Diamond Lane Music Group Compton, Calif. continues to be a high-profile hotbed for rising rap talent, as evidenced by acclaimed exports like Kendrick Lamar and YG carrying on the tradition set by the city’s forefathers and pioneers. Compton rapper Problem appears to be next in line to make his hometown proud on a national level […]
Infamous Records Mobb Deep’s own Prodigy kicks off the new year on a solo tip, releasing his fifth album, Hegelian Dialectic (The Book of Revelation), as a one-man show. Coming off the release of his cookbook, Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook—inspired by his three-year bid in prison for weapons charges back in 2008– the Queens native […]
SoundCloud B.o.B just released a new single called “God is Gracious,” where he thanks the man above for allowing him to prosper, despite being so different from his contemporaries. “God is gracious, God is good / I thank God I made it out the hood / Misguided, misunderstood, eyes red like riding hood / Though around […]
Quality Control Music / 300 Migos reached rap stardom relatively quickly in their rap careers. Two years after their 2011 debut mixtape, Juug Season, they struck gold with the heavily acclaimed Yung Rich Niggas mixtape. Their song “Versace” from that tape got a co-sign and remix from Drake and soon became a hit. As a result, the triplet-style flow […]
For more than 30 years, MCs have held executive positions at records labels. From the days of Eazy-E’s Ruthless imprint or Schoolly D Records, it is not uncommon for artists to control the music they makes and others’. Over the last 20 years, some of these labels have subsequently empowered other MCs to hold positions […]
Correction: Faith *Evans is releasing an album of duets with The Notorious B.I.G, 20 years after his murder https://t.co/AFZrE2RnjG pic.twitter.com/lTYfCsBUU6 — CNN (@CNN) February 3, 2017 We all make mistakes. But CNN made a huge error on Twitter that cause a tidal wave of slander aimed at them on Friday (Feb. 3). CNN tweeted out […]
Subscribe to TheBoombox on Eminem goes on a lyrical rampage on Big Sean’s song “No Favors.” The Detroit spitfire spews acidic rhymes at President Donald Trump, conservative pundits and other pop stars on this bombastic track. Over a throbbing, sinister beat by Wondagurl, Slim Shady gets political and fire shots at conservatives who are currently […]
Def Jam Jeremih brings us back to the R&B of yesteryear with his new single “I Think of You,” featuring Chris Brown and Big Sean. The Chicago crooner also sampled Montell Jordan’s 2000 gem “Get It on Tonite” for the backing music. On the catchy cut, the Def Jam recording artist tells a woman that he can’t […]
The Hip-Hop community has learned that one of its digital moguls has died. Lee O’Denat, better known as Q is reported dead by TMZ. The 43 year-old passed away in his sleep, and was discovered this morning (January 24). The Haitian-American O’Denat was raised in the same Hollis, Queens community that produced Run-D.M.C. and Ja […]
The life and legacy of Pimp C will be remembered at a panel discussion at Rice University in Houston on Tuesday (Jan. 31). The event coincides with artifacts from Pimp C’s life being stored at the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning’s Hip-Hop Archive at the Woodson Library at Rice University. The symposium, “Pimp […]
