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The state of New York announced Thursday that Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed off on a $3.7 million grant to be put towards the construction of the Universal Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx, CNN reports. The funds contributed to the museum are part of the state’s package of economic and community development funding. The Universal Hip Hop Museum is temporarily located at the Bronx […]
Rap and Christmas have been intertwined since the former began. Kurtis Blow’s “Christmas Rappin’,” a rhymed update of “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (better known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) came out in 1979, the same year as “Rapper’s Delight.” From that day to this, hip-hop has had way more than its share of […]
The numbers are in for several new releases, including French Montana’s Montana, Roddy Ricch‘s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, and Juice WRLD‘s Death Race For Love. For starters, Roddy Ricch’s Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial landed at the top spot on the Billboard 200, with 100,902 equivalent album units earned. Just 2,487 of those […]
Fat Joe dropped off his Family Ties album with Dre of Cool & Dre on Thursday night and one of the tracks features Eminem mentioning both Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey. On “Lord Above,” Eminem makes reference to his past issues with the former couple and comments made by Cannon during his September 2019 interview […]
Tory Lanez isn’t impressed by the current state of hip-hop. While talking to Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning on Tuesday, Lanez explained that he had to clear more than 40 samples for his project Chixtape 5. Lanez said he made such a huge effort because he felt like the world needed something fresh and innovative to listen to. “You […]
Just when the fad started to die down, “Top 50 Rapper” lists started to reemerge on the timeline. Everyone from novice hip-hop listeners to T.I. are jotting down their favorite rappers in hopes of sparking outrage or generating approval. Normally, ScHoolboy Q stays away from social media sensations but the rapper decided to weigh in on this […]
If it feels like just yesterday when Lil Baby came onto the scene, it’s because that statement isn’t too far from the truth. His debut studio album Harder Than Ever was released in May 2018 and came at a moment where the rapper was going through a meteoric rise in such a short span of time. After […]
From Limp Bizkit to Will Smith, Eminem‘s career has been marred with obscure beefs. Yet none was weirder than his feud with songstress Mariah Carey. This war of words was dominated by Carey releasing her smash single “Obsessed,” but not before her then-husband Nick Cannon was pulled into the battle. During an appearance on T.I.’s ExpediTIously podcast, Cannon explains why […]
Not that it matters, but Ben Shapiro thinks that the biggest genre in the world isn’t music. On his latest episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, the political commentator had a conversation with Zuby. During their discussion, Shapiro tried to convince the rapper that hip-hop isn’t music. “In my view, and in the view of […]
A day after it was revealed that Young Thug‘s So Much Fun is his first ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, it is now being reported that he’s also landed 11 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 (for the week of August 31), with 10 of those spots being occupied by music from his […]
