Houston lost one of its rap icons Jan. 30 with the death of Swishahouse co-founder and CEO Michael "5000" Watts. Instrumental in helping to popularize DJ Screw's "chopped and screwed" as Houston's ...

Michael "5000" Watts, a founder and CEO of the Houston rap collective Swishahouse, died Jan. 30, his family confirmed.

At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not for himself, but for U.S. leaders.

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

Taylor Swift has a new top song. On the latest installment of Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, “The Fate of Ophelia” took the top spot for the ninth week to become Swift’s longest-running No. 1 hit. The ...

“Stranger Things” star Joe Keery overtook Taylor Swift’s No. 1 spot on the Spotify charts over the weekend. Keery, who releases music under the alias DJO, got a boost on the Spotify rankings thanks to ...