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Y’all were very disrespectful when this Cash Money and No Limit Verzuz battle was announced. I know Beatrice and yes, Cash Money is an army better yet a navy with an extensive classic catalogue but y’all sleeping on his Nawlins rivals at No Limit. Let’s be clear: Before Juvenile and the Hot Boys took over the 2000s, Master P created the blueprint for a true Southern rap dynasty.

I was Music Editor at The Source from ’96 to ’98 and tried my best to navigate No Limit Records’ insane release schedule. I swear to God, their former Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations, Barbara Pescosolido, bombarded me with so many advance CDs that I didn’t have enough room in my record reviews section to hand out mics to them all. She also sent me a No Limit black leather jacket. It gets cold in New York.

Alright enough flashbacks. All I’m saying is: never count the underdog out. In fact, I’ll take it a step further. Although the song selections for this showdown will come from Mannie Fresh (Cash Money) and Beats By The Pound producer, KLC (No Limit) as Juve and Silkk revealed here, I decided to rep the tank for the upcoming proceedings.

Hey ain’t nothing wrong with friendly competition, but I wanna see a musical slugfest.

Calliope > Magnolia. Here are the 20 songs that will get the job done. Remember: An ass kicking in Vegas stays in Vegas. Here’s how Master P and his all-stars will shock the rap world.

TRU (Master P, Silkk The Shocker & C-Murder) — “No Limit Soldiers” feat. Mia X (1997)

All rap superheroes need theme music. Let’s get this Verzuz party started with the Colonel Master P and his camouflage crew stomping through with this rugged anthem anchored by its ominous chorus: “We No Limit Soldiers. I thought I told ya.”

Mia X — “You Don’t Wanna Go 2 War” feat. Master P, C-Murder, Silkk The Shocker & Mystikal (1997)

Let’s turn it up another notch with another rowdy posse cut. Mama Mia sets the tone with her mic-melting opening verse. She sneers: “Better keep your negativity about No Limit on the under/My verbal warfare will shake that ass like thunder”.

Master P — “Mr. Ice Cream Man” feat. Silkk The Shocker, Mia X, & Mo B. Dick (1996)

Legend has it: Master P, a proud New Orleans native first, built his label out West in Richmond, California. Utilizing a sample from World Class Wreckin’ Cru’s classic “Turn Off The Lights”, Percy Miller had his first national hit. And sorry kids, P wasn’t offering a frozen dessert.

Lil’ Romeo — “My Baby” feat. Ms. Peaches & Master P (2001)

Give the son some: P’s offspring gave Bow Wow a run for this money with this Jackson 5-inspired party track. It’s like that, whoadie. Guarantee this one’s gonna ring off. Michael Jackson, rest in peace.

504 Boyz (Master P, Silkk The Shocker, C-Murder, Mystikal & Krazy) — “Wobble Wobble” feat. Mac & Mr. Magic (2000)

The party don’t stop with this booty-shaking masterwork. Let’s hope P hired a few dancers to enhance the performance. Just a suggestion. Ya heard me. Ha!

TRU (Master P & Silkk The Shocker) — “Freak Hoes” feat. Mia X (1997)

NL keeps it sexy with this dirty south classic that Future paid homage to on DS2. Hope the ladies are still moving and grooving. On top of that: Throw some cash in the air like you just don’t care.

TRU (Master P, Silkk The Shocker & C-Murder) — “Hoody Hoo” (1999)

The three Miller brothers (P, C & Silkk) showed out on this high-energy explosive track. Buckle up. Knuckle up. P ain’t letting Baby and the CMB boys beat him tonight.

Soulja Slim — “From What I Was Told” (1998)

A moment of silence for a real one. “Say I’m a hit No Limit like ‘Pac hit Death Row.” Time to pay homage to this fallen soldier. Magnolia’s most respected. James Tapp Jr. forever.

Master P — “I Miss My Homies” feat. Sons Of Funk, Mo B. Dick, O’Dell, Pimp C, Silkk The Shocker (1997)

P continues paying tribute to all we lost along the journey. We’ll see you at the crossroads. Won’t be a dry eye in Vegas.

