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Virginia’s Quan returns today with a brand new cut about coming up as a youth from the ‘hood in “17.”

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Yo Gotti is readying his second major label LP, The Art of Hustle, but still finds time to debut a freebie track titled “11/11.”

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Common performed a poem called “This War We Fight” at The White House for the 2014 Veterans Day celebration. And, we get a video treatment of the piece.

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News of any political announcement is inevitably going to divide opinions but Loretta Lynch’s nomination for Attorney General has spawned the ugly truth that racism is still thriving in the United States.

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Eminem can still outrap  your favorite rapper, but lyrics from his SHADY CVXPHER with Slaughterhouse and Yelawolf has prompted backlash and social commentary.

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If you’ve been sleeping on Troy Ave’s slow burning hit “All About The Money,” the same cannot be said for your favorite rappers. Today (November 11), Raekwon and Ghostface Killah trade bars on a remix of the cut.

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Details are emerging for Young Money’s Lil Twist latest fisticuff and it’s being reported that they were layered in brass.

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We’re about to get a double dose of Wu-Tang Clan this year. Today (Nov. 11), Ghostface Killah announced that he will be dropping a new album titled 36 Chambers on Dec. 9 via Salvation/Tommy Boy Records. 

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After giving some hints, the tandem of Combat Jack and Premium Pete sat with Ruff Ryders co-founder Joaquin “Waah” Dean in the latest installment of The Combat Jack Show.

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A Black Texas English teacher let the emotional fury of Ferguson affect her to the point she’s liable to lose her job over some racist tweets.

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Four of the suspects that were caught on cell phone footage getting into a brawl on a F train have been arrested. Th two men and two women were nabbed at the West 4th St. stop of the train in NYC around 5 a.m. on Saturday (Nov. 8). 

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Paul Wall describes exactly why he isn’t in the business of taking handouts on “No Favors” from his upcoming album The Po Up Poet.