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Lupe Fiasco’s third release off of the highly anticipated Food & Liquor 2, The Great American Rap Album was released at midnight. “Lamborghini Angels” is a lyrical look at the contrast between a lot of the world’s ills. One of them being the struggle of being rich and righteous, and another verse is specifically dedicated to Catholic […]

Harlem rapper on the meteoric rise A$AP Rocky drops a NSFW video for “Purple Kisses.” The Very Rare produced song will appear on the A$AP Mob’s forthcoming Lord$ Never Worry mixtape, out August 28th. Like the song suggests, the visual is purple tinged with A$AP going about some hazy debauchery amid a healthy dosage of […]

This week’s ninth episode of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta was yet again full of the deep seeded malarkey we have all come to enjoy. It’s okay to admit it. There were so many moments of dysfunction that it impossible to decide where to start, but Benzino is as good a jump off point as […]

Fresh off appearing on the cover of the new RESPECT magazine, DJ Khaled finally gets around to premiering his video for “I Wish You Would,” featuring Kanye West and Rick Ross. No your internet connection isn’t shaky, that’s just how director Hype Williams shot this frantic visual. As you surely should know by now, the […]

Jay-Z will christen the Barclays Center by way of eight shows come September, and John Legend has been commissioned to inaugurate the Cushman & Wakefield Theater one month later. Legend will be the first person to perform in the intimate venue inside the sports arena, in October. “New York is so special to me and […]

Hip-Hop Wired was the first to report that Meek Mill’s Dreams & Nightmares album was pushed back to the end of October, and now comes an official announcement. The Philly rapper and Rick Ross took to Twitter to reveal the date. “Finalword!!!RT @rickyrozay: @MeekMill Dreams& Nightmares instores Oct. 30 !!! Eve of Halloween !!!” The album was originally […]

Hosted by Don Cannon, Mikkey Halsted’s new mixtape Castro is here; and if the previous leaks are any indication of the quality of the tape this one if going to be a slapper. Special guests on the project include Pusha T, Cocaine 80s, and BJ The Chicago Kid. The incomparable NO ID picks up the bulk of […]

If you’ve never heard of  David “D-WHY” Morris before, now is as good a time as ever to get hip on game. D-WHY is a 23-year-old artist out of New York City by way of Virginia whose genre bending type of music is starting to garner some attention. His new mixtape, Don’t Flatter Yourself, drops this Wednesday […]

A Baltimore firefighter was arrested on charges that he ran a prostitution ring out of an apartment, reports the Baltimore Sun. According to police, Jamar Simmons was living a secret double life, one that gave him an extra annual income of $60,000, but also landed him behind bars. The 29-year-old’s apartment was raided July 9, […]

Fred The Godson’s newest mixtape, Gordo Frerderico, will feature this track “I Go” with Lil Kim. It’s getting rarer and rarer to hear new music from the Queen Bee, so enjoy this for what it is if you are still rocking with Kim. The tape will hit the nets via DatPiff on Wednesday, August 15th. When the […]

In an interview with BlowHipHopTV, Hypnotized Mind’s Lil Wyte shared his childhood rap influences, and explained how Three 6 Mafia allowed him to put out an album on his own due to his strong tenure with the label. The Memphis rapper begins the interview by detailing his childhood years as a southern Hip-Hop junkie while also citing Sir Mix-a-Lot’s […]

Trey Songz isn’t slowing down for a day with Chapter V about to hit the stores in two weeks on August 21st. In this free record, Trigga tries to tackle the Young Chop-produced “I Don’t Like” record by Chief Keef and Lil Reese. This record probably won’t help Chief Keef’s popularity more than he’s already done himself, […]