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Chicago rapper Chief Keef is hoping to release the third installment of his Bang mixtape series soon, and he's just released the official artwork for it. The cover shows a sketched Keef covering his face with his hand, with a lot of gold jewelry hanging from his body. Kee...

Eminem reclaimed the No. 1 spot in the Billboard Top 200 charts. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 lands back at the top, while Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP moves down to No. 7. That wasn’t the only rap album in the top 10 as Yo Gotti’s I Am sold over 40,000 copies in the first week. Meanwhile, Drake...

Asher Roth visited the Juan Epstein show and he addressed Eminem dissing him on "Asshole," a cut off The Marshall Mathers LP 2. He says he thought it was pretty amazing that Eminem dissed him and he wasn't personally offended. Asher also states that he didn't diss Em subliminally on "As I Em" and "wanted to talk about how he was his own person...

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It seems as if Kanye West can take a joke, after all. According to Kim Kardashian, Kanye's fiancée and his co-star in the "Bound 2" video, Kanye West was a fan of James Franco and Seth Rogen's "Bound 3" parody of the hip-hop power couple's video. Ki...

Eminem delivers an 80's inspired clip for "Rap God", rocking a quite interesting blonde wig. As the video also entails aspects of what technology will morph into come the future, the rapper brings forth an energetic visual paying homage to the fictional British icon Max Headroom...

It's difficult to have one hot song in a year, but two? That will make you feel some type of way. After breaking through on the Billboard Rap charts as an independent artist with the undeniably catchy "Type Of Way" over the summer, Atlanta's Rich Homie Quan hit radio hard again this fall by providing the inescapable chorus to "My Nigga," the Jeezy-assisted, DJ Mustard produced

Kanye West has been doing a lot of radio interviews lately, but yesterday might have been the most noteworthy day of his busy press run in support of the Yeezus tour. Yesterday, audio of West yelling at Sway leaked on the internet but now video footage of the incident has hit the internet...

Tomorrow is a day of indulgence... Thanksgiving might be an occasion to reflect on the many blessings in your life but  it also a day to eat until your stomach implodes from within. On this Day of Days, Americans temporarily forget about their diets, loosen up their belts a notch and cram enough gravy-soaked food product to devolve in a gelatinous brown liquid. ...

Young Jeezy made ends meet moving another type of weight. He was relentless on the streets, making the transition from drug-dealing narrator to one of hip-hop’s biggest names on the corporate level. Through his grind, Jeezy served the block with a string of pre-album mixtapes that established him as a hometown hero. The ...

Jay Z has been shouting out painter Pablo Picasso since his Reasonable Doubt days when he rapped "You draw, better be Picasso, you know the best" on "Friend Or Foe." It seems as if he will now be joining the 20th-century surrealist artist in a new mixed media art piece that will debut in Miami this week. Artis...

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Starlito drops his latest solo project Fried Turkey. As a bonus, the Nashville rapper also let loose alternative versions of “Ain’t Going Back” and “The D.U.I. Song (s),” which now features Young Buck and Danny Brown. Check it out below. A...