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Joey Bada$$  was arrested on Friday (Jan. 2) in Australia for allegedly punching a security guard in the face and breaking his nose. The Brooklyn rapper was performing at the Falls Festival in New South Wales.

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Plenty of sports figures and Hip-Hop personalities remembered Stuart Scott yesterday at a moment’s notice of his passing to cancer at age 49. Yet, it’s a pair of his famous mourners that solidify the late newscaster’s legacy as an American icon.

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Jeezy and Future held down the Compound nightclub in Atlanta for New Year’s Eve. Also seen in the spot was G-Unit’s Young Buck.

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The irony of a Chicago police investigator being busted for the type of crime he’s paid to catch officers for is tremendous–and that’s exactly the situation 28-year veteran George Roberts has found himself in.

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Although half of the country is focused on the incessant killing of unarmed Black men at the hands of police officers, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is showing that African-Americans, particularly males, have bigger fears in their life span.

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As Grammy Season grows nigh, a ton of YG fans still find some type of ways about the West Coast rapper’s snub from the rap categories in this year’s award ceremony. The Def Jam studio debut album My Krazy Life easily cracked the top 10 of Hip-Hop Wired’s best albums of the year and even […]

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Cannabidiol, the experimental marijuana drug, has been gaining favor in the medical world for a wide range of patients but a new case study coming out of Georgia is breaching unprecedented territory.

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Macklemore and his longtime fiancée Tricia Davis will likely be postponing their upcoming marriage after seven years together. However, they have a pretty good reason.

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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.