Life really is good for Future and Drake. The pair’s collaborative track “Life Is Good” was officially certified four times platinum by the RIAA on Tuesday (May 12), just a little over four months since its release. View this post on Instagram #Drake and #Future’s “Life is Good” is now certified 4x platinum ???? A […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine (real name Daniel Hernandez) attempted to do a good deed by donating $200,000 to the non-profit No Kid Hungry. According to TMZ, the money came from new merch and the $2 million he earned off his record-breaking comeback video for “GOOBA.” 6ix9ine made the announcement Instagram on Tuesday (May 12), writing, “During this […]
Mother’s Day has a very simple premise: show some appreciation for the mothers in your life. But for Diplo and Future, it wasn’t quite that easy. Veteran dad Future had his hands full with six Mother’s Day posts. And Diplo had a whole new son to reveal (from “a million miles” away). Famously a father […]
Drake had a solid run, but his streak with Billboard No. 1 album debuts has officially ended. Hits Daily Double announced the final numbers for the first week of Drizzy’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes on Friday (May 8), and for the first time ever, The Boy will arrive on the Billboard 200 at No. 2 […]
NAV has released Good Intentions, his third studio album for XO Records. The LP is his follow-up to 2019’s Bad Habits, which was his first project to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Canadian rapper/producer’s latest work features 18 tracks. The album includes collaborations with Travis Scott, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, […]
Black Mafia Family kingpin Terry “Southwest T” Flenory — Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory’s brother — is expected to get out of prison early due to COVID-19. Although he’ll be on house arrest, 50 Cent is looking forward to his release, hoping it will have Irv Gotti a little scared. After teasing Diddy and Gotti over Southwest […]
One day after Arkansas concert venue TempleLive announced its first “socially distant” concert, it seems the floodgates regarding “socially distant concerts” have opened in the U.S. Consequence of Sound reports that electronic musician and YouTuber Marc Ribellet is embarking on the first-ever drive in concert tour of the U.S. Taking a page from Denmark, Ribellet’s […]
After making an impromptu announcement, Young Thug and Chris Brown have made good on their promise to join forces on a new project. The end result is a 14-track mixtape titled Slime & B and features from Future, Gunna, E-40, Too $hort and more. related news Young Thug Opens Up About Kidney & Liver Failure […]
Youngboy Never Broke Again is back at No. 1, right before he takes a break from music. Billboard reports 38 Baby 2, the controversial Baton Rouge rapper’s follow-up to his 2016 breakthrough mixtape, 38 Baby, landed at the top spot of the Billboard 200 chart. The album, featuring guests such as DaBaby, sold 67,000 equivalent album units, […]
Young Thug is turning his pain into lessons for his fans. Joining Offset and friends Rich The Kid and Saint Jhn for a mini virtual concert to raise profits for the Atlanta Community Food Bank on Wednesday (April 30), Thugger revealed a really harrowing health scare that he’d previously gone through. The emotion was palpable […]
This is something new. The “Savage” challenge, part two, featuring the Queen Bey. And this time, we gonna get funky. Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” remix already has the world twerking in the mirror, but in case you need some more intricate dance moves, Keara Wilson, the creator of the original “Savage” dance, has […]
On Wednesday, rapper and singer Young Thug revealed that he had previously been hospitalized for kidney and liver failure. During a virtual music livestream Offset and Friends hosted by Offset and featuring Young Thug, Rich the Kid, and SAINt JHN, Young Thug went into detail about the harrowing experience, saying that he narrowly escaped death. […]
D’ussé Palooza, a popular hip-hop party that originated in New York City, has fired one of its hosts after he was accused of coercive sexual behavior. Formerly Henny Palooza, the event is now named after Jay-Z’s part-owned cognac brand and has drawn attention from Swizz Beatz, Pusha T, Rick Ross, YG, and Wale. The multicity […]
Bandcamp is expanding its aid for independent artists by waiving its revenue sharing once again. After dropping all fees for one day in March, the company has announced plans to repeat those actions on the first Friday of the next three months. “On March 20, 2020, we waived our revenue share in order to help […]
Travis Scott really hit a lick with his Fortnite concert. As previously reported, Scott collaborated with Epic Games to perform for quarantined fans in a virtual 15-minute set Fortnite on Wednesday (April 23). After garnering an estimated 12.3 million concurrent Fornite players at the “show,” Pandora has now confirmed the gig resulted in an uptick […]
