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Judith Hill, a protégée of the late Prince, shared details of the emergency plane landing incident just six days before the music legend’s untimely death. Hill sat down exclusively with the New York Times and gave readers a glimpse of the Prince’s final days.
Apparently, Drake just lost a small chunk of that Apple Music money to French Montana. French says Drizzy owes him $60k for “not believing in LeBron” and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
All three Atlanta-area locations of Gladys Knight’s Chicken And Waffles were abruptly shut down Tuesday, June 21 in a Georgia tax raid.
Did the feds release a clone while the real Gucci Mane is still locked up somewhere behind bars? This is the theory that was being discussed on the Internets the past couple of days.
Your girlfriend’s favorite rapper is on the cover of your mother’s favorite magazine. Common is the man of the month for the newest issue of EBONY magazine.
NBA player Nick Young‘s summer is off to a struggle-filled start. After getting dumped by Iggy Azalea via Instagram, she’s keeping the car he gifted her—but she did return that pricey engagement ring.
Chance The Rapper just made your summer a little longer. The Chicago rapper has announced the 21-show Magnificent Coloring tour.
The backbone of modern Hip-Hop music took a creative turn in the mid-1980s with the introduction of sampling, which is the act of using snippets of original compositions to formulate a backing track. Improving upon the breakbeat trend of the 1970s, the sampling of R&B, funk, soul, rock and jazz artists transformed Hip-Hop’s entire soundscape […]
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton made headlines recently with his critique of Hip-Hop music and culture by calling rappers “thugs” but the lawman didn’t reserve that same judgment for a group of recently arrested crooked cops. In fact, Bratton believes that his police force is free of corruption and brushed off the arrests of the officers […]
It’s only natural that every now and then we get a Hip-Hop record with “mama” in the title (“Dear Mama,” “Hey Mama,” “Mama,” etc). This has to happen in order for the Hip-Hop universe to balance out.
ScHoolboy Q teases us again. This time with a well put together video trailer for his Blank Face LP.
The Supreme Court just made it A-ok for the police to use evidence found in an illegal stop against you. Even if the stop had nothing to do with whatever they found.