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HOMECOMING documents Beyoncé’s iconic and historical Coachella performance and demonstrates the blood, sweat, and tears put into generating a visually and auditory breathtaking production. The documentary written, created, and produced by Beyoncé herself is not simply about her performance, but a commemoration of the eight months of challenging work it took for her, as well […]

In between hitting the books at Texas Southern University, Megan Thee Stallion hits the mic and stage where she’ll be performing on Thursday, April 11th at Warehouse Live hosted by Big Tho and DJ Eric with 97.9 The Box. She’s been writing since she was 7 years old and has developed an anthemic, aggressive style […]

Banish your case of the Mondays with Coog Radio contributors’ favorite new releases from Friday, April 5th. With artists like Khalid, Snoh Aalegra, and Bassnectar, this playlist is the perfect remedy and motivation for a new week. The title of this sensational playlist is inspired by “YA WOO COUGAR FOOTBALL!” Stemming from a subreddit complaining about parking on Cougar Football […]

Banish your case of the Mondays with Coog Radio contributors’ favorite new releases from Friday, March 29th. Get your new month started with new music from artists like Cautious Clay, Laura Stevenson, and I Prevail, this playlist is the perfect remedy and motivation for a new week. The title of this sensational playlist is inspired by “YA WOO COUGAR […]

Women’s History Month is ending! In keeping with the celebrations, let’s elevate and focus on the female voice just one more time before April showers sneak in. Continue reading to learn about Coog Radio contributors’ favorite female artists and their best albums and tracks. Artists   Albums Songs Check out our favorite tracks in the […]

This is Artists in Key Minor, where I highlight minority artists with major talent and talk about why you should be adding them to your next playlists. Next person up is west coast rapper, Aminé.

The Coral Reef Academy, a therapeutic reform school right outside the capital of Samoa, is where Thebe Kgositsile, better known by his stage name Earl Sweatshirt, was sent to just before his final years of high school. After causing some mischief (like cheating on an English assignment) while also struggling with an addiction, his mother […]

Banish your case of the Mondays with Coog Radio contributors’ favorite new releases from Friday, March 15th. With some fun, new music and artists like Ozuna, Gus Dapperton, and Greyson Chance, this playlist is the perfect remedy and motivation for a new week. The title of this sensational playlist is inspired by “YA WOO COUGAR FOOTBALL!” Stemming from a subreddit complaining […]

Ruby da Cherry, Suicide Leopard, 7th Ward Lord, Young Plague—the list goes on. These are just a handful of alter egos created by Aristos Pertrou, one-half of the duo known as $uicideboy$. Scott Arceneaux Jr., Ruby’s first cousin and the other half of the duo, follows appropriately, with aliases $crim, $lick $loth, Budd Dwyer, and […]

Before Noname took to the stage, her opener Elton was a sight to behold. Elton has the vocal range to make it big. Elton was a challenge to shoot due to how much energy he had. Elton had the fans engaged, from making them laugh to giving out free t-shirts in an effort to hype […]

For this week’s throwback, we take a look at one of Hip-Hop’s finest gems, A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory. 29 years ago, back when George H. W. Bush was president, when Nelson Mandela was freed from a 27-year prison sentence, oh and the Detroit Pistons were back-to-back champions, a new addition to […]

Cali rapper Vince Staples decided he wants to start the new year off strong and what better way to do so than a two month-long tour across the U.S. Vince announced his tour back in December, about a month after his release of FM!. Seeing Vince is exciting enough, but in addition, he brings along rappers […]

Thanks to skilled UK rappers such as Stormyz, Roll Deep, Skepta, Dizzee Rascal, and many more, the genre UK Rap/UK Grime is finally getting the shine it deserves. In 2002, the genre was created by Richard Kylea Cowie Jr, who was frustrated with UK garage music at the time. Known as the Grandfather of Grime, […]

I just wanted to start this article by saying thank you to Complex, XXL, and to those that are no longer with us, such as the Vibe, Word Up!, and The Source, for pushing hip-hop journalism. During the early to mid-late 2000s if you wanted to know the inside scoop with your favorite Hip-Hop/Rap artist […]

Rap is indubitably one of the most misunderstood and slandered genres of music. With many people refusing to move past the profanity and raw lyricism to understand an artist’s intent, rap songs that contain beautiful poetry and make important statements are often lost or renounced. The seemingly lazy approach that society takes toward listening to […]

There’s only one end of the year wrap up post you need in your life. This is it! Continue reading for the top songs, albums, and artists of 2018 according to Coog Radio. Top Songs of 2018  Start by listening to the Coog Radio End of Year Wrap playlist. Let the sounds of artists such […]

2018 was a year filled with countless ups and downs as well as tons of good music. Some songs happened to fall through the cracks and I’m here to make sure you didn’t forget them. Here are, Bops You Almost Missed in 2018.

What came first? Oliver Tree or the meme? The 25 year old producer, vocalist, and artist leans into the culture of memes and embraces the humor and adopts it as a lifestyle. The Best Oliver Tree Memes [su_slider source=”media: 15602,15605,15606,15607,15608,15609″ target=”blank” title=”no”] Tree (whose full name is Oliver Tree Nickell) seems to have appeared from […]

Playboi Carti continues his reputation of being tardy but successfully compensates with a high energy performance. The night was young when we arrived at The Revention Music Center. My friend and I thought we were doing ourselves a favor by arriving an hour early; how naive we were. The waiting line wrapped around the venue […]

While the hip-hop community tends to overlook women in the industry by separating them into their own category, female rappers in the nineties sat at the forefront of the genre. They set precedent for equality universally, and exemplified a liberation of many women from gender stereotypes and expectations that previously held them back, and not […]


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