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As rescue missions go, this one is a bit bizarre. A video that has been floating around on the Internet for a few days now appears to show Flavor Flav in a bank, counting the money necessary to bail Bobby Shmurda out of jail. It kicked around several blog outlets, eventually being reposted on Shmurda's Instagram account, which has been renamed (in a way that makes no reference to GS9 affiliations)

Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj traded slight barbs on Twitter and after a midweek crisis, the two megastars have made up. The beef started after Swift thought Minaj was throwing subliminals her way over the rapper's MTV Video Music Awards snub. The swee ...

After Nike's announcement of the Nike Air Max 95 "Neon" rerelease last week, the Swoosh has unveiled that another retro silhouette from Air Max 95 line will be dropping next month. Set to return in its OG model, Nike will be rereleasing the Air Max 95 "Grape...

Show & Prove is our section in the magazine where we highlight which rappers are hot in hip-hop now. Many who have appeared in our Show & Prove section have gone on to launch successful music careers. With the goal to bring our hand-picked selections online, here are the stories from Kap G, D.R.A.M. ...

Last night (July 22) was one of the craziest rap events ever. Future announced earlier this week that he would be performing in select locations, for free, in promotion of his latest album, Dirty Sprite 2. Obviously Future fans—and pretty much anyone with any awareness of what’s good in hip-hop right now—set alerts on their phones for the moment Future released the name of the venue. The deal was

On July 7, Thomas Jennings was hungry. He strolled into New York Fried Chicken & Pizza on the corner of Saratoga Ave and Decatur St and attempted to buy two slices of pizza, a meal that was supposed to cost $3. Instead, it ran him brutal injuries and a week of being locked up without bail. He...

You know an artist is on fire when other big name acts start covering and Vic Mensa's rendition of  "Codeine Crazy" proves Future's chokehold on the streets. On the original version, Future takes on the menacing 808 Mafia instrumental with a mix of singing and rapping but on the cover, Vic is in full rock star mode. Wit ...

Janet Jackson calls on J. Cole for the remix to her newest track, "No Sleep." The song is a slow and sultry one, as Janet takes us back with her sensuous voice. Cole appears on the hook and spits his lyrically clever verse toward the end of the track...

A new type of MC is emerging out of Charlotte, North Carolina named BankRoll Bird, a multi-dimensional rapper/singer who marries tough, real life bars with a subtly Auto-Tuned melodic approach that puts him somewhere in the area of a smoother, more falsetto-voiced street rhymer...

Lupe Fiasco went to Instagram to post a two-part message addressing Meek Mill's recent allegations that Drake does not write his own raps, which he calls "The Haunting." "Ghostwriting, or borrowing lines, or taking suggestions from the room has always been in rap and will always be in rap," he wrote. "It is nothing to go cr...

Meek Mill's Twitter rant has been the talk of the blogosphere this week and now the responses from Meek's victims are starting to pour in. Safaree Samuels, Nicki Minaj's ex-boyfriend, was one of Meek's targets and the Philly rapper saved some of his most harsh words for the rapper ...

While onstage at Nicki Minaj's The Pinkprint tour stop in Virginia last night (July 22), Meek Mill addressed the reason why he went off on Twitter about Drake. In a video captured by a concert goer, the MMG rapper says, "I was just upset as a fan that a n---a gave me a verse he ain't write. Shout out to Drake. Let him ...