Our sunburned skin is peeling and we've got a mix of sand, glitter and cake (we'll get to that) in our ears, but damnit if we don't miss Hangout Musi...
Hangout Music Festival 2013 is a wrap, and we have plenty to show for it besides sand-filled suitcases and sunburned noses. Hive was on the ground al...
GULF SHORES, Ala.. -- When the bookers for the Hangout Music Festival were securing talent for this year's lineup, they must've been asking, "How wo...
Everyone knows festivals are a license rock out alone in your bedroom with a hairbrush style to your favorite bands and this year's Hangout Music Fes...
Hangout Fest go-ers come to Gulf Shores, Ala., for acts as diverse as dance music kingpins Afrojack and Bassnectar, Southern rock legends of old -- ...
Want to watch us drop two models from 10 stories? Good, because our kick ass correspondent Chrissy Teigen and hometown hero Katherine Webb were more...
I've been at Hangout Fest for two days so far, and my biggest complaint is that the three-day music festival on the Gulf Shores of Alabama (Google i...
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Hangout Music Fest is in full swing this weekend in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and we've got the five acts you can't afford to miss today--plus some awes...
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most hype we've been for a Game-related item in a minute, partially because lately it seems we're just hearing about new projects with no timelines an...
volumes. And, really, dude would have to leak like a song every 12 hours or so to keep up with the typical promotional cycle for rap releases. Today, ...
Tweet Carson Daly's roll for getting some of the best hip-hop interviews -- Nardwuar is still #1, though -- continued on last night episode of Last Ca...
Tweet One of our most anticipated singles of 2012 has finally arrived. It's Kendrick Lamar's "The Recipe," which should serve as the lead track off hi...
beguilingly self-involed ethos, the fact that he showed up to a festival in a ZZ Top cut-off, or his stupendously reductive perspective on the hip-hop...
Tweet Black Hippy member Ab-Soul will drop his new album Control System this Friday. And if you've kept up with anything this dude has put out in the ...
Tweet North Carolina's J. Cole and Compton's Kendrick Lamar have been toying with the idea of a collaborative project for a minute, and now it looks t...
Tweet A new track from Kendrick Lamar entitled "War Is My Love," recorded for the soundtrack of the game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, has hit the web....
For Kendrick Lamar's first-ever public performance of his song "No Make-Up (Her Vice)," he enlisted the help of Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentin...
Kendrick Lamar is taking a dip on the follow-up to "The Recipe." "Swimming Pools (Drank)," the L.A. MC's second single from the upcoming album "good k...
Lady Gaga took to Twitter this morning announce she and Kendrick Lamar have collaborated on a single, due Sept. 6. "I am so excited to announce that a...
Tweet "Oh that's yo' new flow?/Nigga, that's my old shit." "They Ready," an on-point suckerpunch of a single, could have been a bloated big-name colla...
Tweet A new song called "Bend Ya" has hit the web, featuring men-of-the-moment Frank Ocean and Kendrick Lamar. But tap the breaks before you get too e...
prefer to keep things largely in-house, but each member has developed their own little outside camps: Jay Rock has support from Tech N9ne's Strange Mu...
Tweet After much deliberation, Kendrick Lamar's debut album will finally grace the masses next month. After speculation surrounding the album title, t...
project, Tha Influence, readying for release, West Coast native Scoe (formerly known as Roscoe) serves up the latest sample, "Thank You"--an ode to on...
The chance to perform with The Roots as your backup band is one of the biggest perks for any hip hop artist filling the role of musical guest on Late ...
million in its first full week at No. 1. "Red" is only the 18th album to sell a million units in a single week since SoundScan started tracking sales ...
Kendrick Lamar, who opened atop the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart this week with "good kid, m.A.A.d. city," strides onto Billboard's Social 50 chart at No....
In anticipation of Kendrick Lamar's major label debut, "good kid, m.A.A.d city," Lady Gaga announced via Twitter in August that she was collaborating ...
around the annual BET Awards as they move into LA Live for the first time, home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and multiple music venues. Already on t...
Tweet "All characters in this visual are entirely fictional. The events that occur are purely symbolic and should not be taken literal," is how the vi...
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Billboard to be an official media partner for Spotify Live show at South By Southwest Billboard is teaming with Spotify for Spotify Live, a free, tick...
amid the cascading piano runs of "If I Ain't Got You" (a song equal parts Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston). As always, much of it was fueled by the ...
Related ContentView Photo Alicia Keys Spreads Love, Brings Kendrick Lamar Onstage in L.A "Are you in love tonight?" asked Alicia Keys of her sold-out ...
Tweet Jay Z is everywhere. That's a given. But first on the new Justin Timberlake single "Suit & Tie" but now also on Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't K...
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The Jay-Z-guesting remix of Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" (off 2012's stellar good kid, m.A.A.d city) made its debut at SXSW during a se...
Tweet We heard a preview of Kendrick Lamar's "B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe" featuring Jay Z when DJ Young Guru spun it at this year's SXSW. Well, now the ...
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Just days after its first public airing at SXSW, the hotly anticipated Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar team-up "Bitch Don't Kill My Vibe" has arrived in its ...
Tweet Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)" was one of the hottest tracks to come off his album good kid, m.A.A.d city. Well, now 4AD and Montreal...
Tweet Official music video for 50 Cent's "We Up" featuring Kendrick Lamar dropped pretty quickly after the the version without Kidd Kidd came out. And...
Tweet Kendrick Lamar is really killing it these days. Ever since his album good kid, m.A.A.d. city was released Lamar has appeared everywhere includin...
Tweet Kid Cudi's third album Indicud is only two weeks away from being released and today one of it's most anticipated tracks has it the web. "Solo Do...
Tweet Miguel and Kendrick Lamar teamed up for a remix of the rnb hit "How Many Drinks" and they do the same in the official music video. The two perfo...
Tweet Emeli Sandé who we just learned also contributes to The Great Gatsby soundtrack with her cover of Beyonce's "Crazy In Love" also contributed to ...
among the acts confirmed for the annual Bumbershoot festival. The annual Pacific Northwest festival will return to Seattle Center from August 31-Septe...
It's not often when we get to act as fly on the wall while two musical geniuses share a candid conversation. But thanks to Interview Magazine, Erykah ...
Mount Pleasant High School put English class on hold for a different type of poetic justice on Friday. Kendrick Lamar took time from his world tour to...
Photos by Colin Kerrigan Solange just shared a new single on iTunes. It's a new version of her True track "Looks Good With Trouble", and the outro fea...
After introducing the world to mamadukes, J. Cole lets Kendrick Lamar take the stand in the second episode of his "Born Sinner" series. Here, K. Dot r...
The nods are in for the 2013 BET Awards. Emanating from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles June 30, the ratchet gala announced the official list of nomi...
Following in the footsteps of Miguel's "How Many Drinks?," Solange grabs Kendrick Lamar to add a guest verse to her already-pristine "Looks Good With ...
Kendrick Lamar is becoming quite the sidekick for the emerging crop of ultra-cool R&B singers. The Compton rapper teamed up with Emeli Sande for the U...
