Kobe Bryant has remained pretty quiet in the days since his magnificent final game, a 60-point performance against the Utah Jazz that will likely go down as one of the best–if not the best–sunset rides in sports history. However, the Black Mamba recently broke his silence, and sat down for an interview with Ellen Degeneres, […]
This week the Sacramento Kings unveiled their new logo, their first new logo since they adopted the crossed-spears insignia before the 1994-1995 season. The logo is certainly a fresher take on the Kings’ visual assets, but it pays homage to several of the team’s past logos, including their last Cincinnati Royals logo, which was only used in the […]
Iggy Azalea has long been discussed and criticized for race-related comments on both social media and in her music, dating back to when she referred to herself as a “slave master” on a remix to Kendrick Lamar‘s “Look Out For Detox,” an incident she profusely apologized for. However, that hasn’t deterred the Aussie rapper, who […]
Last week, news broke that a high school basketball player in Canada, Jonathan Nicola, had been outed as a 30-year-old Sudanese man, posing as a 17-year-old student in order to remain in Canada on a student visa as part of the Canada Homestay program. Nicola had been living with his basketball coach, Pete Cusumano, for […]
Over the years, the people at Baracksdubs have brought you some of the funniest mash-ups around, featuring the POTUS rapping or singing some of the biggest hits, from Justin Bieber‘s “Sorry,” to Carly Rae Jepsen‘s “Call Me Maybe.” Of course, the President isn’t really rapping and singing these songs, but it sure sounds like he […]
After Sunday’s Game 4 slaughter of the Houston Rockets, despite the abrupt departure of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green got into one last battle. A reporter, who himself didn’t appear to know exactly what he was trying to ask, lobbed a bewildering series of questions to Draymond Green about the correlation between Warriors victories, and floods in Houston. […]
It hasn’t yet been a week since the word lost one of its most beloved icons, legendary musician Prince, who passed away in his hometown of Minneapolis this past Thursday. An expected outpouring of mourning and support has included several musical tributes and acknowledgements, by everybody from Game to Frank Ocean, but possibly the best […]
Wiz Khalifa‘s Khalifa album dropped in February, featuring the lead single “Bake Sale,” a song both Wiz and Travi$ Scott worked quite hard to get out to the masses, considering the song’s instrumental was legally licensed to G-Eazy for his most recent album, When It’s Dark Out. Thanks to some production variations by Crazy Mike and Juicy […]
What you’re about to watch is Jimmy Kimmel‘s viral Mean Tweets segment taken to a whole ‘nother level. Sports podcast Just Not Sports, in an evocative new video clip, has regular guys–not actors–read some of the most despicable insults and derogatory tweets that Twitter has to offer to female sports reporters Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro. […]
A CLIP FROM THE TUPAC MOVIE !!! EXCLUSIVE A video posted by James Jordan Jr. (@cali_bread24) on Apr 24, 2016 at 2:26pm PDT The Benny Boom-directed Tupac movie, All Eyez On Me, is currently in post-production, so hopefully it isn’t too long before we get an official trailer for the most highly-anticipated Hip Hop biopic […]
In the wake of Donald Trump‘s domination of polls and primaries, two rappers notorious for not giving a f*ck, YG and Nipsey Hussle, released a street single, “FDT (F*ck Donald Trump),” that has already seen a headline-making reaction at Coachella, and a music video that’s racked up nearly 1.4 million plays in a week. Apparently, love […]
Here is the video (uncensored) of Russell Westbrook telling Mavs fan and his wife to “f*** off” pic.twitter.com/HsY9JPsin3 — Brian Dameris (@bdameris) April 25, 2016 Russell Westbrook needs to put a lid on it, and fast. The fiery Thunder point guard has already been fined $25,000 this week for screaming “f*ck you!” to a Dallas […]
Drake unveiled the cover art to his forthcoming Views From the 6 LP over the weekend, stirring up a firestorm of memes, something that’s become customary with Drake releases of any kind over the last couple years. The artwork, which depicts a very tiny Drake perched atop the CN Tower, the highest point of the […]
Beyoncé has a knack for stopping the world, which she did again this past Saturday with the release of her 6th studio album, Lemonade, initially available strictly for streaming on TIDAL. The release of the album, which followed the world premiere of her Lemonade short film–during which nearly every song on Lemonade the album was […]
Nipsey Hussle is currently working on his forthcoming 5th studio album, Victory Lap, after enjoying a recent winning streak that saw Jay Z snatch up 100 copies of his Crenshaw album, which the Cali rapper sold for $100 a pop, and Mailbox Money, 100 copies of which were sold at an eye-popping $1,000 price point, which […]
