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music Yesterday at 10:01 p.m.

Drake Is Upset on New Single ‘I’m Upset’ Guys, which of you did this.

By Anne Victoria Clark

nicki minaj Yesterday at 9:30 p.m.

Nicki Minaj Opens Up About Her Relationships and Fixes Yours “Queen SZN is HERE!!!!”

By Anne Victoria Clark

empty warehouses 5/25/2018 at 11:01 p.m.

New Azealia Banks Video Expands On the Empty Warehouse Genre We’ve officially entered a Warehouse Period.

By Anne Victoria Clark

music 5/25/2018 at 7:48 p.m.

The New World Cup Song Is Here and So Is Will Smith This is the closest we’ll get to being part of the action, America, so live it up!

By Anne Victoria Clark

diss tracks 5/25/2018 at 7:15 p.m.

Pusha-T and Drake Beef Escalates With ‘Duppy Freestyle’ Drake is mad as hell and he is not gonna take it anymore.

By Anne Victoria Clark

the industry 5/25/2018 at 12:25 p.m.

Report: Spotify Might Put XXXTentacion’s Music Back on Playlists Reps for Kendrick Lamar allegedly called Spotify’s CEO and threatened to pull his music in response to the new policy change.

By Dee Lockett

5/25/2018 at 9:10 a.m.

Lily Allen Won’t Be Shamed “I don’t set out to annoy people or grab headlines. I say the truth because that’s all I have.”

By Eve Barlow

5/25/2018 at 6:45 a.m.

Pusha-T’s Daytona Is His Best Album in Years And you can tell he knows it’s great.

By Craig Jenkins

music 5/25/2018 at 12:57 a.m.

Pusha-T Drops Daytona and the Summer of Kanye Begins The tweets were just the beginning.

By Anne Victoria Clark

music 5/24/2018 at 10:51 p.m.

John Mayer Is Over It and We’re Here for It This is Mayer’s “I Give Up” phase and we can relate.

By Anne Victoria Clark

5/24/2018 at 4:56 p.m.

Summer Music Preview: Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, and So Much Kanye Plus: Wild speculation about Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Childish Gambino.

By Frank Guan, Sam Hockley-Smith, Craig Jenkins, and Dee Lockett

videology 5/24/2018 at 10:23 a.m.

The Bougiest Things Happening in Jennifer Lopez and Cardi B’s ‘Dinero’ Video Turns out, her love costs a lot of things.

By Dee Lockett

5/24/2018 at 10:00 a.m.

What Shawn Mendes Has Gone Through The teen-pop megastar reveals a dark — or at least darker — side on his make-or-break third album.

By Dan Hyman

r. kelly 5/24/2018 at 9:19 a.m.

Hulu Is Making an R. Kelly Sexual-Abuse Documentary With BuzzFeed News Lifetime is also making a docuseries and film about Kelly’s alleged abuse.

By Jackson McHenry

music 5/23/2018 at 11:09 p.m.

Pusha-T Previews New Album and Kanye West Verse on ‘What Would Meek Do?’ And yes, the hyphen is officially back.

By Anne Victoria Clark

on comedy 5/23/2018 at 1:00 p.m.

Every SNL Opening Monologue This Season, Ranked by the Backing Band’s Reactions The stand-up format is a mixed bag.

By Devon Ivie

r. kelly 5/22/2018 at 4:58 p.m.

In Unearthed Video, R. Kelly Boasts That It’s ‘Too Late’ to End His Career In a newly surfaced Facebook Live video, R. Kelly dismisses the sexual-assault allegations against him.

By Hunter Harris

lawsuits 5/21/2018 at 7:29 p.m.

R. Kelly Is Reportedly Being Sued for Sexual Battery The woman claims Kelly locked her in rooms, sexually abused her, and gave her herpes.

By Amanda Arnold

5/21/2018 at 1:42 p.m.

Courtney Barnett Seeks Out Harsh Truths on Tell Me How You Really Feel It’s a fitting document of these tumultuous times.

By Craig Jenkins

bbmas 2018 5/21/2018 at 10:48 a.m.

Kelly Clarkson’s Best Moments From the 2018 Billboard Music Awards From her Santa Fe speech to her covers medley to her fangirling.

By Dee Lockett

music videos 5/21/2018 at 10:40 a.m.

Cardi B Is a Widow Just As Fast As She’s a Bride in Her ‘Be Careful’ Video If you plan to marry Cardi, have your will prepped.

By Dee Lockett

new music 5/21/2018 at 12:09 a.m.

A$AP Rocky Announces His New Album Testing Is Finally Done The wait is over and oh, well, also continues.

By Halle Kiefer

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 11:46 p.m.

Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue Each Got a New Member at the BBMAs: Kelly Clarkson And who says the girl group is dead?

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 11:09 p.m.

BTS Debut ‘Fake Love’ at the BBMAs, Pandemonium Ensues Kelly Clarkson had to wear earmuffs.

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 10:42 p.m.

Watch Janet Jackson Get Nasty in Her Billboard Music Awards Icon Award Medley She blessed us with “Nasty,” “If,” and “Throb.”

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 10:27 p.m.

Janet Jackson Lends Her Voice to #MeToo in Billboard Music Awards Speech “I stand with those women and with those men equally outraged by discrimination.”

