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The Tribeca Film Festival is currently  going down and we can thank the event for bringing out Ice-T’s wife, Coco Austin, in a skin tight outfit.

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Apparently, ballers don’t take out 30 year mortgages. Cash Money Records founder Bryan “Birdman” Williams took out a $5M loan to renovate his Miami mansion, and he has to pay it back after a year. 

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Grammy Award-winning rapper Macklemore recently electrified the Barclays Center in the name of the Jordan Brand Classic but that didn’t put a limit on his involvement with the legendary #23.

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Well, this is a surprise. Wiz Khalifa fans will be pleased to see that “Smokin Drink” from his 2012 mixtape Cabin Fever II has received a visual treatment.

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Chance The Rapper unfortunately had to curve a great opportunity to perform at the second leg of Coachella this weekend, as he grew ill and had to be hospitalized.

There have never been any boundaries set between separation of church and the state of rap music and as a result, there have been various religious groups who have called out rappers for their perceived sacrilegious lyrics.

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Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer wrongfully convicted of murder in 1966 and the titular character Denzel Washington portrayed in the 1999 motion picture The Hurricane, has died at the age of 76.

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Sage The Gemini seemingly went into the weekend downtrodden and brokenhearted after a serious of cryptic tweets suggested that his runaway love Kaylin Garcia had cheated on him.

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Pharrell was on an eternal conquest during his Coachella set last night (April 19) to prove his has more star power than Orion’s Belt. The future host of NBC’s The Voice brought out some of the biggest names featured in his discography including Jay Z, T.I. Pusha T and Usher.

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We would be doing you a bit of disservice if we didn’t say “we told you so.”

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Lil Boosie has been a free man for a minute now, but his shows are only starting to ramp up. Last night (April 19), Jeezy was a surprise guest at the “Show The World” rapper’s show in Lafayette, La.

More often than not, rap music and drugs go hand in hand. For one reason or another, marijuana in particular, seems to be the choice high for many of our favorite MCs.