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Next month, Cudder's back. Keeping true to his three-month timeline, KiD CuDi will drop his latest musical effort, SATELLITE FLIGHT: The Journey To Mother Moon EP in February. CuDi recently took to his Twitter account to explain his next moves...

  Today marks the 22nd birthday of Mac Miller. The Pittsburgh native gained notoriety after two breakout mixtapes with K.I.D.S. (2010) and Best Day Ever (2011). He would later go on and release two successful albums, Blue Slide Park (2011) and Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), have his own TV show on MTV2 ( Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family) and become a popular producer under his pseud

Shots were reportedly fired following a recent Nipsey Hussle concert in Chicago. Nip is currently on his Proud 2 Pay (Crenshaw Tour) and performed in the Chi on Friday (Jan. 17) night at Reggie's Rock Club. Initially reported by AllHipHop, following the show shots rang out...

Maino continues to put on for his city, this time grabbing French Montana and T.I. for the rowdy track, "Watch Me Do It." This song lives on the BK rapper's forthcoming project King Of Brooklyn EP which drops February 4. Check out "Watch Me Do It," below...

Drake was a busy man last night. As the special guest on the first Saturday Night Live episode of the year, Aubrey performed in various skits as well as taking his talents to the stage to do his rap and sing thing. He performed "Started From The Bottom" as well as his latest output "Trophies...

As promised, Drake made his first appearance on SNL since 2011, last night. The folks over at NBC put Drizzy to good use. Mr. Graham highlighted the first episode of 2014 by channeling his acting skills and performing in several skits including giving his best A-Rod and Lil Wayne impressions...

Atlanta rapper Young Thug, who has been making waves with his up-in-smoke anthem "Stoner" as well as his street hit "Danny Glover," recently announced he will be signing a deal under Future's Freebandz imprint. Initially thought to be a Bricksquad 1017 signee, the inked up MC recently visited DJ Drama and Don Cannon’s Streetz Iz Watchin’ Shade 45 show and revealed the forthcom

Pink Dolphin has partnered up with Liquipel to create a capsule collection of water resistant hats. The Wave Capsule collection will be for sale online and in stores today, Saturday, January 18th. Pink Dolphin is proud to announce being the first apparel company to utilize this technology and are really thrilled Liquipel has chosen to work with them on such a unique collaboration...

Young Buck adds a visual to his run of freestyles and remixes choosing to bring to life his newly minted verse on Future's "Sh!t." Buck keeps it simple spitting for the camera through a black-and-white filter.

After his first collection with French label, A.P.C. sold out in minutes and crashed the store's website, Kanye West is once again partnering with the Parisian clothing company for a new collection of menswear. Ye and A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou recently revealed the new line at a showroom event during Paris Fashion Week...

The murder of The Notorious B.I.G. will go down as one of the biggest unsolved celebrity killings in the modern era. According to Faith Evans, singer and former wife of the late rapper, the Los Angeles Police Department has known the truth about the rapper's slaying but has kept their findings under wraps. Eva...

Twitter this week was certainly one of new beginnings as ScHoolboy Q dropped the visuals for "Man Of The Year," Wale tweeted for the first time in months, and Outkast unleashed some of the dates for their long awaited return in their 2014 festival tour...