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News Articles: Genre: Hip-Hop

Eminem performs at the event "Live from Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central" on June 6, 2024.

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  • Music

Eminem and Common confront the same milestone — middle age — from opposite angles

The two veteran rappers read as comic inversions of one another on their new albums, by turns renewed and restrained by the instincts that defined them at the start of their careers.

July 18, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Young Thug performs during halftime of a game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics on Nov. 17, 2021, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • Music

Why the judge in Young Thug’s trial was just recused from the case

Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville was taken off the YSL RICO case this week after his actions in an ex parte meeting were deemed damaging to public perception of the case.

July 17, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden
Megan Thee Stallion onstage in June at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, a stop on her Hot Girl Summer Tour.

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  • Music Features

Unpacking hip-hop's sprawl in 2024's most eclectic release date

Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe: June 28 delivered a truckload of major albums, and a portrait of modern rap's main tension.

July 03, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
"Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it."

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  • Music

In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast

In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.

June 25, 2024
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  • Rodney Carmichael
Don Toliver, a Travis Scott signee who quickly defined his own lane, takes his half-sung raps to colorful new realms on <em>HARDSTONE PSYCHO</em>.

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  • Music Features

For a rising class of rap cyborgs, there's mastery in the mumble

New albums by Don Toliver and LUCKI take opposite paths to the same calling, an understanding of rap as texture rather than text.

June 21, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Kendrick Lamar performs during "The Pop Out — Ken & Friends," his June 19 concert event at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

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  • Music Features

Kendrick Lamar takes the West Coast off standby

Lamar's blowout Juneteenth concert, held at the Forum in Los Angeles and live-streamed on Amazon Music, planted flags for the future of LA rap, while uniting in hate for a certain Toronto titan.

June 20, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Eminem, performing here during the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show at SoFi Stadium in 2022, returns to the top 10 of the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart this week with "Houdini."

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  • Music News

The top songs of the week take a nostalgia trip, courtesy of Eminem

For a seventh straight week, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department rules the Billboard 200. On the singles chart, Eminem references both the Steve Miller Band and his own past glory.

June 13, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
For most of the film, hampton is a grinning, tomboy femme fly on the wall. She’s much more in documentarian mode than interviewer.

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  • Music Features

‘It Was All a Dream’ shows the work of a nascent rap feminist

A new documentary by the hip-hop historian and critic dream hampton, culled from her own never-before-seen footage of rap's golden age, illustrates the hard labor for women who love the music.

June 12, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden
 Vince Staples' latest album, <em>Dark Times</em>, represents a new direction in an already singular major-label rap career.

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  • Music Features

Vince Staples, the visible man

Staples has always lived in a few worlds: art-rap hero, hall-of-fame interviewee, and a homebody whose inner life is none of our business. On Dark Times, his worlds finally converge.

May 30, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
A sixth lawsuit against the rap mogul alleges that he drugged a model before assaulting her.

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  • Music News

In new lawsuit, model is latest to accuse Sean Combs of sexual assault

Only days after the mogul apologized for a leaked surveillance video showing him attacking his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura, he faces new allegations of drugging and assaulting another woman.

May 22, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden and
  • Sheldon Pearce
Bad Bunny performs on SNL on Oct. 21, 2023.

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  • Music

'SNL' just wrapped its 49th season: It's time to cruelly rank its musical guests

From Billie Eilish to Bad Bunny, JT to J.Lo, boygenius to Ice Spice, here they are: the home-run performances, the solid base hits and the outright whiffs.

May 20, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Since Ventura filed her lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, the mogul has faced allegations of assault in four additional suits.

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  • Music News

Newly surfaced video shows apparent assault by Sean Combs like claims in settled case

On Friday, CNN published footage that appears to show the hip-hop mogul, also known as P. Diddy, physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.

May 17, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Children from Cork, Ireland sing "The Spark," in a music video.

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  • Music

This wholesome banger from a group of Irish kids is the spark you need

A shot of pure joy to start off the weekend: a charming video of kids from Cork, Ireland, rapping about finding and following their creative voice.

May 17, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Gunna performs during the event "A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop" on Nov. 08, 2023, at YouTube Theater in Inglewood, Calif.

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  • Music Features

On 'One of Wun,' Gunna can't flaunt his way out of the YSL trial's shadow

The rapper slipped free from the legal mess that swallowed his label and his mentor Young Thug — but on his new album, he's still in the grip of an unending image crisis.

May 16, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994.

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  • News

It was a classic rap beef. Then Drake revived Tupac with AI and Congress got involved

AI can conjure the voice or likeness of a dead celebrity with just a few clicks. This opens a host of legal questions about the rights of the deceased and their heirs to control their digital replicas

May 14, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
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