Kendrick Lamar shared a new single and music video for “The Heart Part 5” ahead of the release of his upcoming album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, scheduled for release on May 13th. The track rides a flip of Marvin Gaye’s 1976 single “I Want You,” and finds Lamar …
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W ho are these fucking bozos on our turf?” Jack Harlow is in the back of a big black SUV next to his childhood best friend, Urban Wyatt, mock-glaring through his Prada sunglasses at a couple of little kids on a swing set in a Louisville, Kentucky, park. Everyone in …
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Kanye West takes his issues with Pete Davidson to a deadly level in a new video he shared on Instagram for “Eazy” featuring the Game. In the black-and-white clip, West kidnaps a claymation man that resembles the actor who is dating his ex, Kim Kardashian. West puts a bag over …
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UPDATE (2/23):A misdemeanor battery charge against Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi (real name Aaquil Brown) was dropped and the case against him dismissed Tuesday, Feb. 22, according to online Florida court records. Brown was arrested back in January after allegedly assaulting the mother of his child during an argument at an …
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Herbert Wright was a ten-year-old kid living in Chicago when Lil Wayne released Tha Carter II. It was the first Wayne release made after Hurricane Katrina pushed him from his native New Orleans. The album ushered in an era in which Wayne would tower above the rest of the rap …
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Double K, a member of the Los Angeles underground rap duo People Under the Stairs, died Saturday at the age of 43. The rapper died at his home, per the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, though no cause of death was given. Born Michael Turner, Double K and his cohort …
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It’s been 11 years since Kid Cudi released his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day, a five-part dream sequence that cast his battle with mental illness in heroic terms. Cudi played the everyman night owl, awash in a cocktail of blunts, beer, and mushrooms. Ironically, his …
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J. Cole has released his first song of 2020. On the introspective track, “Snow on Tha Bluff,” the rapper discusses the current discourse around the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly on social media. On the free-flowing song, he opens by addressing a social media thread made by someone who’s “mad …
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Every morning at precisely 11:30 a.m., 070 Shake puts Pink Floyd’sDark Side of the Moon on a record player in the studio where she works in New Jersey. “Every day, at the same time,” the 22-year-old singer says. Shake is signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, one …
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Mac Miller‘s family has unveiled the new video for “Good News,” the first single from the late rapper’s upcoming posthumous album, Circles. The album arrives on January 17th and is available for pre-order. The nearly seven-minute-long clip is bookended with scenes of a smiling Mac Miller in the studio. In …
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