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Watch Chance The Rapper Perform “Sunday Candy” With Kirk Franklin And A...
As Tom explained in his Pitchfork Music Festival recap, the climax of hometown hero Chance The Rapper's victorious fest-closing set was a rendition of Surf hit "Sunday Candy" assisted by gospel...
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Album Sales Were Already Booming Last Week Even Before Adele
The Week In Pop will not run this week due to Thanksgiving, so let's check in on this week's chart action before the holiday is upon us. Last week was one of the busiest album sales weeks in recent...
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Kanye Added André 3000, Puff Daddy, 2 Chainz, & Kid Cudi To Waves Last Night
Instagram.com/hairweavekiller">Kanye has had quite a distracting week, but don't worry, he's getting back to his creative process. He's been keeping us apprised of his progress on new album Waves...
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Comment Party: Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 Fashion Show & The Life Of Pablo...
Yeezy Season 3 at MSG is finally upon us. The hype machine has been working overtime to the point of explosion on this one -- Kanye has done pretty much everything besides actually come with new music...
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Watch Kanye West Bring The Life Of Pablo And Lose A Rap Battle To Kyle Mooney...
You wouldn't know it from this week's promo, but Kanye West is never boring on SNL. ‘Ye has had a contentious relationship with the show since his second appearance in 2007 when he clumsily delivered a...
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Kanye West –“Ultralight Prayer” (Feat. Kirk Franklin)
Forget G.O.O.D. Fridays -- today's Easter Sunday, and Kanye West is celebrating with the release of "Ultralight Prayer," an alternate, extended version of Kirk Franklin's sermon from the outro of The...
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Download Chance The Rapper Coloring Book
We back, and we back, and we back, and we back. Chance The Rapper didn't end up releasing the long-awaited Acid Rap follow-up during his performance on The Tonight Show last week, but don't worry,...
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Stereogum’s 100 Favorite Songs Of 2016
Is anything more personal than a favorite song? Even with our thinking caps on, we all experience music through unrelentingly individual ears. When evaluating entire bodies of work, perhaps a...
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Grammys 2017: Watch Chance The Rapper’s Buoyant Gospel-Rap Medley
Chance The Rapper won Grammys for for Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Performance tonight, and towards the end of the show he took the stage to perform with Kirk Franklin and Tamela Mann....
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Kirk Franklin Boycotting Dove Awards After His Atatiana Jefferson Comments...
Every year since 1969, the Gospel Music Association has presented the Dove Awards, an annual show that honors achievements in the Christian music industry. For decades, the biggest star in gospel music...
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Grammys Announce Nipsey Hussle Tribute
The Grammys are almost upon us. "Music's biggest night" is happening this Sunday, and the Recording Academy are firming up their roster of performers (while dealing with their own internal drama). Last...
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Grammys 2020: Nipsey Hussle Gets An All-Star Tribute
The late Nipsey Hussle was nominated for three Grammys this year and posthumously became a first-time winner today. The Recording Academy honored him further by staging an all-star tribute on tonight's...
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Grammys 2020: Performances Ranked Worst To Best
What a sad, fraught, fucked-up night of television. The week before this year's Grammy Awards, the show had already become a vast neon-lit symbol of everything that has always been wrong with the...
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Peter Cottontale –“Pray For Real” (Feat. Chance The Rapper & Tobi Lou)
Peter Cottontale, the Chicago producer and keyboardist, has been working with Chance The Rapper ever since Chance released his debut mixtape 10 Day in 2012. These days, most of us would recognize...
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Lil Baby & Kirk Franklin –“We Win” (Prod. Just Blaze)
The first Space Jam soundtrack was, in retrospect, a wild ride. The 1996 film where Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny played basketball against cartoon aliens also had a tie-in album with R. Kelly’s “I...
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This Gon’ Be The Year Mach-Hommy Gets His Python Trench Coat
The Newark rapper Mach-Hommy switches between languages a lot — not just verbally, but musically, too. Consider the case of “Au Revoir,” a song that appears near the end of Mach’s new album Pray For...
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Chance The Rapper, Brockhampton, Lil Uzi Vert, & More Have New Songs On Space...
The soundtrack to the original Space Jam was quite a big deal, spawning two top 10 Hot 100 hits with R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and Seal’s Steve Miller cover “Fly Like An Eagle,” and featuring...
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Mariah Carey –“Fall In Love At Christmas” (Feat. Khalid & Kirk Franklin)
Mariah Carey has already solidified her holiday legacy with “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” which likely will climb back up to #1 on the Billboard charts just like last year. And she has embraced...
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Gracie Abrams And The Professionalization Of “Bedroom-Pop”
When Olivia Rodrigo took over the world with “drivers license” at the top of 2021, critics like me scrambled to point out reference points for the trembling piano ballad, which simultaneously felt...
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Watch Will Smith’s New Song Debut, Taraji P. Henson’s “Not Like Us” Parody,...
This year’s BET Awards aired live last night from Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre. SZA, Victoria Monét, and Tyla won big awards, but nobody watches the BET Awards for the actual awards. The performances...
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