Chance The Rapper organized a free festival and conference in Accra, Ghana for 52,000 in January, which went without any serious trouble. The inaugural Black Star Line Festival (named for Marcus Garvey’s black-owned global shipping line from 1919), included a 6-day conference with performances by Mensa, Erykah Badu, T-Pain, Jeremih, Sarkodie, Tobe Nwigwe, Asakaa Boys and M.anifest along with special guests Dave Chappelle, Sway and Talib Kweli. Chance The Rapper had two goals, as he's told Pollstar: "The goal... was to perform for my people, which I got to do in that moment. And two was to produce an event that was safe and intentionally Black that no one there could in their right mind ever forget they took part in."

Chance the Rapper made a great cover of Nelly's 'Hot in Herre' in - country rock style. CTR was performing as a guest in Jimmy Fallon’s new music and comedy variety game show series 'That’s My Jam' where the participant gets a song and completely different genre that they have to sing it in. Chance the Rapper remixed the song with an extra twang, and fake Southern accent. Great fun. Watch it below!

Chance the Rapper is the first artist in the SoundCloud Premier program to earn a billion streams. His first music dropped on the platform eight years ago, he released his album 'Coloring Book' on SoundCloud for free, and his most recent album 'The Big Day' was released via the streaming service as well. All Hip Hop...

American rapper NF debuts on top of Billboard 200 chart with his fourth album 'The Search', sold in 130,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. Of that sum, 84,000 were in album sales, which made it the biggest sales week for a rap set this year (NF's third album 'Perception' also opened at No. 1 at […]

A new video has surfaced proving that Kelly definitely knew Aaliyah was only 15 at the time of their marriage. The clip is taken from a 1994 documentary and unequivocally sees Kelly acknowledging Aaliyah’s age (watch it here). “Right now I’m producing a very talented lady — a young lady,” Kelly narrates in one of the scenes, […]

Plenty are going to be released, and Spin is especially excited about these: Sky Ferreira, The Weeknd, Grimes, Weezer, Chance the Rapper, Vampire Weekend, My Bloody Valentine, 2 Chainz, Avril Lavigne, Beirut, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cass McCombs, Cherry Glazerr, Chromatics, Deerhunter, Die Antwoord, Fidlar, Girlpool, Janet Jackson, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Mandy Rogers, Panda Bear, […]