Speculation has been flying over the past few weeks that EsDeeKid, a Liverpool rapper who performs with his face shrouded around his eyes, is actually the musical side project of actor Timothée ...
Juvenile’s recent run of viral “car raps” — including a four-million-view clip — has sparked a fresh wave of attention as the New Orleans legend readies new music. The New Orleans rap icon, known for ...
Every month, The FADER's Vivian Medithi showcases all the standout rap songs from the past 30-ish days in one unranked list. Over the sort of subtle ShunGu beat that makes you sit up and listen a ...
It feels like the Billboard charts could use a good rap beef right about now. That’s because, according to the publication, for the first time since 1990, there is no hip hop in the Top 40 of the ...
As one long-running hip-hop smash goes recurrent on the chart, the Hot 100's top 40 does not boast a single rap song, ending a streak that's lasted for over 35 years. By Andrew Unterberger With ...
Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, recording artist, and reality TV star Jermaine Dupri will bring his SoSoSUMMER 17 Tour to Dallas. In 1992, Jermaine Dupri introduced to the world two 12-year-olds ...
Will Smith faced the most infamous moment of his career in March 2022 when, on what was meant to be his night of triumph at the Oscars, he ended up banned by the Academy for slapping Chris Rock. Three ...
Will Smith is back to making music that "slaps" after dropping "Based on a True Story" on Friday, following a 20-year hiatus from releasing albums — and he immediately addresses his infamous Oscars ...
Yaya DaCosta is a woman who loves to rap song lyrics while wrapping her hair. Back in 2023, she posted an Instagram reel of herself wrapping her hair while rapping Lil’ Kim’s verse in “Crush On You” ...
It may be a reckless exercise to try and list 25 rap albums memorable for the controversy they induced. Since the mid-Eighties, after the genre slowly evolved from a mostly 12-inch medium to one where ...
Words from the late Amy Winehouse proved to be a key source of inspiration for Lupe Fiasco in the development of his new album Samurai, out Friday. In an interview with Jaelani Williams for BET, Lupe ...
At the start of this century, as MySpace and LiveJournal were remaking the social hierarchies of youth culture, a crushing wave surged into mainstream view. The aesthetic movement that history would ...