Check out the hip-hop and R&B highlights from the 2025 Grammy Awards. Tetris Kelly: Genre icons, first-time nominees, and more! Hip-hop and R&B shined bright during the 2025 Grammys, and we have all the highlights. The 67th annual Grammys took over Los Angeles with Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Mustard, Doechii and more walking away with massive […]
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After Chappell Roan‘s best new artist acceptance speech Sunday (Feb. 2) at the Grammy Awards, in which she demanded working musicians receive healthcare from their labels and the rest of the record industry “profiting millions of dollars off of artists,” Duncan Crabtree-Ireland approached the singer at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. “I said, ‘Hi.
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After Atlantic Records dropped Chappell Roan when “Pink Pony Club” didn’t take off in 2020, the singer struggled without healthcare and a “livable wage,” she said in her Best New Artist speech at the Grammy Awards Sunday night. “I told myself if I ever won a Grammy, and I got to stand up here in
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Kendrick Lamar rarely does interviews these days, but he sat down with Apple Music’s Nadeska and Ebro Darden on Thursday morning (Feb. 6) in New Orleans prior to taking the stage this weekend for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Lamar answered questions for about a half-hour, and while Drake wasn’t brought up directly, K.
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Drake was in a giving mood during the second stop of his Anita Max Win Tour in Australia and New Zealand. During his set at RAC Arena in Perth, Australia, the Toronto rapper randomly spotted a couple of fans in the crowd and gifted them $20,000 apiece, as captured by Australian hip-hop Instagram account Take
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Timothée Chalamet makes his Billboard album chart debut as the soundtrack to the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, in which Chalamet stars as Dylan, arrives across four charts (dated Feb. 8). The set launches on Soundtracks (No. 17), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 23), Top Current Album Sales (No. 29) and Top Album Sales
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Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” made history on Sunday (Feb. 2), becoming just the second hip-hop smash to win Grammys for both record and song of the year. Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” became the first hip-hop smash to win in both of these marquee categories six years ago. “Not Like Us” is the 34th
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Cindy Mabe, Universal Music Group Nashville’s chair/CEO, has left the company, Billboard has confirmed. Mabe, whose reign lasted almost two years, was the successor to Mike Dungan, who retired in March 2023. Mabe became the first woman to lead a Nashville major label group. Country Aircheck first broke the news. Related UMG Nashville and T Bone
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Seven-time Grammy winner and Academy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste has signed with UTA for representation in all areas, the agency announced Thursday (Feb. 5) Batiste is also a composer and performer who has built a career spanning multiple genres and disciplines. This Sunday (Feb. 9), Batiste is set to perform the national anthem at
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A recent column published by The Hollywood Reporter criticized Chappell Roan‘s best new artist acceptance speech at the 2025 Grammys, and Halsey is coming to her fellow pop star’s defense. In a post to Instagram Stories, Halsey called out The Hollywood Reporter for publishing a guest column headlined “Chappell Groan: The Misguided Rhetoric of an
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