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News Articles: Genre: Hip-Hop

Despite the churlishness, or maybe because of it, Drake sounds, for the first time in a long time, like he's actually enjoying rapping.

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  • Music Reviews

Drake and 21 Savage are sore winners on 'Her Loss'

The duo trades threats and out-of-pocket disses of virtually everyone they've ever encountered on a new album. It's ugly, but it mostly works as a more targeted, focused version of Drake's whole deal.

November 10, 2022
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By:
  • Sam Hockley-Smith
Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of <em>Vogue,</em> at the 'Chanel Cruise 2017/2018 Collection' at Grand Palais on May 3, 2017 in Paris, France. The magazine is suing rappers Drake and 21 Savage for a violation of trademark rights.

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  • Law

'Vogue' has 'an easy case' in lawsuit against Drake and 21 Savage, experts say

The magazine's publisher is suing the two Grammy award-winning artists for releasing a parody Vogue issue to promote their new album.

November 10, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Drake and 21 Savage released an Instagram post on Oct. 30 promoting a fake <em>Vogue</em> magazine cover. <em>Vogue</em>'s publisher Condé Nast is now suing both rappers for using the fake cover to promote their new album.

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  • Arts & Life

'Vogue' sues rappers Drake and 21 Savage over fake magazine cover promoting new album

Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, is seeking at least $4 million in damages over the rappers' fake Vogue cover.

November 09, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Literally speaking, there would be no Migos without Takeoff.

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  • Music Features

Takeoff knew who he was

The rapper, with his endlessly evolving flow, was the Migos' ultimate ambassador. He was at his most charismatic and comfortable going back and forth with his family.

November 04, 2022
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By:
  • Meaghan Garvey
Drake performs in concert as part of the Summer Sixteen Tour in New York on Aug. 5, 2016.

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  • Music

No, Drake has not done a Tiny Desk, though we're open to the possibility

Rappers Drake and 21 Savage, who are releasing a joint album Friday, posted a spoof of the segment to their social media accounts, and the Internet has largely mistaken it for the real thing.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Rappers Offset (from left), Quavo and Takeoff of the group Migos appear at a Met gala in 2018. Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots were fired at a party in Houston.

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  • National

Houston police are searching for witnesses after rapper Takeoff's killing

Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots were fired at a party in Houston. "We are looking for anything to help us," a police official said.

November 03, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Takeoff of hip-hop group Migos, performing onstage during Global Citizen Live on Sept. 25, 2021 in LA.

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  • Obituaries

Takeoff, member of Atlanta rap group Migos, has died at 28

The rapper, part of Migos, the Atlanta group that was hugely commercially popular and both formally and culturally influential, was reportedly shot and killed in Houston on Tuesday.

November 01, 2022
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Symba performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Symba: Tiny Desk Concert

The Bay Area rapper balances high-octane wordplay with crisp scene-setting in his Tiny Desk performance.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
MAVI knows how to move along the bends, and with sharpened writing he's more plainspoken.

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  • Music Reviews

MAVI's clearheaded songs of endurance

The Charlotte rapper's new album, Laughing so Hard, it Hurts, is more direct in thought and intention than his debut, more open and vulnerable, letting his observations guide his insights.

October 25, 2022
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By:
  • Clarissa Brooks
Nicki Minaj, performing onstage at the 2022 MTV VMAs at Prudential Center on Aug. 28, 2022 in Newark, N.J.

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  • Music

Grammy voting in controversy as Nicki Minaj claims her hit was wrongly categorized

Nicki Minaj complained on social media that her hit had been deemed pop rather than rap.

October 24, 2022
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By:
  • Ayesha Rascoe and
  • Stephen Thompson

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  • New Music

Heat Check Roundup: Smino, Ayra Starr, Ghais Guevara and more

This week's Heat Check selects come largely from iconoclasts who have already zeroed in on their individual aesthetics: a singsong rap soulman, an alté sensation, a noise-rap radical and more.

October 06, 2022
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  • Sidney Madden,
  • Sheldon Pearce,
  • and 3 more
<em>Component System</em> is a record that makes a case for the past as a continuously changing and evolving presence, not a trapped-in-amber escape route.

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  • Music Features

Open Mike Eagle makes himself a mixtape

The referential artist discusses hip-hop's repurposing spirit, reconciling zonal versions of himself, making sense of rap's "golden era" and his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse.

October 05, 2022
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By:
  • Nate Patrin
Gibbs is so skilled in the booth you have to meet him halfway to extract the penitence and sorrow in the marrow of some of these songs.

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  • Music Reviews

With '$oul $old $eparately,' Freddie Gibbs cashes in on his cachet

Forget what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about American lives and second acts, Gibbs is on his third or fourth. $$$ is a rewarding listen that sometimes labors under the weight of a forced progression.

October 01, 2022
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  • Matthew Ramirez
GPB  NPR

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  • Music News

The rapper Coolio has died at 59

The artist, one of hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said.

September 29, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
JID performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

JID: Tiny Desk Concert

The East Atlanta emcee brings a serious attention to detail to this stripped-down performance of tracks from his new album plus some earlier career-defining songs.

September 08, 2022
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  • Bobby Carter
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