There aren’t many rappers in the last few decades who have enjoyed musical success like J Cole. Known for his lyrical geniuses, J Cole has stayed on top of the Hip-Hop game for years. Besides being a rapper, J. Cole is a record producer and recently began a basketball career. He was born Jermaine Lamarr Cole on an American military base in Frankfurt, West Germany, on January 28, 1985. J Cole’s rap journey began when he was 12, and cited Tupac, Jay-Z, Eminem, Nas, Canibus, and Andre 3000 as his artistic influences. For fans of the rapper, here’s a comprehensive...
- 10/6/2023
- by Onyinye Izundu
- TVovermind.com
Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z has been in the music industry for over a quarter of a century. Throughout that time, the “Big Pimpin'” rapper has seen the rise of many hip-hop artists, including “Second Round K.O.” rapper Canibus. When Jay-Z got to know Canibus as he was on the come-up, Hov gave Canibus some words of advice to think about.
Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z | Kevin Winter/Getty Images Jay-Z has been in the music industry for nearly 3 decades
Jay-Z first burst onto the scene in 1996 with his debut album Reasonable Doubt. His debut came in the wake of The Notorious B.I.G.’s stardom, Jay-Z’s friend and former classmate from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He went on to release the album trilogy In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, and Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. He released his landmark album The Blueprint in 2001.
Jay-Z planned to retire from...
Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z | Kevin Winter/Getty Images Jay-Z has been in the music industry for nearly 3 decades
Jay-Z first burst onto the scene in 1996 with his debut album Reasonable Doubt. His debut came in the wake of The Notorious B.I.G.’s stardom, Jay-Z’s friend and former classmate from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He went on to release the album trilogy In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, and Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter. He released his landmark album The Blueprint in 2001.
Jay-Z planned to retire from...
- 2/26/2023
- by Chris Malone
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the parking lot of Anderson Memorial Park in Carson, California, just south of Compton and north of Long Beach, Ab-Soul chain-smokes Newports and speaks gently. We’re close to the houses he grew up in alongside his mother, aunts, and paternal grandparents. “I kinda like to call it the ghetto suburb,” the rapper, 35, says from the open back seat of a Tesla SUV. “Because it is a suburb, but it’s got all the other stuff, too.” And yet, as is typical of neighborhoods in the southern half of the county,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Paul Thompson
- Rollingstone.com
In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in a Wordle world. Ever since the popular spelling game came through in October 2021 and crushed the buildings, everyone’s suddenly more obsessed with taking over blocks than The Wire kingpin Avon Barksdale. It’s a quick rise that makes particular sense for the generation raised on hip-hop.
“It’s like I’ve spent my whole life training for the Olympics of five-minute, once-a-day word games,” says the rapper, comedian, and Wordle wizard Open Mike Eagle. “All I do is think about words,...
“It’s like I’ve spent my whole life training for the Olympics of five-minute, once-a-day word games,” says the rapper, comedian, and Wordle wizard Open Mike Eagle. “All I do is think about words,...
- 2/16/2022
- by Will Dukes
- Rollingstone.com
Dmx was a larger-than-life force in rap music at the turn of the millennium. The Yonkers, New York, rapper, who died April 9th at age 50 after being hospitalized with a heart attack days earlier, burst onto the scene in the Nineties with one of the most distinctive voices on the radio — a commanding presence on the mic, from his earliest guest appearances to the five straight multi-platinum albums he released starting in 1998. Effortlessly balancing raw charisma with hit-making savvy, X had a major impact on the sound and direction of an era in hip-hop,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Jayson Buford, Christian Hoard, Jeff Ihaza, Elias Leight, Mosi Reeves, Rob Sheffield and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Every April, vinyl geeks from around the world congregate at local music shops to celebrate Record Store Day. It’s a chance for them to get their hands on limited-edition LPs they can’t buy online or at chain stores and catch intimate in-store performances. The tradition began in 2008 and it’s grown bigger and better every year, playing a key role in keeping record stores alive. Ahead of Saturday’s big event, we’ve combed through the exhaustive 2019 release list and pulled out our 10 favorite exclusives. (Regrettably, Cheech & Chong have been left out.
- 4/12/2019
- by Angie Martoccio, Simon Vozick-Levinson and Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a great American tradition: the Hollywood award show. Until lately, it seemed like an indestructible cultural institution — every year, the red carpets get rolled out, the stars stumble into the flashbulbs, reveal who they’re wearing, statues get handed out, tears get shed, champagne gets spilled, hilariously pompous speeches get made. Some of us love show-biz award ceremonies, even the most pointless and ridiculous ones.
But it’s a TV ritual that’s definitely reached a crisis point, in terms of ratings and relevance. The recent Emmy debacle...
But it’s a TV ritual that’s definitely reached a crisis point, in terms of ratings and relevance. The recent Emmy debacle...
- 9/20/2018
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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