Silkk The Shocker — “D-Game (Remix)” feat. Master P, Krazy, & Terrar (aka Pusha T) (2001)

The big curveball of the night: Clipse just happens to be in town for Complex Con so Cash Money nemesis King Push shockingly pops out and raps his verse from this forgotten Neptunes production. Looking like he saw a ghost, Birdman might pass out.

Mr. Magic — “Ice On My Wrist” feat. Master P (1999)

Who said P can’t get his Nino Brown on? No Limit got bling bling too. “The ice on my wrist shine like a light. I can brighten up your day, even at night”. The competition is heatin’ up!

Master P — “I Got The Hook-Up!” feat. Sons of Funk (1998)

Holla if you hear him. P takes it back to the streets. It’s a hustler’s conundrum. “I know the way I live make you wanna cry/But you know I gotta hustle, that’s the way I survive”. Look out Rod Wave, this is some real pain music.

Silkk The Shocker — “That’s Cool” feat. Trina (2001)

Time for another surprise guest appearance as Da Baddest Bitch graces the stage and wobbles that thing. Look out: P’s pulling out all the stops to secure the win.

Silkk The Shocker — “Somebody Like Me” feat. Mya (1999)

Another beautiful bombshell when Ms. Harrison emerges from the shadows for this sexy reunion. Now we got the women on board. Victory is imminent.

Silkk The Shocker — “It Ain’t My Fault” feat. Mystikal (1998)

Don’t blame No Limit for having so many classics. Let Silkk shine and silence the critics once and for all.

Snoop Dogg — “Lay Low” feat. Dr. Dre, Master P, Nate Dogg, Butch Cassidy and The Eastsidaz (2001)

Don’t you ever forget: The most popular rapper on the planet, Snoop Dogg, left Death Row to join Master P’s No Limit mafia and his career is still smokin’. I doubt Lil Wayne shows up, but Mr. Broadus will be there. Book it.

Snoop Dogg — “Bitch Please” feat. Xzibit (1999)

Let’s keep it West Coast and let the Pimp My Ride host bring his ass to the table. This Dr. Dre production sounds so beautiful, don’t you agree? Throw up the W it stands for win.

Snoop Dogg — “Down 4 My N’s” feat. C-Murder and Mr. Magic (1999)

I never realized this was a Death Row diss song until Snoop told me. C-Murder was quite clear: “Bitch, I’m down with No Limit, I’ll ride for the cause / I’m the n**** on the tank with the big fuckin’ balls / And if anybody fuck with Snoop Doggy Dogg / I’ma make these n****s put his name on the wall.” Snoop survived the wrath of Suge, this sonic showdown is light work.

TRU — “I’m Bout It, Bout It” feat. Master P and Mia X (1995)

Cam and the Diplomats know this is one of the strongest street songs of all-time. And we’re gonna let Mia pack ’em up with her closing verse. “The bitch you love to hate, but yet ain’t bold enough to face/’Cause Mia X will finish first in this grand diva race”. Cash Money for all their accomplishments ain’t got no female MCs and it shows. No doubt about it.

Master P — “Make ‘Em Say Uhh” feat. Fiend, Silkk The Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal (1997)

This is the sound of victory. A slam dunk like the ones you often see in this classic video. Not sure of the final score, but just know that No Limit will triumph. The tank ran over them. Make ’em say no mas.

A new Florence + The Machine era is upon us. The apex is coming right up, as a new album, Everybody Scream, is coming out on, appropriately, Halloween, October 31. Now, there’s more news fans have been waiting for, as today (October 24), the band announced a tour in support of the album.

The run kicks off in April 2026 and runs through to the end of May. The tour will feature support from Mannequin Pussy, Rachel Chinouriri, Sofia Isella, and CMAT. More information on tickets and pre-sales can be found on the band’s website.

Find the full list of tour dates below.

