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...

In recent years, DJ Muggs, the production visionary behind Cypress Hill, has been doing a lot of cool underground shit, teaming up with rappers like Roc Marciano and Mach-Hommy for full-album collaborations. Recently, Muggs announced plans to release the new album Soul Assassins 3, the follow-up to the guest-heavy albums that he dropped in 1997 ...

The pair previously appeared on Jay-Z’s 'This Can’t Be Life'The post New footage of Kanye West working with Scarface in the studio has been shared appeared first on NME.

The Geto Boys rapper issued a plea for organ donors to come forward last OctoberThe post Scarface receives kidney transplant from son after battle with COVID-19 appeared first on NME.

Last year, the pioneering Houston rapper Scarface became one of the first celebrities to go public about his battle with COVID-19. In interviews last year, Scarface said that he felt like he was going to die while in the hospital, and he also said that his fight wasn’t over. In an Instagram Live conversation, Scarface told his old frie...