As J. Cole put a bow on this year’s Dreamville Festival, he worked an apology heard-’round-hip-hop into the introduction to one of his biggest and most sentimental songs, “Love Yourz.” “The past two days have felt terrible,” he said, earnestly admitting he’s lost sleep over “7 Minute Drill,” his nuanced but ill-received jab back at Kendrick Lamar for dissing him and Drake (mostly Drake) on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.”
On stage, Cole explained that “Love Yourz” signified a turning point a decade ago, one where...
On stage, Cole explained that “Love Yourz” signified a turning point a decade ago, one where...
- 4/9/2024
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
J. Cole is back with a “surprise” new album, Might Delete Later, arriving via Dreamville and Interscope Records.
Spanning 12 tracks, Might Delete Later’s release comes after a few weeks of Cole teasing the project via vlogs online. Alongside Cole, a number of artists appear on the album, including Ari Lennox, Gucci Mane, Daylyt, Cam’ron, Young Dro, and more. Check out the full tracklist below.
Of note is the closing track, “7 Minute Drill,” which includes Cole’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s diss on Future and Metro Boomin’s March 2024 song “Like That.” On the track, Cole raps, “I got a phone call that said somebody was dissing… He fell off like The Simpsons.”
Cole then alludes to Lamar’s discography, rapping, “Your first shit was classic, your last shit was tragic/ Your second shit put n***as to sleep but they gassed it/ Your third shit was a massive hit,...
Spanning 12 tracks, Might Delete Later’s release comes after a few weeks of Cole teasing the project via vlogs online. Alongside Cole, a number of artists appear on the album, including Ari Lennox, Gucci Mane, Daylyt, Cam’ron, Young Dro, and more. Check out the full tracklist below.
Of note is the closing track, “7 Minute Drill,” which includes Cole’s response to Kendrick Lamar’s diss on Future and Metro Boomin’s March 2024 song “Like That.” On the track, Cole raps, “I got a phone call that said somebody was dissing… He fell off like The Simpsons.”
Cole then alludes to Lamar’s discography, rapping, “Your first shit was classic, your last shit was tragic/ Your second shit put n***as to sleep but they gassed it/ Your third shit was a massive hit,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
“Gang shit, I invented that, huh?” asks Schoolboy Q on “Pop,” a track from Blue Lips, his first album in nearly five years. It’s clearly an overstatement. But give the former Hoover Street Crip credit: Back in the early 2010s, he fused the open-eared, genre-less sensibility of Tumblr rap with vintage L.A. gangsta flows in classic moments like “Hands on the Wheel” and “Druggys Wit Hoes Again.” Along with Vince Staples, Boogie and others, Q marked a clear break from the city’s G-funk identity, even as he...
- 3/1/2024
- by Mosi Reeves
- Rollingstone.com
For 24 hours only, Schoolboy Q is offering a glimpse into the world of Blue Lips, his first studio album in nearly five years, set for release on March 1. The rapper, who announced the album with a trailer featuring its apparent track list, has yet to share any official singles from the project. But just for today, listeners can tap into “Blueslides” and “Back in Love,” a collaboration with Devin Malik.
The two songs have been uploaded to YouTube with fully developed visuals. In the clip for “Blueslides,” Schoolboy Q raps...
The two songs have been uploaded to YouTube with fully developed visuals. In the clip for “Blueslides,” Schoolboy Q raps...
- 2/6/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Chance the Rapper has added concerts in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to his celebration of the 10-year anniversary of his breakout mixtape, Acid Rap.
The two new shows will take place on August 26th at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and on September 21st at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. Chance previously announced a hometown show at Chicago’s United Center scheduled for August 19th. See his full tour schedule below.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring one day earlier on Thursday, May 4th (use access code Iconic).
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
This past weekend, Chance shared a 10th anniversary...
The two new shows will take place on August 26th at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and on September 21st at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. Chance previously announced a hometown show at Chicago’s United Center scheduled for August 19th. See his full tour schedule below.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring one day earlier on Thursday, May 4th (use access code Iconic).
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.
This past weekend, Chance shared a 10th anniversary...
- 5/2/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Rappers/actors Freh & Mike Zombie are shooting the Masked Killa music video for the horror feature (Camp Pleasant Lake) Thomas Walton will be directing and Jared Safier Producing. David M. Parks is the Dp and Snake Child will serve as the music producer.
Walton announced some of the cast will be returning for the video, including Mike Ferguson who plays the character of Lou.
Mike Zombie Produced the song “Started from the Bottom” for Drake. His other major production credits are; They Don’t Love you No More by DJ Khaled. And recently produced the song “A.I. With The Braids” for the Game, featuring Lil Wayne.
Freh (formerly Short Dawg) known for his March Madness 4 EP, which featured appearances by Rl, Iamsu, 2 Chainz, and Trinidad James. His debut full-length as Freh was released that autumn. Frehism included “Petty” with 50 Cent and 2 Chainz. He recently was featured on...
