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After playing the feature role on a number of tracks lately, it's time for Mavado to get his chips up. The We The Best dancehall specialist returns with a new track titled "I Aint Going Back Broke." The song features label mate Ace Hood and Future who gel properly over the moderate tempo of the head-nodding instrumental...

Lil B survived a fire that ripped through his California apartment thanks to the quick thinking of his 15-year-old neighbor. According to the Contra Cost Times, a 2-alarm blaze ravaged the rappers two-story duplex Thursday (Jan. 15) morning around 6:40 am...

Now that D'Angelo has gotten new material out to the masses via his new LP Black Messiah, it's time to see if he can return to the level of prominence he once had. The campaign will start with the Virginia crooner's first ever headlining show at the Apollo Theater...

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Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean has playing it super low-key, music wise, as he plots on his return. Despite little if any material being released from the upcoming project, Ocean has been spotted in the studio cooking up with Hit-Boy and Rodney Jergins, and even Lil B...

After years of talking, the Dipset reunion that many have been waiting for is finally popping off. Following the New Year's Day announcement that a new mixtape and tour are on deck, Cam'rom, Jim Jones, Juelz and Freeky Zekey dropped the new track, "Have My Money" in less than a week...

Rae Sremmurd stopped by ESPN's Highly Questionable show earlier today and the whole ordeal was just hilarious. The SremmLife artists were turned up all throughout the interview, discussing their favorite city, parties, and the ladies. The pair gets serious for all of two seconds when discussing life while they were homeless, which according to Slim Jimmy, included "a lot of bud light platinum

Nick Young is in some trouble and we're not talking about his basketball game. The Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard was allegedly forced to sleep on the couch last night after the photo above surfaced on the web. The picture, which may or may not be innocent, shows the ball player and a young lady getting into his car—the same car that girlfriend Iggy Azalea purchased for Christmas for him as a

We're just two weeks in, but 2015 has already given us some great—and often confounding—hip-hop. Chasing muses down project hallways and double cups, the last week alone has seen young upstarts fleshing out their aesthetics and veterans making triumphant returns. These are ...

When FOX’s new hip-hop thriller Empire made its debut last week Wednesday (Jan. 7), what immediately jumped out was the opening scene. In the scene a young singer belts out a beautiful song that left many fans wanting more. That singer was V. ...

I am in search of a classy female rapper to collaborate with me on my new single,not looking for ghetto style rapper serious inquiries only please DM me A photo posted by Dennis Graham (@therealdennisg) on Jan 16, 2015 at 1:26pm PST This is interesting...

Over DJ Khaled's "They Don't Love You No More" instrumental, Waka Flocka Flame spits ferocious bars for the flockmix. In a black and white video shot by Kokos and DaddySevi in Barcelona, Flocka keeps things gritty and rough, spitting rhymes about his street and rap credentials...