Only Fuerza Regida’s JOP could pull together the biggest stars in both hip-hop and música mexicana for one festival. On Tuesday, the Fuerza frontman unveiled the lineup for the second annual Don’t Fall in Love Fest — headlined by Fuerza Regida and Future — set for Nov. 22 in San …
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When I open my Zoom session with Chicago producer Young Chop, his display photo is a picture of him shirtless, flashing a wad of cash. “Boy, that ain’t never your Zoom picture!” his manager Jessie “Jay Boogie” Green jokes. Chop flashes a beaming grin when he turns his camera on, …
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A new documentary following Chief Keef, who exploded onto the rap scene as a teenage prodigy and personified Chicago drill, will chronicle his work and impact on the music industry, according to Variety. Kenya Barris‘ Khalabo Ink Society will collaborate with multi-media company Lyrical Lemonade and Cole Bennett, who is …
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When Chief Keef released his mixtape Almighty So in 2013, Obama was still president and the then-18-year-old Chicago MC was something of a symbol for street violence, viral fame, and rap’s new cacophonous young generation. The tape, while far from a critical darling, solidified Keef, who’d risen to fame with …
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It’s not quite Pink Friday yet, but Nicki Minaj dropped new music today, taking a stab at Drake’s “All the Parties” beat on her new freestyle “For All the Barbz.” While Drake and Chief Keef are credited on the track, their contributions are just recycled from the For All the …
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“Morning time, I get on my knees, I pray to Allah/Forgive me for the shit that I did,” harmonizes Lil Durk on “Pelle Coat,” a track from his new album, Almost Healed. The 30-year-old Chicago rapper has steadily gathered momentum ever since he signed with Def Jam in 2013. He’s …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Chief Keef is hitting the links. Under his brand Glo Gang, the Chicago rapper has just released a collaborative capsule with Malbon Golf. The collection delivers a huge …
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When Ohio-born rapper Trippie Redd first burst onto the scene in 2017, Donald J. Trump was about to start his first presidential term, Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion were alive, and SoundCloud rap was the new transgressive genre making waves. Back then, Redd contributed to the urgent-sounding genre with his first …
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Trippie Redd is one of the brightest lights of the first wave of SoundCloud rap, the scene of boundary-pushing, genre-flouting teenagers who were on the cutting edge of music in the mid-2010s. From his debut mixtape, A Love Letter to You, he earned a reputation as an artistic maverick, equally …
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