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Just about every celeb you can think of hit up Kanye's concert  the other day. Hitting ATL for the festivities, B.o.B, 2 Chainz, T.I., Lil Wayne and others all showed Yeezy support at the show. Check out the photos. Photos By Freddie O

Life in the limelight is not easy, especially if you're the rapping son of Forrest Gump. Chet Haze, also known as Chester M. Hanks, is an MC and the son of actor Tom Hanks. The 20-something Northwestern graduate has had moderate success in the music game, opening for acts like LMFAO and releasing a number of videos on YouTube that have over 200,000 views each...

DJ Esco is best known as Future’s current tour DJ. He’s also the same person who introduced Future to Mike Will a few years ago, which is a blessing since they’ve made numerous hits together. On December 17, Esco is releasing No Sleep featuring the likes of Future, Meek Mill, Rocko, Yo Gotti, DJ Khaled, Birdman and French Montana. The first taste ...

If you're in Canada over the holidays, make sure to check out MGK's second annual Raging With Reindeer II  Tour. Traveling through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, the EST 19XX / Bad Boy / Interscope recording artist will perform tracks off Black Flag, as well as fan favorites from debut album Lace Up. Che...

You don't have to listen to a rapper expound on their life's philosophy for very long to hear that many consider hip-hop to be a "competitive sport." If we consider that particular chestnut of conventional wisdom to be true then one of the ways you can measure who is winning "the game" is by going to the statistics...

Kanye West recently threatened to sue the person who captured a video of him proposing to Kim Kardashian, but everyone will soon be able to see the elaborate ceremony. A teaser of season nine of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, the wildly popular "reality" television show that follows around Kim and her family, has been released, and it features footage of Kanye and Kim in AT&T Park

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means." Kanye West said those words in an interview with the New York Times back in June and he's been hammering this point home in almost every press appearance since then...

On Diplo's BBC Radio 1 show, Diplo and Friends, Diplo dropped a pretty impressive two-hour hip-hop mix called “Rollerskating Thru The Universe” that will make your Monday so much better. He touches on about every era in hip-hop from early hip-hop, golden era hip-hop, ’90s hip-hop, to Southern hip-hop, the playlist is pretty impressive. Classics like Afrika Bamba...

The 1990s have come and gone, and with them went a generation of some of the most talented women hip-hop has ever seen. Hip-hop has often been described as a young man's game—with the operative word being man—but today's crop of female MCs can give the Golden Era a run for its money. Nicki Mina...

Snoop Dogg wears many hats. On December 10, the Godfather of rap will be taking on his new moniker as Snoopzilla for his project with producer Dâm-Funk. 7 Days Of Funk aims to goes heavy with funk and easy with the chilled-out grooves. Snoo...

After reuniting at last year's Coachella music festival, it seems as though Los Angeles hip-hop group Jurassic 5 is getting back together for good. In a recent interview, group member Chali 2na said J5 will be going on tour together next year...