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Every January starts off with the nothing but great promise for the upcoming works in the entertaining arts. While said promise varies from being fulfilled to broken, depending on the working order of the universe, the anticipation aspect at the top of the year still keeps things exciting for the time being.

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Lupe Fiasco‘s Tetsuo & Youth is on schedule for its January 20 release. The Chicago MC lets loose another track off the project called “Adoration of the Mag,” featuring Crystal Torres. 

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A collaboration between members of the No Limit Records and Cash Money Records cliques was unthinkable at one time, but here we have Master P’s “Power,” featuring Lil Wayne.

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Rich Homie Quan leans like a kickstand, clearly high out of his mind on a cup of promethazine in a recent interview with Vlad TV. But the rapper managed to briefly discuss what’s going on between Birdman and Lil Wayne, and upcoming collaborations with Drake.

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A Massachusetts man was broke and didn’t have money to post bail. He did a have a new pair of Nikes he could put up as collateral, though, and the judge accepted.

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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.