Chicago, IL – Kanye West is returning to his roots once again. According to WGN9, the Chicago-bred billionaire recently bought his childhood home in the city’s South Shore neighborhood for an estimated $225,000. The house has a complicated history. Kanye’s mother Donda West originally bought the property in the 1980s. In 2004, she sold it […]
Chris Brown revealed he and Young Thug have been cooking up a collaborative mixtape earlier this month. And now, there’s a release date and a title. Early Tuesday morning (April 28), the veteran R&B singer shared an Instagram post with what appears to be the cover art of Slime & B. “5th DAY of the […]
Two of Hip Hop’s finest groups are getting in on the Instagram catalog battles. Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony announced on Monday (April 27) that he’d be squaring up against Three 6 Mafia‘s DJ Paul this Thursday (April 30). “This Thursday 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern time,” Bone wrote in his caption. “Instagram Live Celebrating over […]
“One day the long fought battle between humanity and the forces of greed and division will end, and on that day, finally free, we will throw a motherfucking party,” so promises the “ancient proverb” at the beginning of Run The Jewels’ latest video for “Ooh LA LA” featuring Greg Nice and DJ Premier. Directed by […]
The first posthumous Juice Wrld single has arrived as promised. Titled “Righteous,” the song was recorded at the late rapper’s Los Angeles studio prior to his December 2019 death. Juice pumped out two studio albums during his short-lived career, including 2018’s Goodbye & Good Riddance and 2019’s Death Race For Love. He reportedly passed away with […]
Atlanta’s Lil Gotit has dropped a new mixtape titled Hood Baby 2. The project arrives a few months after his A-Team collaboration with Zaytoven, Lil Yachty and Lil Keed. The Alamo Records artist’s latest work features 18 tracks. Future, Yachty, Gunna, Keed and Guap Tarantino make guest appearances on the tape. View Gotit’s Hood Baby […]
Feel like going “Sicko Mode” because you’re still stuck in your apartment? Well hopefully you can let out some of that angst with the new single “The Scotts,” from ASTROWORLD rapper Travis Scott and Man on The Moon’s Kid Cudi. The two rap artists dropped their collaborative single – produced by Daytrip, Dot Da Genius and […]
Don’t call it a quarantune. The Rolling Stones released a new song, “Living in a Ghost Town,” today, and they insist it predated our current pandemic times. “It wasn’t written for now, but it was just one of those odd things,” Mick Jagger told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “It was written about being in […]
DaBaby addressed the criticism of his consistent flow during an appearance on The Breakfast Club. After being questioned about the critique by Charlamagne Tha God, the Interscope Records rapper defended his approach and boasted about his rapping prowess. “As far as like switching the flow or anything like that, I have no problem rapping circles […]
Small businesses across America are in peril as the economic impact of the COVID-19 shutdowns start to take effect, and Amoeba Music — part of the long-imperiled cohort of record stores — is sending out a plea for help. The independent music retailer has outlived such massive music enterprises as Tower and Sam Goody, but […]
Alright, alright, Ticketmaster will refund your tickets already. The sales and distribution platform and its parent company Live Nation have come under fire in recent weeks as would-be concert-goers sought refunds for over 18,000 events canceled or indefinitely postponed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to Billboard, Live Nation is reportedly finalizing a plan that […]
Westside Gunn has made it perfectly clear where he thinks his album ranks against DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby. On Saturday (April 18), the Griselda Records founder shared a popular meme of a person sitting at an outdoor table and taking a poll on a particular topic. In this case, the poster features the cover of […]
The Game’s longtime manager Wack 100 is calling foul on reports any royalties from his client’s Born 2 Rap album will go to Game’s sexual assault accuser Pricilla Rainey. On Saturday (April 18), Wack shared a screenshot of a headline that read, “The Game Loses Record Label & ‘Born To Rap’ Royalties To Priscilla Rainey As […]
The Game’s perceived defiance to pay his sexual assault accuser Pricilla Rainey just bit him back. According to AllHipHop, a judge has seized Game’s L.A. Prolific imprint and any royalties from his Born 2 Rap album in an effort to recoup the roughly $7 million judgment against him. Judge Virginia A. Phillips granted Rainey “any […]
Future‘s 2016 joint mixtape with Metro Boomin and DJ Esco, Purple Reign, is now available to stream on Apple Music, Spotify and others. The Prince-nodding effort also sees production from Southside, DJ Spinz and Zaytoven and includes highlight tracks “Never Forget,” “Perkys Calling” and “Inside The Mattress.” In the past month, Future has brought several […]