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Ever wonder how long you favorite rapper has been actually rapping for? XXL crafted up a gallery of rappers that have been in the game before they could even buy a beer. Find out if your favorite rapper has been rapping since childhood in "Rappers That Have Been In The Game Since They Were Youngins...

Gillie Da Kid's last video found him posing by a Porsche and rapping about how well he's doing. He's apparently still doing just that somewhere in the distance, because he's nowhere to be seen in "Not To Be Fucked With," a video that doesn't showcase such wealth...

After years of crafting chart topping singles and albums, the duo of producer Jermaine Dupri and Mariah Carey has officially come to an end. According to Rap-Up, JD has severed ties with the Pop songstress as her manager because of creative differences...

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Though he’ll be behind bars until 2016, at this point it should be crystal clear that nothing is going to stop Radric Davis — better known as Gucci Mane — from delivering quality street music to the masses. After already releasing a plethora of projects this year, Guwop dropped even more heat for his fans on July 28, the same date that the Brick Squad frontman made a Georgia courtroom appearance.

Lil Boosie just dropped "Crazy" earlier today (Aug. 6), but he follows the release up with the video a few hours later. The song finds him rhyming about darkness and paranoia, and the visual symbolically follows the theme. A muscular Lil Boosie is featured ruminating alone in the dark and left to illustrate the song's tension by himself...

Ronnie Fieg is back at it once again with another ASICS collaboration in the works. The Queens native took to his IG yesterday and teased fans with a preview of the upcoming ASICS Gel Lyte V. The shoe features a turquoise colorway with different shades of green and cyan...

Run The Jewels 2 is likely on the way soon; El-P reported it was fully mixed. Killer Mike shows part of the reason that album is so anticipated on the "About The Money" remix. With Young Thug's floating vocals, "About The Money" is a piece of celebratory excess...

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50 Cent can't even walk through the mall no more. According to a report from TMZ, Fif and his bodyguard were walking through the Burbank Town Center on Sunday when Lazzeri Frazier and his son attempted to get cell phone video footage of the MC. 50 ...

With Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Hypnotic Eye taking the top spot and mainstays like the Frozen soundtrack, Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour and Now 50 still hanging around, there's no room for hip-hop in this week's Top 10. The main success st...

According to TMZ, Soulja Boy is the latest addition to the reality show's West Coast franchise. Apparently the ratchet levels of the Los Angeles edition of the show aren't high enough so producers are bringing in the rapper/producer to get things popping...