R&B/Hip-Hop
‘jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’ Directors Discuss Exploring the Ye Mystique in Netflix Documentary
Just who is the musical mastermind formerly known as Kanye West? Film directors Coodie and Chike take music fans behind the curtain with Ye in the duo’s upcoming Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy. During a conversation for Thursday’s (Dec. 2) Netflix Playlist showcase, ahead of the documentary’s 2022 premiere, longtime friends and Kanye West collaborators Coodie and Chike (pronounced cheek-A) discuss insights gleaned from chronicling the artist/entrepreneur’s trajectory for more than 20 years. Providing compelling context is a video clip from 2002 featuring a fearless West freestyling with Yasiin Bey (Mos Def). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Additional nuggets mined from 267 hours of footage include the genesis behind the video fo...
Dionne Warwick & Chance the Rapper Team Up for ‘Nothing’s Impossible’ Duet
“Nothing’s Impossible,” a duet between Dionne Warwick and Chance the Rapper, has arrived. “For those of you asking about the song with @chancetherapper… well, it’s out NOW,” Warwick announced on Twitter on Friday (Nov. 26). “I gotta tell you, I am so excited,” Warwick said in a video clip she tweeted. “Yes, I am.” The pair revealed the song was in the works back in January, after connecting on Twitter a month before. Warwick had first initiated contact by poking fun at Chance with some pointed comments that had her trending on Twitter: “Hi, @chancetherapper,” she wrote on Twitter on Dec. 5. “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I am now Dio...
HBO’s DMX Doc Provides a Turbulent Snapshot Into Late Rapper’s Final Year on the Road
About 45 minutes into HBO’s DMX: Don’t Try to Understand documentary, Dark Man X lets his life’s purpose be known, “To be an inspiration to someone that I don’t know.” Seventy-four million records later and even following his tragic passing at the age of 50 on April 9, DMX is still a beacon of hope to those he doesn’t know. Explore Explore DMX See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Director Christopher Frierson and a film crew followed DMX — born Earl Simmons — for about a year from the second he stepped out of a West Virginia prison on a snowy day in January 2019 after serving a year behind bars on federal tax evasion charges. The COVID-19 pandemic halted the film’s momentum once the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival was postponed. It wasn’t until around Christmas ...
H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan & Silk Sonic Stand Up for R&B in 2022 Grammy Nominations
Just like last year, the R&B nominations for the 64th Grammy Awards are once again a potpourri of genre faves, surprises and omissions. H.E.R. brings her total Grammy nominations count to 21 with eight more added Tuesday (Nov. 23) and four of those under the R&B banner: best performance and best song for “Damage,” best album for Back of My Mind and best traditional performance for “Fight for You.” And, of course, there were the expected nominations for Silk Sonic and “Leave the Door Open” (best R&B performance, best R&B song). Also on tap were hoped-for nods on behalf of critically acclaimed projects from Jazmine Sullivan (best R&B album for Heaux Tales, best R&B performance and song for “Pick Up Your Feelings”), Lucky Daye (best progressive R&B album for Table ...
Azealia Banks Slams Kanye West, Says Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist: ‘Only God Can Cancel Something’
Azealia Banks took aim at Kanye West on Monday (Nov. 22), sharing her uncensored thoughts on the rapper in a new interview. Chatting with Rolling Stone, the topic of ‘Ye came up, as the “212” MC discussed how she came this close to naming her recent track “F— Him All Night” after her nemesis. The reason? “Because Kanye trolled me a lot,” she said. (Instead, the single’s cover art points all 10 fingers at West thanks to some creative nail art.) “Listen to my music. Listen to the last five years of Kanye West’s music. I’m superior,” Banks continued. “I don’t have to talk about that which is beneath me. He’s been, I guess, selling sneakers and doing outrageous shit, everything but the music. When Kanye puts some music out that is important, then I guess we can have that conversation. But righ...
Young Dolph Leaves a Lasting Legacy In Memphis
Two days before he was gunned down while buying cookies at his favorite bakery in Memphis, Tennessee, rapper Young Dolph visited a cancer center where a relative had received treatment. The 36-year-old who grew up on the Memphis streets was in town to hand out turkeys at a church and other locations ahead of Thanksgiving. He stopped by West Cancer Center in the Memphis suburb of Germantown on Monday, spending time with clinical staff and thanking them for compassionate care given to a relative, the center said in a statement. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Return trips like this one had become common in his life, which ended Wednesday when he was shot multiple times inside Makeda’s Cookies, a popular bakery owned by a Black family and known for tasty butter cookies and banana p...
No More War? Drake and Kanye West Pose For Photographs
If a picture can speak a thousand words, a new photo of Drake and Kanye West could be fleshed out for a book. The hip-hop stars have been feuding in a war of words for more than a decade. It’s gone on so long, no one seems to remember who fired the first missile, though the verbal projectiles have been constant. West and Drake even clashed heads in the lead-up of their respective albums Donda and Certified Lover Boy. After ‘Ye briefly leaked Drake’s address, the OVO MC seemed to take shots at him on his song “7am on Bridle Path,” and later leaked ‘Ye and André 3000’s “Life of the Party” collab that didn’t make the cut on Donda. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news That was then. Now, the rappers appear to have buried the hatchet, if we can read into...
