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YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s MASA Tour has become the highest-grossing tour by a debut headlining rapper with earnings of $70 million.Touring Data reported the record-setting feat on Feb. 14. NBA YoungBoy’s tour revenue was a total of $70,012,731 and 552,215 tickets were sold across 42 shows.His Philadelphia show at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Oct. 3, 2025, earned $2.373 million, becoming his highest-grossing concert of all time, while his most attended show was at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, where he sold 15,343 tickets on Nov. 9, 2025.The MASA Tour marked the 26-year-old rapper’s first performance trek in five years following…

J. Cole brings home another No. 1 album with The Fall-Off topping the Billboard 200.On Sunday (Feb. 15), Billboard reported the North Carolina native’s double-disc effort landed atop the chart, selling 280,000 equivalent albums. 113,000 of that number are pure album sales. J. Cole’s accomplishment marks the largest sales week for a hip-hop album since Playboi Carti’s MUSIC earned a No. 1 with 298,000 last March.Five of Cole’s previously released albums hit No. 1 during a debut week: Cole World: The Sideline Story, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only, KOD and The Off-Season. Born Sinner debuted at No. 2 in 2013 behind Ye’s Yeezus, but climbed to No.…

Ghost Face Killah & Cappadonna – By Loe Kee Phlicks On Friday, February 13th, Panic in LA delivered a night that felt less like a concert and more like a moment in hip-hop history. The sold-out crowd packed into 1720 in Downtown Los Angeles for a rare and electrifying performance by Ghostface Killah of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, alongside rising Los Angeles artist Coyote. From start to finish, the energy inside the venue was relentless—proof that real hip-hop not only lives, but thrives. Headlining the night, Ghostface Killah took the stage to thunderous applause, commanding the room with the same…

On ‘DIA Vol.1‘, under Degrand Island Records, Detroit veteran DJ Dremond delivers a masterclass in gritty, sample-based beatmaking that could only come from a student of the game with over two decades in the trenches. This isn’t a flashy, modern production; it’s an analog affair built on warm, live drums, the punch of an MPC, and the deep, sinister hum of a Moog Voyager bass. The album serves as both a personal mission statement and a platform for some of the most respected voices in underground hip-hop, proving that the raw, unfiltered sound of Detroit is alive and well. Dremond’s curation is just as…

New surprise EP & the 20th overall from New York emcee & revered battle rapper RJ Payne formerly known as Reign Man. Building up an extensive solo catalogue for himself with 2 dozen mixtapes as well as well as his last 19 EPs & 4 full-length albums, Benny the Butcher even signed RJ to Black Soprano Family Records for a brief period of time & putting out some of best material like Leatherface & Square Root of a Kilo under Benny’s ever-growing indie label of his own. My Life’z a Movie produced by Stu Bangas quickly became my favorite LP in RJ’s discography & Enemy Soil Entertainment in-house producer C-Lance went on a trip with…

Celebrating the Valentine’s Day weekend with the 2nd installment of a 12-part EP saga from Flint, Michigan emcee/producer Jon Connor. Someone who’s steadily been holding it down for the last 2 decades including The Calling, Vinnie Chase & S.O.S. trilogies along with the Best in the World series paying homage to some of Jon’s influences, Salvation, While You Were Sleeping & Unconscious State. He was even signed to Aftermath Entertainment for 6 years before departing after Vehicle City wound up being shelved, coming off Food for the Soul & 24 produced by KLC of the No Limit Records in-house production team Beats by the Pound to drop II almost a month after I. Smitti Boi cooks up a victorious trap instrumental in the intro “Don’t Cry” talking…

Hip-hop appears to be making a resurgence in 2026. Back in October 2025, Billboard reported that hip-hop’s market share dropped from 30% in 2020 to 24% in 2025, which sparked debates among fans and critics about whether rap was losing its selling power or simply resetting.So far, hip-hop appears to be going through a major reset, with rappers such as J. Cole, A$AP Rocky, Don Toliver and others delivering big sales numbers with their respective hip-hop projects.A$AP Rocky, who hasn’t dropped an album in eight years, had quite the impressive start in 2026. In January, the Harlem rhymer dropped his…

More than four years after Young Dolph’s murder, the final suspect connected to his death is set to take a plea deal.On Thursday (Feb. 12), Fox13 Memphis reported that Cornelius Smith, 36, agreed to enter a plea deal in his case after confessing to being one of the gunmen who shot and killed Dolph outside Makeda’s Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis on Nov. 17, 2021.Smith is expected to plead guilty, but before he does, details on where he will be housed with the Tennessee Department of Corrections for his incarceration need to be confirmed.The court hearing for Smith to enter…

Nipsey Hussle has a new album with Bino Rideaux on the way, and a track from the project arrives.The late California rapper’s Marathon Clothing brand Instagram account posted the track Friday (Feb. 13), with the caption: “Reckless. The first single from Prolific, the collaborative album from @nipseyhussle and @binorideaux. Coming this summer. 🏁.”The new song “Reckless” finds Nipsey realizing his greatness. “Doubt who I was for a second, now I see it clearer and it is not a game.” West Coast crooner Bino comes in on the track with his melodic rhymes: “‘Cause I been off that soda, make it hard to sleep, it’s a lot on…

Pretty sure this is the 19th extended play from Hackensack, New Jersey lyricist Crimeapple. Becoming a fan of his nearly a decade ago with his 4th EP Sweet Dreams along with the Big Ghost Ltd. produced full-length debut Aguardiente that next spring, his profile in the underground grew exponentially from there. Discography standouts include the DJ Skizz-produced Wet Dirt, the DJ Muggs-produced Medallo, Cartagena, Breakfast in Hradec, Sin Cortar, El León produced by Preservation, the official Aguardiente sequel Bazuko, the Mello Music Group-backed This, Is Not That produced by Apollo Brown, Rose Gold & more recently the V Don produced Bulletproof Chicken. Last we heard from him was Hanzai this past Black Friday & he’s back with the Evidence-produced War Cash. “Last Day” hooks up a drumless piano loop to get us started…