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After Kehlani and Noname’s forthcoming concerts for New York’s annual SummerStage series were canceled this month – the first under pressure by Mayor Eric Adams’ office – 13 city council members have condemned his office’s actions in a letter urging organizers to reinstate the shows and “recommit to your publicly stated values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and the First Amendment rights to free speech and artistic expression that serve as the bedrock of our democracy.” The letter, shared exclusively with Rolling Stone, is addressed to the executive director and board chair of City Parks Foundation,...

Saba and No ID are two legends of Chicago hip-hop, from two different generations. Saba is the cerebral rap poet who made his name with corrosively pained classics like 2018’s Care for Me and 2022’s Few Good Things. No ID, the “Godfather of Chicago Hip-Hop,” has spent his life making the beats that Saba grew up on. But they join forces to reach the higher ground on their long-awaited collaboration album, From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID. It’s rare to hear an indie rapper who...

This summer, exclusive Sonesta Travel Pass members and industry insiders had the privilege of seeing some of their favorite artists on an intimate stage thanks to the Rolling Stone and Sonesta International Hotels partnership that launched the satellite Musicians on Musicians events.

Musicians on Musicians is a Rolling Stone’s premier editorial franchise that pairs artists across genres and generations to interview each other about life, music, and everything in between. In 2023 Rolling Stone brought Musicians on Musicians off the pages and onto the stage for its inaugural live event.

Despite being 23 years his senior, prolific producer No ID has a much more childlike air than ­Chicago indie rapper Saba, who is quietly pensive, if not a tad guarded. When we meet at No ID’s Los Angeles studio in October, the pair sit next to each other at a long desk. No ID, 53, swivels toward us when he’s amused, making animated faces and cracking mischievous smiles. And even as the person who molded a young Kanye West and oversaw the production of Jay-Z’s most introspective album, 2017’s...

The evening sun basked over The Royal Sonesta Hotel Chicago Downtown as an intimate crowd gathered for a live satellite ‘Musicians on Musicians’ event with Common and Noname. The Chicago natives talked to one another about their music, careers and the influence of their hometown on their creative process.

Exclusively invited Sonesta Travel Pass members and industry guests made their way up to the penthouse floor overlooking the view of the skyline as DJ Jay Illa spun classic R’n’B tracks to warm up the crowd before Rolling Stone Senior News Editor,...

Rolling Stone is teaming up with world-renowned hotel giant Sonesta International Hotels to host a multi-city Musicians on Musicians satellite event series, providing a once-in-a-lifetime experience for guests and Sonesta Travel Pass members. Taking place in Chicago and Miami, each exclusive event will feature an exciting artist pairing to lead a night of conversation and music at select Sonesta locations. The first event in July will see local legends Common and Noname share the stage in downtown Chicago at the Royal Sonesta Chicago Downtown, followed by Nautilus Sonesta Miami Beach this fall.

Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, Pj Harvey, Duran Duran, Sting, and Janelle Monáe are among the acts set to play the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2024.

Now in its 58th year, the legendary event returns from July 5th-20th in Montreux, Switzerland.

The 2024 lineup also promises The National, Smashing Pumpkins, André 3000, Raye, Tyla, Justice, Air, Noname, Jon Batiste, Brittany Howard, Lenny Kravitz, Alice Cooper, Paolo Nutini, Deep Purple, Jessie Ware, Jungle, Michael Kiwanuka, Editors, Dionne Warwick, Laufey, Trombone Shorty, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Paloma Faith, and more.

A ticket pre-sale for Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 begins Thursday, April 18th via the festival’s website.

If you’re planning to attend Montreux Jazz Festival, you can save up to 15% on travel and accommodations with Booking.com.

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Dua Lipa and Sza, along with Coldplay, have been announced as the headliners for the iconic 2024 Glastonbury Music Festival.

The event will take place this year from June 26-30 in Somerset, England. Dua Lipa is set to take the Pyramid Stage on Friday night, Coldplay on Saturday night, and Sza, who is making her Glastonbury debut, on Sunday night.

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In addition, Shania Twain is taking on the famed “legends” spot on Sunday afternoon.

Other famous singers who you can expect to see throughout the lineup include Camilla Cabello, Burna Boy, Janelle Monáe, Pj Harvey, Cyndi Lauper, Avril Lavigne, Jessie Ware, James Blake, Seventeen, and many more.

