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Are you wondering just why urban youths from all over the country make the pilgrimage down to Howard University for homecoming every year? Some people think it is because of crazy concerts like this? We think it has a little something to do with the student body. Meet Howard University student, Fantasia.

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To be fair the third presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney wasn’t a complete knock-out-drag-down fight, but it got pretty close. Perhaps it was his strategy to remain cool, calm, and collected, but Romney seemed noticeably more peaceful than the president who took the former governor to task more than once.

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Rap fans can add another item to be thankful for this holiday season. Fabolous has announced that the release date of his forthcoming S.O.U.L. Tape 2 mixtape will occur on Thanksgiving (Nov. 22).

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Iron Man 3 isn’t due in theaters until May 3, 2013, but we’re still fiends for all the details about movie that we can get. There was a teaser to the trailer released earlier today (see below), and now we have photos from the film that reveal who the third Iron Man movie’s villain will […]

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Anthony “Twilite Tone” Khan is an alien; equal parts eccentric, unassuming, prophetic, and speaking a music language far outside of the sonic stratosphere. He could boast about the credits on his resume (which most notably includes Common and Kanye West), but he’d rather not, because regardless of whom he’s creating for, the quality never falters.

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The unstoppable force that is Rihanna is gearing up to put another stranglehold on the Billboard charts with her newest single “Diamonds.” The song is currently the #11 song on the Billboard 100 and is looking towards taking the top spot.

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Drake always does it big for his birthdays. Celebrating his 26th year on this earth, Drizzy made it a weekend affair, stopping at Compound in Atlanta on Saturday night, where he performed a few songs and drank Moet.

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You care. Amber Rose revealed the s-x of the bouncing little baby she will be having with Wiz Khalifa, via Instagram, of course. 

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Azealia Banks has a bone to pick with Dolce & Gabbanna. The Harlem rapper is known to take issue with tons of people but her disdain towards the fashion line might actually hold some weight. According to Banks, D&G’s Spring 2013 line with depictions of what looks like the Black mammie archetype, both on the […]

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Is Compton rapper the Game’s album cover for his upcoming Jesus Piece project blasphemous? That’s certainly what plenty of people will be asking when they take a look at its artwork (see below).

Shout out to our fearless leader Alvin aqua Blanco for coining the phrase “struggle face.” You know that look: it can be a combination of fear, loathing, self-loathing, depression, you name it. Let’s face it, rappers have a lot of reasons to make struggle faces. Career struggle highlights include album delays, personal issues, being dropped […]

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We all knew LeBron James was superhuman, but now Marvel Comics and ESPN is making it official. In the upcoming issue of ESPN The Magazine’s NBA Preview, LeBron: King of the Rings will be a comic including an epic tale of zombies, clones, holograms, bionics and other craziness.