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The wait is over.

After much anticipation, J. Cole returns with the first offering from his upcoming sixth studio album The Off-Season. On “i n t e r l u d e,” the Dreamville boss warms up for the main event with a two-minute teaser, which he produced with T-Minus and Tommy Parker.

“This shit can go one of two ways / This shit can go up, it can go down / Either way, ni**a, I’m prepared,” Cole raps over the soulful instrumental before boasting about his numbers. “Cole World, ni**as knowin’ what it is / Just in case they don’t, I show ’em what it is / In summer, I do real numbers / Couldn’t dare touch it if they sold a double disc.”

He goes on to pay homage to two late rap legends. “Christ went to heaven, age 33 / And so did Pimp C and so did Nipsey,” says Cole before adding, “I done seen the highest heights / I done seen it twice / And I seen the lowest of the lows, and still I rose / Now I’m at your neck, ni**a.”

And he’s just getting started. In one week, Cole will release his highly-anticipated album The Off-Season, the follow-up to 2018’s chart-topping KOD. “Just know this was years in the making,” he told fans.

Last summer, he dropped two singles, “The Climb Back” and “Lion King on Ice,” along with the politically-charged track “Snow on Tha Bluff.” The Off-Season is expected to be followed by two more Cole projects, It’s a Boy and The Fall Off.

Bow now, we all know that the trajectory of Russ’ career changed back in 2015 when he decided one day that he will release one song every week on his SoundCloud to build buzz for his music, following a lackluster run with several mixtapes.

Fast forward, the Atlanta based singer and rapper is now a multi Platinum artist with countless plaques and several Billboard charting singles. For the past year or so, Russ has been releasing music quite frequently but a few days ago, he announced that he will be back to his 2015 grind of releasing one song every single week.

He kickstarts the series tonight with a new song titled ‘SMALL TALK’ which he originally previewed on social media earlier this week. The sample heavy track was produced by Russ himself — listen to him going crazy below.

Aside from music, he is also keeping himself busy with business ventures. His latest investment is in MixedByAli’s producer and engineer-friendly platform, EngineEars.

This past weekend, DJ Khaled dropped his twelfth studio album KHALED KHALED with guest appearances from Drake, JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Nas, Cardi B, Lil Baby and many more of the biggest names in Hip-Hop. It’s sort of receiving the same reviews that all of Khaled’s albums tend to get these days. Fans like some of the songs here and there and appreciate the collaborations, but are critical of how it sounds from start to finish along with some of the production. You can stream it here.

Nonetheless, it’s poised to hit #1 on the charts and Khaled is pressing on with the visuals. Following ‘Sorry Not Sorry‘, next up is the music video for the album’s opener, ‘THANKFUL’ with Lil Wayne and Jeremih.

You can check out the visual below.

Pandemic or not, Rob Markman will continue to serve new music to the masses every 1st and 15th of the month.

Following regular schedule, the journalist-rapper spits some vintage bars over production from Termanology and Melks on his new song ‘Do You Believe?’

“Got a beat pack from Termanology and opened it / Reminded me of Preem, some ol’ Vol 1 Hova shit,” Rob raps on the classic sounding instrumental. Stream it below or on your favorite service here. In case you missed it, peep his previous drop ‘CDAT’ here.

The backlash against Tory Lanez’ alleged attack on Megan Thee Stallion is not stopping the artist from continuing to work his music.

Tory recently did a live stream concert called Playboy and right after it, hopped on Instagram Live for an interview with DJ Carisma. During the conversation, he revealed that he has a joint project with Chris Brown on the way.

“Me and Chris.. we gonna come out with another project too. We gon drop a little capsule together. Me and Chris gon’ do a capsule too,” he said before revealing some other collaborations he has coming, including one each with DaBaby and Yung Bleu.

The two friends recently joined forces on the song ‘F.E.E.L.S.‘ which appeared on his latest “capsule” PLAYBOY. This is not the first time that he has talked about doing a project with Chris. He first hinted at the same back in 2018.

The video for the DaBaby collaboration ‘Skat’ has already been shot and should be releasing soon.

Pop Smoke’s legacy lives on.

Another posthumous album from the late Brooklyn rapper is in the works. One of his managers, Rico Beats, posted a photo to Instagram over the weekend and in his caption, he revealed plans for a new project.

“I see and hear everything kept it cool tho no worries pay back around the corner Popsmoke new album loading….” wrote Rico Beats.

Pop Smoke’s posthumous debut Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon was released last July. The album, which was co-executive produced by 50 Cent, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and became the longest-running No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart since M.C. Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em in 1990.

The album spawned a trio of platinum tracks (“Hello,” “Got It On Me,” and “Something Special”), three 2x platinum songs (“Mood Swings,” “The Woo,” and “What You Know About Love”), one 3x platinum (“Dior”), and the 4x platinum “For the Night.”

Pop, who was shot and killed in February 2020, continues to earn accolades after his death. He was recently nominated for 10 Billboard Music Awards including Top Billboard 200 Album, Top Artist, and Top New Artist.

Lil Wayne is paying his respect to the late great DMX.

Almost a month after the rapper’s death, Lil Wayne shared a heartfelt tribute to the Yonkers legend at Trillerfest in Miami on Saturday (May 1). While on stage, Weezy reflected on touring with X on the “Cash Money Ruff Ryders Tour” back in 2000, which featured top acts from two of the hottest hip-hop labels at the time including Eve, Swizz Beatz, The LOX, and Juvenile.

“When I was a younger kid, we used to be on tour a lot, like six months out the year,” Wayne told the crowd at Miami Marine Stadium. “And we used to go on tour with another record label because we used to have so many artists. We didn’t have to have no opening acts because we just needed another record label and it was just us and them. So back then, we went on this tour called the ‘Cash Money Ruff Ryders Tour.’ See, being from New Orleans, it’s so far away from New York and Cali and shit like that, we didn’t know if it was real when we seen it on TV, the New York guys, the L.A. people. So when we saw DMX, we all fell in love.”

Once he met X in-person, he was instantly taken. “But when I got on tour with him, now you in the hotel lobby, you in the backstage, you run across the ni**a and he actually say something to you,” Wayne continued. “And when you see this ni**a talk like how he rap and you see this ni**a is what he is, and you see this ni**a got a zillion dogs with him, then a zillion dogs with him, it’s impossible not to be obsessed, infatuated, motherfu**in’ impressed, whatever.”

Added Wayne, “Ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise for the late great DMX!”

He then launched into his Carter V hit “Uproar,” produced by one of DMX’s closest friends, Swizz Beatz. “It hit my brother real hard–real, real, real hard. My brother’s name is Swizz Beatz,” said Wayne. “He would never let a Lil Wayne album come out without a beat on that motherfu**er from him.”

DMX died on April 9 after suffering a heart attack. He was 50. In the wake of his death, his peers including Nas, Eve, Jadakiss, and Swizz honored him during a memorial service in Brooklyn last weekend.