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If you're itching for Ja Rule in every media platform imaginable, itch no longer: CNBC has announced that the turn-of-the-century hitmaker will be featured in their forthcoming documentary, White Collar Convicts: Life on the Inside. The...

The Game is being sued again. The process server and photog who were hired to give the former G-Unit member his lawsuit papers were allegedly attacked by Game, according to TMZ. The photog, Justin Willard, sustained back, neck and head injuries plus got his camera stolen. The server es...

Dej Loaf refuses to be a one-dimensional rapper. The pint-sized female MC found early success with her 2014 viral single, "Try Me," garnering the attention of music fans, critics and industry insiders. Sporting a bucket hat, baggy clothes and sunglasses in her first music video, fans responded to her sporty-chic look as a refresher from the usual oversexed female MCs in the game... Read

DJ Premier will compose the score and serve as executive music producer of the new original movie The Breaks coming on VH1. The Breaks was inspired by Dan Charnas’ book “The Big Payback,” a narrative history of the hip-hop business. The VH1 film will be written, directed an...

Post Malone's rise from a no-name artist to chillin' with Drake at Coachella is yet another example of what a buzzworthy song can do for you. Malone's "White Iverson" is clocking 2.5 million plays on SoundCloud and counting. If he's feeling the pressure, he certainly isn't showing it on "Too Young," Malone's new spacy single that debuted on DASH Radio earlier today (April 23)

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Earlier this year, after making his doubters shake in their boots with 2014's phenomenal Madlib collaboration, Piñata, Gary, Indiana's Freddie Gibbs surprised fans with a three-song EP called Pronto. It showcases Gibbs at his unflappable best, merging Bone Thugs-N-Harmony-style dexterity with unnerving, glamour-less details of the criminal underworld. Now the ti...

The bond between a father and his daughter can't be broken, no matter how long tour life keeps Fashawn away from his baby girl. In the video for "Higher," a cut from Mass Appeal debut Ecology, Fashawn gives an intimate look into his life as both a father and a rapper...

The Sony hack last December in which thousands of emails and documents from the massive international conglomerate leaked to the world shook up a slew of industries. But overall, that leak largely skipped over the music industry, despite the fact that Sony is one of the three major labels still operating, with Epic, Columbia, RCA and more under their massive umbrella...

The Rush is back ... A photo posted by Sean Diddy Combs (@iamdiddy) on Apr 22, 2015 at 12:37pm PDT Though information is scarce, a billboard in Hollywood has people buzzing today (April 23). The giant ad pits Diddy against Byung-hun Lee over the title Rush Hour 4: Face/Off 2, referring to two beloved action flick franchises, the former famously starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Accordin... R

Dave East pays homage to one of the best groups to ever come out of New York with his latest "L.O.X (Living Off Xperience)." Over classic beats, like The Alchemist's "Still Feel Me," East is unashamedly Uptown NYC. With bars about Timberlands, fighting dogs, rolling dice, making a left on 1st Ave while being trailed by the police mixed up with classic L ...

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