pen songs that span the gamut of black life in the ’80s, covering everything from the shoes people wore (“My Adidas”) to the struggles the endured (“Proud to Be Black”). But Raising Hell‘s reality is that, thanks for the aforementioned songs and tracks like the Aerosmith collab ...
Of all the cities that heard Bandmanrill and Project X’s Jersey club and were like “oh man that’s kinda sick let’s do it too,” Philly was one of the few who got it right, probably because it’s always been putting its own spin on club music and also because Philly has DJ ...
While City Girls' "Twerkulator" first reached fans as a viral TikTok leak, the Afrika Bambaataa-nodding track emerged as one of the best sampling rap songs this year. Plagued by clearance issues, the song — which samples Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" and interpolates lyrics from Cajmere...
Coulter responded to the lyrics, stating, «I think it's unfortunate that the left, from Berkeley to Eminem with his rap songs, has normalized violence against women, as Eminem has done.» Eminem participated in the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards' annual cypher, using his verse, a freestyle ...
Wang Yitai, who was a member of Chengdu's rap collective CDC, is now one of the most popular rappers in China. His style has infused mainstream pop sounds. “We're all trying hard to create songs that not only sound good, but also topics that fit for China,” Wang says. “I think...
After seeing that song, I noticed that one of Jelly Roll's most streamed songs was a rap song called "Best of Me." The song, which is fire, caught my attention because it is a collaboration between Jelly Roll and Joyner Lucas.
and it’s clear that Doja Cat can rap, but it’s rarely the focus when you have such distracting pop smashes like “Paint the Town Red” and “Agora Hills”. She can often sound like the guest rapper on her own songs, which is why she doesn’t really need the collaborations that ...
I thought I heard a new Playboi Carti record, but no, it’s just Cochise, a Florida rapper who has a handful of popular songs that sound exactly like baby voice Carti. Cochise came along at a perfect time, when TikTok was flooded with various Carti leaks and the thirst for Carti’s ...
Fast like an automatic rifle, raw like an open wound, witty as a stand-up comic, more profound than your preacher, Little Simz has talent that would be borderline intimidating … if her songs weren’t so damn hot. From the Afrobeat-inspired anthem “Point and Kill” to the soulful “Wom...
getting pawed by faceless women and dancing in a room that looks like an illuminated Gravitron. With new recruit Ma$e in tow,“Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down”was the first of thefivePuff-produced songs that would hold the top of the charts for 25 weeks of 1997. “We got in the first...