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The NYPD continues to flourish when it comes to showing poor taste. During today’s (Jan. 4) funeral for slain officer Wenjian Liu, cops once again turned their back on NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio as he spoke.

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O.T. Genasis dropped a certified, singalong rap smash with “CoCo.” So he went back to the lab for an updated video for the coke anthem, replacing the grimy trap spot with buxom bikini wearing chicks, yachts and Lamborghini’s in M.I. Yayo.

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Apparently rapper loving Pop singer Madonna has a new album dropping called Rebel Heart. But the Internets didn’t appreciate her using images of icons like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote the project. 

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The sports and Hip-Hop community lost a legend when Stuart Scott,  a longtime ESPN contributor, died Sunday morning after a lengthy battle with cancer.

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Contrary to recent rumors, Ariana Grande and Big Sean have not broken up. You care. 

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Beloved ESPN sports analyst and anchor Stuart Scott has lost his battle with cancer. He was just 49-years-old. 

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John Huppenthal, an outgoing Republican school superintendent with a questionably racist past, used his last day in the office to issue possible funding sanctions on a school because it taught a class on Hip-Hop. In a letter issued this past Friday, Huppenthal is urging the state to enforce withholding of financial support to the school.

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Full-time rapper, part-time Instagram junkie Meek Mill flooded the social network with clips of him playing new material in the studio.

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A South Carolina man got beaten so bad he looks like a zombie extra from The Walking Dead. The proper fade was delivered courtesy of his nephew, who apparently wasn’t too pleased that his uncle was sexually assaulting his girlfriend. 

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Apparently DJ Mustard and YG had beef on their post-Christmas menu, as the pair ended 2014 taking jabs at each other via social media about not being compensated for their respective work.

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Vans consistently brings the heat with its California Collection imprint; fortunately for kick-coppers the recently unveiled “Croc Leather” pack carries on tradition.

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Trinidad Jame$ delivers a new EP, aptly titled The Wake Up, in the early morning hours of today.