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In the November 2013 issue of famed publication Vanity Fair, Jay Z will be gracing the upcoming cover of the magazine. In the magazine's cover story written by Lisa Robinson, Hov opens up about selling drugs, his daughter's musical tastes his candid thoughts on Obama winning the election and responds to Forbes recent estimation of his $500 million dollar financial worth...

Explaining that he was less conscious about his image when he first started in the hip-hop game, B.o.B says that with his new album he will indeed unveil all of himself. Though at first he was not too concerned about which records he appeared on, the rapper now wants to stray away from the pop genre and return to his hip-hop roots...

Top Dawg Entertainment is definitely a record label on the rise, with a roster that includes Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, Jay Rock and up-and-coming songtress, SZA. Next up is 21-year-old Chattanooga, Tennessee spitter Isaiah Rashad who recently signed on the dotted line with the burgeoning imprint...

This year’s biggest hip-hop releases—from Drake’s Nothing Was The Same to Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail—were driven by a desire to capitalize on today’s social media-centered zeitgeist. This is a necessary tactic when you’re trying to make a case as a central voice in media and pop culture, and both those albums succeeded in their goals to varying degrees. What makes the quietly anticipated Event

A day after finally dropping their luxury-dipped video for "Versace," Migos teams back up with Rich The Kid for the second installment of their mixtape series, Streets On Lock 2. The tape, 14 tracks long bookended by a quick intro/outro, features production from Zaytoven, MurdaBeatz, MPC Cartel, StackBoyTwan, Knucklehead and Mercy, while PeeWee LongWay, Chill Will, Yakki Diviosi and Jose

Iggy Azelea is on the cover of Paper magazine's October issue. The 2012 XXL Freshman class member has been making waves in hip-hop recently, putting out her hit single "Work," signing to Island Def Jam in April and gearing up for her upcoming major-label debut LP, The New Classic. The 23-y...

Photography By: Lucas Farrar (@MrFarFetched) Last night (September 30) marked a big moment for Danny Brown. The Detroit MC’s debut album, Old, isn’t releasing until October 8, but fans have the opportunity to stream it in full on Spotify. Danny held...

The Black Album is highly regarded as one of Jay Z’s best works and coveted largely because of its production value. One of the projects most random pairings is the DJ Quik produced, “Justify My Thug.” Hov’s Life+Times recently chopped it up with the Cali rapper/beat maker for their Decoded segment and got him to break down his involvement with the song. According to Quik, he ...

On September 16, Young Money president and rapper Mack Maine—real name Jermaine Preyan—was formally charged with sexual battery charges, stemming from an August 22 incident in Oklahoma City while on tour with Lil Wayne's America's Most Wanted festival. According ...

The A$AP Mob are the latest emcees to grace the stage at The Arsenio Hall Show.  Both A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg, decked in all black, hyped up the set performing Ferg's Shabba Ranks-inspired ode. Presented with the "Rockie Of The Year" award over the weekend at the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Ferg, accompanied by a band, ripped the red-themed set alongside Rocky at Arsenio's haven. Per... Read Mo

Nike strikes again with the Nike Air Max 90 Mid "Legion Brown". Nike has heightened the craft of the silhouette and also adding an additional inner sole lining. The added color-ways and fabrics also makes this a unique delivery featuring an suede olive  & brown upper, orange lacing and of-white rubber sole. These N...

With Breaking Bad coming to an end on Sunday (Sept. 29), I've been thinking a lot about the series finale of The Wire, the greatest 94 minutes of television of all time. The main takeaway from that episode is the concept of circles, or regeneration; Marlo becomes the new Stringer Bell, Jimmy is staring down the barrel of a career spent on the back burner like Lester, Chris Partlow enters the frate