Nemzzz puts Travis Scott, Latto and Cash Cobain on a seventeen-track independent release, Karrahbooo reclaims a Concrete Boys song title for her debut mixtape, and two albums the release calendars promised for Friday carry October dates on the labels' own pages.

BeatStars has paid creators more than $450 million and standardized almost none of the contracts behind it. A working artist's guide to what a beat lease actually grants, where the publishing goes, and who gets sued over the sample.

Lalah Hathaway’s nine-song Made In Chicago arrives October 1, using 47th Street, Quiet Storm memory and family history to connect her own story to Donny Hathaway and the Great Migration.

Jodeci’s Forever My Lady 35th Anniversary Tour was first announced in July, but the run has already expanded. A second Charlotte homecoming show now closes the 2026 itinerary.

Joyce Wrice has finally put a date on her second album. MACHIKO arrives October 9, turning the long wait after Overgrown into a new era centered on intimacy, confidence and the risk of being fully seen.

A fragrance DMX picked himself returned to shelves last Friday. Between his death and that approval sit two rounds of court-appointed administrators, a suspension order, and a ruling on what a divorce agreement transferred.

Tank has announced EXPERIENCE for September 25, giving his rising single “Yes” a full album destination while his 2026 run stretches across stadiums and television.

The Copyright Office sent Congress a new fee schedule on July 14, and the group filing that covers an album's sound recordings goes from $65 to $130. The 120-day clock runs out in the second week of November.

Cam'ron says the 2021 Verzuz against The L.O.X. killed a tour that was already booked. The same week, Rick Ross canceled two anniversary dates and Drake crossed 140 billion streams. Attention has never been cheaper, or harder to convert into a ticket.

Tamia returns with “Forever and a Day,” her first lead single since 2018, and reunites with Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony for a grown relationship ballad that sounds more like continuity than reinvention.

New details from Bino Rideaux show that Prolific was not simply a vault release. Nipsey Hussle conceived the album after Victory Lap as a more vulnerable, relationship-centered turn.

Cardi B takes over Brooklyn, Ice Spice and Lil Yachty get surreal, and Dahi brings Kendrick Lamar and Amber Mark into a stark black-and-white visual. Ciara, Ne-Yo, Dawn Richard, Rob49 and MNEK also land in this week's HitsCulture video roundup.