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As part of FUSE’s “Artist On Artist” initiative, Ashanti sat down with Rick Ross to discuss a whole myriad of things happening in the rapper-slash-mogul’s life. The Bawse of MMG kicked it with the former Murder Inc. siren to wax philosophical on cherishing family, staying healthy and what’s new in Rozay’s House of Love.

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Listen to any recent material Joell Ortiz, and you’ll see that he’s coming for blood in 2013. One of his latest displays of hard body lyrics appears on a cut from Funkmaster Flex’s Who You Mad At? Me Or Yourself? mixtape, titled “Roll Deep.”

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Last Friday, May 4, Lil Wayne had a party in Miami to celebrate the launch of  SPECTRE, his footwear company in collaboration with SUPRA. The first product of their union is Weezy’s “Chimera” signature sneaker. 

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Why must so many rap groups inevitably break up? It seems like 90’s Hip-Hop powerhouse group Naughy By Nature has broken up, sort of, at least according to one member. 

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Last Friday (May 3), The U.S. Department Of Labor released its jobs report for the month of April, revealing positive gains in employment. With 165,000 jobs added in the month, the unemployment rate dropped to its lowest rate in four years. However, African-American and Hispanic job seekers are still the hardest hit groups with a […]

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Charles Ramsey has become an overnight Internet celebrity. The Cleveland man is responsible for helping three women—missing for over a decade—escape to freedom. And all he was trying to do was eat McDonald’s on a nice Spring day.

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You remember Rihanna‘s 777 tour, right? The Bajan singer took a bunch of her closest friends, fans and journalist on whirlwind seven day, seven city tour on a 777 airplane to promote the release of her latest, and seventh, album, Unapologetic. It didn’t exactly get rave reviews from those on the plane, but nevertheless it […]

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Hip-Hop always represents anywhere it goes, and that includes the Met Ball 2013. Fashion’s biggest night featured a bevy of Hip-Hop affiliated beauties, and dudes, on the red carpet, including Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez.

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Future took his turn up skills to Complex + Sonos “Night of Music and Art” at Sonos Studio in L.A., Friday (May 3) night. As expected, the auto-tune aficionado didn’t disappoint.

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Shout “I woke up in a new…,” and someone is bound to scream “Bugatti!” Ace Hood hopes to recapture that on the remix, or should we say full fledged posse cut, featuring Wiz Khalifa, T.I., Meek Mill, French Montana, 2 Chainz, and Birdman.

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Some would say that visuals are a lost art in the music game. While times, and budgets, have certainly changed, John Legend is one of the artists that still take pride in delivering quality treatments.

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Just when Lauryn Hill (and the rest of us) thought her tax troubles were a thing of the past comes this shocking news. The mother of six has been sentenced to three months in prison over her delinquent tax bill.