Category: Music News

Oakland, CA – JAY-Z’s Kalief Browder docuseries was only just a stepping stone in the path to eradicate mass incarceration tactics championed in the United States. TechCrunch is reporting that along with Roc Nation, 8VC, Kapor Capital and Y Combinator, a de-carceration startup by the name of Promise has been born. The mission of the …

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Toronto MC Nav went after XXL Magazine and its editor-in-chief on Monday (March 19), airing out his frustrations on social media and characterizing the publication and its annual Freshman List of up-and-comers as irrelevant. “To my fellow artists,” he wrote. “We shouldn’t look to a magazine for validation or to tell us if we ‘hot or not’, especially one that …

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Chance The Rapper took to social media to share his stance on the string of bombings that have killed two and injured five in Austin, Texas. While the perpetrator’s motive isn’t clear, the first three victims have been people of color. Despite other victims being white, the rapper believes the bombings are targeting black and Latino people and …

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Chris Brown is apparently looking out for Kodak Black, who has been behind bars since January 18. Kodak hopped on Twitter on Monday (March 19) to announce he is out of solitary confinement and getting some help from Brown. According to Kodak, the chart-topping singer deposited $10,000 in the incarcerated rapper’s prison commissary account. “Fresh …

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The rift between Joyner Lucas and Logic continues to deepen. On Monday (March 19), the “I’m Not Racist” rapper appeared to hit below the belt and poke fun at Logic’s relationship status on Twitter. “Her and bobby Valentino are really done?” he wrote. He added a heart eyes emoji followed by a eyeball emoji. Rumors …

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