Yeeaahhh!!! After several setbacks, Atlanta hitmaker Lil Jon will finally release his long-delayed Crunk Rock album this spring. The disc, Jon’s first studio album in over four ...

You’ve waited long enough. It’s time to get the 2010 DN Tournament started. Welcome to the most wonderful time of the NP year. The DNCAA selection ...

I figured there were probably shenanigans at play, when I saw that XXL had posted a link yesterday to a story about how Kanye West ...

When I read the other day that R. Kelly is planning to publish a memoir, of course I thought to myself, how in the fuck ...

There were a couple Negro Pleasings in the queue for today that came to a screeching halt in favor of yesterday’s breaking news. Apparently this ...

R&B hitmaker R. Kelly has inked a deal with SmileyBooks—the publishing company of media personality Tavis Smiley—to release his autobiography. Celebrity author David Ritz (Divided Soul: ...

Those New Orleans boys continue to trickle onto The Billboard 200 one by one. Just last Wednesday (December 2) Cash Money co-founder Birdman debuted at ...

I love debating hip-hop just as much as the next man, but lately I’ve been bothered by some of the arguments I’ve gotten myself into. ...

Rappers and R&B singers weren't always requisite bedfellows. While singers like Bobby Brown faced little to no backlash when sprinkling bars between notes, rap listeners ...