It’s safe to say that hip-hop is in its memoir era. Many of the genre’s most prominent figures are starting to enter the age range where they can look back with not just nostalgia, but wisdom to share. Although hip-hop is such an autobiographical musical form, it turns out that many of these figures, from Common to Fat Joe to Jeezy to Lil Kim and more, have a lot more stories to tell than the ones they’ve already shared in their music and interviews over the past 20-30 years.
That goes double for Tariq Trotter, aka Black Thought, the frontman of The Roots, and bar for bar the best rapper of all time. Though he’s been a fixture of the music business for 30-plus......
The 2023 Billboard Music Awards went down on Sunday (November 19), and had a lot of big winners. Taylor Swift and Morgan Gallen were among the most awarded musicians of the night, but what's a top dog conversation without the 6 Dog- I mean, God? Moreover, Drake won a total of five BBMA trophies for the occasion, pointing to his excellent commercial run over the past few years. Specifically, these awards were Top Rap Album for his 21 S*vage collab Her Loss, Top Rap Song for the project's opener "Rich Flex," Top Rap Artist, Top Male Rap Artist, and Top Rap Touring Artist.
Furthermore, this caps off a pretty great 2023 for Drizzy, with the expanded version of his album For All The Dogs......
Polo G's brother Trench Baby now faces charges of felony murder for an alleged drive-by shooting on June 10 in Los Angeles. Moreover, authorities recently arrested Baby- real name Taurean Bartlett- based on accusations that he took the life of 20-year-old Dashaun Berry in a North Hollywood parking lot, according to TMZ Hip Hop.
Law enforcement authorities reportedly told the outlet that paramedics pronounced the young man dead at the scene at around 1:30AM, when they found him with gunshot wounds. Amidst these developments, Taurean Bartlett awaits his fate in a jail cell; we'll see how his court case plays out, if at all.
Furthermore, police also claim that this alleged incident is......
Boosie Badazz has kept receipts of artists who have used his music in one way or another as part of their records, and he’s looking to cash in soon.
The Baton Rouge native was hanging on Instagram Live over the weekend when a fan brought up Rod Wave’s “Long Journey,” which interpolates the hook from Boosie and Webbie’s 2010 track of the same name.
Boosie claimed he’s going to be taking legal action in some form against artists who have sampled or interpolated his work without his permission, and he implied that Rod’s name may be on that list.
“Rod Wave ain’t the only one. Y’all better do y’all research. I done got......
Kanye West continues to dig his heels in over his antisemitism controversy, swatting away the allegations that he doesn’t like Jewish people in flippant fashion on a new song.
On Thursday (November 16), a snippet of an unreleased track surfaced online. The video appears to have been recorded in Saudi Arabia, where Ye is currently working on his upcoming album with Ty Dolla $ign, among other projects.
While Kanye’s lyrics are somewhat faint due to the footage being recorded from afar, he can be heard rapping: “How am I antisemitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.”
Listen to it below:
Kanye West in a newly surfaced snippet:
“(?) anti-semitic, I just......
50 Cent still has a handful of shows left on the Final Lap Tour, but he’s already making major moves in the television and film space for when we gets off the road.
On Tuesday (November 14), KSLA News reported that city council members in Shreveport, Louisiana have introduced a legislation allowing the Hip Hop mogul to lease Millennium Movie Studio as a base for his entertainment company, G-Unit Film & Television Louisiana, LLC.
“We enjoyed for a period after 2005, we enjoyed a very robust television and film industry in the Shreveport area,” Mayor Tom Arceneaux said. “This will bring back, I think, a lot of those people and will rejuvenate that industry in......
Cassie is one of Diddy‘s most famous exes, and she’s now filed a civil lawsuit for millions of dollars claiming that the Bad Boy mogul subjected her to years of abuse and raped her.
In documents obtained by HipHopDX on Thursday (November 16), the singer (real name Casandra Ventura) accused the Bad Boy mogul of a sundry of crimes, including rape, sex trafficking, and physical abuse.
The filing also claims that he “forced Ms. Ventura to engage in sex acts with male sex workers while masturbating and filming the encounters,” as well as forced her to carry a handgun even though she felt uncomfortable with doing so. Finally, she claimed that Diddy plied her with......
Drake re-ups his For All The Dogs album and tacks on his third installment of his Scary Hours series.
Recorded just days before its release, The 6 God gets back into his lyrical bag of tricks and adds six new tracks to the repackaged project.
Scary Hours 3 opens up with “Red Button”, “Stories About My Brother”, “The Shoe Fits”, “Wick Man”, and “Evil Ways featuring J.Cole, before closing out with “You Broke My Heart”
Drake began his Scary Hours series in 2018 with the hit singles “God’s Plan” and “Diplomatic Immunity”. He dropped the sequel Scary Hours 2 in 2021 featuring “What’s......
A. Willism, P. Cosores
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The last time Tyler, The Creator and his Odd Future family took over Dodger Stadium for Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival was four years ago and I wrote at the time that while the “mystery headliner” gamble didn’t pay off, “Camp Flog Gnaw is still one of the best festival experiences for your money.” Since then, the festival was derailed by a global pandemic and put on ice for another three years, during which the pop culture landscape shifted in all kinds of unexpected ways.
Yet, in its return to the fabled stadium overlooking Los Angeles, the......
We are just weeks away from Nicki Minaj‘s fifth studio album Pink Friday 2. Barbz have been waiting on this moment for more than five years, and are counting down the days to when they will be able to hold Pink Friday 2 in their hands.
The album was originally planned for release this coming Friday (November 17), but will now arrive early next month. But despite the album delay, the Barbz are still on track to receive other news as scheduled.
Will Nicki Minaj go on tour in 2024?
Minaj first revealed plans to tour in October during a live stream on Instagram — the same live stream in which she revealed Pink Friday 2 would be delayed to December. She revealed that while......
