The Roots Picnic — the once Philly-centric Black music festival, which over 16 years has become a perennial soft launch for the summer concert season here in the Northeast — can now safely be thought of as a national event. Atlanta’s Gunna graces the same stage as North Carolina’s Fantasia Barrino. St. Louis natives Smino...

Hot 97 Summer Jam, the annual mega-concert thrown by NYC hip-hop radio station Hot 97, took place Sunday at UBS Arena in Elmont, just outside the city limits. The lineup was topped by Doja Cat and Sexyy Red, with names like French Montana, Cash Cobain, Davido, Lola Brooke, Fivio Foreign, Sleepy Hallow, and Ty Dolla $ign further down the bill and...

New York rap monster Your Old Droog has been a prolific force for nearly a decade, and he’s teamed up with some very big names on his newest track. For the Madlib production “DBZ,” Droog teams up with Wu-Tang Clan legend Method Man and veteran Florida energy-bomb Denzel Curry. This single is an event, and it&#82...

Pete Davidson has debuted a trailer for Bupkis, a forthcoming Peacock comedy series that tells “a heightened, fictionalized version of Pete Davidson’s real life.” Guesting on The Breakfast Club, Davidson spoke to Charlamagne Tha God about the truly stacked cast (like Jadakiss, Cam’ron, and Method Man), life after ...

Carpool Karaoke, which began as a segment on James Corden’s Late Late Show, evolved into a series of its own on Apple TV+ in 2017. Five years later, a second season begins this Friday, and Apple has just announced its lineup of guests.