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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 was the verse that woke up the rap game and made everyone start looking around and eyeing each other uncomfortably; King Kendrick, still on the ascent after dropping the best debut rap album in recent memory with 2012's good kid, m.A.A....

S on their chests. Shortly after announcing their Glasshouse Tour, Slaughterhouse drop a teaser to their forthcoming stops across the United States called “Party.” The four housemen bring their lyrical onslaught on the Cardiak and Just Blaze production. An officia...

Slaughterhouse has been hinting that their new album would be something special for a little while now, and today news breaks that they're at least headed out on the road together starting this March. Kicking things off at SXSW in Austin, Texas, they'll then go straight to the Northeast, after which they'll head through the Northwest, Southwest and up through the East Coast before finishing things

Joell Ortiz and his Slaughterhouse crew are 90 percent done with their followup to last year's Welcome To: Our House, but right now he and the whole of Shady Records are focused on the impending release of Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP 2, which officially drops Tuesday. "MMLP...

Last night, BET aired its annual BET Hip-Hop Awards, which means one thing: cyphers. While the awards themselves are more often than not treated as an afterthought at the ceremony, the cyphers still have the potential to make waves. With an early clip of Kendrick Lamar's appearance leaking weeks before the show, anticipation was higher than ever...

For a rapper who had a sterling reputation and was seemingly well-liked within the hip-hop community only a few months ago, Kendrick Lamar has been collecting haters since the release of his verse on Big Sean's "Control" at an alarming rate ...

Slaughterhouse recently stopped by Charlie Sloth’s BBC Radio 1 show. After the Q&A, Joe Budden, Royce Da 5’9″, Crooked I and Joell Ortiz spazzed on Pusha T's "Numbers On The Boards" track as a part of the Fire In The Booth segment....

Joell Ortiz made headlines this week as the first rapper to respond to Kendrick Lamer after his controversial claim that he was "the King of New York" in Lamar's guest verse on Big Sean's "Control." Ortiz's "Outta Control" became the first in a flood of responses to Kendrick's verse from rappers across all echelons of hip-hop...

With just a few hours to spare before the day ended, somebody from NY finally responded to Kendrick Lamar’s scathing verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” Joell Ortiz, who represents Brooklyn, fired off three minutes of straight bars over No I.D.'s production. “I ain...

Last night (July 16th), Hip Hop’s most formidable supergroup, Slaughterhouse, took over the Highline Ballroom in downtown NYC. The feeling of anticipation in the air was palpable, as the Slaughterhouse fans waited for the supergroup to arrive. Prod ...

Joell Ortiz is a busy man; he's got a series of new solo projects on his plate, and he recently finished up recording on the new Slaughterhouse album alongside fellow rappers Joe Budden, Crooked I and Royce Da 5'9, as well as an all-star cast of producers who all worked with the quartet in the studio...