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Bodega Bamz is gearing up for the release of Sidewalk Exec, his Duck Down Music debut, and drops off the drug-influenced video for "Bring Em Out," his strong collaboration with Flatbush Zombies. Things start innocently enough with the Tanboys and Flatbush chilling in the studio ordering Chinese food and discussing Nicolas Cage movies ...

Tidal, the new streaming service headed by Jay Z, has promised to pay the highest royalty percentage to artists but artists who release music exclusively through the service may suffer on the charts. According to a study and report from Billboard, if an artists puts a song out exclusively on Tidal the song will chart lower on Billboard's Hot 100 since the service isn't as popular as other platform

Last night (April 8) at the Forum in Los Angeles, Justin Bieber was a surprise guest during Ariana Grande's set. The duo performed "As Long As You Love Me" to raucous cheers from the audience. But it was body language, not the music, that was making headlines last night and into this morning...

With the April 14 release of Grand Theft Auto V looming, Rockstar Games, GTA's publishing company, turned to the only people who have lived the kind of debauchery the game portrays: Dipset. Juelz Santana, Jim Jones and Freekey Zekey--Cam'ron was running late, likely huddled over pots and pans perfecting his cereal formula--hopped online via Rockstar and Twitch.TV to pla...

Less than a week after telling XXL that the Tupac biopic is on hold, director John Singleton has stepped away from the project all together. Carl Franklin, who has worked on projects such as Homeland and multiple HBO series, has replaced Singleton ...

If you're wandering around New York City tomorrow (April 10), ducking in and out of stores to find something to eat, look no further—Cam'ron is here. Starting tomorrow bodega customers might stumble across what appears to be a box of healthy Killa Crunch breakfast cereal from the Dipset capo. Of c...

Meek Mill has been keeping the game waiting on Dreams Worth More Than Money for the past three years. Multiple push backs and a prison bid has only added to the anticipation and yesterday, a supposed cover and release date for the album went viral causing hysteria across the internet...

Spike Lee is looking to cast Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Piven, Common and Kanye West for his next movie titled Chiraq. TheWrap reports that the film will be for Amazon Studios. There's very little details reported on the movie. The film will pres...

Mystikal and British DJ-producer Mark Ronson performed "Feel Right" on The Ellen Show yesterday (April 8). “Feel Right" is a single off of Ronson' new album Uptown Special. Dressed in red and black, the NOLA spitta's energy is contagious. View...

Tyler, The Creator is releasing his new album, Cherry Bomb, next week. After launching Gold Media app and with his Golf Magazine is on the way, fans can get his new LP on April 13. The pre-order for the full-length project popped up on iTunes last night. Thi...

As a part of the Red Bull Music Academy's UK tour, Danny Brown headed to Glascow to chop it up with journalist Hattie Collins. Brown discussed his father's love for house music, his mother lover for R&B, when he got his first Walkman, Wu Tang Clan and working in the studio with Nicki Minaj before they were famous. He shar...

On this day, April 9, in hip-hop history... 1992: Back when West Coast hip-hop was just coming into its own, a business-minded Dr. Dre, CEO and founder of Death Row Records, was leading the charge. After a lengthy dispute with his former crew, N...