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Kendrick Lamar’s The Big Steppers Tour is now the highest-grossing tour in hip-hop history. According to Touring Data, Kendrick’s nationwide trek has earned $110.9 million in revenue from 929,000 tickets sold across 73 shows. Big Steppers gives Kendrick the most lucrative tour ever by a rapper as a headlining act, surpassing Drake’s 2018 Aubrey & […]
Chance the Rapper is a beacon of independence. The 30-year-old Chicago rapper has built his career from being a community-driven artist, garnering a cult-like fanbase thanks to his authenticity, commitment to his craft, and creativity behind the mic. From leveraging the mistake of a high school suspension into his breakout mixtape 10 Day to finding […]
Young Thug’s attorney has requested the court give the 31-year-old bond due to his health. Alive 11 News reports that Thugger’s lawyer, Brian Steel, says the rapper is “languishing in the county jail” without bond due to a poor diet. He’s been incarcerated since he was arrested and subsequently indicted last May. Steel says Thug is […]
Joe Budden and Cam’ron are going at it again. The drama seemingly began Friday night after Cam shared a clip from The Joe Budden Podcast, featuring special guest and fellow podcaster N.O.R.E. The episode, which premiered back in February, included a discussion about rappers who tried to transition into the podcast game with little to no success. “You know what’s crazy? I’m looking […]
Jack Harlow has offered another critique of whiteness in hip-hop. The Kentucky-born rapper revisited the topic in “Common Ground,” the opening track of his newly released third studio album, Jackman. Harlow addresses the ways in which some white rap fans have become cultural tourists who embrace and appropriate the hip-hop lifestyle while cloaked in privilege. “The suburbs […]
New York-based media company and record label Victor Victor Worldwide has teamed up with NIGO’s fashion brand Human Made for a new capsule collection. To coincide with the launch of the collection, the companies dropped a teaser video filmed in Japan featuring a cameo from Steven Victor himself. The capsule collection consists of various t-shirts […]
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 […]
April is closing out with some exciting new releases. Jack Harlow is back with his new album, Jackman, featuring the powerful single “Gang Gang Gang.” Lola Brooke just dropped her latest banger “Just Relax.” And Miguel is back with his seductive single “Give It To Me.” This week’s list also includes new releases from Conway […]
After Chance the Rapper was criticized for grinding on a woman and slapping her butt at Carnival, his wife Kirsten Corley-Bennett shared a Maya Angelou passage about people not growing up. In a post shared on Instagram, Corley-Bennett highlighted a passage from the late Angelou’s Letter to My Daughter. “Most people don’t grow up. It’s too […]
Between all the stories of nightclubs and venues closing down, beset on all sides by prosperity developers, punishing licensing laws and, more recently, the cost of living crisis brought on by inflation, there has been one or two glimmers of hope. The story of Camden’s KOKO is one of the latter, although its recent history hasn’t been without […]
