Justin G.
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Future Just Passed Eminem for Chart History But The Real Story Is What the Record No Longer Measures
Future's The Real Me just gave him his 12th No. 1 album, passing Eminem for all-time chart history, even as critics split down the middle on the record itself.
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AZ Just Staked His Legacy on Getting Hip-Hop Paid for the AI Era
AZ became a founding partner in an AI royalty platform that pays creators when their expertise trains machine learning systems, and hip-hop's most underrated lyricist is betting his legacy that it actually works.
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Victoria Monét Is Taking the Bigger Risk on the Way to Frequency of Love
Victoria Monét announces Frequency of Love and releases 'Reach Out,' a Kaytranada and D'Mile produced turn toward the dance floor that trades her classic soul sound for something bolder.
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Lupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes & B.o.B: The Blog Era Is Becoming a Touring Economy
Lupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes, and B.o.B are taking the blog era on tour, and the numbers say millennial nostalgia has become a real live-music business.
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What Lil Durk's Legal Victory Actually Changes, and What It Doesn't
A federal judge severed two new racketeering allegations from Lil Durk's August murder-for-hire trial. Here is what actually changed, and what didn't.
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Mya's Retro "Give It to You" Video Is an Eighties Throwback with a Very 2026 Point to Make
Mya's retro Give It to You video looks like a nostalgia trip. It is actually the clearest argument yet for why her independent, ownership-first approach has kept her working for three decades.
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B2K's "Mileage" Isn't Nostalgia Bait - It's the Sound of Four Grown Men Who Earned the Comeback
Twenty-five years after "Uh Huh," B2K's comeback single "Mileage" proves the reunion is built to last, and Omarion's parallel solo run backs up the argument.
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Tinashe's Popstar Isn't a Comeback, It's Leverage
Tinashe's new album Popstar looks like a major label comeback. It is actually the closing argument in a twelve year negotiation she started the day RCA let her go.
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R. Kelly's Pardon Bid Isn't a Legal Argument - It's a Grievance Script
R. Kelly has formally asked Trump to commute his 30-year sentence, and his legal team's pitch borrows the president's own persecution narrative while the music industry stays conspicuously silent.
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GloRilla Is Trying Not to Overthink Album Two and That Might Be the Smartest Move
Album two is where the internet decides whether it loved the artist or just the moment. Why GloRilla's refusal to overthink her follow-up is exactly right.
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Madonna's Confessions II Debut Is a Blueprint Hip-Hop and R&B Should Study
Madonna's tenth U.S. #1 is not the story. The story is the three things she got right that legacy artists in Black music keep half-doing.
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New Music Friday: Future Locks the Door, The-Dream, Bobby V, Ne-Yo Reopens, and the Rest of the Slate Picks a Side
A midsummer New Music Friday where the biggest star locks the door and the most influential R&B songwriter reopens his blueprint. HitsCulture reads Future, The-Dream, Kelela, Ne-Yo, Nia Archives, Ken Carson, and the rest of the July 10 slate.
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