2 Chainz and Kanye West aim for the radio/club with "Birthday Song," a booming, bouncing cut from 2 Chainz's Based On A T.R.U. Story. It's early, but I'm pretty sure they succeeded. Stream it --…   Read Story »

Over the weekend, Kanye West played back-to-back solo gigs at Revel's 5500-seat Ovation Hall in Atlantic City, his first solo shows since 2011. The show -- which consisted of about 30 songs -- was…   Read Story »

We heard an acapella version of Kanye West's/G.O.O.D. Music's "New God Flow" on last night's broadcast of the BET Awards, and earlier this evening the official version hit the Internet. It's been a…   Read Story »

Last night, BET broadcasted their BET Awards, a ceremony that went down at L.A.'s the Shrine Auditorium and featured a star-studded performance lineup as folks like Kanye West and G.O.O.D Music,…   Read Story »

DJ Khaled remains an absolutely ridiculous and indefensible rap-universe presence, but he's still better at rounding up A-listers to perform on songs together than, arguably, anybody else on earth.…   Read Story »

The Throne made its first televised appearance over the weekend for the broadcast of BBC Radio 1's Hackney Weekend in London, where Jay-Z and Kanye performed a thirty-minute set. Though the tour…   Read Story »

G.O.O.D. Music's Pusha T went on Hot 97 last night to chat with Funkmaster Flex, and during their discussion he revealed that the G.O.O.D. Music collaborative album is called Cruel Summer -- which…   Read Story »

This week for videos just fucking absolutely ruled, so before we get into what made this list, let's take a moment for all the videos that missed the cut. Among the casualties: Two eye-grabbing clips…   Read Story »

Today, Kanye West delivers the video for "Mercy," the excellent Big Sean/Pusha T/2 Chainz posse cut that he released back in April. Directed by Nabil, the video is a stark and elemental…   Read Story »

The Throne played Paris over the weekend -- where the Throne belongs -- and during a rendition of Kanye's "Flashing Lights," some jackass in the crowd thought he'd/she'd provide a flashing light of…   Read Story »