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Getty Image As the controversy surrounding Jay-Z’s partnership with the NFL splits the hip-hop community and sports fans’ opinions of the mogul, Jay’s Roc Nation and the NFL continue to roll out details of their joint venture/smokescreen effort. Today, they announced that Meek Mill will headline a free concert September 5 at the NFL Kickoff Experience in Chicago’s Grant Park along with Rapsody and Meghan Trainor — all, it should […]

As summer winds down, Lil Wayne and SiR are chasing the high of the season up until the autumn leaves start to fall. Friday morning, SiR released his third album Chasing Summer via Top Dawg. SiR enlisted the services of seven artists to guest-feature on the 14-track effort, most notably Lil Wayne on the album’s seventh track “Lucy’s Love”. With a stamped legacy, Wayne’s been relatively quiet since the release […]

Getty Image / Uproxx Studios Chaotic, genre-juggling experimentation has always been a cornerstone of Brockhampton‘s sound. So has their emotional vulnerability. The two impulses have worked in concert throughout the self-declared “boy band’s” growing catalog, but they’ve also clashed just as often. On their latest release, Ginger, it appears they’ve found something like harmony after a year of intense struggles and heartfelt soul-searching. The music on Ginger reflects their growth […]

Travis Scott is on a whole other level. And we’re not talking about the rapper’s recent song-stealing moment on Young Thug’s new single “The London” or the heavy hype cloud that looms over his next collaboration with Nike. Nah, Travis Scott is going bigger than any rapper before him, he’s dipping a toe in the breakfast cereal game. Again. Back in June, Travis Scott and General Mills linked up for […]

Getty Image Chicago rapper Lil Durk had some good news for his fans today after being placed on house arrest earlier this year. The “U Said” rapper shared a post on Instagram that said he has been cleared to travel for shows, while he is still awaits trial for attempted murder for a shooting in February. The comments were filled with fans and supporters — including fellow Chicagoan Chance The […]

For their new music video “Graduation,” Juice WRLD and Benny Blanco have imagined the ending of a high school movie, complete with an all-star cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Dove Cameron, Noah Cyrus, Olivia Munn, and Lil Dicky. The video fits well over Juice WRLD’s “Graduation,” a way for the young rapper to reflect on the last gasp of his teenage years. As the video begins, teens played Steinfeld and Smith […]

Getty Image Kodak Black has pleaded guilty to gun charges that first put the rapper in jail last May. He allegedly falsified legal documents in order to obtain three firearms and was later arrested in Miami just before he was set to perform at the Rolling Loud Festival. The rapper was taken into custody and denied bail after a judge deemed him dangerous to the community. Kodak initially pleaded not […]

Getty Image Chance the Rapper recently dropped his album, The Big Day, after much anticipation. The album has many collaborators from artists like Megan Thee Stallion and Death Cab for Cutie. Chance has now shared a homemade lyric video to his track “Hot Shower,” which features DaBaby and MadeinTYO. The video is filled with visual puns and shows a corresponding image to each lyric of the song. The video begins […]

Getty Image This August was full of high-quality releases. There were several really good albums that didn’t make this month’s list, a testament to how well hip-hop collectively closed out an already amazing summer of music. There were high-profile offerings from Missy, Rick Ross, and Young Thug, as well as albums from Rapsody and Little Brother which are some of the best we’ll get all year. Up and comers BROCKHAMPTON […]