Rap-A-Lot Records, the Houston-based record label that made a name for itself in the early 1990s with the Geto Boys and then went on to be the home of UGK, Slim Thug and Devin The Dude, among others, has signed a new major distribution deal with RED, a subsidiary of Sony Music...
You might say that Kendrick Lamar has the BET Hip-Hop Awards under... "Control." Bad jokes aside, King Kendrick netted 14 nominations for the awards which will be taped at Atlanta’s Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center before premiering on BET on October 15. Lama...
Yo Gotti will be hitting the road this fall to promote his upcoming I Am album, the follow-up to his 2012 full-length Live From The Kitchen. The tour, which will logically be called the I Am tour, will find the Memphis rapper teaming up with rappers YG, Zed Zilla, Shy Glizzy and Ca$h Out for a series of dates that starts in Virginia on September 13 and ends in New York on November 19...
Just when you thought people were done weighing in on Kendrick Lamar's "Control" verse, someone else comes back with another take on the subject. This time it's Skillz, the rapper behind the annual "Rap Up" series, offering his perspective on Kendrick's lyrical firebomb in an interview with Revolt...
West, west, y’all. Daz Dillinger and WC return with fellow West Coast native Snoop Dogg in the new visuals for “Stay Out The Way.” Directed by DJ Pooh, the trio rep gangsta ish with blue Chucks, Crips talk and blunt blowing. The track is fro...
Pusha T was the guest on MTV’s Rapfix earlier today. Naturally, he had some big announcements to share with his fans, namely an official release date for his solo debut album, as well as some key features that should get you excited.
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Macklemore sat down for an extensive interview as part of the CRWN series presented by Myspace, and dished on a number of topics from his come up in hip-hop, his struggles with drug addiction, and the experience of being a white rapper accepted by the mainstream...
2 Chainz took to Instagram today—following his arrest after his tour bus was stopped outside of Oklahoma City today—and dropped the tracklist to his highly-anticipated sophomore album B.O.A.T.S 2: #MeTime. The album will feature the Hair Weave Killer teaming up with the likes of T-Pain, Drake, Lil Wayne, Rich Homie Quan, Ma$e, and a bunch more.
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Earlier in the week Future teamed up with R. Kelly for the smooth "Tear It Up," and now he's back with another big guest appearance, this time adding his perpetually spaced-out warble to a track from B.o.B called "Ready." Following up the 2 Chainz-assisted banger "Headband", this track finds B...
In an exclusive interview with MTV, Joey Bada$$ met with Brooklyn hip-hop legend, Buckshot, to discuss the history and future of Brooklyn hip-hop in Coney Island this week. Buckshot, a founding member of Brooklyn's celebrated hip-hop group, Black Moon, told the upstart teenaged rapper that he felt that his burgeoning Pro Era movement was part of a "new golden age" for Brooklyn hip-hop...
On Sunday it will have been 15 years since Lauryn Hill dropped her solo debut album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. While the project displayed Hill's incredible musical ambition and an advanced level of lyrical dexterity on a number of tracks, it was not the first time we heard L-Boogie spit bars with finesse...