Music

On this day 21 years ago, Common released Be, his warm opus largely headed by a white-hot Kanye West. The Chicago rappers paired up for eight of the ten songs, with J Dilla dropping in for the two standouts “Love Is…” and “It’s Your World (Part 1 & 2)”. It came on the heels of an ambitious but commercially underwhelming Electric Circus in 2002 that some critics trashed. “So, is […]

Celebrity boxing has become one of the most fascinating spectacles in the world today. If you win, you get some kind of glory, but not compared to real boxers. If you lose, it’s extremely embarrassing, and you become the trending topic for the day. Ray J, however, is no stranger to ridiculous virality. Now, it’s because he got knocked out during a recent celebrity boxing event. At Adin Ross’ BrandRisk […]

The Harlem MC, who was one-half of the duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, had been living with cancer Read More RSS: News News 

Maybe the last thing you’d expect at a Ricky Martin concert is *checks notes* tear gas. That’s exactly what happened, however, at one of his recent shows, and the whole thing came to a screeching halt. On Thursday (May 21), the “Livin’ la Vida Loca” singer was performing in Montenegro, as the first stop on his 2026 European tour. At some point during the show, someone set off tear gas […]

On this day 26 years ago, Eminem released The Marshall Mathers LP, an album that remains his magnum opus. It was dark, disturbing, and dexterous in how he rapped about the subject matter. It’s certainly uneasy to listen to records like “Kim”, a violent screaming match that just so happened to be a rap song. But it’s a singular vision that only the Detroit legend could’ve pulled off. “Eminem could […]

We know how much 50 Cent loves to troll people. There’s decades worth of antagonism underneath his belt, the mean-spirited jabs at all of his rivals. He thrives off of the negativity and will spend a lifetime feuding with people like Ja Rule. However, underneath that hardened exterior is still a human being dealing with grief like everyone else. One of the most formative experiences in his life was the […]

Over 10 years ago, Earl Sweatshirt made music from an extremely dark place. His 2015 album I Don’t Like S**t, I Don’t Go Outside was extremely stark and lyrically dense, digging deep into paranoia and depression. “I was f***ed up when I made ‘Grief’,” he told Pitchfork in 2015. “I had been prescribed to be inside because I had f***ing medical exhaustion, so I was asleep for, like, three weeks […]

Typically, artists treat albums like their babies. It’s a massive labor of love, even when the music business can make them cynical. So it’s surprising to consider that Lupe Fiasco actually hates one of his albums. You would think someone so deeply intricate and intentional about their concepts and lyrical exercises would be even more protective about their work. However, it’s not necessarily the creative process that made Lupe hate […]