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Uncle Sam always gets his dough, somehow someway. The state of Georgia is out to collect the million dollars it alleges that Nas owes in back taxes and plans to skim money off the MC’s earnings from the “Life Is Good/Black Rage” tour with Lauryn Hill. 

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KING Magazine gives love to reality television on their new issue featuring Brooke Bailey and K. Michelle. 

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Canadian producer Illatracks recently sat in the lab with Prodigy of the legendary M-O-B-B to create a hell of a track, titled “Strung Out.” An eerie string arrangement rings through modest drums, as Banana Clip P confesses his addiction to Hip-Hop and likens his relationship with the culture to a drug fiend. “Strung Out” is […]

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After the crab and lobster on your dinner plate, save some space for some Mac & Cheese with French Montana. 

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Gangsta rappers do plan weddings. The first pair of episodes of Compton rapper The Game and his fiancé Tiffney Cambridge’s new reality show Marrying The Game aired last night and provided a preview of the drama that’s sure to come. 

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Being in a Walmart can leave customers on the edge, and Jacquetta Simmons of New York, will spend five years in jail over her inability to maintain her rage. The 27-year-old was sentenced to five years behind bars Wednesday (Nov. 14), stemming from an assault on an elderly door greeter who asked to see her receipt.

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Saturday Night Live is hit or miss from time to time, but they may have found the remedy. Comedian/actor/singer Jamie Foxx is billed to host the sketch comedy show Dec. 8, while Ne-Yo will be the night’s musical guest.

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Ja Rule is getting out of prison early next year. Murder Inc’s main man has been locked up for the past year and a half stemming from a weapon’ possession charge, but his freedom is only a few months away.

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It hasn’t been a full seven days yet, but the journalists aboard the Rihanna plane have had enough. We already reported on a naked uprising (no pun) courtesy of a possibly delirious  Australian writer, but there are far more amusing tales from the plane, thanks to a few crafty wordsmiths. Looking back, what seemed to […]

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Even with all her career commitments, Nicki Minaj still finds time for charity work. Less than 24-hours after her double win at the American Music Awards Sunday (Nov. 18) night, Minaj jetted back to New York to hand out turkeys at her old elementary school.

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WDGC 105.1 FM (or G 105, as it’s called), hanged a Black man known as the “Black Christmas Fairy” from a tow truck during a Christmas parade in North Carolina, Saturday (Nov. 17). Assuming that the idea was to spread a little holiday cheer to the city of Raleigh, someone  still should’ve known that “hanging” and […]

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Rihanna’s controversial 777 Tour rolled into London tonight, and the good folks at Roc Nation are providing us with a livestream.