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📷 FlickrMusicTone Capone, Who Produced Luniz's 'I Got 5 On It,' Dies at 59
The Bay Area producer behind one of hip-hop's defining regional anthems died Saturday; no cause of death has been disclosed.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicDrake Self-Funds a 'Not So Short' FOMO Film Dropping Tonight, Says He Still Cares About Music Videos
Ahead of the 9 p.m. YouTube premiere, Drake called out the idea that his genre — and the music video — is dying.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDrake's Next Project Has a Drop Time: FOMO Livestreams on YouTube September 15 at 9 PM Eastern
The follow-up to his surprise Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour triple drop arrives through the same livestream format that turned his last rollout into a countdown.
Frequency · 1d ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicTurntablism: How DJs Turned Two Turntables Into Hip-Hop's First Instrument
Before hip-hop had rappers on record, it had DJs extending a four-second drum break into a night-long groove — and the techniques they invented along the way turned a piece of stereo equipment into an instrument.
Frequency · 2d ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicKendrick Lamar Reunites With Jhené Aiko on 'Westside Whimsy,' His First Outside Verse Since GNX's Grammy Sweep
The two collaborators, tied back to 2010's Overly Dedicated, link up again on 'So Good,' one of 20 tracks on Aiko's new album out Friday.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDrake Turned Toronto Into a Pop-Up FOMO Countdown — Three Surprise Sets, One Mystery Project
With 'FOMO' set for a September 15 reveal and nobody sure what it even is, Drake spent the run-up doing exactly what the title promises: showing up everywhere, unannounced, all at once.
Frequency · 1w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicKanye West and Big Sean Just Ended a Five-Year Feud Onstage in Chicago
'Had to bring my homie from the D out' — West brought Sean up during his Soldier Field homecoming, four years after calling their partnership 'the worst thing' he'd ever done.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicJAY-Z Brings Out Fugees, Celebrates Beyoncé’s Birthday at London 30th Anniversary Show
The rap icon delivered a 36-song career-spanning set featuring deep cuts, classics from Reasonable Doubt and The Blueprint, and surprise appearances from Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean,
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDrake's Next Move Has a Name — 'FOMO' — and Nobody Knows What It Is
A September 15 YouTube premiere is confirmed. What actually airs at 9pm ET is still anyone's guess.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicTrump Staging Apprentice-style Competition at SBA With Nicki Minaj as Judge
The rapper has cozied up to the president in the past. Trump Staging Apprentice-style Competition at SBA With Nicki Minaj as Judge Travis Bland
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📷 AI-generatedMusicProducer Tags and Ad-Libs, Explained: How a Few Seconds of Sound Became Hip-Hop's Signature
From 'Just Blaze!' to 'Wheezy outta here,' the tag and the ad-lib turned a producer's name and a rapper's grunt into some of the most recognizable branding in music.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDJ Dahi Spent Years Producing Other People's Hits. His Debut Album Cashes In Every Favor at Once.
'Black Boy (Alternative)' finally arrives with Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, and a decade of A-list IOUs on one tracklist.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicFat Joe Turns 'Organized Rhyme' Into a Loyalty Test — and Passes It Out Loud for DJ Khaled
Two years after 'The World Changed on Me,' the Bronx veteran's new album makes a point of naming who he stands with.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicErykah Badu Waited Eleven Years to Come Back — and Handed the Album to The Alchemist
'Before the World Blows' is Badu's first true studio album since 2015, and she spent it letting a rap producer's crate-digging reshape her sound instead of protecting it.
Frequency · 2w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicTrina Says Her Next Album Will Be Her Last
After 25-plus years and six studio albums, the Miami queen is closing the book with a seventh — and fans have already nicknamed it.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicBusta Rhymes Just Opened J Dilla's Vault. Here's What Was Inside.
Dillagence 2 landed today — 26 tracks built from beats Dilla left him before he died, with a D'Angelo feature and a Hype Williams video that reunites two 90s legends.
Frequency · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicWAP Just Went Diamond — and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Made History Doing It
The RIAA certified the 2020 hit Diamond earlier this month — Megan's first Diamond single, and Cardi's fourth, more than any woman in rap history.
