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Ice Spice has revealed that she has been playing her forthcoming album at “full volume” in her car to make sure it passes the “car test”.The ‘In Ha Mood’ singer recently appeared as one of the latest guests on First We Feast’s Hot Ones hosted by Sean Evans. During the interview which sees guests make their way through 10 spicy wings while being asked questions.In the episode, Ice Spice was asked if her songs have to pass a “car test” to which she replied yes, confirming that she as been blasting her new tracks while driving in her car.“Yes, I’ve been playing the album fully through in the car, volume all the way up,” she told Evans.

Diddy to sign him to Bad Boy Records.In 2015, the Ohio rapper blew up on YouTube for his boisterous breakthrough track ‘Drill Time’. At the time, he was viewed as the genre’s next big star and was co-signed by drill legends Chief Keef and Lil Durk, leading to labels engaged in a bidding war to sign Slim.

Sexyy Red has aired her frustration on social media after allegedly being denied entry to a school after staff claimed she “smelled like weed” during a visit.Earlier this week (April 3), the ‘SkeeYee’ rapper told her Instagram followers that she was upset with the treatment she faced while trying to enter a school after being invitedShe said via her Instagram story: “So this school got me [to come here]. I came over and got cute to talk to the kids, give them the word of the day, and they pull[ed] me over and told me I smell[ed] like weed.“They tried to pull me off of this school [so,] guess what? I’m coming back around this bitch,” she announced before returning to the school to meet fans in the parking lot.

NME about his new mixtape ‘Where Should I Start?’, having a song on the Top Boy soundtrack, and how his drill-inspired music is “motivational”.Tomorrow (March 29), the Hackney-born rapper will drop his long-awaited second full-length record – boasting features from Potter Payper, Alchubbino and longtime friend V9. ‘Where Should I Start?’ will serve as the follow-up to Jimmy’s 2022 debut mixtape ‘Risk It All’.Speaking to NME, the east Londoner said he had been “continuously making music” after releasing ‘Risk It All’.

Headie One has dropped his latest single ‘Socials’ – check it out below.The London drill rapper’s new track is produced by Ambezza, Julia Lewis and Scotty White and sees him reflect on his roots and rise.The single arrives with a cameo-filled music video directed by Oliver Jennings, shot in locations across London with features from Tiffany Calver, DJ Semtex, Clavish, Big Zuu, Nemzzz, Mimi The Music Blogger and reality stars Samira Mighty and Chloe Burrows.Check out ‘Socials’ below.Headie – real name Irving Adjei – gave fans an exclusive listen to ‘Socials’ during a live gaming stream at Virgin Media Gamepad last week (February 28), joined by friends AJ Tracey, Tyrone and more.The artist was nominated for Best Group at the BRIT Awards 2024 this weekend with K-Trap, for their joint mixtape ‘Strength to Strength’, which ultimately went to Jungle.Before their 2023 release, Headie dropped his collaborative mixtape ‘No Borders’ in 2022, featuring a host of artists from Europe. NME also reviewed his mixtape ‘Too Loyal For My Own Good’ in 2021, writing “The 26-year-old doesn’t have to always rely on his drilling ways, as he proves with a collection that showcases his singing voice and floorfilling sensibilities.”The four-star review added: “Featuring no help from his UK rapping mates, ‘Too Loyal For My Own Good’ should live on as a highlight of Headie’s discography.

Bobby Shmurda has apologised for getting into an altercation at Proud Late nightclub in London after the venue reportedly failed to pay him.Footage of the fight started to go viral early yesterday morning (Sunday, February 18), showing the ‘Bobby Bitch’ rapper screamed at security guards, telling them: “What’s up? I’ll body you guys out here.”TMZ reported that Shmurda spat on someone in the crowd during the incident and was removed from the venue.

Art Not Evidence campaign have called for legislation restricting the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials.The campaign, which started last year, aims to restrict the use of rap lyrics in trial. Defendants are often unfairly prosecuted from lyrics typically understood to be exaggeration or fiction, or even appearing in rap videos.

