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ISOxo Announces Debut Music Festival Performance
It’s all come full circle for ISOxo. The red-hot DJ and bass music virtuoso is set to make his debut festival performance at HARD Summer in July. ISOxo, who was named to EDM.com‘s Class of 2022 earlier this year, has quickly risen to the top of the bass music scene with little friction. His gritty, punk-infused sound has been resonating with fans and trap music lovers around the globe. ISOxo took to social media to announce the momentous performance, adding that HARD Summer was ironically the first ever festival he attended. “ok but seriously i cannot put into words how excited i am for this,” ISOxo wrote. “hard summer 2019 was the first music festival i ever attended and it’s just crazy to me that i finally get to play it this year as my debut ...
Pearl Jam Honors ‘Incredible’ Taylor Hawkins at Gigaton Tour Opener
Pearl Jam ticked off their postponed North American tour in support of their 2020 album Gigatron at San Diego’s Viejas Arena on Tuesday night (May 3), where the band paid tribute to the late Taylor Hawkins, who died unexpectedly at age 50 in March. Before playing the Gigaton track “Quick Escape,” frontman Eddie Vedder honored the band’s drummer Matt Cameron’s friendship with the late Foo Fighters drummer, according to Spin. “He emitted something very incredible and very special. We’re all missing him, and so, Matt, I’m sorry again for your loss,” he said. “But it just gives us another chance to say how much we appreciate you as well.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Cameron and Hawkins seemingly played drums together often, and just last fall, ...
Drake Did the Most Drake Thing Ever & DM’d a Troll’s Wife on Instagram
Drake has warned his fans a number of times in his lyrics about stealing girls away from their boyfriends and husbands — he even has a song with Lil Wayne titled, “Take Your Girl.” The rapper jokingly walked the walk on Tuesday (May 3), when an Instagram troll poked fun at Drake’s son, Adonis, writing, “Ya son prolly play with ghost writers.” The snide remark was in reference to past controversies, in which Drake was accused of not writing his own verses and using ghostwriters. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Instead of getting heated, Drake decided to have some fun. He found the troll’s wife and followed her on Instagram. “I just followed your girl cause she’s prob miserable and needs some excitement in her life,” he replied to the ori...
Lady Gaga Paid Homage to Whitney Houston in a $115 Graphic Sweatshirt: Here’s Where You Can Buy It Online
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Lady Gaga has good taste! Mother Monster posted an Instagram photo from Las Vegas on Monday (May 3) looking cozy while wearing a Whitney Houston sweatshirt. According to La Maison Gaga – the top fan page for all the details behind Gaga’s wardrobe – the Grammy winner snapped a selfie in a Whitney Houston Moment of Truth Boyfriend crew neck sweatshirt ($115) from Daydreamer. The sweatshirt comes in sizes small, medium and large as well as sizes 1X-3X. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news This stylish crew features Houst...
Pat Benatar Talks Rock Hall Induction: ‘So Intense’
The announcement about Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction was mere minutes old when the singer’s phone began “blowing up.” “This day is so intense,” Benatar tells Billboard by phone from Los Angeles. “Your phone blows up, Facebook, all your social media blows up. I had to turn my phone on silent ’cause I couldn’t hear one more dinging of the text.” Rest assured she’s not complaining, though. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Benatar’s absence from the Rock Hall has long been considered one of its greatest slights. She’s been eligible since 2000, but Benatar and Giraldo — her chief creative partner since 1979 and husband since 1982 — have only been nominated once before, in 2020. A classically trained mezzo-soprano...
Wu-Tang Clan Celebrates 25 Years of ‘Wu-Tang Forever’ With Anniversary Collection
Wu-Tang Clan is commemorating 25 years of their double-disc opus Wu-Tang Forever with a special anniversary collection. Get On Down and Legacy Recordings announced that fans can expect the anniversary collection to feature a lyric booklet, a silver-colored 7-inch single of “Triumph” and “Heaterz” on the B-side with a picture sleeve and, finally, a reissue of the double cassette complete with a slip case. Wu-Tang Clan also delivered the EPs Reunited — The Remixes, It’s Yourz and Triumph which include remixes, edits, instrumentals and unarchived cover art for the singles. In addition, Wu-Tang Clan released the first episode of their upcoming new series filled with unearthed video interviews from 1997. The show will hear the group talk about “their history, their lives, their inspiration, who...
