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Meek Mill set Twitter on fire after he went off in a rant about Nicki Minaj's ex-boyfriend SB, Drake and a lot more. In a series of what seemed like unprovoked tweets, the MMG rapper decided to air out his problems in hip-hop. Here's how hip-hop reacted...

Meek Mill's chill button has been switched off. In a seemingly brash and unprovoked move, Meek took to Twitter tonight (July 21) to fire shots at some of his critics and fellow rappers. In order to let his public know exactly what time it is, Milly took aim at everything and everyone that was on his mental hit list...

Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj get into a public dispute over the latter's confusion on why her video for "Anaconda" did not receive a MTV Video Music Award nod for video of the year. Earlier this morning the 2015 VMA nominations were announced. Nicki took to Twitter t...

Sean Price has a new album coming out, and the Monkey Barz rapper is taking a guerrilla approach to marketing it. While rappers might do in-stores or free shows (the bigger ones might even try to leverage their merchandise into a temporary pop-up shop), the former half Heltah Skeltah hit the streets public transit style. Price ma...

When u tired of the fucking devil ruining your life and u hear God speak for the first time. No one knows what I deal with on a day to day. The average man wouldn't hesitate to blow his fucking brains out but that's the cowards way out... Most... Read More ...

DJ Quik drops the music video for his single "Puffin Tha Dragon," which finds the rapper on a cross country adventure. Directed by Sawa, the video borrows imagery from the Terry Gilliam-directed film Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)...

They say you have your whole life to make your first album, and they might be right. Some call it poetry, others call it the ghetto gospel, but the industry calls it "trap music." Go figure. Either way it's the voice of the streets, and we all know that when the streets talk, we listen. I find it... Read More ... Read More ...

You remember the 2012 Harmony Korine-directed film Spring Breakers starring James Franco and Gucci Mane? Yea the movie—which some critics dubbed a cult classic—where four misfits played by Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine, go on a serious rager for spring break. Well those...

ESPN talking head Stephen A. Smith has been known to stir up controversy, most recently for alleging that Philadelphia Eagles Head Coach Chip Kelly is racist, and earlier today the sports media personality riled up a few rappers when he sent out a tweet with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter ...

Hopsin is mid-sentence, talking about his plans to go out on tour with his Funk Volume labelmates Dizzy Wright and Jarren Benton later this year, when he stops himself and trails off. "My mom's calling me," he says, reaching into his pocket for his phone with a slightly embarrassed smile...

The last time Diddy put out an album, he just barely jumped the gun. 2010's Last Train to Paris, credited to himself and Dirty Money, came just before the producer-as-stage manager gig came back into vogue. Now, the Artist Formerly Known As Puffy has not one, but two full-length efforts on the way. The...