OneFour.Police said the two men, named in reports as Brandon Maseuli and Yousef Rima, had conspired to murder “four high-profile men from Sydney’s northwest on behalf of another network”, according to the BBC.The targets were identified as OneFour members Jerome ‘J Emz’ Misa, Pio ‘YP’ Misa, Spencer ‘Spenny’ Magalogo and Dahcell ‘Celly’ Ramos. It is not known why fifth member, Salec ‘Lekks’ Su’a, was not targeted.Maseuli and Rima were arrested in Sydney today (January 11), with charges including conspiracy to murder, kidnapping, directing a criminal group, and various drug and robbery-related offences.According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the plot is thought to have stemmed from a conflict between the rappers and the group that were alleged to have hired the criminal syndicate’s Sydney cell.Two others are being pursued to potentially face charges, while a fifth – who is already wanted in relation to the shooting of three people in connection to Sydney’s cocaine war – is also wanted over alleged links.The alleged plot was foiled as part of a bigger investigation.

Lil Tjay and Fivio Foreign have flipped Wham!‘s iconic 1986 song ‘Last Christmas’ into a rambunctious drill song.Tjay and Foreign have been friends for some time. The latter even credited the former for getting his deal at Columbia Records in a 2020 interview with esteemed radio personality Angie Martinez.

Cash Cobain has spoken to NME about working with PinkPantheress and pioneering the current sample drill rap trend.The South Bronx native rose to prominence in 2021 when he produced ‘My Everything’, the breakthrough track for fellow New York rapper B-Lovee that sampled Mary J. Blige’s ‘Everything’.The song went viral online and is considered the catalyst for the city’s popular sample drill trend that has spread across America and elsewhere.

Official TS has pleaded guilty to possessing chemicals for terrorist purposes.The 20-year-old musician – real name Al-Arfat Hassan – is known by drill fans as the artist Official TS, and was caught by police when he was stopped at Heathrow Airport.Originally from Enfield in North London, the rapper originally sang about street violence, however, was reported by BBC News as taking a turn in 2021 and moving on to religiously-inspired violence.At the airport on February 27, officers seized two iPhones when Hassan was about to fly to Bangladesh with his father and uncle. From there, the musician reportedly missed his flight and went home “to quickly dispose of the chemicals and most of the weapons”.But detectives working with the specialist Counter-Terrorism Policing National Digital Exploitation Service (NDES), proceeded to find a “wealth of incriminating material” on the phones.A post shared by Official TS | VENOM (@takethatriskts)This included an IS video demonstrating, on a real prisoner, how to kill with a knife, as well as footage on how to make a bomb from easily obtainable chemicals and a bulb.

Central Cee has discussed his similarities with Ice Spice, revealing that he sees a lot of his own qualities in the rapper.The comments arose in a new interview with Complex, which explored the impact that Ice Spice is having on the music industry and her journey as one of the most successful artists of 2023.In the discussion, Ice Spice – whose real name is Isis Naija Gaston – opened up about how she doesn’t let critics’ opinions affect her music, and how she has never really considered herself a “lyricist”.Elsewhere in the feature, British rapper Central Cee was asked about what he sees in Ice Spice, and shared his thoughts on the 23-year-old taking the rap scene by storm.“She reminds me of me a bit,” he said. “She’s cool innit.”“Humble, down to earth, don’t really care too much about the shiny stuff; but knows how to play the game” he responded.

TikTok have reportedly increased 366 per cent since 2020.The statistics were first accessed through new data obtained by DJ Mag via a Freedom of Information request and saw the impact that the Met had over online content containing drill music.According to the figures, 64 per cent of TikTok content removal referrals from London’s Metropolitan Police were related to UK drill music during the 2022/23 financial year. It also reports that 89 per cent of Met Police content removal referrals on TikTok were related to UK drill in the year prior, and 100 per cent during the year preceding that.Removal requests on the platform related to the genre have increased 366 per cent over the last three years.This is due to the lyrical content of many songs in the genre, which have been accused of inciting violence, street crime or drug usage.

Ice Spice has revealed the extent of her friendship with Taylor Swift, calling the pop titan her mentor who gives her “so much advice”.The Bronx native featured on the remix for Swift’s viral 2022 ‘Midnights’ track, ‘Karma’, back in May this year. On the same day, Ice Spice joined the ‘Love Story’ singer on stage at her New Jersey gig to perform their duet live.

Ice Spice has called Taylor Swift the “sweetest person ever” after the singer-songwriter complimented her in a recent album announcement.Yesterday (May 24), Swift announced a deluxe edition of her 10th album ‘Midnights’ dubbed ‘Midnights (Til Dawn Edition)’ – revealing that Ice Spice would feature on the ‘Karma’ remix.Ahead of the remix and the expanded edition of the record arriving today, Swift called Ice Spice “incredible” on social media.

