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It's been four years since Trae Tha Truth's last album, Street King, hit shelves, but that doesn't mean the Houston vet has been idle. Instead, the H-Town MC has redoubled his grind, signing on with T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records, dropping five solo mixtapes and a collaborative EP and popping up with star guest spots on projects by everyone from Bun B, Jadakiss, Juvenile, Tip and Tech N9ne to Gucci M

Angel Haze is not the girl you think she is. In fact, she's not a girl at all. Instead, the Detroit-born MC identifies as agender, meaning neither masculine or feminine, and stresses that pronouns like "he" and "she" not be used. Like the grunge-meets-Eazy-E inspired fashion sense or agile, militant new lyrical prowess the MC possesses, it's just one more way Haze defies every

Considered one of the pioneers of Southern hip-hop, Pimp C's legacy continues to live on thanks to people like Julia Beverly, publisher and editor-in-chief of Ozone Magazine, who has penned the late and great UGK member's new biography, Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story...

As the man who partnered with Ice Cube to craft one of the best comedies of the 21st century, Friday, it was only right that F. Gary Gray link with Cube again to create another film, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. Discreetly on board since 2011, Gray and the famed rapper set out this time not to just tell the story of the hoods across America, but to chronicle the personal journey that i

Ten years ago, some men with rhymes changed the face of hip-hop music.

It hardly seems like it’s been over a decade since the release of “Lean Back,” when radio stations nationwide had the whole country doing the “rock-a-way.” But alas, Fat Joe has slimmed down and the Terror Squad seems like a thing of the past, especially since Remy Ma left the group in 2007 and subsequently turned herself into police after being convicted of a shooting outside of a Manhattan night

After Drake took aim at Meek Mill with "Charged Up" and "Back to Back," Meek finally responds with "Wanna Know" featuring Quentin Miller. The record, premiered by Funk Flex, includes what is said to be the actual audio from the reference track Drake allegedly used on "Know Yourself...