Jessie Murph Takes On The Sparkling Ice Taste Test

How do you pregame before performing a sizzling set under the desert sun at the Sparkling Sessions 2.0 kickoff party? If you’re rising country music star Jessie Murph, you cool off with a backstage beverage battle. Before bringing the heat to Sparkling Ice and UPROXX’s exclusive pre-festival bash just steps away from the Empire Polo […]

Mariah The Scientist ‘Burning Blue’ Video Is Passionate

Young Thug thinks Mariah The Scientist deserves to be ranked among the best female artists out there. You will agree after watching the music video for “Burning Blue,” her first new single since releasing 2023’s To Be Eaten Alive. In the video, Mariah The Scientist is more like Mariah The Soldier as she’s surrounded by […]

JID Announces ‘God Does Like Ugly’ With An Album Trailer

In April, JID took the stage at the Dreamville festival and performed a new song called “Wrk,” which he released properly a couple weeks later. The song seemed to signal the start of a new era, and indeed, it did: Today (May 8), JID announced a new album, titled God Does Like Ugly. He also […]

Kendrick Lamar Studio Photos Spark New Music Rumors

We are mere months removed from Kendrick Lamar’s latest album, GNX, which came out towards the end of November 2024 and was quickly hailed as one of the year’s best projects (like in the Uproxx Music Critics Poll). Fans always want more, though, and now there’s some perhaps-convincing evidence that more is on the way. […]

Rick Ross Says He’d End His Drake Beef

It was just a few years ago that Drake called Rick Ross the “greatest rapper alive.” More recently, though, the two have been embroiled in beef. It’s been going for a little while now, and Ross wouldn’t mind if it came to an end. In a recent conversation with Bootleg Kev (as HipHopDX notes), Ross […]

ASAP Rocky & Anna Wintour Talk Met Gala On ‘Seth Meyers’

ASAP Rocky is fresh off a big weekend, as he was one of the co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala. The conversation surrounding the event continued last night (May 7) when he and Anna Wintour visited Late Night With Seth Meyers. During the chat, the three discussed some of the evening’s best looks, from Diana […]

Summer Walker & Coco Jones

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they love in its true form, we’ll be […]

DDG & BIA Trade Verses In The Frenetic ‘Fine Shyt’ Video

Ahead of the release of his new album, Blame The Chat, DDG streamed its creation in a week-long stream-a-thon — a first for the industry, surely. During the streaming marathon, he stopped by Uproxx to challenge the host of Sound Check, resulting in Jeremy’s first-ever L (live, no less!). Today, DDG continued the rollout with […]

Usher Fed Sabrina Carpenter A Cherry In Met Gala Performance

During Usher’s Las Vegas residency and his last tour, one of the R&B vet’s signature moves was picking a lucky lady in the crowd and suggestively dipping a cherry into her open mouth. Well, after Monday’s Met Gala, it became apparent that the tradition continued, even in a room full of well-dressed celebrities. Thanks to […]

‘Sound Check’ With Jeremy Hecht: DDG Chooses His Favorites

Sound Check host Jeremy Hecht already has a perfect record of guessing guest artists’ life anthems, from Big Sean to The Lox, but in this week’s episode, he has to take on the multifaceted streamer-turned-rapper DDG, which offers a unique challenge of its own. For the newbies, here’s how it works: Jeremy plays two songs […]