by BERNADETTE GIACOMAZZO
Q-Tip has received a prestigious honor from Berklee College of Music having been granted an honorary doctorate alongside jazz artist Ledisi and Puerto Rican bandleader Gilberto Santa Rosa.
Taking to Instagram on Saturday (May 11), the A Tribe Called Quest and Native Tongues legend shouted out his co-honorees while thanking the college.
“Thank you again to the folks at Berklee for the honor bestowed,” he wrote underneath a photo of him wearing a customary cap and gown, along with a scarf reading: “Black excellence.”
“What a great time to share w dear friend @ledisi and new friend......
by BERNADETTE GIACOMAZZO
Havoc has been asked to speculate on which two actors would be a good fit to play himself and his late Mobb Deep partner Prodigy in a biopic.
The producer told TMZ Hip Hop on Friday (May 10) that Tray Chaney and JD Williams — who played Poot and Bodie on The Wire — would be perfect to portray the iconic duo on the big screen. “I couldn’t find a better pair of iconic actors, to portray and capture the legacy of Mobb Deep!!!” he said to the outlet.
The casting speculation came up because Chaney has been campaigning for exactly this. “HISTORY Continues To......
by KARAN SINGH
Papoose is among the many Hip Hop figures who are advocating against the use of rap lyrics as evidence in court, and he has now taken his efforts to the New York State Capitol.
During a meeting with local politicians that took place on Tuesday (May 7), the veteran rapper made a case for the AB127 bill that seeks to limit “the admissibility of evidence of a defendant’s creative or artistic expression against such defendant in a criminal proceeding.”
“America has a problem with violence, not Hip Hop,” he argued. “Hip Hop is the only thing that gave us a way out, away from the......
by MARISA MENDEZ
Ice Cube isn’t a fan of watching rappers beef with each other, though he also understands that it’s a part of the game.
Last month, before things got intense between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, he joined Canada’s E-Talk for a conversation about feuds in Hip Hop. At the time of the interview, K. Dot had already fired the first shot on Metro Boomin and Future‘s “Like That,” following which J. Cole issued then rescinded a response to Dot with “7 Minute Drill.”
The Los Angeles native, who famously beefed with his......
by WILL SCHUBE
Slum Village have returned with an electrifying new album, F.U.N., their first in almost a decade.
The 12-track project was released on Friday (May 3) and includes collaborations with Robert Glasper, Cordae, Larry June and more.
While the group have become synonymous with a certain sound since their formation almost 30 years ago, F.U.N. finds them branching out into unexpected sonic territory — but one that shares musical DNA with their hometown of Detroit.
“We wanted to just try something new, so we focused on making Disco-inspired music,” Young RJ explained in a press release,......
by WILL SCHUBE
Rapsody and Erykah Badu have teamed up for “3:AM,” an ode to the joys of late night love.
The track, which arrived on Friday (May 3), features both artists paying homage to the people that make them feel best.
Rapsody spits: “You feel like a healer/ I know I’m imperfect/ Tho you make me feel like Jesus/ Or how God sees us/ Not afraid to show my insecurities like Issa,” cleverly referring to Issa Rae’s TV show Insecure.
She adds: “Everything I hid you always peeped it/ When it’s darkest we always attract/ The brightest people/ Baby, you a light/ You shift my whole world to......
by MARISA MENDEZ
Al Green is sampled in Kendrick Lamar‘s newest diss to Drake, “6:16 In LA,” and it garnered a response from the legend himself.
Released in the early hours of Friday (May 3), the Sounwave and Jack Antonoff-produced track samples Green’s 1972 classic, “What a Wonderful Thing Love Is.”
Though he kept it simple in his post, Green shared the original song to his Twitter/X page shortly after K. Dot dropped “6:16 In LA.”
You can view it below.
Just days after releasing the explosive “Euphoria,” Kendrick Lamar dropped “6:16 in LA” — a play on......
by MARISA MENDEZ
T-Pain achieved his first No. 1 song with 2007’s “Buy U A Drank,” but the song almost didn’t happen because of his disdain for snap music at the time.
Going through his many hits for an episode of Billboard‘s Chart History series published on Thursday (May 2), Teddy Pain revealed that his album Epiphany, which housed the smash single, was seemingly finished when his A&R MempHitz suggested the addition of one last song.
“That song almost didn’t happen,” Pain explained. “You know I had my album coming and the snap craze was crazy at that point – Dem......
by KARAN SINGH
Rick Ross‘ custom private jet is arguably is favorite material flex, and he has now used it to once again stoke his rivalry with former collaborator Drake.
On Friday (May 3), photographs of Rozay’s Gulfstream G550 plane roughed up in a grassy field began circulating online. Reports began coming in that the aircraft made a crash landing in Dallas but thankfully left nobody injured.
Soon after, the 48-year-old himself corroborated the reports, while using the situation as an excuse to provoke the Canadian rapper as he wrote: “My jet just crashed ; Drake OvO F16 fighter jet just shot us down.”
This came......
by DX STAFF
Joe Budden is not here for Kanye West inserting himself into Drake and Kendrick Lamar‘s beef with a diss track of his own.
Ye dropped his remix to Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Like That” earlier this month, where he took shots at both Drizzy and J. Cole – much like K.Dot did on the original.
The track opens with West nodding to Drake’s current beef with K.Dot by saying, “Yo Dot, I got you.” And the verse ends with direct shots at Drizzy and Cole: “Y’all so out of sight, out of mind/I can’t even think......
