It’s Jay-Z’s 50th birthday, and Hov is handing out the presents.     To mark his big day, the hip-hop megastar’s catalog returns to Spotify, ending a years-long stalemate.  In April 2017, Jay pulled most of his discography from the service without explaining why. One theory cast out at the time was that the streaming service’s freemium tier paid […]

It’s been nine years since the release of Fat Joe’s last LP, The Darkside, Vol. 1. He announced its follow-up, Family Ties, at at the top of 2018 and we will finally be receiving it at the end of this week. As if all the years of waiting weren’t enough to build up hype for the project, the […]

Lil Wayne is officially part of the cannabis industry. On Sunday (December 1), the multiplatinum-selling rapper shared an Instagram photo of himself smoking a pre-rolled joint while revealing his new partnership with the cannabis brand Gkua. Naturally, it includes his own strain of marijuana. “IT’S THAT GKUA Ultra Premium @gkuaofficial,” he wrote in the caption. “#thatgkua […]

Rapper Trippie Redd captures his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as A Love Letter to You 4 debuts atop the tally. The set, which was released on Nov. 22 via TenThousand Projects, earned just under 104,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 28 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music. A Love Letter […]

It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to forge a connection with Swedish PM Stefan Löfven upon hearing the latter respond to his inquiry over A$AP Rocky’s chance at bail. Löfven was steadfast in his refusal to bend the rules or yield to Trump’s pressure (to comply) yet was nevertheless, willing to dialogue with the American head of […]