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J. Cole will once again bring his Dreamville Festival to Raleigh, North Carolina, next month — and this time, he’s enlisted SZA, Nicki Minaj, and Chris Brown to join him as headliners at the 2024 fest. Taking place April 6 and 7 at Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park, the fourth annual Dreamville will also feature sets from Lil Yachty, ScHoolboy Q, Sexxy Red, J.I.D., Teezo Touchdown, Earthgang, Bas, Rae Sremmurd, Rema, Jeezy, Monica and dozens more. Tickets for the festival, which J. Cole — a native of nearby…

Nicki Minaj has dropped her long-awaited new album, Pink Friday 2. Something of a follow-up to 2010’s Pink Friday, the album has a whopping 22 tracks and offers fans plenty to dig into. From big-budget samples like Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” to features including Drake, Lil Wayne, and Future, the album is sure to satiate Minaj’s throngs of loyal fans — known as the Barbz — for some time, and makes for a late addition as one of the year’s biggest rap albums. Here are five takeaways from Nicki…

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Game sniped at Jay-Z with the line: “You 38 and still rappin’? Ugh!” from his 2006 track “It’s Okay (One Blood).” Yet some of this era’s biggest rap heroes are nearing — and above — forty. A “Tale Of The Tape” scene in the music video for Drake and J. Cole’s recent collaboration “First Person Shooter” displayed them at 37 and 38 years old, respectively. There was a time when rappers wouldn’t be so forthcoming about pushing 40, but rap’s “too old” stigma has largely dissipated as…