If you don’t have tickets, the festival is currently sold out.

We’ve included the full lineup below!

Pyramid stage

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Shania Twain

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Little Simz

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Noname’s second studio album, Sundial, synthesizes everything that the firebrand rapper, née Fatimah Warner, excels at. Tracks like “Balloons” and “Afro Futurism” feature some of the fiercest political critiques and nimbly performed rapping of Warner’s career. Her delivery is poised yet casual, her charmingly nasal voice full of weariness and vulnerability.

For all its musings about American society, geopolitics, and where Warner fits into all of it, Sundial retains a certain goofy playfulness. “Boomboom,” for one, is fun and melodic, with digressions about both eating pussy and sucking dick, some W.E.B. Du Bois puns, and a honey-sweet chorus sung by Barbadian songstress Ayoni. And Warner delightfully presents even the thorniest of verses in a hooky patter on tracks like opener “Black Mirror”: “We smokin’ positivity like dust, trust/Angels never fucked with us/Shadowbox the sun down ‘til sundown.”

Even songs without official guest verses, like “Beauty Supply,...

Warning: contains spoilers for Venom #26Marvel's iconic Black Widow is sporting a terrifying new status quo, as the dangerous assassin fuses with a Klyntar symbiote in Venom #26, transforming her into the world's most effective super spy. While Natasha Romanoff has always been one of Marvel's most feared secret agents, Black Widow's new Venom powers bring her considerable skills to a whole other level.

Black Widow is a perfect Marvel hero to be paired with a symbiote, partly because her spider-like codename and symbol fit flawlessly with the Venom mythos, but also because she has the brutality, drive, and experience to wield a symbiote responsibly and to its most deadly effect.

Venom #26, from writer Torunn Grønbekk and artists Julius Ohta and Frank D'Armata, sees Natasha Romanoff using her impressive new abilities to assassinate and extract the memories from her target, as she continues her investigation into the dangerous new group she calls "NoName.

On the last night of Rolling Loud Miami, a coalition of hip-hop's latest and greatest female rappers paid homage to the Queen. Not Queen Bey. Or Lil' Kim. But Trina. When the DJ dropped "Look Back at Me," a classic song from "Still Da Baddest," all of today's hip-hop queens were feeling it: Latto, TiaCorine, FloMilli, KaMillion, Kari Faux, Maiya the Don.

For those born and raised in the Southern United States, Trina was among the first wave of rappers to represent not only for the South but for women overall, and her impact is felt everywhere - from the rap game to modern television. Three years after André 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast said "The South got something to say" at the 1995 Source Awards, a swift and fierce rebuke of the bicoastal elites who thought the South should have no say in hip-hop, Trina made her debut on "Nann N***a,...

Noname has announced a fall tour in support of her celebrated album Sundial, her first tour in four years.

The rap poet will kick things off in her hometown, Chicago, at the Riviera Theatre on Oct. 11, with stops in New York, Toronto, Oakland, Los Angeles, and other North American cities to follow.

Sundial is Noname’s third full-length album and follows 2018’s Room 25 and her 2016 debut mixtape, Telefone. The record features guests including Common, Jay Electronica, Billy Woods, Eryn Allen Kane, Ayoni, $ilkmoney, Stout, and more, and was produced alongside longtime collaborator Saba,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. It’s a big week for snarky songs inspired by exes: Olivia Rodrigo delivers a grrrl-rock banger, and Karol G pierces her ex’s ego. Plus, Noname releases her first album in five years, Miguel teams up with Lil Yachty and V from BTS gets personal on a solo single debut.

Olivia Rodrigo, “Bad Idea, Right?” (YouTube)

Karol G, “Mi Ex Tenía Razón” (YouTube)

Noname ft. Ayoni, “Boom Boom” (YouTube)

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L.A.-via-Chicago rap poet Fatimah Nayeema Warner took off with her 2015 mixtape Telefone and her 2018 album Room 25, with a rude-girl wit all her own. As she famously boasted, “My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism.” It’s been a long wait, but Sundial is exactly what you were praying the new Noname album would be—eloquent, furious, funny, cerebral, bristling with rage and revenge. Warner’s got a voice you can’t mistake for anyone else. And yes, she definitely showed up in a mood to talk some shit.

Noname has finally released her second studio album, Sundial. Stream the record below.

