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The search for the ever-elusive "bop" is hard. Playlists and streaming-service suggestions can only do so much. They often leave a lingering question: Are these songs really good, or are they just new? Enter Bop Shop, a hand-picked selection of songs from the MTV News team. This weekly collection doesn't discriminate by genre and could contribute anything — it's a snapshot of wh..
Read MoreThe Toronto Raptors won the NBA Finals last night (June 13) and, since then, Drake has been insufferable. Because the Global Ambassador of the NBA team that got its first final championship in Toronto's history, it's understandable that he's excited about their victory. He's so thrilled by the moment that he's releasing two new songs to commemorate the moment sometime today. We're jus..
Read MoreWith Father's Day around the corner, Blueface has released "Daddy" with Rich the Kid. Yet it's not the sort of introspective, examination of the paternal presence that you'd expect. Alternatively, the two rappers drop a braggadocious summer anthem that sees them because the father figures. It's hilarious and properly timed, and, for certain, like other Blueface songs, to be a song fo..
Read MoreBy Jewel Wicker Dallas Austin was once "catfished" — before the phrase had even been coined — by ladies pretending to be Salt-N-Pepa. The musician and songwriter in back of dozens of pop and R&B hits, including Top 10 smashes by TLC, Pink, and more, says he consistently spent hours on the phone with the imposters. He even traveled to New Jersey to meet the person he imagined to b..
Read MoreMachine Gun Kelly's new album is coming, and he has the head tattoo to prove it. Right after flaunting his new "Hotel Diablo" ink on Twitter earlier this week, the rapper has given fans a closer look in the video for "I Think I'm OKAY," which arrived on Thursday (June 13). The angsty teamwork features British rocker Yungblud and blink-182's Travis Barker, who join MGK for a hyped-up ..
Read MoreMegatron is the leader of the Decepticons from the media franchise, Transformers. You've probably seen him in the movies where Shia LaBeouf and Mark Wahlberg get chased around by robots that are trucks and Teslas one minute and then humanoid vehicular death machines the next. Megatron's usually the big bad as the Decepticons are the villains and the good guys are the Autobots. H..
Read MoreLil Nas X's new EP 7 is coming out this month, and, right after spending ten minutes thinking of clever use of "Old Town Road" lyrics, there's no way to prepare a good joke out of this next statement. The rising nation star has a song with Blink 182's Travis Barker on his new project. It's out of the left field, however that's what made "Old Town Road" so big in the initial place. T..
Read MoreIn January, golden tickets circulated by means of endless town of the world wide web, inviting artists and media figures to convene in Atlanta with Dreamville Records for recording sessions. These were for Revenge of the Dreamers III, a forthcoming project reported by labelhead J. Cole, who, since then, has been pretty quiet about whenever it would come out or what it would sound lik..
Read Morethe opening official posthumous Mac Miller verse is finally here, courtesy of Anderson .Paak's musical group, the Free Nationals. "Time" features Miller and Kali Uchis alongside the smooth groove of the Free Nationals, and yes it speaks its peace about the significance of Father Time in a relationship. It's so easygoing that if it were a chair and you also were leaning on its back leg..
Read MoreGoldLink's 2017 commercial mixtape At What Cost was a preview, just a taste of what the D.C.-Bred rapper could bring to the music industry. His sound was sundry and diverse, a global-trek by way of the several styles of hip-hop and the sounds of soul that surround it. If that was the appetizer for the meal of GoldLink, the entree has finally arrived in the form of Diaspora, his de..
Read MoreFlipp Dinero isn't attempting to leave a woman alone in his new video for "If I Tell You." In the song for the video that he released yesterday (June 10), the raspy rapper's all about swooping a girl off her feet like a handsome prince of a fairytale kingdom. In the video, directed by Teyana Taylor, he is a modern day savior for a girl being fiercely guarded by a dragon that doesn't h..
Read MoreWho else do you think drops three videos at one time? Future's a different sort of beast, especially right now that his new EP, Save Me, is out. As an alternative opposed to rolling out singles and videos over the length of weeks for the recently released body of work, Future's thrown secrecy to the wind and released three new videos today (June 11): "Government Official," "Love Thy ..
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