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H-Town duo Paul Wall and Chamillionaire have decided to place their label differences aside and link up for their 1st tour in over 5 years. Chamillionare was the first to break the news via twitter stating: “It’s official @chamillionaire & @paulwallbaby are going on

“Nas was like somebody I always listened to his raps and didn’t understand how he did it.  I always wanted to understand how he painted those pictures.” As was the case with most people of the next generation, adolescent minds weren’t able to fully absorb and comprehend albums such as Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt. For […]

Even with the album dropping back in 2008, rapper Kanye West still has some remnants left from 808s And Heartbreak to present for the world to see. Following a remix to “Paranoid”, West releases the music video for “Coldest Winter” which was also remixed and will be presented with production that has yet to be […]

Lil’ Wayne has decided to officially join the Twitter club. Just 7 days before checking in to serve his one year prison stint at New York’s Rikers Island, Lil Wayne joined the uber popular social media website under the tweet name @LilTuneChi. The Young Money CEO had been able to fight the urge to follow […]

After sparking wide spread relief efforts for his native country of Haiti, Wyclef Jean is receiving recognition. Arguably the most prestigious University in the country, Harvard University, is announcing plans to honor Wycelf as their 2010 “Artist of The Year.” He’ll hit the University’s campus on Saturday, February 27 to accept a medal for the […]

It seems that in the process of delivering so much Malice last year, rapper Snoop Dogg may have forgot to take care of some of his financial priorities as the IRS is coming after the Doggfather. According to The Detroit News, the new debt dwarfs a tax lien that had been filed last year against […]

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Jay-Z has often talked about being the most connected man in the industry; well now it seems as if his political ties are apparently stirring up a bit of controversy. According to the New York Post, the rap mogul’s involvement with the Aqueduct Entertainment Group (AEG)—the consortium chosen to run a multi-billion dollar race track/casino […]

E-40, News

The Bay area’s finest E-40 and Too Short have teamed up once again for the second single off of Forty Water’s eleventh studio album Revenue Retrievin’ The Night Shift, scheduled for release on March 30th. “Show Me What Your Working Wit” finds the two cohorts chasing skirts and paying homage to all the fine ladies. […]

“I think they shedding light on all the good things about hustling and the dope game…all the perks to hustling in the streets, all of the women, the cars and all that. Yeah you can get all that but there’s also murder involved with that. There’s also time involved with that…its losses. Every ni**a that […]

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“The kids are the ones who say what is good and what is not and that’s where they Fawk up at because they let other people subliminally put Shyte in their heads.” As reported earlier, Wacka Flocka Flame made the statement that lyrics weren’t important and even clowned lyrical rappers saying that they weren’t getting […]

50 cent, News

As the rap career of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson continues to slowly fizzle into obscurity, the rapper continues to leave his footprints in the movie industry as he is making the transition into also becoming an actor. Alongside Randall Emmett, Jackson has begun work on his next film, titled “Things Fall Apart”, which was produced […]