With the release of Young Thug’s new album Punk, Jeff Ihaza — who wrote Rolling Stone’s recent digital cover story on the Atlanta rapper — joins host Brian Hiatt on the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast to look back at Thug’s wildly influential career so far …
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Young Thug and Gunna performed a medley of tracks during the 2021 BET Hip-Hop Awards Tuesday in the rappers’ hometown of Atlanta. A little more than a week before Young Thug drops his new album Punk, the rapper performed the single “Tick Tock” from atop a giant arachnid before Gunna …
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On the star-studded compilation Slime Language 2, released by Young Thug‘s YSL Records imprint, the rapper takes a backseat and invites his protégés and peers to take center stage. For now, fans will have to wait for Thugger’s hotly-anticipated next album. But with Slime Language 2, we see the power …
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In August, Travis Scott announced that, instead of a Houston stop on his tour in support ofAstroworld, he would throw the inaugural edition of ‘Astroworld Festival.’ It made sense: Scott spent the run up to the release of his latest album talking about how much he wanted to give back …
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Swizz Beatz released his new album,Poison,on Friday. It’s a star-studded yet restrained affair. Swizz has made a lot of friends in his two decades in the game, and he uses his collaborators well here. In most cases, that means each guest rapper is doing the best version of what they’re …
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