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One of the two shooting sprees occurring in Chicago Monday (July 23) has claimed the life of another victim. A mother of three was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Tuesday (July 24). Janeen Hancock, 34, was shot in the abdomen and thigh, as she sat in the park with her […]

Raekwon the Chef over a chunky, bass loaded beat courtesy of DJ Babu. These are the ingredients for “Keep It Politics”  and it makes for a tasty song. The tune is the latest single from the forthcoming Closed Sessions, Vol. 2 project, due out in August. Closed Sessions is an indie label out of Chicago, […]

A racist tweet just cost a triple jumper her spot on the Olympic team.  Voula Papachristou of Greece was expelled from representing her country at the London games for making fun of Africans. In the now removed Twitter post Papachristou jokes about African blood, writing, “With so many Africans in Greece… At least the West […]

Pusha T revealed more details about his solo album in this 5 minute clip than he has in two years of being signed to G.O.O.D. Music. What we do know is that Pusha’s next album will feature a song called “40 Acres,” and it is inspired by the classic movie The Devil’s Advocate.  ” ‘Devil’s Advocate’ is a […]

Chicago representer, Mikkey Halsted gives us the aggressive flow on an impressive new track titled,”W.M.F.,” on which he addresses those who are jealous of his success. Along with potent bars, the track has noticeably great production that can be attributed to the legendary No I.D. and Don Cannon. That Diddy “My Downfall” soundbite was a […]

It was a YMCMB family affair in Miami as the Pink Friday tour rolled into town last night. Nicki Minaj brought out the Young Money president, Lil Wayne, to perform “Take It To The Head” with DJ Khaled,  “Pop That,” and “Always Strapped.” Birdman also joined his “son” for the festivities and performed aforementioned song. Complete with […]

On Saturday, July 14th at the annual “DC Loves Dilla” benefit concert in the Washington, DC suburb of Silver Spring, MD, the spirit of late producer/rapper James “J Dilla” Yancey was alive and well. Two of Jay Dee’s actual family members and musical partners of his past rocked in honor for the 7th annual tribute […]

Young Dro teams up with DJ MLK to release the second installment of his R.I.P. mixtape series. On this edition of R.I.P., Dro Polo gets off on over twelve of today’s hottest instrumentals including “Itchin,” “Mercy,” “Refill,” and plenty more. You know what you are getting out of Dro when you listen to a mixtape from him. […]

Life is damn good for Nas right now. The Queensbridge rapper’s 10th album, Life Is Good, debuts at number one and he continued its strong promotional campaign last night with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Dressed simply, save for the jewelry in HD, in a t-shirt and jeans, the natural born lyricist performed “The […]

No matter what you my assume about Lupe Fiasco, he is a rappin’ @$$ rapper. Wasulu visited the kingpin, Funkmaster Flex’s show last night and spoke on his incident with Pete Rock, guest blogging for InFlexWeTrust.com, and more. After talking about all of that, Lupe got busy over Artifacts’ “Wrong Side Of The Tracks.” These […]

Have you ever wanted to get advice on love, s_x, relationships and everything in between but didn’t want to get it from some old lady in a newspaper? Never fear, Hip-Hop Wired now has your answer with the inaugural edition of Ask A Vixen. Hip-Hop Wired will take your questions on all forms of social media and have […]

Do you remember Kat Stacks? Do you care? For those that do, the Rap super groupie is getting deported back to her native Venezuela after spending two years in a Louisiana prison. Born Andrea Herrera, the infamous jump off’s mother, Johnyelsi Cardenas, sent out a letter revealing what her fast daughter, who in a recent […]