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The rapper faces felony battery by strangulation and misdemeanor battery counts after surrendering to Miami Beach police. His attorney denies the allegations.

The New Orleans-born musician makes his headlining debut at the venue as part of the KCRW Festival at the Bowl.

The 16-track album pairs Tinashe Music Inc. with Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic, giving her independent-era catalog a larger commercial platform.

High Schoolers LLC says Oakland rapper Silas Wilson agreed to replace Ovrkast with Overkxst, then kept using the disputed name.

The court will hear Drake’s challenge to the dismissal of his lawsuit accusing UMG of promoting defamatory claims in Kendrick Lamar’s diss track.

The R&B singer’s fourth studio album opens with 74,000 equivalent album units, nearly 13 years after she first appeared on the chart.

Zaytoven, T.I., 42 Dugg and a rotating cast of artists and creators have joined DDG’s weeklong livestream as he builds his next album in public.

The six-song rollout includes new tracks from Travis Scott, Rauw Alejandro, Yung Lean, PinkPantheress and Keith Richards before the album’s November 19 release.

The single arrives with a Dave Meyers-directed video and leads the duo’s 11-track album ‘Heavy Is The Crown,’ due October 23.

The free September 17 program gives regional directors, musicians and production crews a large-screen exhibition night.

The project combines new music, short-form videos and family footage, extending the rapper’s unusually elaborate 2026 rollout.

In a new Art of Dialogue interview, Billy Garland reacts to Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ conviction and revisits the grief, anger and unanswered questions surrounding Tupac Shakur’s final days.

The rapper performed with Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone and Flesh-N-Bone at Blossom Music Center on September 9, days after publicly addressing his absence from the group’s Wu-Tang Clan tour dates.

A Los Angeles federal jury cleared the Chicago rapper in the central case tied to a 2022 shooting, while a separate racketeering count remains pending.

Carmen Bryan’s civil complaint accuses the rapper of sexual assault; his attorney has called the allegations false and legally groundless.

With “Malaika,” the Kenyan artist brings Swahili, Kikuyu and English into a warm, streaming-ready love song—and sharpens a fast-building profile.

The rapper will lead the VMAs as the ceremony returns to the West Coast for the first time since 2017.

The Los Angeles-based singer is carrying “Love Ain’t Fair” into a new chapter with “Quit This 9 to 5,” pairing classic-soul instincts with a distinctly modern sense of ambition.

The Victorville, California, singer’s seven-song Def Jam EP INTENSE LOVER makes emotional directness feel like a competitive edge.

On LOVESHY, the Oxon Hill singer pairs electric-guitar warmth with emotional accountability—and gives contemporary R&B a project willing to care out loud.

The Los Angeles pianist and producer’s September 25 debut assembles rappers, vocalists and jazz players around a collaborative sound he calls “Over The Breaks.”

Westside Whimsy arrives September 11 with a 20-song tracklist and a high-profile Kendrick Lamar collaboration.

The 16-track collaboration arrives October 23 with a lead single, “Daylight,” and a deliberately expansive vision of Black musical history.