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Street pharmacists have taken their hustle to the digital market as social-network giant, Instagram is having a chore eliminating drug-related hashtags. It was reported that the photo-sharing service took drastic measures to remove all the illegal activity off their server but some appears to have slipped through the cracks.

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It’s no secret that Drake loves his city but everybody knows that love is blind and it will take over your mind.

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Halloween, the time of the year of ghosts and ghouls, horror movies, trick or treating and the blissfully ignorant, or idiots, that think its open season on blackface. The latest to partake in the racist act (no matter the intent) is actress Julianne Hough.

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We’re going to guess this isn’t what Drake had in mind when he gave “Courtney from Hooters” a shout out on “From Time” from his recently released Nothing Was The Same album. It seems that the YMCMB rapper’s former flame, Courtney Janell, is hosting parties while making sure to tout her position as a subject […]

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Last summer, Trinidad Jame$ had a certified smash with “All Gold Everything.” But, as many called even back then, the jig is up. Let this Westwood Crib Sessions freestyle by the Atlanta rapper stand as undeniable evidence of his knack for serving up struggle raps. 

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The myth of post-racial America gets shattered fairly often. The latest instance of this was the appearance of a photo online featuring a white woman wearing a shirt emblazoned with the “n-word” slur while standing next to a Black man sporting a rather toothy grin.

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The pull up your damn pants committee will get a kick out of this one. A Brooklyn man punched a woman and stole her cell phone. While trying to make his getaway, cops were able to nab said struggle criminal because his sagging jeans slowed his escape. 

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Yes, you read right. Anarchy broke out at Avon Park Youth Academy, a juvenile detention center in Florida‘s Polk County, during a full-on riot that stemmed from a reneged bet over a basketball game. The reward and ultimately the inspiration behind said carnage, you ask? Well, that would be three Cup O’ Noodles.

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Unfortunate occurrences have a tendency to happen at the worst possible moments. Just ask Ace Hood, who received infinite amounts of slander via the Internets — mostly echoing statements that his Rolex was fraudulent — after the bezel of his watch fell off during a live interview on the red carpet of the BET Awards.

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Kanye West willingly credits everyone that contributes to his projects. Now that the info is available for Yeezus, we know that CyHi The Prynce contributed writing to nine of the 10 tracks on the project. Because of this, MTV sat with the G.O.O.D. Music rapper to speak on the process for the album sessions.

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There’s a certain grit and grime attributed to any byproduct of Mobb Deep. With that in mind, how could you expect anything less from Prodigy‘s visual for “Dough Pildin.”

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Yes, this really happened. Yes, there are really ribs involved. And yes, he’s going to jail for 50 years.