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Roddy Ricch’s Album ‘Live Life Fast’ Will Drop In Time For Christmas

Traditionally, the holiday season has always been kind of a dead zone for new music releases because much of the music industry infrastructure is shut down; venues are closed, office workers go on vacation, and artists — who, like most of us, want to spend time with family — don’t often feel like working when […]

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Tierra Whack Announces The New EP ‘Rap?’ Out This Week

When it dropped in 2018, Tierra Whack’s Whack World took hip-hop by storm. Who was this unknown twenty-something rapper out of Philadelphia presenting this flawlessly produced 15 minute album of 15 one-minute songs with 15 separate unique visuals? It was jaw-dropping stuff and Whack has rightfully soared ever since, her voice gracing collaborations with her […]

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Jazmine Sullivan Unveils Her 2022 ‘Heaux Tales’ Tour Dates

It’s been nearly a year since Jazmine Sullivan released her comeback album Heaux Tales, which detailed her love life and self-growth with radical honesty. Not only did the LP become a fan-favorite, but it also earned Sullivan an impressive three Grammy nominations for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Performance, and Best R&B Song. Now, she’s […]

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Dancer Shan Makes It Clear That Nothing Is Going To Hold Them Back

Shan has always dreamed of dancing since they were little, even when it wasn’t possible for them. As someone diagnosed with the chronic pain disorder Fibromyalgia at a young age, Shan was told that they wouldn’t be able to do much physically as they got older. But as they started to dance, Shan learned that […]

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Beyonce Recruits NBA Stars James Harden And Jalen Green Into Her New Ivy Park Campaign Video

While fans wait patiently for any word of her next musical endeavor, Beyonce continues to make moves in other areas. Her latest is a new Ivy Park collection inspired by collegiate fashion and to promote the new line, she shared a hype video featuring Ivy Park’s newest recruits. While fans have come to expect Beyonce […]

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The Best Hip-Hop Albums Of 2021

Year after year, hip-hop continues to grow in variety and breadth of content and styles. We’ve long grown used to the melodic and trap-based offerings of the mainstream, but even those genres have kept pushing their boundaries, as has the underground, where adherents are burrowing down further and further into strange sounds and deconstructed rhythms […]

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R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: $not, Ama Lou, NSG & More

Listen to 10 new must-hear songs from emerging R&B and hip-hop artists, all released within the last week After four days away from the office, scarfing down Thanksgiving leftovers and dodging awkward lines of questioning from that aunt we hadn’t seen since the last holiday season, we’re back with our favorite R&B/hip-hop adjacent releases of […]

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Ari Lennox Arrested in Amsterdam, Says She Was Racially Profiled

Ari Lennox claimed on social media to have been racially profiled at the airport. Ari Lennox has been arrested in Amsterdam after she claims on social media to have been racially profiled in the airport Monday morning (Nov. 29). Early Monday, Lennox sent out a flurry of tweets about her negative experience with airport security […]

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Megan Thee Stallion Unexpectedly Joined BTS To Premiere Their ‘Butter’ Remix Live

This summer, Megan Thee Stallion got herself a spot in the K-pop world by linking up with BTS for a remix of their No. 1 hit “Butter.” Now, months later, Meg and BTS were finally able to link up to give the song its live debut. Yesterday, BTS performed at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, […]

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HBO’s DMX Doc Provides a Turbulent Snapshot Into Late Rapper’s Final Year on the Road

The film is now streaming on HBO Max. About 45 minutes into HBO’s DMX: Don’t Try to Understand documentary, Dark Man X lets his life’s purpose be known, “To be an inspiration to someone that I don’t know.” Seventy-four million records later and even following his tragic passing at the age of 50 on April […]