Today, the Queens underground rapper Bryant Dope, whose New New York mixtape we posted earlier this year, releases a new free EP called Raw Dope. Bryant’s DJ is the Queens producer Marc.R, and he made all the beats. The EP’s first single is a nicely plainspoken, beautifully produced track called “Real Is All I Know,...

The 'Same Love' rapper responded by saying it was 'super fresh' to receive the compliment    

'ARTPOP' is Gaga's third album and will be released on November 11    

YouTube's first-ever music awards thrilled and spilled, with Eminem named Artist of the Year though most winners were lesser known acts who featured in an eclectic show filled with stunts. Up next was a crying Lady Gaga, minus her trademark peroxide blonde hair and make-up, dressed in a tomboyish baseball cap marked "Dope,&...

Before Kendrick Lamar had his “Control” verse, Gucci Mane had “Birds Of A Feather,” the song where he recklessly named just about every rapper he knew and let them know exactly where they stood with him. (This was, of course, a predictor of the Twitter rampage that got Gucci kicked off of Atlantic and sent...