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The fifth episode of the latest season of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta revealed just how struggle-filled everyone on this show’s life really is. Seriously, these cast members clearly wake up every morning with overt ratchetness and insane f-ckery on their agenda. 

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The life of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta‘s Lil Scrappy is coming apart at the seams. The Atlanta rapper has failed a drug test and has admitted that he is addicted to kush. Also folks, Scrap is heading to rehab.

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UPDATE: Lecrae makes a cosmetic change to his congratulatory track “Round of Applause” by adding a verse from Hustle Gang rapper B.o.B.. The religious spitter keeps his lyrics from the original, while Bobby Ray shares his take on achieving his goals despite the naysayers and haters.

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T.I.’s deal with Atlantic Records has run its course, but he continues to push his 2012 LP, Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head, independently with a new visual for the Cee-Lo Green-assisted “Hello.”

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Sergio Garcia clearly doesn’t consider Tiger Woods a “Cablinasian.” The two golfers have had a long simmering, passive aggressive feud. When asked to comment on their relationship yesterday (May 21) in England, Garcia offered up a fried chicken joke. Yes, this is 2013.

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J. Cole was the latest lyricist to grace the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon stage. This time, the Roc Nation MC performed “Power Trip” from his forthcoming sophomore effort Born Sinner.

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Hip-Hop lost one of its favorite sons when Heavy D passed away in November 2011. But no one may feel his loss more than his daughter, Eulahlee Myers. The late rapper’s family, specifically his mother, has asserted that her granddaughter will be inheriting her late father’s enitre estate when she is of age.

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What looks like the final trailer for Man Of Steel before it flies into theaters in June is here. It features plenty of General Zod, who is willing to wreak plenty of havoc on Earth to nab his Krypton brethren Kal-El aka Superman. Also, we have heat vision.

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We’ve seen YouTube sensations (“Lights (Love Sick)”) like Travi$ Scott before, but unlike the Houston native, most cannot maintain their ambiguity after entering the spotlight. Mind you, this is after he signed to both Kanye West‘s G.O.O.D. Music and T.I.‘s Hustle Gang, respectively, with little material to show for it. But that all changes today with the release […]

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Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace was a bonafide superstar, prolific lyricist, and trendsetter, among other things when he was taken away from the world on March 9, 1997. Sixteen years later, the King of New York’s presence remains felt by many. On the same token, younger generations are too far removed from Biggie’s reign to understand […]

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Getting popped for smoking kush in an Atlanta hotel isn’t enough to knock Chief Keef off his game plan. The 17-year-old Chicago rapper drops a video for “Macaroni Time.”

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Remember when bath salts were a thing and everybody kept using them, then eating other people’s faces…and dogs? Well it’s been a nearly a full year since the inaugural face-eating incident went down in Miami, and the victim’s new look has been revealed.