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You’ve got to appreciate real Hip-Hop moments, the greatest of which is perhaps the cypher. Two of the game’s highly lauded lyricists in Prodigy of the legendary Mobb Deep and Sean Price took it back to the essence of emceeing at The Boiler Room in New York City, where they kicked a few rhymes with nothing […]

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Devoted fans  of the late, great J Dilla have heard just about every piece of music the Detroit producer has recorded. Earlier this year, however, listeners got an audio teaser from Dilla Dawg featuring longtime collaborators Frank-N-Dank with “Anthem.” Now with the single officially dropping this week, the B-side, “Trucks,” has leaked to the Internets […]

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Here we are in the third week of April, the weather has finally warmed up and so has the underground Hip-Hop album release schedule. We’re approaching the stretch where highly anticipated Rap albums are beginning to be churned out at an alarming rate and with that high frequency of work dropping, some are bound to […]

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Nelson Mandela has been ill as of late, which may contribute to the ongoing battle for control of his fortune. One of Mandela’s granddaughters is accusing his longtime friend of  lying on the family, to maintain a grip on the 94-year-old’s companies.

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On Monday, the teaser video dropped for “Get Lucky,” Daft Punk’s latest single featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers. The clip showed a whole lot of shiny suits and swaying, but revealed a bit of the hot new tune. Well, the track has finally arrived in full and it’s fists full of Funk. No drugs are […]

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Didn’t cop Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge’s Twelve Reasons To Die album yesterday? What’s your problem. To provide you with some more incentive, today we get the video for  “Rise of the Ghostface Killah.”

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are winning right now, as they currently occupy the #2 and #7 spots for “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” respectively. Today, the duo returns to premier the visual for the latter that’s as left field as the Seattle MC’s fashion sense.

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The Internets was going wild this morning, saying Gucci Mane told a judge, “B-tch, I might be,” when asked if he was guilty of hitting a soldier upside the head with a champagne bottle. However, it turns out that believers of this perfectly feasible LaFlare action, considering his familiarity with the bing, have been catfished. 

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A pair of letters sent to President Barack Obama and Republican Senator Roger Wicker yesterday (April 16)  reportedly tested positive for the poiso, ricin in an initial analysis. Law officials announced earlier today (April 17) that the letters intended for President Obama and Sen. Wicker were seized at a processing facility away from the White […]

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N.O.R.E., P.A.P.I., or whatever you’d like to call him just released his latest album Student of the Game, which is getting a lot of praise by the Internets. He caught up with The Breakfast Club this morning to discuss an array of topics, the likelihood of another C-N-N LP, including  the new generation, business ventures, Rick Ross’ […]

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Authorities have captured at least one suspect allegedly involved in the Boston marathon explosions. An official announcement is expected to be made later today. 

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Comedian and actor Tracy Morgan tickled funny bones for years as a longstanding cast member on NBC’s late night sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live and the recently ended 30 Rock. Today (April 17), the New York native landed another great gig after it was announced Morgan will host the 2013 Billboard Music Awards this […]