Memphis rapper Moneybagg Yo earned his first Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with A Gangsta’s Pain, which features guest verses from Pharrell Williams, Future, Jhene Aiko, and Polo G, among others. The 22-song set picked up more than 126 million streams, dethroning a similarly sprawling …
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As genres meld and music travels online, regional signifiers say less about an artist’s output than they once did. Atlanta, for example, is a hip-hop keystone known as the home of trap music, but new waves of talent, as disparate as J.I.D and Playboi Carti, are experimenting with mood and …
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Future’s “Rocket Ship” is less music video, more extended Instagram clip. In under two minutes, the rapper does what he does best: look effortlessly cool as he brags about his drug-making prowess, selling said drugs and stealing your girl in the process. While the video isn’t exactly complex, the Uncle …
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