Freddie Gibbs closes out the week with his latest recording. Over your Drake’s “Champagne Poetry, Freddie Kane delivers a fiery flow full of bravado raps. Here, he claims best album of the year and responds to Kendrick Lamar’s “smoking on your Top 5” lyrics from his verse on Baby Keem’s “family ties”. [embedded content]
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Long Beach’s Joey Fatts takes it to the East in his new video featuring Dave East. The Doc Uno-produced track is off his upcoming Joey The Album dropping September 24. Directed by Kiky, the Cutthroat bully and the Harlem MC detail their success and vent on life before death while cruising through the city, popping
Damn shame. D Smoke is calling the shots like a boss in the video to his recent single, “Shame On You”. Cutting his meeting short at home, the Inglewood rapper heads to the Motherland where he reconnects with people of Lagos, Nigeria and salutes his trials and tribulations. [embedded content]
Y’all know what this is. Ari Lennox applies the sweet “Pressure” on her brand new single, produced by The Ocean Boys production trio Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, and Johnta Austin. On the sexy bop, the Dreamville songstress yearns for rough love and boasts her bedroom fantasies and raunchy requests. Any takers? The retro music video
To compliment his new album the melodic blue, Baby Keem faces his “issues” in the album’s new video. Similar to his The Tonight Show performance the night before, the Jake Schreier-directed video trails the Carson rapper riding his bicycle through a desert for a moment to reflect. With a helicopter hovering above, he rides past
DaBaby and Lil Wayne don’t need nobody on their much-anticipated single, “Lonely”. On the track, the “What’s Poppin” collaborators trade double-time flows full of self-confidence. DaBaby addresses fake friends, the loss of his brother, and more, while Tunechi brings nothing but rhymes galore for his critics. “Lonely” follows DaBaby’s previous single “Giving What It’s Suppose
Gather ’round hustlers. Larry June is the epitome of hustling. So who better than Good Job Larry himself to help crown the game’s ultimate hustler in the latest episode of Complex Brackets. Chopping it up with host Brian B.Dot Miller, the Bay Area rapper runs through a list of the industry’s elite go-getters including JAY-Z,
The legends are taking over the streets for the newly announced Legendz Of The Streetz Tour. Presented by We Are Live Entertainment, the star-studded tour will feature acts Rick Ross, Jeezy, Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Fabolous, Lil Kim, Trina, and Boosie Badazz. DJ Drama will serve as the tour DJ. The trek will kick off
Still hot off his “Still Joker“, Maxo Kream does it big with Tyler, The Creator on his new single. Produced by Tyler, The Creator, Maxo and Ty bring their bossy raps to a brolic production. Along with the release, the visual captures the two cruising in their Rolls Royce trucks and flexing their bands out
Oh boy! Cardi B and Offset have welcome their baby boy. On Saturday (Sep. 4), Cardi B gave birthed to her second child at 6:14 p.m. EST. in New York. Taking to Instagram, the rapper shared a photo of her new bundle of joy with her husband by her side. “We are so overjoyed to
The Boy is back. After a few slight delays, Drake has finally released his much-anticipated and sixth solo album, Certified Lover Boy. Initially scheduled for a 2020 release, the LP was announced last October with a release date of January 2021. After nine months of delays and recovering from a knee injury, The Boy delivered
Made in Shaolin. Ghostface Killah and Raekwon give WizKid and Tem’s “Essence” a Wu-Tang touch with their remix, “Purple Essence”. On the Afrobeat hit, Tony Starks opens the track and commandeers the ladies to whine, while Shallah praises his queen his verse. The “Purple Essence” follows WizKid and Tems’ “Essence” remix featuring Justin Bieber. [embedded
Kanye West is back on top as his tenth solo album Donda has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. It is now currently the biggest sales week of 2021. In its first week, Donda moved 309,000 equivalent album units with 37,000 of the sum in traditional album sales. 272,000 of its SEA
Consequence has the time today and crashes the party with his diss record for Drake. In midst of the Ye and Drizzy’s ongoing feud and in response to the leak, Cons comes to the defense of his G.O.O.D. ally and parties to a slew of shots towards his Toronto nemesis.
Drake took his pittyness to new heights and prolonged his ongoing feud with Kanye west on the airwaves. While making a guest host appearance on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 on Saturday morning (Sep. 4), Drake played cuts off his Certified Lover Boy album and proceeded to play Kanye and Andre 3000’s “Life Of The Party”, which
Just hours after releasing his Certified Lover Boy album, Drake brings sexy back in the album’s first video featuring Future and Young Thug. In the whimsical clip directed by Dave Meyers, the three certify their swag while channeling the videos of Right Said Fred’s 1991 hit, “I’m Too Sexy” and the Backstreet Boys’ 1999 smash
Phife Dawg and Illa J’s “French Kiss” series continues with their third installment featuring Redman. Produced by Potatohead People, the late Phife, the Detroit lyricist and the Funk Doc take it back to Montreal where they swoon the French ladies with their hot flows and their comical lyrics. [embedded content]
Hot off the release of Shy Glizzy and Glizzy Gang’s Don’t Feed The Sharks LP, Young Jefe stars in the compilation new video. Set at an exotic destination, Young Jefe rides his ATV and kicks it at a lush pad with eye-candy and lavish meals provided by a private chef. Don’t feed the sharks. [embedded
Skepta’s got a full day ahead of him in his All In EP’s new video. Directed by Matthew Walker, the British rapper makes moves throughout London where he works with Bottega Veneta for a photo shoot, Havana Club with his brand of rum, Diesel, and more. Cheers! [embedded content]
Fresh off the release of his Donda album, Kanye West brings life to the album’s first music video with his ode to Kim Kardashian. Featuring footage from his Chicago listening event at Soldier Field, the clip depicts the rapper’s childhood home blazing in flames and Kim walking on the field in her wedding dress where