Music

Quality Control Music/Motown JT is just days away from sharing her new project, City Cinderella, with the world. With a 16-song track list, however, she wants to make it clear that it is “definitely a mixtape.” “People work on their albums for a year, albums are just different. So City Cinderella is not my first album, being that […]

— Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” has inspired a brand-new video game. Designed by Richie Branson, the Not Like Us: The Game is one in which users have to swing a bat and “wop” as many owls as possible. It’s available on notlikeusgame.com and, as Branson says, it’s “a free love letter to video games and hip-hop.” — Cash Cobain recently […]

Derek Blanks for Missy Elliott Missy Elliott‘s on her Out of This World tour, while her music is literally out of this Earth. According to NASA, the lyrics from her song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” were sent to Venus through their Deep Space Network Friday, becoming only the second song — and the first hip-hop […]

— 50 Cent listened to friend and longtime collaborator Eminem‘s latest effort, and he shared his thoughts on Instagram. “Yo @eminem s*** is crazy it takes me a while to understand the details of this one,” he wrote. The caption was shared alongside a post announcing that The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) had over 200 million streams in […]

Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Room to Read/Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for MTV Kevin Hart‘s Hartbeat Weekend is coming back. The event, a mash-up of music and comedy, will take place Labor Day weekend with Ludacris and Lil Wayne taking on headlining duties. The rappers will cover the music side at the Zouk Nightclub after-parties, […]

Don Toliver is preparing for his biggest headlining tour to date. Featuring special guest Teezo Touchdown and opening act Monaleo, the Psycho Tour will kick off Oct. 10 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, before making its way to other North American cities, including Seattle on Oct. 13, San Diego on Oct. 20, Brooklyn on […]

Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage Sexyy Red‘s “U My Everything” with Drake finds them singing around on the track, but she says it was originally supposed to be a hood love anthem, with Chief Keef tapped as the feature. “I recorded the song, I freestyled it in the booth, sent it to Sosa and he loved it,” she […]

Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images Eminem‘s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) has finally been released. It features 19 tracks and collaborations with Bizarre, JID, White Gold, Sly Paper, Ez Mil, Skylar Grey, Jelly Roll and, of course, Big Sean and Babytron. Em takes jabs at a few people on the album, most notably Diddy, […]

Quality Control Music/Motown JT‘s forthcoming mixtape City Cinderella will not only be supported with a tour, but also a documentary. A teaser for The City Cinderella Documentary was shared Thursday, featuring clips of JT following her prison release, onstage as part of the City Girls and more. “The person you thought you knew – that shit was all a […]

Derek Blanks with crowdMGMT Have you ever wished you were in a Missy Elliott music video? Her Out of This World Experience may just be for you. In an interview with ET, Missy says fans can expect to “be immersed in” her music. “I wanted to make sure I didn’t just do a concert,” she says. […]