Walton announced some of the cast will be returning for the video, including Mike Ferguson who plays the character of Lou.
Mike Zombie Produced the song “Started from the Bottom” for Drake. His other major production credits are; They Don’t Love you No More by DJ Khaled. And recently produced the song “A.I. With The Braids” for the Game, featuring Lil Wayne.
Freh (formerly Short Dawg) known for his March Madness 4 EP, which featured appearances by Rl, Iamsu, 2 Chainz, and Trinidad James. His debut full-length as Freh was released that autumn. Frehism included “Petty” with 50 Cent and 2 Chainz. He recently was featured on...
- 1/21/2023
- by Michael Joy
- Horror Asylum
In the parking lot of Anderson Memorial Park in Carson, California, just south of Compton and north of Long Beach, Ab-Soul chain-smokes Newports and speaks gently. We’re close to the houses he grew up in alongside his mother, aunts, and paternal grandparents. “I kinda like to call it the ghetto suburb,” the rapper, 35, says from the open back seat of a Tesla SUV. “Because it is a suburb, but it’s got all the other stuff, too.” And yet, as is typical of neighborhoods in the southern half of the county,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Paul Thompson
- Rollingstone.com
We’ve reinvented our Songs You Need to Know franchise as a weekly playlist of the best new music — featuring the week’s biggest new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week we’ve got the triumphant return of Taylor Swift, as well as highlights from new albums by Carly Rae Jepsen and Tegan and Sara, as well as Roddy Rich, Smino, Jeezy and more. Check out the list, or cue it up on Spotify.
Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero” (youtube)
Lil Uzi Vert, “Just Wanna Rock” (youtube)
Arctic Monkeys,...
Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero” (youtube)
Lil Uzi Vert, “Just Wanna Rock” (youtube)
Arctic Monkeys,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Working in the Carson, California, studio from which Top Dawg Entertainment was launched has become something of a rite of passage for new artists on the label. After building the studio in the back of his unassuming suburban home around 2004, founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith rounded up four of the most-talented MCs in the L.A. area — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, ScHoolboy Q, and Ab-Soul — and brought out the best in them. Nearly two decades later, Tde’s first female rapper found herself in the wood-paneled, windowless cave known as the House of Pain.
- 8/5/2022
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
Isaiah Rashad got one of his first tastes of the spotlight in the fourth grade, as a horse in a school play in his native Chattanooga, Tennessee. Isaiah had no lines or memorable moments. He got on stage and did his little gallop, but went on to live a big life. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper was so introverted as he bounced around schools in the city as a child that he’s not convinced his old elementary classmates would even remember him. In reality, Isaiah’s rise may have...
- 7/30/2021
- by Mankaprr Conteh
- Rollingstone.com
Between 1971 and 1997, if you said “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers,” you were talking about comics artist Gilbert Shelton’s illustrated pothead underground series. Stoned being the way of the walk, Shelton characters like Phineas T. Phreak and Freewheelin’ Franklin Freek were busy buying weed, selling weed and talking about weed.
It is fitting then that Lionsgate and its partners, Wtg Enterprises, chose 4/20 to announce further casting for their new joint animated series, “The Freak Brothers.” Pete Davidson, Tiffany Haddish, Woody Harrelson, La La Anthony, John Goodman and the stars of Comedy Central’s “Workaholics,” Adam Devine and Blake Anderson, had already signed on. (Devine and Anderson also serve as executive producers on the series.) Today comes word that Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, the founder of Top Dawg Entertainment (Tde) has produced the show’s theme song and is serving as executive producer on the series, and ScHoolboy Q will play a character based on himself.
It is fitting then that Lionsgate and its partners, Wtg Enterprises, chose 4/20 to announce further casting for their new joint animated series, “The Freak Brothers.” Pete Davidson, Tiffany Haddish, Woody Harrelson, La La Anthony, John Goodman and the stars of Comedy Central’s “Workaholics,” Adam Devine and Blake Anderson, had already signed on. (Devine and Anderson also serve as executive producers on the series.) Today comes word that Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, the founder of Top Dawg Entertainment (Tde) has produced the show’s theme song and is serving as executive producer on the series, and ScHoolboy Q will play a character based on himself.
- 4/20/2021
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Dave Free is no longer working with Top Dawg Entertainment — the label known for elevating the careers of Kendrick Lamar, Sza, and Schoolboy Q — according to two insiders with knowledge of the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said Free has been working on his own for several months. He is helping the rising rapper Baby Keem, whose July album Die for My Bitch has amassed more than nine million streams to date. Last year, Free also announced his intention of “getting heavy into the film game.
Sources said Free has been working on his own for several months. He is helping the rising rapper Baby Keem, whose July album Die for My Bitch has amassed more than nine million streams to date. Last year, Free also announced his intention of “getting heavy into the film game.
