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It felt like part of Childish Gambino died last night. As his sturdy frame lumbered through golden LSD obelisks and beads of sweat pooled on his back as “Redbone” played, he had the bearing of an exhausted man leaving behind a husk he’d never return to collect. At the outset …

As news that Drake‘s Scorpion would be a double album swept around the internet this week, it was quickly followed by a tantalizing rumor – one of the two LPs would be rap, while the other would be entirely R&B. Drake became a star by mixing these forms; now he …

“I gotta say, when it comes down to discovering weird samples, that dude’s kind of all over it,” says Now Again Records founder Eothen “Egon” Alapatt of Kanye West, the superstar producer who’s dropped five sample-soaked releases in the past five weeks. “He has a lot of help, of course, …

Kanye West defended himselfin a wide-ranging New York Times profileamid the backlash for his support of President Trump and his controversial comment that slavery “sounds like a choice.” Attempting to frame his Trump endorsement in a wider context, he compared what he felt was a societal pressure to vote Democrat …

One humid afternoon in Atlanta, Cardi B, the new princess of hip-hop, wakes up in an endless white mansion flanked by tall trees. This is her fiancé’s castle – he’s Offset from Migos – and there are enough six-figure cars parked outside to form a small-town parade. By the curved …

Buried in some corner of YouTube is a video of Bay Area rapper Saweetie circa 2012 stanning for J. Cole outside a concert venue’s backdoor. She’s patient while her favorite rapper – the one whose mixtapes, burned for her by a friend, made her fall in love with music – …

The same day that Kanye West released a reflective two-hour interview with Charlamagne the God, he also visited TMZ for a live interview that appeared to be wildly different. The rapper drew tremendous ire for his flippant comments about the history of American slavery. “When you hear about slavery for …

Meek Millhas been released from prison following an order from the Philadelphia Supreme Court, CBSreports. The rapper, whose legal name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, served an up-to-four year sentence for violating probation stemming from a 2008 conviction on drug and gun counts. He has been in jail since last November. …

Logic raps about sinning and embracing imperfections on the new version of Sam Smith‘s “Pray.” The remixed track serves as the third single from Smith’s The Thrill of It All album. The original version of “Pray” was somber, grandiose gospel-pop. Logic’s presence adds a radio-friendly touch at a time when …

Macklemore is returning on September 22nd with Gemini, his first album without producer Ryan Lewis since 2005. It’s arriving less than two yearsafterThis Unruly Mess I’ve Made, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ follow-up to the platinum smash The Heist.One of 2016’s most ambitious blockbuster rap outings, Mess featured an eight-minute concept …