Hip-Hop

Drake slam dunks in the world of hip-hop, but he took his skills to multiple athletic courts for his new “Laugh Now Cry Later” video featuring Lil Durk. The clip, which takes place at Nike’s World Headquarters in Oregon, sees the two rappers ripping through every sport flawlessly, from basketball and swimming, to jet skiing and football. Drake. and Lil Durk even pose for photos holding basketballs (with Drizzy rocking Lebron James’ iconic white suit from his draft night in 2003). {“nid”:”9426795″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”A Timeline of the Artists With the Most Hot 100 Top 10s, From Elvis Presley to Drake”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/business\/chart-beat\/9426795\/drake-madonna-e...

RZA came up with the ingredients for a new ice cream truck jingle that isn’t spoiled with a racist past. The Wu-Tang Clan mastermind teamed up with Good Humor, the century-old ice cream company that brought us the original ice cream truck, strawberry shortcake bar, chocolate-coated ice cream on a stick and more goodies, for a musical treat with a trap flare to it. The company chose to ring in its centennial anniversary this year with a different sound, one that ensures “ice cream trucks across the country continue to spread joy to everyone for the next 100 years,” according to Good Humor’s website. “We come to find out that it has racist roots,” the rapper-producer said in a video explaining the story behind the revamped ice cream truck instrumental. ...

Juice WRLD is trapped in a bubble in the animated visual for the late rapper’s collab with The Weeknd, “Smile.” The KDC Visions-created clip for the posthumous single finds Juice wandering through fields of flowers and butterflies as he moons about doing anything he can to make his lover smile, even as the devil on his shoulder warns of imminent danger. As Juice bounces among the flowers and approaches a glowing door, the scene cuts to a woman (who looks a lot like the rapper’s real-life girlfriend) lying on a bed surrounded by pictures of him, looking longingly at a shrunken version of the MC singing to her from inside a snow globe. As she gazes up with sad eyes at a painting of her beloved on the wall, it comes alive and Juice grows a pair of white angel wings. {&...

Cardi B has never been shy about sharing on her socials, but now she’s joined a suddenly-hot subscription service where she promises to spill even more. “Ok guys so now you can subscribe to my only fans! Yes I’ll be putting by BTS from WAP there !” Cardi wrote, promising to reveal some of the behind-the-scenes action from her collab with Megan Thee Stallion. “And my day to day content.Also any rumors floating around.NO I WONT BE SHOWING P—Y , T—IES AND A– .LINK IN BIO…It will be a place for only me and my fans.” In a video message to announce her OnlyFans, Cardi said that not only will she pull back the curtain on the “WAP” shoot, but also the “whole process” or recording it, from the day before to the day she tr...

Nas surprised fans on Monday (Aug. 10) by announcing that he’s dropping some music with producer Hit-Boy next week. He has yet to reveal if the release will be a single or full album. “I’ve been trying to do this with this man for years,” Nas says of Hit-Boy in a clip uploaded to social media. “We’ve got the time, that alignment.” {“nid”:”8524269″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Nas' Top 25 Deep Cuts”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/hip-hop\/8524269\/nas-top-25-deep-cuts\/”,”media”:{“width”:”1548″,”height”:”1024″,”extension”:”jpg”,”mime_type”:”image\/j...

Ben Shapiro joined the virtual conversation regarding Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” collaboration the rappers released last Friday (Aug. 7). But the conservative political commentator’s stiff line-by-line recitation of the censored lyrics became a major turn-off for Twitter users. Shapiro dissected the hypersexual track and decoded its NSFW lyrics on his most recent episode of The Ben Shapiro Show Monday (Aug. 10), which also featured the censored music video playing in the background. “Wet a– p-word, p-word is female genitalia,” he clarified while emphatically reading Cardi’s first verse. “And it gets significantly, significantly more vulgar, like a lot more vulgar.” {“nid”:”9431972″,”type&...