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News Articles: Genre: Hip-Hop

Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí and Móglaí Bap of Kneecap during day four of Glastonbury festival.

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How the Irish band Kneecap went from rising hip-hop group to global lightning rod

Kneecap, three young men from Northern Ireland who rap in Irish, has risen to prominence in recent years, with controversy surrounding its shows and political statements.

July 03, 2025
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Sean "Diddy" Combs performs in 2023 at Howard University's Yardfest in Washington, D.C.

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  • Music News

What happens to Sean Combs now?

The hip-hop mogul's legal saga has reached an uneasy outcome. Despite a tainted legacy and severed business ties, does his acquittal on the most serious charges leave room for a return?

July 03, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Benson Boone at the 2025 Governors Ball Music Festival held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 06, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Nina Westervelt/Billboard via Getty Images)

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  • Music

Benson Boone and Karol G can't displace Morgan Wallen on the charts

This week's highest debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart — Benson Boone's American Heart, Karol G's Tropicoqueta and the soundtrack to Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters — all land in the top 10. But they don't come anywhere near displacing Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem.

July 02, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Sean Combs and his attorney Marc Agnifilo discuss with other defense lawyers on how to respond to a new note sent by jurors, during Combs' sex trafficking trial in New York City on Tuesday in this courtroom sketch.

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Combs jury says it has verdicts on four counts, will keep deliberating on final count

After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury told Judge Arun Subramanian that it had decided on counts related to sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution but not yet on racketeering.

July 01, 2025
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 26: Sean Combs Onstage during Invest Fest 2023 at Georgia World Congress Center on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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  • Music

Defense says Combs led 'swinger's lifestyle,' was not coercive

Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo called the tumultuous relationship between Combs and singer Cassie Ventura "a great modern love story," and sought to dismantle the credibility of key witnesses.

June 27, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
LAS VEGAS, NV - May 15: 2022 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS -- Pictured: Sean "Diddy" Combs arrives to the 2022 Billboard Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022.

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Sean Combs' defense team doesn't call any witnesses, rests in under 30 minutes

Combs did not take the stand as the case for his defense concluded. In lieu of witnesses, his team built on previous cross-examination to claim that his relationships were consensual and not coercive.

June 24, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Sean Combs onstage during Invest Fest 2023 at the Georgia World Congress Center on Aug. 26, 2023, in Atlanta.

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As Sean Combs' prosecutors rest, here is the case they've made

The meandering trial of the hip-hop mogul can be difficult to parse. Here's a broad overview of the charges and the case the government has presented to the jury.

June 24, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Timbaland speaks at the 2023 A3C conference in Atlanta. The Grammy-winning hip-hop producer has launched an AI music company, Stage Zero, with the goal of creating a stable of digital "artists."

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  • Music Features

Timbaland's AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

June 17, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MAY 15:  Sean "Diddy" Combs attends the 2022 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  • Music

Sean Combs trial: Judge dismisses juror

Judge Arun Subramanian said that the juror's conflicting statements about which state he currently resides in may have been an attempt to get on and stay on the federal trial of the hip-hop mogul.

June 16, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends <em>Reel To Reel: Cant Stop Won't Stop: A Bad Boy Story</em> at the GRAMMY Museum on Oct. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles.

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  • Music

Second witness accuses Sean Combs of trafficking, recalls drug-fueled 'hotel nights'

On Thursday, a woman identified as "Jane" testified that Combs, who she says she dated until he was arrested in 2024, the hip-hop mogul pressured her into sexual encounters with male escorts.

June 05, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends an event at the Fox Theater on June 2, 2021, in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • Music

What the cross-examination of one witness reveals about the Sean Combs trial

The prosecution pushed back on the defense's aggressive questioning of a former Combs employee, saying harassment of the witness might intimidate others taking the stand.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Alex Warren performs onstage at the 2025 American Music Awards.

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  • Music

Alex Warren finally tops the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Ordinary'

The biggest news this week belongs to singer-songwriter Alex Warren, whose blockbuster track "Ordinary" ascends to No. 1 on the Hot 100 singles chart for the first time.

June 04, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Common and Kanye West on the set of the music video for "The Corner," a single from Common's 2005 album, <em>Be</em>, which West executive produced.

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  • Music Features

It's your world: Common, Kanye and the conflicted promise of 'Be'

In 2005, two Chicago titans made a generational classic and then sprinted in opposite directions, each daring the rest of hip-hop to follow them.

May 24, 2025
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Sleep Token's album <em>Even in Arcadia</em> has scored the largest-ever streaming week for a hard-rock album.

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  • Music

Sleep Token is the second hard-rock band to hit No. 1 in 3 weeks

This week the lore-rich, genre-smashing, entirely anonymous hard-rock band Sleep Token lands its first-ever No. 1 album. Elsewhere, on the Hot 100 singles chart, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" registers a 13th consecutive week at No. 1.

May 21, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Sean 'Diddy' Combs aka Puff Daddy (L) and Cassie attend the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City.

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  • Music

Sean Combs trial: Cassie Ventura's mother and former best friend testify

Regina Ventura and Kerry Morgan testified in the federal trial of Sean Combs this week as the prosecution continues to build a case around the mogul's relationship with singer Cassie Ventura.

May 21, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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