Liangelo “Gelo” Ball’s highly anticipated single is here — with GloRilla as a guest. Tonight, the “Tweaker” MC released “Can You Please,” another uptempo track that feels like a 2000s throwback. “Can you please? Shake that ass for me,” he pleads on the track’s hook, setting turn-up vibes that parallel …
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“Run It Up” reunites Indian-American rap sensation Hanumankind with the team behind his viral hit “Big Dawgs,”the producer Kalmi and music video director Bijoy Shetty. That song earned RIAA platinum status in less than six months and ended 2024 as one of the Top 10 most streamed rap songs on …
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Atlanta rapper Offset released a track on Valentine’s Day, but it doesn’t sound like he was interested in placating the lovers. On his “Ten” single, he seems to sniping at an ex, griping, “She bad but she bad for a nigga,” and bluntly letting them know on the hook, “You …
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Macklemore released “Fucked Up” on Thursday, another impassioned protest song about societal ills. On the three-minute, self-produced track, Macklemore opines, “The world’s on fire, we don’t own the water y’all,” a literal commentary on the LA wildfires and a metaphorical evaluation of class disparity. Elsewhere on the horn-driven track, the …
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Today, Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR released the tracklist for their $ome $exy $ongs 4 U album dropping tonight, and Freddie Gibbs has thoughts — not on the music, but the title and artwork. Social media users noticed that their triple dollar sign usage follows Gibbs’ 2023 $oul $old $eparately album, and …
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Introduced by Samuel L. Jackson in an Uncle Sam outfit, Kendrick Lamar blazed through his back catalog and tracks from his latest release, GNX, at the Super Bowl in New Orleans — and after multiple teases, launched into part of his Drake-savaging hit “Not Like Us.” He skipped the word …
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Since Kendrick Lamar took aim at Drake with his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” in the spring of 2024, the Compton and Canadian rappers have traded dozens of dark verses (and counting) in a beef unlike any before it. Since then, there have been accusations of domestic …
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Irv Gotti, the famed music producer, industry executive, and TV producer, has died at the age of 54. Def Jam Recordings, the parent label of Gotti’s Murder Inc. company, confirmed his death, though did not state a cause. The instrumental hip-hop figure, born Irving Lorenzo, died after previously suffering what …
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Lil Wayne dropped his special announcement today: Tha Carter VI is coming on June 6. Today he dropped an extended Cetaphil ad titled “We’re All a Lil Sensitive,” playing off his disappointment with not being selected as the Super Bowl LIX halftime performer. After speaking with Kendrick Lamar, who was …
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Kendrick Lamar just got some high-powered advice for his upcoming Super Bowl LIX halftime performance. During a recent appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, last year’s halftime performer Usher was asked his thoughts on how Lamar can have the best show possible. His overall message was to be present. “The …
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