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1994, Nas blessed the hip-hop community with Illmatic, arguably one of the GREATEST hip-hop albums EVER! That’s why in celebration of the album, we dug through the crates and pulled together 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Nas’ Illmatic. Russell Simmons Passed On Signing Nas Say it ain’t so Russell! Back in the early 90’s, Simmons passed on […]

Shoutout the one and only Young Chris for stopping by the Boom 103.9 Kicks USA studio’s and hanging out with DJ Caesar on the Afternoon Wave! If you were away from your radio that day, check out some of the exclusive interview in the video above and make sure you check out Chris’s new project […]

According to the Boston Globe, Aaron Hernandez was found dead in his prison cell early this morning. This comes five days after he was acquitted of murdering two men in Boston in 2012. He was still serving a life without parole from his conviction in 2013. Join Boom Philly’s Newsletter: According to a statement from […]

More big tunes on this Tuesday, first we get the visuals for “DNA“, now we get the collab the streets have been waiting for as Freeway and Dave East link up on this new banger “Hold The Fort Down“. Freeway spoke with Billboard about the record and his upcoming project: The cut is a part […]

Kendrick Lamar continues to dominate 2017, after wrapping up his major weekend with the release of Damn, and shutting down the stage at Coachella, K-Dot drops off visuals for the Mike WiLL Made It banger “DNA.” With Don Cheadle as the lead role, he becomes consumed with the hard hitting banger in this new video directed by […]

Breaking News Via NBC 10: Philadelphia police put eight elementary schools and a high school on lockdown midday Monday as they looked into reports of the Cleveland Facebook shooting suspect being in the Fairmount Park area. Police stressed in a short news release that as of 1:30 p.m. there was “no indication that that subject […]

Charlie Murphy dies at age 57 after battling Leukemia. Want news at your fingertips? Text “1039” to 71007 to join our text club! According to TMZ, Eddie Murphy‘s older brother passed away in a NYC hospital. His manager says he’d been going through chemo. RIP Charlie Murphy.

After the video surfaced of the man being dragged off of the United Airlines, social media has been on one the last 24 hours with these memes! We put together some of the funniest ones we found, check the memes and videos out in the gallery above! Tag @BoomPhilly on social with your funniest posts […]

We woke up last Friday thinking we would have some new Kendrick Lamar, well, today we are one step closer to that dream becoming a reality. Kendrick Lamar NEVER posts on social media unless it’s to tell us something! Last week it was all about “Humble”, this morning at 6am eastern time, he wanted to […]

Today Q-Tip turns 47 years old, and to celebrate, we went back through the archives and found 10 of our favorite pictures of Q-Tip, Phife, and A Tribe Called Quest that range from the late 80’s, all the way until the 2010’s! A Tribe Calle Quest will forever be one of hip-hop’s most dynamic groups, […]

“Biking” is Frank Ocean’s third new song of 2017, following “Chanel” and his appearance on Calvin Harris‘ single “Slide” featuring Migos. The song also features Tyler The Creator. There’s currently no word on whether Frank’s tracks will end up on a new project of some kind, but we will keep our fingers crossed in the […]

Via | HotNewHipHop Kendrick Lamar’s 4th studio album drops in 7 days. A couple weeks ago, Kendrick Lamar came out of nowhere & released a new track called “The Heart Pt. 4” which saw him hinting at a possible release date of some sorts with the closing line…“Y’all got ‘til April the 7th to get […]