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Oprah Winfrey recently sat down with Pharrell Williams, one of today’s most sought-after producer’s in the music industry. The seven-time Grammy Award winner hurdled through topics like music, marriage, fatherhood, and more with America’s favorite media mogul.

What does LA, living rooms and lust have in common? Nothing much save for the fact they seem to be a recurring theme in the latest edition of The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Videos Of The Week.

Iamsu! is re-exposing Hip-Hop fans to the Bay Area lifestyle one release at a time. Today, the rapper returns with an official visual for his Sincerely Yours single “Only That Real,” featuring 2 Chainz and Sage The Gemini.

Yesterday April 10, Colin Kaepernick’s world and offseason was rocked when he and a couple of his NFL buddies were named in a dicey sexual assault complaint. Although there were no arrests or charges filed, the sports nation and his San Francisco 49ers took great notice to the situation.

Rappers go to SXSW to their names out there and their dollars up, in some cases. But wordsmiths like Tree, who has a growing following, have the luxury of capturing the experience on camera for later benefits.

D12 rapper Proof was fatally shot on the morning of April 11, 2006 in a Detroit club that was illegally operating after hours. The Detroit native, born DeShaun Holt, was just 32 when he was killed.

In the closing quarter of 1991, A Tribe Called Quest released a game-changing LP in The Low End Theory. After garnering acclaim the year prior with the Queens, New York group’s debut, People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths Of Rhythm, the trio (Jarobi had left) looked to stand apart sonically from their Native Tongue siblings […]

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North Carolina doesn’t get the respect that it deserves in regards to the MCs the state’s produced. But King Mez, a wordsmith who’s indigenous to the Tar Heel state, pushes for prominence on his free album, Long Live The King.

We might be gassing up the crossover that the Golden State Warriors’ Andre Iguodala put on Denver Nugget Quincy Miller last night a tad bit, but not really.

T.I. has made a mark in the world of reality television with his hit VH1 show T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle. The Atlanta rapper is now working as an executive producer for a new series Oxygen titled Sisterhood of Hip Hop.

PARTYNEXTDOOR first piqued our interests with his self-titled 2013 project. With just a few one-off tracks in recent months and a recent co-production credit on Drake’s “Days in the East,” the crooner returns today with “West District.”