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Here’s an extremely obvious statement: 2020 has been a super fucked year, in a series of increasingly unexpected ways. (Zombie cicadas? Seriously? Go home, 2020.) Here’s another extremely obvious statement: Toronto’s Sylo is poised to blow up. Only that one we’ve been expecting. For a while now, actually. Already familiar to Toronto audiences thanks to […]

Barack Obama continued the yearly tradition of unveiling his summer playlist Monday, and the list comes complete with its fair share of surprises and head-scratchers. “Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to music with my family,” Obama wrote on social media. “I wanted to share some of my favorites from the summer––including […]

Drake‘s new single “Laugh Now Cry Later” was accompanied by a music video, which was shot at the Nike World Headquarters Oregon, and featured appearances by Kevin Durant, Odell Beckham Jr., and Marshawn Lynch, but it was one line from Lil Durk‘s verse that seemed to grab everyone’s attention.  “I’m in the trenches, relax/Can you not play that lil’ boy in the […]

TikTok‘s political turmoil isn’t stopping with President Trump.  On Monday, rapper-turned-politician (kinda), Kanye West, tweeted out his idea for a potential partnership with TikTok. Like Moses and the burning bush, Kanye claims he was hit with a “vision” to make a Christian version of the app. “A VISION JUST CAME TO ME… JESUS TOK,” Kanye tweeted. “I […]

After nearly 18 years, arrests have been made in the murder of Jam Master Jay, the local NBC affiliate reports.  Federal officials and members of the New York City Police Department said on Monday that they plan to announce charges on two suspects connected to the murder. The assailants have been identified as Ronald Washington and Karl […]

Della Reese once said that if you threw it in the air it would turn into sunshine. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion may not have taken it that far, but they did throw it on a song and it became the No. 1 record in the country.  Billboard revealed on Monday that Cardi B and Megan […]

Roy Woods has released the video for “Like Pascal,” a standout track from his newly released EP, Dem Times. Directed by L.A. Rubio, the video evokes memories of when the nationwide lockdowns were in their strictest phase. The majority of the video is filmed inside an apartment living room occupied by Woods and a couple of women. There are a few shots […]

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, the ramifications of which simply can’t be overstated, Cardi B and Joe Biden have linked up for a special interview spanning a number of key issues. The interview, conducted in a social distancing-friendly manner via Elle and published Monday, sees Biden first congratulating Cardi for her recent appearance on […]

In a recent interview, Logic revealed that he actually wasn’t a fan of Kendrick Lamar‘s critically acclaimed sophomore album good kid, m.A.A.d city after he listened to it for the first time. As Genius points out, while chatting with Hard Knock TV, the Under Pressure rapper revealed that at first, he wasn’t feeling what some consider to be Lamar’s best work. […]

Kim Kardashian has joined forces with Monica in the fight to free C-Murder from prison. Kardashian posted a series of tweets Sunday explaining the revelations that followed the trial of C-Murder, born Corey Miller, who was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Steve Thomas in 2009.  In 2009, Ernest Johnson, president of the NAACP in Louisiana, called for an investigation into C-Murder’s trial after one of the […]