Florence + The Machine’s 2026 Tour Dates

04/08/2026 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center*
04/10/2026 — Chicago, IL, Allstate Arena*
04/13/2026 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena*
04/15/2026 — Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre*
04/16/2026 — Toronto, ON @ Scotiabank Arena*
04/18/2026 — Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena†
04/19/2026 — Boston, MA @ TD Garden†
04/21/2026 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden†
04/24/2026 — New York, NY @ Barclays Center†
04/25/2026 — Philadelphia, PA @ Xfinity Mobile Arena†
04/28/2026 — Tampa, FL @ Benchmark International Arena‡
04/29/2026 — Miami, FL @ Kaseya Center‡
05/01/2026 — Atlanta, GA @ State Farm Arena‡
05/02/2026 — Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena‡
05/04/2026 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center‡
05/05/2026 — Houston, TX @ Toyota Center‡
05/07/2026 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena‡
05/09/2026 — Glendale, AZ @ Desert Diamond Arena§
05/12/2026 — Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena§
05/13/2026 — Portland, OR @ Moda Center§
05/15/2026 — San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center§
05/19/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum§
05/20/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Kia Forum§

* with Rachel Chinouriri
† with Sofia Isella
‡ with CMAT
§ with Mannequin Pussy

Everybody Scream is out 10/31 via Polydor. Find more information here.

Genre-bending Johnstown, Pennsylvania rapper Eem Triplin is having a breakout year. In February, he released his debut album, Melody Of A Memory, and just four months later, he was on XXL‘s 2025 Freshman cover, paying off the years-long climb he started way back in 2022, when he first went viral for an early-afternoon Rolling Loud set that only had 13 attendees.

Today, he started the next phase of his campaign for pop culture domination, dropping what he joked on Instagram was a “3-pack of ass,” including the whimsical “Coming Undone,” which he previously released in an effort to capitalize on the buzz from another viral stunt gone sideways. You can listen to it right here, and check out the rest of the pack here.

The original “release” of “Coming Undone” came on SoundCloud on October 7, when he also shared a video on Twitter featuring the lyrics overlaid on footage of a scantily-clad SZA. The video was inspired by a parody account’s fake news report that the two artists were dating, based on a caption SZA shared on Instagram in which she joked, “Ion eem post on the main no more.”

SZA later wrote in an Instagram comment that Eem was “on my f*ckin nerves a lil bit” and the younger artist joked that she’d blocked him on Twitter as a result. In reality, the whole thing was a lighthearted bit between two labelmates, and of course, fans on social media got a little too invested.

The young artist clearly knows how to get attention, a skill that may serve him well in the future — provided he can manage the unhinged humor of his fanbase when it breaks containment.

“I Like The Way You Kiss Me” singer Artemas has a new project, Lovercore, out now. To celebrate the release, Artemas has announced that he’ll be bringing the project on the road with a tour in 2026.

After a hometown show in the UK, the rest of the tour goes down in North America between late February and late March, hitting Los Angeles, Toronto, New York City, and more.

Ticket sales start with a pre-sale on October 29 at 10 a.m. local time, followed by a general on-sale starting October 30 at 10 a.m. local time. A sign-up for early access and more information can be found here.

In a recent interview, Artemas discussed about making his project, saying, “It’s daunting to create something that cohesive, but it excites me, too. I want to put my flag in the sand. I think I’m making some of the most exciting alt-pop music out there. And I do it all myself. I just haven’t communicated that clearly enough yet.”

Find Artemas’ upcoming tour dates below, along with the Lovercore cover art and tracklist.

Artemas’ 2026 Tour Dates: Lovercore

02/03/2026 — London, UK @ Roundhouse
02/20/2026 — Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
02/22/2026 — Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
02/24/2026 — Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
02/26/2026 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
02/28/2026 — San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
03/02/2026 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex
03/03/2026 — Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
03/05/2026 — Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
03/07/2026 — Toronto, ON @ History
03/10/2026 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
03/11/2026 — Boston, MA @ Big Night Live
03/14/2026 — New York, NY @ Terminal 5
03/17/2026 — Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
03/18/2026 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
03/20/2026 — St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
03/21/2026 — Miami Beach, FL @ The Fillmore Miami Beach

Artemas’ Lovercore Album Cover Artwork

Artemas’ Lovercore Tracklist

1. “Lovercore (Intro)”
2. “Superstar”
3. “Vanish”
4. “Eat Me Alive”
5. “Love Is A Knife”
6. “Take It Easy On Me”
7. “Baby Give Me More”
8. “In My Arms”
9. “Not Quite You”
10. “U Don’t Have To Tell Me”
11. “Southbound”
12. “How Could You Question My Love For U”
13. “Sweet Kim”
14. “As I Wave Goodbye”

Lovercore is out now via Artemas. Find more information here.