Sundial is the proper follow-up to Noname’s 2018 debut LP, Room 25, which Consequence named as one of the top albums of the 2010s. Originally, the 31-year-old rapper was going to release a record entitled Factory Baby in 2019, but she scrapped that album, writing on social media at the time that she may quit music altogether.

Thankfully, she didn’t follow through on that threat, and we get to finally dive into the world of Sundial. Spanning 10 tracks and running just over 30 minutes, the new record is lined with powerful themes and lush with features, including appearances from billy woods, Common, Jay Electronica, Eryn Allen Kane, Jimetta Rose, The Voices of Creation, Ayoni, $ilkMoney, ​and Stout.

Noname first announced the album last month, and planned on releasing “balloons” as a single, but changed her mind, writing that she...

Noname has announced the release of a new album: Sundial will arrive on August 11th. The first single, a collaboration with Jay Electronica and Eryn Allen Kane called “Balloons,” will precede the album on July 21st.

Upon its arrival, Sundial will mark Noname’s first new album since her astonishing 2018 debut, Room 25. Consequence named Room 25 one of the top albums of the 2010s.

In 2019, Noname announced a follow-up album called Factory Baby, but later scrapped the project after revealing she had trouble finding producers “to link up with and who I genuinely connect with sonically.”

In the time since releasing Room 25, her musical output has been limited to a single called “Rainforest” (which was originally destined for Factory Baby), a remix of Anderson .Paak’s “Lockdown,” and the Madlib-produced “Song 33,” which served as a response track to J Cole’s “Snow On Tha Bluff.”

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Chance the Rapper has added concerts in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to his celebration of the 10-year anniversary of his breakout mixtape, Acid Rap.

The two new shows will take place on August 26th at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and on September 21st at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. Chance previously announced a hometown show at Chicago’s United Center scheduled for August 19th. See his full tour schedule below.

Tickets go on sale Friday, May 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a Live Nation pre-sale occurring one day earlier on Thursday, May 4th (use access code Iconic).

Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

This past weekend, Chance shared a 10th anniversary...

Chance the Rapper is reflecting on a difficult time from his past. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of his Acid Rap project, the rap star opened up to Complex about his struggles with substance abuse during his early career days.

During the interview, Chance was asked how his life would’ve looked like if he hadn’t grown beyond Acid Rap: “I probably would’ve died, to be honest,” he responded, saying that people view the record as only entertainment but “it takes away the humanity from the people who make it.

Coachella 2023 is live-streaming six stages across both weekends on YouTube.

The weekend 2 livestream schedule promises Bad Bunny, Blackpink, Blink-182, Gorillaz, Rosalía, Blondie, The Chemical Brothers, Jai Paul, boygenius, Metro Boomin & Friends, Pusha T, Becky G, Underworld, Charli Xcx, Kali Uchis, Wet Leg, Muna, Noname, Saba, Dinner Party, Chromeo, Snail Mail, Weyes Blood, Yves Tumor, Romy, GloRilla, Christine and the Queens, and more. Additionally, for weekend 2 Coachella will be livestreaming sets from the electro-centric Yuma Tent (instead of Sonora).

Check out the schedule below, along with links to view each of the six stages: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Stage, Sahara, Mojave, Gobi, and Yuma.

You can find all of our Coachella 2023 coverage here, and stay tuned to this post for the latest updates on the livestream.

Weekend 2 Livestream Schedule:

* = All times in Pst; channels noted in parentheses

Coachella Stage (1)

Friday, April 21st:

4:05pm – Doechii

4:20pm – Pusha T

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The first day of Coachella was jam-packed with major artists making moves, while the second day seemed to revolve around pure pop. Sunday, day three, featured the weekend’s most eclectic lineup, with all kinds of genres represented on every stage. In the early afternoon, the Argentine rock band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs got people moshing, while GloRilla delivered hard-hitting bars just moments afterwards. Kali Uchis mesmerized the crowd with her luxe brand of R&b, and Björk transformed the festival into avant art in one of the most impressive and intricate performances of the evening.

Noname has announced she will be releasing new album Sundial in July. The Chicago rapper shared the news on Sunday, April 9, a week before her first performance at this year’s Coachella on April 16; she’s also set to play the second weekend on April 23.

She made the brief announcement via Instagram, where the only post that currently exists is her announcing the name of the album and the month it will be released in white letters on a black background. She added, “Thank you for everything” with a sun emoji.

