In hip-hop, there's this awful tendency to want to label anyone who's made a lot of money playing into stereotypes (some might say truisms) about black people a genius businessman. For example, this fruit TPAR and I have gone back and forth for months now about my use of the term fake executive to refer to these rappers who pretend to own and/or run any number of ventures, but really just serve as a front for said ventures' *true* owners. And yet this hasn't stopped the mainstream media from gushing about what geniuses these assholes are. Meanwhile, my thought is: if you're ...

ARTIST: Trae a.k.a. Tha Truth REPPIN': Houston, TX LABEL: Rap-A-Lot Records NEW ALBUM TITLE: Life Goes On "Every life situation you go through whether good or bad, at the ...

Ya'll remember what happened the last time T.I.P. got locked up. Flipparachi supposedly started claiming the "King of the South" title at his shows, probably ...

There was a news flash yesterday at XXL mag dot com that not too many people commented on, but I found it to be precisely ...

Not too long after I published my post last week on the proposed title for the upcoming Nas album, MTV News caught up with LA ...

Hand me a late pass, for real. Because I have no clue how West Coast producer/rapper Terrace Martin's street album, Signal Flow, slid past me ...

Instead of trying to stop people from using the word nigger we should be trying to have as many people use the word as possible. ...

When KRS-ONE was accepting his I Am Hip Hop Award at the BET Hip Hop Awards the other night, a couple of things he said ...

By now I'm sure you fruits have all heard of Tyler Perry. He directed those Madea movies as well as Why Did I Get Married?, ...