Tag Archives: hip-hop

Grandmas make the world go ’round. Many would say their strength, love, and compassion are the bedrocks of society. Unsurprisingly, SZA, Megan Thee Stallion, and Normani — Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping The Future” cover stars — were plenty aware of this fact. During an interview for “The First Time” video …

Effortlessly cool MC Guru died more than nine years ago, but parts of the just-released seventh Gang Starr album could move a true-school rap fan today. “Word to God, if Big and ‘Pac were still here/Some of these weirdos wouldn’t act so cavalier,” he raps on “Bad Name,” “You used to support your fam …

Everything about “He Is … I Am” is a risky endeavor. The four-minute song is a two-part concept record about guns; its first half is an introduction to East Atlanta rapper Grip and his formative years growing up with his first firearm, and the second, more daringly, is rapped from …

Fiona Apple is coming to collect. In a video, the singer addresses Lil Nas X sampling her 2012 song, “Every Single Night” on his (pre-“Old Town Road”) song “Kim Jong.” “One thing that the lovely Rachel Handler didn’t mention that I did say in the interview which I would just …

Young Thug is generally a snake guy. The animal appears in most Thug and Thug-adjacent media (photos, music videos, album art, emoji usage). In the music video for “Just How It Is,” Thug is covered in a heap of serpents, but it’s another animal that truly steals the show. A …

Cousin Stizz‘s has a tendency to take the path of least resistance. Stylistically, that’s a strength. His blunt lyrics fit within a crisp, relaxed delivery, which ultimately settle into a straightforward flow. On his latest album, Trying To Find My Next Thrill, the equation works as the Boston rapper tries …

There’s a memorable scene in the movie Elf in which Will Ferrell bursts into his dad’s office during a business meeting, twirls with glee, and proclaims, “I’m in love, I’m in love, and I don’t care who knows it!” If you took this four-second clip and played it 1,160 consecutive …

Lil Wayne has enlisted Travis Scott, Meek Mill and more for his fifth annual Lil WeezyAna Fest, taking place September 7th at the UNO Lakefront Arena Festival Grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana. Wayne will headline the single-day event, while the line-up also boasts Trey Songz, Megan Thee Stallion, Kash Doll, …

Revealing, complicated and contentious, musical influence is like a family tree. In the last 15 years, no musician’s roots have been dissected more than Kanye West’s. The production and lyrical sensibilities of A Tribe Called Quest and Ma$e birthed the young Chicago star and, in turn, West’s suburban anxieties and …

There’s a scene near the beginning of the final episode of Of Mics and Men, Showtime’s four-part docuseries on Wu-Tang Clan premiering Friday night, that finds the crew — older, wiser, calmer — sitting around a large table enjoying a group meal. For the past three episodes, we’ve seen the …