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Absolutely no chill. Jose Guapo tastelessly pushed the envelope this time around with his new mixtape cover. For his new project, Osama Bin Guapo—yes you read that right—the rapper designed a cringe-worthy cover mocking the terrorist attack that rocked America on September 11. Guapo though...

Anybody who's familiar with the Shady's performance at the BET Hip-Hop Awards cyphers know why this one was so anticipated. But it's finally here. The Shady CXVPHER featuring Eminem, Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf is just as acerbic, punchline-heavy, and quick-tongued as you would expect...

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Now this is classic. Fans asking @richforever to autograph #Pears #hoodbillionaire A photo posted by Maybach Music Group (@untouchablemmg) on Nov 11, 2014 at 3:24pm PST "Shout out to all the pear." -- Rick Ross For those of you who have been out of the loop, Rick Ross dropped this absolute gem of a quote during an interview with Tim Westwood explaining how eating healthy and exercisin

Talib Kweli is the most recognizable name on The Cathedral mixtape, but he's simply putting up the assists. The project's main goal is to shine the spotlight on Javotti Media's (an independent label founded by Kweli) upcoming artists. The rost...

No beef? Troy Ave passed by Hot 97 and chopped it up with Ebro and the gang to discuss his "beef" with rap rookie iLoveMakonnen. According to Troy, it's all twitter nonsense. "Man that ish was all twitter stuff. Man you know, everything is overhyped now," said the "All About The Money" rapper...

Young Chop decided to link up with fellow Chicagoan Lil Durk for "Murder Team." As you can guess from the title, the song is pretty straightforward.

If there are three things in life that are absolutely guaranteed, it's death, taxes, and new Gucci Mane mixtapes. Though he's sitting behind bars, Gucci Mane may still be the hardest working man in showbiz. Fresh off of dropping Big Gucci Sossa, a collab mixtape with Chief Keef, Guwop is gearing up to release another project, Trap House 5. Gucci an ...

In hopes of renovating its Georgia facility, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation is planning to release a brand new Tupac single. According to a press release, they will use the money raised from the purchase of the single to help “in the care and up-keep of its Georgia facility.” ...

With Christmas approaching, NBA teams and footwear brands will start revealing the special uniforms and kicks that the NBA stars will be rocking on the court on Christmas Day. No official images have been released yet from any of the footwear brands of their sneaker releases for the big day, but an image has leaked of a Nike Kobe 9 Elite and it looks like this silhouette could be Kobe's signature

Talib Kweli brought out the big guns for this cut off the Cathedral project. Curren$y, Big K.R.I.T. and singer Kendra Ross ride with the Javotti Media founder on "Everywhere I Go." The three rhymers sound right at home on this one, which makes sense because this is their kind of beat...

After stunting hard in "Big Body Benz", G-Unit decides to return with the final bonus track from their physical deluxe edition of The Beauty of Independence. The album will be available at all Best Buy retailers. Check it out. Related: Check Out XXL’s Final Installment Of The G-Unit Reunion  Engineer Ky Miller Says G-Unit Has Almost 50 Songs Done Read XXL’s Entire G-Unit Reunion Cover St