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Fresh off the release of their mixtape, Camouflage Season, Capone-N-Noreaga‘s next studio project The War Report 2 is shaping up nice with the recent track leaked. Featuring L.O.X., the five share their tales on the streets of New York and what it’s like growing up there. “Bodega Stories” feat. The L.O.X. Thoughts??? Let us know.  […]

Since the release of the debut album Blue Collar back in 2006, Rhymefest has been A.W.O.L. when it comes to being in the mainstream, but the release of El Che, which dropped Tuesday, looks to bring the rapper back to the spotlight. A lot has changed for the rapper since people were rocking “Brand New”. […]

“We Roc’n out…R-O-C-love baby!” Lil Kim is confirming what’s been speculated for weeks now, that she’s the latest person to sign to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label. The Queen Bee, who’s been making headlines with her verbal assaults on Nicki Minaj, took time to slyly give a shoutout to her new home while on her tour […]

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Back in 2005, Chamillionaire had the streets ablaze “Ridin Dirty”, but now the rapper reveals that the idea was actually stolen from UGK. While the rapper was promoting his first mainstream project, Sound Of Revenge, that particular record kept his pockets full, but the label has yet to pay the rap duo for their idea. […]

Looks like former Bad Girl and reality TV star Natalie Nunn has some choice words for super groupie Kat Stacks. Nunn, who has been criticized herself for being a groupie, took to YouTube to broadcast her opinions on Kat Stacks and the website who promotes her, Worldstarhiphop.com. “You can talk about my chin all you […]

Although a rumored fling between Drake and Rihanna was reported back in 2009, the rapper says he now realizes that their relationship was, to his surprise, just business. According to the Young Money star, the singer used him to write records for her upcoming album Rated R. What everyone thought was the two becoming cozy […]

Is it just me or does every NBA baller want to be a rapper, and every rapper want to be a baller? With the month of June filled with the NBA finals and releases from some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop, let’s just pretend for a minute rappers were ballers, which ones would they […]

Priority Records is giving away a CD catalog of Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Eazy-E, Master P and EPMD. For your chance to win these Hip-Hop classics as well as a customized T-Shirt from Priority Records, send your Hip-Hop Wired username and an e-mail address you can be reached at to HipHopWired@gmail.com and put “Priority Records” […]

Lil’ Wayne is still finding a way to get his music out to the public behind the bars at Rikers Island Correctional Facility. He recently recorded a verse to Drake’s song Light It Up Feat. Jay-Z off of Drake’s Thank Me later album that drops next Tuesday. The verse was recorded over the prison phone, […]

DJ Shabazz sits down with Hip-Hop Wired to talk the murder, acquittal, and the release of slain rapper Dolla’s mixtape, The Miseducation of Dolla. In what looked to be a fairly straightforward case, the trial of the murder of up and coming rapper Dolla, left the admitted shooter acquitted of all charges and left the […]

Every good story needs a well rendered setting. For the narrative charting his rise, the one Jay-Z’s been burnishing since his 1996 debut, this is Brooklyn. He may have deserted it for Manhattan, a place more suited to his appetite for luxury and glamour, but the frequency with which he continues to invoke the culture, […]