Coco Jones Keeps Her ‘Why Not More?’ Rollout Going With ‘You’
With her debut album Why Not More? just a month away from release, Coco Jones releases a romantic new single. “You” finds her waxing poetic about her paramour, and luxuriating in the feeling of falling...
View ArticleLil Nas X Collects His Recent Singles Into The ‘Days Before Dreamboy’ EP
Over the past few weeks, Lil Nas X dropped a string of new singles at an alarming rate. After kicking things off in November with “Light Again” and “Need Dat Boy,” he went into overdrive earlier this...
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Billie Eilish Makes Her ‘Obvious’ Pick For The Best Female Rapper Ever
Getty Image Any time somebody is named the greatest of all time at something, debate will inevitably follow. Billie Eilish, though, is confident when it comes to her pick for the best female rapper of...
View ArticleKali Uchis Finds Peace In Both The ‘Sunshine & Rain…’ On Her Vulnerable...
The wait for a new Kali Uchis album is coming to an end. In May, the Grammy Award-winning singer’s new English-language album, Sincerely, will hit streaming platforms. Today (March 28), Uchis shares...
View ArticleWill Smith Details Some ‘Hard Times’ With Teyana Taylor On His New Album,...
Will Smith’s first album in 20 years has arrived. On Based On A True Story, the superstar returns to his roots for 14 new tracks of uplifting, motivational, storytelling rap. A prime example: “Hard...
View ArticleAnycia, GloRilla, And Karrahbooo’s Video For ‘Never Need’ Shows That They Are...
Anycia and 4Batz flaunted their relationship on the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards. Although the “Back Outside” rapper is seemingly wrapped up in love, she wants the world to know she will maintain her...
View ArticleJessie Reyez Goes From Office Siren To Action Heroine In Her Violent ‘NYB’ Video
Stylized, revenge-oriented violence appears to be all the rage in women’s pop and R&B lately. A slew of recent videos have everyone from Ari Lennox to Joy Crookes channeling their inner Uma...
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The Best New Hip-Hop This Week
Getty Image/Merle Cooper The Best New Hip-Hop This Week includes albums, videos, and songs from Nav, Will Smith, and Lil Durk. Some huge comebacks are hallmarks of this week’s hip-hop, with Will Smith...
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Sean Kingston And His Mother, Janice Turner, Have Been Found Guilty In Their...
Getty Image The verdict is officially in. Back in May 2024, Sean Kingston was arrested at his own concert on fraud and theft charges. Shortly, after his mother Janice Turner was taken into custody in...
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Rapper Young Scooter, Future’s Freebandz Signee, Has Died At 39 Following A...
Getty Image Atlanta’s rap community has been hit with another devastating loss. According to TMZ, Young Scooter, signee to Future’s Freebandz label, has died at 39 years old. Sadly, yesterday (March...
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Eladio Carrión Announces ‘Don Kbrn’ Album With A Cinematic Trailer Starring...
Keren Carrión Last year, Eladio Carrión kept fans feed with two bodies of work. The “Tata” rapper launched into 2024 with his full length studio album, Sol María. Then in May, he followed that up...
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A Taylor Swift And Lil Nas X Collaboration Fell Through Over A Minor ‘Vibe’...
Getty Image Believe or not, Taylor Swift and Lil Nas X have quite a few things in common. Both musicians’ careers were launched in country music, they’re chart-toppers, and each hold a coveted Grammy...
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Big Boi’s First Solo Album In Eight Years Is Officially On The Way, Thanks To...
Getty Image Last year, André 3000 shook up the music world with his debut Grammy Award-nominated instrumental album, New Blue Sun. Now, his Outkast group mate Big Boi is ready to do that same. Over on...
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Rick Ross, Trina, And Trick Daddy Will Be Honored With Street Name...
Getty Image The South has something to say–more specifically South Florida. When talking about the South’s impact on rap music many tend to skip of Florida’s contributions. But local official sure...
View ArticleDoechii Explains Why Her GLAAD Award Is Her ‘Warmest Win’ Yet Amid A...
The 36th GLAAD Media Awards went down last week, on March 27, and there, Doechii picked up the award for Outstanding Music Artist. As she told People, that was a major win for her. Doechii called the...
