Saweetie may be in the spotlight now, but she hasn’t forgotten her struggle days. In an interview with Brown Bag Mornings, she recalled the times she’d couch surf at the homes of family and friends in LA because she was homeless. “I remember I was too proud to tell my friends and my family that I had nowhere…
Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images Kendrick Lamar’s no stranger to #1s. Just days after his “Not Like Us” diss track hit the Hot 100, Spotify placed his track “Alright” atop their list of 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of the Streaming Era (2015 to the present). The To Pimp A Butterfly cut, described as “social commentary…
Courtesy of Epic Records Tyla, Gunna and Skillibeng have come together for the music video to their viral collaboration, “Jump.” In it, Tyla hangs out in her native Johannesburg, South Africa, where she gets her hair braided, relaxes on a balcony and turns up with Gunna in a nightclub, among other things. A fight erupts, groups of people break out…
Three Six Zero/gamma Fresh off the release of her new album, empathogen, it was announced that Willow will join Childish Gambino on his The New World Tour. Speaking to Variety, she says she’s honored to be supporting him on the trek. “Childish Gambino is one of the most prolific visionaries of this generation,” Willow says. “It’s…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted an apology on Instagram following CNN’s release May 17 of surveillance video footage from 2016 that allegedly shows him assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. In the post Sunday, captioned “I’m truly sorry,” Combs says, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs has posted an apology on Instagram following CNN’s release May 17 of surveillance video footage from 2016 that allegedly shows him assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura. In the post Sunday, captioned “I’m truly sorry,” Combs says, “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,…
Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs was allegedly seen physically assaulting his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura on hotel surveillance video exclusively obtained by CNN. In the footage, reportedly filmed in an LA hotel on March 5, 2016, a man identified by CNN as Combs was shown chasing Ventura down a hallway, grabbing her by the back of…
We Each Other / Jamla Records / Roc Nation Records Rapsody fans can now rejoice following the release of her 22-track album, Please Don’t Cry. Featuring collaborations with Erykah Badu, Lil Wayne, Phylicia Rashad, Baby Tate, Alex Isley and Niko Brim, the album is one that captures Rap’s “voyage of self-discovery” while exploring “the depth of her talent with more vulnerability than any prior…
Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images Lupe Fiasco has dropped a new track titled “Samurai.” The music video gives a glimpse of his love of Japanese culture, as it sees him rapping from various locations in his Chicago hometown that salute Imperial Japan’s art and architecture. He also dons a sweatshirt with the Japanese word “Nishigawa,” which translates to…
Photo by Kayla Oaddams/Getty Images Many have chimed in with their thoughts on who came out victorious in the Kendrick Lamar and Drake feud. The latest comes from Drake’s buddy Lil Yachty via clips from an as-of-yet unreleased episode of his A Safe Place podcast. In one of the clips, Yachty said he believes there was no…
