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New music...The Black Box drops 9/18 A photo posted by Charles Hamilton (@charleshamiltonmusic) on Aug 18, 2015 at 8:14am PDT Charles Hamilton's first project since his return to music drops new month. He took to Instagran to reveal that The Black Box EP drops Sept. 18....

"Body On Me," Rita Ora's Chris Brown collaboration that was genetically engineered to make you stay out past your bed time, has received the video treatment. As one might have reasonably predicted, the visuals are sultry as could be, spanning a chance encounter between the singers in an elevator to their, well, consummation...

DJ Mustard hopped on Twitter last night (Aug. 18) to voice his opinion about Iggy Azalea's smash hit "Fancy" and newcomer Jidenna's new banger "Classic Man." The West Coast producer, who's been producing club bangers that sat atop the charts for the past few summers with his signature West Coast production, said both "Fancy" and "Classic Man" were "ripo

Earlier this month, Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Las Vegas unveiled a Nicki Minaj wax statue that depicts the rap star on her hands and knees from a scene in her record breaking “Anaconda” video. The YMCMB spitta loved it, posting videos sent to her on Instagram and tweeted that she couldn’t wait to see the figurine. However, Azealia Banks...

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube have filed a motion to remove their names as defendants in Suge Knight's wrongful death lawsuit. Suge Knight was charged with murder and attempted murder for running over and killing Terry Carter and seriously injuring Cle "Bone" Sloan earlier this year. Carter's widow Lilian filed the w...

Joe is all the way up this year!

The Weeknd did a recent interview with GQ that was published today. In the piece, the Toronto crooner talked about fame, the perks that come with it, his growth and a pivotal moment during the process of recording his new album Beauty Behind the Madness, which is out next Friday, Aug. 28. "I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran...

9 SHOT IS FIRE

In a move designed to raise the blood pressure of math teachers in the greater Chicago area, Chief Keef has announced that his stellar new mixtape, Bang 3, will be followed by another offering: Bang 3 (Part 2). To promote the latter half of the last third of a trilogy of mixtapes, the Windy City ex-pat today drops "Bouncin," a preposterously strong cut produced by DPBeats and Keef himsel

Hip-hop journalist and former host of Pump It Up! Dee Barnes was brutally assaulted in a women's restroom floor of the Po Na Na Souk​ nightclub in January of 1991 by then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre. The group was reportedly angry about a Pump It Up! segment hosted...

So deep is MF Doom's influence over the hip-hop universe that a rapper with a mask is immediately compared to said super villain. But when Daniel Dumile emerged, first in a ski mask, then in a Darth Maul head, from the first round of ill-fated Star Wars prequels and finally in the metal face that's become famous, he already had a bit of minor fame under his belt. Leikeli4...