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E-40 is gearing up to release three albums, The Block Brochure Welcome To The Soil Parts 4, 5 and 6 sometime soon. He released the cover art for the albums back in June. Now the Bay Area OG reveals the tracklist for the three forthcoming albums, and it is massive. The albums of ...

Drake's current Would You Like A Tour? is in full swing and runs through December. Starting in March 2014, Drizzy will cross the pond with The Weeknd for the European leg of the popular mobile show. The dates were announced today. Drake will perform 11 shows in the month of March hitting up Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Liverpool, London and more...

Wedding bells are in the air! Over the last week, two of hip-hop's biggest power couples announced that they were getting married. Kanye West and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian along with Atlanta rapper/singer Future and R&B singer Ciara are both planning to tie the knot in the near future. ...

Mariah Carey is working on her new album, the followup to her 2009 effort, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (though she also recorded a Christmas album in 2010), and she's hit up Nas, Hit-Boy and Mike WiLL Made It to help collaborate. But it's...

Iggy Azalea voiced her opinion on Twitter earlier today on the issue of Halloween costumes that are unnecessarily revealing. The prevailing opinion is that on Halloween, you can dress as provocatively as you want for one day, or weekend, without being judged. Well, af...

Italian fashion house Moschino has just announced Jeremy Scott as the brands new creative director. Jeremy Scott is a 39-year old american designer with his own label and has done a tremendous amount of product collaborations with Adidas Original Products. Thi...

Casey Veggies is still striving to be the best. Earlier this year, Young Veggies impressed everyone with his Life Changes mixtape that proved he’s grown as an artist exponentially. Since then, the 20-year-old has had a great year so far; appearing on Earl Sweatshirt’s Doris and making waves as a must-see act of CMJ 2013. XXL got th...

Pharrell's year just keeps on getting astronomically better. According to Huffington Post, Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer will write the score for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is not the first time this dynamic duo teamed up. They have worked together on Despicable Me and this year's superman movie, Man of Steel. Amazi...

Bronx's The Kid Daytona returns with a suit and tie affair in the form of his latest mixtape, Savoir Faire. The 15-track offering has somewhat of a prestigious feel, for the most part, and features the previously released track "Damier Suitcases" featuring Raekwon...

If the 650,000 sold the first week of Drake's Nothing Was The Same was not enough, last night's packed show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center further confirmed that Drizzy is indeed in near reach of the throne. Giving off the aura of a future legend, Drake fully delivered at what he referred to as his New York birthday celebration...

This morning, SPIN published a fascinating story on the world of deaf and hearing-impaired rappers and their struggles and triumphs within the genre. The story follows a handful of artists, one, Prinz-D, based in Virginia, Warren "Wawa" Snipe and DJ Supalee, both from Washington, D.C., ...

DJ Quik is one of the greatest rapper/producers that Los Angeles has ever produced. It's a tradition that has produced Madlib, Daz Dillinger The Alchemist and Dr. Dre. Thus, it came as a complete shock yesterday when Quik announced on Twitter that he was selling his production equipment and calling it quits for the foreseeable future ...