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Double trouble … Niles Hollowell-Dhar with David Singer-Vine, AKA the Cataracs, in 2011.

The Middle-Eastern guitar melody in Blackpink’s How You Like That. The whistle at the very beginning of S-Class by Stray Kids. The sax melodies in Money and Lalisa by Lisa. The crowd chants at the […]

Westside Gunn on Virgil, Day Ones, and Designing His Legacy

Westside Gunn on Virgil, Day Ones, and Designing His Legacy

Westside Gunn is ready to move different. After switching up the flow on his most recent album, And Then You Pray For Me, released last week, the Buffalo-bred Griselda Records rapper and Fashion Rebels cofounder […]

HourHouse Announce Debut Album ‘Gold Tooth Guru’

HourHouse Announce Debut Album ‘Gold Tooth Guru’

HourHouse Announce Debut Album ‘Gold Tooth Guru’ https://rocksound.tv/wp-content/plugins/google-analytics-premium/assets/js/frontend-gtag.min.js var monsterinsights_frontend = {“js_events_tracking”:”true”,”download_extensions”:”doc,pdf,ppt,zip,xls,docx,pptx,xlsx”,”inbound_paths”:”[{“path”:”\/go\/”,”label”:”affiliate”},{“path”:”\/recommend\/”,”label”:”affiliate”}]”,”home_url”:”https://rocksound.tv”,”hash_tracking”:”false”,”v4_id”:”G-35LYFPCDTM”}; window.a2a_config=window.a2a_config||{};a2a_config.callbacks=[];a2a_config.overlays=[];a2a_config.templates={};a2a_localize = { Share: “Share”, Save: “Save”, Subscribe: “Subscribe”, Email: “Email”, Bookmark: “Bookmark”, ShowAll: “Show All”, ShowLess: “Show less”, FindServices: “Find service(s)”, FindAnyServiceToAddTo: […]

Drake Ends Grammys Snub, Submits Her Loss for Awards Consideration

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After withholding his last two albums from consideration at the Grammy Awards, Drake has submitted his joint album with 21 Savage, Her Loss, for consideration for Album of the Year and Best Rap Album. The […]

Every Day I Get Messages From All Over The World Meant For A Celebrity. It’s A Burden — And A Gift.

Paul Rosenberg, but not THAT Paul Rosenberg

I’ll never forget the first voicemail message I received. “Paul Rosenberg, hermano mío. Let’s do this! Fly me down from Puerto Rico to Miami first class, let’s hit the recording studio and I will make […]

How Ice Spice went from ‘Munch’ to Munchkins

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Ice Spice is scrolling through her phone, a sweet smile on her face, as she tries to remember a compliment Taylor Swift once gave her. “I actually wrote it down, because she taught me a […]

The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst on Madonna, Manchester, and His New Memoir, Goth

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Nabil Ayers and Lol Tolhurst, photographed by Sophie Wilde Spare. The Cure’s very first performance was at their Catholic School end-of-year assembly. Covering Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” Lol Tolhurst, the band’s drummer and co-founder, wore […]

Travis Scott’s record-breaking ‘Utopia’ earns 500,000 album units in first week – Music News

Travis Scott's record-breaking ‘Utopia’ - Music News

Travis Scott’s No.1 album UTOPIA has been deemed the biggest hip-hop release of 2023, with 500,000 in album units sold in its first week, and garnering over 650 million streams globally. Additionally, Apple Music confirmed […]

How Sugar Hill Records remade music with ‘Rapper’s Delight’

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On Oct. 20, 1979, high school friends Angela Brown, Cheryl Cook and Gwendolyn Chisolm found themselves in a make-or-break audition. Like many adventurous teens, the Columbia, S.C., natives were enamored with a new musical art […]

MC Sha-Rock Talks Her Hip-Hop Origin Story, 50th Anniversary

MC Sha-Rock Talks Her Hip-Hop Origin Story, 50th Anniversary

Courtesy of MC Sha-RockCourtesy of MC Sha-Rock There are a lot of firsts associated with MC Sha-Rock, hip-hop’s “mother of the mic.” The Bronx, NY, native is the first female MC in hip-hop history and […]

Fugees Scored Their Future in the Booga Basement: Podcast

Fugees Scored Their Future in the Booga Basement: Podcast

 Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS We’re opening The Opus archives as part of our Hip-Hop 50 celebration, revisiting one of the greatest rap records of all time: Fugees’ The Score. In Episode 2 […]

Dave & Central Cee claim longest-running UK rap Number 1 with ‘Sprinter’ – Music News

Dave & Central Cee claim longest-running UK rap Number 1 with 'Sprinter' - Music News

Dave and Central Cee have made it into history books once again, with Sprinter now the longest-running UK rap Number 1 single in UK chart history. Today, the track marks nine consecutive weeks at the […]