Verzuz battles are typically a friendly competition, but in the face-off between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia Thursday night at the Hollywood Palladium, the music throwdown devolved into a physical one. Apparently, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Bizzy Bone did not take kindly to the “mocking” that happens during the event. After …
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Kanye West brought out accused rapist Marilyn Manson at his Donda listening party at Soldier Field in Chicago Thursday, August 26th. For the performance, West built a replica of the house he grew up in on the field. Manson appeared on the porch of the makeshift home alongside West and …
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Q-Tip, Missy Elliott, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea and Bootsy Collins were among the many artists to pay tribute to Biz Markie on social media following the “Just a Friend” rapper’s death Friday at the age of 57. “All of my love to the one of a kind bringer of …
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Megan Thee Stallion has returned with “Thot Shit,” her first solo single since dropping Good News last October. Of course, that doesn’t mean the Houston MC hasn’t been busy, appearing on tracks as a featured artist, performing and winning big at the Grammys, and taking a well-deserved hiatus…you know, real …
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In March 2020, as New York headed into lockdown, DMX got into an RV and headed south. He spent much of the next year on the road: First, a four-month stay on a farm outside of Nashville, then a trip to L.A. to celebrate his musical legacy on Verzuz and …
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Over the weekend, J.Cole played in his first professional basketball game as a 2-guard for the Rwanda Patriots Basketball Club, part of the newly formed Basketball Africa League. This was just a few days after the release of The Off-Season, J.Cole’s first album in 3 years. He scored 3 points …
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When a group of hip-hop artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma, began work on the collaborative project Fire in Little Africa last year, they had a dual purpose: The album is meant both to etch their hometown’s history into an artistic monument, honoring the 100th anniversary of one of America’s worst acts …
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Dawn Richard, Second Line R&B artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP,Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of …
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Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old. Simmons’ family said they were “deeply saddened” to announce the rapper’s death, adding that he died “with his …
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From Black Lives Matter protests soundtracked by the late Pop Smoke‘s “Dior” to the continued triumphs of Megan Thee Stallion to the Drake album we still haven’t heard, we look back at 2020 in hip-hop on the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now – while also taking a look …
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