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From pump fakes on album release dates to mass promotion under every social media comment and more.

Talk to ’em.

Polo G wants to be a good example.

Icy Girl winter is approaching.

A$AP Ferg is back to the music.

XXL profiles the Memphis rapper for its Fall 2019 issue.

Dame D.O.L.L.A.'s mic skills are on the money.

What happened to these albums?

Photography By: Travis Shinn
K Camp has been on a roll since he signed to Interscope in March. Shortly after inking his deal, the Atlanta rapper put out his In Due Time EP that featured singles “Cut Her Off” and “Money Baby.” Those two singles s…

Roscoe Dash knows things that other people don’t, and he’s made a living off of most of it. We recognized it first with 2010's "All the Way Turnt Up," when he had the foresight to popularize a terminology that became ubiquitous not just in rap, …

DJ Carisma always puts on for the West. Originally from Santa Ana, Calif., the 25-year-old Power 106 personality is Los Angeles’ ear to the streets. Coming up as part of the radio’s street team called the Flava Unit, Carisma impressed Power 106’s PD/M…

New York-born and bred MC Cormega is pacing around backstage of the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn anxiously staring at his phone. On Monday night (July 21), he’s here to perform his new album, Mega Philosophy, in its entirety, and he’s expecting a lot of longtime frien…