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New York United States Attorney Loretta Lynch has been nominated for the United States Attorney General post Saturday, a day later than what was speculated. The nomination from President Barack Obama came ahead a media flurry of when the news would become public.

These days, you’re more likely to see Jay Z’s name attached to a business venture than to a press release announcing a new album. But just because Hova hasn’t dropped an album since 2013’s Magna Carta Holy Grail doesn’t mean he isn’t making moves.

The 1994 releases of Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die and Craig Mack’s Project: Funk Da World are reminders that Sean Comb’s Bad Boy imprint has been going strong for 20 years. That’s an impressive run for a label some initially dismissed as merely “urban boutique” during its infancy.

Life comes at you fast. Yung Berg has been terminated from the Love & Hip Hop Hollywood cast following reports that he beat his girlfriend Masika Tucker.

A meeting between Hip-Hop legends took place on daytime television, as Common appeared on The Queen Latifah Show to chop it up with the host and perform his new single “Rewind.”

You never know when Snoop Dogg’s record-spinning alter ego, DJ Snoopadelic will show up. The latest sighting was for a great cause, witnessed at his joint venture with Happy Socks during their Winter 2014 event that benefitted Snoop’s Youth Football League (SYFL).

We over here at Hip-Hop Wired are sort of showing our hands for this latest edition of The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Videos of the Week. Kendrick Lamar and Big Sean inadvertently took it back their “Control” recording session and went head to head. Except this time, it was with incredible visuals that […]

Closing out the week once again, yours truly provides a list of dope tracks in The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Songs Of The Week.

Trina, the undisputed Diamond Princess, has had quite the week regarding her return to rap and her ex-live-in-lover, French Montana.

The name Shanesha Taylor became part of a viral conversation this past March when the entire nation sympathized with the single Black mother after she was arrested for leaving her kids in a hot Arizona car during a job interview.

On this fine Friday afternoon, Hip-Hop Wired presents a new, scenario-based series called IAPW (In a Perfect World), in which we’ll detail topics we wish were facts. Our inaugural entry details 15 tracks produced by The Alchemist that would be hits, IAPW.

Geraldo Rivera has been a Republican figurehead for some time, and hasn’t been shy about stating his narrow minded views about Black culture. The former talk show host once again echoed similar views, this time throwing all people of color under the bus.