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Canadian rapper Belly is releasing next album Mumble Rap 2 on May 19, and today he announced the tracklist featuring Nav, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross, and the late Gil Scott-Heron. The 11-track album was entirely produced by Hit-Boy, and according the Ottawa rapper, it’s the first of three final albums for him. Fellow Canadian Nav […]

Love ain’t blind—it’s all-seeing and all-knowing up here in The Great White North. The songs by Canada’s best rap and R&B artists, new and old, reveal gripping romance, the heartache that is the flipside of harboring well-and-true feelings, and the simple-yet-intoxicating thrill of the chase, in an array of forms. Considering our three greatest musical exports—Drake, […]

ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets In a sit-down with Desus and Mero on their hiatus-ending episode on Sunday, Nas spoke on his latest project King’s […]

After getting the seal of approval from both The Weeknd and Hov himself, Belly has released his new star-studded project, See You Next Wednesday. “Before I officially close out an album, there’s two people I play it for to get the seal of approval. Hov and Abel. That being said, I can officially say the album […]

Belly has enlisted the talents of frequent collaborator The Weeknd and Young Thug to join him on his latest melodic single, “Better Believe.” Belly also shared a Christian Breslauer-directed music video to go along with the track, which you can watch up top via YouTube. Belly’s last single was the Moneybagg Yo-assisted track, “Zero Love,” that dropped earlier last month. That […]

Time was when the Weeknd and his XO team were literally going hungry trying to make it in the music industry. Well, things done changed. What began as an unofficial imprint through which Abel Tesfaye released his original trilogy of mixtapes in 2011 (House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence) has transmogrified into a widely […]

Twenty-twenty is going to be a real one. (And a real scary one geopolitics-wise, but that’s a whole other story.) In addition to (semi-confirmed) new releases from what you might call the Big Three of massively popular Canadian music—Drake, The Weeknd, the Bieber—we’ll also be hearing from a huge range of favourite artists both long-established […]

French Montana is getting back on track with his album release after a health scare. In November, French was hospitalized for severe stomach issues and an elevated heart rate. After spending a few days in the ICU, on Thanksgiving, he provided fans with an update and shared his appreciation. “Thank you everyone for all of […]

Louie Rankin has been killed in a car crash in Canada, TMZ reports Rankin died in the fatal wreck on Monday in Ontario, which reportedly included a transport truck and another vehicle. Ontario authorities said that Rankin’s car somehow hit a transport truck on a highway. He was pronounced dead at the scene, having died instantly in […]

Last year, a video surfaced of XO Records rapper Belly getting punched by security as he attempted to get backstage at Coachella. He later addressed the incident, tweeting, “20 of you pussies couldn’t take me off my feet.” Now TMZ reports that Belly is suing Coachella, blaming the festival for an attack that saw around 25 security […]