Ex-NBA player Stephen Jackson took to social media to reveal that Lil Yachty called him to apologize after rapping a controversial George Floyd-referencing lyric during a recent PlaqueBoyMax stream. On the August 13 live stream, a song was played where Yachty rapped, “Put my knee up on her neck, I …
Read More »Lil Yachty Flips a Maggie Rogers Classic on New Song 'Murda'
Lil Yachty is back with his first new song of 2025, “Murda,” which features a prominent sample of Maggie Rogers’ breakthrough 2016 song, “Alaska.” The two-minute track is built around a loop of Rogers’ vocal hook from “Alaska,” which gets chopped up and utilized in a few different ways, sometimes …
Read More »SZA Is at Her Most Streamlined and Direct on 'Lana'
SZA knows how to make an entrance. She had the world fiending so hard for her new Lana — first she announced the album drop for Friday at midnight, then kept everyone chewing our fingernails while she took an extra 15 hours to give it the right finishing touches. But …
Read More »Maybe We Know a Little Too Much About Lil Yachty
Last year, I spoke with Lil Yachty about mystique. Our conversation about his Let’s Start Here album got awkward when he told me he didn’t want to reveal too much about its creation. I asked him about plans to release a documentary he recorded about the project, and he told …
Read More »Cash Cobain Strikes While His Sound Is Red Hot on 'Play Cash Cobain'
“Rump Punch,” an early single from the Bronx drill Casanova Cash Cobain’s new album PLAY CASH COBAIN, rides a glittering piano riff layered over the rapper-producer’s signature drums—boisterous and staggered, the air in between each drop packed with a sly romantic tension. Cash is a blueprint for a new kind …
Read More »Mike Will Made-It, Lil Wayne, and Lil Yachty Figure Out if the High Was Worth the Pain in 'High3r' Video
Lil Wayne, Lil Yachty, and Mikę Will Made-It chart some serious highs and serious lows in the new music video for their recent collaborative single, “High3r.” The visual jumps between close-up shots of the three artists performing the song and three different vignettes that play off the themes of “High3r.” …
Read More »Mike Will Made-It Taps Lil Wayne, Lil Yachty for Single as He Plots Album Return
Mike Will Made-It is dropping his first solo album in seven years — and hitting reset. On Friday, the legendary rap producer released the single “high3r” featuring heavyweights Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty, off his upcoming LP, R3SET. “Sometimes you just gotta hit the reset button,” Mike Will tells Rolling …
Read More »Lil Yachty and James Blake to Release 'Bad Cameo' This Month
The time has finally come for Lil Yachty‘s fans to ask themselves, “What the fuck? When they do this?” At least that’s what the rapper predicted his fans would think in February when he first started teasing his new collaborative album, Bad Cameo, with James Blake. Now, Yachty and Blake …
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