Today, PG County, Maryland’s .idk. dropped the music video for “S.T.F,” the first single from his upcoming Even The Devil Smiles mixtape. The uptempo, Kaytranada-produced track contains vocals from the late DMX, who begins the track proclaiming, “I gots to make a move and make it soon/I gots to hit …
Read More »Nicki Minaj Says She's Canceling Album Plans: 'No More Music'
Last month, Nicki Minaj revealed the release date for her sixth studio album. The follow-up to 2023’s Pink Friday 2 would arrive on March 27, 2026, the rapper announced on social media. A few weeks have passed since the date was set, but Minaj has hit pause on her countdown. …
Read More »Ice Spice Has a Busy Fashion Week in 'Baddie Baddie' Video
Ice Spice is putting herself first and sitting in the front row at fashion shows in the video for her latest single “Baddie Baddie.” Built around a sample of M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” the song name drops designers and calls back to the Bronx rapper’s pop breakthrough. “I was just poppin’ …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple in 'Sex and the City'-Inspired 'SNL' Promo
Big is moving to Paris, and Sabrina Carpenter is moving to 30 Rock. In the latest promo for her upcoming double duty appearance on Saturday Night Live on Oct. 18, the pop star steps into Carrie Bradshaw’s Manolo Blahniks to parody Sex and the City. “Sabrina, what are you up …
Read More »ICE Ads Are All Over Your Favorite Streaming Services
If a dystopic voice asking you “to fulfill your mission” of rounding up undocumented immigrants has snuck its way onto your streaming airwaves, you’re far from the only one. In the last month, online users have reported seeing and hearing an increased amount of recruitment advertising from the Department of …
Read More »Janelle Monáe's Wondaween 2025 Will Throw a Vampire Beach Music Fest in Los Angeles
Janelle Monáeand the Wondaland Arts Society are bringing back her month-long, city-spanning Halloween bash to Los Angeles. Wondaween 2025 kicked off earlier this month with Cinespia, which took place at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Oct. 11, and will continue with Monáe Manor at the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride. Monáe …
Read More »Lauryn Hill Pens Moving Letter to D'Angelo: 'A Beacon of Light to a Generation'
Before the release of Lauryn Hill’s masterful solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the singer met with D’Angelo to record one of the album’s most captivating tracks, “Nothing Even Matters.” The duet would play a part in expanding and nurturing soul’s rebirth in the Nineties, while both artists as …
Read More »'I Really Feel Like a Lioness': Cardi B on Defending Her Kids on Social Media
Cardi B is making it clear that her family is her top priority. Weeks following the Grammy-winning rapper’s heated social media feud with Nicki Minaj, Cardi spoke with Paper and appeared to address the controversy. “This week I showed the world that I will get the most nasty about mine,” …
Read More »Jordan Ward Announces Sophomore Album 'Backward': 'These Little Moments Cost So Much'
Though Jordan Ward’s debut album Forward won critics over with its earnest and optimistic hodgepodge of the background-dancer-turned-foreground-artists dreams, roots, and quirks, in the two years since, Ward tells Rolling Stone the darker sides of striving have helped him deliver his equally ambitious sophomore album, Backward. Speaking exclusively with Rolling …
Read More »Wale Gets Reflective on 'Mirroronnabenz' With BNYX
To many rap fans forged in the blog era, Wale’s cultural footprint is as well known as the admitted challenges he confronts on the new single “Mirroronnabenz.” With a backdrop where Afrobeat meets hip-hop soul, feeling both characteristic of and evolutionary for the Nigerian-American rapper, “Mirroronnabenz” finds Wale and producer …
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