Don Nelson’s “Purp” is a very sick dog right now; and if it does not soon recover to perform the miracles its master hopes for, it is apt to be a dead dog this autumn. Purp (formally known as the ...

Joey Purp's iiiDrops project, released in May, helped to establish the Chicago rapper as one of the leading new voices out of the city. During a recent stop through Ebro Darden's Beats 1 show, Purp ...

As WPB moved toward real totalitarianism last week (see col. 2), it had one solace for its frantic victims. There was going to be less red tape. After four months of trial, WPB had a grown-up plan for ...

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After keeping his fans waiting for quite some time, Chicago rapper Joey Purp has finally returned with the follow-up to 2016's fantastic iiiDrops mixtape. Following number of teases, including some ...

The importance of perspective in a hip-hop album can’t be understated. Kendrick Lamar’s records are informed by the civil rights struggle, Kurupt, and Lil Wayne, but they wouldn’t resonate without his ...

The Game‘s Purp and Patron — a sprawling 29-track mixtape featuring guest appearances by Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Rick Ross, T-Pain and a long list of other hip-hop luminaries — is one of the ...

Chance The Rapper seems to being teetering on his plans to withhold his project Star Line. After threatening to shelve the highly anticipated mixtape, a new single from the body of work has been ...

In the middle of last year, Phantogram used the song “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” as the lead single to launch the campaign for the duo’s latest studio album Three. With the promotional push for ...