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ASAP Rocky, News, Video

FUSE caught up with A$AP Rocky for an interview at this year’s Catalpa Music Festival in New York City. During their chat, the Harlem MC spoke candidly about his major label debut, LongLiveA$AP, which is in stores September 11th. “There was a lot of like blood, and tears put into this project,” said A$AP, who made sure to […]

News, nicki minaj, Video

If you are still slugging around the workplace, this video should do a lot to put a little bit more of pep in your step. Nicki Minaj and her borderline cartoonish curves take center stage in Carnival as she releases the video for “Pound The Alarm.” The twerking, fireworks, hair and hips are on overdrive […]

News, snoop dogg, Video

Yesterday in New York City, Snoop Dogg held a press conference in Miss Lily’s restaurant and announced his transformation into Snoop Lion. Honestly, it did sound like one elaborate practical joke but after seeing this trailer and hearing Snoop tell it himself, it’s quite real and endearing.  “I wanted to make music that feels good. I […]

dr. dre, jay-z, News, rick ross, Video

Dre Films takes you on a trippy journey through time through the lives of Rick Ross, Jay-Z and Dr. Dre in the video for “3 Kings.” One of the highlight records off of Rick Ross’ album, God Forgives, I Don’t, this video chronicles a beardless Ross, a non-brolic Dr. Dre, and a gold grilled Jay-Z as […]

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Just when Florida was finally living down the embarrassment from that infamous “face eating” scandal, comes another unflattering report.  A Sarasota nurse is accused of stealing the credit cards of a patient who died at the hospital where she worked. She was arrested for the crime last week. Margaret M. Nunn—who likely had bad credit, […]

drake, jay-z, News

Now this is going to be a treat. Jay-Z has added Drake, Chris Cornell, Jill Scott, and the reunion of Run-DMC to his Made In America Festival in September. Without looking too much into this, it must be a little bit odd that Drake is going to perform at Jay-Z’s festival only days after he’s been rumored […]

News, Politics, President Obama

Morgan Freeman may want to re-think his comments on President Obama not being the first Black president. As it turns out, the commander in chief has loads of African blood running through his veins as both he and his White mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, are descendants of a slave. A team of genealogists from the website Ancestry.com unveiled […]

News, Odd Future, Video

The Odd Future click was in town and stopped by Cipha Sounds and Rosenberg with Kay Foxx. After clowning around and freestyling during a recent photo shoot with Terry Richardson, Tyler, Earl, Domo and the crew picked up right where they left off as they hit the studio at WQHT Hot 97. We don’t know […]

News, Sports, Video

The WWE is under a little bit of fire for making an off color remark about Kobe Bryant last night during it’s trademark show, Monday Night Raw. During a match between WWE superstars Kofi Kingston and Titus O’Neill, manager Abraham Washington (who was wearing a live microphone) said O’Neill was “like Kobe Bryant at a hotel […]

News, Wired Tracks, wiz khalifa

Wiz Khalifa took to Twitter to release a new song titled “Still Got It.” The track features a very rare appearance by Project Pat, who gives us the “Poppin’ My Collar” flow and adds his patented color to the chorus, which rants “Still got that work. Still got it. Still got it.” The “Work Hard” MC was […]

Features, News

Last night in the famed 40/40 Club in New York City, Tity Two Necklaces played the majority of his debut album, Based On A T.R.U. Story for a select group of writers, bloggers, label heads, rappers and more. While the album was played at a loud and largely inaudible volume in terms of discerning lyrics, there was […]

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We are up to episode seven of VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta, and there are no signs of the ratchetness and struggle ever letting up. The episode actually had a couple of tender moments, whether you believe they were sincere or not is totally up to you, though. But the talk of the Internets was clearly […]