COVID-19 was initially discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, with the World Health Organization announcing a global pandemic by March 2020. Dr Creep, a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona, has gone viral after referencing the coronavirus illness in some odd songs eight years ago. With the lyric, “2020 combined with coronavirus, bodies stacking,” he references […]
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The 21-year-old Interscope Records singer Hotboii (actual name Javarri Latre Walker) recorded a song called “Nobody Special” with Future after releasing his debut album, Double O Baby, in December. Up-and-coming 9lokk, a group of rappers from Orlando, Nine and HotBoii are two of the 34 people the Orange County Sheriff’s Office has been pursuing for […]
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Pooh Shiesty has been charged with federal crimes in relation with a shooting in Florida in 2020– not to be confused with the Memorial Day weekend shooting in a Miami strip joint. In October 2020, the “Back in Blood” artist and two buddies — Bobby Brown and Jayden Darosa — met up with two other […]
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On Tuesday(June 29th) , Bow Wow turned to Instagram to tell the world that being a rapper is too stressful for him. “I was soooo stressed putting this show together in 4 days for VERZUZ!!” he captioned the post. “What ya’ll don’t know is our hard drive CRASHED 6 mins before we went live!! SEE.” He […]
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While American rappers like YG and Nipsey Hussle have the right to criticize future presidents in songs like “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump),” Cambodian artists do not have the same freedom to criticize the government without facing prison time. According to Radio Free Asia, Kea Sokun was detained in September 2020 for insulting the government and […]
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(VLAD TV) After his Instagram account was suspended twice earlier this year, Boosie Badazz was furious. Following a series of rules breaches, he was compelled to cancel his account and create a new one. Boosie didn’t take the deactivation lightly, calling Facebook CEO/founder Mark Zuckerberg a “racist.” Boosie pulled back the racist claim in a […]
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On Wednesday, June 16th, the famous 2Pac turns 50 years old. To commemorate the occasion, Jada Pinkett Smith shared a never-before-seen poem penned by the late rapper on Instagram. “Tupac Amaru Shakur would have been 50 midnight tonight!” In the caption, she wrote. “As we prepare to celebrate his legacy … let’s remember him for […]
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Snoop Dogg’s new job as an executive at Def Jam Recordings has begun. DaniLeigh shared a series of photographs on her Instagram account on Monday (June 14), showing off her latest studio session with D-O-Double-G as she welcomed him to the Def Jam family. In the caption, she writes, “You can’t even see ur future […]
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Both Rakim and Big Daddy Kane are Hip Hop icons in their own way, revered as masters of their genre for decades. Kane, who rose to prominence with The Juice Crew in the late 1980s, has been immortalized in Hip Hop history owing to albums like Long Live The Kane in 1988 and It’s A […]
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For the past several weeks, a slew of Mt. Rushmore memes have been circulating on social media, largely as a method to inspire civil discussion. Hip Hop fans were outraged today (June 11) after MyMixtapez tweeted a Mt. Rushmore joke on Twitter depicting the “G.O.A.T.S. of Atlanta” — and looked to make a few mistakes. […]
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