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If there is any doubt to who the hardest working man in Hip-Hop in 2012 is, this should probably put that debate to rest. After dropping Rich Forever, Self Made Vol. 2, and God Forgives, I Don’t, Rick Ross is dropping his fourth full project of the year by announcing a new mixtape, The Black Bar Mitzvah. 

It was recently announced that the good folks at Rap Genius are to receive a hefty investment of $15 million from California-based Venture Capital Firm Andreessen Horowitz. For the unfamiliar, Rap Genius is an online community for Hip-Hop fans on which crowd-sourcing provides lyrics of rap songs and annotated explanations to clarify their meanings.

At the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards, one of the highlights of the show was the big tribute to fallen Hip-Hop mogul, Chris Lighty. Rappers 50 Cent and Fat Joe put their beef to rest to honor their fallen manager and was joined by Busta Rhymes, A Tribe Called Quest, Missy Elliott and more. 

Lupe Fiasco was a guest on Al Lindstrom’s Toca Tuesdays last night on Shade 45 Satellite Radio. On this interview, Wasulu discusses his much talked about album artwork and how hard it took for him to convince the record label to go “all black everything” for it. 

Rah Digga drops a new joint called “And Another One” featuring female MC on the rise Rapsody. The two ladies, who got enough bars to challenge any male rapper, drop a track dedicated to all the unnecessary shootings and killings happening across America, not just Chicago, and how these kids need more discipline.

Conservative talking head and author Ann Coulter is no stranger to causing controversy with her off-the-wall statements towards her usual liberal and Democratic targets. Warring with anyone who doesn’t jive with her hard stances, the Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama writer has stirred up the pot once again by attacking President Barack Obama’s so-called […]

The Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Ne-Yo, links up with Wiz Khalifa for this new record off of the upcoming album, R.E.D.. On “Don’t Make Em Like You,” anymore, the two have a toast for “the ladies with class,” in a song sure to be heard for a long time.

Sean Lyric, the up and coming MC out of Danbury, CT grabs Jumpoff Joe Budden for this new record “Do What It Does.” The rapper/singer/songwriter’s jam with the loose quarter of Slaughterhouse is a Hip-Hop Wired world premiere. 

The February 1999 shooting death of unarmed immigrant Amadou Diallo at the hands of New York police still resonates deep in the minds of residents and opponents of police brutality to this day. 13 years later, the mother of Diallo grieves for her son and now has to relive the horror of his death once […]

Joey Bada$$ proves yet again that age sometimes has no bearing on one’s wisdom, point of view or candor. In a recent interview with Montreality, the Canada based site asked the Brooklyn MC an array of left field questions, as per usual, with topics ranging from who the “Waves” MC thinks he was in his past […]

Killer Mike drops the official video for his incendiary “Reagan,” taken from his critically acclaimed R.A.P. Music album.  While the previous fan made video was nothing to sneeze at, the “for real for real” video manages to take the song’s politically conscious rhetoric to a higher level. 

Days after the BET Hip-Hop Awards were marred with violence, Gunplay and for the first time, Mike Knox, continue to give their accounts of what really went down in the Peach State.