As Leon Thomas prepares for the next phase of his breakout career, his Pholks EP, released today through Motown and Ty Dolla Sign’s EZMNY imprint, works as the perfect palette cleanser to pivot from his Mutt era.

The focus track is “My Muse,” a soul-washed ode to a beautiful woman who offers Leon inspiration. It’s brighter and more upbeat than much of his Mutt output, as the funk-soul revivalist shows off some new sounds and a more romantic outlook from the carnal content of his last project.

Likewise, the video focuses on Thomas’ interactions with a single female costar, with shades of Fast Times At Ridgemont High in its direction. Thomas watches his muse sunbathe by the pool and dances with her under a dazzling crystal chandelier, all while singing her praises: “‘Cause you’re not my girl, but you still my muse / Make me wanna get my money up and spend it on you.”

Pholks arrives just before Thomas embarks on his Mutts Don’t Heel tour, which will kick off the day before Halloween in Dallas and end just two days before Christmas with two nights at the Wiltern in Los Angles, before he’ll take it to Australia, Europe, and the UK next spring.

Watch Leon Thomas’ “My Muse” video above.

Pholks is out now via EZMNY/Motown Records. You can find more info here.

Le Sserafim have had a busy year so far, releasing the Hot EP, sharing the single “Different,” and performing around the world on the Easy Crazy Hot Tour. They could easily take is slow for the rest of the year, but instead, today (October 24), they’ve shared two new songs: “Spaghetti” and “Pearlies (My Oyster Is The World),” collectively released as a “single album.”

“Spaghetti” in particular is an event, as it features BTS favorite J-Hope, marking his first collaboration with a K-pop girl group.

Kim Chaewon told Billboard Philippines, “As the lyric ‘Stuck between your teeth, that’s Spaghetti’ suggests, I’d say this song is meant to be just as catchy and impossible to get out of your head — something that lingers no matter how hard you try to shake it off.” Hong Eunchae added, “‘Spaghetti’ channels Le Sserafim’s charm in a way that’s impossible to escape, just like the taste of spaghetti that keeps lingering in your mind. I think its confident and playful energy perfectly reflects who we are as a group.”

Huh Yunjin also said of the other song, “Our B-side track “Pearlies (My Oyster Is The World)’ is a play on the saying ‘the world is my oyster,’ which we also used in the track ‘The World Is My Oyster’ from our debut album. The original saying carries an attitude of taking ownership, of conquering something that isn’t mine and making it my own — which felt very fearless and confident, and was a message we wanted to deliver back then. But by flipping the words, we also flip the meaning: within the small oyster I already have, there’s everything I need. For us, that’s FEARNOT [fan base]. They are our oysters, and therefore our world.”

Listen to “Spaghetti” and “Pearlies (My Oyster Is The World)” above.

Fresh off her WWP EP, Tyla returns with a smooth new single. On “Chanel,” the South African singer makes a simple request: If you really loved her, you’d buy her designer.

While the singer croons, “How you say you love me? You ain’t put me in Chanel,” on the chorus of the low-key gqom (you say with a click of the tongue) track, the video naturally leans couture, with Tyla dancing, posing, strutting, and mugging the camera in the titular brand.

According to Vogue, putting the video together was apparently a bit of a quest for the 23-year-old Joburg native’s stylist Ron Hartleben, who had to pull the vintage pieces from dealers around the world.

“Every single piece of clothing in that video, besides the Hanes tank in the black void scene where she has the blonde bob, is Chanel,” Hartleben boasted. “Even her undergarments, even her shoes and her shorts. The Hanes tank was a very intentional piece because that’s Tyla. It’s the connecting element that made everything make sense.”

He also says the dealers “let me get away with murder” regarding their usual rental fees, because they were so hyped to be included in the star’s latest visual. “These era-defining moments like the hula hoop bag, all of these museum-quality pieces they trusted me with. She’s wearing these belts that are each like $20,000 at full retail, these classic Karl leather pieces, it was so cool to put them together. I did have to sign my life away in case things broke. But nothing broke!”

“Chanel” follows “Is It” and “Dynamite” as striking visuals that Tyla has released this year. We can’t wait to see what she comes up with next.

Watch Tyla’s “Chanel” video above.

