Rick Ross’ upcoming album, God Forgives, I Don’t is out July 31 and he’s promoting it with two r&b jams; the first is the album’s proper first single “Touch ‘N…
Rihanna

Rihanna and Chris Brown are making us kind of uncomfortable with their bona fide sex jam, “Birthday Cake.” Things take a lighter turn on “Turn Up The Music,” but we…

In Things That Needed To Happen news… the prolific San Francisco mashup-crafter Wait What has brought the seamless talents you probably heard him exhibit on Notorious XX to Drake’s Take…

Star Slinger dropped this glitchy beast of a remix over the holiday weekend and we’re just getting around to sharing it. The UK wunderkind takes on one of the biggest…

Thanks to the wide-reaching appeal of his latest record Take Care, the Canadian rapper Drake has been on everyone’s mind for the past few weeks, and you can count British…

Talk That Talk is ultimately of a piece with Rihanna’s last couple releases and is just as flawed. But that’s OK.

Here’s the track we’ve all been waiting for – Rihanna’s the xx-sampling “Drunk on Love”. We should have known she was going to go with “Intro”. Listen below; Talk That…

One of the most anticipated tracks from Rihanna’s new album, Talk That Talk has hit the net – the title track, featuring Jay-Z. Right off the bat, the new single…

“Rude Boy,” an early 2010 single from Rihanna’s dark Rated R album, is one of the best moments of contemporary pop in recent memory, drawing inspiration and heaps of swagger…

Canadian radio did us proud tonight. After premiering “Crew Love”, Drake’s Take Care track with The Weeknd, another highly anticipated song off the album was played, the Rihanna-assisted, Jamie xx…

Florida’s Urban Noize offer up this smoldering, Justin Timberlake-inspired remix of Rihanna’s 2006 smash, “Unfaithful”.

One half of pop’s newest set of BFFs, Coldplay & Rihanna keep the magic alive by covering the other half on BBC Radio 1.

In a collaboration that makes just as much sense as it is surprising, Coldplay and Rihanna give us “Princess of China”, presumably the next single from Coldplay’s upcoming album, Mylo…
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