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You can consider Kendrick Lamar an A-list artist at this point. Today (Feb. 18), it was announced that the Compton rapper and Mary J. Blige will be headlining the 2015 Essence Festival. 

Florida has enough crazies running around to be worried about former struggle rappers adding to the police paperwork, but Vanilla Ice happened the other day, nonetheless. The 47-year-old personality born Robbie Van Winkle was busted raiding a vacant house in Lantana, FL like your average run-of-the-mill house squatter. Via TMZ: Vanilla Ice has been arrested […]

Last night (February 17), Joseph Edgar Foreman, better known to the world as Afroman, was arrested for a vicious haymaker on a female fan who had got a little too close to his comfort zone during a performance in Mississippi.

Successful artists can attribute their wins, in part, to having a strong team. That said, Hip-Hop mourns the death of De’Von Pickett, a road and tour manager to the stars, who was fatally stabbed outside of a Philadelphia bar on Tuesday night (Feb. 17).

Carmelo Anthony‘s 2014-2015 season with the New York Knicks is officially over. The team revealed today that he will be having surgery on his troublesome left knee, which has been hampering his play all season.

Jay Z has been in the game for a long, long time. A video of Hova spitting a freestyle on BET’s Rap City way back in 1990 has surfaced. 

If you counted Chief Keef out for good, you may want to find that missing number. The Almighty Sosa has bounced back from getting dropped from Interscope and dropping wack records with Kanye West by brazenly jacking Lil Wayne’s trademarked phrase with his own, Sorry 4 The Weight mixtape.

Power 98.3’s Tino Cochino loves bringing out the hidden talents of his guests and he got an impressive showing out of Logic, who managed to crack the code of a Rubik’s Cube in under a minute.

After a drastic fall from grace that came with a jab to the face to boot, rapper Charles Hamilton is making a comeback and has a record deal with Republic Records to prove it.

Various outlets are reporting Lil B will be bringing his very rare, very based brand of lecturing to Carnegie Mellon University. The wildest part is this isn’t the first time the Based God has enlightened the masses at an institution of higher learning.

Chris Brown & Karrueche are inseparable once again and on their latest outing, they let their inner beast hang on the outside of their skin with a pair of fur coats.

Jay Z is married to Beyonce, has millions in the bank and is a GOAT rapper. So of course he’s going to be slandered when he steps outside in a suspect outfit because apparently schadenfreude is Hip-Hop, at least on the Internets.