DMX posthumous album Exodus due for release in May | Rap
[ad_1] A new album by the late rapper DMX, who died in April, will be released later this month. Featuring new material produced by Swizz Beatz, Exodus is the first DMX album since 2012’s Undisputed and marks his eighth overall. Swizz Beatz told Rolling Stone: “My brother X was one of the most pure and […]
AJ Tracey: Flu Game review – a confident slam dunk | AJ Tracey
[ad_1] West London rapper AJ Tracey’s ambitious second studio album doesn’t just nod to the pandemic; it references a 1997 NBA game when a visibly unwell Michael Jordan overcame food poisoning to help the Chicago Bulls to victory. Tracey is also digging deep to triumph over the odds, the title implies, with a US audience […]
DMX’s powerful work confronted an American hell of trauma and poverty | Rap
[ad_1] Listening to a DMX song from the late 1990s is like riding a wrecking ball through a gated community. The music video for Stop Being Greedy – one of many confrontational highlights from the rapper’s 1998 Def Jam debut, It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot – shows DMX hunting a wealthy white man across […]
US rapper DMX dies aged 50 following heart attack | Rap
[ad_1] DMX, the New York rapper whose gruff tone electrified the US music scene in the late 1990s, has died aged 50. The star, whose real name was Earl Simmons, was hospitalised after a heart attack on 2 April, and had been placed in a critical care unit at White Plains hospital, New York. His […]
New York prayer vigil for rapper DMX – in pictures
[ad_1] Supporters and family of the rapper DMX have held a prayer vigil outside the New York hospital where he remains on life support after being admitted on Friday after a heart attack Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
TI and Tiny deny sexual assault allegations from three further women | Rap
[ad_1] Rapper TI and his wife Tiny have denied allegations of sexual abuse from three women, adding to denials earlier this year after four other women made similar allegations. On Friday, New York lawyer Tyrone A Blackburn announced he was “speaking with investigators from multiple jurisdictions to pursue criminal charges” after the new allegations. One […]
DMX’s family to hold prayer vigil outside New York hospital | Rap
[ad_1] A prayer vigil was planned for Monday outside the New York hospital where the rapper DMX remained on life support following a heart attack. The family of the rapper said on Sunday the vigil would be held outside White Plains hospital at 5pm. “On Friday night … our brother, son, father, and colleague DMX, […]
Rapper Pa Salieu charged in connection with fatal stabbing | UK news
[ad_1] The rapper Pa Salieu has said he is “engaging with the justice system” after being charged with violent disorder by detectives investigating the killing of a man outside a nightclub in Coventry. West Midlands police said 10 men, including the musician, had been charged in relation to the death of Fidel Glasgow. The 23-year-old, […]
Satan shoes? Sure. But Lil Nas X is not leading American kids to devil-worship | Culture
[ad_1] Lil Nas X, a 21-year-old musical artist first famous for his rap/country hit Old Town Road, has ruffled quite a few feathers with the release of the video for his new single Montero: Call Me By Your Name. He’s long been a controversial online figure, due in part to his charming and frenetic social […]
YouTube rejects internal request to censor rapper YG over robbery lyrics | Rap
[ad_1] YouTube has rejected a proposal from within the company to remove a video by successful Los Angeles rapper YG, which features lyrics about targeting Asian neighbourhoods for robbery. Employees had requested the 2014 track, Meet the Flockers, be removed, following the 16 March shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, six of them Asian […]