Pop Smoke, claiming that there isn’t any left.Rico Beats was Pop Smoke’s co-manager, alongside Steven Victor of Victor Victor Records, before the rapper’s tragic death in February 2020.On Monday (May 1), a screengrab of an exchange between Rico and a fan was shared on social media – where the Philadelphian was candid about how much the chances of the release of unheard music from Pop Smoke.When one fan pleaded for “some news on plans for Pop’s remaining music”, he responded: “Who said he had music left?”“What else ya want?” he continued. “Pop died three years ago: how much music ya think he did in one year? Y’all gotta be real.”He added that the Brooklyn star wouldn’t be happy to have any music posthumously released: “If Pop was alive he would not [have] approved of 99 per cent of the stuff they put out.”Pop Smoke’s manager/producer says he has no more music left in the vault.

Ice Spice has responded to her recently leaked song ‘Like’ –  sharing it is just a “throw-away” track.Produced by RiotUSA, the song features the rapper’s signature sensual flow and name-dropped GloRilla along with pop culture gossip site The Shade Room. ‘Like’ was not featured on her EP of the same name that was released earlier this year.The Bronx-raised rapper, real name Isis Gaston, took to Twitter to respond to the unofficial song by quote-tweeting and saying “W throw away.”Fans quickly took to the comments to share their interest in the song.

into the death of rapper Chris Kaba has been launched by the Independent Office For Police Conduct (IOPC).Kaba, 24, who was also known as “Mad Itch” in the London drill group 67, was fatally wounded by a single shot fired by a Met Police officer on September 5 at around 10pm in a residential street in Streatham, London.A statement released by the IOPC reads [via the Evening Standard]: “Following our review of the evidence gathered so far, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched a homicide investigation into Mr Kaba’s death.”Two police cars followed Kaba down Kirkstall Gardens before one round was fired from a police weapon.The IOPC continued in its statement that Kaba died after a single shot was fired through the driver’s side of the windscreen of the car by an officer from a specialist firearms command. The Met officer in question has been suspended from duty.No family should have to go through the pain Chris Kaba’s family have suffered following his killing last week.My thoughts are with them as they fight for justice and accountability for his death.

drill rapper from Bristol, was stabbed at Notting Hill Carnival over the weekend and later died.Nembhard, who performed under the stage name TKorStretch and had over 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, went to Carnival “with his younger sister and friends to have a good time,” said his manager Chris Patrick in a statement. “This is the worst possible ending for a talented kid.”In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that at about 8pm on Monday evening (29 August) officers became aware of a stabbing in Ladbroke Grove, under the Westway flyover. Police and paramedics reportedly provided first aid treatment to TKorStretch before he was taken to hospital, where he later died.

Complex UK report, Hill said: “Drill music, by its nature, is supposed to shock, but it is not a crime and you have to put proper weight on that. What police officers, if anything, are [telling the court] is, ‘I’ve listened to it many times over, I can tell you what is being said; I can make a suggestion to what drug is being referred to.’”In January, the CPS announced that it was going to review its guidance on the use of drill lyrics as evidence against defendants in criminal trials.

ArrDee has explained how his much-talked about collaboration with Aitch came about – watch below.In a new interview with NME, the rapper talked through each song on his new mixtape ‘Pier Pressure’, also discussing working with Aitch and Lola Young on the release.Speaking of recently released single ‘War’, ArrDee said: “Me and Aitch decided to link up and work on ‘War’. Not sparing a moment but a couple days before we ended up in the booth, he had obviously been in LA and Toronto and whatnot and come back.“We’d always spoken and got along from the get go, from the jump.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ recent call to pull drill music from the internet.Earlier this month, Adams said during a press conference that after seeing “alarming” drill music videos, he felt they should no longer be shared on social media.“We pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing,” the former NYPD officer said at the time. “Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence, we’re allowing it to stay on these sites.”Adams added: “We are going to pull together the social media companies, and state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility.”The Mayor also said he was “alarmed by the use of social media” by drill rappers before blaming the music for “contributing to the violence we are seeing all over this country.”According to NBC New York, shootings year to date are reportedly up 37 per cent in the city versus this same period in 2021 – an average of nearly four people shot every day.However, drill artists and rap culture experts have spoken to NME about how they don’t agree with Adams – and believe there’s an agenda behind his call to ban the genre.“Drill music is our form of art,” Jeffrey Mark Alexander, who performs as 22Gz told NME.

