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Suge Knight knew he’d have to answer for the slander he flung upon Kendrick Lamar, The Game and mainly Jimmy Iovine’s Interscope Records sooner than later.

J Dilla created enough music during his lifetime to readily expect unreleased tracks to drop at any time. Today, we receive a one called “Give Em What They Want” for our collective listening pleasure.

In anticipation of the final season of The Boondocks, fans receive original music on a new mixtape hosted by DJ Drama and Don Cannon. Released by Adult Swim, The Boondocks: Season 4 isn’t something Hip-Hop fans want to miss. 

UPDATE: As per the official announcement, Jay Z’s third annual festival will invade both Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Performers will be announced at a later date. See a promo visual after the jump. This time the rumors are true. Jay Z is taking his Budweiser sponsored Made In America festival to Los Angeles. 

Anything can go wrong when you are taping for live television. The recent August Alsina appearance on 106 & Park should be a reminder of this.

New York City and lyrical MCs remain synonymous. Though there’s less local MCs dominating in the mainstream than, say, 15 years ago, two of the best that Brooklyn has to offer in Skyzoo and Torae (together known as Barrel Brothers) have a new LP on the way.

While most of the entertainment world murmured over the 2014 MTV Movie Awards this past weekend (and all the struggle that came along with it), the good folks over at The United Negro College Fund, BET and Centric were going the distance in brightening the future of our young leaders with their “An Evening Of […]

What musical format is better than reggae and dancehall in bringing out the feelings of a warm, exotic day? The thermometer could read “Antarctica” outside but when those steel drums and patrois and/or Caribbean accents begin to make a marriage, the brain’s perception begins to heat things up.

Pharrell’s heartfelt interview with Oprah became the center of controversy today on Twitter, as the Internets expressed their gripe with his point of view on there being a “New Black.”

Let’s be perfectly honest with ourselves. Hip-Hop culture has allowed all colors, sects, creeds, origins and dialects to have a comfortable home underneath the culture’s umbrella, yet there are only a particular crop of MCs who generally lay candidacy for the throne.

This will probably be the most bizarre story you read today. A man named Andre Johnson who allegedly affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan cut off his penis and jumped off a second story balcony in Los Angeles early this morning (April 16).

The NYPD announced yesterday that it will end the secret spying on Muslims groups in the city, breaking apart a task force that infiltrated the Islamic community. The surveillance program strained the relationship between Muslim leaders and the police, but NYPD commissioner William J. Bratton appears committed to repair the rift.