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GloRilla, Gunna, And A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Lead The Summer Jam 2025 Lineup
Getty Image HOT 97’s Summer Jam is typically one of the biggest hip-hop events to look forward to every summer, and that’ll be true again this year, too. The one-day show goes down at June 20 at...
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Elliott Wilson Names The 21st Century Hip-Hop Champions
Getty Image/Merle Cooper We’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century and it’s a great time to take stock in how hip-hop has evolved over that time. Every year, it feels like a different artist...
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J. Cole’s Dreamville Festival Has Always Kept It In The Family
Getty Image/Merle Cooper Last year, I called Tyler The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw the best music festival in today’s market. In two reviews running, I wrote that the Los Angeles-based fest set the...
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Cody Rhodes Promises Travis Scott Will Be Getting A ‘Receipt’ If He Returns...
Netflix It feels like I’ve written some variation on the title of this post at least five times since Travis Scott entered the ring at WWE’s Elimation Chamber and delivered a thunderous slap to the...
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All The Best New Music From This Week That You Need To Hear
Getty Image/Derrick Rossignol Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so...
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The Best Vinyl Releases Of March 2025
Uproxx Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they...
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Erykah Badu’s Eye-Popping Billboard Women In Music Ensemble Sparked A BBL Debate
Getty Image Erykah Badu has a long history of challenging fans with both her music and her wardrobe, and at this past weekend’s Billboard Women In Music Ceremony, she did so yet again. The “On &...
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Dreamville Fest Week 2025 Has So Many Free Events Before The Main Concert
Getty Image The 2025 Dreamville Festival headlined by Lil Wayne and the Hot Boys is swiftly approaching, but there’s plenty to do before this weekend. The festival has released the schedule for...
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Kendrick Lamar’s Comedy With The ‘South Park’ Creators Was Reportedly Pushed...
Getty Image Back in 2022, it was announced that Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free, and the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were developing a comedy film about a slavery re-enactor who...
View ArticleDrake’s ‘Nokia’ Video Might Just Be A Step In The Right Direction
Emerging from the smoking wreckage of 2024, Drake has been frantically trying to right the ship after picking the wrong fight(s) last year. While his efforts to curtail the spread of Kendrick Lamar’s...
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Machine Gun Kelly Clears Up A Rumor About The Name Of His And Megan Fox’s New...
Getty Image Back in November 2024, Megan Fox announced she was pregnant with her and Machine Gun Kelly’s first child together. (The two both have other children from previous relationships.) Well,...
View ArticleIt’s April Fools’ Day, So Here’s Kevin Hart Performing A Tiny Desk Concert...
Today is April Fools’ Day, the day when you can’t trust anything you see on the internet. (That’s maybe not the best description because by that logic, every day is April Fools’ Day.) Companies love to...
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All The New Albums Coming Out In April 2025
iStock Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in April. If...
View Articled4vd Shares The Perilous ‘What Are You Waiting For?’ Video, Which He Filmed...
Last Friday, fast-rising indie star d4vd released his new single “What Are You Waiting For?” but unlike his previous Withered singles such as “Crashing” and “One More Dance,” “What Are You Waiting...
View ArticleRico Nasty Gets Her Engine Revving In The Flag-Waving ‘On The Low’ Video
Rico Nasty‘s Lethal rollout continues with the flag-waving video for her new single, “On The Low.” The Maryland star strips the latest video down to its bare essentials, standing in the bed of a pickup...
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Which Musicians Are Billionaires In 2025?
Getty Image Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s richest people, and if you’re someone who cancels your Amazon Prime membership a day before the free trial ends, you might want to skip...
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Cardi B Teases Some ‘Surprise’ Features On Her Much-Anticipated New Album
Getty Image Is Cardi B finally releasing the follow-up to 2018’s Invasion Of Privacy? As of October 2024, it was “coming really, really soon.” It’s now 2025 and there’s still no release date, but the...
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Mustard Joins Kendrick Lamar’s Joint ‘Grand National Tour’ With SZA As The...
Getty Image When Kendrick Lamar screamed his “TV Off” producer’s name over the song’s bridge, he not only turned Mustard into a meme, he also made the Long Beach DJ and producer into a household name...
View ArticleJenna Ortega Tells The Weeknd Something Has To Change In The Fiery ‘Hurry Up...
The Weeknd releasing his sixth (and final?) album Hurry Up Tomorrow was just the beginning of his very busy year. The “Cry For Me” singer kicks off a worldwide tour in May, and he’s also got a movie...
