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North Carolina-based musician Shame Gang recently released his latest project, Better Late Than Never, via Manifest Destiny/Roc Nation’s Equity Distribution. “I feel like this album is my official arrival to who I want to be on this rap journey, and the sound I want to continue to enhance. I’ve finally arrived and it took some […]
The follow-up to his 3 EP, Atlanta’s rising talent Kenny Mason shares his 6 project. “My team and I wanted to drop 18 songs for the Pups, but have it delivered in a cool way so we broke it up into three different projects — 3, 6, and coming soon, 9. Hope y’all enjoy,” Kenny […]
Two years after his fourth album A Gangsta’s Pain, Moneybagg Yo returned with his mixtape Hard to Love. “I gained and lost more than I ever thought I would,” Bagg wrote in an Instagram message, “and had no other safe outlet for all the emotions and dark thoughts that came wit that other than making […]
With another seven eight days in the books, we’re back catching you up on the best new music with the 339th installment of our Weekly Dope playlist. On the artwork, I ran with a mix of Moneybagg Yo‘s Hard To Love mixtape, the Metro Boomin-driven Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack, Saba + No ID‘s “hue_man nature” collaboration, […]
With Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse now in theaters, the film’s accompanying soundtrack has officially hit earholes worldwide. Helmed by Metro Boomin (marking his first foray into film soundtracks), the project is loaded with guests: Lil Wayne, Offset, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, A$AP Rocky,Don Toliver, Wizkid, 21 Savage, 2 Chainz, Nas, and several others. “The concept […]
This might be one of the best ways to start a work week. As they kicked off their Black Music Month celebration, NPR Music had the pleasure of inviting the legendary Charlie Wilson to rock their Tiny Desk Concert stage. And, boy, did he ever. With a career spanning decades, Charlie has constantly reinvented himself […]
On June 4 co-creator Sam Levinson’s (of HBO’s “Euphoria”) presents his next social experiment on the network, The Idol. The show — which attracted a fair share of pre- and post-production controversy thanks to reports and allegations of various on-set, cast and crew, and creative dysfunction — is set to star Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, […]
In 2022 Kid Cudi released an accompanying soundtrack for the animated film Entergalactic. Following a brief redirection into films such as X, the House Party remake, and Don’t Look Up, Cudi returns to his musical side with his first drop of 2023 “Porsche Topless.” The single also serves as the first focus track off his […]
After being released from jail earlier in 2023 follow his arrest, along with Young Thug and several other members of their YSL crew (he would plead guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge), Gunna releases his first song since being freed “Bread And Butter.” Of course, the song contains thinly-veiled lines at his detractors who claimed […]
Following the original gaining traction (mainly because foolies are ripping plastic bags off their heads in reference to a line in the song), Latto enlists in the services of Cardi B for “Put It On Da Floor Again.” An official video has also been released, where Latto and Cardi are joined by the likes of […]
