Kendrick Lamar ended the five-year wait for a new album on Friday (May 13) with the release of his eagerly-anticipated fifth studio albumMr. Morale & The Big Steppers. An 18-song double-disc effort, the project boasts guest appearances from Ghostface Killah, Kodak Black, Baby Keem, Sampha, Blxst, Summer Walker, Tanna Leone and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, among others. Behind the boards,…

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Kendrick Lamar has never shied away from baring his soul on wax, but his latest album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers contains some of the most personally revealing moments of his career. On the penultimate song “Mother I Sober” featuring Beth Gibbons of Portishead, the Compton native opens up about battling with what he calls “lust addiction”…

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Future‘s “WAIT FOR U” featuring Drake and Tems, is the biggest hit from his latest album, I NEVER LIKED YOU. The record debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this week and helped propel Hendrix’s ninth LP score the biggest sales week of 2022, opening with 222,000 album-equivalent units. According to the Atlanta rapper, a big part…

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Kendrick Lamarreturned on Friday (May 13) with hisMr. Morale & The Big Steppers double-album and on part two’s “Savior,” he made sure to touch on COVID-19 and those heavily skeptical of taking the vaccine throughout the ongoing pandemic. K. Dot addresses Christians not taking the vaccine over religious beliefs and then admits he got COVID and started…

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A$AP Rocky‘s upcomingDrink Champs episode is filled with stories fans are dying to hear, and one of them involving JAY-Z is pretty hilarious. On Wednesday (May 11), a portion of the episode surfaced finding Pretty Flacko telling the story of how Hov confronted him and his A$AP Mob crew over one of his verses mentioning the Brooklyn rap…

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50 Cent left the street life years ago and has since evolved into a successful rapper-turned-television producer. But during his rise to Hip Hop infamy, the Queens native frequently rapped about being raised by his drug-dealing mother and the violence he witnessed in his South Jamaica neighborhood. By age 12, he was dealing drugs and in…

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