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The anticipation for Jay Electronica‘s debut album is only getting stronger. On Tuesday night, producer/engineer Young Guru posted a photo of himself, Jay Electronica, JAY-Z, and Lawrence “Law” Parker inside a recording studio. Guru captioned the Lenny S. photo, “If I don’t have a haircut…… you already know!,” suggesting the men were locked in album mode. If you’ll recall, Hov […]

Originally set for consecutive weekends this April, the 2020 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has now been moved to October. Festival organizers made the announcement on Tuesday, following a wave of speculative coronavirus-inspired reports claiming the new dates would be instituted out of an abundance of caution. The Goldenvoice-backed festival will now […]

Waka Flocka made it seem like he’s never heard any of his DuFlocka Rant mixtapes or his Salute Me or Shoot Me series because he shocked the internet when he said he was a “wack rapper.” Yet during a conversation with Rap-Up TV, Flocka reveals that this was merely a form of trolling to get people to actually […]

Wendy Williams has reignited her feud with Nicki Minaj by slamming the rapper for marrying a man who was recently indicted for failing to register as a sex offender in California. Williams touched on the subject during her show on Tuesday, saying she didn’t have enough time to discuss his arrest at length and that […]

As is often the case when throwing down hundreds of dollars (or more) for entry into a multi-day music festival or similarly enticing event, the investment comes with the understanding that—as highly unlikely as such a scenario usually is—the whole thing can be called off at any moment for reasons not entirely in the organizers’ […]

Megan Thee Stallion‘s new track “Captain Hook” officially has its own dance challenge. On Monday, Megan hopped on Instagram where she introduced what’s being called the #CaptainHookChallenge. However, the original platform she used to introduce the challenge was Triller, which is quickly emerging as TikTok’s main rival. Her fans across the internet were quick to create their own […]

In September 2019, Tekashi 6ix9ine spent three days testifying against his former compatriots in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. In this episode of Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story, narrator Angie Martinez takes you inside the courtroom, examining what happened and why it happened.  Why did Tekashi decide to turn against his former manager Shotti and the rest of […]

It looks like the 2020 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival—set to feature large-fonted headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott, and Frank Ocean—might be postponed. According to Entertainment Weekly, who cited two sources, the two-weekend throwdown, planned for April 10-12 and April 17-19, is excepted to be pushed back due to concerns surrounding […]

When it comes to the coronavirus, Doja Cat finds herself on the same wavelength as Elon Musk, which is to say she doesn’t give a fuck about it. A sentence like that probably needs a lot of context, but this will have to do for now: The coronavirus panic is dumb — Elon […]

With the exception of a few singles and guest appearances, Lil Yachty has been relatively quiet since the release of his 2018 album, Nuthin’ 2 Prove. But he’s planning to change that this year. “I’m not necessarily trying to prove anything to anybody, but I’m definitely trying to pop my shit,” he tells Complex.  To […]