Eric Diep

1 week ago | dallasobserver.com | Eric Diep

Yella Beezy wants to silence the noise.On April 15, Yella Beezy released his first new song since posting bail on March 28 after his bond was reduced to $750,000 in the Mo3 murder-for-hire case Beezy, whose real name is Markies Conway, wants to get his music career back on track with his temporary freedom. “My Head” indirectly references his legal woes, as he is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Mo3 in 2020.

1 month ago | dallasobserver.com | Eric Diep

Where the Structure At? The title of Dr. Michael C. Lens' book is attention-grabbing.is a familiar callback if you’re a diehard DMX fan. “Where the Hood At?” off the late rapper 's 2003 albumis an intoxicating dose of fighting music for "the dogs," with the video set in his neighborhood of Yonkers, New York.“DMX’s song plays a very big role in the material,” Lens says. “To me, the substantive double entendre is where is the hood at geographically? So where is it at physically?

2 months ago | complex.com | Trey Alston |Eric Diep |José Martinez |Alex Ocho

Rihanna opened up about her perspective on disappointment in a new interview. The singer sat down with Lynette Nylander for a Harper’s Bazaar cover story in which she reflected on her career and an emotion that she’s often experienced. “As a child, I could only handle so many emotions. And the one emotion I could never handle was disappointment,” she explained. “I didn’t know where to put that. It was a feeling that was so disheartening, and it actually pulls a lot of emotions into that box.

2 months ago | complex.com | Eric Diep

Rihanna is speaking candidly about the creative process behind her next album. While sitting down with Executive Digital Director of Harper's BAZAAR Lynette Nylander for a new cover story, Rihanna addressed the long delay of R9. After telling Nylander she listened to 2016's Anti from "top to bottom," she went into how the recent re-listening helped steer the direction of her next album. “I think music is my freedom. I just came to that realization.

2 months ago | complex.com | Eric Diep

Truice Young's first EP has arrived. Young, the son of Dr. Dre, has shared Vices, a five-track EP that was a year in the making. While sitting with Big Boy on Big Boy's Neighborhood, he told him how he narrowed down the EP's tracklist from the 20-30 songs he made while working on the project. Also in the conversation below, he talks about being a producer first and finding his voice before opening up about the challenges of being Dr. Dre's son.