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(Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images) Mariah Carey Says She Almost Sold Her Publishing for $5K Before She Got Famous
Mariah Carey spoke at a Billboard event and revealed that she nearly sold all of her publishing rights at age 18 for only $5,000.
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(Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage) 50 Cent Trashes Fabolous vs Lloyd Banks Debate, Claiming ‘Both Never Put In No Work’
50 Cent gives his take on the debate about who’s better between his old rivals Fabolous and former G-Unit member Lloyd Banks.
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NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 16: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during Pearl Jam: MTV Unplugged at Kaufman Astoria Studios on March 16, 1992 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage) 3 1990s Rock Songs With Disturbing Back Stories
Some of your favorite 1990s songs were based on dark subject matter, like Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy”, which was inspired by a high school suicide.
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(Photo by Dana Jacobs/WireImage) 3 New Hip-Hop & R&B Songs You Must Hear This Week (1/30/26)
Noisey selects three of the best new hip-hop songs and R&B records from this week’s loaded slate of releases.
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Photo Credit: Lupe Bustos (@_lupe) New Music Friday: 5 Songs You Need to Hear This Week (01/30)
This week for New Music Friday, we have tracks from The Maine and NOFX, as well as a psych-hop collab from Of The Trees and Earthgang.
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Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images for MTV 5 Iconic Alt-Rock Album Openers of the 2000s
Does opening a record with the song it’s named after still work? Take a look at these iconic album openers from 2000s alt-rock and see.
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Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for AFI Springsteen, Bragg, and More Show Support for Minneapolis: Morello and Rise Against Holding ‘A Concert of Solidarity’
Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and Tom Morello are the latest artists to publicly show support for Minneapolis residents.
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Photo Credit: Sean Carlton Jones Codefendants Announce New Album ‘Lifers’, Drop Pummeling New Single ‘Rivals’ With the D.O.C. (Exclusive Debut)
Fat Mike (NOFX) told us that fans can “expect the unexpected” on the new Codefendants album, which drops on April 3rd.
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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation Will.i.am Compares AI Use to Career Spent Sampling Music: ‘I Can’t Be That Critical’
Will.i.am compared AI music to a human musician sampling existing songs, saying he ‘can’t be that critical’ due to his own use of sampling.
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Tim Mosenfelder/ImageDirect 3 Great Tracks From the 2000s That Were Actually Cover Songs of Classic Oldies
These tracks from the 2000s are great on their own, but did you know they are actually covers of 60s and 70s classics?

