The moments you loved, the moments you want to forget, and the moments that made 2017 a memorable year in hip-hop.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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TDE Artist SiR Drops Two New Tracks
Featuring ScHoolboy Q and Etta Bond.
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Celebrity Sightings at ComplexCon 2017
From music’s biggest artists to fashion’s favorite designers,
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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Watch Steve Lacy Play ‘Dark Red’ Live at The Standard, Hollywood
The 19 year old Grammy-nominated singer and producer should already be on your music radar.
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Kendrick Lamar Leaves Reebok, Joins Nike
“Since day one.”
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Instagram Stars Announce the 2017 MTV VMA Nominees
The nominations for the 2017 VMA’s are here
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Peep This: Kendrick Lamar – LOYALTY ft. Rihanna
“No switchin’ sides”
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Mixtape Monday: Summer Mix 2017 by DJ D.Ho
Good vibes all summer.
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Peep This: Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT.
Kung Fu Kenny gets violent in new DAMN. visual.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the videos you need to be watching.
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Weekend Visuals
Your weekend playlist of the visuals you need to be watching.
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Weekend Visuals
Catch up on the trending visuals and music videos from this past week.
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Best of 2016 : Live Performances
As 2016 comes close to concluding, the staff here at The 5th Element Magazine like to highlight a few of the best moments from the year.
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TDE Showcases Holiday 2016 Collection
Lookbook modeled by TDE’s own Kendrick Lamar, SZA and Jay Rock.
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Weekend Visuals
Catch up with the trending hip-hop and R&B videos that dropped this week.
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Best of 2016… So Far
Six months into 2016 and we’ve faced another year that’s had such a consistent smattering of good music come our way prior to.
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2015’s Best: Song Picks Of The Year
As we prepare to wave 2015 goodbye, I think back on the droves of new songs, artists, and sounds that hit the radio waves and my Spotify Discover Playlist this year, and selected a handful of jams that made an impression on me and the hip-hop audience in general. From conscious to ignorant, intoxicating to […]
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2015’s Best: The Most Memorable Hip-Hop Moments
Just as any year before it and sure to come, hip-hop’s 2015 was momentous, disastrous and triumphant in a slurry of events, often dissected both as mega and minutiae. There were beefs, there were memes, there were endorsements and reunions. We saw many a classic album hit a milestone and many a rapper ignite and […]
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2015’s Best: The Album Picks of the Year
As the year comes to a close, I can’t help but be completely in awe of all the music I’ve encountered, for reasons that are pretty obvious. In 2015, we witnessed a resurgence of music that was not only diverse in genre, but culturally and politically resonant. One of the biggest landmarks in music was […]
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Jam On It: Kendrick Lamar – “Alright” (Terrace Martin Remix)
Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” owes itself to the cohorts he recruited to round out the album’s nuances — from Flying Lotus and Thundercat to Pharrell and Anna Wise, “TPAB” is illustrious from top to bottom through its careful curating. Among those cohorts, Terrace Martin released an edit of KDot’s “Alright” today, stripping it […]
Read moreRap Albums Get Remixed in Color and Scheme from “Glitch Album Art”
Album art oft takes a backseat when it comes to an entire piece of music, but the folks at Glitch Album Art have taken a stab at remixing a handful of classic hip-hop albums like Kanye West’s “College Drop Out,” and Nas’ “Illmatic,” to even more modern classics like, Kendrick Lamar’s “good kid, m.A.A.d. city,” […]
Read moreHip-Hop Gets a Fresh Art Treatment From Geoff Kim
Part surrealism, part pop culture and part mixed media, the work of artist Geoff Kim is a hip-hop vision made in the digital age. Hailing from California and currently residing in New York, it’s easy to see a west coast beach culture influence running through these creations. The works balance both hip-hop icons with […]
Read moreKendrick Lamar’s Reebok Ventilator Shoe Inspires Unity Among Gang Members
Kendrick Lamar’s first sneaker in collaboration with Reebok proves to be a memorable one. Not only does Kendrick help provide a great looking iteration of the Ventilator, he also continues his anti-gang violence rhetoric through powerful details on the shoe. The references are clear, with each pair donning either “BLUE” or “RED” on the back, and “NEUTRAL” inscribed […]
Read morePeep This: Kendrick Lamar is “Alright” and We Will Be Too
In a follow-up to a riveting BET Awards performance, Kendrick Lamar continues to shed light on just how powerful To Pimp a Butterfly is by dropping the visuals to “Alright.” Directed by Colin Tilley and shot in stark black and white throughout varying locations in California, KDot continues to fire (figurative) shots at the […]
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