New Music

While Vic Mensa is out on tour, he's making sure the product is still getting moved. The Chicago rapper's “Disrupting Traffic Fridays” continues this week with Vic debuting a brand new track titled "I Been" which is produced by Smoke Ono and Mike Dean, with additional tweaking from Carter Lang and Papi Beatz. On the tra...

K Camp is less than a month away from living out a dream. On September 4 the 2015 XXL Freshmen class alum's debut album The Only Way Is Up hits stores. But there's still work to be done. Late last month, the ATLien revealed the cover art for the album, and today we get the latest single off the project, "Till I Die" featuring T...

Fresh off last months surprise release, Train of Thought: Lost Lyrics, Rare Releases & Beautiful B-Sides Vol. 1, Talib Kweli returns dropping more lyrical knowledge on the new album, Fuck The Money. The aptly titled LP is free and the cover art shows a one dollar bill which is folded to reveal the title of the offering...

The year 2015 will officially go down as the year the release date didn't mean anything. The year where the surprise album, dropped with little or not warning, ruled the landscape. B.o.B is the latest rap artist to drop an album on fans without any forewarning...

Remember when skinny joints were a sticking point in hip-hop? For Rich Homie Quan, they're not a musical or political statement--they're just hard to wear. "Bankroll," a new single from the Atlanta savant, comes produced by Goose, who handled four tracks on Rich Gang's Tha Tour, Part One mixtape, including two of Quan's solo cuts. (The bea...

Well$ has been making a name for himself in the digital press with a series of low-stakes, high-concept songs (see: "98 Juvie," "Bike Safety"). Now, as evidenced by his last dispatch, the Kendrick Lamar-sampling "Clocks," the North Carolina rapper has turned his focus to touring life and the practical and philosophical complications that come with it...

Yesterday (August 13), word got out that 50 Cent had some new heat for his fan base. Video surfaced online of the Queens rapper performing a starkly personal new single called "9 Shots." The song, which he said would be included on his long-awaited Street King Immortal, plays off the 2000 shooting that left him in recovery for half a year and uses the titular shots as metaphors for diffi

Hip-hop lost one of its legends Saturday, Aug. 8, when Brooklyn native Sean Price unexpectedly died in in his sleep at the age of 43. The hip-hop community was greatly sadden after news spread that the Boot Camp Clik rapper passed away. Yesterday (Aug 12), Mac Miller dropped a track featuring the late Brownsville MC...

The video for Robin Thicke and Nicki Minaj's new disco-infused single "Back Together" is out. Robin tries to win the girl of his dreams as he sings "You used your love to tear me apart/ now me back together." It looks like Thicke is ready to move on from Paula Patton and this pop record could be his launching pad. The...

Chief Keef and Lil Durk link up for “Young & Reckless." Drill music fans will fall in love with this track as the two Chicagoans deliver a street anthem to turn up to. "All white everything, GBE the snowman/I'm OTF but tell Sosa I need a glo man/Head shot niggas know how we roll man/Fuck fifteen and thirty I need it for a show man," raps Durk. Autotune...

King Los goes back to his hometown in "Ghetto Boy" music video. The video focuses on the streets that raised the RCA Records signee and also the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Gray, a 25-year-old African-American, died on April 19, 2015 from injuries to his spinal cord allegedly at the hands of six Baltimore police officers...

Casey Veggies was supposed to have the album out by now. Earlier this summer, the Inglewood rapper announced that Live & Grow would be dropping August 7; though he hasn't hit that date, the release hasn't been pushed too far. Fans can now look forward to the LP next month, on September 25. To tide...