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ONE Musicfest and Live Nation Urban are heading to Dallas for TwoGether Land, an expansion of their partnership and a two-day festival set to take place on May 25 and 26. Lil Wayne, Summer Walker, Latto, and Gucci Mane will headline the event. Taking place at Fair Park, the inaugural festival will also see performances by Big Tuck, Erica Banks, Yella Beezy, Chalie Boy, Dorrough, and more on a stage with radio personality Bay Bay. Three 6 Mafia, Mariah The Scientist, Mike Reed, Thrilla, Tyla, Rody Red, and more are…

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that jailed Florida rapper Kodak Black could be released from custody after spending two months behind bars on a Broward County drug possession charge that a different judge dismissed two weeks ago. The “Super Gremlin” rapper was expected to walk out of a federal detention center in Miami Wednesday night, his lawyer Bradford Cohen tells Rolling Stone. “It was important for him to be out for the birth of his son,” Cohen says. “This is his fourth child. He has been at every birth, so…

Jailed rap star Kodak Black scored a legal victory Friday when a Florida judge dismissed his drug charge linked to his Dec. 7 arrest for possession of a substance deemed “cocaine” at the scene but was actually oxycodone through subsequent lab testing. Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, submitted a prescription for the oxycodone to the court prior to the ruling. Prosecutors tried, but failed, to convince the court that more was needed to substantiate the script. “ do not refute or negate the material fact that…

Kodak Black is asking a judge to dismiss his pending drug charges in Florida after lab tests proved the white substance collected during his recent arrest was the prescription painkiller oxycodone, not cocaine. In a sworn motion filed Monday in Broward County, defense lawyer Brad Cohen says the multiplatinum-selling rapper had a legal prescription at the time of his arrest on December 7, 2023, so his charges should be stricken. Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, has been locked up in the case for weeks. Cohen…

O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came together for an onstage discussion at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn as part of Rolling Stone’s first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event. Earlier that same day, Batiste scored five Grammy nominations for his latest album, World Music…

Beaucoup Ideas Image Credit: Yè Fan for Rolling Stone Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane during their conversation, which went deep on their creative processses, Southern roots, experiences shooting films, and wanting to make music for decades to come. Throughout, the pair fed off each other’s energy and ideas: “I feel like since we’ve been talking, I got beaucoup ideas already,” Batiste said. Beaucoup Ideas Image Credit: Yè Fan for Rolling Stone Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane…

St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn was full of good vibes and a spirit of musical collaboration on Nov. 10, as two pairs of unique talents — Lil Yachty and Tierra Whack, and Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane — took the stage for Rolling Stone’s first-ever Musicians on Musicians live event. There was laughter, honesty, and even a couple surprise performances, including a haunting solo-piano version of a Gucci Mane hit.  St Ann’s was decked out with understated elegance — multiple bars, DJ Ro Wyldeflower spinning in the…