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Why is Black Thought considered an “underrated” MC? As co-founder of The Roots, he is a Grammy-award winning rapper with 11 albums under his belt and a career that spans 20-plus years. He’s toured the world 10 times over and he’s broadcast into millions of homes every weeknight thanks to his Master of Ceremonies gig […]

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Before the currently M.I.A. Frank Ocean, Maxwell was the original R&B artist at large. The Brooklyn native who is masterful at releasing a critically acclaimed project about once every few Presidential terms explained himself on The Breakfast Club.

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This is a tough pill to swallow, but it might be over for Kanye West. Wait, hold on, allow me to rephrase that.

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When you have been rapping for as long as Consequence, you are bound to identified differently amongst different audiences. There is still is a population within the Hip-Hop community that ignore the digital media buzz and respect the Queens MC for his bar-laden deliveries, which all was catapulted from his formidable entry into the game […]

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Social media invites fans into the details of the lives of their favorite artists once known to only their closest confidantes or the occasional embedded journalist. However, that “access” has led many to realize that their favorite rapper or R&B crooner can be a top tier douchebag.

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College Humor’s “Go to College” rap video starring First Lady Michelle Obama and Saturday Night Live’s Jay Pharoah was an instant hit and the Internets can’t get enough.

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Part two of Footaction’s bicoastal epic holiday concert series commenced yesterday in Newark, New Jersey as the honorable Busta Rhymes celebrated an unprecedented 25 years of Hip-Hop infamy at The Prudential Center.

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The most wonderful time of the year for Hip-Hop & R&B always happens in Los Angeles when Cali Christmas is on the calendar. Despite the task at hand to build on the growing insurmountable legacy the annual mega concert has brought to the table, Footaction and Power 106 managed to give the fans the biggest […]

Eight years to this very day, Pimp C would go to become a Hip-Hop martyr due to his untimely death at the age of 33. As one of the most trill, outspoken and talented individuals to ever grace the music scene, it truly is no surprise that his legacy his strong as ever even going […]

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NBC’s The Wiz Live! hasn’t even aired yet and it already has people of the closeted racist and All Lives Matter variations up in arms.

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It is easy to overlook Fabolous due to his veteran status but make no mistake, the Brooklyn bomber is definitely on his Kobe Bryant 2008 year these days. Throughout the entire 2015, he rode the TIDAL wave that was the Young OG Project and as he puts the finishing touches on the sequel (which drops […]

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The Internet should never fail to amaze anyone at this point. Pick a topic; any topic and social media users will find an incredible way to entertain the universe with.