Drake has released Care Package, a new compilation album of unreleased songs and tracks from every stage of his career. The album was released to streaming services on Friday, Aug. 2.
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Cardi B dropped her new single "Press" in which she rants about too much press coverage of her ratchet behavior.
Rapper Tyga teamed up with Nicki Minaj for a creative new music video for his single "Dip".
FYI: I couldn't find a clean version of this video. So turn down the volume to watch if you are at work.
Teyana Taylor fans are hurt and dismayed that the revamped version of her long-awaited album, K.T.S.E. (Keep that Same Energy) has been shelved indefinitely.
Today's Morning Wood is 24-year-old Nigerian-British singer/rapper J-Sol (born Samuel Stephen Olatunbosun). J-Sol is the son of a preacher and grew up in the church where he honed his craft playing the drums every Sunday. Eventually, he and his siblings joined the church's gospel choir where he was encouraged to follow his dreams.
On Thursday, rapper Young Thug released a sign language video for his track "Anybody" featuring the comeback queen Nicki Minaj. Thugger has a brother who is a deaf mute. The rapper previously said he planned to take a yearlong hiatus from music to live his life as a deaf man.
Nicki Minaj released a teaser for her music video for her "Barbie Tingz" hit. Nicki captioned the teaser: "Check out the trailer to my #BarbieTingz video on @tidal NOW - shot by the INCREDIBLE @gb65... so proud of my glam team. @bcompleted @brettalannelson @officialsheiks @kimblehaircare".
On Thursday, Nicki Minaj dropped 2 sizzling new tracks, "Barbie Tingz" and "Chun Li". On her track "Barbie Tingz", Nicki went straight for Cardi B's jugular. "How you still dissin’, still can’t find some hits?," rapped Nicki, clearly referencing the one-hit rapper.
She continued:
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Man, keep it all real, I'm a prophetess (okay)
So at least you took an L off your bucket list (bucket list)
It's time to make hits and it's time to diss
How you still dissin', still can't find some hits? (Okay)
Was it worth it, dummy? I ain't mind a bit
Still on that show gettin' no chips, time to dip
Fans are raving about "Barbie Tingz" on social media.
Nicki announced her return to reclaim her throne on Instagramm.com on Tuesday. She released artwork covers for her singles which showed she has not tamed down her sexy image.
Nicki Minaj is masterminding her huge rap comeback. In addition to sending new tracks to select bloggers and music critics last week, Nicki took to Instagram.com and announced she will drop 2 new tracks, entitled "Barbie Tingz" and "Chun-Li," at 10am Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, April 12.
Cardi B dropped her debut album, Invasion of Privacy on Friday morning. If you're not a Cardi fan, you're not missing anything. Cardi's music is for youngsters who chase temporary highs. They'll play the album once to say they heard it, then move on to the next one-hit wonder.
Rapper Cardi B dropped the music video for her 2017 track "Bartier Cardi", featuring 21 Savage. Her fiancé Offset makes an appearance in the video. It's unusual for a rapper to release a music video several months after the song dropped, but Cardi is an unusual rap artist.
Poor Cardi B. It's beginning to look like the Bronx rapper's smash hit "Bodak Yellow" was just a fluke. The 25-year-old is still struggling to come up with her second solo hit song. Cardi actually sings the chorus on "Be Careful", which sounds like elevator music.
Migos dropped the new music video for their track "Walk It Talk It," featuring Drake with intro by Jamie Foxx.
Pop singer Bruno Mars is still catching heat for profiting off of black music. A video posted on social media on March 8th criticizing Mars has garnered under just 3 million views.
Struggling rapper Safaree Samuels leaked his own nudes 2 weeks ago to promote his current single "Hunnid". Today he released the music video on Worldstar.
Drake dropped his much-anticipated music video for his single "God's Plan". The video was taped on location in Miami, Florida last week. Drake made headlines for giving away the entire music video budget -- $996.631.90 -- to Floridians, including a high schooler who received a $50,000 scholarship to the University of Miami.
Black rappers are beginning to question the hip-hop industry's sudden love affair with non-black rappers.
Rap producer Sonny Digital has noticed the industry's emphasis on white rappers and producers.
DJ Khaled, Post Malone ("Rockstar"), Tekashi69, aka 6ix9ine, and Lil Pump ("Gucci Gang") are just some of the white rappers who are highly favored by the music industry right now.
Justin Bieber is reportedly skipping the Grammy Awards for the 2nd year in a row. The 23-year-old Canadian singer believes the awards show is no longer relevant, even as he is nominated for 3 trophies -- all for his collaboration with Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee on the hit remix of their #1 hit song "Despacito".
In 2017, Justin reportedly skipped the Grammy Awards because he, "doesn't think the Grammys are relevant or representative, especially when it comes to young singers."
Rapper Cardi B released her latest track, titled "Bartier Cardi" featuring mumble rapper 21 Savage, just in time for the New Year. The track is getting mixed reviews from hip-hop fans who consistently compare the Bronx native to Nicki Minaj.
Cardi and 21 rhyme about (what else) b*tches, ho*s, jewelry, cars -- you know, the trappings of rap success.
Jay-Z is losing his touch. Not willing to let a couple of newborn babies upstage him, the nearly 50-year-old rap mogul announced he was adding the hypen back in his stage name. Then he teased his social media followers with promos for his upcoming album, titled 4:44, dropping June 30 on Tidal.
But where's the Internet buzz for his new music?
Miley Cyrus may have hammered the final nail into hip hop's coffin. The 24-year-old Tennessee native has given up rap/hip hop for good. In a cover interview for Billboard magazine, Cyrus said rap music's "sexually explicit" lyrics about women "pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little."
Miley is pictured above with rapper Big Sean in a photo dated Mar. 5, 2017.
Jhene Aiko's big sis Mila J surprised her fans by releasing her independent debut album titled Dopamine on Friday, April 7.
Mila tells Essence magazine the album title was inspired by Daniel Levitin's book This is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession.
The 2nd biggest story this weekend (after the Oscars Best Picture flub) was gangsta rapper Remy Ma's longwinded diss track in response to Nicki Minaj's shots on her and Gucci Mane's single, "Make Love".
I'm sorry to bore you with this, but this is what passes for entertainment in the black community these days.
Jeezy just dropped the music video for his latest single "Going Crazy," off his Trap Or Die 3 album.
One of hip-hop's pioneer groups A Tribe Called Quest dropped their final album, titled We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service.
Also today, the group released a new lyric video for their single "We the People" (watch video below).
Gucci Mane dropped a new track titled "Back On Road", featuring Drake, who premiered the track on OVO Sound Radio on Saturday.
Kanye West dropped new music titled "Champions", featuring a plethora of rap All-Stars, including newly freed Gucci Mane and one-hit-wonder Desiigner ("Panda").
This is the new Kanye West, not to be confused with the old, vintage, aged like fine wine Kanye West who dropped back-to-back classic hits before he met the KKK Trashcans and stopped taking his meds.
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