“Speak, bitch, and say our fucking names.” It’s Madonna, bitch. And Sam Smith, ho. With just a little over one month to go until opening night of her first-ever greatest hits tour in Vancouver (yes, I’ll be in attendance like an insane person), M is pulling double duty in between rehearsals and hitting the recording […]
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Vern Large The Beat Merchant continues to bring the heat as one of the best producers out with hit collaboration, “The Realness” featuring Jon Connor. Vernell W. Israel IV is one of Carolina’s finest on the beats. Under his alias, Vern Large The Beat Merchant, he has become what many producers would call the pinnacle
Dr. Dre opened up about N.W.A. during a recent appearance on Peacock’s Hart to Heart. The group was one of the most influential rap groups of all time, helping define the genres of rap, hardcore rap, and gangsta rap. The gangsta rap label is one that members like Dre seemingly embraced at the time. “Just
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TikTok has announced that it has 150 million active users in the U.S., up 50 % from 100 million users in August 2020. Privacy concerns driven by TikTok owner ByteDance’s connections to the Chinese government have made it a political punching bag, with jabs coming from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as President
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Hov did. Photos: Kevin Mazur/Getty JAY-Z’s life and work is being celebrated with a massive exhibition titled, The Book Of HOV, at the Brooklyn Public Library. On Friday (Jul. 14), The Book Of HOV, a 40,000-square-foot exhibition featuring historic archives of JAY, was debuted to the public. It spans throughout the library’s Grand Army Plaza
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Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week. So that R&B heads can focus on listening to what they really love in its true form, we’ll
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Love deep house music? There’s a playlist for that. Do you have some underground trap music you want everyone to nod along to? There’s a hard rap playlist just waiting for you to submit to within the depths of these vast reaching services. Not to mention the songs on these playlists are likely to also be
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JT’s latest single may be titled “No Bars,” but the rapper had endless zingy one-liners for her partner Lil Uzi Vert’s former fling. According to a Twitter Voice message recorded by JT, a woman named Saudiah B has been attempting to grab the attention of Uzi. “A have to do a voice note for this
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HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @BeanzGotGamez / Jadakiss The current version of Kanye West sucks, and finally, one of his Hip-Hop brethren, Jadakiss, is admitting that. Hip-Hop has a Kanye West problem. No matter what headassery he does, rappers still run to whatever janky makeshift studio setup he builds to add their
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