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Daft Punk, "Get Lucky" After oodles of anticipatory action, the full Daft Punk x Pharrell single is finally here, and so now the Internet can start arguing about it (vis-à-vis the correctness of the hype cycle, over/underratedness, classic ...

The beginning of the end for Lil Wayne came on July 23, 2007. We didn't know it at the time. But you usually don't. That night Wayne played the Beacon Theatre, his first solo show in New York City. He was just under a year away from the release o...

Lil Wayne ft. 2 Chainz, "R.A.F." First things first: In a new video released to TMZ, Lil Wayne shows himself for the first time since his terrible seizure scare, says he's "more than good," and actually seems like he is. I mean this is a person ...

What an awful weekend it was for Lil Wayne fans. On Friday night, TMZ began reporting that the rapper had suffered a seizure earlier in the week and was rushed to the hospital. He was released the next day, but quickly suffered another seizure &#8212...

1. Paris, Paris Hilton's 2006 debut, and, to date, sole album, is a piece of music that people love to tell you is "not as bad as you think." (The truly bold go so far as to say it's "actually pretty good.") Supporting evidence generally pointed to t...

Die Antwoord, "DIS IZ WHY I'M HOT (zef remix)" You're rapping over that Mims song?! Mims??!!! It's been, like, six years! He was famous for like 45 seconds! Die Antwoord — just when I thought you couldn't have gotten any less one-note, you...

Rick Ross feat. Jay-Z and Dr. Dre, "3 Kings" To complete the implicit analogy between this new track from Ross's God Forgives, I Don't and David O. Russell's early classic Three Kings: Jay-Z is obviously George Clooney, Dr. Dre is probably Ice C...

Within the niche of hip-hop ad libs — those trademark phrases tossed out by your favorite rappers as delicious garnish to the surf and turf they're serving you — there is an even smaller categorization: the rap laugh. For reasons we can c...

Previously, on the Justin Bieber Awkward Transition Watch: Bieber matures enough to cover Drake! Bieber matures enough to cover Lil Wayne! Bieber gets slapped with a paternity suit! And in the latest installment: Bieber himself discusses how he pl...

For over a decade now, hearing this sound — a modulated male voice saying the word "Bangladesh" — at the beginning of a track has meant one thing: You're in for a banger. It's the tag for Shondrae Crawford, a.k.a. Bangladesh, the Atlanta-...

T.I. has been out of prison for a week. In those seven days, he's been the recipient of an opulent welcome-home brunch, appeared on Atlanta stages with both Young Jeezy and Taylor Swift, and interceded in a late-night club-fight between Diddy and a p...

A month back, Justin Bieber covered fellow Canadian Drake's woozy drug song "Trust Issues." Bieber cleaned it up, but it was still a nutso departure from his usual innocuous balladry, and the best thing to come out of his current semi-awkward transit...

Earlier this week, Nike announced LeBron James' new shoe, the LeBron 9. Retailing at $170, the sneaker will go on sale in October, when it will promptly — well, what? In the offseason of his discontent, does James' brand still move product like...

With Tyler the Creator on his best, most grateful behavior at Sunday's VMAs, the lane was wide open for someone to step in and wreak havoc. Nathan Williams and Steve Pope, of sunny San Diego punk act Wavves, were game. The two kept a running Twitter ...

In its first week of release, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV is projected to sell between 700,000 to 850,000 copies. That would make Carter IV the year's second-biggest debut, after Lady Gaga's Born This Way; it would also significantly trump the super-hy...

1. James Blake and Bon Iver, "Fall Creek Boys Choir" Indie-rock power couple James Blake and Bon Iver's Justin Vernon announced their union just last week, but we already get a taste. "Fall Creek Boys Choir" — featuring Vernon's falsetto over ...