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By Lucas Villa In Latin rap, a genre largely dominated by cishet male artists in the spotlight, Villano Antillano resembles the communities still in the shadows: the LGBTQ+ community and girls. The Puerto Rican rapper, who is transgender and nonbinary, centers her local community in her playful new music video for the thumping track "Muñeca," shining through with every color of the ..
Read MoreBy Alex Gonzalez Once Missy Elliott got into the studio to record her third album Miss E… So Addictive, the bar was already set high. Her first album, 1997’s Supa Dupa Fly, was accompanied by iconic music videos for “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” and “Sock it 2 Me” that noticed her dancing in eccentric costumes to intricate choreography on cinematic sets in teamwork with vis..
Read MoreWhen Megan Thee Stallion and Lil Durk are in company with each other, they're unstoppable. The duo released the music video for their fan-favorite collab track "Movie" on Thursday (April 15) and brought the lights, camera, and action with them. Directed by Mike Ho, Megan and Lil Durk are the life of the party being contained at the fictional club Stallions. As money appears to r..
Read MoreEarl Simmons, the prolific rapper who came up in the ’90s battle-rap scene and ruled early aughts hip-hop as Dark Man X, or DMX, died on Friday (April 9). He was 50 years old. DMX died immediately after suffering a heart attack, multiple sources have confirmed. It was triggered by an overdose, which TMZ first reported occurred around 11 p.M. On the evening of Friday, April 2. DMX w..
Read Morefurthermore to calling him by your name, you could also call Lil Nas X a two-time Billboard No. 1 artist. The 21-year-old’s latest single, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” reached the best spot of the Billboard Hot 100 charts on April 5. In response, he’s rightfully taken to social media to revel in the achievement and, naturally, share a few SpongeBob memes along t..
Read MoreBy Sam Manzella From the very first verse of Jesswar’s “Venom,” we know she didn’t come to play. The rising Fijian-Aussie rapper lets the poison flow, pairing fierce beats with slick rhymes that extol her excellence. Nevertheless this unapologetic self-assuredness didn’t routinely come so conveniently. Zooming with MTV News from her new digs in Australia’s scenic Yugambe..
Read MoreThe good news: Drake's got a new release lined up for tonight at midnight (March 5). The bad news: It's not Certified Lover Boy, the rapper's long-delayed sixth studio album he first announced could be dropping in the summer of 2020. The LP is still on ice (for right now, nevertheless in the meantime, he's giving us another installment of Scary Hours, likely similar to the EP of the s..
Read MoreAny time Maluma spent seven days in Jamaica, he walked away with a new EP. "On Monday, we did the opening song, then on Tuesday, the second song," he tells MTV News. "It was like a whole experience making the album in seven days." The result of that excursion was #7DJ (7 Días en Jamaica), the Colombian artist's newest release, for which he also created seven new music videos. They l..
Read MoreBig Latto will be the initial to tell you her success was "far from overnight." The 22-year-old MC — who grew up rhyming at block parties, eventually rising by way of the local scene in Atlanta and initial for bigger rappers whenever she was still a teenager — is finally bubbling up globally, though it's not because of one particular moment. The way she explains, it's the culminat..
Read MorePatientce Foster has made a name for herself by making names for others — and become a star while doing so. The North Carolina-born, Delaware-raised publicist started representing Cardi B if she was just 26 and, in a couple of years under her guidance, the rapper would appear on multiple TV shows, grace the covers of Rolling Stone and New York magazine, and ascend to the top of the ..
Read MoreBy Candace McDuffie Lil Skies sonically resides in a realm where raw and unfiltered emotion rules. The 22-year-old emcee made noise with his 2018 major-label mixtape, Life of a Dark Rose, which, on the surface, came across as piece of the omnipresent emo rap that has permeated the music industry within the past five years. However upon further exploration, it is clear that the rapper..
Read MoreBy Regina Kim “We were anomalies as soon as we started,” says Tablo of the Korean hip-hop trio Epik High, which he leads. A Stanford graduate whose given name is Daniel Lee, he wears a black cap and matching hoodie on the opposite end of a Zoom call, giving off a laid-back, unassuming air that belies his status as a South Korean superstar. Though rap and hip-hop have become infus..
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