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This week, 50 Cent released his is the fifth studio album, Animal Ambition. To keep the promotional run moving, Fif is gathering his rhyming brothers—Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, and Tony Yayo—for a special performance on June 8 at Webster Hall in NYC. Fans who b...

UPDATE:  Migos will drop their album Y.R.N. 2  around Thanksgiving. The Atlanta trio stopped by XXL to share some information on the release date for their highly anticipated debut. "Y.R.N. 2 is going to come out around the winter time," says Quavo.  "As soon as the w...

After ScHoolboy Q hinted that the release date of These Days... would be on June 3, Ab-Soul has made it official that his album is slated for later in the month through a video. With visuals by Dave Free & APLUS FILMZ, Ab is carrying a cross to the top of the mountain in the video for "Stigmata...

UPDATE: The cast of Bad Rap were on Hot 97 and chopped it up with Cipha Sounds and why this documentary is necessary. Watch above. ---- Asian-American rappers are a rare breed in hip-hop. In the early days, legends like Mountain Brothers, Jin and Lyrics Born were able to thrive and make successful careers out of themselves. Eve...

Lil Wayne is back with a new episode of Weezy Wednesdays. After going through a lengthly explanation on why a side chick is a healthy solution to your relationship, Weezy previews a snippet of the song called "Side Bitch." Backed by some hard drums, the track sounds like it'll be an banger...

Over the Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, Wiz Khalifa was charged with possession of marijuana in El Paso, TX after it was found during a security check. After showing no signs of stress with a jail selfie and a #FreeTrapWiz campaign, Wiz was apparently freed just in time to make his set time at Soundset Music Festival in Minneapolis...

New York's own Nitty Scott, MC offers up some new tunes to start off your Memorial Day weekend. After her successful EP, The Boombox Diaries, Vol. 1 and her freebie mixtape Doobies & Popsticks, the 23-year-old spitter comes forth with her first proper project. Th...

Yo Gotti’s rise to the mainstream wasn’t an easy journey. After an output of mixtapes that included his underground series Cocaine Muzik, Gotti got his big break when his album, I Am, cracked the top ten album sales in the first week. Never one ...

Deniro Farrar drops his new EP Rebirth today. The Show & Prove alum declares himself as the leader of cult rap. The hazy theme, demonic vocals, and left-field production dominates Rebirth, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The North Carolina MC has established himself in this lane and champions it completely...

After several jail stints that date back to when he was 12 years old, young Chicago rapper, Fredo Santana, began on working toward his plan to seriously pursue rap as a career. With the success of his Trapping Ain't Dead EP, he proved to the hip-hop world that his aggressive style is still prevalent as ever...

For 13 non-sequential weeks, Disney’s Frozen soundtrack has been at No. 1. This week, Now That”s What I Call Music! 50 debuts with 153,000 copies that knocks out Frozen and puts the compilation at the top. In the world of hip-hop, Tech N9ne’s Strangeulation (which was billed as Tech N9ne Collabos), lands at No. 5 on the Billboa...

Chinx held an exclusive listening party for his forthcoming mixtape, Cocaine Riot 4: Woulda Been Here Sooner, last night at Jungle City Studios in NYC. The Coke Boys member is touring three cities to promote his tape, starting things off in Atlanta and ending in Miami before the May 15 release date...