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Chance the Rapper has reflected on his journey as a rapper, including a few of the lowest moments in his career, on the new song “3,3333,” featuring cover art created by his 8-year-old daughter, Kensli Bennett.The title of the song nods to a recent concert in which he sold only 3,333 tickets to a venue at the Minnesota State Fair, which was capable of holding 14,000 attendees.“At this point you should probably think of pulling out and / What they gon' say when videos coming out / Saying "He was on the top but he fell from the mountain,”” he raps. “Know you in that stu with that pen and that MPC / But you should worry 'bout these empty seats.”After getting the call from his agent, Chance went ahead with the performance anyway, playing cuts from his upcoming Star Line album. He may not have ...

Capitalizing on the popularity and success of his recent Days Before Rodeo rollout, Travis Scott's fans prove to be still excited about the almost decade-old mixtape. Noting the immense buzz and excitement surrounding the album, Scott has now reached back into the vault to drop unreleased projects.Amongst those was a new "vault edition" of the album titled Live From Atlanta. Scott has now dropped a live recording of the Days Before Rodeo concert, exclusively on his website. The live album is being packaged with the standard edition of the Days Before Rodeo and available as a digital download for $4.99 USD. The album is derived from Scott's highly anticipated Days Before Rodeo concert album he had last week, where he gave hardcore fans a treat when he performed the entire mixtape. The track...

RZA has shared his first classical composition, A Ballet Through Mud. Released via Platoon and 36 Chambers, the album was originally performed live by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.The ballet is billed as a coming-of-age story, where characters are named after Greek musical scales. Grappling with themes of love, loss and friendship, the composition mirrors RZA’s beginnings in Staten Island to his success as an artist playing in concert halls.The Wu-Tang Clan rapper wrote A Ballet Through Mud after rediscovering old lyric books during the pandemic.Pietro Rossi mixed and mastered the work, while Christopher Dragon conducted the live orchestra.Stream RZA’s A Ballet Through Mud everywhere now.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast

Drake is updating his 100 Gigs release with the official drop of "Circadian Rhythm" on streaming services.The two-minute cut, which features production from London Cyr, Ben10k, Eli Brown and Gordo, was first released on The Boy's finsta @plottttwistttttt last week alongside "SOD" and "No Face" with Playboi Carti. The song's appearance on digital streaming platforms, however, joins the 100 Gigs three-pack EP from early August and serves as a replacement for "Blue Green Red." 100 Gigs' other tracks, "Housekeeping Knows" featuring Latto and "It's Up" with Young Thug and 21 Savage, still remain in the updated version.Fans initially speculated that "Circadian Rhythm" was Drizzy's response to Kendrick Lamar's "6:16 in LA" diss track as Dot rapped, "Often, I know this type of power is gon’ cost /...

André 3000 has debuted New Blue Sun's accompanying album film, Listening To The Sun.The intimate visual component clocks in at 90 minutes and can be described as a "virtual listening session," with director Terence Nance focusing on 3 Stacks as he physically channels the spirit of his studio album in a serene, blue-lit setting. “I hope you enjoy the ride as much as we did. What you hear is what we did as it was happening,” the artist said of the “formations” of New Blue Sun at the outset of his new short film.New Blue Sun dropped in November 2023 and marked André's first full-length release in 17 years. On the album, he trades raps for his flutes and offers a fully instrumental album with a focus on wind instruments like a Maya flute, digital wind instrument and others made of wood and bam...

Travis Scott continues to prove the DAYS BEFORE RODEO are never over. As the album continues to do numbers on DSPs after its ten-year re-release last Friday, La Flame has continued to unveil a handful of deluxe editions of the project; in the past 24 hours alone, the rapper has released the Vault 1, Vault 2, Live from Atlanta, Chopped & Screwed versions of the album, and now he's delivered on Vault 3 and Vault 4.Totaling six deluxe drops – all of which are currently exclusive to the rapper's website – DAYS BEFORE RODEO Vault 3 and DAYS BEFORE RODEO Vault 4 each consist of two new tracks. Vault 3 tacks on "Naughty" and "Too Many Options" with frequent DBR collaborator Young Thug, while Vault 4 includes "HOUDINI" with Playboi Carti and a different version of "Quintana Pt. 2" which comes ...

Destroy Lonely has dropped the follow-up to his breakout debut album If Looks Could Kill. The Atlanta rapper’s latest project, LOVE LASTS FOREVER, is a sprawling 21-track LP with features from some of the biggest heavyweights in the game.On the album, Lonely taps Don Toliver for the song “BANGAZ” and Lil Uzi Vert on the track “LOVE HURTS.” Ken Carson, Lonely’s Opium bandmate, also linked up with the rapper for a joint single “THRILL.”“The album represents a transitional period in my life where I was seeing, hearing, and being inspired by a bunch of different experiences,” Lonely told Hypebeast Magazine last year.“That’s what I wanted to present to the world—a download of experiences and inspirations that I hold true to myself.”Stream Destroy Lonely’s new album LOVE LASTS FOREVER everywhere...