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This year’s Little League World Series brought a beacon of light to Chicago, whose Jackie Robinson West team won the national championship. In welcoming home the young boys, Chicagoan Chance The Rapper had the supreme honor of sharing some heartfelt words about the team.

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It’s G-Unit season. The newly reunited rap collective has visited every radio station in town, consistently dropped new music since their return and debuted an impromptu EP, which has already garnered critical acclaim.

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Dreamville rapper Bas drops the video for “Vacation” off of his Last Winter project.

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Boaz continues one of the more impressive runs in Hip-Hop this year with his spot-on lyricism and wordplay, and has returned with a visual for “Like This” to prove it.

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So to speak. According to recent stats, the NYPD obeyed recommended course of action, following a civil complaint, only about 9.7 percent of the time. Somehow, we’re not surprised “New York’s finest” are rarely penalized for police brutality or misconduct.

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BET has suspended a producer in the wake of a prompt joke about Beyoncé and Jay Z‘s 2-year-old, which aired Monday (August 25) on 106 & Park.

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If anything is apparent, it’s that Stalley has armored himself with ample new material. With his debut album, Ohio, on the way, the MMG rapper debuts a new cut called “Always Into Something,” featuring Ty Dolla $ign.

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Suge Knight was shot six times in Hollywood’s 1Oak nightclub early Sunday morning (Aug. 24), but details are still rather sketchy. However, word is that the infamous record exec may have been shot to stop the release of a tell-all book he has in the works, allegedly. 

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From L.A. Leakers’ upcoming mixtape comes a new track from Problem and Childish Gambino called “Dollaz & Sense.”

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Serving as the evening’s special guests, G-Unit stopped by the finale of Chelsea Lately to perform “Watch Me.”

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USC cornerback Josh Shaw was suspended indefinitely Wednesday (Aug. 27) after he admitted to lying about saving his nephew’s life during a family function. The football player said that he injured both ankles last weekend by jumping off a second-story apartment complex to rescue his 7-year-old nephew from a pool.