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 …
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Four years after the death of DMX, the late rapper is back with “Bring Out the Worst,” the first single from an upcoming posthumous project. The track, which arrives a week after the 27th anniversary of DMX’s classic debut album It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, pairs the rapper with …
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Hip-hop impresario Irv Gotti, the former Def Jam executive who first signed DMX and later fostered the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti at his Murder Inc. Records label, is the subject of a new sexual assault lawsuit filed in Miami. Gotti, whose legal name is Irving Domingo Lorenzo, was …
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T ariq Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, has given the world endless insight into his mind in the 35-plus years since he founded the Roots with his high school classmate Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. But even after all those richly detailed lyrical flights and legendary live shows, he began to suspect he …
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S wizz Beatz, the Bronx-bred superproducer turned art collector, and Rema, the upstart Nigerian artist who’s become a global superstar, are sitting in one of the larger rooms at the Record Plant in Hollywood. This is the type of place where Swizz, 45, has worked since he was a teenager, …
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