Official Selection: Busan International Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and many more.

Synopsis: Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father serious. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him.

After working as an assistant director for Japanese films, including Nobuhiro Yamashita’s works, filmmaker Shinzô Katayama crossed paths with Bong Joon-Ho while shooting “Tokyo!” (2008) and served as his assistant director on “Mother” (2009). In 2019, his debut feature, “Siblings of the Cape ” was selected by numerous domestic and international film festivals.

Cool news for fans of Japanese crime thrillers. Katayama Shinzô's crime thriller, Missing, has been picked up by Dark Star Pictures for North American distribution. Depressed and in debt following the death of his wife, Santoshi (Jiro Sato) tells his young daughter he has found a way out. Pointing to a reward note, he vows to find the infamous serial killer “No Name” (Hiroya Shimizu) and cash in, claiming to have seen the man in the flesh a few days earlier. Kaeda (Aoi Ito) cannot take her aloof father serious. But when he goes missing without a trace, she starts to fear the worst—and must begin looking for him. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting have a three-pronged attack planned for Missing. There...

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The process behind “Seduce & Scheme” was heavy on the scheming.

“We snuck in the writers room and the studio when they were having the sessions for the soundtrack. We wasn’t even supposed to be in there!” says KaMillion, who plays Mia in the Issa Rae-created comedy series “Rap Sh!t” on HBO Max. The series follows Mia and Shawna (Aida Osman), friends from high school who reunite years down the line and form a rap duo that quickly skyrockets to notoriety — at least on the internet. To create the original songs that Shawna and Mia perform, as well as the soundtrack that pays major homage to the show’s Miami setting, Rae’s music company Raedio held “camps” where different rappers and songwriters came together to collaborate.

This process was headed by Sarah Bromberg and Philippe Pierre, the Raedio vice presidents who served as music supervisors on “Rap Sh!

It was the height of quarantine, and Issa Rae wanted — in Bay Area rapper Saweetie’s proverbial words — “Something fun, something for the summertime. Something for the girls to get ready and party to.”

The final season of her seminal hit series “Insecure” was in production, and HBO Max had approached the Emmy-nominated co-creator and star’s team to ask what her next show was going to be about. The multi-hyphenate had long been wanting to tell a story about female rappers and eventually sent in the one-pager for what would become “Rap Sh!t” to Montrel McKay, her production company Hoorae’s film and television president, and her manager Jonathan Berry. They had no notes.

“Anything you see about Issa is what she believes in,” McKay told TheWrap about the show’s “straightforward” development process at the streamer. “If her name is on it, it’s things she’s been talking about for years.

The Roots, Mitski, and the National will headline the 2022 Pitchfork Music Festival, set to take place at Union Park in Chicago, July 15 through 17.

The National will top the bill on the festival’s first day, along with Spiritualized and Parquet Courts. Other acts set to perform include Tierra Whack, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, Spirit of the Beehive, Camp Cope, and CupcakKe. Mitski will headline day two with additional top-billed sets from Japanese Breakfast and Lucy Dacus, as well as performances from Low, Magdalena Bay, Dry Cleaning, Iceage, Arooj Aftab,...

“The first time I bought a house — a home — was, like, a week ago,” Saba says, tightening up for his laptop’s camera after gently rocking with laughter. He’s positioned in front of a blank white wall of his new Los Angeles abode. At one point, he darts off camera to ensure he’s ready for the people coming to work on the place today.

When the house question came up in a Rolling Stone video interview about some of his first professional and personal experiences, his first reaction was to inquire,...

The first time Chicago Mc Saba got paid to rap, it was 2012, he was about 18, and he netted about 50 bucks for his show. As he explains on the latest installment of The First Time, his subsequent early paychecks were for about the same amount, and over his first several years in music, whatever money he racked up went straight back into his career — at least until 2017.

“In 2017 I started buying stuff — I bought, like, a bunch of Jordans,” he says with a laugh. “I had to stop because I was...

For over a decade, J. Cole has rapped as the enlightened everyman, navigating issues of race, class, and gender like a thoughtful jock. His latest release, The Off-Season, finds him pondering inventive gun violence prevention measures one moment, and lobbing sexist locker-room insults the next (“Check your genitalia, pussy-niggas bleedin’ on yourself,” he raps on “95.South”). Still, the album is generally absent the overt social critiques that have built his reputation as a rapper of substance.

