Gunna performs at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on May 18, 2024. SAN FRANCISCO — Gunna brought his A-game to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Saturday. The Atlanta rapper delivered a turbocharged performance alongside a production that included scenery from the Arctic, a post-apocalyptic landscape and an…

L to R: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Ice-T, Insert Foot, Tipper Gore and Snoop Dogg. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a flurry of bills into laws, including one that seemingly flew under the radar because so many didn’t know it was necessary. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. It’s called the…

Post Malone, “Twelve Carat Toothache.” Twelve Carat Toothache by Post Malone is an appropriately titled album that seems to focus on the whiny ramblings of a wealthy singer oozing with glitz. The album, his fourth, is all style, no substance. It would be dismissive to write off the problems of someone…

While Live Life Fast, the second album by Roddy Ricch, has a promising premise—how living to excess can be tempting but isn’t sustainable—Roddy struggles to deliver on this thematic structure. Live Life Fast Roddy Ricch Atlantic, Dec. 17 6/10 Live Life Fast features a series of excellent instrumentals, but Roddy Ricch…

It’s kind of wild that Punk is only the second album from Young Thug, considering his prolific output of 19 mixtapes. The rapper had expressed a desire to embrace a significant shift in tone on the follow-up to 2019’s So Much Fun. He sought to embody what he referred to as “real rap”…

The Chicago drill scene is alive and well. Between Polo G’s Hall of Fame and, now, G Herbo‘s 25—we may have a new trend setting up to define the next era of hip-hop. 25 G Herbo Epic, July 2 7/10 The new record follows G Herbo’s 2020 album, PTSD, on which the rapper reflected…