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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...

Ryan Roman is the 19-year-old entrepreneur and CEO of 101 Custom Kicks. Roman has been creating some of the most stellar and eye-catching sneakers for the past year that have been featured in the best sneaker blogs and have been worn by popular sneakerheads just like him...

The Jordan Future continues to surprise this Summer, as the silhouette will see a release in a "Black Tiger Camo." Featuring a black base, the shoe gets the camouflage in 3M that reflects once light hits, while the rest dons an ominous black tone...

The Isley Brothers have been sample magnets for hip-hop producers for many years. Today, Raekwon chooses their classic, "Footsteps In The Dark" to continue his Throwback Thursday series. Rae spits velure raps over the smoothed-out IB track which was famously used on Ice Cube's '92 hit "Today Was A Good Day...

Earlier this year, Slim Thugs was "Flex(n) 4Eva" with Boston George and Beat King. Today, the 6-6 Houston vet (and unofficial Rockets spokesperson) takes a different route hopping on Mike Will Made It's artist Rae Sremmurd’s burgeoning radio hit, "No Flex Zone." He'...

On this day, July 4, in hip-hop history…  1992: Twenty-two years ago rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot garnered the biggest hit of his career, “Baby Got Back.” The single dedicated to women with curvaceous backsides would earn the Seattle-born MC the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 1...

Watch for the hook. Migos' latest hit "Fight Night" has been gaining momentum fast since the release of their last mixtape No Label 2. Today, Tyga takes notice and drop his vocals on the Stack Boy Twan track while leaving Quavo, Offset and Takeoff's verses intact...