YG Announces New Album, Shares New Song ...

YG has shared a new DJ Mustard-produced song, “Pop It, Shake It.” Listen to the track below. The rapper has also announced the title of his next studio album: it’s called Just Re’d Up 3: Know Your Worth, and will be the follow-up to the 2011 and 2013 mixtapes of the same series. The new album was executive produced by DJ Mustard. He and YG last came together on YG’s EP Red Friday, released at the end of last year, further cementing the end of a dry spell that came about as the result of personal differences between the two. (DJ Mustard was noticeably absent from YG’s last...

Cashmere Cat Enlists MØ and Sophie for N...

Cashmere Cat has shared a new song called “9 (After Coachella),” featuring MØ and SOPHIE. Stream the track below, and watch its lyric video (which features some adorable French bulldogs). Over the past year, Cashmere Cat has shared the songs “Wild Love” featuring the Weeknd and Francis and the Lights, “Trust Nobody” with Selena Gomez and Tory Lanez, “Throw Myself a Party,” featuring 2 Chainz and Tory Lanez, and most recently, “Love Incredible” with Camila Cabello (formerly of Fifth Harmony). His debut solo album, Wild Love, is due out later this year via Mad...

Former Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Driv...

Democratic Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke is officially running for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat, as Spin points out. In the 1990s, O’Rourke was a singer and guitarist in the band Foss, which included Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In and The Mars Volta) on vocals and drums. “I wasn’t very good at it,” O’Rourke told the Washington Post earlier this year, explaining that his father didn’t fully back his musical aspirations either. “He won’t say it, but the expectation is: We didn’t take out loans for you to go to Columbia and then [play] in a punk band your whole life.”...

Chance the Rapper Announces $2.2 Million...

Chance the Rapper held a press conference today at Chicago’s Paul Robeson High School. He was scheduled to “make a major announcement about his efforts to support Chicago Public Schools,” which include his $1 million donation to CPS (announced at a previous press conference from the city’s Westcott Elementary School). In his new speech, Chance revealed that he has raised $2.2 million for CPS since the first press conference. Among those who donated are the Chicago Bulls (who matched Chance’s $1 million), Scooter Braun (manager of Kanye West, Justin Bieber, and others),...

Kendrick Lamar Slays His Foes Two Weeks ...

Kendrick Lamar’s new single “HUMBLE.” zigzags constantly. It shifts from retellings of his humble beginnings to world-conquering boasts in a few beats. The song is a hard-nosed G check of his lessers, that pivots into imperfect critiques of beauty standards. But what it makes clear is his supremacy: when trapped in the long shadow he casts, his contemporaries have nothing to brag about. Reiterating sentiments from “The Heart Part 4”: “If I quit this season, I still be the greatest,” he snarls early on. “It’s levels to it, you and I know, bitch be humble.” The menacing...