Rick Ross already released one album this year, the orchestrally grandiose Mastermind, and now he’s planning on following it up with a new album called Hood Billionaire before the end of 2014. First single “Elvis Presley Blvd.” works as an extended homage to Memphis rap and features a verse from Memphis original Pro...

The artists are the latest musicians to address the shooting of Michael Brown by police

That list of rappers and musicians up top is an all-star team and they’ve all gotten together for the 6-minute anthem “Don’t Shoot” to address the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown and the events that followed. The Game recruited everyone that appears on the song, and here’s what he had ...

Though Chris hasn’t expressed much admiration for Ed Sheeran over in the Week In Pop, maybe the guy’s not all bad? I mean, he co-wrote that Jessie Ware song, and we all agreed that was the best song of last week. Looks like there’s still plenty of bad to go around, though: Rick Ross contributes [...]

Atlanta’s formerly-young Jeezy has built up a durable 10-year catalog mostly by rapping about the triumphs and stresses of the drug trade over tense, gothic, monolithic production. But on “Beautiful,” a song from his forthcoming album Seen It All, he goes a different direction, rapping about getting used to the idea...