The Wire

After less than a year in the music scene, New York crooner Mack Wilds has already attained serious status, even nabbing a Best Urban Contemporary Album Grammy nomination for his debut LP New York: A Love Story which put him up alongside the likes of Salaam Remi and Rihanna. Kno...

Phonte is a noted fan of Breaking Bad, and often takes to Twitter to unload his opinions on both that show and others. Last night, he began comparing rappers to different television shows, with entertaining results and some spot-on parallels; Jay Z as The Wire, Nas as Breaking Bad and Rakim as The Sopranos being the holy trinity that he identifies. Check the twe...

The Brooklyn actor shares the songs that helped him prepare for The Wire's most memorable character...

It's been 10 years since the HBO masterpiece first aired. XXL looks back at the 15 best references to the show in raps...

A new flick based on the life of ODB and his relationship with one of his managers, Jarred Weisfeld, called Dirty White Boy is in the works and set to star The Wire's Michael K. Williams...

The rapper/actor will be appearing in an herb-related comedy this spring/summer...

Stranger things have happened.

Before there was the rapper Boss there was the real American gangster and he got something to say...

Jay-Z's non-rap business ventures stay losing money.

Williams speaks on rappers-turned-actors...

Method Man will be heading to the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, UT later this month for a screening of The Wackness, his latest film venture.