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Ten years ago, Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz made it big with mainstream trap production, luxurious rhymes about champagne on airplanes, and non-sequitur punchlines. Chainz was a rapper who could out-rap legends, but his music wasn’t necessarily expansive: There wasn’t the flurry of topics, motifs, sequences, or tics you’d get from …

Two weeks before the streaming premiere of Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, Netflix has shared the latest trailer for the in-depth, decades-spanning documentary about the rapper. “Act 1” of the three-part series arrives Feb. 16, and the two-minute preview covers much of the ground that will feature in the debut episode, …

UPDATE: Kanye West fired back at Kim Kardashian as the estranged couple continued to spar online over a TikTok video featuring their daughter, North. “What do you mean by main provider?” West wrote on Instagram, questioning Kardashian’s claim in her note that she was serving as the “main provider and …

Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced their 12th studio album, Unlimited Love. The follow-up to 2016’s The Getaway marks the band’s first new album with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. It’s also their first with longtime producer Rick Rubin since 2011. Unlimited Love arrives April 1. “Our only …

Nicki Minaj appears to be on a mission to take out a target in a top criminal organization so she doesn’t become one herself, but things aren’t as they seem in the video for her new single “Do We Have a Problem?” The song features Lil Baby, who also stars …

Coinciding with Friday’s release of her hotly anticipated sixth album, Laurel Hell, singer-songwriter Mitski dropped a video for album track “Stay Soft.” Much like the other videos produced for Laurel Hell‘s singles, “Stay Soft” draws much of its influence from psychological thrillers and horror films — of which Mitski is …

2 Chainz teamed up with Lil Durk and Sleepy Rose Thursday to perform his track “Lost Kings” on The Late Show. The song, which is off the rapper’s new album Dope Don’t Sell Itself, reflected on the tragic losses of Black Americans like Young Dolph and Breonna Taylor. “And I’m …

Outside New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center on Thursday night, a torrential downpour turned the scene into an accidental remake of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” video. It was an appropriately epic meteorological moment, as the 20-year-old had just touched down in the city for the start of her new world …

At the end of last year, the music industry was on the receiving end of a double-barreled blast of recrimination from one of Hollywood’s most revered creators. Issa Rae was in the midst of a victory lap, celebrating the final season of her acclaimed HBO series Insecure, when she casually …

Maluma stopped by The Tonight Show to discuss Marry Me, his new film with Jennifer Lopez, and his recent collaboration with Hennessy. In the interview, Maluma admitted he forgot the lyrics to a song while filming a scene for the movie with Lopez at Madison Square Garden. “I was performing …