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 ...

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...

Lord only knows why Rick Ross felt like he had to release two music videos, on the same day, for songs from a months-old album, but that’s where we are right now. Today’s first Mastermind video was the sunny, money-soaked “Supreme” clip. And now Eif Rivera has directed a grimly goofy crime-movie video for ...