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Mendeecees Harris is about that life, allegedly. The Love & Hip Hop New York cast member is currently in jail in Rochester and stands accused of trafficking $2.5 million worth her0in and c0caine. 

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Shawty Lo continues to capitalize on the publicity he received for his failed television show, All My Babies’ Mamas, and drops a video for “Petition.”

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Well, this was hella awkward. Hot 97 was interviewing cast members from Love & Hip Hop New York and in between segments, Joe Budden confronted Consequence and Jen The Pen about comments they had said about him during interviews.

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Jim Jones takes a sample of Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” and gets busy on this new record called “Green Light Go.” 

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Remember how you felt after first gracing your eyes on Ki-Toy Johnson in Big Boi’s “The Way You Move” visual? Now, remember what your face looked like at that very moment. That’s what you’ll experience upon gazing at Latina model Dayami Padron for just a split second. Or at least that’s what’s inferred by the Internets’ […]

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Jen The Pen has some explaining to do. During last night’s episode of Love & Hip Hop New York, the Staten Island native got into a heated argument with Raqi Thunda about hosting a radio show together. Near its conclusion it resulted in some uncomfortable banter surrounding the advantages of being a white girl in […]

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So apparently covering Drake’s “Started From the Bottom,” is some kind of rite of passage. Either that, or rappers are (still) really moved by this record, the latest of which happens to be Machine Gun Kelly.

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Coming up on what would’ve been his 39th birthday this Thursday (Feb. 7), events paying  tribute to the late James “J Dilla” Yancey were held in the UK over the weekend. Dilla passed away in 2006 from a complications brought on by lupus. He died three days after his 32nd birthday.

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There’s a strong possibility that you haven’t been wondering how a Wyclef Jean/2 Chainz collaboration will sound but (like it or not) you’re about to find out. According to HipHopDX, Jean is set to release his April Showers mixtape this spring, and has grabbed the likes of T*ty 2 Necklace, T.I. Waka Flocka Flame, and […]

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Even with Beyoncé running the halftime show, “all the single ladies” weren’t tuned in to Super Bowl XLVII. Ratings for the Super Bowl dropped from the year before.

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Hip-Hop Wired is expanding out social media reach and last week we started with our first ever #Twitterview with model, Vanessa Veasley. 

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Producer Key Wane drops his aptly titled mixtape So Many Keys, containing a few hits he previously produced as well as a few newly repackaged songs, including this remix of Big Sean’s “24k Of Gold.” This version of the Detroit standout cut retains J. Cole’s verse and all of its original contents, but also features an […]