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Two months after the release of her latest single “Red Ruby Da Sleeze,” Nicki Minaj returns with a new music video for the track. Released in March, “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” includes bars that appear to be aimed at two other queens of hip-hop, as Nicki seemingly throws shade at Latto (“Who the fuck told bitches […]

About 10 days after checking himself into a mental health facility, Desiigner celebrated his 26th birthday by updating fans on his condition. In addition, the Brooklyn-born rapper dropped “Tiimmy Turner 2,” the sequel to the 2016 track that helped launch him alongside “Panda.” “I turned 26 today and i want to thank ya’ll for holding me down,” Desiigner […]

In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, Swizz Beatz has joined forces with Mass Appeal for Hip Hop 50: Vol. 2, the second installment in the latter’s Hip Hop 50: The Soundtrack compilation project. The project’s opening track features Nas, who spends his second verse admitting that he’s been a bad father to his first-born daughter Destiny Jones. Destiny arrived […]

A year after first teasing a joint project with No I.D., Saba returns with “Back in Office,” his first official collaboration with the legendary Chicago producer. The team-up arrives alongside a music video directed by Ian Lipton, which you can watch up top. A press release says the drop “paves the way for the release of additional tracks from the […]

Fresh off donating $100,000 to Grambling State University, E-40 joins forces with his alma mater’s iconic marching band for his new music video “Bands.” Set to appear on the Bay Area rapper’s upcoming new album, the DJ Toomp-produced “Bands” arrives alongside an accompanying visual that was filmed at Grambling State. Featuring shots of E-40 rapping the energetic anthem across […]

Fresh off dropping her first new song of 2023, Bed-Stuy rapper Lola Brooke recruits Latto and Yung Miami for the remix of her breakout hit “Don’t Play With It.” The Dizzy Banko-produced track arrives alongside an accompanying video, directed by Starr Mazi, which sees Lola Brooke, Latto, and Miami wreak havoc throughout the streets of Brooklyn.  Released […]

NLE Choppa tapped Lil Wayne for a new single and music video “Ain’t Gonna Answer,” and used the opportunity to reverently pay tribute to Weezy, Cash Money, the Hot Boys, “Back That Azz Up,” and more. The track prominently borrows the “What we doing? Makin’ money/What they doing? Hatin’ on us” refrain from Wayne and Baby’s “Stuntin’ Like My […]

After closing out 2022 with his latest album South Central, G Perico joins forces with DJ Drama for his new Gangsta Grillz project Hot Shot. The 13-track tape features the previously released singles “Action” and “Ask G4,” as well as production from Steelz (“Still Independent,” “Everything,”), Dupri (“Ask G4,” “Karma”), and IsThatTrey (“German Engineering,” “No Do Overs”), […]

Lola Brooke, the Bed-Stuy native who appeared on Complex’s New Rappers to Watch in 2023 list, returns with her new single “So Disrespectful.” “So Disrespectful” follows Lola’s previously released singles “Gator Season,” “Here I Come,” and “Don’t Play With It,” the last of which catapulted Brooke into the mainstream, amassing nearly 80 million streams to […]

Fifteen years after the release of his classic mixtape Star Power, Wiz Khalifa has finally made the project available on all major streaming platforms. Released in September 2008, Star Power captured Wiz ahead of a career-making ’09 in which he’d drop several notable projects, including Burn After Rolling and How High. The 26-track tape features fan […]