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Lil Uzi Vert is a mercurial being. One day he announces that the release of his long-awaited album, Eternal Atake, is imminent, and the next he’s threatening retirement. The back and forth is a way of life for Lil Uzi Vert fans, who seem split between an extreme sense of …

Rap’s biggest commercial asset of the year has been broad, virality-prone comedy. If a rapper isn’t impersonating one of the most infamous label bosses in the genre’s history, singing about about horses and hot-pressed sandwiches, or pandering to TikTok, the song is likely a tree falling in a very empty …

On Friday morning, Chance The Rapper‘s young and cherubic face loomed over my Spotify, without any new music attached. Earlier this week, he announced that his cult classic mixtapes, 2012’s 10 Day and2013’sAcid Rap, were joining the rest of his discography on all major streaming services after years of confined …

Supermarketis the tale of a depressed grocery store employee in the suburbs whose ordinary life is disrupted when he stumbles upon a crime scene. But you wouldn’t exactly know that — or really much else about the plot, style, characters or writing — from the reviews from its fans. Logic, …

It was either, depending on how you looked at it, a great blessing or a growing problem: Def Jam had way too many rappers on its hands. In a single year, the record label had gone on a mad signing spree for one young act after another, prompted by streaming’s …

Identified as “The Mother of Rap” in Spanish, Melymel spits fire alongside Puerto Rican reggaeton royalty, Ivy Queen, in their brazen new trap single “Se Te Apago La Luz,” or “Turn Out the Light.” The song is the latest release off Melymel’s 2018 album, Dragon Queen, out now on Empire …

O ne day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life. Against the menacing strains of his viral hit “Gummo,” he and a …

30 years later, 1988 still stands as rap’s greatest year. The lyrical molotovs of Nation of Millions and Straight Outta Compton, the post-modern (and pre-lawsuit) free-for-all of sampling, the national spotlight of a new show called Yo! MTV Raps and much more. To celebrate 30 years, Rolling Stone’s Best of …

“Sicko Mode” might be a song of the year contender, and the most popular song on Travis Scott‘sAstroworld. But real Astroheads and Travaholics know that “Yosemite,” featuring Gunna and Nav, is the album’s brightest moment. Thankfully, the holiday season can begin now that Travis has delivered his latest gift, the …

Fabolous (real name John David Jackson) was indicted by a Bergen County grand jury on four felony charges stemming from an alleged attack on his girlfriend in March. The New York rapper was charged with one count of domestic violence, one count of possession of a weapon (scissors) for unlawful …