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If you like to hear Drake all day, everyday there's a radio station for you. There's a newly launched Charlotte, N.C. based FM channel called Drake 92.7 that is playing nothing but songs by, featuring or affiliated with the Toronto rap star...

Can't we all just get along? Apparently not. A Nicki Minaj show last night in Concord, Calif. was marred by not one, not two, but "like 15" fights according to one observer. The Pinkprint Tour rolled into Concord Pavilion presumably expecting a flawless show, but that's far from what they got...

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Recently, Madame Tussaud's wax musuem in Las Vegas unveiled a Nicki Minaj wax statue that depicts the rap star on her hands and knees from a scene from her record breaking "Anaconda" video. Well, Nicki Minaj loved the figure. But everyone isn't feeling the vibe...

Talib Kweli has been as vocal as ever concerning the recent Black Lives Matter movement. In January, he appeared on The Nightly Show to discuss the Ferguson protests. Last month, he spoke up for the cause when ESPN talking head Stephen A...

The year 2015 will officially go down as the year the release date didn't mean anything. The year where the surprise album, dropped with little or not warning, ruled the landscape. B.o.B is the latest rap artist to drop an album on fans without any forewarning...

OUR NEW ALBUM #EVERMORE RELEASING IN SEPTEMBER THROUGH RPM /CAROLINE /CAPITOL RECORDS...#Art by @pencilfingerz A photo posted by The Underachievers (@theunderachievers) on Aug 13, 2015 at 11:56am PDT The Underachivers' new album Evermore is dropping next month...

Some members of the Los Angeles Police Department are worried the newly released Straight Outta Compton movie will hurt police and citizen relations in an already volatile time. According to TMZ, some officers on the force have expressed their opinion that the movie has anti-police themes that could compromise officers' safety as well, as it depicts them as "beating machines...

If only we were talking about Compton. Let me editorialize for a second. Just over three weeks ago, I wrote the last post XXL would ever run on Sean Price while he was alive. It was lighthearted: In an effort to promote his new Songs in the Key of Price (out next Friday, Aug. 21 via Duck Down), Sean...

Remember that video of Shia LaBeouf freestyling. Well he MC LaBeouf is back and he solidified his love for 'Pac with some new ink. A picture of what appears to be a tattoo of a shirtless 2Pac on his upper inner thigh is going viral online. The 29-year-old ac...

As N.W.A's biopic Straight Outta Compton opens in theaters nationwide today (Aug. 14), Master P announces his own upcoming biopic and releases the first trailer of the film. Ice Cream Man: King of the South will chronicle P's early days of New Orleans trap scene. And P isn't w...

In the early mornings at the official afterparty at Muzik Nightclub for Drake’s two-day OVO Fest, a mass shooting broke out killing Duvel Hibbert, 23, and Ariela Navarro-Fenoy, 26 on Aug. 3. About two weeks since the deadly shooting, Drake finally breaks his silence. Read his statement below...