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Old habits die hard and LeBron James proved just that during an exhibition game in Rio de Janeiro against his former Miami Heat team. The newly re-minted Cleveland Cavalier only scored seven points on 2-of-8 shooting from the field but that wasn’t his biggest struggle of the night.

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Hip-Hop purists are about to be livid since Iggy Azalea has more stats that support the idea that she may be the queen of Hip-Hop. The Australian rapper and Grand Hustle artist leads the pack of all 2014 American Music Award nominees with six, including Artist of the Year.  

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Hip-Hop has long been remedial for both the artist writing it and the fan listening to it. A pair of scientists today at Cambridge University in England are looking to prove just that via studies related to the treatment of mental illness.

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Picking just one woman to take the crown of allurement is a daunting task and usually a conversation asking for heavy scrutiny. Nonetheless, Esquire has made up its collective mind and named Oscar winner Penelope Cruz as their “Sexiest Woman Alive” in their November 2014.

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BET is set to air a new miniseries next year with the controversial title of The Book Of Negroes, which will depict the journey of slaves in America. The project was almost dismissed but thanks to the popularity of films like 12 Years Slave, the project was given a green light.

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Fans receive the second Wiz Khalifa appearance of the day via an unlikely collaboration. This time the purple-haired Taylor Gang frontman rhymes alongside WWE’s John Cena on a pair of tracks set to appear on the WWE 2K15  soundtrack.

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#NoBraDay is meant to raise Breast Cancer Awareness. For example: young ladies should conduct self-exams in the mirror, while women well into their 40s need to be scheduling professional mammograms. But the collective Internets had something else in mind.

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The good folks from Montreality caught up with Ab-Soul, who touched Canadian soil twice on his current These Days… tour. During the interview, the Black Lipped Pastor discussed his thoughts on Kendrick Lamar’s “i” single, the last time he cut his hair, who won the Jay Z/Nas beef, and more.

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The Walking Dead is back, and the premiere episode of season five was loaded with all the gore, bullets, zombies and painstaking “What can go wrong, next?” angst that make this show so great.

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Kevin Durant, one of the NBA’s biggest stars and the reigning MVP, will likely not step foot on the parquet until sometime in December. The cause is a “Jones fracture,” a broken bone at the base of his small toe.

Like we previously reported, the entire Wu-Tang Clan has given the upcoming album A Better Tomorrow their divided attention to make fan’s Hip-Hop experience an eventful one.

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Snow Tha Product, born Claudia Feliciano, is at first glance cute, kind and presumably unassuming. But put her inside the booth and like something out of Marvel Comics, the 27-year-old morphs into a superhuman wordsmith with a lyrical sh*tstorm for the undertaking.