after he recently spoke out against “alarming” drill music.Adams, who took office last month as the 110th mayor of New York City, said last week that he wanted to sit down with social media companies to “state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility” in regards to promoting drill music.“You know, I mean, we pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing, yet we are allowing music – displaying of guns, violence – we’re allowing it to stay on these sites,” he added.On Tuesday (February 15), Adams met with the likes of Fivio Foreign, Maino, B-Lovee, Slow Bucks and Bleezy to discuss public safety in the city and the gun violence that is impacting the hip-hop community (via ABC News).Speaking to reporters yesterday (February 16), Adams said that the group came to the meeting “with a lot of energy” and were concerned that the mayor intended to “ban” drill music.A post shared by JERMAINE (@mainohustlehard)Adding that he had “a great conversation” with the group, Adams said that he was primarily concerned by drill rappers who make violent threats to their rivals in their music.“Violent people who are using drill rapping to post who they killed, and then antagonise the people who they are going to kill, is what the problem is.”In a video from the meeting that was shared on Instagram, the rapper Maino says: “There’s been a lot of talk about drill rap, drill music in New York City, connecting violence with the culture, and I just wanted to create a conversation with the mayor.”The clip then sees Adams add: “We’re going to roll out something together on the whole conversation, and we’re looking forward to it.”You can see a selection of social media posts from Adams’ meeting with the rappers below.A post shared by

drill videos from social media, likening the music to Donald Trump tweets.In a press conference yesterday (February 11), Adams said he was sent a number of drill videos by his son, which he called “alarming,” adding: “We pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing. Yet we are allowing music, displaying of guns, violence, we’re allowing it to stay on these sites.”Adams said: “We are going to pull together the social media companies, and state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility.”The Mayor then specifically attached blame to drill music for a rise in violent crime in New York, saying: “We are alarmed by the use of social media to really overproliferate the use of violence in our communities… this is contributing to the violence we are seeing all over this country.

Research conducted by the BBC suggests that drill music is increasingly being used as evidence in criminal trials.Nick Federici, a youth worker who is taking part in the listening exercise told BBC News about the issues.“Drill is just the youth expressing themselves. [It] doesn’t cause crime in deprived areas.

Fumez The Engineer‘s debut headline show in London on Friday (November 12) was cancelled by police 20 minutes before doors were due to open.In a video posted to Twitter, the rapper emerged from outside the O2 Academy Islington venue to alert fans to the news.“Everyone that’s here for the show, apologies…” he is heard saying.

Stormzy and Kwesi Arthur have teamed up to collaborate with the rising Ghanaian rapper Yaw Tog for a new remix of his break-out song ‘Sore’ – you can hear the track below.Drill rapper Yaw Tog dropped the original version of ‘Sore’ back in September, which featured O’Kenneth, City Boy, Reggie and Jay Bhad.Yaw Tog’s new collaboration with fellow Ghanaian musician Arthur and Stormzy came after the London MC took a trip to Ghana at the turn of the year, where he performed his ‘Sore’ verse at UPP

reimagined as a musical and an indie song, and Chawawa has now brought its protagonist Jackie Weaver into the world of drill.“24 hours after breaking the internet, Jackie Weaver has now taken over drill,” Chawawa wrote alongside the 30-second clip he posted to Twitter, which sees him rapping a verse alongside images from the notorious zoom call.Watch the performance below.24 hours after breaking the internet, Jackie Weaver has now taken over drill.

CJ has dropped ‘BOP’, the follow-up to his break-out 2020 single ‘Whoopty’ – you can listen to the new track below.The New York drill rapper rose to fame last year after dropping ‘Whoopty’ in July, with the song – which has been streamed over 203 million times on Spotify – going on to peak at number three in the UK singles chart earlier this month.CJ, who is now signed to Warner Records, released his ‘Whoopty’ follow-up yesterday (January 26) in the form of ‘BOP’.Accompanied by a Alex and

Nirvana and Michael Jackson with drill beats.Blaccmass, an up-and-coming producer from Atlanta, has been impressing fans online with his signature brand of remixes, which sees him take classic songs and blend them with New York drill instrumentals.Although he’s been putting mixes out since 2017, his most successful release came last month when he put Earth, Wind & Fire’s classic 1979 hit ‘September’ over the top of a drill backdrop.The 55-second clip immediately went viral on Twitter – it has

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