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Expect for the Drake vs. Lil Wayne tour to be rap battle competition when it kicks off on August 8.  It’s going to be a showdown. Weezy told MTV News that his manager Cortez Bryant came up with the battle idea, and he is excited to see where it goes. “Since...

Young Dolph teams up with MMG's DJ Scream for his latest mixtape, High Class Street Music 4 (American Gangster). The fourth version finds Dolph rapping alongside established names like 2 Chainz, Trinidad Jame$, Gucci Mane, Trae Tha Truth, Problem and many more...

Drake has always credited his dad for being a smooth guy. Well, apparently, Drake has proof to show that his dad's pimp game is indeed serious. Yesterday, on his Instagram, Drake posted a picture of his father cuddled up with a bombshell of a woman...

Jazmine Sullivan drops her new video "Dumb" featuring Meek Mill. The clip is inspired by the show Cheaters and is full of muppets. Check it out above. Jazmine's EP Reality Show is dropping soon.

It's always exciting to see hip-hop artists team up with musicians from other genres of music. The blending of sounds from opposite sides of the spectrum can often produce a fresh take that can be very rejuvenating. That was the case when Big Boi teamed up with electronic rock duo Phantogram for tracks "Objectum Sexuality," "CPU" and "Lines" off 2012's Vicious Lies A

B.o.B drops off the visual for "Many Rivers." Sporting a look strongly reminiscent to that of Malcolm X, B.o.B travels back to the days of The Civil Right Movement in the clip. Press play. "Many Rivers" appears on B.o.B's No Genre Pt...

The record breaking box office success of Ride Along has Ice Cube and Kevin Hart gearing up for a sequel. Hart began sharing photos on Instgram Monday after the duo finished their first day of shooting. Next to a photo of him and Cube he wrote, “Day 1 couldn’t of went better…the chemistry that me & @icecube have is dope as hell….We picked up right where we l...

Update (Oct. 14 12:30 P.M.):  Raekwon has announced that Fly International Luxurious Art (F.I.L.A.) is being pushed back to next year becuase he wants to concentrate on Wu-Tang's upcoming album A Better Tomorrow. Check the fly shi...

Looks like Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran may have not thrown in the towel just yet. Yesterday on Twitter, Karrueche's manager let it be known that the whispers of a breakup between the two are just "rumors." Talk began circulating of a break-up after both Chris and Karrueche deleted all pictures of each other from their social pages...

As the world waits for Common's newest project Nobody's Smiling, one of this year's most anticipated album of 2014, the Chicago native has been in the media a lot. After signing a new deal with Def Jam, he spoke on why he elected to work with Vince Staples (“Kingdom”) and what he learned from him while making the album. The Chi-Town rapper wrote a letter ...

Nicki Minaj has never shied away from showing love to her boss Lil Wayne.  Yesterday the "Pill N Potions" rapper gifted Wayne with a large red neon light sign the read "TUNE." She posted a picture of the gift on Instagram stating that she had purchased the sign after he made fun of the one she had in her studio. ...