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The JMSN wave is one that we suggest music lovers embrace. The Michigan-born singer-songwriter and producer will deliver his Blue Album on December 9, but before then he debuts the Freddie Gibbs-assisted “Street Sweeper (Remix).”

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Flanked by both President Obama and Vice President Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned from his position today, November 24, after White House insiders allege that he wasn’t bout that life to handle the looming threats that face the nation.

Less than 24 hours after consuming gluttonous amounts of grub among kinfolk, shoppers will trek out in the wee hours of Black Friday morning (November 28) to go on a buying spree. But what’s a shopping trip without a proper soundtrack?

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In a testy exchange between former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, the tensions of the happenings in Ferguson, Mo. came into play. Giuliani defended white police officers in the town and in general, saying that they wouldn’t be needed if Black people weren’t killing each other in […]

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Seeing that our Hip-Hop culture is still relatively young, the pioneers of yesteryear continue to push the boundaries on what’s expected of the veterans.

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Although Bill Cosby is currently public enemy #1 in America, two Black television stations have no plans to follow the path of TV Land, NBC and Netflix and separate their programming from anything associated with the embattled entertainment icon.

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Ahead of Wu-Tang’s A Better Tomorrow, RZA stars in a brand-new PETA ad campaign in which the legendary spitter announces that “A Better Tomorrow Is a Vegan Tomorrow. I Am RZA, and I Am Vegan.”

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PRhyme rolls out more content from their upcoming self-titled album. This time duo DJ Premier and Royce Da 5’9″ debut a visual for track five “Courtesy.”

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Ghostface Killah unleashes yet another AZ-assisted heater from his upcoming 36 Seasons album, due to release on December 9. This track is titled “Blood In The Streets.”

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Long before the days of Run The Jewels’ audacious audible assaults, one-half of the group, Killer Mike, was creating music solo. A 2008 mixtape called Sunday Morning Massacres, created in collaboration with DJ Greg Street, finds its way onto the Internets today.

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The 2014 American Music Awards, hosted by none other than Pitbull, went down at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, Sunday night (Nov. 23).

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As we all know by now, Waka Flocka Flame smokes a lot of weed. But instead of endorsing a vaporizer pen or some sort of bong that plays his new album (maybe that one should come down the line?) he’s found an ingenious way to make additional revenue from his herbal plant habits.