It’s been a tumultuous week for Vic Mensa. The Chicago rapper faced criticism following a performance during the BET Hip-Hop Awards in which he denounced domestic abusers, with a line that many assumed was aimed at the late Florida rapper XXXTentacion.“Only time you bear arms is in a wife-beater, loser/Your …
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Listen to this week’sYouTube Music Playlist here. Halsey, “Without Me” Sounds like: A textbook diss for a toxic ex Perfect for: Establishing your romantic boundaries and your self-worth Last year, with Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, Halsey gave us a script-flipping take on Romeo & Juliet — and she’s still all about …
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Cardi B and Nicki Minaj’s grinding and prolonged war has been a slog. The neverending story is filled with on-record subliminals turned into real-world confrontations. In September, their powder keg of a relationship finally blew, with the two New York rappers finally coming to blows in real life. In a …
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Eminem unveiled a surprise album, Kamikaze, at midnight on Thursday. The LP includes a song from the Venom soundtrack, which heteased on Twitter prior to Kamikaze‘s release. A surprise release is a first for Eminem, who has rarely bent to the changing whims of the music industry over his 20-year …
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UPDATE:Nicki Minaj clarified Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post that, contrary to the phrasing of various reports, she didn’t “cancel” her North American tour with Future. The “NickiHndrxx” jaunt was previously scheduled to launch September 21st in Baltimore, Maryland, but the rapper delayed the leg of that tour until May …
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After a tumultuous weekend sparring with enemies (both real and perceived) over her the sales numbers for Queen, Nicki Minaj reclaimed her throne in an epic Video Music Awards performance — except no one knew where the stage was. After a long tease that Minaj would be performing from an …
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In a Vanity Fair cover story,Kendrick Lamarreacted to Kanye West‘s controversial comments about slavery and President Trump, enthused about his recently awarded Pulitzer Prize for Music and addressed a white fan’s usage of the “n-word” onstage during one of his shows. Lamar mostly remained neutral in his comments about West, …
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Less than a day after Pusha-T appeared to diss Drake on the Daytona song “Infrared,” the Views rapper fired back at Pusha-T and the song’s producer Kanye West in a new track titled “Duppy Freestyle.” On “Infrared,” Pusha-T reignited his Drake feud – a beef sparked by Drake’s “Two Birds, …
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Detroit rapper Royce Da 5’9″ reunites with his Bad Meets Evil partner Eminem for a new video for “Caterpillar.” The song hails from Royce’s seventh album, Book of Ryan. In the black-and-white, James Larese-directed clip, the rappers take turns on their fiery verses while the other remains stoic, taking in …
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Emerging from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and early Seventies, experimenting with street poetry and percussive sound, the music of Harlem’s Last Poets helped lay the groundwork for hip-hop. The intense Black Nationalist fare of their 1970 self-titled debut was not only politically explosive – it’s most …
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