Kanye West Earns Gold and Platinum Plaques for “Ni**as in Paris,” “No More Parties in LA” and More
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Cypress Hill “Come With Me,” Tink & 2 Chainz “Cater” & More | Daily Visuals 5.3.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Cypress Hill has been rocking in the rap game for longer than most rappers today have been alive so it’s only right that we tip our hats to the OG stoners who helped pave the way for weed themed rap music. Keeping their love affair with Mary Jane going strong all these decades later, Cypress Hill releases some new visuals to “Come With Me” in which we’re taken back in time to a prohibition era where marijuana became the drug of choice while liquor was banned across the U.S. Back in 2022, Tink decides to get a little seductive with it and in her 2 Chainz assisted clip to “Cater” gives her boo a private strip tease before Chainz gets turnt and takes over the party. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Fendi P, Juciy J and Duke Deuce, and more. CY...
D.L. Hughley Says Pete Davidson “Out Of Pocket” For Getting Kanye & Kim’s Kid’s Initials Tattoo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bobby Bank / Getty Apparently, the messy and public feud between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian‘s current boo Pete Davidson is still ongoing, and while Ye typically seems to be the aggressor in the reality TV-ish shenanigans, this time it’s Pete causing folks online to raise their eyebrows. It appears that Davidson has tattooed the first initials of Kanye and Kim’s children’s names on his neck in the order of the children’s ages. Yikes! Related Stories “Yeeeeah, I gotta say I’m team Kanye on this one. While it might be true that Pete treats his body like it’s the inside of a high school yearbook and is constantly getting simple-word tattoos to represent various things in his world, getting the names of someone else’s children tattooed on his neck is weird,...
Cardi B Insists She Was Joking When She Made Booger Sugar Reference At Met Gala Party
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Noam Galai / Getty If nothing else Cardi B has been known to shoot from the lip and create controversy at times with her words and thoughts, so when she seemingly encouraged people to drink some liquor and to “take a line” at the Met Gala, people thought she was being deadass. She says she wasn’t. According to Page Six, Cardi felt the need to clear up her intentions and naturally said she was only joking when she said “Make sure you got your drinks, make sure y’all do your little [lines]. Whatever the f–k you have to do. We got to turn the f–k up. I want everybody dancing!” We mean, we wouldn’t be surprised if some if not many of the celebrities attending the Met Gala on Monday (May 2) took a little nose candy with them to indulge in. In a video pos...
DJ Mustard Files For Divorce From Wife After Just A Year & A Half of Marriage
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Edward Berthelot / Getty Welp, so much “for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. I will love and honor you all the days of my life.” DJ Mustard filed for divorce from his wife after a year and a half of marriage. TMZ Hip Hop has obtained documents revealing that the successful producer is over his marriage with Chanel Thierry, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. Mustard claims the couple officially split Monday (Apr.2). Mustard, whose real name is hilariously Dijon McFarlane, has three children with Thierry and is asking for joint custody of the children between the ages of 2 to 10. Related Stories The former couple had been together for two years before jumping the broom ...
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five’s Kidd Creole Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Manslaughter
Note: This article contains descriptions of violence. Nathaniel Glover, better known as Kidd Creole from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison stemming from a first degree manslaughter conviction, TMZ reports. Last month, a New York Supreme Court jury found Glover guilty of stabbing an unhoused man to death in August 2017. TMZ reports that in addition to the 16-year sentence, Glover will face five years of post-release supervision. Glover was arrested and indicted in 2017 after stabbing a 55-year old man named John Jolly, who was unhoused and unacquainted with Glover. The original police report alleged that Glover stabbed Jolly in the torso two times on August 1, 2017 at East 44th Street and 3rd Avenue in New York. Following the attack, Glover i...
