GEAHH!!  Nearly a month after giving us the lead single, Represent Like This, accompanying video and a couple of weeks after giving us his hard-hitting new Brenk Sinatra-produced next single, Compton Zoo, ...

Chicago bred singer/songwriter, Tia London, is so savage and without no Fvcks given about a former lover that turned her savage and into in an attic, on her appropriately titled new single, Savage.  The dr...

Beautiful and talented ARTium Records singer Jhené Aiko recently gave us her very soothing and airy new Fisticuffs-produced single, While We're Young.  The perfect chemistry between these two, which always al...

Nearly a month after introducing us to his new Jazz supergroup, The Pollyseeds, Los Angeles producer, musician and saxophonist, Terrace Martin gives us the latest taste from the group before they drop their deb...

"It's been a long, long time coming," for the return of legendary and iconic R&B/Soul & Pop group, TLC.  Now over two and a half years after starting the campaign for their new crowd-funded, self-t...

Recently signed to Priority Records, The Boy Illinois, has everybody in the mood to dance like Diddy and have a good time like Puff used to in his and all Bad Boy videos in the 90's and 2000's. Mostly kn...

Los Angeles native Mila J has had quite the first half of 2017.  Whether it has been her MILAULONGTIME mixtape and its sexy accompanying photo shoot she dropped on Valentine's Day or her just a couple of m...

Talib Kweli protege and Javotti Media signee, as well as fellow Chicago native, K'Valentine early Friday through my homie Drew over at FSD premiered her simple, yet dope new visual for her Styles P collaboratio...

Legendary Atlanta emcee Big Boi is as busy as ever.  Just a little over two weeks after premiering the video for his Adam Levine-assisted single, Mic Jack, Fat Staxx is back again with the premiere through Vev...

The pyroclastic flow is still as deadly as ever on legendary Westcoast Gangsta Rap pioneer Ice Cube's furious and fiery new single, Only One Me.  The lead single and one of three new tracks on the upcoming...

While Swedish songstress Snoh Aalegra continues to ready her upcoming highly-anticipated newest project, Feels, she decides to revisit her latest masterpiece.  Last years Don't Explain EP, with a very dop...

  21 years after ruling the Billboard charts with their hit forever timeless and classic chart-topping collaboration, If I Ruled The World, Nas and Lauryn Hill are set to team up yet again.  This t...

Legendary emcee, actor, director, screenwriter and overall, one of the greatest entertainers of all-time, Ice Cube has been quite busy recently promoting his new semi-pro, BIG3 basketball league, which is set t...

Earlier this month Brooklyn emcee and Slaughterhouse rep, Joell Ortiz finally gave us some new solo music for the first time in nearly eight to nine months and first time this year with the !llmind-produced...

A huge congrats are in order for fellow Chicago native and an artist we have long covered here at TheHipHopDemocrat, who also happens to be a personal favorite of ours for quite some time, The Boy Illinois....

One of the originator's of the funk rap scene Big Boi is getting ready to drop his highly-anticipated next solo album, Boomiverse and after announcing yesterday its release date, June 16th, late last night/...

Early this morning the nominations for the upcoming 2017 BET Awards were announced by the network and just as expected global pop icon Beyoncé lead the nominations with seven.  Thanks in large part to her...

Out of all the new music artists to emerge over the last year or so, singer Joyce Wrice has easily become one of my favorites and with her latest single, Good Morning, which was first released yesterday she...

GEAH!!  Only days after Westcoast pioneer MC Eiht returned with his banging new Brenk Sinatra-produced single, Represent Like This, which features fellow Westcoast pioneer and C-Walk champ extraordinare, W...

Fresh off the recent Ruff Ryders Reunion show at Barclays Center just a week and a half ago and completing their own lengthy promo tour for their recent comeback album, Filthy America... It's Beautiful, Yon...

It's the ROC!!  Earlier today JAY Z's annual Made In America Festival lineup for the 2017 edition taking place Labor Day Weekend Sept. 2nd & 3rd in Philadelphia was announced. Founded by JAY in 2012 and...

A week after debuting on top as the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart with his latest critically-acclaimed album, DAMN., Kendrick Lamar is once again on top of the charts for a second straight week....

After a long hiatus, which really wasn't that long, Westcoast pioneer and legend MC Eiht returns with his banging new Brenk Sinatra-produced single, Represent Like This, which features fellow Westcoast pion...

