Tag Archives: hip-hop

Trippie Redd has shared the tracklist as well as the cover art for his upcoming Trip at Knight LP. While the rapper has not officially announced the release date, it’s expected to arrive before he embarks on his headlining North American tour, which kicks off on August 25th at Armory …

J. Cole, Kid Cudi and Future lead the lineup for the 2021 installment of hip-hop festival Rolling Loud California. Tickets go on sale on June 1st at 12 p.m. PT. The festival expands from two days to three and will be held at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino from …

J. Cole has dropped new song “Interlude” in advance of the release of his sixth studio album, The Off-Season, which is slated to arrive on May 14th. “I be coming in peace, but fuck me/Best beware of the others/This shit deep, undercovers creep/This southern heat make unbearable summers,” he raps …

BlueBucksClan is the duo of South Los Angeles rappers and former football buddies DJ and Jeeezy. Since their emergence in 2019, the pair has been busy, dropping six projects in two years. Their seventh, the mixtape Clan Virus 2, will be released on March 26. Clan Virus 2 single “Last …

On his 1994 coming-of-age masterpiece Illmatic, Nas rendered the sprawling Queensbridge Houses, and the thrills and despair of young Black life in Dinkins-era New York City, with the detail and scale of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. He’s never come close to making another Illmatic, but he’s still mining the …

In February of 2018, G Herbo was sentenced two years of house arrest after officers caught him with a firearm while riding in a limo in his hometown of Chicago. For the next two years, he would begin to grapple with why: “It was from post traumatic stress disorder,” G …

I didn’t expect to still be listening to Lil Yachty in 2020. In fairness, it has less to do with him than me: too much of my early career as a music writer was consumed defending the crimson-haired Atlanta rapper from traditionalist critics like Joe Budden in the early era …

It does not feel like “Life Is Good.” In fact, life feels terrible. There is a palpable sense of anxiety filling in the air as the threat of another war looms, and Timothée Chalamet’s new mustache is a wispy atrocity. Future and Drake are above such petty grievances and concerns. …

For hip-hop, and the larger music industry, it’s an agonizingly familiar story: a promising young artist, gone way too soon. In the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brendan Klinkenberg and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for a look at the life and music of genre-crossing rapper Juice …

Seminal hip-hop duo Gang Starr return with new song “Family and Loyalty” featuring J. Cole. The track is the group’s first new music in 16 years and features the late Guru, who died in 2010. “This record means so much to me,” DJ Premier said in a statement. ” It’s …