Frequency · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicBusta Rhymes Opens the Vault Tomorrow — Dillagence 2 Finally Arrives
Nearly two decades after the original, Busta Rhymes turns 300 unreleased J Dilla beats into a full album, out Tuesday, with Lil Wayne along for the ride.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicKen Carson's 'Cartunez' Finally Landed After Missing Its Own Release Date Twice
Announced in June, promised for July, delayed again — the Opium rapper's companion EP to 'Xperiment' is out.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDenzel Curry and Kenny Beats Made a Sequel by Breaking Their Own Formula
Six years after 'Unlocked,' the duo's follow-up 'ii' trades the polish for an SP-404, a cheap mic, and a fistful of chaos.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicRapsody Went to Johannesburg and Came Back With Her Most Spiritual Album Yet
"God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops" turns a trip to South Africa into a 16-track meditation on Black identity, ancestry, and hair as history.
Frequency · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicThe Game Revived 'The Documentary' Title — and Used It to Refuse a Side in Rap's Biggest Beef
Twenty years after the album that launched him, 'The Documentary 3' drops a Drake feature and several lines about the pressure to pick a lane in the Kendrick rift.
Frequency · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicMac Miller’s Estate Announces The Divine Feminine 10th Anniversary Edition, Unveils “Butterflies”: Stream
The anniversary edition of the rapper's fourth studio album comes out in October. Mac Miller’s Estate Announces The Divine Feminine 10th Anniversary Edition, Unveils “Butterflies”:
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📷 AI-generatedMusicTyler, the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw Just Got Its Biggest Lineup Yet — and He Made You Solve a Word Puzzle to See It
The 12th annual carnival lands at Dodger Stadium in November with Future, Steve Lacy, Turnstile and a deep bench of underground rap.
Frequency · 3w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicQuavo Teams With Pharrell for a Full Album — 'Trance' Is the Second Preview
QRÖMELIFE, Quavo's first solo album since 2023, is produced entirely by Pharrell Williams — and the new single leans straight into the club.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicInternet Money Drops 20 Tracks and Lets the Beats Stay the Star
'We All We Needed' is the producer collective betting on its own in-house voices instead of renting beats out to bigger names.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicTrippie Redd's 25-Track 'NDA' Is Out — and It's Betting Bigger Is Better
The Ohio rapper's sixth album stacks Lil Wayne, Young Thug, Kodak Black and a dozen more onto a project that doubles as a victory lap for SoundCloud rap's staying power.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicHow a Rap Album Actually Gets Made, From Empty Session to Release Day
Every rap album on the chart passed through the same handful of choke points — A&R, the beat, the booth, clearance, and the rollout — long before anyone streamed it.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusic03 Greedo Finally Finished the Song Fans Renamed Themselves
'If I, Pt. 3' spent nearly a decade circulating as a leak fans nicknamed 'Hold Me Down' — now it's official, with Ty Dolla $ign attached.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicThe Fugees Turned Piccadilly Circus Into a Diaspora Block Party for 'The Score's' 30th Birthday
Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean played the 1996 album front to back in London, then closed the night with a giant art film celebrating the global Black diaspora on the biggest screens in the city.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicErykah Badu Is Making Her First Album in 11 Years — With The Alchemist, and a Song About Not Being a Witch
'Witch Doctor' is the first taste of a joint album 18 months in the making, out August 28 — Badu's longest gap between projects yet, ending with hip-hop's most in-demand producer.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicDoja Cat Called Tyga "a Penis" Over His AI Album. Pitchfork Gave It a 0.
Two separate escalations landed on Tyga's new AI-assisted alter-ego record within days of each other — a callout from a former collaborator and the lowest score Pitchfork has handed out in nearly two decades.
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📷 AI-generatedMusic"Prolific," Nipsey Hussle and Bino Rideaux's Posthumous Album, Is Out Today
Nine years after the sessions that built it, and a promise from Nipsey's brother that it was 80% done, the wait ends August 14.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicChance the Rapper Is Touring 'Coloring Book' Front to Back for Its 10th Birthday
The mixtape that made Grammy history as a streaming-only release gets a nearly 40-city anniversary run — and a reminder of what independence used to look like.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicTrippie Redd's Album Changed Its Name Three Times. 'NDA' Finally Drops Tomorrow.
A yacht-recorded sequel, a Bieber feature, a cheating scandal, and a Kanye tease later, Trippie Redd's sixth album lands August 14 — under its fourth title.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicE-40 Announces the First Quadruple Album in Hip-Hop History
'Turning My Money Over' is 40 tracks across four discs, dropping Aug. 28 with Juvenile, Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Killer Mike, and more — right after E-40 landed his first Diamond plaque.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 FlickrMusicRoc Nation Shot Down the 'Jay-Z's Album Is Done' Rumor — But Read the Denial Closely
A management CEO said the album was 'completely done' unless a partner steps in. Roc Nation called it fake news — while only denying that it's finished, not that it exists.
