I’ll admit I was immediately skeptical of this year’s sad rap phenomenon, but Brooklyn’s Little Pain has won me over with his debut tape, When Thugz Cry.
A young Chicago rapper carves out a space for himself. Bibby talks about his career so far, DM’s from Drake and Iman Shumpert, and why he bristles at the term “drill.”
One of Chicago’s most creative rookies of the year, Lucki Eck$, releases a flickering video for “Count On Me.”
Texas-via-Toronto sensitive thug Tory Lanez releases a video for his interpretation of Future’s “Sh!t.”
The TDE rapper’s debut album Oxymoron will drop February 25.