Stephen Curry is gon’ be awlright. As per several reports, including the following one from the ever-reliable Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, Splash Brother #1 has suffered what sounds like a mild knee sprain, which will result in him missing two weeks of playoff action. The prognosis is significantly more positive than the early reports of […]
Rihanna‘s reign is no more. Desiigner has done what many initially didn’t even deem plausible, but what became quite the practical outcome considering the trajectory of the song’s chart performance over the last month. “Panda,” the controversial but insanely popular single from Brooklyn and G.O.O.D. Music rapper Desiigner, has reached the #1 spot on the […]
In a somewhat shocking ruling today (Monday, April 25), a federal appeals court has decided that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will in fact have to serve a four-game suspension for his role in “Deflategate,” the 2015 scandal in which Brady and other members of the organization were accused of illegally deflating the footballs prior to […]
The Golden State Warriors were the favorite to repeat as NBA champions even before the season started, and true to form, they take a decisive 3-1 lead on the Houston Rockets back to California for Game 5, where the Warriors will try to put Houston away (they’ll likely be without their superstar point guard, Stephen Curry, more […]
Beyonce owned the weekend with the surprise release of her visual album, Lemonade, but the week of April 25 will see a serious paradigm shift, as the countdown to Drake‘s fourth LP, Views From the 6, which officially releases on Friday (April 29), has begun. Yesterday, Drizzy unveiled the cover art for the album, the […]
Yesterday’s scheduled episode of OVO Sound Radio, an episode many were looking forward to given the significance of this upcoming week, was cancelled, so Drizzy dropped off a gift on Sunday instead. Below is the official artwork for Drake‘s Views From The 6 album, which is releasing this coming Friday, April 29. Many reports suggest […]
NSFW: Russell Westbrook wasn’t happy with this fan.. A video posted by Sports Videos (@houseofhighlights) on Apr 23, 2016 at 10:12pm PDT UPDATE: And just like that, Westbrook has been slapped with a $25,000 fine by the NBA. — Though it’s been significantly more eventful than many had expected, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s first-round series […]
Mark Jackson could very well end up with a job as an NBA head coach by the time the 2016-2017 regular season starts, which would be great for his career, but disappointing to the millions of basketball fans that tune in to ESPN and ABC broadcasts. From “hand down, man down” to “welcome to the […]
Chris Brown‘s Royalty album was released this past December, featuring the popular singles “Back To Sleep” and “Liquor,” which helped push CB’s 7th studio album to another top 3 debut on the Billboard 200. Brown continued to promote the album with several remixes of “Back To Sleep,” which featured everyone from Miguel and August Alsina […]
Saturday night Beyonce touched down on television sets across the world, whether or not you had an HBO subscription, with a world premiere event, Lemonade, which had been cryptically teased only by a 60-second trailer involving an enigmatic parking lot, gold cornrows, and fiery explosions. Despite the scarce details, it became very clear from the […]
After a stunning short film that just aired on HBO, Beyonce has decided to liberate her new album, Lemonade, which you can stream on TIDAL right here. Bey’s Formation World Tour kicks off next week in Miami, with a special guest, DJ Khaled, and she’s joined on this new album by The Weeknd, James Blake, […]
Isaiah Thomas is the 5-foot-9 point guard sensation for the Boston Celtics that was named to his first All-Star game this year, and had quite possibly the best little-guy season ever. Before a pivotal Game 3 against the Atlanta Hawks, to whom the Celtics trailed in their opening round series 2-0, he got a text […]
Last weekend, A$AP Rocky surprised his Weekend 1 crowd with Kanye West, who emerged just as Rocky’s set was ending to turn up with Rocky to one of the biggest hits from his The Life of Pablo album, “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1.” This weekend, Rocky had even more surprises in store for his […]
Though yesterday’s Birdman conversations were dominated by his hostile exchange with Power 105.1’s Breakfast Club hosts, from whom Baby demanded respect from relentlessly during his abrupt entrance and exit from the interview, the Cash Money CEO’s got several projects rolling out. First, his first album in 7 years, Ms Gladys, is scheduled to drop on […]
Fans expecting to tune into tonight’s scheduled episode of OVO Sound Radio on Beats1, and potentially hear from sneak peeks of Drake‘s Views From the 6 album, which drops in 6 days, will have to wait, as this week’s episode of the show has been rescheduled to a later date. As per the October’s Very […]
