Tim Heidecker ponders the afterlife in “Nothing,” the latest single from his upcoming albumFear of Death, out September 25th via Spacebomb Records. Co-written with Natalie Mering, a.k.a. Weyes Blood, “Nothing” sees Heidecker coming to terms with mortality — and what lies on the other side: “Nothing, that’s what it amounts …

Tupac Shakur’s teenage love letters and the Notorious B.I.G.’s “King of New York” crown are two of the top lots up for sale at the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated fully to hip-hop, taking place September 15th in New York. The auction will feature more than 120 items spanning hip-hop’s history, …

This story was originally published August 20th, 2015. It’s easy to imagine that, 15 years from now, television audiences will take for granted the existence of groundbreaking series like Orange Is the New Black and Transparent. But it’s impossible to look at the currently lush television landscape without acknowledging the …

Busta Rhymes has tapped Vybz Kartel for a new song, “The Don and the Boss,” the first offering from the rapper’s next album, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God. The track boasts a booming beat with thick bass hits and brisk percussion holding down scattered synth loops and …

100 Gecs have recast the classic cat and mouse chase as a bonkers fever dream in the new video for their remix of “Hand Crushed by a Mallet” featuring Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens and Nicole Dollanganger. The animated video — directed by Dario Alva and written by Weston Allen …

Lil Uzi Vert has announced a live virtual performance to be livestreamed on August 27th at 6:00 p.m. EST. The ticketed virtual concert will be made available to fans around the world for a flat rate of $15 per ticket. Passes for the show are on sale now; each ticket …

Conservative politicians and media figures absolutely freaked out over Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B‘s Numbe One hit “WAP” last week, in the latest of a long series of panics over boundary-pushing lyrics in rap and rock. The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, with Brittany Spanos and Rob …

The Democratic National Convention kicks off Monday night, and Dems are really bringing the heat: A union-busting, vote-suppressing, anti-choice, former Lehman Brothers exec and Fox News host will headline the first night of festivities, with support from a former Republican governor who said ground zero air was “safe to breathe” …

A serial killer is hunting teen girls in the deep Minnesota woods. Sound familiar? It falls to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister on Game of Thrones) to bring down the culprit. To be fair, the Danish actor goes the extra mile in The Silencing (on VOD starting August 14th), which is …

Halfway through Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later” — the first single off the Toronto’s rapper’s upcoming album, Certified Lover Boy — Lil Durk raps, “Bring Drake to the hood, surround Drake around Dracs.” He pronounces “Dracs” like “Drakes,” but he means “dracos,” the firearm du jour featured in so many …