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In his comeback into the public spotlight, Kanye West drew a massive crowd for his big comeback concert in Istanbul, Turkey. “I just want to tell y’all, we just broke the record of 118,000, largest stadium performance of all time,” he told the crowd. This doesn’t hold completely true, as Croatian singer Marko Perković sold 504,000 tickets in Zagreb, Croatia. Additionally, it doesn’t account for American artists either. Bruce Springsteen […]

From a diss-laden freestyle to a State Property reunion, the rapper lit up his first top-billed solo performance in over five years Read More RSS: News News 

It’s not often Jay-Z indulges in rap beef anymore. One of hip-hop’s billionaires in the industry, he hardly has to indulge in such exchanges anymore. The most you’ll hear is some stray shots in the occasional feature verse. Now, with his freestyle at the Roots Picnic, he’s giving some of his most concentrated disses in years. The most notable of all the Hov subliminals was against Drake. On Drake’s ICEMAN […]

Dr. Dre was a foundational piece to the career of Anderson .Paak. The same could be argued for Dre’s comeback album, Compton. After going MIA for 15+ years and scrapping Detox, .Paak was a massive fixture in the making of the album, credited across six songs. Ever since, the Malibu singer has been one of the biggest, most respected artists working today. He could do fun side quests as DJ […]

Back in the late 2000s, Kid Cudi and Kanye West were breaking boundaries within hip-hop. Ye came into the game wearing polos and backpacks, going against the grain of gangsta rap. By the time Cudi burst onto the scene, he was a similar trailblazer. Rapping and singing about mental health was extremely uncommon within mainstream hip-hop. The same goes for bridging indie rock into his brand of music. Consequently, the […]

When you come out with an album titled Life is Good, you don’t expect it to tackle divorce. But that was what Nas dealt with in 2012, all the way down to the album cover. “I had a pretty public divorce. They’re not easy, divorces. And it took me a long time to really get through. The album cover gives you that; it gives you what’s been happening with me, […]

People would never associate country music with T-Pain. Even when he gave a pretty stirring cover of Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey”, you’d never imagine a full pivot into Nashville. After all, just about any and everyone loves “Tennessee Whiskey”. That doesn’t make someone country. However, what we didn’t know is that T-Pain had been quietly working behind the scenes in Nashville for some years. In a 2024 interview with Billboard, […]

The late DJ’s mixtapes will be uploaded weekly until the end of June Read More RSS: News News