It’s been a rough week for Nicki Minaj, and a still rougher week for those who respect her. Without wading into the bog of petulance and bad calls she’s subletting, I merely want to highlight a particularly egregious quote of hers from her Beats 1 show Queen Radio show that aired Tuesday.

In a rather charming interview on Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Nicki Minaj revealed that she’s heard back from a few of the rappers she roasts in “Barbie Dreams” from her just-released fourth album, Queen. For those who haven’t heard, the song is a raunchy litany of reasons that make various…

After several adjournments in rapper 6ix9ine’s use of a child in sexual performance case, some the result of his failure to obtain his GED, a hearing finally took place Thursday in a Manhattan court.

On Tuesday’s episode of The View, the panel asked guest 50 Cent about his recent Instagram post mocking Terry Crews’s reaction to being sexually assaulted. While claiming that he would “never make fun of any sexual assault victim,” 50 effectively doubled down on his post to the panel’s softball chorus of yeahs and uh…

If the conditions of his plea agreement were followed strictly, Daniel Hernandez (better known by his hip-hop monikers 6ix9ine or Tekashi 6ix9ine) would be in prison. In exchange for pleading guilty to use of a child in a sexual performance on October 20, 2015, Hernandez was ordered to follow a set of terms that…

XXL’s annual Freshman Class cover dropped on Tuesday, and once you stop beefing over who should have been on the list, stop getting overly nostalgic about the hip-hop artists of yore, stop asking why there’s always only one woman in the freshman class, and stop wondering who the fuck half of these people are (hey, Ski…

As part of the plea deal rapper 6ix9ine took after pleading guilty to the use of a child in a sexual performance on October 20, 2015, the rising star was ordered to complete his GED. (In this case, the sexual performance involved a 13-year-old girl who appeared nude and engaged in a sex act with another party in a…

You might think that after the Migos’ first brush with accusations of homophobia, which provoked an outcry that in turn prompted an apology, the hip-hop group’s three members would do their best to avoid another headache. But here we are, united by headache over a lyric that seems homophobic and its shoddy ensuing…

Quavo and Nicki Minaj have released a very colorful video for their duet “She for Keeps.” In it, Quavo wears a fanny pack and raps about things he enjoys about his object of desire: “Like the way she take them pictures, it’s the angle (flash) / Like the way she keep her business all personal.” He also likes her body…

With her single “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi B has achieved the improbable—she has parlayed a reality TV career into a bonafide hit single. On the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, “Yellow” leaps from No. 28 to No. 14. Apart from her reality TV roots, this is notable because she is one of three women rappers who have placed in…

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On Tuesday, 2 Chainz teamed up with the Fulton County Board of Health to offer free HIV testing at his pop-up landmark Pink Trap House in Atlanta. Crucially, the rapper promoted the event via various social media platforms:

Jay Z, hip hop superstar, entrepreneur, and husband to Beyoncé, has requested that his entire musical oeuvre be pulled from Spotify.

As a teenager in the early ‘90s, I was exposed to a variety of messages through the hip-hop of the time, which was often socially conscious, and in ways both militant and matter of fact. I just happened to pay special attention to the work of women in hip-hop, and thinking back, these are some of the things that I…

On today’s Wendy, Remy Ma discussed her ongoing feud with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj, because what else is there to talk about? You mean to tell me there is something going on in the world besides Remy’s orchestrated attacks on Nicki Minaj’s career and image? You could have fooled me.

Lately, I feel deluged by excess. Recording artists grind out single after single after mixtape after albums stuffed with enough tracks to make their running times scrape infinity. I listened to Kehlani’s recently released 19-track solo album, SweetSexySavage, and I still have no idea who this person is, except for…

Fergie and Fat Joe opened and closed Philipp Plein’s Spring 2017 runway show in Milan, which I suppose is something like a cosign of his nu-Moschino-lite, washed-ass 2002 stereotype of what hip-hop fashion looks like. Titled “Alice in Ghettoland,” he staged models (including Paris Hilton) mean-mugging and draped in…

Movie musical impresario Baz Luhrmann is deep into the 1970s Bronx—that era and place in which city blight and rampant poverty led young people to get beyond creative, inventing hip-hop, punk, salsa and disco—and finally, his Netflix show about it will debut August 12.

On Monday evening, VH1 held the 2016 Hip Hop Honors to pay tribute to the women of hip hop. During the ceremony, Queen Latifah stood up to deliver a brief but blazing speech.