Sean Combs

BOYCOTT! Like Rick Ross, These Product-Endorsing Artists Have Said Vile Things

Yesterday activists protested Reebok's flagship store to put pressure on the company to cut its ties with rapper Rick Ross, who recently ... well you already know this story. Whether or not the more than 71,000 signatures collected to get Ross fired will work remains to be seen, but Big Corporations ... More >>

Rolling Stone's Top 50 Rap Songs of All Time: Six Alternative Number One Picks

Rolling Stone recently published a run-down of the top 50 hip-hop songs of all time. After consulting with a panel of 33 journalists, industry figures and artists (including professional rap encyclopedia ?uestlove and the remaining members of the Beastie Boys), the numbers were crunched and Grandmas ... More >>

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Dawn Richard goes solo at S.O.B.’s.

Q&A: Guy Gerber On Ibiza, Diddy, And Restoring The Mix CD's Glory

Guy Gerber has the kind of summer job that would make anyone jealous. The Israeli producer and DJ is nearing the end of the season in Ibiza, having spent idyllic days working on music by the ocean and neon nights playing his blend of progressive house and melodic techno for the insatiable tourists t ... More >>

Hit Machines: The Ten Best Singles Runs From Post-Confessions R&B Albums

In his recent review of R&B singer Miguel's fantastic Art Dealer Chic series of EPs, The A.V. Club's Evan Rytlewski explained the singer's rise in popularity by floating the idea that his 2010 album All I Want Is You contained "arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher's Co ... More >>

Q&A: French Montana On Meeting Diddy, Working With Rick Ross, And The State Of New York Hip-Hop

​French Montana, flush from having just inked the dotted line with P. Diddy's Bad Boy label, has just stepped out of the Who's Up Next barbershop in Miami's South Beach area. But while Bad Boy is plotting something of a resurgence, having also this year snapped up rapid-fire white rap firebran ... More >>

Live: Machine Gun Kelly Throws Himself A Homecoming Of Sorts At The Gramercy Theater

Machine Gun Kelly Gramercy Theater Sunday, May 22 Better than: Going to the gym. Machine Gun Kelly onstage is like a Nintendo character, if someone kept pressing the B button. His feet touch the ground about as often as his knees hit his chest; he looks like he learned to walk on a Dance Dance Re ... More >>

Top Five Train-Wreck Rappers

​The Berkley-based rapper Lil B plays the Highline Ballroom on Thursday; for curious New York gawkers, it's a chance to see the world's foremost proponent of a new movement you could kindly term train-wreck rappers -- those artists whose every youthful indiscretion, ill-advised comment, physic ... More >>

Shyne Insists the Torah is Fine With Lamborghinis

Ricki Rosen for NYT​"The tall man in the velvet fedora and knee-length black jacket with ritual fringes" taking "long, swift strides toward the Western Wall" in today's New York Times is not Knicks basketball star Amare Stoudemire, who discovered his Hebrew roots over the summer. It's Brooklyn ... More >>

Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth

Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>

Rick Ross's Alternate Reality

More transcendent absurdity from Miami's most improved rapper

Rick Ross' New Teflon Don Is Streaming In Full On His MySpace

​New York rap fans have a very complicated relationship with Rick Ross, due to the Southern thing, the prison-guard thing, the he-once-released-a-song-called-"Money Make Me Come" thing. During Diddy's 92Y Tribeca talk a couple weeks back host Peter Rosenberg abruptly started praising Ross to t ... More >>

Please Enjoy Complex.com's List Of The 75 Greatest Tunnel Bangers Of All Time

​The Tunnel, as you'll recall (?), was a famously wild Manhattan nightclub that played host to raucous, dangerous, and thus permanently legendary Sunday-night hip-hop parties, hosted primarily by the shy, retiring Funkmaster Flex and generating practically their own personal cache of hit songs ... More >>

Styles P Wrote a Novel

The hard-boiled NYC rapper has found a new artistic medium for his badassness

Formula Works in Get Him to the Greek

Sex, drugs, rock 'n' Apatow

Police Kill Former Jay-Z/Diddy Bodyguard; Thugs React

​Chaos inside Brooklyn's Norwood Palace late Saturday night led to the fatal wounding of a club bouncer who'd previously worked as a bodyguard for Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, and P. Diddy. He either was or was not pointing a gun at the officers when they fired on him. Not the best weekend for trigger ... More >>

Week in Review: Pajamas Are Pussified

Kylie! Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In the week a tiny little boy named Falcon first captured America's heart and then threw up on that heart on live television and even rhymed about doing so in song, we swam feebly in the ocean of headlines involving both Michael Jackson and Paul Anka, DJ AM and ... More >>

Ladies and Gentlemen, Please Welcome Back...Shyne

​Shyne, the 30-year-old rapper born Jamal Barrow (and who, after a jailhouse conversion to Judaism, now goes by the legal name Moses Michael Leviy), is set to get out of prison today, after serving 9 years on attempted murder charges. Barrow was part of Diddy's entourage that fateful night at ... More >>

On Charles Hamilton, Joe Budden, Asher Roth, and the Perils of Internet Oversharing

Welcome to rap's online overdose

Q&A With Cute Person Justin Tranter

Justin HyteJustin Tranter is a rock star (he's lead singer of the glammy Semi Precious Weapons) AND a jewelry designer (his sexy FETTY line sells at Barneys NY and Barneys COOP). He's ALSO a perfect subject for this widely read blog! So, in between bouts of rubbing sea kelp into my hair, I cornered ... More >>

Post Follows Voice with Fecal Front-Pager

SUNDAY | 6.1

Grading the iTunes Hits, Again

Friday

Bottomless Pit's Hammer of the Gods

Grieving Silkworm members regroup, balancing anger and acceptance

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 6

What do P.Diddy, Anna Wintour, and Drag Queens Have in Common?

The Chocolate Wars

On the bewildering summertime dominance of Tay Zonday and R. Kelly

The BET Awards: A Running Diary

'Air Guitar Nation'

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

VH1's Hip-Hop Honors: A Running Diary

Busta Rhymes' Bodyguard Murdered at Video Shoot

AmsterJam gets AmsterSlammed? AmsterDAMN!

'Rittenhouse Square'

The End of Eminem

Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.

Blooming and Wilting

A new Bloomingdale's takes up residence in Canal Jean's former digs

NY Mirror

Japanese Cutie-Poppers Think You're Ready for This Jellyfish

Sometimes Lyrics Suffice

Folkies Multiply in a Time When So Many Are Singer-Songwriters and So Few Admit It

Listings

Real Genius

Money for Nothin'

And The Perks For Free

Shake Your Moneymaker

The Beast of Both Worlds

Rappers and R&B Singers Unite for Commerce’s Common Cause

Fronting for the Enemy

Gay Men Who Make Homophobic Rappers Look Good

Letters

Call and Response

Targeting Silent Rappers: A Street Fight for Justice or Hip Hop McCarthyism?

Big Poppa, Little Willies

Bottlemania