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Fresh off last year's Aquarius, Tinashe dropped her new mixtape titled Amethyst today. Ryan Hemsworth, Iamsu!, DJ Dahi, Nez and Rio and more take care of the production for Amethyst. HNHH reports that the West Coast native's seven track mixtape was recorded in her bedroom during her 2014 Christmas vacation. Tinashe last mixtape was Black Water in 2013. You ...

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XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the 10 Spot voting happening now, we have to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover. Pitch n...

XXL Freshmen 2015 is coming and the freshman hopefuls are gearing up to possibly make this year’s class. With the 10th Spot voting happening now, we have to let the potentials tell us why they should appear on this year’s cover. Bobby S...

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Hip-hop artists don't just make music for us to dance to, they love to get down to it themselves. Some people may think with their 'cool' personas, these rapper would never let loose and dance around like maniacs. But when circumstances (and by circumstances we mean company, vibes and/or liquor) are just right, these stars aren't beyond breaking out from just the typical head bob...

Mitchell & Ness is gearing up to take NBA fans back to '95 with the rerelease of Michael Jordan's No. 45 jersey. After taking his talents to the diamond field after winning three NBA titles, Michael returned to the NBA and his team, the Chicago Bulls on March 19, 1995...

In her new cover story for Playboy, Azealia Banks gives a candid interview about sex, leaving America for another country and, above all else, race. It was with an eye to that last subject that she told the men's magazine the only rapper whose career path she hopes to follow is Jay Z's...

As the world listens to Kendrick Lamar's new album To Pimp a Butterfly, Kanye took to Twitter to share nude photos of his wife Kim Kardashian. Pretty self-explanatory, take a look at it below. I’M SO LUCKY pic.twitter.com/8rB3T0Hl6b — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 16, 2015 CONGRATS BABY ON 30 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS pic.twitter.com... Read More ...

Kendrick Lamar's second major label album, To Pimp a Butterfly, is still scheduled to come out next week, on March 23. However, last night (March 15), the album was briefly available for purchase and download via the iTunes store, meaning a huge faction of hip-hop fans are dissecting the 80-minute opus well before its street date...

Few things feed FOMO as much as the week of South by Southwest. If you're not in Austin, watching hundreds of tweets roll in from as many different locations is enough to make your head spin, and leave you with the nagging sense that, as much as you've seen and read, you're still missing something...

In a surprising move of events this morning, adidas announced that they will end their apparel partnership with the NBA after the 2016-2017 season. According to the Portland Business Journal, adidas decided not to renew their contract with the NBA after acquiring the partnership in 2006...