Knowledge Drop: The Instrumental For Chief Keef’s “Citgo” Is A “Type Beat” Made By A Polish Teenager

We’ve got a text! Yes our favourite reality show is back on our screens this weekend and we couldn’t be more excited.

Back in 2012, Pharrell Williams published a coffee-table book called Pharrell: Places and Spaces I’ve Been, where he interviewed the likes of Kanye West, Buzz Aldrin, and Anna Wintour. In one section of the book, he talked to JAY-Z about the grunge takeover of the ‘90s, and Hov noted that Nirvana blocked hip-hop’s cultural ascent for a moment.

What is Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard -- who recently criticized President Trump in a Twitter message -- going to do when the president inevitably wins reelection later this year? That's what Andrew Pollack, father of one of the 17 victims of the Parkland, Fla., high school massacre, wants to know.

"Growing up, my dad really liked flea markets and odd shops," says rising Australian pop artist Mallrat (real name: Grace Shaw) while sifting through loaded clothing racks at a thrift shop in the East Village. "He'd be looking at furniture and books, so I'd be bored and go off and look at the clothes. That's how it started." The singer/songwriter/producer released her third EP, Driving Music, in

Though his star has dimmed throughout the 2010s, DMX was one of the biggest and most profitable rappers of the late ‘90s and early '00s. In 1998, the Yonkers MC changed the complexion of the rap game by dropping two gritty albums that stood in stark contrast to the Bad Boy shiny suit era.

DMX’s …And Then There Was X celebrates its 20th anniversary on December 21. It includes his signature single, “Party Up (Up in Here).” In a 2011 interview with Complex, producer Swizz Beatz talked about how artists came to him seeking similar outros for their tracks and what he charged.

Caroline Polachek has shared an A.G. Cook remix of her Pang track “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.” Check it out below.

Leila Cobo, Billboard vp and Latin industry lead, will release a new book next year with Penguin Random House titled Decoding Latino: The Real Story of Latin Music.Decoding Latino offers an insider's view into the Latin music industry, tracking the stories behind 15 of the biggest hits of the past 50 years featuring some of the biggest names in music, including Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Enrique Iglesias, J Balvin and Luis Fonsi, among others.

Nas‘ Stillmatic, which celebrates its 18th anniversary on December 18, has a little-known—but very important—executive producer. In an Instagram post from December 2017, Nas confirmed that his daughter, Destiny Jones, was credited on the album. The move means that she will receive a portion of the royalty payments from the album.

It's been five years now since then-President Barack Obama announced that diplomatic relations with Cuba would be restored for the first time in more than half a century. The response from music artists following the Dec. 17, 2014 milestone was loud.