James Corden’s mild dig at President Donald Trump during his rapped opening monologue at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards – “Live it on up, because this is the best/And with President Trump, we don’t know what comes next” – seemed like a hint that the 59th annual ceremony would be shot through with political sentiment from all sides. More
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CHICAGO (CBS) — Now a winner of three Grammy Awards, Chance the Rapper grew up in the West Chatham neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, and started performing when he was only 4 years old. More
A rare public appearance by legend Joni Mitchell. Mary J. Blige’s show-stopping performance of her hit “No More Drama.” More
(AllHipHop News) It looks like the romance between rapper Wiz Khalifa and his ex-wife Amber Rose is back on. More
Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. have their first encounter in the latest trailer for All Eyez on Me, the upcoming biopic about the legendary rapper. More
Chance the Rapper’s lawyers are due in court today to work out child support terms and a parenting schedule for Chance and his sometime-girlfriend Kirsten Corley, the Chicago Tribune reports. More
DJ Khaled held a press conference today with Chance the Rapper and Puff Daddy. It was broadcast live on his Instagram. With Chance on stage behind him, Khaled announced the title of his next album: Grateful. He also said his infant son Asahd will executive produce the record, due this…
(AllHipHop News) Migos have denied they are homophobic, clarifying remarks they made about fellow musician ILoveMakonnen’s sexuality. More
Chance the Rapper debuted the new video for “Same Drugs” on Monday via Facebook Live. In the clip, the rapper duets with a singing puppet behind a grand piano. He previously incorporated puppets when performing at his Magnificent Coloring Day festival in Chicago last summer. More
(AllHipHop News) A data scientist just published a visual essay comparing some of today’s best known rappers vocabulary to Shakespeare’s.
According to data scientist Matt Daniels, at least 15 other rappers have a larger and more extensive vocabulary than Shakespeare.
Daniels did a statistic analysis and compared the rappers’ vocabularies to that of Shakespeare’s, and Herman Melville who wrote the massive novel “Moby…