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David Jolicoeur a.k.a. Trugoy, one third of influential New York rap group De La Soul, has passed away at the age of 54. The news was first reported by AllHipHop and The Grio. Complex reached out to De La Soul’s representative to confirm his passing. A cause of death has not been revealed and a statement […]
The Grammys celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a star-studded performance that nearly included Will Smith. Once known as the Fresh Prince before cementing his status as one of the biggest mainstream rappers in the 1990s, Smith had to drop out of the performance at the last minute over a scheduling conflict. “I’ll give the spoiler […]
The Grammys commemorated the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a star-studded performance and people watching at home lost their minds. Missy Elliott and Busta Rhymes were just some of the titans of the genre who took the stage for the performance, which was produced by Questlove. Other hip-hop icons that performed include LL Cool J, Big Boi, De La Soul, […]
Mark July 7-9 in your calendars, people, because Wireless Festival has just announced the first round of headliners for this year’s edition. Unlike last year, when the festival was spread across three different sites across London and Birmingham, Wireless will just be at one site: its spiritual home of Finsbury Park. Playboi Carti will headline Friday where he’ll […]
After some time away, rising London rapper Nix Northwest is back with a new jazz-infused single titled “Sun In My Eyes”, which is lifted from his forthcoming debut album, Xin’s Disappearance. The track offers an insight into the life of ‘Xin’—a fictional alter-ego portrayed by Nix across the conceptual LP—as visuals depict the liminal space between […]
Having built up anticipation over the last few months, Dublin-based rap duo Travis & Elzzz have finally released their debut mixtape, Full Circle. The 8-track project, which was produced in its entirety by long-time collaborator Liam Harris, sees the rappers reflect on their journey thus far—from freestyling together during lockdown to shaking up the game with their […]
Last year, Joe James released no fewer than four—yes, four—projects and, even more impressively, they were all really damn good, earning him positions on quite a few end-of-year lists in one way or another. But if you thought he was about to take a breather, think again because he’s just released yet another project: 3. The Essex rapper has already followed […]
Rolling Loud—one of the finest hip-hop-led festivals going—is heading out to Thailand in April this year for the first time and they’ve just announced Travis Scott will headline the festival. It’s a time of huge growth for the festival, which just wrapped up its Miami edition; last year, they launched their first-ever Canadian edition and made […]
Here at Complex, we wanted to acknowledge and honour the achievements of UK rappers this past year by compiling a list of the 10 best! To help us with this difficult task, we brought in some top industry experts and insiders, including Complex UK’s Editor-In-Chief, Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson, super-producer M1OnTheBeat, Capital Xtra’s Robert Bruce, Block […]
South London’s Shadez The Misfit is back with a brand new single, “South-Side Solace”, and it marks a bit of a landmark moment in the artist’s life. The last few years have been pretty transformative for Shadez. He’s one of his recent single, “2B3”, was used for the backdrop for Barack Obama’s segment in a […]
