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Photos of the latest news in Hip-Hop culture: music, sports, streetwear, and more.

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The woman at the center, figuratively, of the Drake versus Chris Brown bottle throwing debacle, Rihanna, is on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. For those that care, this is the same story were Rih Rih mentioned her busy schedule leading to a loss in cake-age. “I went way too far. I prefer myself a bit […]

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Carnival is in February, but don’t tell Nicki Minaj. The YMCMB rapper went back to Trinidad on July 4th to shoot the video for “Pound The Alarm” off her gold selling sophomore set, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.

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Italian artist and photographer Allesandro Simonetti has self-published a book called IL Clan del Wu that documents the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2010 reunion. The project features no words, strictly fresh black and white images of the Staten Island super rap group doing what they do. 

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Kanye West is definitely not cheap when it comes to giving gifts, but he may be suffering from a lack of creativity. West gifted his girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, with a skull statue, similar to the one he gave to Jay-Z for Father’s Day, reports Hip Hollywood.

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It’s getting hard to determine which of 50 Cent’s many claims at any given moment will actually come true. Case in point, the Queens rapper was supposed drop a free album, 5: Murder By Numbers, today. That didn’t happen. Today, the G-Unit mastermind did reveal the artwork for the aforementioned title (see below), which will […]

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Maybach Music Group celebrated the 2012 BET Awards via an after party thrown by their record label, Warner Music Group, at Cecconi’s restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif. Sunday (July 1) night.  The rap collective had lots to be happy about last night, as Wale took home the Best Collaboration trophy for “Lotus Flower Bomb,” featuring Miguel. […]

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Ludacris’ Ludaversal album is about to be in full swing and he’s ready to let loose the video for his single “Jingalin.” Judging from the photos courtesy of BAM, it looks like Luda is getting his inspiration from Project X or something. Oompaloompas, flame throwers, hot chicks in bikinis, jello, grandmas and more occupy Luda’s set that looks like an […]

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No, that is not a photo of Chris Brown below catching the fade at the hands of some brolic white dude wearing gloves. Breezy decided to ink up a spot on his neck with a howling wolf. Reports TMZ: Chris Brown found an empty spot on his body that wasn’t inked up … and inked it […]

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When you’re bringing in millions of dollars, making sure that your taxes are paid should be priority No.1, but it seems like just about everybody in the game fails to take heed of Uncle Sam’s wrath. Earlier today Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty to charges stemming from her failure to pay taxes on 1.6 million in […]

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Last night (June 28th), Ice Cube stopped through Atlanta’s Reign nightclub for the semifinals of  the 2012 Coors Light Search for the Coldest MC contest. The contest judges are Cube, DJ Khaled and DJ Drama, who was on hand last night. Also in the spot were A$AP Rocky, T.I., David Banner, Lil Scrappy and even […]

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New York has been infamous for its graffiti culture since (and before) the inception of Hip-Hop culture in the early to mid-1970s. Graffiti crews would “bomb” or paint quickly executed pieces over as much real estate as possible, making the concrete facades of the sprawling city into their canvas. The iconic Brooklyn Bridge has been […]

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It’s been just over 30 years since the first AIDS case was reported in the U.S., and despite the advances in medicine, there is no cure (that we know of). Even more disturbing is the fact that the epidemic continues to attack the Black community. Although Black people only make up less than a quarter of the […]