Last summer, on “Snow on tha Bluff,” his last lengthy engagement with ideas of Black liberation,...

J. Cole has dropped new song “Interlude” in advance of the release of his sixth studio album, The Off-Season, which is slated to arrive on May 14th.

“I be coming in peace, but fuck me/Best beware of the others/This shit deep, undercovers creep/This southern heat make unbearable summers,” he raps on the brief new track. “Just last week, seen your mama weep/crying ’cause she don’t wanna bury your brother/The blood leaks while thе EMTs gotta carry her baby like surrogate mothеrs.”

The rapper announced the album earlier this week,...

J. Cole will release his next album, The Off-Season, next Friday, May 14th.

The rapper announced the new LP on Twitter Tuesday, May 4th, sharing what’s ostensibly the album cover and a short note, “Just know this was years in the making.” No other additional information, such as a track list, was immediately available.

Just know this was years in the making.

My new album The Off-Season available everywhere 5/14 pic.twitter.com/aBw4po8fvx

— J. Cole (@JColeNC) May 4, 2021

The Off-Season will mark J. Cole’s sixth studio album and follow his 2018 offering,...

Eve, Missy Elliott, and Ruff Ryders Entertainment co-founder Joaquin “Waah” Dean are among those who have shared tributes to Dmx after the rapper died Friday, April 9th, one week after a heart attack.

Eve — who was part of the Ruff Ryders crew along with Dmx that dominated rap toward the end of the Nineties — wrote on Instagram, “I know that you are in the place of peace you deserve. I will be forever grateful to have known you. You were one of the most special people I have ever met.

Fatimah Warner’s verified Twitter page is an endless sprawl of revolutionary reading material (she’s been studying Karl Marx), a bulletin of global atrocities (LGBTQ activists in Ghana are living in fear of violent persecution, don’t you know), and a celebration of advocates and activists (Nina Simone and communist writer Claudia Jones, recently). With only four songs released since her last album as the rapper Noname, 2018’s triumphant Room 25, Warner has been engaging fans, detractors, and spectators in her radical education. On the internet, she behaves more like a peer (a comrade,...

In terms of, what bar on Megan Thee Stallion’s new diss track elicits the most satisfying cackle, the stand-out line from “Shots Fired” might be, “He talking ’bout his followers, dollars and goofy shit/I told him, ‘You’re not popping, you just on the remix.’” It’s catty and cutting, and most vicious of all, backed up by the evidence: Poor Tory Lanez can’t even score a hit without hanging on the coattails of little Jack Harlow. But it’s the line that follows that better defines...

Anderson .Paak has released a slick new single, “Jewelz,” which was co-produced by Timbaland.

The track is a no-nonsense blast of funk-pop that’s centered around a crisp guitar lick, peppered with delicate synths and anchored, of course, by an irresistible rhythm section. The track finds .Paak in a playful mood, pitch-shifting his vocals into a near-squeak as he boasts about being impossibly fly even without all the accoutrements (“I ain’t even put my jewels on/I ain’t even play my latest greatest song”), while also dropping little...

Anderson .Paak has dropped a remix of his protest song “Lockdown,” with a verse featuring Noname.

The Chicago rapper takes her verse nearly two minutes into the track. “Uh, maybe this round two/Government cinematic, American drive-through/Eat their apple pie in the mornin’ and bury the strange fruit/Then marry the strange fruit and call it the Black love,” she raps. “So when he bleeds, I bleed the sacred riddle/Had no money I can make some so the cops get little/We seen ’em murder the indigenous, the passage middle/The Constitution,...

Drake and J. Cole are getting up there. At 33 and 35, respectively, the two titans have more in common now than they did during the decade they were critically and commercially pitted against one another. Both are relatively new fathers and closer to their forties than their early twenties. Both have aged remarkably well, and managed to stay oddly prolific throughout this pandemic, with thrown-off projects, EPs, diss records, apologies, DJ Khaled appearances, and promises of full-length efforts. Another thing the two rappers have in common in 2020 is that neither are operating at their commercial peak.

J. Cole has released two new songs, his self-produced “The Climb Back” and “Lion King on Ice,” which he co-produced with T-Minus and Jetson. The singles are the rapper’s first two tracks from his upcoming The Fall Off album.

