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Lupe Fiasco – Cred: Loe Kee Phlicks On Friday, April 17, Lupe Fiasco—Chicago’s own—took the stage in Long Beach, California, delivering a powerful and memorable performance at the annual Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Known for combining high-speed racing with live entertainment, the event brought in a packed crowd, and Lupe closed out night one with a set that felt both exciting and personal. From the start, Lupe had the crowd fully engaged. He performed a mix of classic songs and fan favorites, pulling from across his career. Tracks from Food & Liquor—his debut album released in 2006—still hit…

Ice Spice was attacked by a fan inside a Los Angeles-area McDonald’s and it was all caught on video. On Friday (April 17), TMZ shared a video of Ice Spice being assaulted by a woman inside a Los Angeles-area McDonald’s, which happened early Wednesday morning (April 15). In the restaurant’s security footage, which can be viewed below, the New York rhymer is sitting in a booth talking with her friend when another woman walks up to their table.Spice and her friend appear to have no interest in talking with the young woman. Nevertheless, the “Deli” rapper can be seen pointing…

Red Café is a 49 year old MC from Brooklyn, New York who broke out 2 decades ago off his debut mixtape The Supplier. He has since dropped 10 more tapes & a full-length debut, signing to multiple labels such as Desert Storm Records as well as Hoo-Bangin’ Records & Bad Boy Entertainment without releasing anything during his tenures there. However, learning that his 12th mixtape was gonna be fully produced by Cartune Beatz made me more optimistic than I usually get for his recent output. The title track works in a cloudy boom bap instrumental talking about having expensive taste & the beans keeping him safe…

Montréal, Québec, Canada emcee, producer & engineer Mike Shabb still applying pressure with his 10th EP & the 4th within the last month. Emerging in the spring of 2018 off his full-length debut Northwave, he would continue to make his presence known by putting out his last 9 EPs & a few mixtapes before gaining notoriety for engineering Boldy James’ 5th album Fair Exchange No Robbery along with producing “Switches on Everything” off Hitler Wears Hermes X & enlisting his mentor Nicholas Craven to fully produce his 5th EP Shadow Moses from top to bottom. He would follow these up with Hood Olympics, Sewaside III, Shabb Van Gogh, Fight the Power!, Vrai Rap Keb!, the Drega33-produced Lost Tapes & Maple…

There is speculation that Drake is filming a new music video following a massive controlled explosion in Toronto.Just after midnight on Friday (April 17), Drizzy shared a post on his Instagram Story showing a screenshot of an article from Toronto’s Daily Express news. The article’s headline reads: Sky Turns Orange After Blast ‘Like a Nuke’ Near Downsview Airport. Drake added a smiling face with a holo and ice emojis.Apparently, local residents were given advance notice about the explosion, with the notification adding to the speculation that the detonation may have something to do with Drake. The memo notes that the…

Belleville, New Jersey emcee/producer Action Figure 973 has returned with his 3rd studio LP. For a while at this point, his first couple mixtapes followed by his last 10 EPs & the full-length debut DOOM Was Right almost a year ago giving flowers to one of my all-time personal favorite albums Madvillainy have each established himself as a promisingly skilled luchador who so happens to rap. The Most Interesting Man in the World got with Machacha for his sophomore effort last October, coming off the Lucha Libre for the Soul sequel Lucha Libra for Christmas & airing out some Luchador Body Odor to ask What Would Harley Race Do? a couple days after Darby Allin became the new…

England, United Kingdom collective the Cult of the Damned comprised of Blah Records founder Lee Scott, BeTheGun, Sly Moon, Salar, Bill Shakes, King Grubb, Tony Broke, Black Josh, Stinkin’ Slumrok, Bisk, Sleazy F Baby, Col. Mustard, Dr. Zygote, Sam Zircon & Reklews reuniting for their 4th studio LP. Introducing themselves as a unit over a decade ago off an eponymous debut EP, a sequel would come in the form of their full-length debut Brick Pelican Posse Crew Gang Syndicate & the sophomore effort The Church Of mostly produced by Nobodies Home was more rawer sonically. Almost 4 years since Cultgangrapsh!t however, they’re reforming to release Simony. “Ext. Car Park – Night” was the perfect lead single to mark the Cult’s comeback having everyone spitting hardcore verses over a…

The Bronx, New York veteran A.G. enlisting Boston, Massachusetts producer Stu Bangas to produce his 7th solo LP. Known for being 1/2 of Showbiz & A.G. as well as a member of the D.I.T.C. collective, he would make his solo debut in 1998 with The Dirty Version & came back 8 years later for the sophomore Get Dirty Radio. He has since followed these up with Everything’s Berri, The Taste of AMBrosia, Always Protect the King, NYLUV & Giant in the Mental which I personally prefer some more than others. However, I already knew $ € £ ₣ ¥ had great chances of being some hit best material individually when Stu’s involvement was announced. “Borderline” featuring D-Flow & Diamond D angrily opens up shop…

Detroit horrorcore veteran The R.O.C. finally back with his 4th LP. Getting his start as a member of the House of Krazees with Jamie Madrox & Monoxide, he later hooked up with Skrapz to put out 1 last full-length under the HOK name before starting a duo of their own called HaLFBrEEd when the Insane Clown Posse signed Twiztid to Psychopathic Records. Although they would only release 1 official full-length under the HaLFBrEEd name titled Kontamination, it would go on to become a horrorcore classic. Welcome to the Darkside came out under Psychopathic’s now defunct Hatchet House sub-label & dropped Digital Voodoo under Majik Ninja Entertainment almost a decade later. Last we heard from him was Monsters Ain’t Real in late…

N.O.R.E. explains why he never aired the footage of him asking Quavo about Offset allegedly sleeping with Saweetie.On Wednesday (April 15), the Drink Champs cohost appeared on The Jason Lee Show. During the sit-down, Lee asked N.O.R.E. about his issues with Offset.”I asked a certain thing to a certain individual on a certain artist and [Offset’s] peoples were there,” N.O.R.E. explained, later confirming he was referencing the interview he did with Quavo and Takeoff in 2022. “Offset called me. And I might not have complied to his conversation when he wanted it.”N.O.R.E went on to say that Offset called Diddy,…