Hopsin

Hopsin is mid-sentence, talking about his plans to go out on tour with his Funk Volume labelmates Dizzy Wright and Jarren Benton later this year, when he stops himself and trails off. "My mom's calling me," he says, reaching into his pocket for his phone with a slightly embarrassed smile...

Taking a stand against materialism and stereotypes, Hopsin enlightens a class on marketing schemes and big business in the video for "Fly." In the clip, Hopsin is called to the front of the class to give a lecture on marketing schemes and delves into raps about cigarettes, Kim Kardashian and designer clothes...

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Hopsin, who jokingly said he was going to retire and move to Australia in December, is back in the news again for ringing up a massive phone bill after giving out his number on his Facebook page. Hopsin just wanted to shoot the shit with his fans and after people called his bluff, the rapper posted a video on his page saying that this was the real deal ...

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Last week, Atlanta native Jarren Benton released his brand new EP Slow Motion Vol. 1. The eight-track project honors the memory of his fallen friend and manager Jahmal “Slow Motion” Pryor and is one of Benton’s most personal projects to date. On Slow Motio...

After trolling fans and the industry by announcing (then recanting) he would be quitting rap and moving to Australia, Hopsin has more information to make public. This time, we think it's official. Hop recently teased a new LP titled Pound Syndrome, and earlier today the Cali rapper released the artwork to the forthcoming album, which will drop on Funk Volume Records, via Instagram...

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Hopsin's latest track, "Mr. Blackman," has dropped. The track is a song to judgmental White people, with Hopsin talking to the experience of being a Black man in this world, dealing with people having negative thoughts about him such as him saying that he's "never been to prison but you thinkin' that it won't be long," and "sometimes when you stare at me you wish that it's