On “The Climb Back,” the rapper addresses the cyclical nature of working to get ahead, both in the rap game and in life. “Everything come back around full circle/Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful,” he raps. “Everybody gotta cry once in a while/But how long...

After Slave Play closed on Broadway in January 2020, playwright Jeremy O. Harris was whisked off to London for a new production of Daddy, his other controversial play about race, sex, trauma, power, love, and kink. When the Almeida Theatre shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, Harris decided to stay in the swanky Airbnb where he’d been put up. “It felt more comforting to be in an unfamiliar landscape during an unfamiliar time than to be in like a really familiar landscape with like a surreal reality,...

While life as we know it may be on pause, in music, things are moving faster than ever, with high turnover in the upper ranks of the Top 100 Songs Chart and a new artist rising on TikTok seemingly ever week. The up-and-comers on the latest Breakthrough 25 chart, which ranks the fastest-rising new artists of the month, run the gamut from TikTok stars to emo-folk darlings.

Orlando rapper and singer Tyla Yaweh leads this month’s class, gaining over 16 million streams in June thanks to the Post Malone-featuring “Tommy Lee,...

DaBaby and Roddy Ricch’s “Rockstar” won a fiercely contested battle for Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. “Rockstar,” which enjoyed a slight boost thanks to the timely release of a “BLM Remix,” racked up 27.6 million streams and more than 13,000 downloads. It enjoyed a slight edge over Lil Baby’s bracing “Bigger Picture,” which picked up 26.4 million streams and close to 8,000 downloads.

Another new song debuted at Number Three on the Rs 100: Tekashi 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj’s “Trollz.” “Trollz” out-sold both “Bigger Picture...

Noname has released her first solo song of the year. “Song 33” references the killings of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin Salau and also appears to address J. Cole’s new track, “Snow on Tha Bluff.”

On the Madlib-produced single, the Chicago rapper discusses Salau’s disappearance and killing. “A baby just 19/I know I dream all black/I seen her everything immortalized in tweets, all caps/They say they found her dead,” she raps. “One girl missing another one go missing/One girl missing another.”

In another...

On Tuesday night, J. Cole decided to release a song that he must have meant as a salve for this contentious moment. It was called “Snow On Tha Bluff,” and it entered the world with all the confidence of a celebrity who feels they are of the people, while being above their reproach. At the 48-second mark, the North Carolina rapper introduces his plight: “It’s something about the queen tone that’s botherin’ me.” From there, Cole unravels a tale about an unnamed woman upset at a variety of worthy targets — “crackers,...

Following the death of George Floyd, many celebrities have come together to raise money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund and match donations made by others.

Floyd died on May 25 in Minneapolis after a police officer kept his knee on his neck for several minutes, despite Floyd saying he couldn’t breathe multiple times. The officer was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter a few days later. Three other police officers who were seen in the widely spread video were fired in connection to the incident.

All across social media, people have started making donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, an organization that provides funds to protestors who have been arrested and need to post bail.

After President Trump tweeted about it being “Maga Night” at the White House after protestors gathered outside on Friday, Chrissy Teigen announced she would donate $100,000 to bail people out. She later upped her...

Is Harriet Tubman really throwing the Wakanda Forever salute on OneUnited Bank's new debit card? It sure looks that way and people are not very happy about it. A lot of people are probably okay with the fact that Tubman's face is printed on the debit card in honor of Black History Month, even though she fought against racism and the capitalistic practice of buying and selling human beings. Whatever the case may be, more people seem to be fired up over the fact that she's using a symbol from Marvel's Black Panther.

When looking at the OneUnited debit card, it certainly looks like Harriet Tubman is doing the Wakanda Forever pose from Black Panther. Her arms are in a cross and she's looking right at us from the debit card. An advertisement for the card reads, "Our limited-edition Harriet Tubman Visa Debit Card is a symbol of Black empowerment.

Rage Against the Machine have added two more festival dates to their 2020 tour itinerary, Boston Calling and Firefly. Boston Calling will take place May 22nd through 24th, and Firefly will be held June 18th through 21st.

At Boston Calling, Rage are billed alongside previously announced headliners, Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other big-font acts this year include the 1975, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Brittany Howard, Run the Jewels, Liam Gallagher, Noname, Banks, and Tom DeLonge’s Angels and Airwaves. Sharon Van Etten, Orville Peck, Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew W.K.,...