R. Kelly’s attorney, publicist, and executive assistant have all reportedly resigned and more may be leaving his team soon.

Janelle Monáe made a 44-minute “emotion picture” (what we mere human Earthlings call a movie) to go with her forthcoming album, Dirty Computer. But instead of having us watch it on our computers, Monáe is making it a televised event.

Are you feeling tired and stressed lately by semi-famous teenagers like Woah Vicky and Bhad Bhabie, who appear in headlines for elusive reasons? Does hearing the phrase “hi bich” send you into a downward spiral? Do you read the words “Lil Tay, 9, clapped back at Danielle Bregoli” and want to scream and scream and…

I think Rihanna might be trapped in the Black Lodge.

The music industry loves to encourage conflict between women, especially if they’re rappers. Have you heard? Case in point: Cardi B and Nicki Minaj. And the fact that dudes don’t get compared to each other more often just doesn’t make sense to Cardi B, because frankly, to her ears, male rappers all sound the same.

Fifth Harmony, later, Fourth Harmony, and after announcing an “indefinite hiatus” at the end of March (that’s music speak for “shit’s over”), Zero Harmony—the girl group that birthed Camila Cabello—is donezo, and in a big way. This means their solo careers are nigh, and it looks like the first survivor of the band…

It’s getting late on a Thursday night, and the sweaty, packed crowd at Elsewhere, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, is growing antsy. A couple of latex-clad students are doing poppers close to the stage, whipping their high ponytails to the music blasting on the speakers. Not far from them, a young man has arrived at the venue…

Drake is working on a new album and you can tell, apparently, by the bags under his eyes.

Here are just a few, tiny things that happened in a dark, bizarre, depressing Year of our Lord 2018:

For the past 17 years, singer R. Kelly has been accused of sexual misconduct against teenagers and creating teen pornography, keeping several women in a “cult,” and most recently “training” a 14-year-old girl to be his “pet,” according to a new BBC documentary. Through all this he has maintained his career signed to…

XXXTentacion, the controversial rapper who is facing an impending trial for several domestic violence charges, including aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, appears in a newly circulated video showing the artist hitting a woman.

Britney Spears, from the outside, seems to be living an independent life. She performed a successful Vegas residency for four years and has continued to release music over the past decade, all while updating her Instagram with pictures of her workouts and kids. She’s still Britney (bitch) but she also appears to be a…

Russell Simmons has been accused of rape in a $10 million lawsuit filed March 23 by a woman identified as Jane Doe. Doe seeks damages for forcible rape and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

“I’m a beautician to pubic hair,” CupcakKe said happily during a Sunday afternoon interview in the Jezebel studio. “If you need your pubic hair styled, come to meeee!”

Why don’t you giddy up, giddy up, and come listen to this perfect song?

Amber Mark is one of my favorite emerging singers, a 24-year-old whose resonantly warm, jazz-tinged voice evokes classic house divas and liberated dance floors everywhere. She’s gearing up to release the Conexão EP, her follow-up to 2017's utterly sublime 3:33am EP, and for the first single she’s giving you a…

The last time I saw Charli XCX was in 2015, at a theater in Detroit, where she was absurdly upstaged by her tourmate/co-headliner, Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers. Despite not having the same level of high-charting hits, Antonoff seemed to command more passion from the crowd, never hesitating to pull from his Springsteen…

Fifth Harmony, which is actually Fourth Harmony, has now stopped harmonizing altogether.

Meshell Ndegeocello is as much a scholar as she is a creator of popular music. For an hour on Thursday, we spoke over the phone about everything from the spiritual underpinnings of the raging debates over cultural appropriation to finding compassion for LGBTQ musicians who don’t necessarily feel comfortable living as…

“You know, I never did it because I always thought, like, I would end up fucking a female rapper and fucking the business up,” Rick Ross said last year on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show. This was his explanation as to why he had never signed a woman rapper to his label Maybach Music Group. “I just, I gotta be…