Mixtape Mixup
Talib Kweli had a lot on his mind when he Zoomed into The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (June 3) from the studio to chat with his old pal Jimmy Fallon. When the host jumped right in and asked the activist/rapper why the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer […]
Run the Jewels member El-P had a big update for fans on Wednesday night (June 3): They helped raise a huge amount of money in the first day of the surprise early release of the hip-hop duo’s new album, RTJ4. The free 11-track album, which was originally slated to drop on Friday (June 5), came […]
Alicia Keys unveiled a sweet piece of poetry dedicated to her son on Wednesday (June 3) in honor of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. Using the #blacklivesmatter hashtag, the star paired the poem with an adorable photo of five-year-old Genesis building a toy tower. My beautiful baby boy/ So curious and pure/ Yet SO […]
Bhad Bhabie is in a treatment center attending to “personal issues,” just months after taking a mental health break from social media. The teen rapper, whose real name is Danielle Bregoli, has been “working hard for the past few years and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to attend to some […]
L.A. rapper/producer Terrace Martin has teamed with Denzel Curry, jazz great Kamasi Washington, G Perico and Daylyt on the hard-hitting protest track “Pig Feet.” In the description of the song’s video — a collection of black-and-white footage of the past week’s protests in the wake of the police-involved killing of George Floyd — he writes, […]
Ty Dolla $ign voiced how apparent police brutality in America continues to be after George Floyd, a Black man from Minnesota who died after a white cop knelt on his neck (the independent autopsy recently ruled it a homicide due to asphyxiation), in a new song he recorded last night (May 31). The R&B crooner […]
While many artists have shared their outrage over George Floyd’s death on social media by demanding justice against the police officers responsible, urging an end to racism, making donations and more, some are leaving their homes to speak out in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. As protests spread across the country from Seattle to […]
Last night, rapper and activist Killer Mike joined protesters and gave a speech at the Atlanta Mayor’s Press Conference. Thousands of people took to the streets in Atlanta and major cities across the US in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless victims of police brutality. Killer Mike joined T.I., and Atlanta […]
6LACK has returned. Just mere hours after the release of the tender “ATL Freestyle” paying homage to his city, the East Atlanta native quickly follows-up with the somber track’s accompanying visual on Friday afternoon (May 29). The JMP-directed clip documents 6LACK’s trip back home, which finds him taking a private jet from starry Los Angeles […]
The forecast for this week’s weather involves heavy showers from Lady Gaga‘s sixth album Chromatica, fire from Rosalía and Travis Scott‘s “TKN” joint and clear skies from Kygo‘s Golden Hour LP. After predicting all the “Rain” with Ariana Grande, Gaga reclaims the dance floor she fought for by bringing back — in the form of Chromatica — her dance-pop […]