- 10/4/2019
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Kenny Beats leans back and forth in a swivel chair, his movements matching the rhythm of his words, his face darting in and out of the conference room shadows. He’s describing L.A. rapper 03 Greedo’s last days of freedom before he turned himself in to serve 20 years in prison for drug and gun possession. It’s a subject he feels strongly about. Kenny’s voice is a mixture of reverence and pain as he speaks about his collaborator — half lamenting, half mythologizing.
“I can’t understand anything about that,...
“I can’t understand anything about that,...
- 1/20/2019
- by Charles Holmes
- Rollingstone.com
Save your voice, Sza! Last week, Top Dawg announced one of the most popular artists on his label had been pushing herself too hard on the Championship Tour, which kicked off May 4 in Vancouver; other artists on the 30-date trek include Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q and Jay Rock. In an Instagram update, he wrote, "I got some bad news. I have to take Sza off for a few days on the tour. Her vocal chords are swollen and she have to rest her voice to prevent any permanent damage. We been monitoring her close and this is the reason she missed the Arizona and New Mexico dates. She'll see the doctor again in a few days and I'll update you guys on her status." "As for the dates she missed," he...
- 5/30/2018
- E! Online
Before embarking on their upcoming Championship tour, which kicks off on May 4 in Vancouver, Kendrick Lamar, Sza, Schoolboy Q and other Top Dawg Entertainment artists are seen undertaking some tough workouts in a hilarious Lyft-sponsored commercial posted by the label.
The promo features all of the touring artists: Lamar, Sza, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, SiR and Lance Skiiwalker along with Isaiah Rashad.
The video begins with Schoolboy Q swinging golf clubs on the course with Lance Skiiwalker before phoning Lamar who is attempting to teach Jay Rock how to play tennis. Meanwhile, Sza is shown hiking in the middle of nowhere, then zooming around in a golf cart.
Eventually all the artists come together to run a few laps on the track, lift some weights, and play more sports — badly.
On a more serious note, Lamar has been making headlines recently after receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his latest album “Damn.
The promo features all of the touring artists: Lamar, Sza, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, SiR and Lance Skiiwalker along with Isaiah Rashad.
The video begins with Schoolboy Q swinging golf clubs on the course with Lance Skiiwalker before phoning Lamar who is attempting to teach Jay Rock how to play tennis. Meanwhile, Sza is shown hiking in the middle of nowhere, then zooming around in a golf cart.
Eventually all the artists come together to run a few laps on the track, lift some weights, and play more sports — badly.
On a more serious note, Lamar has been making headlines recently after receiving a Pulitzer Prize for his latest album “Damn.
- 4/17/2018
- by Ariana Brockington
- Variety Film + TV
The Black Panther soundtrack is out...and it might be one of the most amazing soundtracks Marvel's released to date. Where Guardians of the Galaxy is known for its incredibly awesome 80s mixtapes, hopefully, the Black Panther soundtrack continues the precedent of getting together hip-hops biggest names for original songs that are in touch with modern hip-hop trends. If you follow Hip-hop and RnB at all...check out his tracklist and tell me you aren't impressed:
1. Black Panther Kendrick Lamar
2. All The Stars (Album Version) by Kendrick Lamar & Sza Lyrics
3. X (Ft. 2 Chainz, Saudi & ScHoolboy Q)Lyrics
4. The Ways by Khalid & Swae Lee Lyrics
14.8K
5. Opps by Vince Staples & Yugen BlakrokLyrics
6. I Am by Jorja Smith Lyrics
7. Paramedic! by Sob x Rbe (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & Zacari) Lyrics
8.Bloody Waters by Ab-Soul (Ft. Anderson .Paak & James Blake) Lyrics
9. King's Dead by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake Lyrics
10. Redemption...
1. Black Panther Kendrick Lamar
2. All The Stars (Album Version) by Kendrick Lamar & Sza Lyrics
3. X (Ft. 2 Chainz, Saudi & ScHoolboy Q)Lyrics
4. The Ways by Khalid & Swae Lee Lyrics
14.8K
5. Opps by Vince Staples & Yugen BlakrokLyrics
6. I Am by Jorja Smith Lyrics
7. Paramedic! by Sob x Rbe (Ft. Kendrick Lamar & Zacari) Lyrics
8.Bloody Waters by Ab-Soul (Ft. Anderson .Paak & James Blake) Lyrics
9. King's Dead by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake Lyrics
10. Redemption...
- 2/9/2018
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
“Black Panther” bares it’s claws at the box office next weekend, but Marvel is eager to get audiences pumped in advance so the soundtrack is dropping today. Be forewarned, however, that while the album is curated and produced by Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, and features Sza, Schoolboy Q, Vince Staples, Ab-Soul, The Weeknd and more, there’s only one song you’ll hear in the actual movie.
- 2/9/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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