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During an appearance at Cipha Sounds' Take It Personal at the UCB Theater in New York City, Brooklyn rapper Lil Cease spoke about the time that Cease and his late friend The Notorious B.I.G. were to meet legendary pop singer Michael Jackson at the late singer's personal studio to record Biggie's collaboration with Michael Jackson, "This Time Around." ...

Ja Rule is finally out of jail, and we’re finally getting some new releases from him. In addition to releasing new tracks like "Eerrthang," Ja Rule recently made headlines with Irv Gotti by talking about resurrecting the Murder Inc. name...

Along with many triumphs, hip-hop has also had its fair share of epic fails. Whether it was a spur of the moment occurrence or a well thought out plan, some things that went down in rap culture are just too confusing to fathom. From Eve's unknown stripper past to Nas wearing the most demeaning shirt possible to the Grammys, like many circles,hip-hop has had to bite the bullet a few times... Read M

Can you come up with a funny quote? Place your caption in the “Comments” section below. The best caption will be announced today at 4 p.m. Happy captioning! Winner:: "What's 50 Gwand to a baby like me! Can you pwease wemind me!" by Cy Tiger ...

Rich Homie Quan was by HipHopSince1987 stopped on the green carpet at the BET Hip-Hop Awards last weekend in his hometown of Atlanta, where he was asked about his "Type of Way" remix and the new projects he's been working on. "I want to drop a new mixtape for the streets before the year is over before that debut album," he said when asked about new music...

Troy Ave isn’t slowing down his output for new music. He says of his latest Keymix for Katy Perry’s “Roar": i was in the Studio fukin around sippin champagne wit 1 of my lady friends with MTV on mute. when this @KatyPerry ROAR video came on and she said "Oh Turn It Up this My Song" i instantaneously got inspired to make KEYMiX more suitable to the streets. & with that said... R

After serving an 18-month sentence on weapons charges, Young Buck was released from prison today, according to the rapper's Twitter account. The formerly G-Unit-affiliated rapper released a new track, "Rage," in September and recently skated $171,000 in debt in a bankruptcy case involving his former G-Unit associate 50 Cent...

Cali jack of all trades, Terrace Marin continued to establish himself as a viable solo artist with his August release, 3ChordFold. Today, TM offers the video for track number 12 off the album with the Ill Camille-directed visual for "You're The One...

Lil Durk is building his own empire. Recently, Durk merged with French Montana’s Coke Boyz label and released “L’s Anthem (Remix)” as their first collaboration. Now, the Def Jam signee is recruiting his own artists for his OTF imprint. The first is Newark’s ...

Revolt is gearing up to launch their new network, Revolt TV, on October 21 in major cities including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago on Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The multi-platform, multi-genre network looks to be geared towards the millennial generation, bringing a plethora of content in music, art, culture, and news...

Linking with Nicki Minaj, Fabolous and French Montana for "I B On That," Meek Mill presents an array of hip-hop's top emcees in the new visual. Transitioning from a show to a party and ultimately a strip club, the rappers show off the extravagant life in which they indulge on the daily...

After congress failed to reach a compromise on the budget last night, the U.S. federal government officially was shut down at midnight on October 1. The GOP-controlled House Of Representatives continued to demand changes in Obamacare, seeking to defund the new healthcare initiative as the price of funding standard federal activities which the Democratically-controlled Senate sees as a non-starter