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Lil’ Wayne has decided to officially join the Twitter club. Just 7 days before checking in to serve his one year prison stint at New York’s Rikers Island, Lil Wayne joined the uber popular social media website under the tweet name @LilTuneChi. The Young Money CEO had been able to fight the urge to follow […]

After sparking wide spread relief efforts for his native country of Haiti, Wyclef Jean is receiving recognition. Arguably the most prestigious University in the country, Harvard University, is announcing plans to honor Wycelf as their 2010 “Artist of The Year.” He’ll hit the University’s campus on Saturday, February 27 to accept a medal for the […]

It seems that in the process of delivering so much Malice last year, rapper Snoop Dogg may have forgot to take care of some of his financial priorities as the IRS is coming after the Doggfather. According to The Detroit News, the new debt dwarfs a tax lien that had been filed last year against […]

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Jay-Z has often talked about being the most connected man in the industry; well now it seems as if his political ties are apparently stirring up a bit of controversy. According to the New York Post, the rap mogul’s involvement with the Aqueduct Entertainment Group (AEG)—the consortium chosen to run a multi-billion dollar race track/casino […]

E-40, News

The Bay area’s finest E-40 and Too Short have teamed up once again for the second single off of Forty Water’s eleventh studio album Revenue Retrievin’ The Night Shift, scheduled for release on March 30th. “Show Me What Your Working Wit” finds the two cohorts chasing skirts and paying homage to all the fine ladies. […]

“I think they shedding light on all the good things about hustling and the dope game…all the perks to hustling in the streets, all of the women, the cars and all that. Yeah you can get all that but there’s also murder involved with that. There’s also time involved with that…its losses. Every ni**a that […]

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“The kids are the ones who say what is good and what is not and that’s where they Fawk up at because they let other people subliminally put Shyte in their heads.” As reported earlier, Wacka Flocka Flame made the statement that lyrics weren’t important and even clowned lyrical rappers saying that they weren’t getting […]

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As the rap career of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson continues to slowly fizzle into obscurity, the rapper continues to leave his footprints in the movie industry as he is making the transition into also becoming an actor. Alongside Randall Emmett, Jackson has begun work on his next film, titled “Things Fall Apart”, which was produced […]

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“Imma even the score and help to shine some light/ He appears as a man, ni**as the anti-Christ.” When a group that was once criticized for being called Triple Six Mafia looks to take a few jabs at Jay-Z in relation to religion, there could be a potential problem. Yung D, a former member of […]

Suge Knight’ problems with money and bills are continuing to add up. As previously reported, Suge was set to be taken to court by one of the mothers of his children who allege that he owed her for back child support payments. Now however several of Suge’s personal items have been sold at auction to […]

Currently representing the flag more than any other member of the group, Raekwon has continued to usher in the return of the Wu Tang Clan. Fresh off the 09 release of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, the Chef is back in the kitchen already preparing his next dish in the form of his fifth […]