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Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Megan The Stallion, And Charli XCX Snag 2025 Webby...
Getty Image After the 2025 Grammys, Golden Globes, and Oscars aired, you’d think awards season has wrapped. But, that simply means you discounted the Webby Awards. Today (April 1), the 2025 Webby...
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Wiz Khalifa Reveals ‘Taylor Gang The World’ Tour Dates Ahead Of ‘Kush +...
Getty Image From J. Cole’s The Warm Up to Travis Scott’s Days Before Rodeo, last year several notable rap mixtapes were finally uploaded to streaming platforms. Fans of Wiz Khalifa’s 2010 project Kush...
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Lil Nas X Says His Friendship With Camila Cabello Helped Him Get His...
Getty Image Lil Nas X’s oozes self-assuredness. The “Lean On My Body” rapper’s confidence is often the focal point across his music. But, Lil Nas X isn’t always a ray of aplomb. During an interview...
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Lil Wayne Unveils The Official ‘Tha Carter VI’ Release Date With A Throwback...
Getty Image Lil Wayne didn’t perform the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year, but he did star in a Cetaphil commercial that ran during the big game. Most notably, the ad seemed to announce that...
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As Hip-Hop Style Has Evolved, Classic Sneakers Have Remained The Foundation
Getty Image/Merle Cooper In 2002, “Air Force Ones,” the third single released from St. Louis rapper Nelly’s second album Nellyville, became his third top 5 hit from that album, peaking at No. 3 on the...
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Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. Admits Many People Don’t Know ‘Why The...
Getty Image The Recording Academy is of course best known for hosting the Grammy Awards once a year, but the fact that they do more than the Grammys is lost to many people, something that CEO Harvey...
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Obongjayar Announces His New Album ‘Paradise Now’ With The Bull-Riding ‘Sweet...
British-Nigerian musician Obongjayar has been rising in popularity stateside ever since his show-stealing feature on Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert standout “Point And Kill” back in 2021....
View ArticleRico Nasty Rocks Out To Avril Lavigne And Paramore In The Latest ‘Sound...
Last week, Sound Check host Jeremy Hecht put G-Eazy through his paces to determine the best Bay Area anthem. This week, Sound Check crosses coasts to find out Rico Nasty’s favorite DMV Area classic,...
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All The Best New R&B Music From This Week
Getty Image/Merle Cooper Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly...
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Ice Spice Seemingly Indicates She’s Dating An NFL Star
Getty Image Last year, Ice Spice faced rumors that she and Central Cee were an item. But, last summer, she declared she was single and said of Cee, “We’ve been friends since ‘Munch’ came out,...
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A WWE Star Wants Megan Thee Stallion To Become Megan Thee Wrestler
Getty Image Could Megan Thee Stallion become Megan Thee Wrestler? WWE star Charlotte Flair sure hope so. The 14-time world champion talked to NME about what she listens to while training, including...
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The Most Viral Moments From Five Years Of Dreamville Festival
Getty Image/Merle Cooper In just a couple of days, J. Cole and the Dreamville crew will open the doors to kick off what will be the fifth and final Dreamville Festival. The mostly annual showcase,...
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Dreamville Is Ending, But Raleigh Is Getting A New Festival To Replace It
Getty Image This weekend sees the fifth and final Dreamville Festival, curated by J. Cole and the Dreamville team. But Raleigh, North Carolina, won’t go long without any viral moments: the Raleigh...
View ArticleGelo Lays Down Some ‘Law N Order’ On His Latest Throwback Single
Gelo is swerving, bending corners, and well, ROLLING in 2025. Following the viral success of his breakthrough track “Tweaker,” he performed the song during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend. He proved that he...
View ArticleSexyy Red’s Brash ‘Hoochie Coochie’ Makes A Case For The Ratchets
Despite declaring herself the “most hated female rapper,” Sexyy Red’s star continues to rise with another string of raunchy songs. After teaming up with Bruno Mars for the racy “strip club anthem” “Fat...
View ArticleRuss’s Confessional Single ‘April 7’ Is A Passionate Love Letter
A little over two weeks after he announced the impending release of his upcoming album, Wild, Russ has shared the music video for its sensual single, “April 7.” A confessional, passionate love letter...
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