CHICAGO — Security, weed smoke, and “G-Fazos” — a local nickname for Air Force Ones, made famous by G Herbo — filled up the United Center on May 2. The arena has hosted historic events from homegrown talent like Derrick Rose and Kanye West before; this time, the crowds were …
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Gunna, Future, and Young Thug party it up and show off their lavish lifestyles in the music video for “Pushing P,” one of the standout tracks from Gunna’s DS4EVER album, which dropped last Friday. The music video starts with candid moments of the three rap stars dropping the phrase “pushing …
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Baby Keem is out with his album, The Melodic Blue, Friday and it features the new Kendrick Lamar-assisted track “Range Brothers.” Lamar also appears on “Vent” and the previously released “Family Ties.” Keem leads the first verse, which is buoyed by string arrangements. Lamar joins him partway through for a verse …
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When Kanye announced the release of his long-awaited tenth studio album Donda, it wasn’t hard for fans to feel a hint of disbelief. Kanye is known to delay and push projects back ad infinitum, so hearing any new music seemed like an unlikely occasion. Yet, on July 22nd at the …
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In the new Missy-Elliott-directed music video for “Twerkulator,” rap duo City Girls thrive as a dance-attack takes over an unsuspecting town. At the helm of the “Twerkulator” video, Elliott channels the bright, surreal cinematography that helped her earn her (long overdue) MTV Video Vanguard Award in 2019. The video begins …
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Yo Gotti has released a new music video for “Drop,” his recent single featuring DaBaby. “Drop,” which was produced by J. White Did It, boasts a hard-hitting beat, glitchy synths, and a no-nonsense chorus: “Drop, shake your ass then/Stop, with your best friend.” The accompanying clip, directed by Arrad, is …
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It can be difficult to feel like a tourist in your own city. In booming metropolises like New York, the pace of transformation is often unnerving. That is, unless you’re the musician Mike, whose perceptive and patient raps seem unmoored from worldly concerns. The 22-year-old Brooklyn rapper and producer started …
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DJ Khaled, Lil Baby and Lil Durk dropped their hard-hitting “Every Chance I Get” video. The track appears on DJ Khaled’s 12th album, Khaled Khaled, which was released last Friday. In the Joseph Kahn-directed visual, the rappers perform flanked by a fiery cityscape set at night, where sparks fly, luxury …
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Drake album roll-outs have a certain ritual to them, one that involves Drizzy shedding himself of stray thoughts in the form of a mixtape or an EP. This almost always seems to involve Rick Ross. Last week he released Scary Hours 2, the second installment of his album-stalling series of …
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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 …
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