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Relentlessly adventurous rapper Pink Siifu has teamed up with Turich Benjy for a new album called It’s Too Quiet…’!, out today (October 31) via Dynamite Hill. It’s Siifu’s second project of the year following Leather Blvd., a joint album with Ahwlee as B.

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Pink Siifu is alleging that he was assaulted Tuesday night (October 4) by a security supervisor at the Brooklyn music venue Elsewhere. According to posts uploaded to the Alabama artist’s verified Twitter and Instagram accounts the following day, the incident occurred after he’d performed two sets at the club.

Rina Sawayama confirmed her status as a pop auteur with her 2020 debut Sawayama, No. 14 on our Best Albums of 2020 list.

Afropunk was back in its birthplace for the first time since 2019 this past weekend.

Pink Siifu is an artist who draws from an emotive source as deep as his knowledge of Black musical tradition. Just as impressive is his prolific streak, which in the past two years has included standard and deluxe editions of the albums Bag Talk (with YUNGMORPHEUS), Negro (one of our favorite projects of 2020), the Fly Anakin collaborations FlySiifu's and $mokebreak, and his solo project GUMBO'!.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a three-year hiatus, the Brooklyn edition of the Afropunk festival will return this fall, taking place over the weekend of September 10-11 at its traditional location of Commodore Barry Park in the New York City borough’s Fort Greene neighborhood.The lineup, announced Tuesday, (June 14th) includes  the Roots, Lucky Daye,m= Tierra Whack, Burna Boy, Freddie Gibbs, Isaiah Rashad, Earl Sweatshirt, Bartees Strange, Adekunle Gold, Fana Hues, Pink Siifu, Butcher Brown, Alex Mali, Mick Jenkins, and others.The festival is divided into two stages: the “Brooklyn Baby” stage and the “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” stage.See the full lineup below.The Afropunk franchise continues to expand, holding its first-ever Midwestern event this weekend at Minneapolis’ Sheridan Memorial Park. Titled Planet Afropunk Live: Minneapolis, the lineup will include Ari Lennox, Noname, and Mereba just to name a few performers who will make an appearance on both days.

Pink Siifu's prolific 2021 included the Fly Anakin collaboration $mokebreak as well as expanded editions of FlySiifu's (also with Fly Anakin) and NEGRO, his earth-shaking hardcore masterpiece released in 2020. He also dropped a great solo album called GUMBO’!, and on March 4 he'll add ten new songs to the tracklist for GUMBO’! DELUXE’!.

Last Friday, Pink Siifu shared a video for "Voicemails Uptown," a song from his expansive and communal 2021 album GUMBO'! "Voicemails Uptown" brings together a wide range of collaborators for a funky ride through Siifu's cosmic psyche. The song features producer Monte Booker, Turich Benjy, TDE's Lance Skiiiwalker, JayBee Lamahj, V.C.R., and Nelson Bandela.

Pink Siifu had a prolific 2020, sharing collaborative projects like FlySiifu's (made with Fly Anakin, Bag Talk (with YungMorpheus), and NEGRO, one of our favorite albums of the year. His new solo project GUMBO'! is titled after a Black American culinary tradition where disparate ingredients are slowly nurtured into an improbably complex whole — it's also an analogy for Siifu's creative output.

Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin formed one of the most formidable new duos in hip-hop last year with the release of their collaborative album FlySiifu's. With its collaged, Dilla-inspired atmosphere and the surrounding lore of the record (FlySiifu's is a made-up record store), it wasn't hard to come away from a listen of that album feeling like you got schooled in the best way.

Few rappers in 2020 release music with the strength and diversity as Pink Siifu. There was his avant-punk project NEGRO, one of our favorite albums of the year, and his collab record FlySiifu's with Fly Anakin.

Late last year, Pink Siifu launched a $20,000 GoFundMe called "Help Save My Family Home From Foreclosure." That amount was successfully raised, but yesterday the rapper announced that he needed to boost the amount to $25,000. In the fundraiser's description, Siifu explained how unexpected expenses had emerged.

One of the most compelling artists to emerge from the world of hyperpop dips his toes into the traditional music industry with "eyesore," his first release on a major label. While more polished than his SoundCloud singles, "eyesore" retains its creator's prodigious pop songwriting talents.

Davido enjoyed global success with his second album A Good Time, with songs like "Fall" and "Blow My Mind" catapulting the Nigerian artist to new highs. His bid for crossover success continues with A Better Time, which enlists features from Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown and Young Thug, Lil Baby, and more.

Pink Siifu and rapper Fly Anakin shared their latest collaboration "Richard Pryor" on Thursday. On the track, the pair spit over jazz-inspired, Playa Haze-helmed production.

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Last week, L.A. based artist Pink Siifu pleasantly surprised his longtime listeners when he dropped NEGRO, his new album which trades in his typically soulful, introspective raps for highly charged punk with some traces of free jazz.

The L.A.-based rapper Pink Siifu has announced his next album. It’s called NEGRO and it arrives on April 9. Check out the album’s tracklist below.

The Avalanches’ comeback motors on with “Running Red Lights,” a new single featuring the vocals of Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and L.A.-based rapper Pink Siifu.

The Avalanches have shared the music video for a new song called “Running Red Lights,” and it features Pink Siifu and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. During his verse, Pink Siifu raps lyrics from David Berman’s Purple Mountains song “Darkness and Cold.” Listen to it, and find the band’s statement about the song, below.