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In May, the producer Paul Couture flew to Los Angeles to play new music for the rapper French Montana. Couture had been working with Max B, the influential but long-imprisoned New York rapper; Montana, one of Max B’s old collaborators, wanted to hear the results. Couture was planning a quick …

Schoolboy Q examines the repercussions of vengeance and the cyclical nature of violence in his stark new video for “Dangerous.” The Kid Cudi-assisted track appears on the rapper’s Crash Talk, which was released in April. In the Alexandre Moors-directed clip, Schoolboy Q and his associate are sitting in a car …

Producer J. Period has tapped Andra Day and hip-hop stalwarts Dead Prez for a politically charged new video for their song, “See the Light.” The clip opens with a string of sprawling city skyline shots to accompany the song’s spare piano intro before jumping to a sequence in which Day …

Logic has unveiled a new soundtrack to accompany his debut novel, Supermarket. The 13-track project finds Logic exploring an array of genres outside of rap, especially guitar-driven rock (the album opens with a driving indie rock tune titled “Bohemian Trapsody”). Logic collaborated with Mac Demarco on several cuts, including the …

He was eight when he got his first smartphone: an iPhone 5c in beaming lime green. He was 10 when his impromptu breakdance at a high school basketball game in Florida went viral. Now, at the grand old age of 12, Seth Vangeldren finds himself juggling marketing contracts in six-figure …

Chance the Rapper announced the release of his “Owbum” on Twitter on Monday, with his manager, Pat Corcoran, confirming the announcement in a post that read: “Chance Album. July 2019.” In a series of tweets, Chance described what separates his debut album from mixtapes likeAcid Rap and Coloring Book. “This …

Take a Daytrip is the present and Octavian is the future — or, at least, he should be. On their new collaboration, the two meet: Take a Daytrip, the producing duo responsible for the chart hurricane known as Sheck Wes’s “Mo Bamba,” as well as Vince Staples’s “Home” from the …

Quiet raps are a thing again. The current resurgence is indebted to Valee, but its commercial peak remains 2005’s Ying Yang Twins hit “Wait (The Whisper Song).” It’s that song, more than anyone else, that hip-hop’s favorite knife tatted, horrorcore wordsmith, Shayaa “21 Savage” Abraham-Joseph, is channeling on an early …

Brockhampton took a momentary break from being America’s sweetest boy band to shine a light on the solo talents of Bearface. On Triple J’s latest “Like A Version,” Ciarán McDonald aka Bearface covers Alicia Key’s 2010 classic, “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready),” as the rest of Brockhampton lay quietly on the floor …

UPDATE:Vic Mensa’s cypher performance dissing late rapper XXXTentacion aired during the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards Tuesday. Mensa’s freestyle pointedly referenced the allegations of domestic abuse that had been leveled at the late rapper: “Only time you bear arms is in a wife beater, loser/ Your favorite rapper’s a domestic abuser.” …