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Cardi B is on some serious “Hot Shit” — and she’s tapped Kanye West and Lil Durk to join her on the new banger. The track is Cardi’s first single of 2022. On the booming, bass-heavy romp, Cardi celebrates the independence and security her success has provided. “Either way you …

There’s Experience Unlimited’s “Da Butt.” There’s Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” There’s Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious.” And now, finally, there’s Saucy Santana’s “Booty” — an explosive romp about the glory of a good rump, his first single as an RCA signee. Santana, a viral rap sensation that came up independently, previously …

Chance the Rapper shares a short tale in “A Bar About a Bar.” The accompanying new self-directed video features fellow Chicago rapper Vic Mensa and Chicago-based painter Nikko Washington. The clip opens on Chance and Mensa working on a writing exercise. Mensa asks, “What you got?” Chance launches into the …

Moneybagg Yo suggested a new album might be in the works with the release of single “See Wat I’m Sayin’” Friday. The singer had previously teased the track in social media posts earlier in the week. On the song, Moneybagg breaks down a few of his latest hookups, detailing how …

UPDATE (5/19):An attorney for Rod Wave tellsRolling Stone that the charges against the rapper have been dismissed and that Osceola County Attorney’s Office will no longer be pursuing charges. “This case was a misunderstanding between a girlfriend and boyfriend,” Bradford Cohen tells Rolling Stone. “That misunderstanding resulted in Mr. Green’s …

The once-triumphant world of Atlanta hip-hop is in a state of emergency. Just days after a far-reaching, 56-count indictment named Young Thug, Gunna, and more than two dozen other artists from YSL’s roster as alleged conspirators in a well-organized criminal organization, the label’s up-and-coming signee Lil Keed passed away on …

The long, five-year wait is finally over: Kendrick Lamar has dropped new album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. The 18-song set record is the follow-up to 2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Damn. and marks the rapper’s final LP for his longtime label, Top Dawg Entertainment. Spread over two discs, the rapper’s …

In November 2019, Casanova’s star was on the rise. The rapper, whose real name is Caswell Senior, played a Tidal-sponsored festival at Barclays Center and energized the venue, as Rolling Stone noted, “in a way only a hometown Brooklyn hero can.” Senior also seemed ready to tackle his demons head-on. …

What does Jack Harlow want to say? It’s an unresolved question at the heart of his second major-label album, Come Home the Kids Miss You, a 50-minute affair that unfurls with buffered surfaces and seductive vibes. He imagines himself as the Most Interesting Man Alive, frequently touts his appeal with …

When Talib Kweli and Yasiin Bey announced that their long-delayed, highly anticipated new album, No Fear of Time, was to be released through Luminary’s podcasting network, the news signaled an impossible-to-ignore, best-of-both-worlds scenario. In choosing to distribute their follow-up to 1998’s Talib Kweli and Mos Def Are Black Star through …