Frequency · 4w ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicMegan Thee Stallion Says 'I'm Back.' Here's What 'Act III' Actually Needs to Deliver.
Two years after 'Megan' and 'Act II,' the trilogy's final chapter still doesn't have a release date — but it finally has momentum.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicBusta Rhymes Just Locked In the Date on J Dilla's Vault — 'Dillagence 2' Arrives August 25
Ma Dukes gave the tracks her blessing on camera. Now the sequel to 2007's 'Dillagence' has a release date, and maybe, a Lil Wayne feature.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicBillboard's Third Annual Hottest Female Rappers List Puts Cardi B Back on Top of a Deeper Field
The list keeps growing — Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion and Monaleo lead a class that now stretches deep enough to include a rookie who broke through on other people's songs.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicDon Toliver's Octane Era Is Over — the Nitrous Rollout Has Begun
A billion streams into his last album, Toliver rebranded his alt account, teased a cryptic new era, and kicked off a new tour leg to match.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicBusta Rhymes Is Finally Opening J Dilla's Vault — 300 Beats, One More Album
'Dillagence 2' arrives August 25 with a posthumous Dilla beat and, if the buzz from its first listening session holds, the first Lil Wayne verse ever recorded over his production.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicDrake Occupies Half of This Week's Combined Rap Chart — Again
Iceman is back at No. 1, 'Janice STFU' is the top single, and Drake's stacking chart records the same week his Stake-tied RICO suit heads into discovery.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicNipsey Hussle and Bino Rideaux Drop 'Sacrifices' — the Last Preview Before 'Prolific'
The single lands six days ahead of the posthumous joint album the estate has been building toward all summer.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicInspectah Deck's Fifth Solo Album Is a Full-Circle Trip Back to Shaolin
'Dragon's Breath' arrived with Raekwon, Cappadonna and Czarface in tow, right in the middle of a career-defining year for the Wu-Tang veteran.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDrake Just Got His First-Ever Latin Pop Feature — on Karol G's Most Personal Album Yet
'No Me Arrepiento De Sentir Tanto' drops today with Drake on 'Ahí' and Bruno Mars along for the ride.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicPooh Shiesty's Locked Up Until February. His New Album Dropped Today Anyway.
'All Eyes on Shiest' lands on New Music Friday, weeks after a judge denied him his last shot at bond.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicFuture Just Passed Eminem's Record. He's Already Teasing the Next One.
'The Real Me' gave him his 12th No. 1 album — now only Drake, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z and The Beatles have more.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicHeadie One Announces 'Monday Marathon Music' — His First Project Since 2024
The North London rapper previews the mixtape with 'Turnt to a Target,' a drill cut about what fame actually costs.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDon Toliver Just Renamed His Own Instagram — 'Octane' Is Officially Over
A cryptic Sunday post and a handle swap to @activate_nitrous say the next album's rollout has begun, even without a release date yet.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicScHoolboy Q Is Taking 'Blank Face LP' on the Road for Its 10th Birthday — Ten Cities, No More, No Less
The TDE classic gets a full anniversary run this October, with an LA stop already sold out before general tickets go on sale.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDon Toliver's 'Octane' Just Crossed a Billion Streams. Tonight He Turns It Into an Arena Tour.
The Nitrous leg kicks off in Sacramento, extending hip-hop's biggest streaming run of the year.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicKen Carson and Destroy Lonely's Joint Tape Has Been 'In Progress' for a Year. Here's Where It Stands.
