Over the weekend, Cardi B co-headlined the second night of the Rolling Loud festival in Los Angeles, and also Lil Uzi Vert. While in her set, though, her estranged hubby, Migos's Offset, crashed the stage in what he likely imagined to be a grand romantic gesture, asking for her forgiveness and for her to take him back. He did this with wheeled-out displays that read "Take Me Back, Car..

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Kanye West's latest Twitter tirade is here, and yes it targets none other than Drake — because it was only a matter of time before that simmering feud reached a boiling point. Kanye took to Twitter on Thursday (December 13) immediately after seemingly being triggered by Drake's request to sample one of his tracks. He posted a screenshot of someone named Free informing hm that the T..

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J Balvin had a good year. Certainly he did. Bolstered by his flexible 2017 hit, "Mi Gente" (which cracked the best 20 and noticed a big fan in Beyoncé, who lent vocals to a remix), his album Vibras likewise hit No. 15 on the Billboard 200. It's also appeared on plenty of year-end albums lists as a standout. Balvin also, naturally, helped make Cardi B's "I Like It" one of the greatest..

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Against all odds, the wins keep coming for Meek Mill. The Philly native's new album and first post-prison LP, Championships, has debuted at No. 1, Billboard announced on Monday (December 10). It marks the rapper's second chart-topper, following 2015's Dreams Worth More Than Money. On top of that, Meek has also notched his first top 10 single, because the Drake-featuring "Going Bad" d..

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As 2018 comes to a close and each person scrambles to curate their variety of preference music from this year, Jay-Z has proposed his personalized take. On Monday (December 10), the hip-hop mogul released a Tidal playlist of the rap songs that got heavy rotation at the Carter house this year, and it's packed with smash hits and deep cuts alike. Titled "JAY-Z's Year End Picks," the 20..

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In Tierra Whack's world, MTV stands for gentlemen touch vaginas," ABC means "all gentlemen cry," and BET stands for "bitches eat tacos.” That's according to "Cable Guy," one of the most obtainable points of entry on her shapeshifting, impressive debut, Whack World, a swirling realm all her own where songs disappear just as unsystematically as they materialize. Welcome to an entirely..

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Fresh off a week that concluded with five Grammy nominations to cheer about, Cardi B started another week with an appearance on CBS This Morning on December 9. She kept busy throughout it, too: She's filmed taking photographs with fans on the street and revisiting the supermarket in the Bronx where she had her first job. Yet most notably, the 26-year-old rapper also addressed her ong..

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Eight years soon after Eminem chronicled a violent relationship in his "Love the Way You Lie" video, he's back with an identically upsetting narrative in the visual for "Good Guy." The Jessie Reyez-featuring track is a sequel to "Nice Guy," another Em and Reyez group effort that deals with the turbulent romances Em gets embroiled in. In the "Good Guy" video, that's illustrated in blo..

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As ever, Drake remained inescapable in 2018. His vicious beef with Pusha T ended in an atomic dis track and the revelation of a secret son. He also helped orchestrate four wildly viral music videos with young visionary director Karena Evans. All that matters. Although radio matters, also. As one of music's steadiest avenues for repeated exposure, it remains a substantial piece of the..

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Pour one out for rap's first couple — Cardi B and Offset have split up, according to a video the "Money" rapper posted overnight. "Things just haven't been working out between us for a long time, and it's nobody's fault. It's just that I guess we grew out of love," Cardi mentioned in the candid clip, adding that they've tried unsuccessfully to work things out "for a hot minute." Sh..

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Every December, while we patiently wait for those sweet, automated Spotify year-end playlists to hit our phones, we're treated to an even larger banquet of number-crunching — namely the granular information that reveals which artists had the ideal 2018 as far as streaming is concerned. Right now we know who ruled, and the response makes total sense to anyone who's been following alo..

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Travis Scott turned his Astroworld Tour stage into a raucous roller coaster ride this year, and right now he's putting his full theme park on display in the new video for "Yosemite." The Nabil-directed vid finds Travis and Gunna rapping from aboard a private jet while a kid (possibly a younger version of La Flame) falls from the sky and lands in a thick, mystical jungle. As he starts..

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