The Boston Celtics, behind a career-high 42 points from Isaiah Thomas, were able to cut into the Atlanta Hawks’ 2-0 series lead with a decisive victory at home in Boston last night. They’ll have the chance to tie it up tomorrow night, which would be fitting, considering this is one of the most evenly matched first-round […]
If you’re looking for an explanation as to how it’s possible to live in a Prince-less world, we’re sorry we wasted your time. If you’re here to see Prince slay the charts from the afterlife, right this way please. The Beautiful One shockingly left us yesterday, but his music will live on forever, and there’s […]
Last night’s Warriors vs Rockets game was all the rage, from Draymond Green getting away with wrestling moves on the final play to the Rockets front office clapping back at Inside the NBA host Charles Barkley for his unfavorable comments about Houston’s playoff run. Oh, and by the way, All-Pro guard James Harden hit the […]
After the Golden State Warriors demolished the Houston Rockets during the first two games of their first-round series–as expected–Charles Barkley, the outspoken member of TNT’s Inside the NBA talk show, decided to quite literally scribble out the fifth, sixth and seventh game of the series on the Rockets/Warriors schedule, changing the “if necessary” modifier to “not […]
“I spoke to him Sunday, and he said that everything was perfect” — Prince’s friend @LondellMcMillan on @NewDay https://t.co/7tmkdzOGOe — New Day (@NewDay) April 22, 2016 The world stopped and it hasn’t quite figured out how to get going again, as the universe deals with the loss of one of the greatest icons the music […]
Stephen Curry won the regular season MVP award last year, just before winning his first-ever NBA Championship with the Warriors, and he’s going to win it again this year, possibly unanimously, which would be the first time that’s happened in NBA history. So, how the heck did he finish fourth in this year’s Most Improved […]
Looking at the words “Prince is dead” is a traumatizing experience. It could maybe be less traumatizing if we remember all the wonderful moments The Purple One gave us, even when he wasn’t performing. Like that time Prince kicked Kim Kardashian–who, even back then, was famous for reasons unbeknownst to many; Prince was likely one […]
Yesterday, Prince died and the world stopped. Four decades of influence from the Purple Rain mastermind began impacting fans and admirers instantly, and quite frankly, it’s too much to bear. The Obama administration should have cancelled today. Not work or school, but the actual day. April 22, 2016 shouldn’t exist on a calendar in the […]
It’s nearly been 3 long years, but Harlem’s native “trap lord,” A$AP Ferg, has returned to the shelves. Today, Ferg’s sophomore album, Always Strive And Prosper, is officially available for purchase and stream, the latter of which you can do so below, via Spotify. Since the release of his major label debut, Trap Lord, in […]
The Houston Rockets weren’t given much of a chance in their opening round series with the record-setting Golden State Warriors, and for good reason. The team had been in turmoil all season. They lost their head coach 7 games in, and have had to deal with reports of calamity in the locker room for much of […]
Earlier this morning, Birdman was slated to be the special guest on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club morning show, but things didn’t go as expected, and Baby’s “interview” lasted all but 90 seconds. Baby, who has been discussed frequently in recent months on The Breakfast Club given his high profile standoff with Lil Wayne, a […]
The Washington Wizards missed the playoffs this year despite qualifying for the postseason last year and sweeping the formidable Toronto Raptors in their first-round series, resulting in the firing of Randy Wittman, who’d been calling the shots sine 2012. It’s no secret that the Wizards will make the push of a lifetime to try to […]
Marshawn Lynch shocked many when he decided to hang up his cleats and retire following the Seattle Seahawks 2016 playoff run. One of the strongest, most dominant running backs of the last few seasons, Lynch was certainly giving up at least one more serious pay day by calling it a career, but he seems to be […]
M.I.A. is no stranger to making political statements, and has done everything from tangle with the NFL to take the NYPD to task during its Sean Bell investigations. Today she’s done just that once again, in an interview with ES magazine, where the “Paper Planes” rapper appears to question the political fairness of movements like #BlackLivesMatter, and […]
Earlier this morning, Minnesota ABC affiliate KSTP revealed on Twitter that the Carver County sheriff’s office confirmed a death investigation at Prince‘s recording studio. The brief report did not specify who the subject of the investigation was, or the cause of death. Carver County sheriff’s office has confirmed a death investigation at Paisley Park Chanhassen. […]
