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Mistah F.A.B.’s ‘Hella Ratchet’ Mixtape Arrives With E-40, Problem, Ty Dolla $ign
Bay Area rapper Mistah F.A.B. drops another mixtape on everybody's heads today, this one the appropriately-titled Hella Ratchet. The tape sees Fabby rapping alongside Bay Area stalwarts like E-40 and Clyde Carson—both of whom are featured on the project's first single "Marathon," below—Keak da Sneak, Loverance and Iamsu! as well as...
A Track By Track Breakdown Of ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’
A Track By Track Breakdown Of 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill'
Maybach Music’s ‘Self Made Vol. 3′ Tracklist Officially Emerges
A day after a fake tracklist made its way around the Internet, Maybach Music Group head honcho Rick Ross dropped a teaser video on Twitter today announcing the official lineup and listing for next month's Self Made Vol. 3. We knew it was gonna be a huge posse album, but the reveal on the video keeps going, and going, and you start to wonder, who won't be on this album? You got ...
Missy Elliott Gets Her Freak On At K-Pop Convention, Performs New Song With G-Dragon
It seems that these days, we're averaging less than a handful of Missy Elliott sightings per year, and her name just cropped up for the first time in a little while. The good news is that it involves new music; the intriguing thing is that it's not exactly what you'd expect...
Fat Joe Heads To Prison To Serve Tax Evasion Sentence
Fat Joe is the latest artist to head behind bars on the dreaded tax evasion charge that has been spreading like crazy through the hip-hop universe in the past decade. After being sentenced in June to 4 months in Federal lockup, he reported today in Miami to begin doing his time, according to TMZ...
Meek Mill Has A Date For Dreamchasers 3
Meek Mill was holed up in the studio pretty late last night, and he took to social media to make a pretty big announcement right around six in the morning, East Coast time.
With Maybach's third crew album Self Made Vol. 3 dropping September 17—with Meek's "Levels" as its lead single—the Philly rapper is wasting no in getting the rest of his music out to the world. He announced on...
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Goodie Mob Selling New Album On Groupon
Goodie Mob is back together for their first project in almost a decade (and their first in 14 years with Cee-Lo Green), and they're taking a relatively unusual—but not totally unheard-of—sales strategy.
With less than a week to go before Age Against The Machine hits the shelves, Cee-Lo and his Goodie cohorts Big Gipp, Khujo and T-Mo started selling the new album on Groupon for $8.99, or a 40 perc.
Ray Dalton, The Singer On Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us,” Finds A Home In Hip-Hop
Sometimes, it only takes 27 seconds for life to change completely. Just ask Ray Dalton, whose half-minute hook on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' monstrous "Can't Hold Us" took the twenty-three-year-old tennis instructor from Seattle onto a whirlwind tour that's spanned the globe and sent his name to the top of the Billboard charts, carving out a place in the history books along the way...
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Infographic Charts Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant Name Drops In Hip-Hop Songs
This is an excellent infographic from bdon.org that juxtaposes the number of times each NBA superstar was name-dropped on a hip-hop track in a year and compares it to the number of points that player scored that season. There's a whole host of fascinating information on here and speaks a lot to a player's relevance—Yao Ming, for example, has grabbed himself 35 lifetime mentions, but peaked hip-hop
Rap-A-Lot Records Signs Distribution Deal With RED, Will Drop New Bun B Project In October
Rap-A-Lot Records, the Houston-based record label that made a name for itself in the early 1990s with the Geto Boys and then went on to be the home of UGK, Slim Thug and Devin The Dude, among others, has signed a new major distribution deal with RED, a subsidiary of Sony Music...
Macklemore Talks About Benefiting From Being White In Hip-Hop
Macklemore sat down for an extensive interview as part of the CRWN series presented by Myspace, and dished on a number of topics from his come up in hip-hop, his struggles with drug addiction, and the experience of being a white rapper accepted by the mainstream...
2 Chainz Releases Tracklist For ‘B.O.A.T.S 2: #MeTime’
2 Chainz took to Instagram today—following his arrest after his tour bus was stopped outside of Oklahoma City today—and dropped the tracklist to his highly-anticipated sophomore album B.O.A.T.S 2: #MeTime. The album will feature the Hair Weave Killer teaming up with the likes of T-Pain, Drake, Lil Wayne, Rich Homie Quan, Ma$e, and a bunch more.
Following on...