Music

From summer anthems to hype club tracks and new hip-hop collabs, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music. —EST GEE, El Toro 2 — The sequel to EST GEE’s El Toro features the Yo Gotti-assisted “A Moment with Gotti.” —DJ Khaled ft. Lil Baby, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, “Supposed to be Loved” — The stars unite […]

Scott Kowalchyk/CBS Nicki Minaj has been writing raps for years, but the “greatest song” she’s ever written is on the horizon.  In a post shared on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, the rapper revealed her desire for fans to hear the song that she loves. “The greatest song I’ve ever written. My goodness,” she wrote. “Opened […]

Chris Polk Lil Wayne is expressing gratitude to Billboard after the music magazine inducted him into their Hip-Hop Hall of Fame.  “Thnx u @Billboard,” Wayne wrote on Instagram, following his induction ceremony at Billboard‘s R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event on Tuesday, August 8.  The five-time Grammy winner shared an inside look of the event on social media with a video collage of backstage and acceptance […]

Prince Williams/Wireimage Da Brat‘s newborn son is already striking poses for the camera.  Not long after the rapper welcomed her first born with wife Jesseca Dupart on July 6, she dressed him up for one of his first newborn photoshoots.  With a matching grey hat-and-pant set, one-month-old True Legend donned a yarn-made microphone in his right hand and a boombox in […]

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images In October of 2022, Steve Lacy was performing his #1 hit “Bad Habit” at a show in New Orleans when a fan threw a disposable camera at him and hit him in the chest. Steve smashed the camera, cut the show short and refused to apologize. He was vilified for it, but he says […]

Johnny Nunez/Getty Images Tory Lanez‘s sentencing in the shooting case of rapper Megan The Stallion, originally scheduled for Monday, August 7, has been pushed back a day to Tuesday.  After hours of court proceedings and back and forth from each side’s attorney, Judge David Herriford postponed sentencing and is expected to deliver his decision some time after 10:30 a.m. […]

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Dej Loaf, the singer and rapper behind 2014’s viral sensation “Try Me,” makes her return to music with two new Afrobeats songs.  After first dropping “Please Don’t Go” with Nigerian singers Teni the Entertainer and Cheekychizzy, she follows it up with her new single “Lighters Up” featuring Orlando rapper Tyla Yaweh. The new tracks comes two years after Dej suggested she’d be retiring […]

Beauty Marks Entertainment/Chris Brown Entertainment Ciara and Chris Brown join forces to deliver a hype new song and video, “How We Roll.“ The visual sees the duo competing for the best party of the night, only for them to later link up in the ultimate dance battle against one another.  It’s the latest collaboration from the singers who […]

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Nearly two months after the release of her song “Attention,” Doja Cat is back with her brand new single “Paint the Town Red.” The Grammy-winner released the captivating track on Friday, August 4, with the equally as captivating visuals to match.  In the music video, Doja begins by starting a record machine that’s spinning […]

Rich Fury/Getty Images Cardi B won’t be facing charges for throwing a microphone during her July 29 concert at Drai’s Night/Beach Club in Las Vegas. “After a thorough review of this case and with the consultation from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, this case has been closed as having insufficient evidence,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan […]