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Ja Rule gave hip-hop fans a glimpse at his rap Mount Rushmore. In a new Breakfast Club interview, Ja was asked for his answer to the age-old question. “It’s tough. Because it’s eras, you know what I mean?” Ja said at the 25:30 point of the chat above. “But if I just had to do four. … You would have to […]

Immersive and intricate in his artistry, North-West Londoner Knucks has been traversing the realms of hip-hop for over a decade now, aptly rendering himself as one of the most consistent new-age lyricists in the British rap canon. Since his 2014-released debut mixtape, Killmatic—his well-done hat-tip to Nas’ epic Illmatic—Knucks has infused his rap sensibilities with the sounds of jazz and […]

K-Dot is officially back.  Kendrick Lamar shared his new song, “The Heart Part 5,” alongside a video to match on Sunday, less than a week before the release of his new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. The long-awaited fifth studio album, set to be his final on Top Dawg Entertainment, arrives on Friday, May 13.  […]

Kendrick Lamar has dropped his comeback single and video in “The Heart Part 5,” and fans can’t stop talking about the song’s third verse.  With his return, K-Dot pays tribute to late Nipsey Hussle, as his face in the visual transforms into a deep fake of Hussle. The entire video sees Lamar morphing into popular figures like Kanye […]

The artist formerly known as Kanye West is commemorating Mother’s Day with the release of a new video for “Life of the Party,” the André 3000-featuring track from the deluxe edition of last year’s Donda album. Featured in the new video are photographs from Ye’s childhood, which have been reappropriated to incorporate pieces from the previously […]

Future’s latest album I Never Liked You is his eighth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, per Billboard. I Never Liked You earned 222,000 album equivalent units, of which 214,000 consisted of streaming units, equaling 283.75 million on-demand streams of the set’s tracks. The remaining units were split between 6,500 coming from album sales and 1,500 from TEA units. It […]

More than two decades after his murder, Harlem rapper Big L will be honored with a street named after him at his old stomping grounds of 140th and Lenox Avenue. The late rapper’s official Instagram page announced the news this weekend, revealing that 140th Street and Lenox Avenue will be named “Lamont ‘Big L’ Coleman […]

Travis Scott performed at a night club in Miami on Saturday night amid Grand Prix festivities. Technically, the performance—as has been widely reported since its announcement last month—marked Scott’s first public performance since the fatal crowd crush incident at last year’s Astroworld Festival in Houston. Per a report from TMZ including footage of Saturday night’s […]

Greg Harris, president and CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, says Eminem’s catalog is “as hard-hitting and straight ahead as any metal song.” The comments, as spotted by TMZ this weekend, arrived via a recent interview Harris gave to Taryn Daly for Audacy during which the 2022 class of inductees […]

Benzino wasn’t too pleased with Coi Leray’s supportive message to Eminem. The drama began earlier this week, when Benzino slammed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for inducting the Detroit rapper. The former Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star suggested there were hundreds of other Black artists who were more worthy of the honor, and accused the Rock […]