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This is starting to feel a little one-sided...
Well, folks, you can abandon all hope of Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi mending fences anytime soon. In a(nother) Twitter storm, the Fiasco made it clear that his disdain for Cudi is very much alive and well.For the uninitiated, the two rappers have been rivals since ...
Mo money, mo problems.
"Men lie. Women lie. Numbers don't," Jay-Z once declared. No truer words have been spoken, especially for hip-hop's wealthiest stars today. In a list by former Forbes editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg, hip-hop currently has two (well, it used to be three, but Ye ...
She had even been inspired by Francis Magalona.
Ruby Ibarra used to work in the biotechnology industry. Now, she's gone on to be a Filipino-American rap sensation. For her efforts on and off the stage, the Vilcek Foundation just named her one of the three recipients of its 2023 Vilcek ...
The rapper, whose real name is Kirsnik Khari Ball, was shot in Houston on Tuesday morning.
Takeoff, a member of the popular rap group Migos, died early Tuesday morning. The artist was fatally shot at 810 Billiards and Bowling in Houston, TX. He was 28 years old.At around 2:40 a.m., officers arrived at the scene, where they discovered ...
They run this town now.
A post shared by Esquire Philippines (@esquireph)Twelve years ago, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rihanna collaborated on the same track, rapping about how one day they’d all “run this town.” More than a decade later, they’ve manifested those lyrics into reality because all ...
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Two Fil-Am artists on living the dream.
Guapdad 4000 (real name Akeem Douglas Hayes) released his first studio album Dior Deposits in 2019, but he’s been making music since he was a kid. Growing up in a biracial home (his mom is Filipino, his dad is African-American), Guap draws ...
It's a reminder that the drug war is far from over.
“One death is too much.” This is the thrust of Kolateral, a research-backed rap album centered solely on the drug war.Conceptualized and crafted by a group of friends that go by the name Sandata, which is headed by well-known local artists BLKD and ...
Lil Nas X, Rosalia, JPEGMAFIA, J Balvin and more are challenging hip-hop as we know it.
Rap cannot be confined by genre in 2019. As the likes of Rosalia and J Balvin push the sounds of flamenco and Reggaeton further into the forefront of American mainstream music, Lil Nas X is challenging dominant genre labeling and blurring the ...
