November 25, 2024 • Lamar already won the year in a landslide. On his bristly new album, GNX, the rapper aims to change the state of play for everyone else.

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I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of artmaking and academic research. I write music as part of a greater effort to challenge antiquated ideas about ...

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And no, he's not joking. By Brande Victorian In episode one of Fat Joe Talks, the Bronx rapper and Method Man discuss the limits that were placed on them as hip-hop artists in the ‘90s and 2000s ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. 50 Cent didn’t lean either way until the election, but he took a clear side after Trump’s victory. In the above post on Instagram, he wrote ...