Yesterday, the news officially broke that, as rumored, slave abolitionist and American icon Harriet Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill. The U.S. Treasury would later clarify that Jackson is merely being pushed to the back of the bill, not removed from it completely, but the news still means […]
South Sudan native Jonathan Nicola, a star center for a Canadian high school basketball team, has been arrested and taken into custody after it was discovered that Nicola, posing as a 17-year-old HS student, was in fact a 30-year-old man. Nicola was living with Central Catholic High School basketball coach Pete Cusumano on a student […]
Coming into their opening round playoff series with the Miami Heat, the Charlotte Hornets were given a decent shot at actually beating the Miami Heat. Both teams won 45 games this season, and the Hornets offensive depth, from newly acquired guard Nicolas Batum, who’d had a career year during the regular season, to vague 6th […]
No one is heating up quite like A$AP Ferg with these warm weather months, and tomorrow it all comes to a head when he drops his highly anticipated new album, Always Strive And Prosper, which is out everywhere tomorrow. The album will sport recently released singles like “New Level,” “Let It Bang” and “Strive,” in […]
After its highly successful third film, The Bourne Ultimatum, the Jason Bourne movie series digressed from its central plot, casting Jason Renner as Bourne’s fellow agent in The Bourne Legacy in 2012, while Damon’s future was in limbo. Much to the delight of fans however, in recent years, Matt Damon‘s return appeared imminent, and it […]
Josh Norman is about to secure the bag. The lockdown Panthers cornerback, who became a very high profile defender after his infamous battle with Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. during a thrilling regular season game this past season, is now an unrestricted free agent after the Panthers reneged on their franchise tagging of the […]
Walter White isn’t used to being on this side of the drug trade, but here he is. Bryan Cranston, who portrayed Walter White, the subject of one of the great character transformations in television history on the record-setting AMC show Breaking Bad, is heading to the big screen as Bob Musella, a federal customs agent part […]
Now that marijuana is being legalized in major cities and states across the country, entrepreneurs are taking full advantage, meaning dispensaries and weed shops are popping up everywhere from Seattle to Los Angeles. If you’re traveling to a grass friendly city, how will you know where to head to when you need to pick up some botany? […]
Two generations of Harlem capos, Jim Jones and A$AP Ferg, have united for a new anthem, named after their native stomping grounds, “Harlem,” just in time for the warm weather months. The song, which is produced by both Drumatics and Mike Will Made It, serves as Jones’ latest single, and cleverly flips Future‘s notorious “Gucci flip-flips” line […]
Today the U.S. Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman (former slave, American hero) would be replacing Andrew Jackson (former slave-owner, 7th POTUS) as the face of the $20 bill. Good job, country. While social media celebrates one of the great full-circle moments in modern history–Michael Jordan‘s infamous “Crying Face” has already found its way to Jackson’s $20 bill—Ben […]
Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Rams pulled off a blockbuster trade with the Tennessee Titans, trading several of their draft assets over the next couple of years for this year’s #1 pick, as Jeff Fisher and his newly relocated team try to make a splash in their first year in their new home of Los […]
The Minnesota Timberwolves one-year experiment with Sam Mitchell ended after yet another playoff-less season, and with a startlingly potent crop of young stars–likely Rookie of the Year Karl Anthony-Towns, Zach Lavine, Andrew Wiggins, Shabazz Muhammed–the T’Wolves are desperately in need of a rigid head coach that will help turn all that raw talent into a […]
#PROcast EXCLUSIVE: “If you want to go dancing & stuff like that, go to a nightclub.” – @CVBelieve to Westbrook.https://t.co/tIHep0wsOI — FOX Sports: PROcast (@PROcast) April 19, 2016 Well this has escalated into something much bigger than it actually was, hasn’t it? For those of you not quite sure how we got here, how about a […]
Just like that, Rihanna‘s “Needed Me” video is here. The song, one of the standouts from her January ANTI album, is produced by DJ Mustard, and has risen up the Billboard Hot 100 charts in recent weeks, recently landing at #33, making it quite the candidate for her first hit following “Work,” which has enjoyed […]
Meek Mill is currently on house arrest, during which he’s allowed to drop strictly free music, meaning any retail projects, be it a streaming mixtape or an album for sale, are on hold at least until June, when his case will be re-evaluated by the court. It’s a frustrating proposition for Meek Mill fans, especially […]
