Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2012

B.o.B. teams up with Taylor Swift for an inspirational duet titled “Both of Us,” featured on the southern rhymer’s sophomore album, Strange Clouds, due May 1. The country singer grabs the microphone before B.o.B. serves up his verse, commencing the track with her spirited vocals.

“I wish I was strong enough to lift not one, but both of us,” she sings sweetly over the guitar-laden beat, likely played by Swift herself.

“Ever thought about losing it/ When your money’s all gone and you lose your whip/ You might lose your grip/ When the landlord tell you that your due for rent/ And the grass so green on the other side/ Make a n—- want to run straight through the fence,” B.o.B. raps.

Check the Strange Clouds tracklist below.

1. “Bombs Away,” feat. Morgan Freeman
2. “Ray Bands”
3. “So Hard to Breathe”
4. “Both of Us,” feat. Taylor Swift
5. “Strange Clouds,” feat. Lil Wayne
6. “So Good”
7. “Play for Keeps”
8. “Arena,” feat. Chris Brown and T.I.
9. “Out of My Mind,” feat. Nicki Minaj
10. “Never Let You Go,” feat. Ryan Tedder
11. “Chandelier,” Lauriana Mae
12. “Circles”
13. “Just a Sign,” feat. Playboy Tre
14. “Castles,” feat. Trey Songz
15. “Where Are You (B.o.B vs. Bobby Ray)”

Date: Monday, January 9, 2012

Adele may have ruled 2011 with the top album and single and Kanye West may be watching the throne, but it’s Rihanna who’s actually sitting on the throne, as far as digital tracks are concerned. The ”You Da One” pop minx has captured the title of best-selling digital artist of all time by Nielsen SoundScan, thanks to a whopping 47.5 million paid downloads of hits like “Umbrella,” “Rude Boy” and “We Found Love.”

Other artists have been in the game longer — such as Black Eyed Peas (No. 2 on the ranking, with 42.4 million), Eminem (No. 3, 42.2 million) and Beyoncé (No. 8, 30.4 million) — but RiRi has truly carved out her niche as a singles artist.

Of course, dropping releases at the rapid pace of one album per year doesn’t hurt. Check the top 10 best-selling digital artists below, and let us know your thoughts on where your favorites landed.

The 10 best-selling digital artists to date:

1. Rihanna (47,571,000)
2. Black Eyed Peas (42,405,000)
3. Eminem (42,290,000)
4. Lady Gaga (42,078,000)
5. Taylor Swift (41,821,000)
6. Katy Perry (37,620,00)
7. Lil Wayne (36,788,000)
8. Beyoncé (30,439,000)
9. Kanye West (30,242,000)
10. Britney Spears (28,665,000)

As reported by The BoomBox, Nicki Minaj’s smash hit ‘Super Bass’ has received unlikely covers by everyone from country music star Taylor Swift to 8-year-old YouTube sensation Sophia Grace Brownlee. Now, it looks like the female MC’s hit has gotten the remix treatment from one of the most unlikely sources of all.

A group of University of Florida students have remade Minaj’s rap song into a Christian tune about falling for a fellow Christ lover, and have renamed it ‘Super Grace!’ The parody was written by University of Florida student Raychel Manko, who made an accompanying music video with her UF friends to enhance the holy experience.

In the visuals, Manko pays tribute to Minaj’s eccentric fashion sense by rocking an electric-blue wig.

She raps in a church while standing at a pulpit, replacing Nicki’s lyrics with, “This one is for the boys with the boomin’ system/ Top down, AC with the coolin’ system/ When he come up in the club, he be blazin’ up/ Got stacks on deck like he savin’ up,” with her own holy verse, “this one is for the boys with the true religion/ And love with the lord and done with sinnin’/ When he come up in the church he be praisin’ up/ Always tithes, but he’s still savin’ up.”

Manko herself calls the spoof “a humorous, somewhat exaggerated commentary about the single Christian girl’s struggle to appreciate the wonderful Christian man in her life while still guarding her heart and waiting patiently upon the Lord.”

Watch the ‘Super Grace’ video below!

Posted: Thursday – October 21, 2010

Kanye West has strong opinions about awards shows. Anyone who has forgotten this salient fact can find a reminder in West’s latest explosive interview with Access Hollywood. The rap superstar spoke out against what he sees as undeserving recent winners of the Grammy Award for Album of the Year…including, you guessed it, Taylor Swift. Oh dear. Here we go again!

“Where’s our instant replay clock?” West asked, according to Access Hollywood. “Why are the last four Albums of the Year: Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks, Ray Charles and Herbie Hancock? Like, you know, with all due respect… that’s inaccurate.” (Speaking of inaccuracies, he forgot to mention Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, who won in 2009. Maybe he’s a fan.)

Instead, West suggested a few albums he’d rather have seen win. “It’s like ‘SexyBack’ — you know what I’m saying? Like [Justin Timberlake's] FutureSex/LoveSounds, Gnarls Barkley. How about Usher — Confessions? How about albums that sold 10 million?”

Lest you misunderstand the motivations behind these words, West clarified the larger social significance involved: “I pinpoint the Grammys and the VMAs because they have to take responsibility, because they mean something to us. Little kids, 6 years [old], that are singing in front of the mirror. They’re also thinking about their Grammy speech; they’re thinking about when there will be a VMA so these people, whoever run them… they have to take some responsibility to say what really happened in culture this year because we’re marking it down.”

What do you think? Is West right about those Grammy winners? Did Justin Timberlake deserve to win over Dixie Chicks, or Usher over Ray Charles?

Posted: Monday – November 9, 2009

Taylor Swift was the host of SNL this past weekend, and she finally got her revenge on Kanye in a very funny way. In our opinion, it was the best way. Even if Kanye was watching, which he probably was, all he could do was laugh.

Posted: Thursday – October 15, 2009

Taylor Swift has just been announced as the host of Saturday Night Live on November 7th, and all we have to say is….Look out, Kanye!!!

Taylor has stayed pretty much mum on the subject of Kanye West interrupting her at the VMAs, and thinks SNL is the perfect place to break her silence.

She says, “I’ve been thinking about skit ideas for a long time. There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits.”

Taylor was asked to host back in the summer, and says it’s been so hard to keep it a secret. She also says she wants to collaborate with Andy Samberg on one of his infamous digital short music videos.

She says, “Of course, I’ve been such a fan for a long time, but I’ve gone back and re-watched everything over the past couple of months and digital shorts would be so much fun to do, because they’ve been done so well. Andy Samberg is hilarious.”

We can’t wait to see what the SNL cast has up their sleeve for Taylor’s appearance on the show!

Source: Hollyscoop