Metro Boomin Reveals ‘A Futuristic Summa’ Mixtape Details
Metro Boomin detailed his upcoming surprise mixtape, revealing its title via a billboard and information about its features on social media. According to the billboard, it’s called A Futuristic Summa, and per Metro in the replies to the July 4th announcement on Twitter, it will feature an “all new cast” of features, meaning the usual […]
Benny Blanco Talks Working With Billie Eilish At 14
Benny Blanco is still in his 30s, but he’s an industry veteran who has worked with just about everybody in pop at this point. That list includes Billie Eilish, and Blanco actually collaborated with her, and Finneas, at the very start of their journey, as he explained on a new episode of Therapuss The conversation […]
A Look Back At The Legend’s Legacy
Just days ahead of a headlining performance at the Essence Festival of Culture, New Orleans rap legend Master P announced that the set would be his last. After over three decades of setting the standard for independent rap hustle with his label No Limit Records and classic songs like “Ghetto D” and “Make ‘Em Say […]
Ravyn Lenae Sings Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please’
Ravyn Lenae has a portion of the end of this year blocked off, as she’ll be touring along Reneé Rapp. Until then, she’s warming up her vocal cords, and she just did so for BBC Radio 1 with a Live Lounge session. Artists routinely perform covers in that space and for her turn in the […]
Kevin Abstract & Dominic Fike As Geezer: ‘Doggy’
A few weeks ago, Kevin Abstract and Dominic Fike released their joint single “Geezer” as a preface to a longer project called Blush. At the time, they teased that Geezer would also end up being the name of their group, which they made official today with the release of their second single, “Doggy.” While Abstract […]
‘Sound Check’ With Jeremy Hecht: Tech N9ne
This week’s Sound Check With Jeremy Hecht is also a Sound Check with Tech — as in Tech N9ne, the Midwestern indie stalwart whose tongue-twisting rhymes have upheld the standard for lyrical excellence for the past 25 years. The Kansas City native takes on the challenge of choosing between carefully selected songs to display his […]
The 2025 Essence Festival Put New Orlean’s Rich Food
New Orleans is known for a few things, but somewhere at the top of the list is its food. Local cuisine is one of the most cited reasons for New Orleans’ booming tourism trade, and it has some of the most recognizable regional dishes in American cuisine. If you’re going to NOLA, you’re going for […]
Ric Wilson Raises A Glass To Chicago With Rémy Martin
Chicago phenom Ric Wilson creates the kind of music that makes the walls sweat – a kinetic blend of funk, disco, and hip-hop that gets crowds to their feet and fans itching to catch him performing live. But even as the hype behind his music career builds, he stays smooth, cool, bold, and balanced – […]
Best Summer Travel Advice, According To Our Favorite DJs
The Uproxx Music Travel Hot List series is sponsored by Priceline, where you can go to book your next music travel adventure. Nobody knows travel like a DJs and musicians. Planes, trains, cars… yachts! There isn’t a mode of transportation that these artists don’t love to both ride and perform in. That’s why when we […]
Hip Hop Journalist Elliott Wilson Talks Wu-Tang’s Farewell
There isn’t a single group more transformative to hip-hop than the Wu-Tang Clan. They redefined what hip hop could be, forever changing and morphing rap music into their image, inspiring multiple generations of artists and even reaching beyond music. Simply put, we struggle to imagine what hip hop — with all its disparate sub-genres and […]