The last time you saw the names Denzel Washington, Antoine Fuqua and Ethan Hawke tripled together, it was likely in reference to Training Day, the classic 2001 cop thriller that saw Denzel, portraying a dirty police officer attempting to serve far too many street masters, win his first and only Academy Award. Since then, Fuqua […]
No, Wiz Khalifa doesn’t think the YEEZY jumped over the Jumpman. The Pittsburgh rapper has had a complex relationship with Kanye West over the years, from Kanye rapping “only n*gga I got respect for is Wiz” after his break-up with Amber Rose, to their Twitter feud earlier this year, during which Kanye declared that he “owns” […]
“It kind of feels like playing a scrimmage in practice,” Andre Iguodala said of a playoff game. pic.twitter.com/fBWXRvMlgO — Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) April 19, 2016 Andre Iguodala isn’t known for trash talk. In fact, he’s built a reputation on being a blue-collar player. Once the star of the Philadelphia 76ers franchise, Iguodala has since seamlessly […]
It’s the play that sold out over a year an advance, won a GRAMMY Award and regularly had the Obamas in attendance, and now Hamilton can add another accomplishment to its resume: a Pulitzer Prize. Yesterday, the winners of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize Awards were announced, and Lin Manuel-Miranda tweeted, incredulously and excitably, “PULITZER?!,” when […]
Charlie Villanueva tried to get in the way of Russell Westbrook and Cameron Payne’s pregame routine: pic.twitter.com/7zhvasINPP — Royce Young (@royceyoung) April 19, 2016 All season long, Russell Westbrook has been a scoring and triple-double machine, helping lead his Oklahoma City Thunder to the 3rd-best record in the Western Conference and a 1-0 lead in […]
Bas dropped his sophomore album, Too High To Riot, early last month, off the strength of his “Night Job” collab with Dreamville head honcho J. Cole, and a couple strong singles, “Dopamine,” featuring label mate Cozz and a solo banger, “Methylone.” Today, the Queens native dropped off another music video for “Matches,” one of the best […]
British band Snakehips dropped the biggest hit of their career, “All My Friends,” featuring Tinashe and Chance The Rapper last year, in 2015, but it’s recently begun to pick up serious steam. After peaking at #5 on the UK charts, Tinashe and Chance took to Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform their bar-hopping anthem, for which […]
April showers. Rihanna continues to reign. “Work” is the #1 song in the country for a ninth consecutive week, meaning for over 2 months there hasn’t been a change from Rih and Drake‘s dancehall banger atop the Billboard Hot 100. This also means that Boi-1da, the song’s producer, and PARTYNEXTDOOR, its primary co-writer, are enjoying […]
Though no official announcement has been publicly made by iLoveMakonnen or OVO Sound, it appears the Atlanta rapper is no longer signed to Drake‘s Warner Bros. label. According to a report from Erika Ramirez–a former senior editor at Billboard—on Inverse.com, an unidentified rep with knowledge of the situation revealed that Makonnen is no longer on […]
Kobe Bryant retired from the game of basketball last week in a breathtaking flurry, dropping 60 points on a beleaguered but resilient Utah Jazz team that had just found out before tip-off that it wouldn’t qualify for this year’s playoffs. It was Kobe’s points didn’t come in garbage time either. In fact, it was a […]
Last month, YG and Nipsey Hussle caused quite a stir out in their native home of California, as they shot the video for “FDT,” or “F*ck Donald Trump,” and were joined by hundreds of bystanders, turning the shoot into somewhat of an impromptu anti-Trump rally. Naturally, authorities got involved, and portions of the shoot were not […]
The NBA announced this morning that 5th-year San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard would be the recipient of the Defensive Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year. Leonard, whose offensive game expanded so much this season he was named to his first All-Star game, continued his perimeter defensive dominance as the Spurs […]
Earlier this year Ariana Grande teased the title of her forthcoming album, Dangerous Woman, but now we have the official release date, tracklist, and even a new single, “Let Me Love You,” which features Lil Wayne. This is the first time Grande and Wayne have hooked up, but she’s no stranger to working with marquee rappers, […]
Without warning over the weekend, as is customary, Beyonce dropped a bomb on her fans, letting loose with a very brief preview of what’s apparently her forthcoming single and music video, “Lemonade.” The video, billed as a “special event,” will world premiere on HBO this coming Saturday, April 23, at 9 p.m. Yesterday, Mrs. Carter […]
Coachella day 1 @YG @DJmustard #FDT pic.twitter.com/ztVSuIss9q — samuel alemayhu (@sammynw) April 16, 2016 Last month, YG and Nipsey Hussle, partners in rhyme, dropped “FDT,” a missile aimed at controversial Republican Presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his supporters. YG and Nip, natives of California, shot the music video not long after, and could be seen […]
