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Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android' Tops Best Song List

Radiohead

Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" has topped a new list of the best songs of the past 15 years. The 1997 track beat out Arcade Fire's "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Hey Ya!" by Outkast in the NME.com count...


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Big Boi Laughs Off Arrest After Posting Bail

Big Boi

Rapper Big Boi has laughed off his weekend drug possession arrest after posting $16,000 bail.


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Big Boi Arrested For Possessing Ecstasy & Viagra

Big Boi

Outkast star Big Boi has been arrested for alleged drug possession in Miami, Florida.


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Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' Named Best Song Of The 21st Century, So Far

Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley's Crazy has been voted the best song of the first decade of the 21st century in a new expert poll. Rolling Stone magazine editors asked 100 performers and music aficionados to name...


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Hot Legs: Norah Jones To Perform On 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' Tonight

Norah Jones

Sultry singer Norah Jones is set to appear on "The Late Show With Jimmy Fallon"; but we want to know when she got so hot! Tune in to NBC Monday, October 25 to see Norah Jones performing her single...


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Norah Jones Releasing Star-Studded Duets Album

Norah Jones

Singer Norah Jones is releasing a star-studded duets album featuring collaborations with artists including the Foo Fighters, Dolly Parton and Outkast. The Come Away With Me hit-maker has recorded...


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Vanessa Minnillo Will Get You Bikini-Ready In The New SELF (Hot Pics!)

Vanessa Minnillo

ABC True Beauty host Vanessa Minnillo shows you the moves to slim down, firm up and show off your body! About the workout, Minnillo says: -"When I lift weights I feel more confident in a bikini a...


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Music Executives Try To Block Outkast Reunion

Outkast

Jive Records bosses are blocking an Outkast reunion on Big Boi's new album - because they won't free up Andre Benjamin to record with his old pal. Big Boi jumped labels to Def Jam after Jive exec...


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Outkast Recording Again After Four Year Hiatus

Outkast

Superstar rap duo Outkast is planning to record its first album in four years. Big Boi and Andre 3000 released their last record, Idlewild, in 2006 - which shot to number two in the Billboard 200...


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Beyonce Named Most Successful Musician Of The Decade

Beyonce

Beyonce has landed another major accolade - she has been named the most successful musician of the new century's first decade in America. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) bosses...


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Recording Artists Who Have Changed Music Styles

Rihanna

What happens when Hip Hop & R&B stars lives are changed by fame and fortune? Now finding themselves in a different place most opt to crossover, which involves a marked change in artistic direction...


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Celebrity Birthdays, February 1

Lisa Marie Presley

Happy Birthday to: Rock royalty Lisa Marie Presley (1968) Outkast half Big Boi (1975) Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman (1969) Comedian Pauly Shore (1968) Martial arts actor Brandon Le...


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Justin Timberlake And Outkast Made Decade's Best Music

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake's "Futuresex/Lovesounds" has been named the pop album of the decade and Outkast's "Hey Ya" the noughties' best pop song by a leading music website. Editors at PopEater.com hav...


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The 25 Most Important Albums Of The Decade

Most Important Albums of the Decade

Pitchfork and Rolling Stone and Spin and all those other outlets have their lists of the best albums of the decade, and you know what? I'm going to let them. There's no point in me trying to come u...


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Ten Greatest Albums Of The Decade

Ten Greatest Albums of the Decade

So far, we've brought you the Greatest TV Shows and Greatest Songs of the decade. Now it's time to look at what may be a dying breed. With the advent of the ability to download singles off the Int...


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The Ten Greatest Songs Of The Decade

Ten Greatest Songs of the Decade

Yesterday, we brought you the Ten Greatest TV Shows of the decade. Now it's time to turn up the tunes a bit. During this decade, music kind of went back to the way it was fifty years ago. That is...


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Susan Boyle Hotter Than Rihanna & Lady Gaga? Pussycat Dolls Set To Split, More

Susan Boyle Hotter Than Rihanna & Lady Gaga

Weekly Music News: Thanksgiving has passed and now it is time to make room for Christmas. While we get ready to bid farewell to yet another year, rapper Lil Wayne is saying hello to another child, ...


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Big Boi Hit With $55,000 Tax Bill

Big Boi Hit With $55,000 Tax Bill

Outkast rapper Big Boi has reportedly been hit with a $55,727 demand from U.S. tax officials. The hip-hop star, real name Antwan Andre Patton, allegedly owes the unpaid taxes to the state of G...


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Mos Def Replaces Common At Hip-Hop Festival

Mos Def Replaces Common

Hip-hop star Mos Def saved the day at the Rock The Bells festival in Toronto, Canada on Sunday when he stepped in at the last minute to replace absent rapper Common. Go hit-maker Common was for...


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Celebrity Birthdays, May 27

Paul Bettany

Happy Birthday to British TV Chef Jamie Oliver (1975), Outkast half Andre 3000 (1975), late TLC singer Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (1971; d. 2002), "The Da Vinci Code" actor Paul Bettany (1971), "Shakesp...


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Big Boi: OutKast Hasn't Split, New Album On The Way

OutKast

Rapper Big Boi has blasted rumors of a rift with his OutKast bandmate Andre 3000, revealing the pair is preparing to return to the studio to record the group's first album in six years. Both a...


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Erykah Badu Gives Birth To Baby Girl

Erykah Badu

Soul singer Erykah Badu and hip-hop star Jay Electronica are the proud parents of a new daughter. The couple welcomed the child - their first together - into their family on February 1st. The...


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Celebrity Birthdays, February 1

Lisa Marie Presley

Happy Birthday to Outkast half Big Boi (1975), Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman (1969), comedian Pauly Shore (1968), rock royalty Lisa Marie Presley (1968), martial arts actor Brandon Lee (1965; d. 1...


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Writer's Viewpoint: Disputing An Iconic Song List

Beatles

It takes a cataclysmic event to derail Overrated/Underrated from its usual Friday spot. Currently the Oscars have been serving as that disruptive force, but this week interruption comes from the m...


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Big Boi Makes A Special Appearance On 'Law And Order: SVU'

Big Boi

Big Boi, from Grammy award-winning Rap Duo Outkast will appear on NBC'S Law and Order: SVU as "Gots Money," a Hip Hop artist involved in an exotic animal smuggling ring under investigation by Detec...


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Erykah Badu: 'Kiss My Black Placenta'

Erykah Badu

Pregnant soul star Erykah Badu has lashed out at critics who slammed her decision to have a third child out of wedlock. The singer, who has kids by Outkast star Andre Benjamin and The D.O.C., ...


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Andre 3000 Says Bling Is Not His Thing

Andre 3000

Rapper/actor Andre 3000 owns just one piece of jewelry because "bling" is "not his thing." Hip-hop stars are known for their love of gold and diamonds, but OutKast rapper Andre 3000 admits he's one...


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'Remind Me In 3 Days…' The New Album From The Knux Out Oct. 28

The Knux

Hip hop used to be feeling, not form—A boom-bap rush that could, and would, be interpreted and articulated differently by it's various creators. It was this loose constitution, open to infinite ame...


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Erykah Badu Announces Third Pregnancy

Erykah Badu

Soul star Erykah Badu is reportedly expecting her third child with rapper Jay Electronica. The singer was said to have announced the news at the Austin City Limits Festival in Texas last weekend, w...


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Overrated/Underrated Diamond Award Albums

Beatles

In 1999, the RIAA, providers of platinum and gold records to recording artists, decided it was time to honor those who had reached a higher sales plateau and created the Diamond Award. The n...


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