Miley Cyrus has never been one to bite her tongue since shedding her Hannah Montana alter-ego image in 2011. She famously twerked on Robin Thicke and bared all in her videos, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to be considered a role model, especially if her counterparts like Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar can be […]

Fetty Wap got a huge cosign from the mainstream music world last week with a feature in this month’s issue of Maxim. Even bigger? Taylor Swift brought out the Patterson-born rapper at her Seattle show for her “1989″ tour. While on stage Taylor mentioned that her next guest is nominated for two VMA’s before the […]

The Life

We’ve come a long way since Kanye uttered, “I’mma let you finish but…” He and Taylor Swift have squashed the beef once and for all, as she confirmed in Vanity Fair‘s September issue. Taylor told VF via Billboard: “I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort […]

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This week on social media has been one to remember. First, Meek Mill called out Drake and his alleged ghostwriting, then his girl Nicki Minaj got into a Twitter war with her ex Safaree and ended the week feuding with Taylor Swift. But Nicki insists that she and T-Swizzle had a long phone conversation and their feud over the MTV […]

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After this year’s MTV VMA nominations revealed her “Anaconda” video would not be considered for “Video of the Year,” Nicki Minaj made some very controversial, but necessary, points about Black women and Black bodies not being celebrated enough in pop culture. Taylor Swift, a White woman with a very slim body who did get a nomination […]

A series of tweets published by rapper Nicki Minaj that exposed MTV for upholding a certain standard of beauty were interpreted as an “attack” by…

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Nicki Minaj and her fans are not happy after MTV released their nominations for the 2015 Video Music Awards earlier today. The “Crying Game” MC took to her Twitter this afternoon to blast the music television network for snubbing her famous “Anaconda” music video from the big Video Of The Year category.   She just […]

The Sound

Taylor Swift is powerful enough to get a company like Apple Music to (allegedly) change its policy. Right after Swift posted a Tumblr letter threatening to pull her albums from the streaming service, Apple Music announced that it was indeed paying artists royalties during its three-month free trial. The-Dream isn’t all that impressed. Before Crown Jewel drops, The-Dream talked to Billboard in what turned […]

Taylor Swift explained the rationale behind her decision to prevent her latest album, 1989, from being available on Apple Music via an open letter posted to her Tumblr page yesterday (June 21). “I write this to explain why I’ll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music,” Swift explained. “I’m […]

The Screen

After a week of star-studded teasers for her “Bad Blood” video, noted Kendrick Lamar enthusiast Taylor Swift pulled off a surprise by landing K.Dot for the premiere of her latest video. During the Billboard Music Awards, Swift premiered the “Bad Blood” visual, and Kendrick joined the likes of Lena Dunham, Ellie Goulding, and others taking […]

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Sixteen-year-old actress Amandla Stenberg, who played Rue in the first Hunger Games movie,  set the Internet ablaze this week when she shared a video she produced with classmate Quinn Masterson, addressing issues of race, identity, and cultural appropriation. Initially released on Sternberg’s tumblr page and subsequently picked up by major outlets such as HuffPost Black […]

I try not to pick on Taylor Swift much, mostly because enough people do that and I don’t find her to be as bothersome as many seem to. However, in an interview with BBC Radio 1, Swift spoke of her interaction with The Weeknd – better yet his hair – in way that was somewhat surprising. […]