Two Opium labelmates, ten to twenty songs a week, and still no title that's stuck.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicOpium Is Taking Its Underground Empire to ComplexCon This October
Playboi Carti's label keeps zero social presence and still dominates — with a new Destroy Lonely and Ken Carson joint project reportedly finished.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicLil Uzi Vert Dropped an EP on His Birthday and Buried a Bigger Tease in the Cover Art
'Maverick "Almost Forever"' jumped straight to No. 1 on Apple Music's rap chart — and the artwork says a full album is next.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicThe Greatest Hip-Hop Beefs, Explained (and What They Changed)
From the Bridge Wars to Kendrick and Drake, rap's biggest rivalries didn't just make headlines — they redrew the map of the genre.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicNipsey Hussle's Estate Sets a Date: 'Prolific' Arrives August 14
The next chapter after last week's Bino Rideaux collaboration news now has a hard release date.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicKen Carson's Album Finally Landed — After Fans Thought It Was Shelved
'Cartunez' was teased in June, blew through its July 10 date, and then dropped without warning on New Music Friday.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicNipsey Hussle's Estate Is Finishing What He Started With Bino Rideaux
A new Marathon Clothing brand and a 15-track posthumous album arrive together on August 14.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicJuicy J Traded Bangers for Spoken Word, and It's the Boldest Thing He's Ever Made
'The Clock Don't Go Back' swaps Three 6 Mafia menace for jazz-hop confessionals — and it barely sounds like him.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicTyga's '$TARFACE' Commits Fully to the 80s Alter Ego He Promised
The persona he teased earlier this month arrives intact, part of a stacked West Coast release day alongside Kurupt and DJ Battlecat.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicJacquees' 'Mood 2' Is Finally Out, and Juvenile Steals the Bounce Track
The 22-track follow-up to the mixtape that made him lands with K Camp, Tink, and a New Orleans legend riding shotgun.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 AI-generatedMusicKing Kashmere's Five-Year Bet Is Finally Out — 'Zero Point Modulations (Vol. 1)' Lands Today
The 23-track UK boom-bap-meets-grime record we previewed two weeks ago just landed via High Focus Records — with nearly every corner of the underground on it.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicJacquees Locks 'Mood 2' for July 31 — 22 Tracks, Juvenile Included
What started as a mid-July tease is now dated, tracklisted, and stacked with guests.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicFridayy Trades Heartbreak for a Caribbean Groove on 'Tension'
The Def Jam singer's third album lands August 14, led by the wistful 'Haiku.'
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📷 AI-generatedMusicRakim Doesn't Need a Comeback Album to Remind You Who Started This
The God MC drops "A Different Kind," a bar-for-bar reminder decades after "Paid in Full."
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📷 AI-generatedMusicThe Numbers Are In on 'Set In Stone' — and They're Worse Than the Projections
Rick Ross's first solo album in five years debuts at No. 45, and 50 Cent isn't done talking about it.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicJay-Z and Eminem Are Reportedly Reuniting on Wax — Eminem's Camp Says Not So Fast
A leaked Rakim, Kurupt and Masta Killa tracklist has Hov and Em's names next to the same song for the first time since 'Renegade.'
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📷 AI-generatedMusicYoung Thug Is Touring Again — and Bringing All of YSL's New Faces With Him
The New Generation Tour is his first headlining run since 2019, built to introduce Young Stoner Life's next wave alongside NAV.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicDave East and Harry Fraud Are Back for Round Four — 'Price of Pain' Lands July 29
Fourteen tracks, Snoop Dogg to Benny the Butcher, and the sound that's made Fraud rap's go-to cinematic producer.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicTyga Buries His Rap Persona for a Night — '$tarface' Is a Full 80s Alter Ego
Ten tracks of synth-wave and singing drop July 31, and Tyga says it's not really a Tyga album at all.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicThe Women Who Built Hip-Hop: A History Often Told Without Them
From the Bronx block parties to the boardroom, the genre's foundational figures were never only men — here's the record, set straight.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicMoneybagg Yo Breaks a 16-Month Solo Silence With 'I See Why'
His first solo single since March 2025 landed straight at the top of iHeartRadio's Rap Rising chart — and it might be setting up his first album in three years.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicLoe Shimmy Dedicates a 21-Track Album to His Female Fans — With Sexyy Red, Summer Walker and Brent Faiyaz Along for It
'Pretty Girlz Run the World' is the Pompano Beach rapper's biggest artistic swing yet, arriving off the back of a scene-stealing Drake feature.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicRick Ross's 'Set In Stone' Is Undershooting Expectations, and 50 Cent Won't Let It Go
Real Billboard math still beats 50's streaming napkin arithmetic — but the numbers aren't kind either way.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicRico Nasty Trades Rock for Sugar Trap Again on 'RX'
A year after the guitar-heavy 'Lethal,' she's back with Kenny Beats and a Dylan Brady feature in tow.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicRome Streetz Lands at Mass Appeal, and the Bars Haven't Softened
'Sock It 2 My Pocket' is the Queens lyricist's first album under Nas' label — built on Alchemist and 9th Wonder beats.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicJacquees Is Turning 'Mood' Into a Whole Album — With Juvenile Riding Shotgun
The follow-up to his breakout mixtape drops July 31 on Cash Money, and it's doubling down on the bounce revival he started weeks ago.
