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Chicago producer Young Chop recently sat down for an interview with VladTV and discussed the burgeoning partnership between Gucci Mane and Chief Keef. The two made waves back in May when Keef signed to Gucci Mane's 1017 Bricksquad imprint and they've since released tracks like "Darker" and the recent "So Much Money," but Chop isn't exactly excited about the ongoing business rel

This past Sunday night, after the VMAs in Brooklyn's Barlcays Center, a long list of stars hit various spots in NYC for after parties. At one, held at the Dream Hotel, an altercation seemed to have broke out between the party's host, Diddy, and Roc Nation rapper J...

Alley Boy released his Meek Mill assisted ode to giant piles of money, "Stack It Up," back in June, but now he's dropped a video that fits the song's cash accumulating ethos. The clip finds the two rappers hanging out in what looks like a very cloudy industrial area—it's a little hard to tell where they are exactly—and trading verses as lights flash in the smoke around them. The vi... R

Bay Area rapper Mistah F.A.B. drops another mixtape on everybody's heads today, this one the appropriately-titled Hella Ratchet. The tape sees Fabby rapping alongside Bay Area stalwarts like E-40 and Clyde Carson—both of whom are featured on the project's first single "Marathon," below—Keak da Sneak, Loverance and Iamsu! as well as...

MMG’s own Torch releases his second volume to No A/C. The tape comes correct with guest features from Young Breed, Gunplay, Papoose, Fred The Godson, DJ Kay Slay and more. You can stream and download it below. Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Powered by DatPiff.com...

Busta plans to put beefing rumors to bed on his next album, Extinction Level Event 2. Linking with Lil Wayne, Kanye, and Q-Tip on "Thank You' a song that has not been released, the YMCMB rapper now refers to the G.O.O.D Music crew as comrades...

Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production which plays on ITV, dropped star Chris Fountain after  video clips of him emerged online, where you see the actor rapping about about rape in his alter-ego, The Phantom. As The Phantom, hi...

After jumping on remixes of hot tracks like "Versace" and "New Slaves" over the last couple months, Angel Haze has released a single from her eagerly anticipated Dirty Gold album. The song is called "Echelon (It's My Way)" and it finds Haze rapping (and singing) about fashion week and finding her own lane over a lush, kinetic beat from producer Markus Dravs (Coldpla

In a ABC News blog column, they give a scientific explanation on twerking. Michelle Olson, a professor of exercise science and a certified strength and conditioning coach at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala., explains the phenomena. “Yo...

Although many may think Dizzy Wright has just come into the hip-hop game, the XXL freshmen has actually spent a lifetime around hip-hop legends. As a youngster with close ties to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dizzy tells XXL that even though he hails from a city not known for rap, he's been prepped for this career his entire life...

On Twitter yesterday, Joe Budden, one quarter of Shady Records' Slaughterhouse, announced two new projects slated to be released by the end of the year.  Budden announced that a new album, All Love Lost, and an EP, Some Love Lost, will both be on their way by the Fall and Winter this year. You can see the a ...

After Miley Cyrus memorable performance on Sunday (August 25) at the MTV 2013 Video Music Awards, "twerking" has been all over the main stream media outlets. Everyone has put in their two cents on Miley Cyrus' jaw-dropping twerkfest. The...