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Roc Nation Sports agent Jay Z managed to redeem himself after a last-minute request for a 10-year contract that could have gone sour. According to sources Thursday night revealed by the New York Daily News, Cano’s camp—which includes Jay Z—was close to signing a deal the Seattle Mariners. The deal consist...

2 Chainz was today's guest on ESPN's SportsNation and listed his top 5 MCs in Hip-Hop of all-time. He lists Scarface, Jay Z, Tupac, Nas, and Notorious B.I.G as his top 5. He states that Scarface had a lot to do with the grooming of young black males from the South. He also ...

Queens rapper Bryant Dope continues to prove that he puts lyricism over everything. On the title track to Raw Dope, the East Coast representative flips rhymes about being a new young voice in the game with technical precision. Pay attention: the 20-year-old upstart has got a message that’ll enlighten and educate. C...

Looks like for the start of 2014, 50 Cent will be putting out a new project in January. While doing a press run for the launch of is SMS Audio line of headphones and speakers at the Henri Bendel store on Wednesday (Dec. 4), he announced that a "full body of work" will be released. There mayb...

Just weeks after releasing his sophomore album Knock Madness, Hopsin is planning to hit the road on a 50-city tour. Starting in January 2014, Hop will kick off his tour in Santa, Cruz, Cali. and make stops along the West Coast such as San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and more...

Kanye West visited the Juan Epstein Show to chopped it up with Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds. The interview is really interesting with Kanye discussing meeting Michael Jackson, 808s & Heartbreak, Yeezus, and J Dilla. He also talks about how har...

It had to be a rather awkward moment for acclaimed art dealer Jeffrey Deitch when mistakenly called Diddy, Kanye West. An honest mistake being that Deitch and Diddy have previously met, the NY mogul just laughed it off knowing that Jeffery's mishap was simply a product of all the commotion. ...

Let’s not beat around the bush: No Malice, formerly known as Malice, was really good at rapping about cocaine. Together as Clipse, he and his brother, Pusha T turned it into a fine art, using double entendres and witty wordplay to glorify their time in the trap. That’...

Basel Castle and Pink Dolphin have partnered on a collab hoodie and long sleeve tee for the upcoming Basel Castle event at Art Basel in Miami on Dec. 7.  The line-up will consist of featured performances by: Travi$ Scott, Chance the Rapper, Brodinski, Been Trill, with Art by: Greg Mike, Nosego, Mikos, Angry Woebots to name a few. ...

Last month, Childish Gambino dropped a pretty creative lyric video for his song “3005,” which will appear on his upcoming Because The Internet. The video depicts him web camming with porn star Abella Anderson. Anderson and Gambino type back and forth to each other, with Gambino citing the song’s lyrics. Now he drops the...

Draya is fine. Not just regular fine, Fine Ass Girl fine. So for Selfies Fridays, let's play homage to Draya and all her Glory.

In efforts to pay it forward, Drake has decided to build a recording studio in a Philadelphia High School in celebration of the institution's dramatic drop in crime. With Drizzy's intentions to push the students to invest wisely in their futures, the rapper plans to give this token of both appreciation and inspiration to Philly's Strawberry Mansion High School...