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This edition of  The Wrap Up: Hip-Hop Wired’s Top 10 Songs Of The Week is sonically marvelous. And no, we aren’t trolling — this is the real thing.

Suge Knight landed back in the news this week after slinging verbal insults at Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs over the murder of Tupac “2Pac” Shakur. While leaving a West Hollywood club Thursday night, Knight went as far to say that the legendary rap star is still alive.

Erykah Badu’s personal decision to celebrate the birthday of Swaziland King Mswati III has angered human rights activists worldwide. Apparently his royal highness carries the reputation of a “brutal dictator” and Fat Belly Bella was giving him a subliminal co-sign for accommodating his presence.

T.I. won’t let a craving for fried chicken stop him from being a good samaritan. While on his way to cop some Popeyes in Los Angeles, the Atlanta rapper stopped to help a woman who had just been involved in a car accident. 

The Children’s Crusade protests in Birmingham, Ala. began on this day in 1963, led by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. James Bevel. Around 1,000 students skipped class in the city in protest of segregation when police chief Bull Connor unleashed attack dogs and fire hoses to corral the students. […]

Michael Jackson and his musical legacy lives on while many worldwide still mourn the loss of the King Of Pop. However, an unreleased track from the vaults made its debut last night last night featuring assistance from one of Jackson’s understudies that will surely delight fans.

Here’s a little something smooth to speed up your Friday afternoon. And you can thank Grammy-winning guitarist Gary Clark Jr., who debuted his an audible feast with the highly anticipated Blak And Blu: The Mixtape.

Diddy–excuse us–Sean Combs (when it comes to business transactions) got rubbed out of the deal to obtain Fuse TV by his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez’s NuvoTV and he’s claiming his strings were being pulled to make it all happen.

Last night (May 1), a list of reputable musicians gathered at the first annual iHeartRadio Music Awards, which took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Pharrell, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Diddy, and others showed face to present and accept awards, perform, and the like.

If this doesn’t set Chris Brown back on the straight and narrow, nothing will. The R&B crooner was in court yesterday looking quite disheveled.

Meek Mill sued the City of Philadelphia’s police department, but yesterday (May 1), he lost his case. The Philly rapper filed a lawsuit after a traffic stop led to a missed flight and lost sponsorship money.

UPDATE: Bas debuted a visual for “My N***a Just Made Bail” that fans can find after the jump. Today, Bas became the first Dreamville Records artists to release commercially with Last Winter. On the body of work, you’ll find some crew love on a J. Cole-assisted standout record titled “My N***a Just Made Bail.”