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In 2013, Pharrell released the Despicable Me 2 single “Happy” and the song became a worldwide smash. You would expect the song to invoke some impassioned thoughts, but to rising rappers Destroy Lonely and Ken Carson, “Happy” is one of the worst songs of all time. During their appearance on Complex’s GOAT Talk this week, Destroy Lonely and Ken Carson—who are both signees to Playboi Carti’s […]
Lil Yachty is hitting the road on a global scale in support of his widely acclaimed album Let’s Start Here. Announced Tuesday, the Field Trip Tour—produced by Live Nation and Bose—will see Yachty making 39 different stops starting with Washington, D.C. on Sept. 21. Additional stops on the North American leg of the tour include […]
Photo by Sabine Adorney An hour or so before the scheduled start time, the line for merch snaked across the entire venue, and the room slowly filled to capacity. The show was set to begin at 9:00, but Jai Paul came out right on time at 9:30. As far as the show itself, it was […]
Machine Gun Kelly has recruited Cordae for a new freestyle video ahead of the theatrical rollout of his Mainstream Sellout live experience. The clip sees MGK and Cordae going in over the beat to Central Cee’s “Doja,” with the former opening up with a question positing that his level of highness renders him extraterrestrial: […]
Welcome to the Leslie era. Over the weekend, Lil Uzi Vert introduced their fans to a new apparent alter ego by the name of Leslie. In a short clip included as part of an Instagram carousel, captioned “Leslie was in Thailand,” they were seen enjoying some insect delicacies. The update also included a number of […]
Tom DeLonge’s first show back with blink-182 after his second departure from the band in 2015 will take place as part of the 2023 Coachella lineup. The surprise last-minute Coachella set was announced on Wednesday night, with the official festival socials sharing set times for the first weekend with the caption, “take off your pants and […]
After a clip of Sting speaking about receiving the royalties for Diddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” circulated online recentlty, the rapper clarified just how much he pays The Police frontman. In the clip from a 2018 interview with Sting and Shaggy on The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne asked the musician if it’s true he gets paid $2,000 by […]
Lil Wayne celebrates his decades of hits on the new I Am Music compilation, out Friday. The compilation, which spans Weezy’s career and marks the first-ever release of its kind for the artist, opens with the recently released “Kant Nobody” featuring a sample from the late DMX. This is followed in the sequencing by the […]
Lil Uzi Vert successfully injected a high dose of watchability into Monday’s late-night slate. On the latest Tonight Show, Uzi brought their still-going-strong hit “Just Wanna Rock” to Studio 6B, complete with a mesmerizing stage design that mimicked the track’s cover art. Catch the full performance up top. “Just Wanna Rock,” originally released in October […]
There are worse ways to go out than being struck by distinctly Texan lightning at a Lil Yachty show. As we took shelter from the storm beneath a giant water slide, I made peace with this possibility, confident that someone, somewhere could whip up a fine 200 words or so about it as part of their […]
