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This latest edition of The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Videos of The Week is one of those instances we like to call a “stacked deck.” Several visuals included could easily take the #1 spot in a week where the competition isn’t as steep but hey, it is what it was. Regardless, there’s plenty […]

At 20 tracks, it’s safe to assume that T-Pain has plenty to say on his new mixtape The Iron Way. On Wednesday night (March 25), the crooner known for lacing his vocals with autotune hosted an intimate listening session for the project, after which he spoke exclusively with Hip-Hop Wired.

Simply put, Mo’ne Davis is a star. And a role model. And not exactly a reluctant one.

It has been a long time coming but with all the platinum plaques and mounting accolades, female rappers have finally earned enough clout to be known for emceeing more than their estrogen.

Let the people tell it, Kendrick Lamar is 2/2 in the classic album department, coming off the heels of his first No. 1 album in To Pimp a Butterfly.

South by Southwest has becomes its own worst enemy, as the lines when to take a paycheck and a backseat to artistic growth have become more blurred than Robin Thicke can ever imagine.

The death of Brownstone singer Charmayne “Maxee” Maxwell from a freak accident involving a wine glass is nothing if not tragic, and a reminder to all of us that life as we know it is, indeed, too short.

“Organic” is a term that’s tossed around quite frivolously in Hip-Hop. But it’s truthfully the only way to describe what The House, a bubbling movement based in the unlikely city of Chattanooga, Tenn., is doing.

1972 Andes Flight Disaster October 13th, 1972 Forty-five people associated with a Uruguayan rugby union team went through hell for more than two months before being rescued. Only sixteen of them survived.

Kendrick Lamar is really setting a precedence with his upcoming new album, To Pimp a Butterfly. Not only is that daunting four-letter word risking a potential censorship in retail stores who carry the CDs adjacent from bars of soap, he also sent a loud message with the album’s artwork.

With the past success of Time is Illmatic and inevitable box office winner in Straight Outta Compton, it’s clear that are still plenty of classic rap albums that need their own documentary.

The University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon racism scandal is, unfortunately, nothing new: in the long and storied history of fraternities and sororities in American universities, racism is as common as panty raids.