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On Friday, December 8, Nicki Minaj went back to her roots by releasing the second installment of her no-skips debut album, Pink Friday, with Pink Friday 2. The 2010 debut included radio hits like “Super Bass”, “Fly (feat. Rihanna)”, and “Moment 4 Life”, and went triple Platinum. So you can imagine the hype behind The […]

We are officially approaching the middle of August already. How is the summer flying by that fast that it feels like every week I’m discussing a new season approaching? Taylor Swift was right, August does really slip away like a bottle of wine. But that’s not stopping me from coming up with a fresh batch […]

Aannnnddd we’re back with another weekend playlist curated by yours truly. Luckily enough for all of us, this time of year is a hotspot for releasing new music. As I mentioned last week, we are now witnessing the competition for Song Of The Summer. And honestly, I don’t know if we’ve heard it yet. So […]

A great album is like a little world. Some worlds are more fun to live in than others, and these albums were worlds we all wanted to move to forever in 2020. It was the year of the quarantine album—but what that album looked like varied from artist to artist. From maximalist relics of 2019 […]

It was worth the hype.

In the latest offering of #HostedByDeascent, Deascent finally sits down with J.I., one of the Big Apple’s hottest up-and-coming emcees and a budding hip-hop sensation. Based out of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the 18-year-old creative released his latest work, Hood Life Crisis Vol. 2, back in December to glowing reviews, and from there he’s been on […]

Face tattoos are far from just SoundCloud trends.

“Don’t go into this expecting a rap album. Don’t go into this expecting an album. Just go, jump into it.”

“Bag”, off ‘2 Luv is 2 Rage’