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“Guess who’s back on the news, it’s your favourite Republican hoods,” spits Móglaí Bap on Kneecap’s 2019 track, Get Your Brits Out – a roiling, riotous tune, rapped in both English and Irish, in which the trio imagine a drug-fuelled night out with DUP politicians.“Favourite Republican hoods” is a cheeky yet apt descriptor for how the provocative, satirical Irish-language rap group have been received this year. Kneecap became the surprise stars of Sundance film festival, where their biopic – a semi-fictional origin story…

Playboi Carti has received online backlash after his brief appearance on popular Kick streamer Adin Ross’ live broadcast earlier this week. On Sunday (February 4), Ross announced the ‘Whole Lotta Red’ rapper would be a guest on his livestream after he performed ‘FE!N’ with Travis Scott at the Grammys. The Florida streamer replied to a news post about the event, saying he had paid Carti $50,000 (£39,704) to join him. “$50k?,” he wrote, “2 million , cash & a rari 2024 ‘MUSIC’. Adin X Playboi Carti stream tonight live on…

If the trenchant US rapper Noname had her fondest wish, this show wouldn’t be just another gig in a corporate rock venue, but a free block party. There would be food trucks, stalls for activist groups and Black-owned businesses, plus free legal weed and somewhere for attenders to donate transformational books written by people of colour to those in jail. This is what happened in Fatimah Warner’s home town of Chicago last year, to celebrate the release of her incendiary and highly personal third album, Sundial, which…

After a week of verbal warfare between rappers Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, a clear winner has finally emerged from the wreckage.Despite Minaj weaponizing her huge fanbase to slap down her former Hot Girl Summer collaborator, Megan’s Hiss topped this week’s Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first solo No 1. Meanwhile, Minaj’s response track Big Foot – a song disappointingly trading on racist and misogynistic tropes – debuted at No 23.It is a rare stumble for Minaj, the self-proclaimed queen of rap, not least because…

Coi Leray chats with Rolling Stone’s Ilana Woldenberg at the 2024 GRAMMYs. Coi Leray chats with Rolling Stone’s Ilana Woldenberg at the 2024 GRAMMYs. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

At 48, Killer Mike won three rap Grammys on Sunday and told the audience: “You cannot tell me you get too old. You cannot tell me it’s too late.” Mike won best rap album for Michael, while his song “Scientists and Engineers” won best rap performance and best rap song. On Twitter, the Recording Academy accidentally announced that Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World” won best rap song, though it went to Michael‘s track, which features Andre 3000, Future and Eryn Allen Kane. “For all the…

Perhaps because so much post-millennial music has seemed safe and blandly palatable by comparison, grime – and the distinctive forms of homegrown rap that emerged in its wake – still boasts a freshness that distracts from its actual age. Those old enough to remember its birth might flatter themselves into thinking it’s still a nascent art form, but it’s really not. Dizzee Rascal, once the boy in da corner, turns 40 this year. Hits by stars such as Wiley, Lethal Bizzle and Kano are now considered old-school throwbacks.…

INGLEWOOD — It is safe to say that Snoop Dogg loves the LBC. The rapper-turned-actor’s new movie “The Underdoggs”, which was inspired by the Snoop Youth Football League (founded by Snoop Dogg in 2005), prominently features his beloved Long Beach Poly High School. “Poly High School, the Funkhouse, this is the most prolific high school in Southern California as far as I’m concerned when you think about the greats that have come through that campus,” Snoop Dogg said during an exclusive sports roundtable at The Compound in…

It’s an afternoon in July 2023, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is in his element. Standing at a podium at the foot of the marble staircase in New York’s City Hall, the Mayor is flanked by staffers, supporters, and hip-hop stars including Eric B. (of Eric B. and Rakim fame), rapper and reality TV star Peter Gunz, and “The Blastmaster” KRS-One. The occasion is the announcement of a series of concerts to celebrate hip-hop’s 50th anniversary across New York’s five boroughs. Aiming to look the part of “Hip-Hop Mayor,”…

The double standard is almost as old as hip-hop itself. A decorated filmmaker gets laurels for his or her latest bullet-laden gangster movie. A rock or country star is proclaimed a songwriting genius for violent tales of man’s inhumanity to man. But rappers are held to a different standard, their every line held up as some kind of documentary evidence of an artist’s criminal intent. Sometimes, those lyrics are even used in courtrooms by prosecutors eager to take advantage of the public’s built-in prejudices and…