If Iggy Azalea, Kreayshawn and this entire list aren't top of mind, Ryan Seacrest, arbiter of all things pop music and Kardashian, is reportedly producing a new show about white female rappers for VH1. If you’re thinking, "Hey, wasn’t that already a thing?" you are right.
Have anything you've wanted to ask rapper, lyricist, self-taught Tsalagi speaker and overall badass Angel Haze? Well here's your chance. She's here to answer your questions.
2Chainz, architect of the Black Hole Sun-meets-Big Pimpin' video for Birthday which — I'm not exaggerating here — changes lives, has continued his quest to Improve America with a new cookbook. But this isn't your Grandma's flushed-cheeked Betty Crocker making olives suspended in gelatin cookbook; this is a work of…
Somehow we missed this but the video for "Everybody" — a track featuring Doug E. Fresh that will appear on Michelle Obama's hip hop album
The rapper who dried up everyone's vagina and ripped a new tear in NYC hipsters' New Religion pants is back at it. Rapper Awkwafina just released a new song called "Mayor Bloomberg (Giant Margaritas)," an endearing song to the Mayor. Nah, it's just a giant middle finger to his proposed soda ban with a really hot beat.…
Well this is disappointing. Rick Ross appears on a on a new track by Rocko, and it seems as though he is rapping about violating a woman while she is unconscious:
When we first saw Kitty Pryde, she was mumble-rapping
For the better part of the past 48 hours, 21-year-old New York rapper Azealia Banks (best known for her 2011 viral hit "212") has been holding the attention of her Twitter followers hostage. First it was a Twitter beef with fellow 21-year-old hip-hop up-and-comer Angel Haze, which resulted in a swapping of dis tracks.…
Lupe Fiasco's new track (and video), "Bitch Bad," attempts to examine the complications of the word "bitch," specifically in hip-hop. The lyrics tell the tale of two kids — one a little boy and one a little girl — who interpret and internalize the word in different ways.
Nas's new video to go along with his poor-overwrought-parent song "Daughters," ruminates on, among other things, the strong possibility that having a daughter is some sort of metaphysical punishment for a former womanizer. Take the following line: "They say the coolest playas and foulest heart breakers in the world /…
Perhaps you've heard of Mykki Blanco (né Michael David Quattlebaum), the cross-dressing rapper who is by all accounts The Shit right now, in which case, congratulations, you are much cooler than I was until this today. For the rest of you who, like me, are newbies to the ways of Blanco, prepare yourself — this isn't …
We've heard rumors about Kimye — that's the Kim Kardashian/Kanye West relationship — for a while, though both parties have remained mostly mum on the topic. But Kanye dropped a new track last night, in which he raps:
The Kim/Nicki feud continues! Last night on Watch What Happens, Willie Geist asked Lil' Kim what she thinks about Nicki Minaj. Kim's first answer: "Who?" Then Andy Cohen asked, "How do you feel about her song 'Stupid Hoe'?" Kim: "If you have to make a song called 'Stupid Hoe,' you must be a stupid ho." Laughter. Applause.…
Neon-colored, hyperkinetic, with nanosecond cuts, double-dutch, faux-ga (that's fake yoga), animal print and a monkey, Nicki Minaj's new video, "Stupid Hoe," went up four days ago, already has 7 million views on YouTube and has caused "stupid hoe" to trend on Twitter. The track is basically a tear-down, a dis track, and …
According to a new study, "For every hour that American teens listen to music, they hear more than three references to brand-name alcohol — about 34 in the course of day." Cue the pearl-clutching.
You may know Sylvia Robinson as "Little Sylvia." Or as one half of the duo "Mickey & Sylvia," who sang "Love Is Strange," which was a hit in 1957 — and again in 1987, as part of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. But she also — along with her husband, Joe — founded Sugar Hill Records in 1979 and released the hip hop classic …
Way back in 2006, Young Dro climbed the charts with his one and only hit, "Shoulder Lean". As much as I would love to regale you with stories of how this song was played at every party for the following two years, the reason I bring it up is because it's the song that started it all. In my mind at least. Young Dro's…
It's happening over at Spin, starting with the question of whether rap has become less misogynistic and R&B more so. May we suggest giving the Willis Test
Whatever rapper Lil B intended by titling his album "I'm Gay," he has succeeded in achieving a maximum amount of publicity. Whether anything else will be achieved remains to be seen.
On Tavis Smiley's show last last week, Ashley Judd admitted that she could have chosen her words more carefully when she declared hip-hop to be anti-woman. In her new memoir, she writes of being asked to join a charity campaign:
The artwork for Lil Kim's new mixtape, Black Friday, is an absolute masterpiece of Photoshop. In fact, the proportions are so bizarre — look at the waist as compared to the neck! — that we're not even sure the designer started with a photograph. Was Kim's head dropped on to someone else's body? Was the whole thing…
UK TV Channel BBC3 once in a while produces something worth taking a look at, and the minute I saw an advert for their latest documentary –- exploring the job that is ‘The Music Video Girl' –- I was intrigued.
Severed woman-heads, dead-looking zombiettes, women hanging from nooses, gratuitous diamond-teeth close-ups: it's all right here, in the latest, most complete-est version yet
Shad:"There's no girls rappin' so we're only hearin' half the truth....We don't hear about your brain, just your brains/How you rock a fella, Stacey Dash dames/We just need your voice like an a capella." Check out the top ten.
Apparently Chelsea and her dad had some kind of hip-hop summit, in which she schooled him about rappers. Bill says of Weezy: "I hope what will happen is that he has a good life now."
In a Wall Street Journal interview, Jay-Z distanced himself from lyrics like, "Many chicks wanna put Jigga fist in cuffs/Divorce him and split his bucks/Just because you got good head, I'ma break bread/so you can be livin it up?"
