It is tempting to envision Chinese media firms as the local equivalent of a familiar Western brand. That mindset imagines Weibo as the Chinese Twitter, iQIYI as the Chinese Netflix, and WeChat as a Middle Kingdom version of WhatsApp. The reality is usually more complicated. Largely walled off from international competition, many Chinese media-tech firms have grown by being hybrids, with games firms spilling over into live-streaming, and e-commerce firms justifying excursions into streaming video…
Hit-Boy spoke with REVOLT about his new album, the Nipsey Hussle verse that will appear on Big Sean’s Detroit 2 album, forthcoming collaborated projects with Benny the Butcher and Nas, Verzuz…
March 9th, 1997 is the date that we lost one of the most prolific MC’s to ever rock a rhyme. With that horrific day cemented in the lexicon of hip-hop history, some of his close friends and…
Black Thought is gearing up to return with the latest installment of his Stream of Thought series. The Roots rapper is set to drop part three in late July, marking the first Streams of Thought…
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