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Last night, J. Cole's highly anticipated second installment of the Dollar And A Dream Tour touched down in his second home, NYC, at the Highline Ballroom. Created to celebrate the five-year-anniversary of his epic career-changing mixtape, The Warm Up, the tour offered fans a show filled with classic hits all for a $1...

Dreamville's own Bas started off his album rollout with this single "Charles De Gaulle To JFK," which described his journey from his hometown Paris to his new home in Queens. After J. Cole's Dollar And A Dream Tour stopped in NYC at Highline Ballroom, Bas decided to release the official video for the song off Last Winter... Read More ...

Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has been riding a hot hand lately. After re-signing NBA megastar LeBron James, Gilbert revealed that he invested $40 million into the "Genius Project," formerly known as Rap Genius. Gilbert made the announcement via his blog, Choose Thinking, explaining how he got involved with Genius, his belief that hip-hop has been "one of the most influenti

August Alsina has had no problem filling in his recent role as hook man regardless of the artist. After doing the same for Houston's Kirko Bangz, Alsina justaposes Que's warbly auto-tune in "Diamonds." On this Jazz Feezy-produced cut, Alsina and Que focuses on a topic they know quite well: The come-up and the folks who're trying to get down because of it. The...

Kevin Durant recently released his newest model of the KD line with Nike in the KD 7. Keeping the momentum going from his previous model, the KD 6, Nike has decided to drop the very eye-catching KD 6 Elite "Supremacy" sneaker. The shoe comes in a vivid blue upper, with bits of metallic gold complimenting the sneaker design...

Vic Mensa, one of the more inventive artists coming out of Chicago, opens the video musing about how monotonous the game has become. So he does what every reasonable person would do: Take a drug — called "fun" — through an ear drop (a surprise that hasn't caught on yet) and starts living it up. What follo...

Rich Homie Quan is still making clubbing tracks even with allegedly crazy women chasing him. "She Crazie," a track led by Atlanta rhymer Columbia BT, is an ode to that struggle. Over snaps and an aquatic beat, Columbia BT and Rich Homie Quan addresses what probably isn't the Webster's definition of crazy...

Coming off the release of his "Cut Her Off" remix video and his SlumLords mixtape, K Camp drops a free track called "I Don't." Backed by production by K.Lawrence, the Atlanta rapper lays down bars about how he has nothing to prove to his haters...

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Publisher: Telltale Games Developer: Telltale Games Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, PS Vita, and iOS Release Date: Available now   We've finally reached the end of Telltale Games' episodic series The Wolf Among Us, a journey that has been filled with its share of ups and downs. Wit...

Fabolous drops the video for "Sacrifice." Speaking of tough times and tangible things in the video, Fab crafts up quite an insightful visual. "Sacrifice" appears on Soul Tape 3.

XXL Freshman Kevin Gates is just kicking off  his By Any Means Tour. Prior to all this success, the Baton Rouge rapper was running with the likes of Birdman and Lil Wayne. According to Gates, during his interview with VladTV, he revealed that he learned a lot from Birdman and Wayne. ...