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At Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy Gala, Mike WiLL Made It revealed that he's currently working on Future's next album, putting all his energy into executive producing Honest, which is slated to boast some major guest features. "We have some good collaborations on there like Nicki Minaj, Drake, Kanye West, Pharrell, Pusha T. It’s...

Jay Z and his bodacious wife Beyoncé opened up the 2014 Grammy Awards with a performance that will inevitably go down in history. If Mrs. Carter's skimpy get-up wasn't enough, surely her "surfboarding" alongside the hubby as he and other men watched was. As a ...

Azealia Banks and her tweets have made their fair share of news headlines over the years. The Harlem-based artist is back at it again, this time claiming she's the "best female in hip-hop" and that other femcees are copying Nicki Minaj's style...

Fresh off releasing "Taking You Off Here", the first single of their upcoming The Infamous Mobb Deep album, the Queensbridge duo has more great news for fans. Prodigy and Havoc have announced plans to team up with PledgeMusic for their upcoming release...

Jay Z's old home where he used to store drugs during his dealing days is now on sale. Hov only mentions the building address in "Empire State Of Mind" and not the apartment number. But according to Daily Mail, it's apartment 10C and is now on the market for a cool $870,000, The Boerum Hill apartment is a duplex, boasting two bedrooms and an open kitchen, one block away from the Barclay's

The label created by Sean “Diddy” Combs recently commemorated 20 years of existence, but today the viral universe fanned rumors of Diddy shutting down Bad Boy. With swirling hearsay reported that people have either been fired or moved on to other companies, a rep from Bad Boy officially confirmed with XXL that "Bad Boy shutting down is nothing more than rumors," and "isn't true.&qu

Tech N9ne and Strange Music have a reputation for epic concerts, and the label plans to take their show on the road in 2014. The Independent Grind Tour 2014 will hit over 70 different cities in three months, and will feature Tech N9ne, Freddie Gibbs, Krizz Kaliko, Jarren Benton and Psych Ward Druggies...

Black Eyed Peas will.i.am now joins Snoop Dogg in the star-studded roster of celebs that are helping develop original video content for the multichannel network, Maker Studios. Maker Studios garners over 4.2 billion monthly video views and consistently ranks among the top five YouTube partners...

Inside his series of collabos that never were, Producer Amerigo Gazaway brings together Brooklyn MC Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) and soul legend Marvin Gaye in a never-before joint project aptly titled “Yasiin Gaye”. The album encompasses deconstructed samples of Gaye’s Motown classics where Gazaway re-orchestrates the instrumentation into new productions within a similar framework. He then metic

Aptly titled "The Road to Total Slaughter," the unprecedented reality show allows a bevy of top-tier MCs to showcase their rap battling skills as they make their way through a tough bracket. Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9" returned to RapFix Live to announce their one-of-a-kind web series, which requires all contestants to live together...

It looks like the time is coming for Boosie to be a free man. It was previously reported that Boosie will be out in February. Well today its official. Lil Boosie hearing date is Feb. 13. Between Feb. 13 and Feb. 18, Boosie is set to be release from prison...

Slaughterhouse members, Royce da 5'9" and Joel Ortiz gave their thoughts on The Grammys and Macklemore vs Kendrick. Royce and Joel Lilked Kendrick Lamar's albms bith expressed that this is not the last KT