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Juice WRLD, MTV's Push artist for the month of November, may be young, although he still is aware what it's like to hang with the modern hip-hop establishment. The 19-year-old rapper is fresh off a joint release with Future called WRLD On Drugs, which also features appearances by Lil Wayne, Young Thug, and Nicki Minaj. Although his fashion is more varied than his résumé might sugges..
Read Moreyou might have found that Nicki Minaj didn't grace the red carpet at the 2018 MTV EMA on Sunday night (November 4), nevertheless that's for very good reason — she had a hell of an efficiency to get ready for. The Queen rapper spared no drama while starting the star-studded awards show, kicking off the festivities with slick choreo, sparks, and Britain's hottest girl group. Nicki's ..
Read MoreVince Staples's new album, FM!, is out now, as of Friday (November 2). Because the brief although potent follow-up to 2017's Big Fish Theory — the dude cranks 11 tracks out of only 22 minutes of material — FM! hits like one big blast of energy as an alternative opposed to a dozen individual songs. segment of that comes from the loose concept hinted at by the album's title, that t..
Read MoreOn September 6, the day before Mac Miller's untimely death, he tweeted out a link to purchase tickets for his Swimming Tour, promising, "This show is going to be special every night." The 26-date trek was slated to kick off on October 27 in San Francisco before touching down at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on October 31. And while we'll don't get to be able to see what Mac had in store ..
Read MoreCardi B is fed up with Nicki Minaj. About what, you might ask? Literally everything. On Monday (October 29), the rappers' beef came to a head (again) as soon as Cardi took to Instagram to speak her piece in a series of candid videos. Her comments came soon after Nicki used the tenth episode of her Queen Radio show to provide $100,000 for footage of her and Cardi's NYFW altercation (t..
Read MoreQuick! How several visitor verses has Nicki Minaj racked up in 2018? The response, surprisingly, isn't as several as last year — although yet still quite a couple of. And so they run the gamut of vibes, also, from more long-established sexy pop with Little Mix ("Woman Like Me") and Ariana Grande ("The Light Is Coming") to harder hip-hop with Post Malone ("Ball With Me") and YG and o..
Read MoreMigos may be one of the best groups in music, however Quavo and Offset tend to command most of the spotlight. That changed on Friday (October 26), whenever the most low-key and under-appreciated Migo, Takeoff, released the lead single from his upcoming debut solo album. "Last Memory" finds Takeoff ditching his quiet persona and taking a brasher approach to life, as he spits high-spee..
Read MorePeople aren't routinely as they seem, and that's never been more apparent than in Anderson .Paak and Kendrick Lamar's new video for "Tints." The fashionable, Collin Tilley-directed vid starts with a poignant quote from Edgar Allan Poe: "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you visualize from then on, the vid gives us five wild minutes contrasting people's public and p..
Read MoreFuture and Juice WRLD are going full throttle with their WRLD on Drugs rollout, right after dropping off the collaborative album last week. Since Wednesday night (October 24), they've delivered three videos for standout cuts from the project: "No Issues," "Realer N Realer," and "WRLD on Illegal narcotics — and each is more surreal than last. the opening, "No Issues," was directed b..
Read MoreRight now that it's almost Halloween, it's already basically Christmas — at least, that's what the décor in your local pharmacy would propose. And the holiday season means both Christmas music and Christmas movies are on their way. That as a new take on The Grinch, this time anchored by Benedict Cumberbatch, Kenan Thompson, and Pharrell in a very key role because the narrator. It ..
Read MoreSoon after a summer break that saw her giving birth to a baby girl, notching her third No. 1 single, winning a few VMAs, and getting embroiled in a heated feud with Nicki Minaj, Cardi B is back with new music. Cash arrived on Tuesday (October 23), two days ahead of its scheduled release, because apparently Cardi just couldn't wait to get back to the cash. Unsurprisingly, the new bang..
Read MoreJoey Purp's QUARTERTHING is one of the strongest hip-hop albums of the year, led by the 24-year-old Chicago MC's penchant for hopping from fashion to fashion, never settling in for also long on one approach. This is clear right from the starting, as soon as Joey teams up with RZA to break down the home on the album's blistering second track, "Godbody Pt. 2." On Monday night (October ..
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