Home sweet home. Lola Brooke’s ready to call it a night with Bryson Tiller on her new single, “You”, which is accompanied with its music video. Directed by Samuel McKnight, the lavish clip finds Lola boasting her racy rhymes from her plush estate, while Pen Griffey provides the sultry hook. “Tryna make a choice between […]
DJ Shadow – “You Played Me”
DJ Shadow’s new album Action Adventure is coming in October, and he’s already shared lead single “Ozone Scraper.” Today he’s back with “You Played Me,” a song that challenges Shadow’s description of the project as a strictly instrumental affair. Accompanied by a video directed by the Reggies, it’s an ’80s-inspired synth-funk track that centers on […]
Album: Doja Cat ‘Scarlet’
The wait is over. Doja Cat switches things up a bit on her long-awaited album, Scarlet. For her fourth studio album, the Los Angeles superstar brings a more masculine and dark demeanor from her previous effort and centers round the sound of more hip hop and R&B. Doja kicks things off with “Paint The Town […]
EP: EARTHGANG ‘RIP Human Art’
Rest in Peace. Dreamville’s EARTHGANG lays human art to rest on their new EP, RIP Human Art. For the Atlanta duo’s first project of the year, Olu and WowGr8 are joined by Spillage Village and include the previously released “Die Today” and “Bobby Boucher“. The 5-track set also includes “The Wake”, “Flavors Of Karma”, and […]
Album: Torae, Marco Polo ‘Midnight Run’
They’re back. After 14 years, Torae and Marco Polo regroup for their highly-anticipated album, Midnight Run. For the duo’s second collaborative effort, the Coney Island rapper and the Toronto-based producer lead the run with their previously released “The Return“. The 10-track set also includes “Makin’ Up”, “Grey Sheep”, “Life Behind Bars”, “Mardi Gras”, “Rap Shit”, […]
Balming Tiger – “Kamehameha”
It feels like the alternative K-pop collective and Band To Watch Balming Tiger have released a few “debut albums” at this point, but whatever. In October they’ll release January Never Dies, billed as their official debut studio album. Today’s new single “Kamehameha” is inspired by a song sung during a Korean drinking game, and it […]
Pile – “The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon”
“The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon” — great title. It belongs to Pile, the veteran Boston indie rockers, who’ve made it the lead single and quasi-title track from their forthcoming Hot Air Balloon EP. That one’s coming in January, so yes, we’re officially into the part of the year when artists start announcing 2024 […]
Yasmin Williams – “Dawning” (Feat. Aoife O’Donovan)
The brilliant fingerstyle guitarist Yasmin Williams will follow up 2021’s great Urban Driftwood with a new album next year — this time for Nonesuch Records. We don’t have any details on that project yet, but today Williams is teasing it with the new single “Dawning.” The song features Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, bringing the human […]
Nothing Was The Same Turns 10
“Started from the bottom [citation needed], now we here.” In the bitter cold of winter 2013, Drake once again retraced his rise. Even by millennial standards, the man has always been obsessed with his own story, his hero journey (or antihero journey) from a Canadian teen soap opera to the pinnacle of mainstream hip-hop. In […]
Jada Pinkett Smith Unearths Video Of Her & Tupac Shakur Dancing To DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
In the late ’80s, Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett, two teenage classmates at the Baltimore School For The Arts, became close friends. They remained close friends into the ’90s, when Pinkett became a movie star and Shakur became maybe the most dominant rapper of his era. In 1997, the year after Shakur was murdered, Pinkett […]