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…
Two nights ago, Pusha T showed off some impressive sleuthing skills and unleashed a diss track about his nemesis Drake, revealing that the Canadian rapper has allegedly fathered a son. The shots were damning. The internet was broken. The memes were good. For the song’s cover art, Pusha used an old photo of Drake…
The music industry loves to encourage conflict between women, especially if they’re rappers. Have you heard? Case in point: Cardi B and Nicki Minaj. And the fact that dudes don’t get compared to each other more often just doesn’t make sense to Cardi B, because frankly, to her ears, male rappers all sound the same.
Last year in Cardi B’s New York cover story, part of the Bronx rapper’s rise was attributed to the Swedish streaming service Spotify. More specifically, the company’s rap-focused playlist RapCaviar:
“I’m a beautician to pubic hair,” CupcakKe said happily during a Sunday afternoon interview in the Jezebel studio. “If you need your pubic hair styled, come to meeee!”
“You know, I never did it because I always thought, like, I would end up fucking a female rapper and fucking the business up,” Rick Ross said last year on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show. This was his explanation as to why he had never signed a woman rapper to his label Maybach Music Group. “I just, I gotta be…
Roxanne Shanté became a battle rap star at 14 years old and proceeded to have a career that’s been largely under-appreciated. The trailer for her Netflix biopic, Roxanne Roxanne, stars Chanté Adams as Roxanne, a then-teenager wading into the rap industry with a classic diss track, “Roxanne’s Revenge,” but without a…
Controversial rapper XXXTentacion is in custody after a hearing today in his domestic abuse case, according to TMZ. The site reports that at the hearing, he was charged with seven new felonies, all related to witness tampering and harassment.
Twenty-one-year-old Brooklyn-based rapper 6ix9ine (a.k.a. Teka$hi 6ix9ine a.k.a. Tekashi69) is one of 2017's breakout stars in music. With not so much as an album to his name, he has a million followers on Instagram. He’s the recipient of fawning press. He has two singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including the brash…
In a pre-recorded freestyle rap that played at the BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night, Eminem took aim at Donald Trump, an immensely insecure and powerful man with an IQ.
Rapper Rick Ross went on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club show recently and was asked why he has never signed a female rapper to his label Maybach Music Group. His excuse? It would just be too easy to have sex with them.
Since Game of Thrones began, rappers across the spectrum have been paying vehement homage to the show in tweets and interviews, and by 2014 the first official GoT mixtape dropped with original tracks from the likes of Big Boi, Daddy Yankee, Kilo Kish, Common and more. (The second broadened its musical horizons,…
Jay Z, hip hop superstar, entrepreneur, and husband to Beyoncé, has requested that his entire musical oeuvre be pulled from Spotify.
Nicki Minaj and Remy Ma used to be music-industry friends, but now they are sworn enemies. Over the weekend, Remy Ma released her excellent diss record, “ShETHER,” a song that combines simple facts (“You wore a pink diamond chicken wing chain,” she raps, citing one of Nicki’s red carpet looks) with dozens of…
Nicki Minaj’s new app seems to pick up where Freestyle Fridays left off: rather than just allowing players to get dressed up and amass social points like the phenomenally popular games from Kim Kardashian and Kendall & Kylie Jenner, Minaj’s The Empire lets users record their own raps into it and potentially go viral.…
In the middle of an Atlanta Hawks game on Tuesday night, Gucci Mane surprised his girlfriend Keyshia Ka’oir by popping the question on the dreaded Kiss Cam. The results were not cheesy this time.
On Monday afternoon, soon after canceling the remainder of his Saint Pablo tour, Kanye West was hospitalized in the Los Angeles area. He is currently under medical observation.
Tonight, on episode 32 of OVO Sound Radio, Drake announced a new project entitled More Life.
Kanye West, a man of many opinions, has yet another one: Frank Ocean should be nominated for a Grammy. In fact, Kanye feels so strongly about the matter that he has threatened not to attend the ceremony if Ocean is snubbed. And he’s right: Ocean absolutely should be nominated. The problem is that he isn’t.
Eminem released a new eight-minute-long campaign-themed song this week, and I’m just going to assume you didn’t make it six minutes and 13 seconds in, which is when Eminem returns to one of his favorite motifs: Christopher Reeve, the Superman actor who was paralyzed from the neck down in 1995 after being thrown from a…
