious tension, trading coded bars at each other on their respective releases, …
Read More »David Bowie's 75th Birthday Celebration to Feature Simon Le Bon, Ricky Gervais, Evan Rachel Wood
David Bowie would have turned 75 on Jan. 8, 2022, and his friends and relatives are marking the occasion by holding A Bowie Celebration. The livestreaming event via RollingLiveStudios.com will feature Def Leppard, Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Living Colour, Gary Oldman, Rob Thomas, Walk the Moon, Jake Wesley Rogers, …
Read More »Hulu Pulls Astroworld Documentary From Streaming Service Following Backlash
Hulu has pulled a documentary about the Astroworld tragedy hours after it appeared on the streaming service, quickly sparking a backlash over the timing of the special. On Wednesday, Dec. 1, Astroworld: Concert From Hell was uploaded onto Hulu with little fanfare or promotion; soon after, word of the insensitively …
Read More »Ari Lennox Arrested in Amsterdam After Claiming She Was Racially Profiled
Ari Lennox was arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport Monday, Nov. 29, with the singer claiming she was reacting to being racially profiled. Lennox shared her account of the situation in real-time on Twitter: “Fuck Amsterdam security,” she wrote. “They hate black people.” Later, she wrote, “They’re arresting me.” And finally, …
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This Thanksgiving, we’re celebrating not by paying homage to the colonizers or taking an evening stroll with our cousins after dinner or even hooking up with our high school nemesis’s dad at our hometown bar. AtRolling Stone,we’re giving thanks to our favorite creators — namely, Francis Bourgeois, a young man …
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