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The Fourth of July stands for independence for some, but for others it symbolizes the sacrifices that unfortunately must be made to maintain that freedom. For his latest visual, for the track "Fourth Of July," award-winning Chicago rapper and aspiring politician, Rhymefest, focuses on the latter...

There aren’t too many women in the world that look good and can kick your ass at a moment’s notice. Ronda Rousey is one of them.  Looking at her I honestly wouldn’t mind her putting me in a rear naked chokehold.—Nathaniel Mathison

Last month, the Odd Future offshoot, MellowHype, consisting of Hodgy Beats and Left-Brain, announced they would be releasing a free album to the masses, their first project since 2012's Numbers. Today, the duo keeps true to their word giving out the free LP, I...

There’s plenty of new music to sift through. How do you know what is good or bad? Well, that’s where we come in. Aside from a busy week of interesting news, there’s always a plethora of dope music that drops. Sometimes it’s out of nowhere, and sometimes it is promoted and released right when we expect it. As rap heads, we are a...

MMG's latest acquisition Tracy T has been working to build his buzz up to the status of fellow label mates, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Wale and Fat Trel. In late May he made a push by releasing his mixtape, The Wolf Of All Streets, which featured Meek, Ross, Que, Offset of the Migos and others...

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After recently shutting down the Los Globos Night Club in Los Angeles with the help of A$AP Mob, Mike G and A$ton Matthews, Joey Fatts hits the people with an ambitious Vince Staples assisted track titled, "Million $ Dreams." The two upcoming rappers spit about their tumultuous come up and aspirations of prosperity...

With his name bubbling once again, after taking credit for stopping Rick Ross' Detroit Summer Jamz performance, Motor City ambassador Trick Trick returns with new music in the form of a new single with fellow D-town MCs Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" titled "Twerk Dat, Pop Dat...

On this day, July 4, in hip-hop history…  1986: Up and coming record producer, Rick Rubin, pulledout a vinyl record of a semi popular rock band named Aerosmith, and showed this to his then loosely managed musical colleagues, Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell and recommended they do a rendition of their critically acclaimed song “Walk This Way.” Astonis

Miracle Watts is a thing beauty. So for today's edition of Selfies Friday we honor her.

Beats by Dre takes its football fan support to the streets announcing super LTD Edition collab with Pigalle and Beastin. In time for the big World Cup match today between Germany vs. France, all three brands release a two special shirts in support of both teams...

XXL 2014 Freshman Lil Durk has one less issue on his hands after recently deading his beef with Game. But the truce was only able to take place because cooler heads prevailed during a tense situation. Durk was recently interviewed L.A. Leakers and gave commentary on the pre-truce footage that surfaced of Durk and Game's crews confronting each other at a club during BET Awards weekend...