Juror dismissed from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial over conflicting statements about residency
Juror 6 reportedly claimed during jury selection that he lived in the Bronx but told court staff he lived in New Jersey
Serbia’s Exit festival may go ‘into exile’ amid government pressure over student protests
This year’s edition to be last held in country after Belgrade withholds funding over support of anti-corruption activists
‘You can’t wear gold without diamonds!’ Hip-hop legend Slick Rick on bling, British roots and his 26-year break
He is the rapper’s rapper, adored by Jay-Z, and once called ‘the most beautiful thing to happen to hip-hop’. So why has he taken so long to release his new album? And can we please see his diamond-crusted Virgin Mary medallion?
Outbreak festival review – hardcore and pop hooks collide in impeccable genre-fluid lineup
Turnstile headlined with soaring high-tempo energy while Speed went route-one punk, Jane Remover caused pandemonium and Have a Nice Life electrified their fanbase in this most free-thinking of festivals
Hyper-prolific rapper Boldy James: ‘I never settled for the cards life dealt me. I’ve always been the dealer’
He’s already put out seven albums this year alone – a work ethic inherited, he says, from selling drugs in Detroit. But will we ever hear his tracks with the late great J Dilla?
The best albums of 2025 so far
Bon Iver straddles stark indie-folk and poppy R&B while PinkPantheress makes an unarguable case for going out out as we revisit six months of the music you mustn’t miss
Doechii blasts Trump administration’s ‘ruthless attacks’ in LA amid Ice raids
Rapper turns BET awards speech into call for justice after White House deployed military forces on demonstrators
Lil Wayne review – chaotic but charismatic race through greatest hits
The hitmaker’s latest album might receive a pass from most but his eclectic tour opener proves why he’s still standing
The manosphere seizes on the Diddy trial to undermine alleged victims: ‘I don’t see no crimes committed’
Commentators on Black masculinity are popular pundits on Sean Combs’s case – but they’ve taken a clear side
Ex-girlfriend of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs says she was pressured into sex with escorts
Alleged victim identified as ‘Jane’ testifies she felt obliged to participate in drug-fueled ‘hotel nights’
Judge threatens to remove Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from court for nodding at jury
Music mogul warned to desist from looking and nodding at jury during sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial
Cassie Ventura’s friend testifies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs dangled her from balcony
Bryana Bongolan tells Manhattan jurors that the hip-hop mogul held her off Cassie’s 17th-floor apartment in 2016
‘Helping people survive’: how creating a hip-hop album supported incarcerated artists
Formerly or currently imprisoned artists in Florida came together to create an inspiring album, much of which was recorded under difficult circumstances
Ex-assistant who alleged Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her returns to stand: ‘The lows were low’
Former employee testifying as Mia claims in sex-trafficking trial that music mogul physically and sexually assaulted her
Judge denies Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs lawyers’ bid for mistrial
Defense lawyers argued prosecutors had improperly suggested Combs was involved in destruction of evidence