Brooklyn rapper Bobby Shmurda was released from a New York prison after serving six years of his seven-year sentence, according to state corrections records. Bobby Shmurda had been incarcerated on weapon and conspiracy charges after prosecutors described the rapper as the leader of a violent drug gang in East Flatbush. …
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Lil Yachty and Kodak Black have joined forces for new song “Hit Bout It.” In the song’s accompanying video, the rappers cruise around in convertible Ferraris and hit the club. The frenetic pacing of the fast-cut-edited video mirrors the rapper’s fiery cadences. “I’m paranoid I can’t hang out for long …
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City Girls performed “Pussy Talk,” changed to “Kitty Talk” for broadcast purposes, and “Jobs” during the BET Hip Hop Awards on Tuesday. City Girls’ Yung Miami and JT were nominated in the Best Duo or Group category, competing with Earthgang, Jackboys, Migos, Chris Brown and Young Thug, and Run the …
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Noah “40” Shebib wants to show me his brain. The producer grabs a yellow Post-it Note from an island in the middle of his studio and sketches out two ovals. He leaves the first oval empty; it represents 2007. He drags a harsh charcoal line through the center of the …
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Sun and moon. Yin and Yang. East and West. Socrates and Plato. Kid Cudi and Travis Scott. From the start, the latter’s career has been inextricably tied to the former. Lore has it that the “Scott” in Travis Scott was inspired by Cudi’s real name, Scott Mescudi. Over the years, …
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Lil Uzi Vert released his long-awaited sophomore album,Eternal Atake, last Friday. It quickly became the most popular album in the country, competing with the first-week numbers of artists like BTS and Justin Bieber. What’s more, it was the dynamic young rapper’s best work to date, a blisteringly charming and musically …
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“Gimme that butt!” Big Boi bellows from behind the mixing board of his famed Atlanta studio, Stankonia. The call for butts is addressed to Hootie Hoo, a sleepy Eurasian eagle-owl perched next to him. Along with Hoodini, Simon, and Tula, Hootie is one of four pet owls the rapper lets …
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Gospel and secular music are often viewed as distinct spheres with little to no overlap. But don’t tell that to writer-producer Warryn Campbell, who has been hopping industry fences between rap, R&B, and gospel for two decades — and won Grammy awards for his work in each genre. That makes …
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Hip-hop is the greatest workplace comedy. Blood turns to beef, bosses become bitter, and rappers inevitably end up scorning their former places of employment. The latest example of this phenomenon comes courtesy of T.I. and Iggy Azalea. During a press stop for the new Netflix show Rhythm + Flow, the …
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RZA speaks about his new office-bound lifestyle with reverence — the grind and mundanity, structure and camaraderie. The writers’ room for Hulu’s new original series, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is, in his words, a utopian ideal. He describes working on the show with words like “sacred” and “therapy.” From October …
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