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MAVI has made his return. After months of ensuring "MAVI is making an album" on Instagram, shadowbox has finally surfaced, and the LP finds the rapper diving into the depths of his past to present his most introspective offering yet.Across the album's 14 tracks, MAVI keeps it raw and real, exploring his own once-unearthed emotions. On "drown the snake" – which blends perfectly into standout single "drunk prayer" – he cuts the music to speak more directly about the themes of shadowbox."You know how you talk about, like, that inner child? Like, with that inner child, bro, like, there is a demon that grew up with that n*gga, bro. Like, I used to see shadows in my room all the time when I was a kid, bro," he explains.A press release notes that in addition to exploring his own once-unearthed em...

Rolling Loud Miami is pulling out all the stops for its 10th anniversary festival this December. Carried by headliners Future, Travis Scott and Playboi Carti, the three-day lineup just surfaced in full and it's locked and loaded with a slate of long-established and emerging hip-hop heavyweights.The festival is going down at Miamia's Hard Rock Stadium beginning on Friday, December 13 and closing out on Sunday, December 15. Friday's lineup consists of Yeat, Metro Boomin, Lil Yachty, Young Nudy, Rick Ross, Concrete Boys, Nettspend and Hardrock, while Don Toliver, Kodak Black, Sexyy Red, Ski Mask the Slump God, LUCKI, Sheck Wes, Cash Cobain and Bktherula show up for Saturday.Closing out the festival on Sunday is a final solid run of performers including Lil Baby, Bryson Tiller, Ken Carson, Den...

JAY-Z is making it official: he's taking home the master recordings of his debut album, Reasonable Doubt, in 2031.According to TMZ Hip Hop, Hov's legal team filed a notice stating that the rights of 1996 record will be given back to the artist in 2031. The notice serves as official paperwork that follows a stipulation confirming that the master recordings of Reasonable Doubt will be returned to JAY-Z 35 years after the album's release.While this is good news for the artist himself, this becomes a problem for the soon-to-be buyer of Dame Dash's $1.2 million USD Roc-A-Fella shares. The auction is set to take place on August 29, and with Reasonable Doubt serving as the record label's only substantial asset, the new owner of the shares will get to enjoy a third of the album's revenue for only ...

Latto is talking her S.H.I.T  louder than ever before. On the rapper's long-awaited third studio delivery dubbed Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Latto has leveled up yet again, flexing her artistic versatility, wearing her hometown pride on her sleeve and making it all look way too easy.Rounding out at 21 tracks and clocking in just over an hour in length, Latto takes the lead on Sugar Honey Iced Tea, even with the stacked slate of Southern artists she entrusts to rep Atlanta alongside her. Contributions come from Mariah The Scientist, Teezo Touchdown, Ciara, Young Nudy, Megan Thee Stallion, Hunxho and Coco Jones on the first disk and Cardi B, Flo Milli and Megan once again (for the infamous "Sunday Service" remix) on the second disk.Alongside the release of the album, Latto unleashed the visuals fo...

Ye and Ty Dolla $ign opens this week's Billboard 200 at No. 2 with VULTURES 2.The second installment in their album trilogy debuts with a total of 107,000 equivalent album units in its first week, about 41,000 units less than its predecessor which opened at No. 1. That sum includes 60,500 in album sales, 46,000 in streaming equivalent album units (50.44 million on-demand streams of the songs) and 500 in track equivalent album units. This marks Ye's 13th entry in the chart's top two, and Ty's third in the top five.Elsewhere on the chart is Taylor Swift, who defends her No. 1 position, as well Chappell Roan, whose The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess marks a new peak at No. 3. Morgan Wallen moves to No. 4, followed by Billie Eilish at No. 5. Making up the rest of this week's top 10 are Ch...

Latin songstress Kali Uchis kicked off 2024 by dropping her second album in Spanish -- ORQUÍDEAS. A sequel to 2020’s Sin miedo (del amor y otros demonios) ∞, ORQUÍDEAS saw Uchis team up with everyone from KAROL G to Rauw Alejandro, not to mention her popular collaboration with Peso Pluma on "Igual Que Un Ángel," resulting in a 14-track project that was welcomed by fans as a change of sound from her 2023 hit Red Moon in Venus.While ORQUÍDEAS has offered its own sound for the summer, Uchis announced that an ORQUÍDEAS PARTE 2 was en route at the start of the month. Its specifics weren't shared, though a KAYTRANADA remix of “Young Rich & In Love” was teased. Now, it has arrived as a deluxe album, adding four tracks to the end of ORQUÍDEAS, while notably maintaining "Dame Beso // Muévete" a...