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Danny Brown has announced his new album Uknowhatimsayin¿, the Detroit rapper’s first album since 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition. Brown also shared the album’s first single “Dirty Laundry,” his ode to the stand-up comedy that often informs his clever lyricism. “This is my version of a stand-up comedy album. Most of my …

Nearly 20 years ago, Making The Band presented a model of the music industry’s dystopian future. The entire concept was in the title — throw a group of random, desperate and wide-eyed musicians from across the nation together, and force them to coalesce into something marketable — until Diddy envisioned …

This past Friday, Kamala Harris, the Senator from California and a Democratic presidential hopeful, released her summer playlist, a collection of songs she’s “listening to while traveling around country.” Said Harris, “I’m a firm believer that we all need to find the time to dance, to sing and to bop …

Update (5/21): Eric Holder was indicted for fatally shooting rap artist Nipsey Hussle and wounding two others in South Los Angeles earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Holder pleaded not guilty to the charges. Holder’s charges include one count of murder, two counts each of …

Rising rapperYNW Mellywas arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday. The charges stem from the October 26th, 2018 shooting of Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr., according to a report from the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Cortlen Henry was also arrested in connection with the double …

Tee Grizzley and Chance the Rapperare rappers built tomotivate, even if they get there in vastly different ways. Grizzley’s often biographical stories root themselves in the overwhelming adversity of his upbringing, reveling in its brute force songcraft, while Chance has a tendency to lean on the stylistic grooves of gospel …

Kanye West was supposed to drop his ninth studio album on Saturday, September 29. Two days, three SNL performances, one tweet from Kim Kardashian-West and an appearance on TMZ Live later and Kanye’s Yandhi is pushed back to Black Friday, November 23. West admitted to Harvey Levin that he “didn’t …

Cardi B joins old friend Pardison Fontaine in the flex-heavy video for their single “Backin’ It Up.” She credits Fontaine with helping form her voice as a rapper. In the video, Fontaine enters a pizza parlor only to immediately steal another man’s girl. But he states his case to the …

Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of Terry Carter in Compton in 2015, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. The 53-year-old Knight, who became famous helming the gangster rap institution Death Row Records, agreed to serve 28 years in …

Alt-J and Danny Brown explore how our governments perpetuate evil in their disturbing, computer-animated video for the Alchemist/Trooko version of “Deadcrush.” Brown stars in director Jeron Braxton’s warped clip, which draws on the aesthetic of Nineties video games. The piece is filled with demons, mutant dogs and government agents filtering …