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Billboard continues to make progressive strides into the digital market. In late May, they announced their partnership with Twitter  to form a tracking system called the Billboard Twitter Real-Time Charts that will rate America's most popular songs as quickly as possible, based on what's being shared on the social networking site. Billboar...

Public media and fans alike were in shock when news broke that Bow Wow (Shad Moss) was dating former video vixen and reality star Erica Mena. So when Bow Wow announced the two were engaged in late September, people went nuts. Well, on Nov...

Theophilus London recently dropped his project Vibes and in honor of the album, the Brooklyn MC and fashion tastemaker links up with streetwear brand Stussy for a special collection themed after his latest release. The capsule collection consists of 4 items - two graphic tees, a vintage-looking denim jacket with the Vibes logo above the right jean pocket, and a denim washed snapback...

The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York celebrated five years in Brooklyn last night with a show that featured Houston rapper Fat Tony, Harlem's Smoke DZA and legendary Queensbridge duo Mobb Deep. Along with it being a milestone night for the venue located in Williamsburg, last night marked the 18-year anniversary of Mobb Deep's album Hell On Earth and, amazingly, what was billed as the very fi

DJ Khaled has been heavily promoting his next venture, BeoPlay H6 Headphones, and by the looks of things it seems like the official release date for the headphones will be announced soon. The partnership between B&O Play and DJ Khaled was first announced by the Miami DJ/producer over the summer of 2014...

It's been a bit of a wait for the debut album from Joey Bada$$, but the Brooklyn MC's highly-anticipated B4.Da.$$ finally has a release date. The album, which will be coming out on Cinematic Music Group, will officially be released Jan. 20,...

Will media personality Charlamagne Tha God soon overtake Young Thug as hip-hop's leading hookman? Maybe if he tried. But for now, here's Tink with "Around The Clock" featuring Charlamagne Tha God. Tink's liquid delivery here proves that "Movin Bass" was no fluke...

Last night at an intimate gathering at Chung King Studios in midtown Manhattan, DJ Premier, Royce Da 5'9" and Adrian Younge unveiled their PRhyme project in a performance for Boiler Room TV. The group was announced in September, with Royce handling MC duties and Primo behind the boards, crafting a nine-track LP using only samples from Younge's extensive catalog of soul-funk-jazz records... Re

The 2014 American Music Awards (AMAs) is scheduled to to broadcast a plethora of high profile performances by artists like Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Ariana Grande and The Weeknd, Mary J. Blige, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and more. One performance in particular has the people over at ABC extremely anxious and nervous...

As we reported a few weeks ago, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta producers decided to fire cast members Benzino and his fiancée Althea Eaton in the aftermath of the brutal brawl that occurred during the show's reunion in July. According to our previous report, Benzino and Eaton believed that they were being used as scapegoats for the fight that broke out. Well, acc...

Part of what made Mike Jones such a known name in the first place was his ear for production. The beat from "Still Tippin" still holds up. "3 Gram" probably isn't going to catch that mainstream relevance, but that spacy, bass-heavy production is nothing to be slept on...

J. Cole definitely has to go down as one of the most down to earth rappers in the game right now. Whether it was his 'Dollar And A Dream' tour where people could attend his shows for only a dollar,  or him going to Ferguson to support the Mike Brown protests over the summer, Cole is always thinking about his fans. Col...