Tag Archives: hip-hop

Jack Harlow had a whole lot to say in nearly a week’s worth of interviews, conducted in Los Angeles and in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, for his first Rolling Stone cover story. With “First Class,” the Fergie-sampling second single from May 6’s Come Home the Kids Miss You, out …

Smokepurpp and Lil Gnar team up in the new video for “Not Your Speed.” It’s Smokepurpp’s first new music since he dropped the EP Psycho (Legally Insane) in February. In the Ndoh-directed clip, the rappers flip off their boss at a diner in favor of taking a joy ride. But …

Rick Ross has dropped new single “Outlawz” featuring Jazmine Sullivan and 21 Savage. It’s the first single from the rapper’s upcoming album Richer Than I Ever Been, which arrives Dec. 10 via Maybach Music Group/Epic Records. On the new song Sullivan opens the track, soulfully declaring they’re “forever outlaws” and …

Lil Nas X has dropped his debut album, Montero, on streaming services (it officially arrives on Friday) and he’s also shared the video for the LP track “That’s What I Want.” The Stillz-directed clip opens on the rapper-singer finding lovers on the football field and by a campfire, but by …

After much anticipation, Atlanta rapper Lil Baby’s and Chicago’s Lil Durk’s collaboration The Voice of the Heroes hit streaming platforms today. Teased in March, the project is a power move from the two acts whose stars rose immeasurably in the past year. Among other successes, last June, Lil Baby found …

Gregory Jacobs, the charismatic, affable Digital Underground rapper-producer who performed as Shock G and Humpty Hump, was found dead Thursday, April 22nd at a hotel room in Tampa, Florida. Jacobs’ father confirmed the musician’s death to TMZ. He was 57. The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner announced Thursday, June 10th that …

DMX‘s first foray into major-label hip-hop was a failure. In the early 1990s, he released “Born Loser,” a loping anti-anthem for the down-and-out: “Even when I was little, nothing went my way/I got beat up and chased home from school every day,” DMX rapped. The single’s tone turns defiant — …

Playboi Carti tells me his mood of late can be described as “punk monk.” He means it sort of holistically. The rapper has an almost religious devotion to the studio, spending every day there; his current project is the deluxe version of his recent album Whole Lotta Red. Carti says …

One wonders what Notorious B.I.G would have thought about smartphones. The late New York MC, who is the subject of a new Netflix documentary titled Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, was an eager evangelist of the humble camcorder. Early on in the documentary, his longtime friend Damion “D-Roc” …

Cardi B has dropped the video for her new single “Up.” It’s her first new music since her 2020 megahit “WAP” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, which topped Rolling Stone‘s “Best Songs of 2020” list. In the Tani Muino visual, which was filmed over two days during Christmas break, Cardi appears …