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Mostly thanks to Funkmaster Flex taking issues with Jay Z’s use of all caps in text messages, rumors are running rampant that Hova is plotting on buying Hot 97. What better way to get back at someone talking sh*t about you than by becoming their boss? 

Releasing projects out of the blue or with little notice is now commonplace in music. Yo Gotti is the latest to implement the latter strategy with the Concealed mixtape.

Hey, a fade will get delivered no matter the circumstance. R&B crooner/cervix ripper August Alsina and his security can be seen in footage putting hands on a concert promoter over the weekend.

A particular sound and aesthetic come to mind when mentioning Bay Area rap music. However, local artist G-Eazy worked the indie scene operating as the outlier and his grind is finally paying off.

Last night (Jan. 18), MTV aired Nicki Minaj: My Time AGAIN the follow up to the My Time Is Now doc in 2010 that traced her come up. 

The STL Cops probably edge the NYPD as the most hated law enforcement in the nation on most days. Their St. Louis County counterparts have done the stigma no favors after they mistakenly–and admittingly–give a 22-year-old college student an assault he’ll never forget.

The Hip-Hop world is reeling at the moment that one of its most passionate mayors, A$AP Yams was pronounced dead earlier today at the young age of 26.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech during the 1963 March On Washington and is often regarded as his most important work. But those hopes that Rev. King had for the nation in regards to race relations still haven’t come true. But those hopes that Rev. King had for the nation […]

Let the denizens of Black Twitter tell it, Lifetime dropped the ball yet again with last night’s Whitney Houston biopic, simply titled Whitney. To make matters worse, the late, great singer’s family were calling the film “disrespectful” before it was even viewed by the general public. Whitney Houston‘s sister-in-law and head of her estate Pat […]

Bilal Johnson, also known by his rap moniker Buddha Lee Raye, has been disgruntled with the NYPD like many New Yorkers in the past few months. To express his disapproval with the police organization, he’s been spreading anti-NYPD paraphilia in the form of stickers that compared the boys in blue to the bigots in white: […]

Dallas Horton, a reported white “survivalist,” shot a Black police chief in a Western Oklahoma town four times during a raid. Amazingly, Mr. Horton was not charged in the shooting and walked free.

The Hip-Hop nation is in mourning after learning of the death of A$AP Mob founder and “spirit guide” A$AP Yams. The outpouring of commentary on social media proves that Yams, born Steven Rodriguez, was a well-loved part of the culture who will be sorely missed.