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Joell Ortiz plays a ruthless assassin with a penchant for machetes in the new video to "Lil Piggies," which is off his collaborative album with !llmind titled Humans. The visual looks like a scene out of Tarantino's 2007 film Grindhouse and Robert Rodriguez's 2010 film Machete. It's dark and find...

Angel Haze is not the girl you think she is. In fact, she's not a girl at all. Instead, the Detroit-born MC identifies as agender, meaning neither masculine or feminine, and stresses that pronouns like "he" and "she" not be used. Like the grunge-meets-Eazy-E inspired fashion sense or agile, militant new lyrical prowess the MC possesses, it's just one more way Haze defies every

Boosie BadAzz puts the pen to the paper and writes a heartfelt letter to the late, great Tupac Shakur. Boosie waxes poetically about his favorite Pac songs, the rapper's  influence on his own career and updates the slain MC on everything going on in the rap world and in reality. Boo ...

Killer Mike jumps on the remix for Glasses Malone and Kendrick Lamar's "Thuggin" and delivers one of the verses of the year. The original song is off of Malone's upcoming album Glass House 2, which drops sometime this year. While taking shots at Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera, Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer, Mike spits bars about oppression, corruption in the just

HUF drops their second footwear delivery for the upcoming fall season. Incorporating a hand-selected range of materials, including quality Italian tumbled leathers, waxed nubuck, and canvas, the second delivery of HUF consists of earth tone color palettes featuring an array of prints...

Things aren't all G.O.O.D. in CyHi The Prince's world and the rapper gets militant on his diss record, "Elephant In The Room." Throwing shots at Kanye West, Teyana Taylor, Pusha T and Big Sean, CyHi threatens to take out everyone then run up in the Def Jam offices and unload a clip ...

The infamous Gunplay, aka Don Logan, has finally released his long-awaited Def Jam debut, Living Legend.

Philly street rapper, AR-AB, has found himself in the middle of the Drake vs. Meek Mill beef after Drizzy name dropped the self-proclaimed top goon in Philly ("I waited four days, nigga, where y'all at?/I drove here in the Wraith playin' AR-AB") in "Back 2 Back (Freestyle) ...

Rapper and star of MTV's Ridiculousness, Chanel West Coast, was arrested last night outside of 1 OAK nightclub in Los Angeles. According to reports from TMZ and New York Daily News, Chanel was allegedly involved in a fight inside the club and once kicked out of the venue, she allegedly attacked security. A citizen's arrest was ...

Considered one of the pioneers of Southern hip-hop, Pimp C's legacy continues to live on thanks to people like Julia Beverly, publisher and editor-in-chief of Ozone Magazine, who has penned the late and great UGK member's new biography, Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story...

Today, adidas and Damian Lillard unveiled a Portland inspired edition of the D Lillard 1 basketball shoe. The D Lillard 1 Forestry Edition pays homage to the city that was built from tree stumps to the metropolitan center of the Northwest...