Gary The Creator
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Beyoncé Opens the Vault for B'Day's 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
Beyoncé celebrates 20 years of B’Day with a sprawling 31-song deluxe edition featuring unreleased recordings, international rarities, Spanish-language reworks and a new Maluma collaboration.
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New Music Friday, September 4: Nemzzz Lands Travis Scott, Karrahbooo Takes Her Title Back, Plus Dizzee Rascal and Mykki Blanco
New Music Friday, September 4 brings Nemzzz’s LOCKED IN with Travis Scott, Karrahbooo’s debut mixtape, and new albums from Dizzee Rascal and Mykki Blanco.
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You Bought the Beat for Thirty Dollars: Here Is Everything You Did Not Buy
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.
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Lalah Hathaway Is Going Home: ‘Made In Chicago’ Connects Her Story to Donny Hathaway and the Great Migration
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.
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Jodeci's 'Forever My Lady' Tour Adds a Second Charlotte Homecoming
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.
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Joyce Wrice Took Five Years to Follow Overgrown: 'MACHIKO' Is About Who She Became in Between
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.
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DMX Left No Will: It Took Four Years and a Judge to Say Who Owns His Name
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.
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Tank Turns "Yes" Into an Album Cycle: "EXPERIENCE" Arrives September 25
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.
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The Fee to Register Your Sound Recordings Doubles This Fall Unless Congress Steps In
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.
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Dipset Lost One Night at the Garden. Cam'ron Says It Cost Them the Tour.
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.
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Tamia Went Eight Years Without a Solo Single: She Came Back Making the R&B She Never Abandoned
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.
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Nipsey Hussle Had Another Side of His Story Ready to Go: Prolific Was Supposed to Show It
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.
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