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Chicago's Chance The Rapper stopped by BET's 106 & Park last night and dropped some knowledge on Bow Wow during his interview segment. The Acid Rap artist took the opportunity to talk about his strategic take-over of the rap game, citing the "guns and butter" speech from John Singleton's 2001 film Baby Boy and explaining why he hasn't signed with a label yet...

The upstate New York mansion Dame Dash went to court in May to try to save from losing has been abandoned by the Roc-A-Fella co-founder who left behind sprawled clothes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia, reports DailyMail. Apparently Dash's plea with a judge for more time to save his home didn't result in any positive moves...

They say that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but often the human instinct to make snap judgments overcomes that sentiment. We all do it, and we can't help it. As human beings, we are psychologically inclined to judge what we see at face value regardless of our better inclinations to do otherwise. That is ...

Joey Bada$$, Ab-Soul, Pro Era affiliate Kirk Knight and another yet to be identified crew member were detained by police officers in St. Louis, last night. The rappers are in town for the Smokers Club Tour 2013. Instagram video has emerged which shows Joey and Soulo being handcuffed with the Pro Era front man implying that there was no reason given for their detainment at that point...

The trill is back. Bun B returns with a new album next month entitled, Trill OG: The Epilogue. Today, we get the album art and track list for the Texas legend's forthcoming LP, which will serve as the last in the Trill OG series. “The Epilogue is the perfect opportunity to release some great material to the fans and a proper final chapter for the trill-ogy," said Bun of the project. "Go

Ed. Note: A Tribe Called Quest's Phife will be writing a regular, monthly column throughout the NBA season where he'll combine player and coach interviews with discussions with other rappers and analysis of the season's progress. This first installment season Phife predict how the Eastern Conference will shake out...

Today, Joey Bada$$ releases the retail edition of his Summer Knights EP, which features the entire original tracks and two new ones (“My Jeep” and “My Yout”). To keep the momentum going, Joey drops a video for “My Yout.” Summer is apparently not ov...

The debut mixtape from the newly formed Serial Killers—a California super-group featuring B-Real, Xzibit and Demrick—doesn't drop until Halloween, but the crew is looking to get the festivities started a little early. Today they've premiered with XXL a new track, "Wanted," which builds on the uncoiled intensity and visceral energy of early track "The First 48." Over a sc... Rea

On this day, October 29, in hip-hop history... 2002: Before the release of the Eminem’s semi-biographical film, 8 Mile, the highly anticipated soundtrack was released.  Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile featured the movie’s star, Eminem, his co-star Taryn Manning’s band BoomKat, Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, D12, Obie Trice, Macy Gray, Xzibit, Freeway, Gang Starr, Rakim and Young Zee. T

Drake is performing at the Barclays Center for his Would You Like A Tour? Tour in New York City. During intermission, Drake’s DJ Future The Prince wanted to give the Brooklyn crowd a special gift for the occasion. He premiered the Hit-Boy-produced “Trophies” that didn’t appear on Nothing Was The Same. Backed by some brass h...

This weekend Redman released a video for "Pump Ya Breaks," an infectious ode to responsible driving, and along with the video he also dropped a full mixtape packed with remixes. The 20-track compilation, logically titled Remixxes, finds the rapper spitting over old and new instrumentals, bringing that classic Redman flow...

Compton rapper/producer DJ Quik made a surprise announcement today that he was selling of all his production equipment and would not remix or engineer material going forward. If the legendary Cali artist is planning to formally retire from music, it would be a huge blow to L...