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Gazir raises his Guinness World Records certificate onstage at the Red Bull Gazir Contra Todos event in Gijón.

MUSIC & RAP

Gazir completes 200-battle challenge with 197 wins and Guinness record

The Spanish MC finished Red Bull’s Gijón freestyle marathon in 11 hours, 23 minutes and 14 seconds, with only three losses.

GTA VI: The Festival poster lists its Miami lineup over a stylized Vice City skyline.

MUSIC & RAP

GTA VI’s Miami festival lines up Travis Scott, Cardi B and Tainy

The Nov. 21 launch event brings two stages to Mana Wynwood, with ticket access handled through a lottery.

Lil Baby performs into a microphone onstage at an outdoor festival in 2019.

MUSIC & RAP

Lil Baby’s FRESH tops Apple Music’s U.S. album chart after release

The newly released project also placed seven songs inside Apple Music’s U.S. Top Songs top 12.

Release calendar

Original video cover: 2hollis - Sex

2hollis

Pirouette

Upcoming · Album · Nov 11

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Silver and white circular artwork crossed by wide brown tape, labeled Belly Gang Kushington with an explicit-content notice.

Belly Gang Kushington

GOOD DOPE SELL ITSELF

Upcoming · Album · Nov 13

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Black-and-white Playaz Only Live Once artwork shows 2 Chainz in sunglasses, the album title and a large numeral 2.

2 Chainz

Playaz Only Live Once

Upcoming · Album · Dec 4

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Original video cover: Jordan Rakei - Paradise (Official Video)

Jordan Rakei

A Safe Place To Be Wild

Upcoming · Album · Feb 19

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FRESH artwork uses a collage of Lil Baby childhood and current portraits, with a Parental Advisory label.

Lil Baby

FRESH

Out now · Album · Nov 6

Video artwork: Skepta feat. Suggs and Chase & Status - Innocent Smile

Skepta

The Fork and Knife

Out now · Album · Nov 6

Statik Selektah’s Expensive Taste album artwork: a decorative plate on a red table surrounded by dice, cards and jewelry.

Statik Selektah

Expensive Taste

Out now · Album · Nov 6

Black-and-white portrait of Jack Harlow wearing glasses and a white T-shirt, with a Parental Advisory label in the lower-right corner.

Jack Harlow

Sweet Action II

Out now · EP · Nov 6

Omarion in a 2007 file photograph; it is not the ECLIPSE cover.

B2K

ECLIPSE

Out now · Album · Nov 6

A hand-painted cityscape of sketched towers and rooftops in pale blue, gray, pink, black and yellow.

fats'e

RIB VAULTS

Out now · Album · Nov 4

TREASURE

SHOCK

Out now · Single · Nov 2

Four repeated close-up portraits on dark cover artwork for “LITE (remix).”

BigXthaPlug, Lil Wayne & Belly Gang Kushington

LITE (remix)

Out now · Single · Nov 1

Official GTA VI: The Album artwork with Lucia and Jason beside a car at sunset

GTA 6 · Music

Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album

9 singles out now · 34 tracks arrive November 19, 2026

Six radio stations revealed · Music and podcasts on foot

Listen to the singles

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Ye stands on a globe beneath the Nov. 7, 2026 Ye Live in Dallas event text.

MUSIC & RAP

AT&T Stadium calls Ye’s Dallas show a U.S. rap attendance record

File photo of Chris Brown performing during his 2024 11:11 Tour, unrelated to the 2026 Atlanta show.

GOSSIP

Usher and Chris Brown perform two remixes together in Atlanta

Tay-K pours water over his face beside a car in a promotional press image.

MUSIC & RAP

Tay-K sets Nov. 13 date for first full-length since 2017

Future performs at Sound Academy in Toronto during his Honest Tour in 2014.

MUSIC & RAP

Future reunites Drake and Travis Scott on “Ya Hit”

Portrait of The Weeknd by photographer Brian Ziff.

INDUSTRY

The Weeknd sets male solo-tour record with $1.3 billion gross

Skepta performs with Fred again.. at Crystal Palace Bowl in August 2025.

MUSIC & RAP

Skepta releases The Fork and Knife after seven-year solo album gap

Gossip

For the group chat

File photo of Chris Brown performing during his 2024 11:11 Tour, unrelated to the 2026 Atlanta show.

Usher & Chris Brown

Usher and Chris Brown perform two remixes together in Atlanta

Complex · November 7, 2026

File photo: Snoop Dogg in Hollywood, July 2019; it does not depict the new video.

Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg gives “Lodi Dodi” a new animated video

Complex · November 6, 2026; Apple Music U.S. music-video listing · checked November 6, 2026

GloRilla smiling during a HOTSPOTATL YouTube interview in 2023; archival file image unrelated to the collaboration teaser.

GloRilla & Sexyy Red

GloRilla tells critics to skip her Sexyy Red collab

Complex · November 4, 2026; Universal Music Canada · November 5, 2026; Apple Music U.S. · checked November 6, 2026

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Ye stands on a globe beneath the Nov. 7, 2026 Ye Live in Dallas event text.

Ye

AT&T Stadium calls Ye’s Dallas show a U.S. rap attendance record

File photo of Chris Brown performing during his 2024 11:11 Tour, unrelated to the 2026 Atlanta show.

Usher & Chris Brown

Usher and Chris Brown perform two remixes together in Atlanta

Lil Baby performs into a microphone onstage at an outdoor festival in 2019.

Lil Baby

Lil Baby’s FRESH tops Apple Music’s U.S. album chart after release

LATINX

Rap, reggaetón & the connections between.

Explore Latin music

Official video cover: Ryan Castro - LA SAPIÓ (Video Oficial)

Ryan Castro

Ryan Castro’s “La Sapió” previews his next album

Daddy Yankee stands with Del Sol Academy students behind percussion instruments at a Latin GRAMMY In The Schools event.

Daddy Yankee

Daddy Yankee visits Las Vegas arts school during instrument donation

Latin Grammys add 14 performers and a Willie Colón tribute

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Music & Rap

Gazir completes 200-battle challenge with 197 wins and Guinness record

GTA VI’s Miami festival lines up Travis Scott, Cardi B and Tainy

Pop Culture

Usher and Chris Brown perform two remixes together in Atlanta

Snoop Dogg gives “Lodi Dodi” a new animated video

Industry

YouTube data set to return to U.S. Billboard charts in 2027

The Weeknd sets male solo-tour record with $1.3 billion gross

Rap Guides

How to build a rap verse that goes somewhere

How rappers connect their verses on the same track

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Fat Joe sits at a microphone in a Yankees cap beside a performer in a coral top; shelves of records line the background.

Fat Joe

C. Tangana at the Goya Awards red carpet in Granada in 2025.

C. Tangana and Agorazein

File photo: GloRilla smiling during a 2023 HOTSPOTATL YouTube interview, holding a microphone.

Kirk Franklin & GloRilla

Original video cover: BigXthaPlug feat. Belly Gang Kushington - LITE (Official Music Video) | NEW ALBUM OCT 30

BigXthaPlug

Looze Cannon appears beside another person on the title thumbnail for his TikTok MJ Parody Live episode.

Looze Cannon

Official video artwork for Yung Miami’s “2008,” a track from Watch Dis.

Yung Miami

Pooh Shiesty raises a diamond pendant in the official video for FDO.

Pooh Shiesty

Ovrkast., Samara Cyn and MAVI in an outdoor scene from the official KNOCK video.

Ovrkast. says working on Drake’s Iceman helped him see his impact