After a two-month buildup, Daniel Caesar’s new album, Son Of Spergy, has arrived. The rollout for the project has included the June single “Have A Baby (With Me)” and “Moon,” the latter of which features Bon Iver. It’s one of two songs with the indie-folk band, the second being “Sins Of The Father,” which you can listen to above.

As with so many of Caesar’s songs, it’s a two-parter, with the first bit being a worshipful ballad seemingly addressing the spiritual “father” (i.e., God), while after a short break, the song transforms into a contemplative lullaby addressed to his physical father, after whom the album is named. “Dad was forgetful, he promised a lot / Thankfully, he never got caught,” he recalls. “Passed it to me now, I finally can see / Forgetting’s a gift, thank you, God.”

In the press release for Son Of Spergy, Caesar explained the core of the album, which finds him contemplating his purpose and the nature of his parental bonds. “I have a lot of respect for my dad, and I hold him in high regard,” he said. “The album is about me realizing that I am exactly like him. In that sense, it’s about having patience, respect, and admiration for myself.”

You can listen to Daniel Caesar’s “Sins Of The Father” featuring Bon Iver above.

Son Of Spergy is out now via Republic Records. You can find more info here.

This past summer, Jessie Murph released her second album, Sex Hysteria (and performed at Uproxx’s Sparkling Sessions 2.0). Now, she’s looking even further back, as today (October 24), she released “I’m Not There For You.”

Fans know the song as one that Murph, now 21, originally wrote when she was 17 years old and shared a sample of online in 2022. Murph’s fans have embraced it as a favorite, and now Murph has given it a facelift be re-writing parts of it and re-recording it this year.

Listen to “I’m Not There For You” above. Murph went on the Worldwide Hysteria Tour earlier this year but she still has some upcoming shows, so find Murph’s tour dates below.

Jessie Murph’s 2025 & 2026 Tour Dates

10/24/2025 — London, United Kingdom @ The Roundhouse
10/26/2025 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Olympia
11/07/2025 — Honolulu, Hawaii @ The Republik
11/08/2025 — Honolulu, Hawaii @ The Republik
11/12/2025 — Perth, Australia @ Metropolis Fremantle
11/14/2025 — Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre
11/15/2025 — Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre
11/18/2025 — Brisbane, Australia @ Fortitude Music Hall
11/19/2025 — Melbourne, Australia @ Forum Melbourne
11/20/2025 — Melbourne, Australia @ Forum Melbourne
11/22/2025 — Auckland, New Zealand @ Town Hall
12/02/2025 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena (iHeartRadio 106.1 KISS FM’s Jingle Ball 2025)
12/05/2025 — Los Angeles, CA @ Intuit Dome (iHeartRadio 102.7 KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball 2025)
12/08/2025 — Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena (iHeartRadio 103.5 KISS FM’s Jingle Ball 2025)
12/09/2025 — Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena (iHeartRadio Channel 95.5’s Jingle Ball 2025)
12/12/2025 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden (iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025)
02/28/2026 — Tempe, Arizona @ Extra Innings Festival
06/11-13/2026 — Decatur, Alabama @ Rock The South
06/18-20/2026 — Bloomington, Illinois @ Tailgates N’ Tallboys

Sex Hysteria is out now via Columbia Records. Find more information here.

Megan Thee Stallion is back with her next Act III single. While most of the Houston hottie’s discography is marked by her unbothered Southern pimp persona, Tina Snow, her latest finds her fully embracing being a “Lover Girl” after settling down with NBA star Klay Thompson. The new single, produced by Jacobdior, blends the nostalgic ’90s R&B girl pop of Total’s “Kissin’ You” with the upbeat New Orleans bounce of HaSizzle’s “Bounce It.” The result is a sweet and savory mix of sounds, with Megan gushing about “my man, my man, my man, my baby, my baby.”

Although the track might be an emotional departure from Meg’s other recent Act III output, such as “Whenever,” her raps remain as raunchy as ever. “A very freaky girl, you heard what Gucci said / First, I give you my number, then you give me some head,” she proposes in the second verse. Meg’s newfound soft side hasn’t dulled her edge one bit.

“Lover Girl” is the latest sign that Meg’s December promise to deliver the third part of her Megan trilogy in 2025 might become a reality. While we don’t quite have a release date confirmation yet, we do know she’s been hoping to include stars like Doechii and Ariana Grande on it.

You can listen to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Lover Girl” above.