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Now that we're at the halfway mark of the year, it's time to look back at some of the best mixtapes and free EPs that have come out in 2014. As we pointed out in our 25 Best Albums of 2014 (So Far) yesterday, at this time last year the heavy-hitters were rolling out their major albums, while we'd already gotten great tapes from Waka Flocka (DuFlocka Rant 2), Big K...

This time last year, albums from Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, J Cole, Mac Miller and Wale—with a Jay Z album right around the corner—had already dropped, providing hip-hop heads with plenty to talk about at the halfway mark of the year. In 2014, t...

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After a few setbacks, Ab-Soul’s new album These Days... has arrived. On the 15-track effort, Soulo says the concept behind the LP is self-explanatory, attempting to capture and describe everything that's happening in hip-hop today. “I j...

After a three-year break, Jennifer Lopez has returned with a new album, A.K.A. Although her hiatus was relatively brief (she has released 10 albums in 15 years, after all), a fair amount has changed. For one, female pop music has lost some of its gloss thanks to Beyoncé’s recent self-titled album, which was lush and dark and avoided the cheesiness that often comes with the genre’s big-name releas

Here are 64 rappers who chose, for one reason or another, to take on new rap names as their careers have gone on.

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Months before Summer Jam arrives, rap fans are already mulling over the possible instances that are bound to happen. Yesterday marked the 21st annual concert hosted by Hot 97 and had plenty of great moments to offer. The inescapable was the fact that 50 Cent was performing for the first time since 2004, where he was banned after him and his crew engaged some old nemeses...

This weekend, 50 Cent will take the stage at Hot 97's Summer Jam for the first time in a decade, after his infamous chair throwing incident left him banned for life from the station in 2004. He may be one of the most high-profile, but 50 is far from the only rapper who has been banned from a venue, an event, a radio station, a University, or even a nation, even if reports earlier this week that Ya

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