Frequency · 1mo ago
📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicIce-T Is Rapping Again — and Skipping Streaming to Do It
Twenty years after his last solo album, 'Criminal Migraine' arrives in August through his own OG Network, not Spotify.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicD12 Came Back Without Eminem — and Brought Proof's Voice With Them
'D12 Forever Vol. 1' leans on unreleased vocals from the group's late co-founder, a month into its run.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicRylo Rodriguez's New Album Is Winning Critics — and Starting a War With Offset
'S.K.A.T.E.' is drawing some of the best reviews of his career. One line about Casino got him banned from Atlanta, at least according to Offset's Instagram Stories.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicCypress Hill Are About to Drop Their First Album Entirely in Spanish
'Dios Bendiga' lands July 24, with Public Enemy's DJ Lord scratching over Cypress Hill's first complete project in four years.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicAtlanta Trap, Chicago & UK Drill, Detroit Rap: A Guide to Hip-Hop's Regional Sounds
How geography, drum machines, and local slang split hip-hop into distinct regional dialects — and why the differences still matter in the streaming era.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicRick Ross's 'Set In Stone' Lands, and the Reviews Aren't Kind
His first solo album in five years arrived stacked with features from T.I. to Gucci Mane — and immediate reaction is calling it one of his weakest efforts yet.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicYG's 'The Gentlemen's Club' Splits Critics — and Reopens an Old Rumor
His most emotionally exposed album yet pairs Pusha T and Tyler, the Creator features with a track addressing years of unproven claims tying him to Drakeo the Ruler's killing.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicThe Mixtape: How Hip-Hop's DIY Format Went From Cassette to Cloud
From corner-store cassettes to DatPiff to a Grammy on Chance the Rapper's mantel, the mixtape rewired how hip-hop gets made, shared, and heard.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicKen Carson's 'Xperiment' Is Out — and He's Already Onto the Next One
The 22-track fifth album leans hard on his Opium regulars, and a follow-up mixtape lands just a week later.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicLupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes, and B.o.B Are Taking the Blog Era on the Road
The 'Back to Basics' tour reunites three acts who soundtracked hip-hop's late-2000s crossover moment for a 19-city fall run.
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📷 FlickrMusicPost Malone Teases a Return to His Rap Roots, and Rap Is Here for It
A gravelly new clip has fans and fellow artists buzzing about the sound that made 'beerbongs & bentleys' a phenomenon.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicNettspend's 'HIM' Finally Makes It to Streaming — All 26 Tracks of It
A SoundCloud-only fan compilation of throwaways just went wide, and it's landing as one of the rage-rap era's most chaotic drops of the summer.
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📷 FlickrMusicThe Internet Confirm Their First Album in Nine Years Is Coming Early 2027
Syd, Steve Lacy and Matt Martians revealed the news on the same day both members dropped solo albums.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicJacquees Brings Back 'Mood' — and Pulls Juvenile Into the Bounce
Mood 2 drops July 31 with 22 tracks, features from K Camp and Tink, and a Juvenile assist that leans all the way into New Orleans.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicA Brief History of Sampling: How Hip-Hop Rebuilt Music From the Break
From Kool Herc's turntables to sample-clearance law to today's AI stem-splitters — the story of the technique that built a genre.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicKing Kashmere's 23-Track Bet on Boom-Bap Meeting Grime and Dub
'Zero Point Modulations (Vol. 1)' is five years in the making and drops July 30 via High Focus Records.
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📷 AI-generatedMusicInside 'Set In Stone': Rick Ross's First Solo Album in Five Years
The Bawse returns with T.I. and French Montana in tow on lead single 'Minks.'
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicLute Resurfaces With 'HARD TO REACH,' His Most Direct Album Yet
The Dreamville stalwart's new full-length trades ambient introspection for something closer to a confession.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicTory Lanez Announces 23-Song Double Album, Split Rap and R&B
The project drops with no guest features — two full discs, one from behind bars.
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📷 Wikimedia CommonsMusicFuture's 'The Real Me' Headlines the Most Stacked Release Night of the Summer
Future, Ken Carson, The-Dream and slayr all dropped the same night, ending a post-July 4th lull with a bang — and Drake-feature rumors trailing behind it.
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📷 FlickrMusicApache (Re-Rub) — The Incredible Bongo Band
(instrumental — the foundational hip-hop break)
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