Rodney Jerkins

Kelly Rowland Gets Down Like That

The Voice Feels The Pressure Before Its Big Finish

via Rickey​ Already, The Voice is just about over. Tomorrow, the field of four contestants gets wiped away and we get a winner. This show could've kept going for another three months or so if it followed a less fucked-up elimination schedule, but maybe NBC didn't realize they had an actual hit ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

Grading the iTunes Hits: Metro Station, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

Grading the iTunes Hits, Again

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

Janet Jackson's Dungeon Master Chic

Why it's still as vital and revolutionary as ever

Keyshia Cole's Just Like You

Violent but delicate r&b paeans to trifling dudes and the beatdowns they deserve

Live: Pink is Crazy

Violent but delicate r&b paeans to trifling dudes and the beatdowns they deserve

Michael Jackson and Will.I.Am: WTF

Violent but delicate r&b paeans to trifling dudes and the beatdowns they deserve

Beyonce and Jay-Z's "Deja Vu": Jam of the Summer?

Violent but delicate r&b paeans to trifling dudes and the beatdowns they deserve

Surgical Strikes

R&b hitmakers attack with precision, be they vulgar or merely lonely.

50 Cent and Michael Jackson Are Not Friends Now

R&b hitmakers attack with precision, be they vulgar or merely lonely.

The Royal She

Self-referential hip-hop queen mixes surface glam and soul-baring confessions

Cooleyhighharmony

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

The Unsigned Rapper Round-Up

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Popstakes

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

The Man in the Distance

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

NY Mirror

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Beyoncé Good and Evil

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Absolutely Prefabulous

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Get With My Comrades

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Up Jumps Da Meme

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

Look Who's Ticking

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom

The Boy Is Whose?

Hip-hop boybands dress up kiddie-pop in grown-up clothes, except when butt-naked in the classroom