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The big news of the day is Kendrick Lamar's "diss" of Drake in K. Dot's BET Cypher freestyle at the upcoming 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards. After naming Drake in his acclaimed verse on Big Sean's "Control," Kendrick Lamar took it a step further by taking a direct jab at Drake when he rapped, "Yeah… and nothing’s been the same since they dropped “Control”/And tucked a sensitive

Today would have marked the 40th birthday of Eminem's hype man and D12 member, Proof. Real name DeShaun Holton, Proof was a permanent staple of Detroit's underground rap scene in the 1990s. Rising to prominence with the Detroit rap collective, D12, Proof made a name for himself as a battle rapper in Detroit, earning early recognition as a rapper in The Source's famed "Unsigned Hype" col

After congress failed to reach a compromise on the budget last night, the U.S. federal government officially was shut down at midnight on October 1. The GOP-controlled House Of Representatives continued to demand changes in Obamacare, seeking to defund the new healthcare initiative as the price of funding standard federal activities which the Democratically-controlled Senate sees as a non-starter

Despite reports that Drake was on pace to sell over 600,000 copies of his new album, Nothing Was The Same, hip-hop was dominated by another fashionable rapper, Kanye West, this week. Kanye's interview with Zane Lowe of the BBC was the talk of the hip-hop world this week as the instantly quotable interview spawned endless lists, memes and parodies of the four-part installment. By ...

Ask anybody who has asked a person of the opposite sex for a date... First impressions are important. In life, a limp first impression can permanently ruin your chances for success, hurt your career or inadvertently create enemies for life. It happe...

According to shadyrecords.com, Eminem and Shady Records have a deal for content development and production with Ben Silverman's LOUD channel in partnership with Electus. Today they announced Shady Films. Shady Films will continue to produce Detroit Rubber, an online series about Michigan sneaker shop Burn Rubber, and CRWN, an interview series with Elliott Wilson...

XXL spoke with Busta Rhymes last week and he offered some details about his upcoming album, Extinction Level Event 2, the sequel to Busta's 1998 classic, Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front. Busta is planning some major collaborations for the album. "I de...

After the events of his three-day long Twitter rant two weeks ago, many people had wondered about the state of Gucci Mane's mental health in the wake of his perceived meltdown. Fans, journalists and his peers wondered what was wrong with Gucci and pondered if the man needed serious help in the wake of his profane rant...

The cover to Eminem's upcoming album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 was recently revealed, and it looks like Em is taking it back to the location of the original artwork, his childhood home - below. Unlike the MMLP cover, Em is unable to sit on the porch because it has been overgrown with weeds and the home now seems to be in a state of dilapidation...

It seems that once a rapper reaches a certain eminence, the law always catches up to them. From DMX to Lil Kim and even further down in the history of hip-hop, rappers have always found it tough to escape the vengeance of authorities. Whether it be for tax evasion, gun charges, or even an unfortunate drug circumstance; too many rappers have had too many encounters with the law...

Years back, there was a commercial for toys called Micro Machines, and the announcer talked so fast that you couldn’t catch a single word that he said. Maybe that was his shtick, and he was actually telling everyone the cars were so small that you could choke on them if you accidentally ate one (Who would do that though?). Th...

When you reflect on hip-hop, journeying from the past up until the present, one realizes that there are some rappers who have been in the game quite a long time. Contributors like Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, and many more have molded hip-hop over the years crafting the genre into what it is today...