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Chris Rock isn’t nervous about social topics in the new issue of New York magazine. Even though he’s technically promoting his new movie, Top Five, the 49-year-old comedian doesn’t just talk film stuff in the interview.

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Back in April of this year, 50 Cent lost a massive lawsuit against his first-born headphone company, Sleek Audio for stealing their designs and using them to flaunt his next chick, SMS Audio.

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Nas and Hennessy continue their beautiful business agreement with the release of a new commercial that fully realizes the vision that the legendary rhymer’s debut album, Illmatic set out to accomplish.

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AIDS is still very much a global epidemic.   — Photo: screenshot

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Killer Mike has spoken about Michael Brown’s shooting death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson with political adeptness and social awareness unlike most of his Hip-Hop peers. Recently, one half of rap duo Run The Jewels detailed his difficulty articulating exactly what happened to the Ferguson, Mo. teenager to his seven-year-old daughter.

With only a few episodes left in the Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood saga, the cast member’s personal lives are starting to feel the aftereffects of the show’s drama.

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Elizabeth Lauten, the disgraced GOP staffer who took it upon herself to chastise President Obama’s teenage daughters for not having any class has now been exposed throwing stones in the White House glass corridor.

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Fabolous will be dropping a new album, The Young OG Project, on Christmas Day. The digital only release will be available for pre-order on iTunes starting December 15. 

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Bono’s plans to perform at the World AIDS Day charity concert today (December 1) in New York City were thwarted after suffering injuries in a bike accident. But fret not, because he’s commissioned a list of folks to replace him, including Kanye West.

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After delivering one dosage of audible crack after another, Ghostface Killah blesses fans with a guilt-free stream of his recently announced, soon-to-be released album 36 Seasons.

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Sixteen competitors took the center stage of Paris, France’s Red Bull BC One World 2014 Final knowing that only one would emerge as the victor.

The LOX discussed more than porn star Pinky’s weight gain during an exclusive interview with Hip-Hop Wired. During part two of the discussion, Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch told the backstory of their remix of Dej Loaf’s “Try Me” and how they’ve maintained a grip-hold on the streets after all of these years.