Mixtape Mixup
Besides busily cooking up new music for fans to enjoy during quarantine, Quavo has been hitting the books behind the scenes. On Thursday (May 21), he announced that he earned his high school diploma after graduating from Georgia’s Berkmar High School’s class of 2020. Draped in a dark blue cap and gown, an overjoyed Quavo […]
With Memorial Day Weekend officially here, we have an earful of quality music to check out. This week, Gunna, Migos, and Russ steal the show with their newest releases on Billboard’s First Beat. Take a look and see what they brought to the party below. Gunna, Wunna After recently leaving his handprints on big-time collaborations such […]
DJ Khaled has hinted that his next album will drop this summer, and Drake could be featured on the lead single. “There no summer wit out a KHALED ANTHEM! I AM SUMMER! New album in the works and FIRST SINGLE BEEN DONE !” he wrote in a recent Instagram post where he discussed a forthcoming project. “I […]
“Classy, bougie, ratchet, sassy, moody, nasty”–the many moods of the badass character Megan Thee Stallion portrays in her new animated “Savage” video. The clip shows the futuristic female fighting crime, riding motorcycles, riding through the wild West, strutting down the catwalk and even doing the song’s viral TikTok dance at the hook. The one-woman army single-handedly […]
Making a compelling music video during a pandemic is no easy task. Still, Lil Uzi Vert has managed to create a must-watch visual for one of his Eternal Atake deluxe edition aka LUV vs. The World 2 tracks, “Wassup” with Future. Uzi tapped Yasha Gruben to direct the deepfake aesthetic, which finds a slew of […]
Lil Durk, long a voice in hip-hop’s trenches, has officially climbed into the mainstream. With the world under quarantine, Durkio has returned to serve up the full-length Just Cause Y’all Waited 2 as an appetizer to his highly anticipated No Auto album. The 15 street tales are packaged with pain and sorrow, and notched the Chicago native […]
Diddy shared a heartfelt tribute video on Instagram dedicated to his late ex-girlfriend Kim Porter and fallen friend Andre Harrell on Wednesday (May 20). The touching visual shows Harrell and Porter sharing a dance together at a party. “SAVE ME A DANCE!! @ladykp @andreharrell ,” Diddy wrote on Instagram on Wednesday (May 20). “I PROMISE Y’ALL I’M GOING TO FINISH […]
TDE president Terrence “Punch” Henderson just resurrected our hopes of a joint Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole album. Hopeful rumors of a Cole-Lamar project have been swirling for years now. In an exchange with a fan on Twitter yesterday, the TDE boss at first shut these down, before offering a tentative maybe. After Punch announced his plans to release all […]
[Spoiler alert: This story contains the identity of the third place finisher on Wednesday night’s (May 20) The Masked Singer finale.] A pure rapper has never won The Masked Singer. But on Wednesday night’s season three finale, Frog got as close as anyone to being the first hip-hop artists to raise the trophy; season one winner […]
First a Lizzie McGuire table read, and now Community. The nostalgia doesn’t end. Donald Glover joined his former castmates Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong, plus the sitcom’s creator Dan Harmon earlier in the week for a virtual table read of “Cooperative Polygraphy.” The season 5 episode, […]