It’s about that time. The time of year where we start making lists: whether it is your holiday shopping to-do list, your personal gift wishlist, or your year-end music favorites, lists are bountiful this time of year. We’re kicking off List Season with the big one: our Top 50 Hottest Songs of 2018.
To create this list, we had to look at the past year of hip-hop through a magnified lense and from a bird eye’s view, changing our scope to ensure we cover all our bases. Read More...
Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert seem to have enjoyed a close friendship for the past few years. Not only do they have a streak of successful collaborations between them (most notably "wokeuplikethis"), but they've also toured together in the past and are rumoured to have a joint release, entitled 16*29, in the works. Back on December 2nd, a track from that rumoured release surfaced, and in its second week out, has ascended to the top of our chart. Read More...
The documentary, King Von: Rap’s First Serial Killer, has proven to be incredibly controversial. Created by British YouTuber Trap Lore Ross, the four-hour documentary accuses the rapper of killing at least 10 people before his death in 2020. While the project had its supporters, many people criticized the sensationalized documentary. In now-deleted tweets, Asian hit back about Rap’s First Serial Killer, calling it “not true." She also argued, “How They Tell A Story About Somebody That DIED before he could tell his own. Read More...