Female rappers GloRilla and Yung Miami will perform at the 2024 BET Hip-Hop Awards. Joining them on one of Hip-Hop’s biggest nights are 310babii, 2 Chainz, Big Boogie, Bossman DLow, E-40, Juicy J, Roscoe Dash, Soulja Boy, and Trina. Travis Scott will receive the I Am Hip-Hop Award. The award …
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“Okay I see you, let’s make moves,” the message read. In May 2022, independent artist Dwayne “WayneWayne” McDaniel Jr. was floored to discover a direct message from Ne-Yo’s verified Instagram account. The R&B singer-songwriter had admired the crooner for years and tagged him in posts in the longshot hopes of …
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A s TJ and Jesse Mizell stroll through the Amsterdam Houses — the community of brick buildings for low-income households on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where they grew up — residents play basketball and stand around chatting. It’s an unusually sunny March day, and it feels good to be outside. …
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Dunkin Donuts aired a star-studded commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday, which obviously means Ben Affleck graced our television screens. In the ad, Jennifer Lopez is recording in the studio with her bedazzled, reusable Dunkin Donuts. In the opening scene, Affleck is sitting in a car with Jack Harlow …
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A chart mainstay and ferocious rhymer from the late-Nineties into the aughts, Queens rapper N.O.R.E. has since built a hugely visible (and lucrative) second career as a podcast host on Revolt’s Drink Champs, where he and DJ EFN swap stories and libations with the biggest names in rap. Their 2021 …
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L ately, DJ Khaled has been listening to a lot of Jay-Z. Namely The Blueprint, the 2001 opus that helped solidify Hov as a commercial juggernaut in hip-hop. On an August afternoon in Miami, in the living room of the more-than-12,000-square-foot South Beach mansion he’s affectionately dubbed “the Resort,” Khaled …
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There was a cipher going on outside the Hip-Hop 50 Live show at Yankee Stadium. One woman took the mic, intently closing her eyes while focusing on her next bar. As I walked away, she rhymed an improvisational derivative of recuperate, before spitting “that’s not even a word, I just …
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It’s not that we Latin people are silent, it’s that we are muted mostly because there are not enough Latinx journalists to amplify what is happening in our communities. Look at New York City. We are equal to whites in population but you barely see any Latino names on mastheads …
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Every time Fat Joe has come back from a career brink with an unexpected hit song –and it’s been quite a few times –he’s as shocked as anyone. “Oh, I’m always surprised,” he says. “It’s like you’re in the middle of the ocean, looking for oxygen. I’m dying and outta …
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Fat Joe will perform a one-man stand-up show based on his life and career in New York City this fall. The performance will feature an introduction from Dave Chappelle and a slew of never-before-heard tales based on Fat Joe’s upcoming memoir, The Book of Jose. “The world will be getting …
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