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Daft Punk’s fourth and final album just received the reissue treatment. On Friday, the French electronic duo came through with the 10th-anniversary edition of Random Access Memories, the Grammy-winning album that includes “Instant Crush” with Julian Casablancas, “Doin’ It Right” featuring Panda Bear, as well as the Pharrell-assisted “Touch,” “Lose Yourself to Dance,” and “Get Lucky.” The extended […]

DJ Dahi didn’t bite his tongue. The Los Angeles-born producer hit up Instagram on Thursday to slam the recent leak of Kendrick Lamar tracks, which were seemingly intended for his 2022 album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. The songs in question appeared on Spotify that day, but were not listed on K-Dot’s official page. Instead a playlist titled “Morale Pack” was posted by […]

Lana Del Rey took to Instagram to inform her followers that a laptop, three video cameras, and several hard drives were swiped from her car while it was parked in Los Angeles. Del Rey revealed the theft on Melrose Place “a few months ago” has resulted in a number of unfinished songs leaking, as well as personal photos […]

Just a week after Funk Flex challenged him to drop a track from DMX’s vault, Swizz Beatz delivered, and the Hot 97 DJ on Friday premiered an unreleased song from the Yonkers rapper. Earlier this month, Flex teased the existence of unearthed DMX songs, while urging Swizz, the late rapper’s frequent collaborator, to bless hip-hop fans with said material. “I’m going […]

Over the past decade, DJ Dahi has established himself as one of Kendrick Lamar’s most trusted producers. Five years after crafting the beat for one of the standout songs from Kendrick’s 2012 debut album good kid, m.A.A.d. city (“Money Trees”), Dahi and Lamar teamed up on the Compton rapper 2017 album DAMN, which featured five Dahi-produced tracks (“Yah,” “Loyalty,” […]

Pusha-T finally has some answers to his Madlib-produced album that may or may not be scrapped. During the release week of Pusha’s latest album It’s Almost Dry, he linked up with Idea Generation’s Noah Callahan-Bever and his longtime manager Steven Victor for the debut episode of It’s Almost Dry Radio, which is his new live […]

A new Chief Keef and YoungBoy Never Broke Again collaboration is liable to set the streets on fire, but unfortunately, one old 2018 track that found the two young rappers linking up did not meet Keef’s expectations. The Chicago rapper responded to a post by No Jumper highlighting the leaked song that features both rappers […]

The turmoil that often surrounded the sessions for DMX’s still-not-officially-released gospel album is the subject of an insightful new report detailing the late icon’s dedication to his artistry, even during times when the outside world threatened his process. The Rolling Stone report, published Tuesday, focuses on a late 2000s chapter in DMX’s life during which he resided in […]

Frank Ocean delivered this holiday season. On Saturday, the award-winning artist returned with a special Xmas edition of Blonded Radio on Beats 1 Apple Music. The show included excerpts from Ocean’s previous conversation with Wim Hof, aka “The Iceman”—a Dutch extreme athlete/motivational speaker who specializes in cold therapy and breathing techniques.  Ocean said he spoke with Hof “some […]

Chris Brown came through with receipts. On Saturday night, the 32-year-old artist took to Instagram to share the verse he supposedly wrote for Kanye West’s Donda album. Brown received a feature credit for the project’s 18th track, “New Again,” in which he assists Kanye on the chorus. However, Breezy claims he had a much bigger part on the song’s […]