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Flavor Flav‘s acumen as a business is looking very suspect. The Public Enemy rapper and reality star’s last fried chicken joint in Michigan is in danger of closing. 

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Leave it up to WorldStarHipHop to have a hand in spreading a controversial video that’s now gone viral. Last week, a user submitted a clip of four teenage boys rapping about their prowess at giving oral to other boys and worked in a scheme using Drake’s smash hit, “Started From The Bottom.” 

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Migos, the young trio from ATL drops the YRN mixtape to start off the summer. Standing for “Young Rich Ni–as,” they are making a name for themselves as upstarts in the A.

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Birdman, DJ Khaled, and Ace Hood appeared on the first of two covers for the June/July issue of The Source. Today, the iconic magazine reveals the second featuring Future.

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We get it, diss records are a vital part of Hip-Hop. The spirit of competition in records like Nas’ “Ether” and Jay-Z’s “The Takeover,” for example, whips fans into a frenzy and keeps artists on their toes. However, more often than not, diss records come out lame.

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Incarceration hasn’t slowed down Young Scooter as much as you’d think. Apparently, he has tons of material in the tuck awaiting release. Today, he liberates a new visual for Street Lottery track “Work.”

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For most of us, when we to prepare to enter the workforce we polish and refine our resumes until they’re perfect. However, sometimes social norms don’t apply to artists and outliers; Jean Michel Basquiat is no exception. The late artist’s hand-written resume recently on exhibition has sold for $50,000.

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Ariel Castro, the Ohio man accused of holding three women captive for over a decade, pleaded not guilty to various charges Wednesday (June 12). Castro was arraigned on 329 counts of torture, r@pe, and murder, the latter for allegedly forcing one of the women to miscarry five different times. 

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Motown signee B. Smyth is looking to make a wave this summer with his latest music. So much so that he called on proven tandem, Future and Mike Will Made It,” for some assistance on “Win Win.”

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Singer Joe teams up with Fat Joe as he presents the remix to his first single “I’d Rather Have a Love.”  Filled with romantic vibes, they both pay respects to the special people in their lives.

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Yesterday, in an interview with The New York Times, Kanye West likened himself to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs and a host of other greats saying, “I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve [Jobs] of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture.” To most, this was just Yeezy being his egotistical self; a certain Hip-Hop veteran thought the title fit — in perhaps […]

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It’s the Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary, so of course U-God is going to be dropping a solo project. Golden Arms releases a new single called “Heads Up,” featuring GZA and Jackpot Scotty Wotty.