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Continuing a staggering run of productivity that’s seen him release one full-length project every single year since 2018, the black cat himself, Sneakbo, is back with his brand new mixtape Made In Brixton.It’s a mammoth release, too, packing 21 tracks into its one-hour runtime. Despite that, he’s kept the features down to a relatively small, tight-knit group of trusted creative allies. Old friend and collaborator J Boy jumps on a couple of tracks, as does Lagos-hailing Afrobeats riser Martinsfeelz. For the rest of the…

Does YoungBoy Never Broke Again ever sleep?The 23-year-old rapper has had no trouble keeping busy throughout 2022. In addition to expanding his family, YoungBoy has gifted fans with numerous projects, including The Last Slimeto, Better Than You, Realer 2, 3800 Degrees, and Ma’ I Got a Family. On Friday, the Baton Rouge native kept up the momentum with the release of 3860—a collaborative mixtape with fellow Southern rapper Quando Rondo.Fans have been patiently awaiting the project since 2018, when the two teamed up on…

Meek Mill has finally shared Flamerz 5. The mixtape’s 15 tracks—many of them seeing him body popular instrumentals, which he promised with a No Ceilings comparison—feature appearances from Vory, Fridayy, Tafia, Yung Ro, and Kur.“This me basically doing 360’s and windmills in the layup line type mixtape lol,” Meek wrote on Instagram Sunday.Those flexes include him spitting on “God Did,” Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” “Big Stunna” by Quavo, Takeoff, and Birdman, “Tomorrow” by GloRilla, Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin,” Lil…

Just four months after the release of his debut album Crunkstar, Quality Control rapper Duke Deuce returns with his new mixtape Memphis Massacre III.A follow up to 2018’s Memphis Massacre and 2020’s Memphis Massacre 2, the 13-track project features a Memphis-only collection of guests, including Big Moochie Grape (“Black Ops”), ATM Rich Baby (“Buck the System”), Lil Thad (“Respect”), Dubba C (“Respect”), Glockianna (“Riverside,” “Respect”), and fellow QC labelmate Gloss Up (“Gwak Gwak”), as well as production from DJ Paul…

We’ve all said it (or indeed screamed it) when a song from our past comes on: “What a throwback!”Music soundtracks our lives. It becomes ingrained in our memory alongside our biggest milestones, from weddings to funerals, summer lovin‘ to heartbreak.It can make or break a night (nothing worse than a bad DJ) and it signals the start of the festive season in shopping centres. While we can’t all be in a musical – bursting into song in the street to tell our story – music is with us almost everywhere we go: the supermarket,…

Cardi B Prevails in $5 Million Mixtape Cover Lawsuit(Pic Credit: Instagram, Wikipedia) Artist facing lawsuits cause their movie, music or art has copyright content of other artists, features someone in demeaning light or anything else for that matter is pretty common. While Taylor Swift is still battling the ‘Shake It Off’ lawsuit, rapper Cardi B has prevailed in the $5 million Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 mixtape cover lawsuit. You read that right. For those who don’t know, Kevin Brophy sued the rapper back in 2017…

SANTA ANA, Calif. —  A heated exchange between rapper Cardi B and the lawyer for a man suing her for copyright infringement got so intense Wednesday that the judge briefly stopped the trial.The Grammy winner delivered pointed answers to several questions by attorney A. Barry Cappello, who is representing a man who claims the rapper misused his likeness on the cover of a 2016 mixtape.The testy back-and-forth between Cappello and the star witness prompted U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney to send jurors out of the Santa…

A self-described family man with a distinctive back tattoo felt “humiliated: after Cardi B allegedly misused his likeness for her sexually suggestive mixtape cover art, his lawyer said during opening arguments in a lawsuit against the singer Tuesday.Kevin Michael Brophy is suing the Grammy-winning musician in a $5-million copyright infringement suit in federal court in Santa Ana. His attorneys say Brophy’s life was disrupted and he suffered distress because of the 2016 artwork.Brophy’s lawyer A. Barry Cappello said…

Head of Urban Music at Spotify, Carl Chery, joins B. Dot to debate the best blog era mixtape of all time—Drake's "So Far Gone", J. Cole's "Friday Night Lights, Wiz's "Kush & Orange Juice", and more—ultimately crowning a winner. Carl also addresses recent "blackballing" claims made by rappers like DaBaby. Best Blog Era Mixtape : https://cmplx.it/2t8xY Head of Urban Music at Spotify, Carl Chery, joins B. Dot to debate the best blog era mixtape of all time—Drake's "So Far Gone", J. Cole's "Friday Night Lights, Wiz's…

Birmingham rhymer C4 has been a little quiet lately. His last project, C4ramel, was just over three years ago and until his “Cammy Riddim” this summer, that was pretty much all we’d had in terms of releases. Turns out, he’d been hard at work on a new mixtape, On Track.Tying together all his different musical strands, the project feels almost like a story-so-far release. Grime is the driving force of the set, but he also incorporates UK garage, rap and a touch of R&B (he even does a little bit of singing here and…