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When two rappers who are dominating the charts--and one who promises to do so in the immediate future--team up for a video, you might expect block parties, strip clubs, car shows, crowded green rooms. Not for "Blessings." Big Sean tapped Drake and Kanye West for the video, uniting three of the dominant commercial forces in rap...

G-Unit is back today with the second of their promised two EPs, The Beast Is G-Unit. 50 Cent, Young Buck, Lloyd Banks, Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd are in fine form on the new release, which includes their latest singles "Bring My Bottles" and "I'm Grown." Th...

Dipset's Pledge of Allegiance tour is in full swing and while everyone anticipates the next Dipset project, the Harlem crew feeds our hunger with the "Have My Money" video. Shot in black and white, the clip opens with Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Cam'ron on Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex show discussing (and, of course, promoting) their upcoming tour and reunion ...

Once the dominant force in hip-hop, the re-tooled G-Unit continues their resurgence with "I'm Grown." The sparse, percussive track hears 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks and Young Buck exercise decidedly contemporary flows, updating the sound that made them so inescapable a decade ago...

Yelawolf's upcoming album Love Story is due out in April and the Alabama spitter gets fans ready for the project with his video for "Whiskey In A Bottle." The South-inspired clip sees Yela riding through the woods on a motorcycle, getting tatted up, having drunks in a dive bar and hitting the studio with his band ...

A couple days ago, Chicago MC Chance the Rapper posted one of the best Insta-videos of 2015 so far showing himself rapping with A-list actor Alec Baldwin after a charity event they both attended. This vid shocked and delighted Chano fans across social media, mostly because it was so hilariously strange...

OG Maco's evolution from a Vine sensation to one of the most intriguing MCs in the game continues with his latest freestyle, "5 AM In L.A." When Maco first burst onto the scene with "U Guessed It," many had him pegged as a flavor-of-the-month rapper but the Atlanta upstart has put out numerous impressive projects and songs since and has proven, once again, that his manager Coa

The leaders of innovative socks, Stance, announced their latest collections for the spring of 2015, which pay tribute to the old school days of the NBA. The two collections launched by Stance are dubbed as NBA Legends and Hardwood Classics...

50 Cent is bleeding. Or at least that's what it looks like on first glance; the G-Unit general is taking a break from filming a fight scene for the second season of his Starz TV show Power and the fake blood on his mouth and cheek indicate some of the blows found their mark. It's a T...

Kid Cudi has, at times, found his creative impulses at odds with his fans' expectations. As he grew increasingly experimental over the past six years, he found himself alienating certain factions of his audience, a disconcerting feeling for any artist...

Festival season is creepin on the come up as February turns to March and Soundset has unveiled its lineup for the 2015 edition of the festival. Hosted by Sway, St. Paul Slim and J. Pratt at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, the eighth edition of the festival will feature a who's-who list of artists and performers ...