Nicki Minaj has released the video for another collaboration with Ariana Grande, this time for the song “Bed” from Nicki’s upcoming album Queen. The popstars joined also forces on the hypnotic Ariana Grande single “The Light Is Coming,” but “Bed” trades the former’s stuttering beat for the sort of low-key, trap-influenced pop that’s been all over the Hot 100 this year. More
Lil Pump proclaimed he wanted actor Charlie Sheen in his next video back in May and evidently he’s pulled it off.
Both Sheen and Pump fired off social media posts referencing Pump’s “Drug Addict” visual earlier this week. More
Los Angeles, CA – A XXXTENTACION memorial held by fans in Los Angeles on Tuesday (June 19) turned rowdy as those in attendance jumped off rooftops, broke into sporadic moshing, and more.
Longtime HipHopDX contributor Eric Diep captured the mayhem on video and shared it to his Twitter account.
In his first post from the memorial, Diep wrote that fans “are about to shut down Melrose.”
X fans are about to shut down Melrose pic.twitter.com/IWkwTSMAtb
— Eric Diep (@E_Diep) June 20, 2018
From there, he shared video of fireworks being set off, a police helicopter arriving on the scene, and fans jumping off the roof of a building “for X.”
Fireworks are going off and police are shutting down Melrose from Spaulding Ave to Stanley Ave pic.twitter.com/mRR5Ur9Zxv
— Eric Diep (@E_Diep) June 20, 2018
Police appeared to be heavily present as the evening progressed.
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Lykke Li has shared a video for her song, “utopia.” Directed by Clara Cullen, the visual features footage of Li as a child with her mom, as well as current clips of her and her toddler son. “MOTHER TO MOTHER TO MOTHER,” she writes in the video’s description. “Utopia is all my mother ever wanted for me and all I ever want for… More
Video game fans: rejoice in having just found your Solid Snake of the music world — because Oliver Coates has somehow managed to remain relatively stealthy while simultaneously sabotaging Metal Gear and contributing to all sorts of acclaimed musical projects over the past few years. More
We caught up with MØ Coachella and found out more about her new project.
Falling somewhere between the pure pop of “Final Song” and the alt-leaning When I Was Young EP, “Nostalgia” is one of MØ’s best singles to date. The visual arrived earlier today (May 3) and it’s one of those (increasingly popular) vertical videos that are usually painful to watch. Happily, the Danish diva bucks the trend by taking us on a riveting tour of her hometown… More
Ever the wordsmith and serene storyteller, Derek Minor is impacting the Hip Hip political scene this year with his “Decisions” video.
The animated mini-movie — directed by Johnnie Hxllywxxd — follows the path of a young and embarrassed black youth who thinks retorting back with gun violence is the answer. As we’ve seen time and time again in these United States, there are consequences. Or this case, we’ll say “decisions.” More
Killer Mike appears in a new NRA video. In the clip, the Atlanta rapper and community organizer voices his support for gun ownership. “I have worked as a tireless advocate for children and women in my community and I’ve also worked with gun groups like Georgians Against Gun Violence that are not the most pro-Second Amendment [organizations], but I said, ‘If there’s a table to be sat at, the gun owner needs to be there,” he says in the video. More
At least eight people were injured after a chair lift at a Georgia ski resort malfunctioned, Georgia Today and Russian media outlets reported.
Videos of the horrifying incident emerged Friday out of Gudauri, a resort on the Greater Caucasus mountain range in Georgia — though they could just as easily have been plucked from every skier’s worst nightmares.
According to the Russian newspaper Pravda Report, the chair lift was somehow shifted into reverse by an operator, which caused it to malfunction. More
