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Even though Nipsey Hussle wasn’t physically at the 2020 Grammys, his spirit and presence presided over the proceedings. Two of Nipsey’s final collaborations before his death — “Racks in the Middle,” featuring Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy and DJ Khaled’s “Higher” featuring John Legend — won Best Rap Performance and Best …

In March, my editor and I joked on Slack about the proliferation of the name “Baby” in rap right now. That conversation quickly turned into the piece, “The Best Rappers in the World Are Babies.” From there, the headline spun off into an in-magazine graph, incessant questions from social media …

One week ago, 21 Savage was arrested by by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for overstaying a visa issued more than ten years ago. The Atlanta rapper is originally from the U.K., and he is currently being detained by ICE at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. His …

Music videos rarely make sense. A great song can transport the listener into a new world, but it’s generally enough for a music video to simply say: “Your world sucks. Here is one that a label paid a lot of money for, with a generous helping of special effects from …

iLoveMakonnen has always had a knack for melodies; his shaky falsetto and quivering vocal runs only added to the charm of his breakouts, “Tuesday” and “I Don’t Sell Molly No More.” Makonnen’s music didn’t get worse, but the young singer still saw the spotlight dim for a variety of reasons …

Audacious, haphazard and absurd, Quavo Huncho is a debut solo album in name only. At its core, the project is a Quavo-curated playlist. Madonna inexplicably raps over a trap beat with Cardi B on “Champagne Rosé,” Drake continues to say nothing but sound effortlessly cool while doing it and Travis …

The best thing about Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V is that it exists. It finds the man who once called himself “the best rapper alive” – and who, for a few years in the late 2000s, indisputably lived up to that boast – finally emerging from five years of personal …

After a lengthy battle with Cash Money — his label home for his entire, decades long career — Lil Wayne is now the proud owner of Young Money, his longtime imprint. In a new Billboard cover story, Wayne reveals that he settled for an undisclosed sum, ownership of the imprint …

Young Thug turned himself in to the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Department and was charged with five violations of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act. The sheriff’s department database shows that the rapper (real name: Jeffery Lamar Williams) was booked Tuesday afternoon. The charges stem from a September 2017 arrest when Brookhaven …

Drake’s music taste can move the needle for a new artist. The minute Aubrey Graham started singing Octavian’s “Party Here” at a Golden Globes afterparty, the 22-year-old rapper and singer’s fate was sealed: The Londoner was now, officially, a thing. Since then, he’s walked in Virgil Abloh’s first Louis Vuitton …