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Common subdues a couple of convenience store robbers with the help of Vince Staples in his new video for “Hercules.” The track, which features Swizz Beatz, appears on Common’s forthcoming album, Let Love, which will be released on August 30th via Loma Vista Recordings. In the new clip, Staples portrays …

“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.” ― Henry David Thoreau “Birds are cool …

Megan Thee Stallion and her “thee hotties” female posse are out to take Ill Will Jackson down, “a known hater,” via a “fever that will never be forgotten” in the Houston rapper’s new Blaxploitation-flavored, Seventies-tipped video for “Realer.” The track appears on her 300 Entertainment debut LP, Fever, which dropped …

With his 2017 album Flower Boy, Tyler, the Creator set out to answer a simple, burning question: Who dat boy? The result was nothing short of a revelation. Tyler bloomed almost literally, burrowing into his past and emerging from the closet amidst naturalistic motifs and a sun-drenched landscape of woozy …

On Sunday night, Justin Bieber hopped on Instagram to announce his latest musical crush to 106 million followers. “This shit bangs,” the star wrote, flashing a picture of Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road.” Lil Nas X’s genre-defying creation blends banjo strums and jaw-rattling bass, rural imagery and hip-hop signifiers. …

Two years ago, videos of a cypher on a Houston rooftop began appearing online that showed a lone 21-year-old woman among ten rappers. Her name is Megan Thee Stallion, and she arrived in gold heels, Daisy Dukes and an attitude you can feel through the screen. At the time, she …

Kenny Beats leans back and forth in a swivel chair, his movements matching the rhythm of his words, his face darting in and out of the conference room shadows. He’s describing L.A. rapper03 Greedo’s last days of freedom before he turned himself in to serve 20 years in prison for …

Kanye West became hip-hop establishment because he was never willing to conform to other artists’ styles. But in the last few months, the 41-year-old visionary reversed course, skewing his own sound by ingratiating himself to the SoundCloud generation. In some cases, it’s been commercially successful (albeit creatively bankrupt) like“I Love …

Vic Mensa skateboards, rides his motorcycle, and avoids wearing a shirt as much as possible in the new video for “In Some Trouble.” The clip also features Ty Dolla $ign, who dances on a balcony, plays with a cute puppy and sings full-throated come-ons: “He ain’t gonna love you like …

UPDATE (11/13):Es Devlin, Lorde’s collaborator on herMelodramaTour stage design, took to Instagram to share other examples of her work in which glass boxes are featured heavily. Devlin posted three stills from the 2007 staging of ‘Carmen’ at the English National Opera, which also used a suspended glass box with performers …