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It’s spring 2014, heartbreak is in the air and Chris Brown’s “Loyal” is on the airwaves. Sage the Gemini is the next contestant in Cupid’s spiteful game and he’s letting the world know how lovelorn he is. The “Gas Pedal” rapper took to his Twitter account to detail the lumps in his throat after model/vixen […]

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Celebrated novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who achieved global fame as a writer and founding father of the magical realism genre, has died. García Márquez was in his home in Mexico recovering from an infection that hospitalized him for nine days late last month. He was 87.

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It’s no secret that tennis player Serena Williams is thicker than air in the summer time. But that didn’t stop the mass populous from salivating over the photos of her wearing a skimpy bikini that hit the Internets earlier today.

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Houston doesn’t get a fair shake on lists about cities that are known for birthing women that are easy on the eyes. See proof in our latest Bangin Candy, Kendra LaChon, who you’ve probably seen before.

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Jordan Brand assembled select media, and some of the nations top high school basketball players, in midtown Manhattan to unveil his latest signature shoe, the Air Jordan XX9. At the Terminal 23 gym, Michael Jordan himself and the shoe’s designer, Tinker Hatfield, debuted a technically advanced sneaker that features a woven upper.

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The premiere for A Haunted House 2 went down last night in spectacular Hollywood fashion, but it was the after party that landing Mike Epps in a bit of sticky situation with the police, and possibly his wife.

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In a perfect world, Wu-Tang Clan would hit the studio to make a new album in peace and harmony. But rogue member Raekwon candidly spoke with Rolling Stone about why his underlying issues with RZA and management are the reason he’s yet to lay a single verse down on the group’s upcoming A Better Tomorrow LP.

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Dr. Dre’s infinitely delayed album Detox has long went the route where unicorns and fairies convene to play poker, yet artists still insist that its release date is around the corner.

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Donovan McNabb has some explaining to do. The former NFL quarterback was popped for driving under the influence, but his mugshot reveals that is only the start of his current struggle. 

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By now, fans probably know that Nas’ Time Is Illmatic documentary debuted at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival last night (April 16). Sponsored by Hennessy, the night was a proper display of the Queensbridge rapper’s dichotomy, as he showed up to New York City’s Beacon Theatre in a dapper suit only to close the night on […]

Nas once famously rapped that “no idea’s original under the sun” and such ideology is golden for Hip-Hop culture. Each generation borrows from the last to create their own classic legacy, and our founding fathers sampled jazz, funk and soul to birth the foundation, musically.

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Nick Young has taken his show from the courts to the streets now that the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff hopes are nonexistent. The man who more often goes by Swaggy P was recently caught leaving a LA club with girlfriend Iggy Azalea, and he was sure not to let the moment past without his usual antics.