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At the bottom of last year, Nicki Minaj dropped her third studio album, The Pinkprint. While its pre-release singles were salacious ("Anaconda") or star-studded (the Drake-, Chris Brown- and Lil Wayne-featuring "Only"), nothing was an inescapable as her previous smashes like "Super Bass" or Starships." Fo...

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While he's been roundly praised for his steady stream of hits for established artists, Mike WiLL Made It has been quietly building his own stable of new talent. In the vein of some of the great producers before him, the Atlantan has snatched up promising young MCs from across the country--mainly below the Mason-Dixon line--for his EarDrummers imprint...

Queens MC and World's Fair member Remy Banks drops off his latest solo effort, higher. Executive produced by Remy and featuring members from World's Fair, Odd Future and Ratking, higher. is a wide-ranging project that shows just how deep New York City's talent pool runs ...

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If there's one thing--well, aside from Nicki Minaj--that Meek Mill is known for, it's, well, energy. The bombastic Philadelphia rapper has made readily apparent his penchant for shouting all over tracks, his voice crescendoing again and again until you really, truly believe that his cars aren't leased...

Earlier today, California-based clothing brand, The Hundreds announced the release of their latest collaboration with painter Kenny Scharf. The Hundreds by Kenny Scharf collection features an ensemble of streetwear camping goods that have been created by Kenny’s imagination. The ...

Iggy Azalea's night at the Billboard Music Awards caused an uproar when she won awards for Top Rap Artist and Top Rap Song and her appearance at the show had people doing a double take at her new look. Sporting blonde hair with pink ends, Iggy hit the red carpet with her boyfriend, Los Angeles Lakers player Nick Young, and caught the attention of social media thanks to what appears to be plastic s

Machine Gun Kelly's latest single, the Victoria Monet-featuring "A Little More," has a very simple premise: that the world has too much poison and not enough love. The first half of the video is shot in first person--Kelly wakes up, gets dressed, stashes a gun in his waistband and makes his way out the door...

Here are 12 strange incidents involving rappers' bodyguards over the years.