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Highly touted Los Angeles Lakers rookie Julius Randle‘s season may already over. Last night (Oct 27), the no. 7 NBA draft pick broke his right leg in the 4th quarter of Lakers loss to the Houston Rockets (where Kobe Bryant called Dwight Howard soft).

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Despite what Kanye West says, it’s a little brash to call him a “god.” An icon, however, is a fitting title for the producer/rapper; such can be seen on a Instagram page made in tribute to the superstar and his wife Kim Kardashian coined “What would Yeezus wear?”

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Darrien Hunt, a 22-year-old Black man who was dressed in a cosplay costume as an anime character, was shot to death by cops in Utah in September. After the family’s independent autopsy was revealed, a state-issued report supported earlier findings that Hunt was shot several times in the back.

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Comedian Hannibal Buress ruffled quite a few feathers last week during his bit where he slandered Bill Cosby for his alleged rapist past.

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Far Rockaway, Queens rapper Chinx masks up in the visual for “Bodies,” featuring fellow New Yorkers and GS9 reps Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel.

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What sounded like a routine episode of Bones became a ghastly reality when police discovered a 60-something-year-old woman beheaded about 20 minutes before another man leapt to his death in front of a Long Island Rail Road train less than a mile away.

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A West Virginia newspaper columnist took to his personal blog to call slain Ferguson, Mo. teen Mike Brown an “animal” who had to be put down by cop Darren Wilson. The man has since removed his post, but not before the damage was decidedly done.

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The current year has brought forth some pretty offensive Halloween costumes, including Ray Rice and Ebola. But nothing has as much as an eyesore as these worst Halloween costumes on Twitter that have been surfacing as the October 31st date approaches.

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UPDATE: Eminem released the tracklist as well. See it after the jump. Eminem has a new album, Shady XV, on the way and he revealed its cover just like how everyone should do in 2014, via Instagram.

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 Yo Gotti keeps the content coming, as he debuts a visual for his Boosie Badazz-assisted track “I Feel Like” from his upcoming The Art of Hustle album.

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Black Milk has been dropping consistent heat for years, but is still inexplicably and criminally underrated. The Detroit native shares a video for “What It’s Worth.”

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Everyone will forever identify Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter but who would have thought that he was such a closet Hip-Hop fan?