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 10:04 p.m.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS Choir Sang at the Billboard Music Awards They performed “Youth” with Shawn Mendes and Khalid.

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 9:34 p.m.

Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato Had a Deafening Diva-Off at the BBMAs They performed in front of an eclipse to eclipse each other.

By Dee Lockett

cut for time 5/20/2018 at 9:28 p.m.

Nicki Minaj Hates Everyone You Hate in Cut-for-Time SNL Haim Parody Don’t even get her started on their eyes or their mouth or their mom.

By Halle Kiefer

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 8:44 p.m.

Watch Kelly Clarkson Cover All the Year’s Hits in Her BBMAs Opener She rapped

By Dee Lockett

bbmas 2018 5/20/2018 at 8:38 p.m.

Kelly Clarkson Refused to Be Silent About Santa Fe at the Billboard Music Awards “Let’s have a moment of action.”

By Dee Lockett

obits 5/19/2018 at 4:54 p.m.

Reggie Lucas, Producer for Madonna and Guitarist for Miles Davis, Dead at 65 Lucas produced the majority of Madonna’s debut album, and played in Miles Davis’s band.

By Corinna Burford

5/18/2018 at 3:28 p.m.

Being Woke Is Still Not a Genre of Music But the Black Eyed Peas are sure trying to make it happen.

By Sam Hockley-Smith

vulture festival 2018 5/18/2018 at 12:35 p.m.

Vulture Festival Is This Weekend! Full Line-up Here! In its fifth year in NYC, the pop-culture extravaganza will include Ava DuVernay, Claire Danes, Tracy Morgan, and so much more.

By Vulture Editors

ctrl 5/18/2018 at 11:27 a.m.

Watch SZA and Donald Glover Cuddle Among Flowers in Her New ‘Garden’ Music Video Lush!

By Hunter Harris

sexual misconduct 5/18/2018 at 9:35 a.m.

Dave Matthews Band’s Violinist Boyd Tinsley Sued for Sexual Misconduct A Seattle musician has accused Boyd Tinsley of sexual assault, harassment, and “long-term grooming.”

By Dee Lockett

5/17/2018 at 4:06 p.m.

How Arctic Monkeys Tapped Into the Nostalgia of Space Front man Alex Turner paints a compelling portrait of a man so out of time that he ends up on the moon.

By Kevin Lincoln

manchester bombing 5/17/2018 at 3:50 p.m.

Ariana Grande Wasn’t Sure She’d Ever Perform Again After Manchester Bombing ’The processing part is going to take forever.”

By Dee Lockett

breakups 5/17/2018 at 12:26 p.m.

The Weeknd Scrapped an ‘Upbeat’ Album After Selena Breakup “[It] wasn’t melancholy at all because it was a different time in my life.”

By Dee Lockett

5/17/2018 at 10:21 a.m.

The Internet Has Already Devoured ‘This Is America’ But it still has power.

By Craig Jenkins

videology 5/17/2018 at 10:14 a.m.

Backstreet Boys Are Back With New Song, Serving Choreography Like It’s 1999 Behold AJ’s divine shoulder shimmy.

By Dee Lockett

new albums 5/17/2018 at 9:52 a.m.

Janet Jackson Is Writing a New Album About Literally Anything “I woke up this morning and heard a bird chirping in a rhythm that captivated my heart. Maybe that will turn into a new groove.”

By Dee Lockett

songs of the week 5/16/2018 at 6:51 p.m.

6 Best New Songs of the Week: Charlie Puth, Sam Hunt, John Mayer, Years & Years Sam Hunt, John Mayer, and Charlie just made you a trio of summer anthems.

By Vulture Editors

apologies 5/16/2018 at 4:34 p.m.

Kanye Apologized to J. Cole for Tweeting About Their Phone Call “It felt like you just used my name in that very quick conversation for social media and to keep your thing going.”

By Dee Lockett

puth puth pass 5/16/2018 at 3:41 p.m.

Vulture Investigates: What Do Charlie Puth’s Fans Call Themselves? This fandom is growing, so it’s time to decide on a name. Vulture has some suggestions.

By Hunter Harris

obituaries 5/16/2018 at 1:30 p.m.

Glenn Branca, America, and Liberation Through Noise His pieces were fever dreams come to life.

By Piotr Orlov

arrests 5/16/2018 at 12:29 p.m.

T.I. Arrested for Drunkenly Trying to Enter His Home, As One Does Who among us?

By Dee Lockett

right click 5/16/2018 at 9:52 a.m.

Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato’s New Duet Is a Battle of the Belters Aguilera and Lovato have risked bursting vocal cords and popping neck veins to bring you “Fall in Line.”

By Dee Lockett

5/15/2018 at 12:37 p.m.

Spotify, R. Kelly, and the Music Industry’s Slow Push Toward Change Spotify’s new policy is heartening, but it obscures a deeper problem in contemporary media consumption.

By Sasha Geffen

trailer mix 5/15/2018 at 9:36 a.m.

Bohemian Rhapsody Trailer: Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury Will Definitely Rock You It’s finally happening, on November 2.

By Dee Lockett

Music

Lily Allen Won’t Be Shamed

Pusha-T’s Daytona Is His Best Album in Years

Summer Music Preview: Drake, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, and So Much Kanye