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Hip-hop was extremely active on Instagram this week. As rappers kicked it with top designers, welcomed new family members, got chased by Chuckie and repped for their favorite football player; followers definitely got an inside look into the current happenings of their favorite MCs...

Cash Money Records seems to be scooping up artists of all genres, at will. Could Game be the next rapper to hop in the CM stable? It's well known that the Compton MC is in limbo with his current label situation at Interscope. Rumor has it, Birdman might be trying to persuade him to move his chips over to Cash Money Records...

Def Jam signee August Alsina definitely has a reason to celebrate as his hit single "I Luv This Shit" now reigns on the Urban Radio Chart. Knocking Drake from the top slot, the New Orleans native's breakout record comes to claim the throne nearly six months after its release. ...

Game hasn’t been tight lipped about his frustrations with Interscope. Although he has his ups and downs, the Compton native has fulfilled his contract obligations and confirmed he is now a free agent. “Recently, a free agent. Was signed...

Last week, Forbes released its annual "Hip-Hop Cash Kings" list of the richest hip-hop celebrities in all of music. For the first time in the list's eight-year history, the "Cash Kings" list was topped by Diddy after several years of falling just short after being ranked at No ...

The outcry from Kendrick Lamar's verse on Big Sean's "Control" track has started to die down. But some fans think, Drake tried to spark the conversation up once more with a subliminal shot on the track "The Language" off his latest release, Nothing Was The Same...

When you can lose $1 million in a dice game and not bat an eye like Diddy did last week, chances are, your bank account is at epic proportions. As if you needed any more confirmation that the hip-hop mogul's stash is on Scrooge McDuck status, Forbes releases its annual list of Cash Kings for 2013 and Diddy was once again at the top of the list...

Linking with Rick Ross and Birdman  for the clip, French Montana delivers the visual for "Trap House". Hailing from his debut album, on the track, the rappers address all animosity thrown at them, sending haters a message to mind their business. "Trap House" is...

From Fabolous posting a hilarious picture of Blue Ivy balling to Wale reflecting on his 29th birthday, Instagram was all over the place this week. Other things that also went down were Kirko Bangz encountering Canada's ifamous border control, Big Boi showing off some sick Stankonia vinyls, Birdman unveiling YMCMB water, French Montana posing with hip-hop's human serviette, Nardwuar, and Diddy refl

It was reported earlier today that Snoop Lion won a pound of weed in a bet on the Mayweather-Canelo boxing match on Saturday Night. Snoop is hardly the first rapper to make an outrageous bet. Rappers have a noted love of gambling and when you factor in their considerable resources it can lead to outrageous betting...

From Birdman buying his entire YMCMB team iced out GTV pendants to Big Sean showing love for Tupac during his death anniversary week, hip-hop was a force to be reckoned with on the social network this week. Along with Birdman, Meek Mill also shined up his entire team, 2 Chainz spent some of his "ME Time" with his daughter, Swizz Beatz showed off a stylish old lady, Papoose took bets on t

Imagine a hip-hop song without a single ad-lib, just straight rhyming for three minutes and 30 seconds without a single pause for a laugh or a cool catch phrase. Sounds pretty uneventful, right? Ad-libs are as much a fiber in the fabric of rap as the actual rapping itself...