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2025 Met Gala: The Best Looks and Moments
The 2025 Met Gala was one for the books. On Monday, May 5, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held its annual fashion extravaganza, and everyone from Cynthia Erivo, Shakira and Jalen Hurts to Alicia Keys...
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Jadakiss and Fat Joe Are Launching a Podcast
Fat Joe and Jadakiss are launching a podcast together called Joe & Jada. Roc Nation, (who is producing the show along with Colin Cowherd’s The Volume), has announced the two hip-hop heavyweights’...
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20 Black-Owned Fashion Brands You Should Be Paying Attention To
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2023 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. In 2020, Black-owned fashion brands were heralded in a way that pushed them to the front of...
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Lauryn Hill Urges Finding Community When Songwriting
Lauryn Hill recently sat down for a roundtable discussion at Harvard University on Friday, where she explained why it’s important to find community when creating music. The Fugees frontwoman and...
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Pursuit of Happiness: Styles P on Eating Clean and Keeping Your Mind on a Swivel
Okayplayer presents Pursuit of Happiness, a series that lets people from all walks of life describe their mental wellness journey. In promoting the column, OKP has teamed up with BetterHelp, the...
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11 Rare Hip-Hop Documentaries You Can Watch Right Now
This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative. The article has...
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Early 2000s Hip-Hop & R&B is Defining Modern Rap
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the...
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Jay-Z Went From Possible Team Owner to NFL Partner
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in August 2019 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man.While TMZ initially reported that Jay-Z would...
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Lil Wayne Introduces New Young Money Roster
Lil Wayne is kicking off a new era for the Young Money label. Weezy introduced (and re-introduced) the new artists on the label during a new episode of his Young Money radio show on Apple Music. In...
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Anime and Hip-Hop Have Always Been Speaking The Same Language
For a certain generation of Black kids — the ones who still remember recording songs off the radio with blank cassette tapes — anime didn’t arrive through old manga volumes or imported VHS tapes. It...
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The Listening: André 3000's New Piano EP, Kid Cudi’s ‘Neverland,’ The...
Heading into Mother’s Day weekend, there’s no shortage of cool tracks coming from some of the hottest artists. They may not all be Mom-appropriate, but you’ll have to decide that for yourself. This...
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André 3000 Dropped a Surprise Piano EP, and It’s Pretty Interesting
André 3000 has been busy lately. The hip-hop iconoclast turned heads at the 2025 Met Gala (with a little help from a piano) and he just released a new, surprise EP of piano instrumentals. Titled 7...
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Title: How to Be Outside, Inside feat. DJ Nikki Anticss
This week, we’re catching up with Nikki Anticss, a DJ, MC, and curator who has made her a staple in NYC’s creative scene. Born and raised in Brooklyn with Belizean roots, Nikki’s sound is...
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Title: How to Be Outside, Inside feat. DJ Nikki Anticss
This week, we’re catching up with Nikki Anticss, a DJ, MC, and curator who has made her a staple in NYC’s creative scene. Born and raised in Brooklyn with Belizean roots, Nikki’s sound is...
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Kaytranada Wants You to Start Moving: “Everybody’s trying to catch a moment”
Kaytranada is urging fans to get up and move at his shows. The singer-rapper-producer responded after a fan apologized on X (formerly Twitter) for the audience’s lack of engagement at a recent...
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For the Moms Who Raised Us: Okayplayer’s Mother’s Day Playlist
It’s Mother’s Day Weekend and Okayplayer has you covered with a playlist celebrating all things Mom. From 2Pac’s timeless ode to his mother and Lil Uzi Vert’s apology to their mother for their bad...
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The Pointer Sisters Soundtrack New ‘GTA VI’ Trailer
Grand Theft Auto is known for having some of the strongest soundtracking in gaming, and with the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI, it looks like GTA isn’t slowing down on classic sounds. The...
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