“Punch you in the face, muthafucka I knock ya teeth out,” screams a row of four girls in their early teens. Casanovais performing “Set Trippin” on the Barclays Center stage for a Tidal-sponsored festival, and they know every word. Casanova isn’t the most popular rapper on the lineup (that’s Lil …
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Post Malone wants you to know that there’s pain in the upper echelon of American society. It’s right there in the title of his new album, the name of the opening track, and the first lyrics uttered on his new album: “Hollywood’s Bleeding.” Just in case that wasn’t clear enough, …
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It’s been 682 days since Lil Uzi Vert released an album. That’s 97 weeks and 3 days. 16,368 hours. 982,080 minutes. 58,924,800 seconds, all without a new body of work from the Philadelphia rapper. For well-adjusted people, or those who remember music releases pre-streaming, less than two years between projects …
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Jaden Smith has unveiled the track list for his forthcoming album, Erys. The 17-song set will be released on Friday via MSFTS Music/Roc Nation/Republic Records. His sister Willow, Tyler, the Creator, Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky and Trinidad James are guest collaborators for Smith’s new studio album, which follows 2017’s Syre. …
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The latest episode of our weekly podcast Rolling Stone Music Now tackles the two Gen-Z artists dominating music in 2019 so far: Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” complete with a video drawn from the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, is arguably the meme-iest …
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Birdman doesn’t like lettuce wraps. He’s appalled by the watery leaves and aromatic meats sitting on the table in front of him. He keeps repeating the same phrase: “We Southern.” According to Birdman, people below the Mason-Dixon line won’t find joy in such a delicacy. He’s sitting in a private …
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With the casual charisma of a born star and shamelessly catchy music that combined emo melodies and hip-hop beats, rapper Lil Peep was on his way to becoming a key voice of his generation – until he died of an overdose in 2017, just after his 21st birthday. On the …
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Juice WRLD‘s “Lucid Dreams” was fraught and wounded, a stinging narrative of betrayal softened, slightly, by a sample of the actual Sting. Streamers gobbled it up — “Lucid Dreams” became the most-streamed single of 2018 not made by Drake — and commuters stuck in traffic enjoyed it too: “Lucid Dreams” …
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After a month that found one movie star revealing thoughts about committing a hate crime and, not long after, a soap opera star allegedly fabricating another, it shouldn’t come down to Kiari Kendrell Cephus to try to save Black History Month. But here we are. For his first solo album, …
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Juice WRLD has a brand — perennially heartbroken — and he’s doubling down on it. Dark and melodramatic, “Robbery” is a clunky metaphor about a woman demanding love from the Chicago rapper. “She told me put my heart in the bag/And nobody gets hurt,” Juice mournfully sings over a sparse …
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