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Lil Durk is convinced he would destroy J. Cole in a game of basketball. On Thursday night, the Chicago rapper responded to a Twitter video that highlighted Cole’s impressive court skills.  The footage was taken during Day 2 of Chris Brickley’s summer “Black Ops Basketball” run in NYC, where Cole played alongside names like Carmelo Anthony, Trae Young, Lance […]

Anderson .Paak has proven that he can go bar for bar with the best of them. And he continues to show his versatility by trading verses with one of hip-hop’s hottest young spitters YBN Cordae on “RNP.”  For this track, Cordae effortlessly blends his nostalgic influences with his current surrounding. This is best displayed by […]

Dreamville Records and J. Cole‘s chart-topping compilation album Revenge of the Dreamers III will be receiving a deluxe version. Ibrahim “IB” Hamad, label co-founder and president, announced plans for a release featuring bonus material while promoting Dreamville’s Revenge Booth at ComplexCon Chicago, which will include an opportunity to hear some of the unreleased music. “If you in Chicago this […]

Dreamville’s Revenge of the Dreamers III will debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, narrowly exceeding its first-week projections.  With 115,000 equivalent album units—23,000 of which came from album sales—Dreamers III more than doubled the sales of Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, which finished in second […]

Six months after releasing his TDT project, Big K.R.I.T. is back with his fourth studio album K.R.I.T. IZ HERE. The Mississippi-bred rapper announced the release last month, confirming it was a sequel to his 2010 breakout mixtape, K.R.I.T. Wuz Here. “For me, it was about also showcasing that I can go different places. It either be singing, […]

The numbers are looking strong for Dreamville. According to first-week projections reported by HitsDailyDouble, the imprint’s Revenge of the Dreamers III album is headed for a No. 1 debut. The compilation is expected to move 90,000 to 100,000 units in its first week; 15,000 to 18,000 of those will come from traditional sales. Lil Nas X’s 7 EP […]

The third installment of Dreamville‘s Revenge of the Dreamers series is here. The compilation album was announced back in January, when the imprint’s co-founder J. Cole posted an invitation to its recording session in Atlanta. Over the span of 10 days, big-name hip-hop figures joined the Dreamville team to create the much-anticipated project. Artists like Ty Dolla Sign, T.I., […]

J. Cole‘s Dreamville just shared a documentary going behind the scenes of the upcoming compilation album Revenge of the Dreamers III. The appropriately titled Revenge shows Cole and Crew working with artists and producers outside of their orbit to create the latest album in their trilogy. ROTD3 seemed to be a way to light a […]

Dreamville has broken off not one, but two new cuts from Revenge of the Dreamers III—the imprint’s much anticipated compilation project. The first song is titled “Down Bad,” and features contributions from J. Cole, Bas, Young Nudy, and J.I.D. Fans got their first taste of the record during J.I.D.’s Rolling Loud performance last month: “Since we […]

Ever since Ari Lennox signed to Dreamville Records in late 2015, the Washington, D.C. talent was determined to deliver a debut album that fully represented who she is. More than three years later—along with an EP, various guest spots, and opening for J. Cole on tour—Lennox has released Shea Butter Baby, a labor of love […]