Last night, Kanye West gave a lengthy interview on REVOLT’s Drink Champs podcast, where he covered a number of topics, to say the least. During the interview’s “Quicktime With Slime” segment, West took a swipe at producer Just Blaze, calling him a “copycat” (the two both famously handled produ...

Ann Peebles’ 1973 hit “I Can’t Stand The Rain” is a classic of Memphis soul, but it’s just as known for its weird, blippy electric timbale, meant to mimic the sound of falling rain, as for its slow-strut atmosphere and its raw, bluesy, powerful Peebles vocal. Over the past 48 years, “I ...

This past weekend, as previously announced, longtime Wu-Tang Clan comrades Raekwon and Ghostface Killah went head-to-head in the latest battle from Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s pandemic institution Verzuz. It was made for a fun heartwarming spectacle — two old friends bantering back and forth, rapping immortal tracks at each o...

Swizz Beatz, the veteran rap producer who's married to Alicia Keys and recently started the popular Verzuz series with Timbaland, just broke a lot of records in the highly competitive world of Middle Eastern camel racing. He was already the first African American and the first Westerner to own a camel racing team. And when…

Back in the peak era of initial quarantine, Timbaland and Swizz Beatz did a DJ battle on Instagram Live that kicked off the Verzuz series. It became a whole thing -- so much so that in April, we published a column imagining the best Verzuz battles we'd like to see. What happened tonight on Verzuz,…