After a longer than expected hiatus, which lasted almost half a year from our last one, me and the rest of the team over here at TheHipHopDemocrat have decided to bring back yet again our New Artist Spotlig...

With her long-delayed and highly-anticipated debut album, CTRL, still yet to be released TDE's First Lady, SZA has patiently waited to release the official version of her dope highly-anticipated Travis Scot...

North Coast Music Festival (NCMF) returns and is better than ever.  In eight's year, the annual festival that takes place at Chicago's storied Union Park will once again return the weekend of Sept. 1st to Sept...

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Only a couple days after his very amazing first weekend headlining set at Coachella, where he played most of his new music from his recently released and critically-acclaimed new album, DAMN, for the first ...

Just a few short hours ago, React Presents and Summer Set Music and Camping Festival (SSMF) announced the 2017 lineup for the festivals sixth annual installment.  Which will once again take place in the p...

Music royalty and multi-platinum global superstar Mariah Carey and Epic Records, earlier today announced a new exclusive joint partnership together for her newly launched label, Butterfly MC Records. The...

Not even a full week after releasing his comeback project, You Only Live 2wice, and getting a second chance at life, Freddie Gibbs announced earlier today, he's now set to embark on the You Only Live 2wice Tou...

Victoria Monét is ready to take the spotlight.  After recently opening for Ariana Grande on her current Dangerous Women Tour and having such high-profile guest features with such high-profile artists rang...

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Rising Pop sensation, Tinashe has already had a stellar 2017 with the release of sure to be hit new single, Flame, a recent headlining grabbing GQ photo shoot with Travis Scott, a Juicy Couture collaboratio...

Electro-soul composer Manic Focus today dropped his second single, Putting All Of My People On featuring Chicago emcee ProbCause, off his just announced highly-anticipated fifth album, Minds Rising.  Which...

After the success of Jay Z and his new partners at, The Weinstein Company, current mini doc-series on Kalief Browder, it appears they're already set to move on to their next project. This time planning b...

Towards the end of January Westcoast emcee KXNG CROOKED started dropping freestyles almost weekly and many thought that almost a decade after starting his famed Hip-Hop Weekly series, he was starting the se...

On Saturday March 25th, Knowledge Beckhom Presents a very first of its kind performance with legendary emcees MC Eiht, AZ and Philadelphia Freeway set to perform collectively for the first time to a live band a...

Spring just starting and Summer, as well as festival season right around the corner, one of the biggest festivals of the whole summer, Lollapalooza has announced its jam-packed four-day lineup for the festi...

After his recent freestyle on Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex show, that was heard round the world and finally has started to give BX emcee, Mysonne, some of the much long overdue respect he has deserved for awhile fo...

After teasing it throughout the week till its official release at midnight last night, Los Angeles singer/songwriter Tinashe is back to heat up the airwaves with her new single, Flame. The latest offerin...

Last week after a long hiatus and announcing his new comeback project, You Only Live 2wice, Freddie Gibbs returned with a vengeance on his new single/video, Crushed Glass. Seeming to use his music as mot...

Chicago emcee The Boy Illinois, now simply known as Illi has been on a roll lately with his freestyles & new tracks it seems he has been dropping almost every other week or even sometimes as soon as jus...

A couple of weeks after surprisingly releasing their soulful new record, 2 LOVIN U, DJ Premier & Miguel premiered yesterday through Vevo the colorfully electric new video for the record. Taking from ...

If you thought BADBADNOTGOOD's original record for Lavender with Katryanada was something eeiry and crazy, then wait till you hear the remix for it with Snoop Dogg that dropped last night.  Dubbed the Nigh...

Toronto-bred and Def Jam rising star, JAHKOY, may not be from California, but like many he has an infatuation with the sunny warm weathered destination so many dream and wish they lived in.  Channeling the...

Sometimes life can just be tough and you battling hard times you just can't through with demons in your head being hard to battle through.  Such is the case for Linkin Park lead vocalist Chester Bennington...

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Only a couple days after teasing his return, Gangsta Rap emcee extordonaire, Freddie Gibbs is back with a vengeance in the powerful new Eric Nelson-directed video for Crushed Glass.  The first offering on wax ...

Yesterday Sway caught up with legendary Hip-Hop group, The LOX in Yonkers for the latest episode of VH1's "The Breaks."  Talking to the trio about how they navigated in the music business when they started...